Juno News - Is Justin Trudeau hinting at another CBC bailout？

00:00:00.000 Is Justin Trudeau hinting at yet another CBC bailout?

00:00:03.740 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:11.000 So according to a memo which was unearthed by Blacklock's reporter,

00:00:15.480 which is an investigative journalism outlet over in Ottawa, they do great work.

00:00:19.400 Well, according to their report, this memo was written by

00:00:22.220 the Trudeau government's Department of Canadian Heritage

00:00:24.680 and it stated that the CBC is under immense financial pressure.

00:00:30.000 This despite receiving $1.2 billion each and every year from the Trudeau government.

00:00:36.600 Do these government journalists really need even more taxpayer cash?

00:00:40.420 Well, the Trudeau government memo seems to make that case.

00:00:43.360 It says this,

00:00:44.100 The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of covering it

00:00:47.400 put immense pressure on CBC's workforce, operations, finances, and systems.

00:00:53.640 But wait a minute, why would COVID affect the CBC? Think about it.

00:00:57.660 It isn't like they're a small business who were forced to shut their doors

00:01:01.380 because of a government mandate.

00:01:03.220 They're not a mom and pop shop who lost their clientele

00:01:05.760 because of the lockdowns or their cash-strapped clients.

00:01:09.140 It's hard to think of any real way that the CBC would have been affected.

00:01:13.660 They're not a private company.

00:01:15.040 They don't rely on subscribers.

00:01:16.860 They don't really even rely on advertisers to stay afloat.

00:01:20.180 It's hard to think of any way that COVID or the resulting lockdowns

00:01:23.260 would have really had any effect on CBC or their bottom line.

00:01:26.380 Perhaps that's why the memo did emphasize this one point.

00:01:29.940 It says the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

00:01:33.460 put additional pressures on its cash flow, right?

00:01:37.760 The Olympics.

00:01:38.360 So poor CBC, they had to wait an entire year for that big media event.

00:01:43.620 But get this, because of COVID, because of the pandemic,

00:01:46.660 the Trudeau government already gave the CBC more money.

00:01:49.800 Yes, they pledged an additional $21 million

00:01:51.780 for this very reason in the most recent budget.

00:01:55.140 This is from the budget document.

00:01:57.020 It says,

00:01:57.700 Budget 2021 proposes to provide $21 million in 2021-22

00:02:02.860 as immediate operational support to the CBC Radio Canada.

00:02:07.760 The funding will ensure its stability during the pandemic

00:02:10.920 and enable it to continue providing news and entertainment programming

00:02:15.240 that keeps Canadians informed.

00:02:18.220 To keep Canadians informed.

00:02:19.980 I do love that.

00:02:20.940 Have you spent much time on the CBC's website lately?

00:02:24.680 I usually don't.

00:02:25.940 I make a point of not going and visiting it

00:02:27.760 because the news over there is truly preposterous.

00:02:31.300 But for this report, I spent a bit of time perusing through the website.

00:02:35.400 And let me tell you, I can barely even describe it as a news site.

00:02:39.400 It's really a propaganda site that sort of pretends to be a news site.

00:02:44.120 I'll tell you what I'm talking about.

00:02:45.660 So, every progressive left-wing cultural trend that's been exported from the American left

00:02:51.560 can be found front and center on the CBC.

00:02:54.640 Just check this out.

00:02:56.040 So, first we have this large banner at the top of the page

00:02:58.700 and there's ads plastered all over the site called

00:03:01.220 Being Black in Canada

00:03:02.640 with a bunch of Marxist revolution fists up in the air.

00:03:07.120 And it says this,

00:03:07.860 find more stories about the Black experience in Canada.

00:03:11.360 And sometimes when you're scrolling through a different news site,

00:03:14.860 you'll see an ad bar.

00:03:16.080 So, it's a bar on the side of the screen that is an advertisement

00:03:18.860 but it looks like the sort of trending stories on the site.

00:03:22.060 And this is the feed that's dedicated entirely to that series that the CBC does.

00:03:27.460 It's pretty wild.

00:03:28.180 It's like they have their own segregated news right here.

00:03:31.140 There's an entire section devoted just to telling stories about Black people in Canada.

00:03:35.920 So, I guess this is all in response to the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement

00:03:39.980 which is an American movement directly in response to the disproportionate crime

00:03:45.600 and police shootings of Black people in the U.S.

00:03:48.880 But we don't really have that problem in Canada, do we?

00:03:51.740 We don't have the same history.

00:03:53.340 We don't have the same school systems in the U.S.

00:03:55.340 We don't have the same criminal justice systems.

00:03:57.560 So, it's a little odd to take this American cultural phenomenon

00:04:01.160 and try to apply it into Canada, try to rectify it.

00:04:04.060 The experience of Black people in Canada is just different.

00:04:07.280 In fact, Black people in Canada only make up about 3% of the population

00:04:11.000 so a little more than a million people.

00:04:13.560 But get this, a majority of Black people in Canada, 52% are immigrants.

00:04:18.280 So, they were born somewhere else and they moved to Canada.

00:04:21.060 Most likely they chose to come to Canada 0.78

00:04:23.020 or their parents brought them when they were children.

00:04:25.360 So, again, the experience of Black people is just different.

00:04:28.220 It's a little weird that we would have this whole section

00:04:30.720 of the government-funded broadcasting news station

00:04:33.840 devoted to the experience of 3% of the population.

00:04:38.380 And it's interesting to note that in Canada,

00:04:40.240 the Black population has doubled in the last 20 years,

00:04:43.800 meaning that more and more Black people want to come to Canada

00:04:46.440 because it's a good country.

00:04:47.760 It's a great place for them to live.

00:04:49.200 So, they come here just like it's a great place for everyone to live.

00:04:51.740 Our story couldn't be more different than our American neighbours. 0.91

00:04:54.720 And yet, our state broadcaster insists on importing this cultural narrative

00:04:59.360 from another country and then awkwardly trying to apply it into Canada.

00:05:03.780 So, do Black Canadians, most of whom are immigrants

00:05:06.800 and most of whom are probably pretty grateful and happy to be here,

00:05:10.480 do they really need their own news section,

00:05:12.880 their own separate news with this weird Marxist banner? 0.98

00:05:15.960 How silly. It really is silly. 0.99

00:05:17.900 The silliness doesn't end there. 0.74

00:05:19.460 Let's look at some of the top stories today just for fun.

00:05:22.100 Again, I don't usually go on the CBC website,

00:05:24.080 but I just decided to cruise around today

00:05:26.800 and I was pretty surprised by what is considered news over at the CBC.

00:05:31.580 So, here's a story here.

00:05:32.740 It says,

00:05:33.520 Health Canada dragging feet on approving magic mushrooms

00:05:36.900 for therapeutic use, patients and advocates say.

00:05:40.400 So, right here, one of the top stories on the website

00:05:42.480 is the CBC pushing for the approval of psychedelic drugs.

00:05:46.900 Okay, next, we have a story here.

00:05:48.540 It says, Ontario's hair school standards still ignore black hair

00:05:52.480 four years after work began to include it.

00:05:55.860 So, in this story, we hear all about how difficult it is

00:05:58.840 for some black women to find hair salons 1.00

00:06:01.520 where people know how to do their hair.

00:06:04.100 And, of course, the response here is so typical

00:06:06.180 of the big government mindset over at the CBC.

00:06:09.120 So, instead of letting the free market do its thing,

00:06:12.100 which is a sort of problem like this,

00:06:13.680 lots of people have different hairstyles,

00:06:15.800 different hair textures, different hair types,

00:06:18.220 and you therefore have lots of different people

00:06:20.360 who kind of specialize in different hairstyles,

00:06:23.300 different hair textures, different techniques,

00:06:25.380 different things that they do to someone's hair.

00:06:28.060 Instead of letting the consumers sort of try to seek out

00:06:30.720 someone who specializes in the hairstyle

00:06:32.860 that they are looking for,

00:06:34.400 the CBC instead is pushing for this blanket approach

00:06:37.820 where the government regulates it

00:06:39.860 to make sure that all hairdressers in the province of Ontario

00:06:43.060 have the ability to work on all hair types

00:06:45.700 and all hair textures.

00:06:47.860 Now, of course, this would require all hairdressers in Ontario

00:06:50.800 to have more training, more time, more specialization,

00:06:53.680 and ultimately, it will just make everybody's haircut

00:06:56.700 in Ontario more expensive.

00:06:58.920 But the social justice warriors over at the CBC,

00:07:01.380 they don't care about that.

00:07:02.460 All they care about is advocating for social justice,

00:07:05.760 and that is clearly what this piece is all about.

00:07:08.580 It's funny, when you have an entire section on your website

00:07:11.680 dedicated to being black in Canada,

00:07:14.120 you have to have reporters just kind of out there 0.97

00:07:16.240 making up the news, inventing stories

00:07:18.320 that aren't really that newsworthy,

00:07:20.620 aren't really that big of a deal.

00:07:22.340 But, you know, you have all this money

00:07:23.800 and you have these dedicated reporters,

00:07:25.600 and so they're going to come up with news one way or another.

00:07:28.400 I think this story is a pretty good example of that.

00:07:30.360 Sort of like how the federal government,

00:07:32.480 they have dedicated funds that newspapers and media outlets

00:07:35.980 can apply for, and the government gives out millions of dollars

00:07:38.880 for reporters to cover climate change.

00:07:41.480 And that's why you see all these news outlets

00:07:43.020 that have a climate change reporter.

00:07:45.540 It's their job to report on climate change

00:07:47.680 because they're getting paid by the federal government

00:07:49.360 to subsidize these positions,

00:07:51.200 and that's why you see so much news about climate change.

00:07:54.580 Think about it.

00:07:55.160 If your job is a dedicated climate change reporter,

00:07:59.560 you're going to look at every weather event.

00:08:01.060 You're going to look at every event

00:08:02.200 and see it through the lens of climate change

00:08:04.120 and make it about climate change

00:08:05.440 because that's what your job is,

00:08:06.980 and that's what the government is paying you to do.

00:08:08.940 And so we see that here.

00:08:11.500 Okay, let's keep scrolling,

00:08:12.860 see what else the CBC has to offer today.

00:08:15.840 And I really, this story really just takes a cake for me.

00:08:19.020 I'm going to read a little bit from it 0.91

00:08:20.240 because it is just a little silly,

00:08:22.200 just like the other CBC stories. 0.97

00:08:23.600 This one probably is the silliest. 0.85

00:08:25.520 It says, 0.99

00:08:25.960 Transgender woman says,

00:08:27.820 Getting gender-affirming ID in Ontario

00:08:30.280 is an impossible struggle.

00:08:32.820 An impossible struggle, we're told.

00:08:34.460 So this story is about a trans woman,

00:08:36.320 so a biological male,

00:08:37.620 who wants to get a new ID in Ontario

00:08:40.460 listing the gender as female.

00:08:42.740 We're told that is an impossible struggle,

00:08:44.700 and the CBC explains just how.

00:08:47.980 So I'm going to read from this piece.

00:08:50.480 It says,

00:08:51.020 first the subheading says,

00:08:52.220 Trans people required to get doctor's letter 0.93

00:08:54.320 when changing gender on photo cards.

00:08:56.880 So ever since Diana Bosco transitioned to female four years ago,

00:09:01.660 she's been attempting to get identification

00:09:03.400 that accurately reflects her gender,

00:09:05.660 a process she describes as invasive

00:09:07.660 and stymied by systemic discrimination

00:09:10.020 against transgender people. 1.00

00:09:11.940 She's currently trying to get an Ontario photo card,

00:09:14.860 government-issued ID for those without a driver's license,

00:09:17.820 with her sex designated as F. 1.00

00:09:21.060 But, she says,

00:09:22.140 she has only been met with barriers.

00:09:24.760 It's been an impossible struggle, Diana says.

00:09:27.000 It feels like all the old hate

00:09:28.860 just lingers around in the system and everywhere.

00:09:32.200 I just know,

00:09:33.200 I don't know what to do.

00:09:34.960 I just want to live my life,

00:09:36.240 but I'm struggling here.

00:09:37.460 Okay, so the CBC goes on to explain this struggle

00:09:40.800 and how the system is just so filled with hate.

00:09:43.540 It says,

00:09:43.800 Earlier this month,

00:09:44.600 Diana and her social worker

00:09:46.260 went to Service Ontario location in West Toronto,

00:09:49.820 so Diana could apply for the card. 0.98

00:09:51.740 We're told that when she was there,

00:09:53.600 the Service Ontario worker

00:09:55.740 asked some uncomfortable questions

00:09:57.340 and ultimately asked her for a doctor's note.

00:10:00.640 And that is what she's saying

00:10:02.620 that she is upset about.

00:10:04.480 She says,

00:10:04.840 I know who I am.

00:10:05.620 I don't need to prove it to you.

00:10:07.720 And then she basically learned

00:10:09.120 that it was required

00:10:10.240 that the doctor's note had to be there.

00:10:12.040 So according to the CBC piece,

00:10:13.360 it says here that Diana said,

00:10:15.440 the requirement is a huge obstacle

00:10:17.460 for trans people

00:10:18.760 facing systemic discrimination

00:10:20.320 in the healthcare system

00:10:21.620 as they may not have a doctor

00:10:23.680 they trust to provide the letter.

00:10:26.880 It goes on to say that the people

00:10:29.160 who work in Ontario in healthcare

00:10:31.080 as far as Ontario need more education

00:10:32.760 about trans people

00:10:34.460 and that they shouldn't be so mean

00:10:36.680 and asking all these questions.

00:10:38.740 Well, I just kind of have a hard time.

00:10:40.860 I mean, look,

00:10:41.660 I won't discount this one person's experience.

00:10:43.440 Maybe she's having a really difficult time.

00:10:45.760 Maybe this is a impossible struggle for her,

00:10:48.320 but sort of from an objective standpoint,

00:10:50.800 we know that it is incredibly easy

00:10:52.680 in the province of Ontario

00:10:53.900 to get your gender changed.

00:10:56.320 Remember when the rebel sent a news personality

00:10:59.500 to go and do this exact same thing,

00:11:01.700 this very thing,

00:11:02.600 just to show how easy it is.

00:11:04.460 I'm going to play a bit of this clip

00:11:05.840 because again,

00:11:06.840 it just sort of walks you through the process

00:11:08.400 and it shows you just how easy it is

00:11:10.780 to get your gender changed in Ontario.

00:11:12.820 So this is Lauren Southern,

00:11:13.980 remember her?

00:11:14.580 She decided that she was going to go do this stunt. 0.97

00:11:17.160 She dressed up as a guy, sort of. 0.78

00:11:19.180 I mean, you can see here,

00:11:20.560 she still very much looks like a woman,

00:11:22.260 but she dressed like this 0.94

00:11:23.260 and she walked into a doctor's office.

00:11:26.060 She told the doctor

00:11:26.960 that she had been identifying as a man,

00:11:29.760 that her friends called her by male pronouns

00:11:31.960 and that she wanted to validate this

00:11:34.240 through the system in Ontario,

00:11:36.140 play you a bit of that clip.

00:11:37.160 You might not get this question often

00:11:39.360 and I don't mean to waste your time at all,

00:11:41.300 but I've been a gender non-binary person

00:11:43.940 for about a year now.

00:11:45.380 Sorry, gen?

00:11:46.780 Gender non-binary.

00:11:48.220 Binary.

00:11:49.300 Can you explain that to me?

00:11:50.440 I use male pronouns 0.97

00:11:51.800 and among my friends groups,

00:11:53.540 as Oliver can tell you,

00:11:54.960 I've been identified as a male for a while.

00:11:58.040 I don't always present as male,

00:11:59.560 but gender is a spectrum.

00:12:02.180 Well, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

00:12:04.960 I mean, it's not like I can prove anything, right?

00:12:07.060 Yeah.

00:12:07.340 Obviously.

00:12:08.020 Yeah, thank you.

00:12:09.220 Do you want me to say

00:12:10.260 that you should be identified as a male?

00:12:12.440 Yes, please.

00:12:13.320 Okay.

00:12:19.120 Okay.

00:12:19.680 The letters of the...

00:12:20.440 Maybe.

00:12:22.280 Now, you can see the doctor is,

00:12:24.460 you know, perfectly fine.

00:12:26.280 Barely even skeptical,

00:12:27.480 just sort of like,

00:12:28.200 okay, whatever you want,

00:12:29.580 whatever you need,

00:12:30.260 here you go,

00:12:30.840 provides the note that is required,

00:12:33.720 really just goes along with it.

00:12:34.620 No one wants to be accused of being offensive

00:12:37.340 or being hateful towards trans people,

00:12:39.200 and most people will just kind of go along with it.

00:12:41.880 Now, next,

00:12:42.840 Lauren heads on over to Service Ontario,

00:12:45.300 which is a service provider in Ontario

00:12:47.440 that issues the government ID.

00:12:49.540 And so she,

00:12:50.480 you can see she's no longer dressed like a dude.

00:12:52.880 She's got her hair down,

00:12:54.240 she's wearing lots of makeup,

00:12:55.540 and she even has a low-cut shirt.

00:12:57.200 So she's looking a lot more like a woman in this clip, 1.00

00:12:59.800 and she originally doesn't mention anything

00:13:02.780 about her gender being a man to the clerk.

00:13:05.560 She just hands all the documents,

00:13:07.380 and then kind of very,

00:13:08.860 at the very end,

00:13:09.560 as an afterthought,

00:13:10.540 she just mentions,

00:13:11.500 oh, and by the way,

00:13:12.580 I'm a man,

00:13:13.180 and here's the documentation.

00:13:14.320 So let's play this clip.

00:13:15.740 How's it going?

00:13:16.620 Good.

00:13:18.060 Sure.

00:13:18.880 One more thing.

00:13:19.680 For purposes of this identification,

00:13:21.440 I would like to be identified as male.

00:13:23.240 So I brought in all of the proper documents.

00:13:32.220 I'm glad you're coming.

00:13:35.160 One moment, okay?

00:13:37.060 Yep.

00:13:40.860 I think my favorite part of that clip

00:13:42.660 is when the clerk calls Lauren,

00:13:44.860 sir.

00:13:45.400 Again, you know,

00:13:46.360 people are just trying to be polite.

00:13:48.060 No one wants to be accused of being hateful.

00:13:50.560 No one actually is hateful,

00:13:52.240 and most people just want to be helpful.

00:13:54.520 And you can see here,

00:13:55.860 you know,

00:13:56.200 the clerk makes a phone call,

00:13:57.960 explains the situation,

00:13:59.040 no problem.

00:14:00.100 Lauren gets her, 0.99

00:14:01.160 Lauren walked away 1.00

00:14:02.020 from the Service Ontario office

00:14:03.620 with the piece of paper

00:14:05.180 documenting that she was now

00:14:06.680 legally a male in Ontario.

00:14:09.160 So the very fact

00:14:10.220 that someone like Lauren,

00:14:11.180 who is a social media personality,

00:14:13.640 a provocateur,

00:14:14.680 could just so easily

00:14:15.720 and so quickly

00:14:16.600 get her gender changed 1.00

00:14:18.200 legally in Ontario,

00:14:19.100 makes me a little bit skeptical

00:14:20.460 of the claim being made here

00:14:22.300 by the CBC,

00:14:23.340 which is that it is

00:14:24.340 an impossible struggle

00:14:25.340 to get this done.

00:14:26.220 It really didn't seem

00:14:27.260 impossible at all.

00:14:28.120 In fact,

00:14:28.620 it seemed far,

00:14:29.980 far too easy.

00:14:31.440 But again,

00:14:32.060 the CBC does not do journalism.

00:14:34.220 They do woke left-wing activism.

00:14:36.480 This probably met their quota

00:14:38.020 that they have

00:14:38.560 some kind of a weekly quota

00:14:39.640 of telling trans stories

00:14:41.740 and this fell into that.

00:14:43.780 So, you know what?

00:14:44.660 All this is just to say,

00:14:46.460 it's no wonder

00:14:47.180 that Canadians are tuning out

00:14:48.940 from the CBC

00:14:49.840 and they are.

00:14:50.960 CBC's numbers

00:14:51.680 are massively down.

00:14:52.840 So CBC's ad revenues

00:14:54.180 fell by 20% last year

00:14:56.320 and in October 2020,

00:14:57.560 they had to cut 130 employees

00:14:59.640 from English television

00:15:01.040 and that was despite

00:15:01.920 getting that $21 million

00:15:03.120 cash infusion

00:15:04.340 from the Trudeau government.

00:15:05.980 So sure,

00:15:06.340 you can blame that

00:15:07.120 on the pandemic,

00:15:08.280 but in the five years

00:15:09.000 before 2020,

00:15:10.080 from 2015 to 2019,

00:15:12.640 ad revenue also fell

00:15:13.760 by 53%.

00:15:14.800 That is part of a long trend

00:15:16.860 of declining viewership

00:15:18.260 of the CBC.

00:15:19.820 Ad revenue also fell

00:15:20.720 by 12% between 2010

00:15:22.660 and 2015.

00:15:24.960 And of course,

00:15:25.600 the declining ad revenue

00:15:26.720 reflects the declining viewerships

00:15:28.260 because Canadians,

00:15:29.360 by and large,

00:15:29.900 are no longer getting

00:15:30.900 their news from the CBC.

00:15:32.800 The CBC News'

00:15:33.700 flagship program,

00:15:34.780 The National,

00:15:35.220 has seen some of the

00:15:36.020 sharpest declines

00:15:36.860 in viewership.

00:15:37.720 So since Peter Mansbridge's

00:15:39.340 departure as host in 2017,

00:15:41.540 The National has seen

00:15:42.440 a 24% decline in viewership.

00:15:45.300 This report from

00:15:46.060 The Globe and Mail

00:15:46.540 is from 2019,

00:15:47.800 so I can only imagine

00:15:48.700 the numbers are even lower today,

00:15:50.380 but this is what the report

00:15:51.320 from The Globe and Mail says.

00:15:52.780 The public broadcaster's

00:15:53.920 flagship national newscast

00:15:55.560 has attracted an average

00:15:56.700 of 401,000 viewers

00:15:58.640 aged two years old plus

00:16:00.280 nightly on the main

00:16:01.480 CBC TV network

00:16:02.680 over the 2018-19

00:16:04.320 television series,

00:16:05.480 down sharply from

00:16:06.300 the 525,000

00:16:08.280 average number of viewers

00:16:10.400 who tuned in

00:16:11.200 for Mansbridge's final season

00:16:12.780 as news anchor.

00:16:14.760 Okay, so let me just

00:16:15.640 make this point 0.69

00:16:16.200 because it's really silly.

00:16:17.460 If you're watching

00:16:18.120 this video right now

00:16:19.540 on YouTube or Facebook,

00:16:21.060 you see the total number

00:16:22.260 of devices that are

00:16:23.380 watching the video.

00:16:24.420 So one device

00:16:25.340 counts as one view.

00:16:27.140 But if you live

00:16:28.040 in the network television world,

00:16:29.800 they use Statistics Canada data

00:16:31.560 to determine how many people

00:16:33.280 are in your household.

00:16:35.020 And if you're over

00:16:35.700 two years old,

00:16:36.760 you're included

00:16:37.620 so long as one person

00:16:38.980 in that household

00:16:39.520 has the TV on

00:16:40.820 while the CBC is on.

00:16:42.460 So my two-year-old son

00:16:43.880 who is not awake

00:16:44.700 during the evening news,

00:16:45.720 and even if he was awake,

00:16:46.960 he wouldn't be sitting

00:16:47.660 over my shoulder

00:16:48.600 consuming the news

00:16:50.040 and listening

00:16:50.600 and soaking it all in.

00:16:51.820 Well, it doesn't matter

00:16:52.620 because he counts

00:16:53.440 as a viewer

00:16:54.120 and still,

00:16:55.440 and still, 0.95

00:16:55.980 even with that silly metric

00:16:57.300 of counting people,

00:16:58.960 including children

00:16:59.720 and other people

00:17:00.420 who aren't even

00:17:00.960 watching the television,

00:17:02.280 they can only

00:17:02.820 master 400,000 viewers

00:17:05.520 from a country

00:17:06.420 of 38 million people.

00:17:09.420 Look,

00:17:09.960 the CBC exists

00:17:10.780 for a bygone era.

00:17:12.160 It has outlived its mandate.

00:17:13.580 It has outlived

00:17:14.360 its usefulness.

00:17:15.460 It is time for us

00:17:16.360 to pull the plug.

00:17:17.540 I'm Candace Malcolm

00:17:18.140 and this is

00:17:18.780 The Candace Malcolm Show.

Juno News - July 28, 2021

Is Justin Trudeau hinting at another CBC bailout？

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