Mr. Speaker, many people are employed making commercials and videos and that kind of thing for businesses and advertising agencies.
Unbelievably the CBC has recently announced it will be going into direct competition with these private sector audio and video production houses, specifically in Toronto. It is actively today trying to steal their clients. Clearly this is a violation of the CBC mandate.
Why is the minister allowing the CBC to kill jobs in downtown Toronto? Why are Toronto MPs not standing up in outrage about this? Why in the world are we allowing the CBC to kill these businesses which pay the taxes that actually fund the CBC?