Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives want to control not only overall budgets, but also how they are broken down. No one is immune to their partisan obsessions.
It is to the point where they are even changing government websites to display their party's colours, and now they are saying to CBC employees, “So, you thought you were independent of the government and autonomous? Well, no, now you must negotiate with us”.
If the government had only focused on doing its job instead of attacking the independence of crown corporations, maybe it would not have lost track of $3.1 billion.
It should concentrate on that, to begin with.