Madam Speaker, the member asked me to be honest. I am being honest when I say that the Liberals cut the CBC's budget by $400 million and 4,000 jobs were lost. The difference is that the others just sit over there and watch as the corporation vanishes. Of the two, I no longer know who to blame.
However, as for the $60 million mentioned by my colleague, CBC/Radio-Canada has said that it is tiresome having to beg for it every year. That money always arrives at the last minute.
There has been no change since 2001. What we must do is ensure that they receive the $60 million for the next seven years, at the beginning of each year, and that it would henceforth be on their books. It always receives this money at the last minute.
Last Friday morning, even before going on the program Le Match des élus , we learned that the CBC had finally received its $60 million. It was already late. To my way of thinking, you cannot operate a business and you cannot resolve the situation that way. We know that this Conservative government is looking at privatizing in the public sector. It wants to go the route of privatization. It prefers to give money to the private rather than the public sector, as is evident from the steps it is presently taking—