Thank you.
The government says that you have social responsibilities. That means that it, too, has a role to play in terms of our public television broadcaster. It should invite all of us to sit down together to find some answers, because this public television broadcaster, which belongs to Canadians, to taxpayers, has social responsibilities. If there are costs to be incurred, they should not have to be borne by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, whose funding has been cut. The station in Windsor has lost six journalists, and is almost on the verge of closing. In Moncton, we have also lost six journalists and we will again be losing services.
In addition, even though you have social responsibilities, you are being asked to cooperate with CTV, a private broadcaster, and give it what revenues you still have, which would only dig you in deeper. One of these fine days, we will lose our public broadcaster. That worries me.
First of all, does the government have a role to play in this situation? Second, could you forward to the Committee that section of the contract which stipulates that there is a responsibility to provide coverage in both languages? Does that exist?