Harrison Lowman: Warum Konservative die CBC verachten, warum sie es kaum erwarten können, sie in Stücke zu reißen, und warum sie Recht haben

>More importantly, word on the Ottawa streets is that Conservative leader, and likely next prime minister, Pierre Poilievre, has finished crafting his plan for the CBC. This week, I was told by a well-placed Conservative that Poilievre intends to eliminate all funding for the English arm of the broadcaster. And that he’ll do it in his first 100 days in office.

>“I can’t wait to defund the CBC and sell off the headquarters for housing,” Poilievre [posted on X](https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1813032610735792356) this summer. With these remarks, he addressed the desires of thousands of conservatives who don’t merely feel the broadcaster isn’t worth[ $1.4 billion](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/ottawa-adds-funding-to-cbc-broadcaster-will-get-1-4b-budget-1.6789249) or isn’t representing them, but that it actively antagonizes them with its coverage. For this, they believe, the CBC must be punished.

>So, as the CBC enters yet another year of not re-positioning itself in a way that would address the concerns of these and other Canadians’, I believe it is sleepwalking into a buzzsaw.

>While they’ve opened their doors to criticism, it’s probably too late. You can’t bring canaries into the coal mine when the miners are already dead.

>It’s a damn shame because I think a version of it deserves to be saved.

Worth commenting for the sake of clarity that The Hub skews to the right-of-center and its editors write accordingly.