Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that the country will long sustain Radio-Canada without the CBC. As I mentioned, Radio-Canada services outside Quebec, where the populations are the most vulnerable, are using CBC offices, CBC cameras, CBC equipment and CBC personnel to cover the news and to do shows in French. The idea that Radio-Canada would sustain itself outside of Quebec very easily without the CBC being there is a fallacy.
The second thing is that I do not believe English-speaking taxpayers will agree to pay for the service to be available only in French and not in English.
Finally, it would be drastically unfair to the English-speaking minority in Quebec, who would lose their only source of news in most parts of Quebec, if we took away their service in English. It is supposed to be a national broadcaster uniting us, not dividing us.