Dear Canadian Conservative Party Members:
Can you insist that the next leader of the Conservatives commit to defunding the CBC over a 5 year period?
Dear Canadian Conservative Party Members:
Can you insist that the next leader of the Conservatives commit to defunding the CBC over a 5 year period?
5 yrs…??
Nah, lets do this in 1 YEAR or LESS.
…and lets do the same for the INDIAN ACT & FOREIGN AID….just for starters k.??
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any political party that considers peter mckay a
conservative will never do any of these things.
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To the Max! 🙂
I think it should be sold off to the Friends of the CBC and ran like the PB is in the States. maybe a small fund and the rest advertizing and public donation.
Alex, I’ll take None of the above for $1000!
My best advice is to take the exact opposite of the “advice” of the “pundits” all of in the tanks for the Grits.
Don’t be anything like them, no liberal lite BS.
Steakman…I agree 100% also the UN we don’t need them telling us how racist and bigoted we are. also cancel the carbon tax….the list actually is quite long…anyone else have some ideas…Steve O
Yeah! We have a Prime Minister to tell us how racist and bigoted we are.
Why not defund over a five-minute period?
give Trump the GPS location, and ask for a tomahawk:-)))
Hmm….meant to add the following:
Rescind the Indian Act
End ALL Foreign AID
Rescind Bill C-48, Bill C-75
Bring back the NEB to Alberta with No Political Appointees allowed.
Toss out all Gun Control (proposed)
Rescind the Trans Gender BS Act
Remove TAX FREE status from anything Islamic. (They are a Political Ideology)
Allow anyone to apply for Summer Jobs Grants regardless of political – religous affiliation.
Enact Legislation Confirming CASTLE LAW. Allowing the undeniable RIGHT to defend ones home-property as you SEE FIT.
FREE SPEECH made MANDATORY IN All educational Facilities Country Wide.
DE-CERTIFY PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS – All of them
…and close the Fkng Border.
Then we can talk….
Add to last list the banning of any foreign interference in our political system. Any organization or party receiving such funding or physical support should itself be abolished.
Add in proportional representation, my vote is proportional to the benefit that I bring to society.
And while we’re building a platform to vote on how about a clause added to the yearly tax form where we get to direct where the government is allowed to spend our tax dollars. How about dictating to the government that a certain percentage of your tax money must be allocated to National Defence, Health and Welfare, Education, Infrastructure Projects, etc., to name a few. If we are going Wexit then lets do it right.
All good ones Antenor..!!
As are the rest..!!
Oh, heres one. TERM LIMITS For PM..??
steak, good start, get rid of human rite commissions, and permanently out law them
Rescind M-103!
Get out of the UN as well.
rescinfd the cultural relativity clause in the constitution and replace it with a private property rights clause
Cancel Government Pensions for government employees.
I agree with what you propose,its time we took our country back from the bilingual and bicultural commy followers of Pierre Turdeau and his toxic offspring the Justinator. Their globalist bullshit will destroy this country within the next two federal elections if we don t stop them!
Man, someone who thinks like me! I might add:
Cancel Equalization
Close the border to anyone claiming “refugee status”
Fire 3/4 of the Sible Serpents
Build pipelines
Do you want to get elected?
Why provide a trigger point to mobilize your opponents?
If I was a conservative politician I would keep my mouth shut on the CBC, and talk about the economy instead.
After you get elected then you defund and totally dismantle the CBC. The rationale? Balancing the budget and fighting climate change. CBC reporters use too much hydrocarbons flying and driving around the country. You then put some of the CBC funds into health care beds.
That is just what recent CPCers have done…and where did that get them?
I will watch for a CPC candidate that does not allow MSM and the Libs to define CPC policiy!
Get a backbone!!
Erin OToole has been speaking out…its a start.
My advice to the conservatives is do what the liberals have been doing for decades, lie through your teeth then when elected do what you want. Remember We will never have wage and price controls-Pierre Trudeau
Da gst it’s gone- Jean Chretien
I won’t lower your taxes but I won’t raise them either Dalton McGinty
let me rephrase that.
I will vote for ANY conservatist vowing to cut off funding for the ceeb.
screw the 5 yr time line, I want it DONE by the end of whoever’s term.
harper was a chickenshyt goof not to do this.
I think CBC should be required to raise funds from directly from all those Canadians who post such glowing and lovely tributes to the CBC each time their license and funding comes up. They can hold pledge weeks and ask for people to sign up for monthly contributions. Let’s see how Canadians REALLY feel about the CBC.
Privatize the CBC. Let those people buy shares, in the brand and the business, but no real property goes with it. No public money in grants or loans or loan guarantees, ever.
I’m fer that. If you figure out a way to get it done, let me know. I’ll see what I can do to help.
yup Tooner sell the sucker, and then the cons can’t be complained about do so, as the come back would be, “if it was worth it why didn’t people want to buy it”
I recently read that less than 400,000 people watch the CBC 6 PM news. This is far less than the number of people who voted Liberal and NDP in the 2019 election. Interesting.
So even Liberals and New Democrats don’t watch the CBC.
Excellent point. Thank you.
I doubt most of the above can be done within Canada as it exists now.
The roadblocks would be stopped in the Senate, or overturned by the SCOC for the most part, so unless the “not withstanding clause” will be used for each piece of legislation, and you have a means of overriding the Senate with this, it’s not going to happen. Perhaps the left will see these errors in the future (though I doubt it), but even then they’ll be negotiating these changes for the next 40 years, and without any guarantee of success.
It’d be easier, really, for Western Canada to separate from Old Canada, and make these changes during during the re-construction of a free republic where the western provinces are now.
And the left will be galvanized against this, there’s a good chance the right will be in the opposition for eternity with this sort of platform.
Separate, and make your way forward.
well marc, I know for a fact that if the cons can drop the bible thumping there would be a lot more people who would vote for them
What does the CBC get a year – $1.5 billion.
Turn the CBC 1/2 indigenous and 1/2 rural – $250 million each. Anyone who disagrees is a farmer hating racist.
Marc…I dont disagree
Just good to list all the rotten shit that we will obiterate in a New Republic. Its kinda refreshing – invigorating in a way – “WhooooSaw”.. like..No.? lol
99.99% of the above is just plain ole Common Sense.
I am all in on WEXIT (ie; the Idea of Separation – not so much on the group per se), have been since I got laid off Dec 24th ’81 courtesy of the NEP. Last 14 guys of 120, as they closed our shops doors permanently.
I look forward to a big chunk of the 94% of Canadians, who don’t watch CBC, screaming insanely at the sky to preserve it.
But let’s be truthful, the CPC will always be triggered into losing by someone simply uttering a couple of letters (lgbtrestoftgekeyboard) and/or abortion.
Like the great great Admiral Akhbar said; “It’s a trap!”
I hate the CBC and am tired of it sucking up so much oxygen. Talk about something else. CBC-mania is tiresome.
The CRTC and its web of asinine regulations are a far worth and easier target and I believe that killing it would make killing the CBC easier.
Also the BBC isn’t going anywhere.
You know why it will never happen?
“well, hold your nose and vote for the least bad”.
The choices keep getting universally worse, each time around.
There never has been, and never will be any penalty for not getting better.
The CBC has been defunding themselves for years…..The CBC vaults have been sold off to pay retirement benefits… Want to bet that they gave Suzuki the property rights to ALL CBC Productions of his paid shows!
The CBC has always been an money & political sink hole.. Broadcasting at its worst for >30 years
Just do a forensic Audit and follow the results…..
Bugger that, encourage CBC to spend even more.
That way when we make our Independence from the corrupt mess that is Can Ah Duh,their debt load is even larger.
CBC is actively promoting Western Alienation and Independence.
Every week more slime,slander and identifying us as racists,Nazis and Uncouth rednecks.
Every day another sermon about how unCanadian we are,that we cannot see how wonderful Blackie is and bless his magnificent beard..
Every other day a pig with lipstick hectors the white extremism of us having jobs and doing productive work.
Worth noting here,CBC has refused to cover the growing pressure for separation.
No eastern mouthpiece has made any case for Canada continuing.
Just snark and derision that Western Tax Payers might have had enough of funding persons useless to us and openly hostile to our aspirations.
Enough already,can we dump the parasitic overload before the second Trudeau is out of power.?
Yes Robert, IT IS YOUR FAULT. You are the one who continually refuses to stop voting CPC. You never stop donating. They keep getting more socialist, you stay on board.
IT. IS. YOUR. FAULT.
OZ. YOUR. FAULT.
ALL OF YOU. YOUR FAULT.
Either punish them, or suck it, princess.
Yup….er ….Ouip
As an Albertan, I would like to wish Canada all the best in getting rid of the CBC.
What is the fiscal conservative argument in not defunding the CBC? The CBC receives $1.2 billion from the taxpayers but less than $100 million from ad revenue. It has around 250,000 viewership which puts it at less than 1% of the population. This means each viewer costs around $5000 per year of public funds, or equivalent to about a $800/month subscription fee. Not to mention a lot of their shows aren’t Canadian. Their radio arm, CBC radio, won’t run ads because it’s against their principles so that costs the taxpayers a couple hundred million as well.
For the same amount of money, the government could fund several blockbuster movies per year like say a movie about Vimy Ridge and get Peter Jackson to direct it. Or you know tax cuts, more doctors, MRI’s, etc. How could you ask a hard working Canadian to pay more taxes to fund something that doesn’t need any taxpayers money at all? Shouldn’t the default position be having the CBC justify why it deserves this money rather than why it’s un-Canadian to even think of defunding them? Isn’t this the most egregious example of corporate welfare in this country? At least Bombardier built stuff. CBC is just junk.
To the defeatists who see no hope of changing Eastern and Atlantic minds (better throw in BC coastal as well), Donald Trump has won over Yuuge support from all the Democrat slave demographics. With no Canuck charismatic stable geniuses in view, Conservatives will have to pull together a brain trust of right-thinking people – Max MUST have a prominent role – whose first task would be to once-and-for-all toss out the Progressive fungi that have sabotaged the CPC since 2003.
This magnificent land deserves bigger citizens electing clean, competent governments – it can’t be that hard to put a patriotic and visionary platform together, and then to sell it nation wide.
Defund the CBC!! Sell the damned thing!! Walmart is looking for their own TV network!!
“Can you insist that the next leader of the Conservatives commit to defunding the CBC over a 5 year period?”
Defund the CBC within 6-12 months or shut it down completely. The money spent on the CBC could be put to better use like paying down the astronomical federal debt.
This current crop of so called Conservative poseur politicians are Conservatives in name only. Once the CPAC cameras are off the politicians are all in together on the same game of ripping us off.
Lets stop this CBC nonsense, how many networks do we need if they are all on the same fake news talking points or none of them giving us the real news? Canadians should be more enraged about this than they are.
5 years is $7.5 billion.
Shut it immediately.
Sell the bandwidth to some US channel.
It has no other salable assets.
How about a non main stream media referendum? What percentage of Canadians voting to eliminate the CBC will be enough to rattle some cages?
Five years of beachcombers and rainbow country reruns should kill the audience
Put up CBC-SRC for sale immediately. It must be a done deal before the following election.
The Conservative Party does not want conservatives. Period.
No. If you defund it, the Leftists will simply refund it when they are in power. Dismantle it and wear its skin as a suit. Use the $1.5 billion for Veterans.
Arguably one of our greater Prime Ministers, PM Harper had a majority and a wide open opportunity to defund/dismantle/privatize the CBC, and chose not to. I do not see anything changing regardless of who becomes the next leader of the Lib-Lite.
If I remember correctly, privatizing the CBC was one part of the common sense, pro Canada, PPC election platform.
you think so?
check this out:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/
SEVENTY examples. refute some, NOT all of them.
he was a bully that got what bullies deserve.
Only Seventy?? What a piker.
Blackie passed that number his first year in office.