Mr. Speaker, each Sunday at 5.30 p.m. a program called "Street Sense" is broadcast on CBC television. "Street Sense" is aimed at young consumers. It is hip and funny and its humour both informs and entertains its adolescent audience on environmental and economic issues.
Because this program is about consumers it is commercial free. It operates on a limited $1 million budget, obtained not
from the CBC but from companies, associations, foundations and government programs such as "Stay In School".
The awards that "Street Sense" have received are too numerous to list but are both national and international. "Street Sense" is where the future of public broadcasting must go. It is financially viable but in a format that is unavailable through commercial enterprise. Both enterprise and young consumers benefit.
Once again, that is "Street Sense" Sundays at 5.30 p.m. Bravo to the CBC.