Madam Speaker, I am wondering if the member was as shocked as I was about CBC executives getting millions of dollars in bonuses while laying off workers. Conservatives want to cut and gut the CBC. They want to defund it, which serves their partisan interests, especially in a world of misinformation and disinformation, but why is the Liberal government giving them ammunition? The Privy Council approved those bonuses.
Our public broadcaster serves an invaluable purpose in Canada, but it is also accountable to Canadians. While Conservatives want to cut and gut the CBC, New Democrats want to invest in it. Would the member agree that we should stop handing out multi-million dollar bonuses and invest that in local journalism?