Mr. Godin, there are various aspects to your comments; let me start with the mandate set out in the Broadcasting Act.
Today, I wanted to highlight the fact that, each time a decision is made at CBC/Radio-Canada, the goal is to provide Canadians with services that will live up to the three verbs I mentioned. Those verbs are contained in the act and they influence us in the way in which we deliver our services: to inform, enlighten and entertain.
I did not tell you that we are going to continue to do that as if nothing had happened; quite the contrary. In my remarks, I said that, for the moment, given the cuts we have just made, we are greatly reducing the programming we provide to Canadians. The goal of the public broadcaster, of the two senior managers with me today and of all the other members of our team, remains to meet the expectations of Canadians.
With that background, I am telling you today that the environment in which we are working is very complicated and the cuts will force us to deliver less programming to the Canadians who listen to us, watch us, and use our services. However, I can assure you that the objective of each of the decisions we make remains to fulfill our mandate.