Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage. At the press conference announcing the appointment of Mr. Manera as president of the CBC, the heritage minister said that the government was committed to making no further cuts in the CBC's government funding.
How can the minister, who claims to be a great friend of this institution, justify his about-face and go back on his February 3 commitment by announcing that it would be hard for him not to cut the CBC's budget?