Defunding the CBC would have devastating effects on all of Canada. Welcome to the world of corporate sponsored misinformation. Remember, this is what the CPC is campaigning on.

I think it would be devastating to news in all of Canada.

Leave the CBC alone

"I'm curious as to how the CBC can then claim to be independent if they can't survive without government dollars," Thomas said.

Conservative MP can't understand that some people can't be bought.

We're going to lose a significant portion of the CBC if the Cons win, aren't we?

Publicly funded means that the company or corporation works for the public good ... most of the time it works this way until corporate infiltration undermines it all.

Private funding always means that whatever the service or product is ... profit will always be the motivating factor and everything including morals, rights, decency and fairness will all be sacrificed in order to maintain profits.

Whether you like public or private funding of anything ... always remember that public funding at least tries to place public interest first .. private funding always places public interest last.

How dare they not spin the news in Israel’s favour.

Not if you ask "Canadian Tax payers association" (who seem to be an arm of the Conservative party) they'll throw shade about how CBC TV (no mention of the radio part of the CBC) doesn't meet their standards.

I hate that these guys can pretend to represent the Canadian Tax payer, when all they want is to get social services for free. Welfare bums.

Hmm… some interesting things to perhaps review :

In total, these four provinces provided at least CAD 2.5 billion in fossil fuel subsidies in fiscal year (FY) 2020/21 and 1.5 billion in FY 2021/22 (as of December 2021)

Source: Blocking Ambition: Fossil fuel subsidies in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador by the International Institute for Sustainable Development

based on recent data from governments and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the leading research organization analysing data on fossil fuel subsidies in Canada, there is a conservative estimate: the combined federal, provincial, and territorial fossil fuel subsidies in Canada total at least $4.8 billion annually in 2018 and 2019, and most were given by provincial and territorial governments. Federal subsidies tend to take the form of grants, but provincial and territorial subsidies are often from tax programs such as waivers and breaks as well as uncollected or under-collected resource rents or royalties

Source: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Canada: Governance Implications in the Net-Zero Transition by the Canada Climate Law Initiative

These are simply about explicit funding by different government bodies in Canada. However, there are larger implicit annual subsidies (externalities born by government, society and the environment which tend to be completely ignored by most vested interest) of:

US$ 36 billion

Source: IMF Fossil Fuel Subsidies Data: 2023 Update; annex III. Total (Explicit and Implicit) Subsidies

Compared to the portion of government funding received by CBC•Radio-Canada annual report (2022-2023, p.27) :

Government funding: This year, operating funding was $1,174.9 million, capital funding recognized in income was $92.9 million and working capital was $4.0 million

I dont mind cutting funding/subsidies where there is inefficiency/mismanagement. However, shouldn't we start with the most obvious mismanagement? Why does our government pay subsidies (not loans, not investments, not shares, which I completely excluded for my comparison above) for large very profitable multi-national corporation?

CBC is doomed in this crazy right wing world. Pierre Piss is going to fuck it all up.

I live in a rural community. Aside from business events, I don't think I've heard CBC report on my town. But ok.