If you take that line of reasoning, Ms. Kusie, then you would question the independence of any entity that has public funding, which I think is not the direction that you would like to go. However, the funding is provided to the commissioner, and he will determine how that money is used. We want to ensure he had sufficient resources available to produce two high-quality debates, one in each official language, and to ensure that those would be diffused as widely as possible.
On November 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.