Pierre Poilievre has pledged to defund the English-language CBC service while preserving francophone news
“It’s about talking about killing one of the most important sources of information for Canadians at a time where we know that the information system is controlled by foreign billionaires,” St-Onge said in an interview. “And to me, it’s very preoccupying to see that doesn’t understand that.”, Musk has become an increasingly controversial and political figure in recent years, particularly since buying Twitter and rebranding it as X.
Meta announced earlier this month that it’s replacing third-party fact-checking with “community notes” written by users, similar to the model used by Musk’s X. St-Onge’s comments come as the federal Liberals are in the midst of a leadership race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and as opposition parties angle for an early election that could see Canadians casting ballots this spring.
St-Onge, who has promised a renewed mandate for the public broadcaster, said Poilievre’s plan would mean defunding a “Canadian institution that hires a third of Canadian journalists” and comes “at a time when president Trump is talking about annexing Canada to the United States.” “It’s extremely preoccupying because a lot of people think that they are getting informed with these platforms and with Facebook and Zuckerberg, we've seen that they don’t really care about that.”
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