Set the CBC free

We need a radical new approach: an end to annual appropriations and ministerial oversight for CBC/Radio-Canada in exchange for an endowment fund that would see public and private media adequately supported in perpetuity.

It's been 88 years since the founding of the CBC/Radio-Canada. Is there still a legitimate role for any government in determining the focus, much less the existence, of Canada's public broadcaster? The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PETER MACLEOD

January 18, 2024

The closing months of 2023 were not been kind to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada (CBC/Radio-Canada). Despite steady increases to its budget since the Liberal government was elected in 2015, CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait announced the lo...

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