Juno News - August 26, 2020


Is it time to defund the CBC?


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In this episode, I discuss the new Conservative leader's pledge to defund the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and whether or not they are living up to the original mandate of the broadcasting act (Broadcasting Act) and the mandate itself.

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00:00:00.000 so erin o'toole is the new conservative leader and we already have a controversy and that is
00:00:11.540 his promise to defund the cbc now it's a bit surprising because this is something that was
00:00:16.580 on his website for a long time and so it's not a you know secret there's not a hidden agenda or
00:00:21.120 anything and i wanted to look at what his pledge was about the cbc what the cbc's original mandate
00:00:26.720 was and whether or not they're living up to that mandate so let's jump right in and check out his
00:00:30.940 promise so here is the o'toole website and right right on the front here defund the cbc and he's
00:00:36.860 pledging to ending all funding to cbc digital which is sort of online shorts or mini documentaries
00:00:41.840 he hosted online on the cbc website cutting funding for cbc english tv and news network by 50 with a
00:00:47.980 goal to fully privatize the cbc by the end of his first mandate and again the mandate is his election
00:00:53.300 period so if he gets a majority government so more than 50 percent of the seats in the house
00:00:56.600 then he could be there for up to four or five years uh if it's a minority obviously a lot less
00:01:00.340 and so i guess that might play into it and then maintain funding for cbc radio and radio canada so
00:01:05.420 this this in a nutshell obviously is the pledge and so a lot of people have been freaking out saying that
00:01:10.300 he wants to defund the cbc he you know doesn't like the arts all these kind of things but let's look
00:01:16.560 at what the cbc is actually supposed to be doing let's take a look at the broadcasting act 1991
00:01:20.540 so this is the broadcasting act we'll just go back up to the top here broadcasting act 1991
00:01:25.560 and down here this is the mandate section if we can scroll up broadcasting by broadcasting policy
00:01:31.040 for canada their mandate the programming provided by the cbc corporation should be predominantly and
00:01:38.520 distinctively canadian no problem that's that's their point uh reflect canada and and its regions
00:01:43.240 to a national to national and regional audiences while serving the special needs of those regions so
00:01:47.120 again i guess it can't just be toronto centric or you know quebec centric or western canada centric
00:01:51.840 that's pretty fair um actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression
00:01:56.840 hmm this one kind of interesting uh be in english and in french um reflecting the different needs
00:02:02.440 and circumstances of each official language community including the particular needs and
00:02:06.260 circumstances of english and french linguistic minorities sure strive to be of equivalent quality
00:02:11.060 in english and french definitely start you know that could be a challenge contribute to
00:02:14.640 shared national consciousness and identity cbc news and be made available throughout canada by the
00:02:21.060 most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose and lastly reflect
00:02:25.960 the multicultural and multiracial nature of canada so the two here that probably have the most to do
00:02:32.340 with aaron's uh promise would be to contribute to shared national consciousness and identity and actively
00:02:38.320 contribute to the flow and exchange of the flow exchange of cultural expression now cbc
00:02:44.520 television is one thing and if you're gonna have dramas or cbc shows you know again that's just a
00:02:50.060 different thing but when it comes to cbc news my big question is this story that true north covered
00:02:55.480 apparently cbc had 500 more headlines about kamala harris than they did about less than lewis
00:03:01.660 so if we're thinking about here actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression
00:03:06.560 or ideas contribute to the shared national consciousness and identity
00:03:09.960 i would say that fits into national consciousness or you know exchange of cultural ideas cultural
00:03:14.860 expression but they're not necessarily living up to that mandate and so i think it's a pretty fair
00:03:21.700 thing to say well maybe we should at the very least examine what the funding is for cbc examine
00:03:28.340 what they're doing with that funding or why they're funding certain aspects or certain things further
00:03:34.100 we do have a number of other news channels national news channels in this country and our media
00:03:40.900 landscape is often very dominated by american news channels now i'm not saying that that's necessarily
00:03:45.300 a good thing that they're dominated by uh by american prime time but that's simply a fact of life and so
00:03:51.420 a lot of questions can be raised here about the cbc are they living up to the original mandate now
00:03:56.600 this article again especially was very interesting because it was the conservative leadership race that
00:04:02.000 that less than lewis ran in and a lot of people have been asking online and i think rightfully so 0.87
00:04:07.040 would this be the case if she was running for a number of for any of the other parties um jagmeet
00:04:12.320 singh ran for the ndp curious to see what the coverage of that was now there's there's no comparable
00:04:17.280 at that time but really curious did jagmeet singh receive as much or as favorable coverage from the cbc as
00:04:22.560 listen lewis did now again cbc has a mandate so it's not just the editor's discretion or what they think
00:04:30.160 is going to get the most views they actually do have a mandate and i think that's why it's important
00:04:35.120 now i do want to see some more specifics from the o2 camp and what they plan on defunding or you know
00:04:41.520 what what um formula they plan on putting out when you have uh english tv and news network by 50
00:04:47.520 again you know what 50 is it 25 25 um so a lot of things to discuss there but i think it's a very
00:04:53.200 very valid point that we should be discussing what is the cbc doing are they living up to their mandate
00:04:58.400 again they're not just a news organization that has responsibility to shareholders or just for
00:05:03.360 views or for clicks whatever it is they have an actual mandate a legally required mandate that they
00:05:08.640 must live up to so are they living up to that mandate what do you guys think i know that a lot
00:05:13.440 of people out there andrew sheer for example reference true north um saying that people should
00:05:17.760 definitely not take for granted the or not take matter of factly some of the opinions that they hear
00:05:22.560 on other news networks or the mainstream media cbc but uh again what do you guys think do you guys
00:05:26.960 watch the cbc how much do you watch the cbc do you listen to radio canada you know they've got some
00:05:31.200 good programming sometimes but what do you guys think should we defund should we look in i think
00:05:35.920 we should look in but curious to hear your thoughts so for true north i am sam ashkenazi hope you enjoyed
00:05:41.040 this video and thank you so so much for watching