Juno News - Is it time to defund the CBC？

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

Juno News - August 26, 2020

Is it time to defund the CBC？

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