The silence on public sector growth is especially glaring. I checked the Public Accounts (the government's annual financial report) and found that personnel spending hit $71.1 billion last year. That is a $1.5 billion increase in just 12 months. The numbers are sitting in the parliamentary record, but they rarely make the news.
The CBC needs to be unshackled from tax payer / government funding and then it can be as biased or unbiased as it likes supported by donors who agree with its viewpoints and any advertisers who might see any value in using its services to reach potential markets. In the meantime it ceases to be a government funded entity.
Any time I read something that cites unnamed “experts”, I automatically translate that as "someone from Facebook".
The silence on public sector growth is especially glaring. I checked the Public Accounts (the government's annual financial report) and found that personnel spending hit $71.1 billion last year. That is a $1.5 billion increase in just 12 months. The numbers are sitting in the parliamentary record, but they rarely make the news.
The CBC needs to be unshackled from tax payer / government funding and then it can be as biased or unbiased as it likes supported by donors who agree with its viewpoints and any advertisers who might see any value in using its services to reach potential markets. In the meantime it ceases to be a government funded entity.