‘Tone and tenor’ of calls to defund CBC different this time around, say media experts, as Conservatives hammer away at public broadcaster

President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada Catherine Tait recently told MPs in committee that over the last 30 years, the network 'has not had a real increase in its budget, real dollars aside. We are flat.'

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly and consistently called for defunding the CBC throughout his leadership. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

November 20, 2023

Calls to defund the CBC “is not new territory for us,” says Marla Boltman, executive director of FRIENDS, an organization founded in the 1980s to combat budget cuts to the public broadcaster. “But we definitely feel the tone and tenor of the messaging is different" as ...

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