Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
From the fall of 1999 to the fall of 2000, viewers of CBC Newfoundland dropped by more than 50% over the evening news time slots. Will this be the excuse for CBC to eliminate local news programming and do through the back door what it was embarrassed to do through the front door?
Will the minister finally agree with the wishes of rural Canadians and tell CBC to return to its original news format, here and now?