The new Conservative leader’s vision for CBC is almost comical in its complications
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole holds his first news conference as leader on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Aug. 25, 2020.The defining sound of the recent Conservative Party leadership race was the sound of someone barking up the wrong tree. Such is certainly the case with the winner Erin O’Toole and his “Defund CBC” plan.
By the way, if you go to his site be prepared for a pop-up prompt asking you for five dollars. Five bucks is an interesting figure, since CBC costs Canadians roughly thirty dollars each per year. That’s among the lowest costs-per-capita for public broadcasting in the world.O’Toole’s plan amounts to a ruse. The enemy he sees is CBC TV and CBC News. He acknowledges that CBC Radio is popular and that, in Quebec, CBC/Radio-Canada is a vital service.
This country needs a national public broadcaster in the television arena. It’s not about choice, it’s about cultural safeguarding. We sit next to the culture behemoth of the USA and Canadian TV storytelling would wither and die without a public TV broadcaster.
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