Madam Speaker, I have a brief question for the member. First, let me say to her that she should not knock CNN, because without it the Prime Minister would not know what is going on in Afghanistan.
Second, the hon. member mentions CBC being so important to the fabric of the country. I agree with her and many others do.
The problem is that the people who run CBC do not care about rural Canada. They have cut the guts out of the programming to these areas. That is reflected in the polls, as the member just said. Its ratings are going right to the bottom because that is the type of service it is presently supplying to local service areas in rural Canada.
How can the member justify funding an agency that does the reverse of what it is supposed to do?