Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister downplays the action of the heritage minister by claiming that the letter to the Chairman of the CRTC is not a letter of support. Yet, this is precisely what the CRTC understood and, in fact, its secretary-general wrote to the minister to thank him for what he referred to as a letter of support.
Does the Prime Minister not realize that his minister's interference is compounded by the fact that it was directed at an organization whose independent status is under the protection of the minister and that, consequently, the heritage minister was all the more guilty?