Mr. Speaker, the budget calls for $40 million in cuts next year. That much we know and is clear. But does the minister not realize that Radio-Canada has announced that more than 750 positions will disappear in the next few years, and now that the entire regional network will disappear as well? Does he? And having undertaken to provide multi-year funding to this crown corporation, does he not think that his first duty today is to make things clear, to put things plainly and honestly to the CBC, to allow for sound financial planning?
In the House of Commons on March 20th, 1995. See this statement in context.