Though he insists he is not softening his tone on defunding the CBC and its waste of a billion dollars of taxpayer money a year, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre clarified Tuesday he would protect taxpayer funding for the Great Canadian Baking Show.

“The CBC is a government-controlled radical leftist Liberal extreme woke communist propaganda outlet that needs to be eliminated once and for all, but Alan and Ann are just so adorable and I couldn’t possibly do that to them and their wonderful contestants,” Poilievre said. “A Conservative government would protect Radio-Canada and all other French-language cultural funding programs as critical to Quebec culture, and the Great Canadian Baking Show because it’s just an absolute gem.”

It’s unclear if the show would have to move to a different network, be available only online or if CBC Television stations would be kept operational solely for the purpose of broadcasting the eight hours a year produced by this show, plus the hour-long holiday special.