It was sad to watch truth be told. I get politicians being afraid of the power of CBC, but I don’t get Conservative MPs singing the praises of the state broadcaster.
One of them was even from SDA country…..
Bottom line, the bill to sell off CBC died this week.
“Trost’s motion defeated: Meet the clueless Conservatives propping up CBC”
You cannot possibly be a real Conservative and also support the CBC, the ideals are mutually exclusive. Today’s CPC seems to be absolutely teeming with soft liberals.
This is no less insane and destructive to true conservatism than if Trump himself openly supported CNN or MSNBC.
I would have voted against it too.
1. Its politically stupid grandstanding that could bite the cpc in the rear come election time
2. The solution is not to privatize – who would buy it? And We already have lots of private broadcasters.
3. The solution is to prohibit the Cbc from selling advertising and from news broadcasting. They would get matching government funds based on donations from viewers making directly and 100% accountable to its viewer base. Let it sink or swim accordingly. I think it would do okay – moving quickly to evacuate its Toronto Tass building and becoming more regional – more responsive and thus more popular across Canada and with more Canadians. The added benefit would be the removal of it as a source of central Canadian bias in reporting.
CBC, the voice of the Canada that matters: the Toronto-Montreal corridor.
There was never a doubt of scraping the state broadcaster that powered the Turdeau dynasty whilst one of the dynastic heirs rules over the country.
That would take a revolution, but they’ve disarmed the poor unwashed masses, taken away any basic legal defences, and populated the communities with barbaric foreigners, hostile to their neighbors.
It’s an old game.
There is some merit to your argument, Gord, but I still say we should just set up a chop shop in it’s head quarters and part it out like a stolen Mercedes.
The CBC is just another boondoggle in this socialist paradise that,like that other Biggie,health care, is NOT going away,ever.
No PM from any political Party will ever rid us of this employment service for the Big City arts community,Harper didn’t,and he’s quite likely the most conservative PM Canada will see for along time to come. So, in a Country where all politicians from all political Parties support the State Broadcaster, there’s as much chance of petitioning our way to a CBC-free Country as petitioning our way to a Winter -free Country.
We’re stuck with CBC,as long as there are politicians,like death and taxes,CBC is with us to stay. It is THE most sacred of Canadian sacred cows.
Ironically,it’s the old folks that vote Conservative that are the biggest supporters of the CBC,ask any old woman next time you’re at a gathering of Seniors and she’ll trill on about the wonders of that lovely Canadian institution. “Isn’t that Peter Mansbridge handsome!”
The kids,who are oblivious to the political scene except when some pied piper mobilizes them once every four years, never,ever watch CBC,unless there’s a good hockey game on.
I sign all the petitions advocating the sell-off of CBC,but we might as well be signing a petition to drop French as an official language in Canada,no hope,no way in hell it will ever go anywhere.
The other day,”Change.org” sent me a petition to sign, it demanded of Justin Trudeau, the Kim Jong Numbnuts of Canada, that we stop loaning money to Bombardier. I lol’d at the naivety of the belief that we peasants can influence the government of Canada via a petition,especially one that would cut off taxpayer money to a sacred Quebec company that has been financially pandered to by every PM since it started.
But sign away I did, at least it’s legal, while taking up arms and sharpening the guillotine is frowned upon here in Canada the Nice.
Sigh.
Were I PM instead of Harper I would have defunded the CBC and nor approved a single Bell Canada takeover until CTV actually pretended to be politically neutral. A missed opportunity. I haven’t watched CBC for years. I suspect few do.
The only CBC I watch is hockey I cannot get anywhere else. Like you for many years.
You suggested Harper could not defund the CBC. I suggest that he did not even try. I was at a CPC meeting with the House Whip in attendance. When I broached the subject of getting rid of the CBC he told me that westerners simply did not understand how important the CBC was in rural Maritimes and Northern Ontario. Needless to say I was taken aback as this guy was a Reformer and his riding was on Vancouver Island.
I was already questioning the political conviction of the CPC at the time and this simply added another nail to their coffin. The CBC has been a full blown ally in the progressive movement for decades. The CPC should have had a list of priorities when they got their majority and getting rid of this bunch of leeches should have been high on the list. Incompetence rankles my nature big time and the CPC is full of incompetents.
More evidence there are no conservatives in Eastern Canada.
If the last election results did not help you figure that out.
Canadians have been “Going along to get along” for so long we are completely corrupt and have enabled/permitted the establishment of a national Kleptocracy.
Which will not surrender power voluntarily.
I am stretched to feel any commonality with eastern voters, why should I continue to work, to be raped of the return on my labour and have my time wasted by mindnumbingly stupid regulators and parasites?
Separation from the parasitic parties of the country may be the only viable option left for the West.
I am all for city States, let their theft be constrained by their physical boundaries.
Imagine a Canada where those who chose not to work, are rewarded accordingly.
However I have no realistic expectation of fiscal sanity occurring amongst our “political scientists” and effete elites.
Ticks do not let go until they are fully engorged.
When near 50% of the citizens depend on stealing from the rest for their sustenance, they will continue to support such theft, throw in the clueless and useless and you have a near insurmountable voting block.
We have surrendered every right and freedom our parents or grandparents fought to preserve.
Says it all really.
When I broached the subject of getting rid of the CBC he told me that westerners simply did not understand how important the CBC was in rural Maritimes and Northern Ontario.
Where I grew up in northern B. C. during the 1960s and ’70s, all we could get on TV was the CBC because the station we watched was an affiliate.
For years, people in the region wanted at least one more channel to provide some variety as, often, the local programming left a lot to be desired. The CRTC in Ottawa, however, was continually deaf to those entreaties.
There were a number of home-brewed local efforts to change that, which included the use of a satellite receiver, which, in those days, was illegal. Those efforts either failed or were closed down by the Mounties. (Thanks a lot for nothing, PET!)
It wasn’t until Mulroney took office that things changed and the region eventually got cable TV.
Of course, back in those early days, the CBC was still worth watching.
My path is far less politically risky. In a country where at the very best the conservatives poll 40%, that political reality has to be considered. Better to neuter it and let it die of natural causes.
Hmm, john duncan perhaps, maybe gary lunn. Although I agree our current crop of candidates is predominantly more Red than Blue attacking the CBC was a romantic Reform ideal. It did little more than stir the hornets nest. At the time I thought it was a good plan also. Now if I where king, I would steer CBC to more of a PBS model. Of course we would have to hire some “journalists” and “fact checkers”, you may have heard of them /sarc.
On a side note, if your trying to change a paradigm it is often best not to give advance notice. Vested interests rally and make life difficult. Its better to just seem random and hard to pin down, first no one takes you seriously until its too late. Second its fun to watch the leftards spin like dervishes trying to figure out your plan.
O’Leary said that he’ll cut $ one billion out of the CBC’s budget. He understands that there is significant waste at the CBC. And Leitch has promised to shut the place down because in this new digital age there is little justification for the CBC who don’t even produce HNIC any longer … they don’t produce anything except their fake news which is always anti-conservative and anti-Trump. Don’t forget that the CBC’s journalists registered as third party candidates and campaigned against Harper in the last election. Why are we giving over one billion dollars every year to a liberal organization which works tirelessly to defeat conservatives? Van Loan’s comments regarding the CBC suggest that Van Loan is just another fake conservative. He should cross the floor and sit beside Scott Brison. I’m sure they have a lot to talk about.
The solution is to prohibit the Cbc from selling advertising and from news broadcasting. They would get matching government funds based on donations from viewers making directly and 100% accountable to its viewer base. Let it sink or swim accordingly. I think it would do okay – moving quickly to evacuate its Toronto Tass building and becoming more regional – more responsive and thus more popular across Canada and with more Canadians. The added benefit would be the removal of it as a source of central Canadian bias in reporting.
Good points, and I agree. The biggest problem is CBC “news” which has become little more than GTA-centric Southern Ontario Lieberal propaganda. More regionally based news reporting and programming would actually represent the Canadians who pay for CBC.
Bernier has the best plan ITR as usual
For once I agree with you.
When the conservatives run someone that might start repealing the Liberal swamp instead of placating it, maybe they’ll get my vote. Until then, I will choose the leftist candidate I can find in the hopes that maybe the collapse will hurry up. Only then will we get actual nationalists.
And if they moved that way i might actually cut them a check from time to time.
Great post Mr. Morris… an unfortunate sad reality… We live strapped into the imposed Trudopian ideological straitjacket and nothing is going to change that sad reality. Trudopia is more of a soviet style cult than a country, a cult run by a small but all powerful corrupted elite and populated by superficial cucks and shallow narrow minded special interest groups, just as Peeair designed and imposed. As Peeairs lispy son says Trudopia is nothing, a post national State with no core identity. The imbecile is right, with exceptions to the special protected groups (french talkers, Indians, and soon the Islamists)) those “identities” have the full protection of the imposed Trudopian State. The CBC is mandated to be a Trudopian cheerleader and thats what they do, outside of counter revolution nothing is going to change that sad pathetic reality.
“while taking up arms and sharpening the guillotine is frowned upon here in Canada the Nice.” Don Morris
Canada can be ONE mean bunch of folks, those that took part in the Dieppe Raid didn’t shrink that suicide mission.
You just have to treat them like a Hockey Team and point out all the CBC cheap shots, Canadians don’t like to be seen as intimidated….Build CBC resentment, one puck at a time…
As others have said here, why not choose defunding over selling? They operate exactly as CTV does already; they just have more$ to waste. They could go to a PBS model or try to compete with Global and CTV. (I know, they are all in the same ideological basket, but at least 2 of them are doing it on their own dime.
So defund, and let all those “Friends of the CBC” pony up their own money instead of mine.
As others have said here, why not choose defunding over selling? The CBC operates exactly as CTV does already; they just have more $$ to waste. They could go to a PBS model or try to compete with Global and CTV. (I know, they are all in the same ideological basket, but at least 2 of them are doing it on their own dime.)
So defund, and let all those “Friends of the CBC” pony up their own money instead of mine.
The way to get rid of them is to gradually reduce their funding. Most people have no idea how abusive the CBC is. Brian Lilly has a book on this. Someone should suggest his book for the annual Canada Reads.
Every country has a state broadcaster. BBC in BritaiN, DW in Germany etc. All supported throuh state funding. There is one exception and only one. NPR.
So cbc isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
John, I am the only living conservative in Canada.