Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party says the cuts took place last week. The cuts were announced last February and amounted to a total cut to the corporation of approximately 23 per cent, something which certainly is going to be very difficult for the CBC to carry out. It is something that I believe, with the creativity of the management and the board of the CBC, will certainly be within their power to carry out.
To suggest that the minister would carry out the cuts would indeed be a gross abrogation of the arm's length policy which must de facto exist to protect the integrity of the CBC.