Saving one of Canada’s most controversial institutions won’t be easy
“END THE MADNESS. Recall the committee. Defund the CBC.” Credit where it’s due to Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for writing for radio, as I was taught at a CBC skills course many years ago: short and sharp, three beats, implied subject-verb-object.
The Tories are mad for this gimmick: axe the tax, build the homes, bring it home, fix the budget, stop the crime. It’s addictive and direct and Trumpy, apt to “win the vote” for them, and thus presenting, among other things, a direct existential threat to the CBC. It’s a threat that, starting this month, Catherine Tait, the outgoing president, CEO, and poster-person for bloated bureaucracy, gets to pass on to her successor, Marie-Philippe Bouchard, who hasn’t ticked off anyone significant—yet.
And it’s great radio. I was up bear hunting in the spring in Kapuskasing a few years ago and the coverage for their local municiple elections was comprehensive and engaging in a way I had never felt living in Toronto. By the end of that short trip I was disappointed I wouldn’t be casting my ballot there lol.
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Don’t forget about all those who live in remote regions (NWT, Nunavut, and provincial northern areas) whose only source of radio comes from CBC.
PP can go fuck himself.
Basically all of Ontario north of Barrie and west of Ottawa would lose a significant spectrum of radio broadcast.
And it’s great radio. I was up bear hunting in the spring in Kapuskasing a few years ago and the coverage for their local municiple elections was comprehensive and engaging in a way I had never felt living in Toronto. By the end of that short trip I was disappointed I wouldn’t be casting my ballot there lol.