John,

This week, Tara Henley, a former CBC producer, raised a lot of eyebrows with her story about why she resigned after a decade working there. You can read it here.

CBC now embodies “some of the worst trends in mainstream media,” she writes. It has embraced the radical woke agenda.

We knew that already of course!

Although she sees herself as a leftist, the CBC has shifted so far left in recent years that she found herself as the most conservative in her newsroom.

And worst of all, the CBC is now an explicitly racist organization. As Henley writes:

“To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.”

John, there is just no reason for a public broadcaster to exist at a time when there are thousands of sources for news and entertainment on the internet.

Don’t expect the Conservative Party to do anything about it.

Erin O’Toole also tweeted Tara Henley’s article. But all he proposes is to “start the conversation” on “how to fix the CBC.” You can be sure he won’t fix it by pulling the plug.

The PPC will.

A PPC government will defund CBC/Radio-Canada. It will privatize it, or transition it toward a funding model similar to that of PBS and NPR in the U.S.

And it will abolish the Trudeau government’s media bailout programme.

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Best regards,
-Max


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