Losing the CBC will not be a tragedyIf Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are elected, they’ve been abundantly clear that a top priority will be to defund the CBC. The principal conservative case for defunding the CBC isn’t “revenge” as he puts it. Less than 5 percent of English Canadian viewers are watching CBC television and barely 2 percent are tuning into the CBC News Network. Nevertheless, as part of his defence of the CBC, Lowman makes a conservative appeal that tearing down institutions is harder than building them up. Just because the CBC has been around a long time isn’t a case for its ongoing existence.
