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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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Accountability of Corporation to Parliament
40 The Corporation is ultimately accountable, through the Minister, to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs.
Doesn't sound very independent to me if they are accountable to the government?
Though I full agree with you. Trudeau isn't calling the shots at the CBC, and heck even though I loathe the CBC's conduct I would never claim such. They are not a state media piece seen in countries like China or Russia.
Though in their independence, they also know who greases their bun, and if you have one party looking to defund the CBC, and another who had significantly boosted their power and funds, they would choose the later.
And there lies the problem with government funded media that inherently will display a bias based on who they want in power. As they are a source of information and opinion influencing Canadians that most certainly can impact elections.
This is precisely why it should be defunded and why we as a country should not have government funded media (at the very least news) which has an inherent bias. And the CBC leaving Twitter simply affirms that they are not as impartial as claimed.
Why else would they throw a hissy fit on a title that is literally true and well known? There's no arguing, it's government funded media. Worse of all, they don't make any money. Without government funding, they simply do not exist. Taxpayers pay over a billion dollars a year that goes in a black hole, only to find that black hole subjectively provide biased reporting to increase the amount going into that black hole.
This is not the actions of a non-partisan organization, filing a lawsuit 10 days against a political party prior to an important election date.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/cbc-conserva...suit-1.5319209
Or what about this CBC article that reads like a rant during the Harper days? CBC's feud with the CPC has been very public over the past 10 years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ings-1.3249477
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"For 80 years, the government has funded the CBC. It has given it a set mandate that the CBC has to comply," she said. "For Mr. Harper to suddenly say the problems are not a result of his funding cuts boggles the mind.
"The CBC is in a funding crisis. It has all these programming responsibilities and it just can't keep doing them with the funding at the level that it's at."
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If someone can show me where the CBC has sued the Liberal party in recent years (like don't try to find a 40 year old incident), or can show the CBC's head honcho spar with Trudeau, than I will gladly accept it and can find these incidents to be a wash.
Oh and Poilievre is being an absolute dunce on this thing, but considering the CBC's reaction, looks like it's working.