It’s Pierre Poilievre versus the media

We know that he wants to defund the CBC once he's prime minister, but he's also just as unhappy with The Canadian Press and by extension the private-sector news firms that created it.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, pictured in a Hill scrum, insists that his contempt for the CBC ensnares the broadcaster in a conflict of interest. It should recuse itself from the national conversation. He de-authorizes it, writes Chris Dornan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

July 12, 2023

One of the many, many things that trouble the Conservative Party leadership about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is who watches it. More than a billion dollars a year of taxpayers’ money is being spent to provide programming for people who are not Conservative voter...

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