The Société Radio-Canada, or CBC, is an extremely important public radio station in Canada.
It is your government's intention to provide CBC with guidelines that will ensure a greater presence in rural communities? I will give you an example. Usually, I hear our national news—and I've often said this before this committee—not from Radio-Canada, but Radio-Montréal. You can't even call it Radio-Québec, because no one talks about the Gaspésie or the North Shore. I used to call it Radio-Québec but I realized that in fact it was Radio-Montréal.
I think that if a cat were to be killed on Ste-Catherine Street, the Maritime news would be interrupted in order to mention this on RDI. The Maritime news on RDI was interrupted six times over a very short time period. In one case, a press release was reported, in which Mr. Parizeau was wishing Stephen Harper good luck as Prime Minister after his electoral victory. In another case, Stéphane Bergeron was congratulated for having won elections in Quebec. This is very frustrating and insulting.
Therefore, as the Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages, what guidelines will you be giving to CBC?