Mr. Speaker, if that were true, he would give the CBC the $60 million that he is sitting on. The minister's spin will not keep our local television stations going. In fact, if we look at the lack of accountability and how he stripped it from the Canadian Television Fund, the broadcasters have been kicked off, the CBC has been kicked off, independent television producers have been kicked off. He has taken a $130-million public fund and turned it into a private club for the cable giants.
Why has the minister thrown out the public interests to protect the vested interests of a cabal of the five giant cable companies?