BATRA’S BURNING QUESTIONS: Will Poilievre really defund the CBC? The answer won’t shock you

[@leecrumble3921]

Defunds CBC tired of our tax dollars going to them getting million dollar bonuses.

[@thomperry1187]

People who usually complain about their taxes going to the CBS, are usually people who pay little or no taxes.

[@IceBack-we3zn]

Pierre is begging you for another broadcast now.

[@BridgeandTunnelScooterClub]

broken record dept ....

[@Pickle_Golf]

The Sun also gets tax dollars in the form of the Journalism Tax Credit.

[@mikeschembri8870]

Why do we put up with this crap? Bonuses, politician's raises! Its BS!

[@jurassicparkingplastic7258]

Any media outlet with comments disabled should immediately have it's funding removed and shut down. They do not serve the people

[@darrenmccarthy3346]

Comments are removed for a reason, the CBC is hopelessly biased and woke, and knows that 98% or more of the comments will be negative towards them. They need to compete with the market and see if they stand or fall, ON THEIR OWN, WITHOUT SUBSIDIES !!

[@gtdude2883]

Absolutely agree with you. ❤

[@milhouse7145]

Especially a publicly funded one who do not care about opinions of said public

[@Trythis837]

Better to have comments disabled entirely than to delete every 3rd one and make us all look like a bunch of moron leftists.

[@k24-z9e]

Exactly!

[@DonWoodd]

Can’t defund CBC soon enough at least stop the bonuses immediately!

[@MikelGCinema]

Who cares about the bonuses, get them out of here!!

[@MH-ek7xz]

My life would change zero without cbc.

[@watching-the-watchers55]

Same.

[@mikenielsen3971]

Your life would probably improve without the cbc. The CBC has spreads toxic agenda based information which has not been in the best interest of the people. Too many have believed CBC's propaganda and without this bad for the people information... Unity can occur, Truth can occur, Justice can occur.

[@Ryan-yi5ro]

Actually it would improve.

[@FromRuinRise]

Less of your hard earned money would pay for the government to push its propaganda on you via the CBC

[@gerardwalker2159]

It will cut off a massive line that is used to brainwash thousands who work and vote AGAINST YOU! encouraging truth by ending a lying platform WILL affect you positively........and MASSIVELY!

[@dansmaaslet6623]

All Pierre has to do is stop sending government money to CBC, and Canadians will do the rest

[@S.W.A]

Exactly

[@PeterofCanada]

It needs to be a COMPLETE defund.

[@TheCHERYL1958]

100% right

[@exeter66]

my free VIDEO on PIERRE has more views than the CBC does! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWHScnaEeLSjg7s

[@thomperry1187]

It needs to be a complete defund. I want to save a couple of bucks, so I can go waste them on an overpriced bag of chips.

[@johnpowell2790]

I’ll buy that cbc radio Canada radio French only stays

[@johnpowell2790]

But government can’t pay for it

[@skychaser59]

Hello...Internet is here!! We don't need the CBC at all PERIOD.

[@shanewilson8728]

When the CBC tried to sue the Conservatives Party during the 2019 federal election ,that's when I knew that the days of the CBC were numbered.

[@stevendeslauriers1369]

CBC has made copyright claims on many podcasts in the past weeks. Their greed shows no bounds.

[@luciferlight5082]

I kinda think that CBC has so many legally binding contracts with the government that it would make it virtually impossible to to defund

[@IceBack-we3zn]

It is a puff. CBC will stay forever mainstream.

[@nouta3226]

@@IceBack-we3zn LMFAOOOOOOO MAINSTREAM youre a kook

[@shanewilson8728]

@IceBack-we3zn CBC will get privatized like other every other crown corporation in the past, like CN and Petro Canada, which were owned by the government.

[@tanjaluk7907]

Defunding the CBC is just the start to cutting government overspending!

[@davinamarshall2780]

Waste and overspending in every department.

[@lavernekeller2283]

Agree 100% especially since they don't put on anything worth watching other then for the The Murdoch Mysteries which they had zero to do with producing or making other then providing a channel for it to be viewed on. It was first aired on City TV here in Edmonton. They don't produce anything else worth watching period even their news programming is so biased as to be utterly worthless other then as librano propaganda.

[@FredtheWebGuyTV]

I remember the CBC as a kid in the 70's and early 80's when they celebrated rather than rejected our cultural roots. That's the one I miss.

[@S.W.A]

They definitely turned to absolute garbage since then.

[@Trythis837]

You kept voting for pro immigrant governments and destroyed our culture.

[@ML-dl1cp]

it's not just their bias and their army of activists thinly disguised as journalists. It's the overall quality of the programming. It's "rip and read" jornalism. They aren't even doing their own work - they're just taking wire stories and repeating them. When they begin a story with "CBC has learned..." it means they got it from another news source. That combined with reporters using non-words like "busted" (as in "...he came home to find his front door busted in..."). That's just sloppy. And we're paying for it.

[@PA-yv8et]

Good riddance to bad programming.

[@watching-the-watchers55]

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

[@MatthewMitchell-r9q]

A billion dollars can go a long way for areas that ACTUALLY need the money.

[@nimaakhtarkhavari8766]

It's actually close to $2.3 billion dollars

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

Will line Poliviere's pockets

[@matthogg2252]

The welfare states of Quebec and The Maritimes are licking their chops.

[@IceBack-we3zn]

CBC actually needs money. They are defunded cruelly. US - one reporter...... What a shame. I expect Mr. Poilievre to help more Canadian broadcasting.

[@TheWoodfordreserve]

Yeah, imagine the immigration task force we can build with a billion dollars? We're going to need a full "anti-illegals" police force if we're actually going to deport the 5M expired-visa freeloaders we currently need to get rid of

[@gregd183]

More like a long overdue scheduled dismantling of CBC

[@joalyincontroly4379]

I agree, but they'll dismantle themselves quickly and pathetically without the $billions in free funding. Personally I think we should have tribunals to figure out who there knew they worked for the WEF, a powerful foreign entity, and then charge them all with treason and propaganda against Canada.

[@jaynepatterson5878]

i would be happy to say goodbye to the cbc

[@williamfoster1480]

Damn right,defund the cbc

[@johngawrylash7732]

Remember , Harper funded them for 10 years . They're only biased when the Liberals win . Maybe the Conservatives don't like the truth and would prefer a Fox News Canada ?

[@MisterTee2010]

I am pushing 70 and have known CBC as long as i can remember. Never realized there was a problem until The Liberals took power.

[@chrisfournier6144]

They became politically correct in the '90s and picked up steam until they went full woke, full left, full LGBTQ2SBCDEFG and the Liberal's mouth piece and attack dog. Time to shut it all down. French and English. No tax money for this corporation anymore.

[@bluerock4456]

I'm from the West, & we've had problems with the CBC for DECADES, mon ami.

[@Haale]

Ontario 66 yrs old, it has leaned and supported the Luberal party as long as I can remember, like The Toronto Star.

[@kjames337]

Or until Conservatives made you believe there was a problem

[@somebodysomewhere2277]

Another successfully brainwashed commenter....​@@kjames337

[@vinasel96]

Defund the CBC, quit the WEF, quit the UN. All happy :)

[@allisshop8092]

Exactly.

[@stevegesner8835]

The CBC has done itself no favours by acting as the government's echo chamber for 9+ years. And Tait has managed to deliver declining ratings and declining ad revenues since she took the chair. It is time for the CBC to compete against CTV and Global on equal footing. If it survives, it will because the programmimg finally appeals to Canadians. If not, it will fade away like all failed businesses before it.

[@tonysopranosduck416]

They have a viewership rate of 3%!!!! And with those dismal ratings, they get $1.6B from taxpayers. Any bank or investor would laugh them out of the office, but the government rewards them!

[@wjjz8902]

All subsidies to ctv global cp24 need to stop too or let the USA in to fix it.

[@DistractionPicklesEveryWhere]

Corus Entertainment and Bell.

[@lorpis8284]

I hate to say it but Harper set that precedent in 2015. Let that be a lesson to leave well enough alone because you never know what the next person will do with those newly developed leavers.

[@BruceBuffett-zo8jn]

Broadcast the french in quebec in ONLY. NO OTHER PROVINCE .

[@jeffotoole4509]

Absolutely not. Defunding the CBC has to be done. No ifs ands or butts.

[@PeterofCanada]

ABSOLUTELY!

[@thomperry1187]

I go one better let's defund Democracy.

[@monolith7796]

Dude take a step back, we are living in 2024. Welcome to the free market.

[@rojo7578]

It is time they start working for their money!!!

[@allisshop8092]

Impossible. They can’t survive on their own merit after living on the public’s dole for decades.

[@lindaschneider1596]

Brian ....I absolutely agree with you re the cbc..look what the cbc just tried to pull on Northern Perspective

[@Haale]

And multiple other independents

[@laurag7295]

Exactly

[@candicebowers7092]

As an oilfield worker for 30yrs, I’d like to say to EVERY person at cbc, “learn to code”

[@wolfhaven2023]

Touchè 😂

[@tonyp2151]

And cancel your Disney subscription.

[@michaelwarren202]

checkmate

[@Pickle_Golf]

As an observer of the Danielle Smith election and on behalf of the 1,500 Suncor workers laid off 2 days after… I’d like to say, “how’s that vote working out for you?”

[@wendiplays]

Shut down the state media. Immediately.

[@Pickle_Golf]

Since Twitter/X is now officially State Media with Musk IN the actual government, are you going to stop using it? Should Pierre?

[@matthewmiksza5855]

Ask any Canadian if theyd rather that money to our border or the CBC ?

[@DianeWark]

Border

[@lavernekeller2283]

@@DianeWark likewise the border securing it and sending those who don't belong here back to the scumholes they crawled out of. Along with all those that Trudeau invited in like the Syrians, the Gazans and etc.

[@Pickle_Golf]

If you’d rather it at the border, why are you voting for Pierre? He voted to lay off 1,000 CBSA staff and defund their budget by $173 Million. Is it because he says he’s serious about it? And you believe him?

[@Vanbulance]

He has no choice if he wants to become and continue as PM. The CBC shall be defunded.

[@123sheag]

a functioning democracy requires functioning journalism, which requires functional journalistic ethics

[@deesmith6363]

The core principles of journalism were turfed by all these useless Canadian media outlets long before Trudeau tossed the slavering dogs their 650 million dollar bone.

[@LynnMacKenzie-w2s]

Which the liberal CBC doesn't have

[@Muljinn]

And CBC abandoned theirs *years* ago, uncritically pumping up the Liberals.

[@bluerock4456]

Functional journalistic ethics = not the CBC.

[@tommcd8471]

i hope so...Why are we paying 1.5 billion a year for what is essentially a supermarket tabloid with a broadcasting license.

[@Muljinn]

Correction. We’re paying for the propaganda wing of the Liberal party. There isn’t a single Liberal policy or politico the CBC won’t run call ver for, no matter *how* wretched.

[@Haale]

That only presents woke ideology.

[@darrylt1137]

Totally agree defund the cbc

[@jeremylaurence5636]

My wife and I abandoned mainstream media 15 years ago. Our children do not know what it is. So this debate about the CBC is baffling to me. For a government that has to cut spending and programs, it’s a no brainer.

[@robertfortin213]

How many executives will quit and take severance pays that will sink the CBC.

[@pittsky]

Defund.

[@luannel.schick7855]

PIERRE!!!! YOU DAMN WELL BETTER DEFUND THE CBC!!!! PIERRE!!!! YOU DAMN EELL BETTER HOLD THE LINE ON EVERYTHING YOU PROMISE THE CANADIAN CITIZENS !!! ALBERTA,CANADA!

[@StephenRoss-po1rp]

He will be better than Trudeau but he’s a career politician. How many of his promises do you think you will actually keep

[@PeterofCanada]

Agreed! 100%

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Don't yell in caps.

[@thomperry1187]

People make promises to get elected, once elected REALITY usually hits them in the face.

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

He'll break his promises i guarantee it.

[@Muljinn]

All I can say regarding the CBC getting defunded…good F-ing riddance.

[@savedrotex]

Pierre would be the biggest fool in Canada if he doesn't defund the CBC once becoming PM.

[@joalyincontroly4379]

He will defund them right away.

[@bigboybob3150]

I haven't listened to CBC Radio or TV for over a decade, I am not sure there is even a radio station or TV station to listen to. If they disappear tomorrow I would not miss them as I don't watch them today. I hope PP does what he says he will do, and if he does not, he will hated like we hat Trudeau today

[@retiredguy7785]

Just curious, where do you get your Canadian News?

[@unknownprotocol60]

He answered this like 20 times. He is going to do it.

[@perryg5500]

Pierre has integrity and will do what is right for Canadas taxpayers.

[@thomperry1187]

Some of Canada's taxpayers don't mind some of their tax dollars going to the CBC.

[@ellenpartnoy7660]

PeePee has NO integrity. Wouldn't know what integrity is if it walked up and kicked him in the ass. What he DOES have is an insatiable lust for power, like the professional career politician he is. He'll say whatever he thinks people want to hear if it gets him into power. Too bad most of my fellow country people are already drinking the right wing koolaid and will vote this clown in.

[@MarkMilotay]

If he has integrity, why can’t he get security clearance?

[@Muljinn]

Go read Tm Mulcair’s explanation why.

[@bluerock4456]

​@@thomperry1187Then they can subscribe to a voluntary funding model. Why should I pay for your preference?

[@kwesiawotwi4204]

Start with the CBC please, but don’t end there.

[@catherinewilson1079]

I agree with the people from the Canadian Taxpayer Association; media should NOT be paid by government. The CBC has abused their mandate and THAT IS ENOUGH!!! (Put that money into broadband internet access if that is what’s needed for all Canadians to access their own choice.)

[@bitcoinchampion4927]

The CBC threw their lot in with the LPC and should be taught a lesson, a lesson that will scare them straight. If they wanted to be Pravda...they are.

[@allisshop8092]

Corrupt. And of zero value to the country.

[@barbaramartin3722]

I used to be a diehard radio listener because there were no commercials, but I quit because they were pushing the woke ideology on almost every show. Now I put up with commercials to hear the conservative POV.

[@johnb5519]

Along wit TDS.

[@gordonsmith8860]

Canada needs a “Fighter” like Poillievre to bring us back from the abyss!

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

A fighter? The guys never even had a real job

[@buffythehaterslayer6918]

@@wyleecoyotee4252 And your girlfriend Trudeau has?

[@wyleecoyotee4252]

@@buffythehaterslayer6918 Just because I say things about Poliviere that you don't like doesn't mean I support Trudeau. But this isn't about me... Is that the best you can do when you have no valid point to make.

[@ellenpartnoy7660]

Axtualyy, he has. He was formerly a h8gh school drama teacher. YOUR little GIRLFRIEND PeePee has spent his entire adult life warming a Conzervative bench in the House of Commons, in between episodes of bending over backward to kiss Daddy Harper's ass

[@ellenpartnoy7660]

PeePee's new "working class" makeover would be hilarious if it weren't so transparently opportunistic. Pathetic.

[@grenvillerich-fv2oy]

Defund CBC good for Canadians 😅

[@juggysma2690]

I never watch the CBC! I find that ANYTHING put forth by the CBC needs to be fact checked and most times there is very little truth to anything

[@watching-the-watchers55]

As for CBC on the Internet: I go there once every so often, Give it the thumbs down, then Quickly leave. Canadian Taxpayers Association say the media should not be funded by taxpayers.

[@lindalowney1404]

Why not touch the french speaking cbc? Why should they get special treatment? Cut funding for ALL cbc.

[@BeverlyBlundell]

They don't rely solely on government funding

[@saltnlight8072]

They have far fewer choices than Anglophones.

[@bluerock4456]

Watch the video: it explains why it is different for Radio Canada.

[@TwinTitans]

Quebec get special treatment for anything and everything giving nothing in return.

[@BeverlyBlundell]

@@TwinTitans we're a distinct society!😉

[@robertoiffel]

I stood face to face with this man and asked this question and carbon tax he said it would be one of the first things he does.

[@sarahpalm7220]

Nope Brian Lilly... People are waking up and NOT watching the CBC but getting news from other sources.. like you guys.. and Northern Perspective is fantastic!!!

[@laurag7295]

Yes indeed!

[@asthecrowesfly6078]

What would happen my world? Absolutely nothing except I'd see my government stop wasting some of our tax dollars!!!

[@TimRivette]

Journalism should have no place in the state at all, period.

[@tomcotter8138]

You can’t fix’s stupid !! I’m 100 % ready to vote ☑️ asap

[@daryl4083]

kick em down the road, the CBC can do what other media outlets are doing to keep it a fair market. No more handouts.

[@donp11]

I hope he does, CBC is rotten to the core and needs to be abolished.

[@adambath8850]

Would change absolutely nothing for me if the CBC did not exist. I do not consume my news on any of their distribution channels.

[@MichaelRoy-g1z]

Nothing would happen if the cbc went.

[@joalyincontroly4379]

I'll tell you what would happen.. We'd all celebrate their shameful pathetic legacy of propaganda and failure. Then we'd have a free and fair press in this country again👍🏻

[@katewerk]

NOTHING would change. I clicked off CBC Radio during their grotesque coverage of the Bush Admin, and we cancelled our cable years ago. They don't exist outside of a few weblinks.

[@Green__one]

CBC hasn't been "in my market" in ages. Sure they're physically in my city, but the market I'm in is for unbiased journalism, and they have nothing remotely resembling that.

[@Stevi987]

I hope so. The CBC is a bottomless pit!

[@cynthiacarruthers8680]

People are tired of always being lied to. What makes it even worse is we pay for it.

[@applepicker9591]

This is a lesson to not become a mouthpiece of a dictator. Defund this wannabe news agency! Good riddance!

[@JaniceLoriSchmitz]

The CBC was a big part of my life when I lived in Canada, but bit by bit, everything I liked about it got replaced with things I find offensive. The Israel/Palestine coverage Neil Mcdonald used to do back in the day was fantastic. The variety of classical music on CBC Radio 2 was fantastic until they dumbed it down and then got rid of it altogether. There were some great original series like Twitch City and the Newsroom. The golden days of the CBC have been over for a long time.

[@laurag7295]

It has gone indeed!

[@Goldminer63]

My life would not change one iota without the CBC. I haven't watched the CBC since they fired Don Cherry. And I certainly wouldn't watch the CBC for honesty with unbiased political facts.

[@laurag7295]

I haven't watched since then either!😊

[@maxcloutier5285]

63000$ bonus over an already high salary ? For 1200 employes ? Disgusting.

[@laurag7295]

Outrageous!

[@kind_Kyle]

He has to defund the CBC. Many of his supports, which I am one, would think the defunding would come after cutting the hated carbon tax. He would lose so much respect and support if he does not.

[@PeterofCanada]

He will lose our support if he doesn't keep his promise.

[@Albert-qg1op]

It wouldn't matter to me if CBC went off the air I haven't listened to them for over 8 years sucks to be them

[@NuclearT3acup]

Being a rural Manitoban absolutely nothing changes for me with the cbc gone. I’ll admit I didn’t give two f’s about the cbc until I saw the committee meetings about bonuses. I don’t think anyone in the public sector should receive bonuses at any position. Your bonus is job security through public funds.

[@flashgordon99999]

NO PUBLIC MONEY FOR CBC period, end of discussion. And maybe privatize Canada Post while we are at it.

[@bustedford]

Remember when cbc had front page challenge,walt disney and the beachcombers. Ahh the good old days of cbc long gone now

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

The older I get the more I resemble Relic from the Beachcombers.

[@daryllambert-ho9jk]

Remember Wild Canada? John and Janet Foster. Such an amazing show.

[@johnb5519]

I only watched that crap when there was nothing else on.

[@bustedford]

@@johnb5519 back in the 70’s there really wasnt anything else to watch we had one channel by rabbit ears that was cbc. Did you watch tommy hunter?😉😂

[@stevecollins6819]

I was able to promptly buy a copy of CBC Exposed for my Kindle and I can't wait to read it.

[@JosephineBenini]

He should defund all mainstream media

[@vinceperocchio3793]

I’m content watching more of you guys😎🫵🏼🇨🇦

[@deanbusch2727]

The original purpose of the CBC, has long since out lived itself, especially now that internet is almost everywhere. A national radio service makes sense in the event of national disasters but TV could be peeled back and made to earn revenue on their own. But an increase in satellite and internet service will provide an information flow to those few areas that need to get information.

[@robertheintz8017]

Lorrie Goldstein is absolutely wrong when he says we need to keep the CBC for rural and Northern residents. Since around 1998 Canada has had affordable small satellite dishes like Bell and Starchoice. Ironically you could get more channels at a lower price with your dish than big city cable TV. There is no need to maintain these expensive CBC transmitters anymore. Let's also not lose sight of the fact that watching TV is a luxury, not a necessity. Defund!!

[@AndrewMcCracken]

High school teacher here. My students give me blank expressions when I say “CBC”. They honestly don’t know what it is.

[@owenmonaco7817]

Canadian heritage has disappeared. Look at the passport. Look at the "holiday tree" at "sankofa square" why should the cbc be preserved? Let them stand on their own feet

[@dianedee7919]

I'm all for defunding the CBC, the media must be unbiased and not beholden to anyone. Our money is best served helping Canadians. Putting that money towards the health care system would be better, much better.

[@nikkic2581]

Defund and get reimbursement for the bonus’s we paid to the execs while they laid off hundreds of employees

[@davinamarshall2780]

His promise to defund the biased, leftist CBC is something I expect Pierre to keep. If he reneges he will never get my vote again.

[@tracyallen7020]

Same .

[@gejost]

Cbc has lots of content that isn't political

[@davinamarshall2780]

@@gejost Everything CBC presents is slanted and biased. They have an agenda and if you can't see that I'm sorry for you.

[@Neillybob63]

@@gejost They're not supposed to have ANY content that is overtly politicalyly partisan when people from both the left and right are funding it through their tax dollars.... duh. Liberals wouldn't want their taxes funding Fox News so why should conservative tax dollars be funding The CBC?

[@trishap4181]

CBC went after all Canadian creators on youtube. I hope the creators slap cbc with a class action Lawsuit

[@markweber4086]

ohh, how i hope, best thing after the carbon tax, to get off the tax payers payroll

[@TwinTitans]

No reason for a publicly funded news company. The money train has to stop.

[@stevemanol9637]

Wouldn't miss it at all

[@snowballs2023]

CBC. turns off comment on youtube channel defund them immediately

[@cu4achat123]

One of the questions I would like addressed is, Will Pierre increase the OAS up to 4.4% increase in 2025, instead of only .08% in effect in 2024? MP's are given a raise every April, in 2024 Trudeau received a $17,000 Raise & MP's collected 4.4% increase up to $8300,? Why is it OAS is only given a .08% increase?

[@Neillybob63]

Not defending Trudeau (yuck) or the MP's but come on dude.....they're only a small handful of people, their increases collectively amount to maybe a few million dollars while a 4.4% increase in OAS would collectively cost billions. At at time when we're over $1T in debt spending billions we don't have is simply bad economics.

[@cu4achat123]

@@Neillybob63 You haven't got the foggiest Idea how many MP's there are. There are 337 MP's. MP's make $194,600/year.They don't need another dime of OUR dollars. Open Mouth insert foot!

[@Neillybob63]

@@cu4achat123 First you were talking about their pay raises, now you're talking about their overall pay..... here's a a tip: if you want to be seen as credible maybe you shouldn't be moving the goalposts.... talk about "open mouth, insert foot"! And BTW, their total pay combined is $66M, which is a mere drop in the bucket to the prospective billions it would cost to give millions of people a 4.4% OAS bump. How's that foot taste, angry man? It ain't my fault you didn't prepare sufficiently for your retirement, so go direct your rage elsewhere....

[@jeffmaas9308]

The CBC was established to provide radio and television to remote and rural regions of Canada and make them viable markets by providing the towers and power stations needed for private television stations and radio. Keeping it no longer makes and sense and the money would be better spent on providing satellite internet in these regions. The CBC mandate has passed and its current role appears unrelated to the original mandate. defunding the CBC makes sense

[@HomeSchool4You]

People are sick of the woke DEI programming.

[@marykf3325]

There is no reason that any media company has to be funded by our tax dollars. Compete like everyone else does.

[@landsea7332]

. Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang can start their own youtube news channel . See how well they do . .

[@MarilynHaley-l8k]

The only thing i listened to on cbc was Vinyl Cafe With Stewart McClain but unfortunately he passed away and haven't listened to cbc since, i still google Vinyl cafe and listen to some of his stories

[@boxerfit-fitnesspersonaltr6151]

We will fund the CBC as soon as they turn on the comment section on their KZbin

[@Haale]

Not enough for me.

[@BronsonWally]

This is not about religion, or religious fervor, it's about expressing dominance, and evaluating the society's response to public compliance "you must obey and you will not opine"

[@ruthie6749]

CBC are a bunch of pseudo sophisticates. Have a British accent… you’re hired!

[@johnb5519]

And if you go both ways.

[@hughjass1044]

I was a part time sports freelancer way back in the 80s and there were a few of my pieces which ended up on CBC. Makes me NOT an expert nor an authority but I did get a glimpse of the beast from the inside which very few get. To pick up on a couple of things that were said here - "Defunding the CBC doesn't mean shutting it down." While technically true, it in effect, does mean shutting it down for the simple reason that taking away 2/3 of its subsidy would force it to get very lean and very efficient and eliminate all the excess and the fluff and concentrate on its core mandate. What's wrong with that, you may ask and my answer would be absolutely nothing...... except that there is no one in CBC management who has the faintest clue how to do any of that nor are they motivated to try. Which leads me to the second point I'll expand on and that's their "mandate." You could wager a weeks pay that no one in CBC upper management even knows anymore what the original mandate of the CBC even was and I'm pretty sure you'd be safe. That is an organization which is top to bottom, lousy with over-compensated, under-worked, entitled, out of touch and ideologically monotone bureaucrats who would no more be capable of hitting budgetary or revenue targets like a real world business than I would be of taking Connor McDavid's job. They've never had to do a job like that. Their minds don't work that way. Like the majority of their mainstream counterparts, they have steadfastly refused to recognize and accept the reality of the media landscape in the 2020s, much less adapt to it, because until now, no one has made them do so. And this is why making any significant cuts to the CBC's subsidy will mean its demise. And I won't shed a single tear. Like their peers, they brought it on themselves.

[@saltnlight8072]

I appreciated (and enjoyed) your explanation. Thank you!

[@bobboyer9440]

My life would go on just fine. It will be even better when I don't have to listen to Justin Trudeau.

[@laurag7295]

Yes!

[@Stmcead]

Why in gods name would Canadians pay for Quebec TV? I think they get way more than their share through transfer payments.

[@elaineeshleman8682]

Yes he should do it

[@Ireaditonlinesoitmustbetrue]

It would be better if the government gave financial assistance to extremely small markets, like towns less than 20,000 people, to have local news. That’s it.

[@Heather.-1991]

After everything going right now , immigration Canada announced 2 days ago cities and towns accepting foreign workers for jobs - smh

[@DistractionPicklesEveryWhere]

CBC was the only channel to throw out the fact Danielle was going to bring foreign workers from the UAE here. Once that happened, she dropped the visit because people got mad. They are doing sht behind our backs and other media isn't reporting it because of the fkn election.

[@tonysopranosduck416]

“What would happen in my world if CBC got axed”? I wouldn’t have to fight with my husband about him continuing to watch that damn channel! It’s come close to divorce once before about his insistence on watching it, and then shocked when I tell him what’s going on in Canada, because “he’s never heard it and thinks I’m bullsh*tting”. My husband is one of the 3% that watches that garbage and I’d honestly be happier if he watched *orn!

[@speroskoufis7505]

Worry about securing the border

[@waynegatehouse3998]

It's absolutely mandatory, no media company, should be in anyway supported by the government, if you are reporting properly, fair and all sides of an issue, you should be able to sell advertising. And that should support you or you fail. Simple.