CBC, the innovation agenda, and making America Great again

No government wants to hear that its public broadcaster wants hundreds of millions of dollars more in subsidies in the same week a political opponent has called for the abolition of the said corporation.
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch's call to abolish the CBC seems rather Trump-like, writes Andrew Cordozo.
OTTAWA—Oh my! What do you do with this? The CBC wants more dollars. Four hundred million of them. No government, no matter how supportive, wants to hear that from the public broadcaster, especially when the government has a growing budget deficit. And no government wants this message in the sam...

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