CBC Cash Grab

[scribblet]

Some cash grab, I say NO....

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/200...654966-sun.html

MONTREAL -- The new CBC/Radio-Canada president has asked the federal government to give the public broadcaster a $215-million boost and commit to a seven-year funding plan.

In his first public speech since being appointed CBC president in January, Hubert Lacroix asked the government to fork over $40 per Canadian in annual funding -- the broadcaster currently receives $33 per Canadian.

Lacroix also asked for an exact dollar figure on how much the government will contribute to the CBC over the next seven years.

INTELLIGENT SPENDING

"With 12-month cycles, it's very hard for us to plan our resources and needs intelligently," he said in his speech at an Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television conference lunch held in Montreal on Thursday.

[MontyBurns]

How about $0 per Canadian for the CBC?

[Borg]

Why not just sell it off - a waste of taxpayers money

Glad to see it go.

At the minimum - make it self supporting.

Borg

[eyeball]

If $40 isn't enough boost it to $50 or $60. The CBC is just about the only thing that makes me feel Canadian anymore.

[Alta4ever]

If $40 isn't enough boost it to $50 or $60. The CBC is just about the only thing that makes me feel Canadian anymore.

You need a broadcasting corp to make you feel Canadian?

[Wild Bill]

If $40 isn't enough boost it to $50 or $60. The CBC is just about the only thing that makes me feel Canadian anymore.

Why don't you start a movement to VOLUNTARILY donate to the CBC? If you care so much and are confident there are enough others who feel as you do then they should end up with more than enough money!

In effect, what you are championing right now is for OTHER PEOPLE to be INVOLUNTARILY taxed for YOUR pet hobbyhorse!

Anybody can yell for more beer when someone else is paying the tab...

[capricorn]

You need a broadcasting corp to make you feel Canadian?

Eyeball's comment comes across as so outrageous I put it down to trolling.

[Kitchener]

Why don't you start a movement to VOLUNTARILY donate to the CBC?

Probably more or less the same reasons why s/he won't start a movement to voluntarily donate to your CPP, your medical care, the education of your children, the sidewalks in your neighbourhood, the roads you drive on... etc.

If your argument against funding the CBC is the "involuntary taxation bad!" line that you just trotted out, then you're so far out in the wingnutosphere that not even the right wing of the CPC can see you. Maybe you have better reasons, which you've chosen not to reveal yet?

Edited May 25, 2008 by Kitchener

[margrace]

If $40 isn't enough boost it to $50 or $60. The CBC is just about the only thing that makes me feel Canadian anymore.

I agree, so many of the CTV and Global shows are disgusting American site coms

[Wild Bill]

Probably more or less the same reasons why s/he won't start a movement to voluntarily donate to your CPP, your medical care, the education of your children, the sidewalks in your neighbourhood, the roads you drive on... etc.

If your argument against funding the CBC is the "involuntary taxation bad!" line that you just trotted out, then you're so far out in the wingnutosphere that not even the right wing of the CPC can see you. Maybe you have better reasons, which you've chosen not to reveal yet?

CPP and medicare are vastly different than paying for documentaries slamming the Americans, funding horrible sitcoms like "The Trouble with Tracy" or paying for a feeble attempt to make Ralph Benmergui "cool"! Your answer presupposes that the CBC is equivalent to an old age pension or children's education. Are you serious?

As for involuntary taxation, that was not my target. I was arguing against someone advocating INCREASED taxes to pay for what only a minority consider a good idea.

If you think that this is a good idea I have a whole raft of ideas that few other Canadians would support that you could fund.

Talk about elitist!

[scribblet]

Are they disgusting simply because they are 'damn yankees', or you just don't care for them, I enjoy many of their disgusting programs'. If all we had to rely on was the CBC, we'd be doing a lot more reading etc.

Actually, voluntary donations isn't a bad idea, something like PBS, where they have the fundraisers, the CBC really should be self supporting. It should not be a State run organization, which is mostly an arm of the Liberals anyway.

[oreodontist]

I was a big CBC supporter up until the late 1980's or so. It played an important role in Canada before the multi-station universe, the Internet, etc.

Today? The CBC has outlived its purpose. The ratings are in the toilet and the programs that do get decent numbers (Hockey) don't need government broadcasting. I prefer the PBS and NPR model and, if it collapses because of lack of funds, then the people have spoken.

[Michael Hardner]

PBS and NPR aren't as necessary as the CBC because they're competing against American private networks.

If CBC goes down, then there would be a major loss of Canadian identity. I'm not a big fan of the idea of "countries" but if we're going to have them, then we still need to promote Canadian culture in our collective mindspace.

[eyeball]

Reading by candle-light and keeping warm by a fire when the power is out during a storm just wouldn't be the same without the CBC tuned in on a battery operated radio. I especially recall the times when I was holed up in some distant anchorage or drifting under the stars far out at sea after a days fishing and listening to a faint CBC broadcast before bunking down for the night.

I see the few brothers that are still left fishing are finally being completely sold out by Ottawa. DFO officials have accepted a $30 million offer from the US to virtually eliminate what's left of our fleet so the handful of American fishermen still fishing can stay alive for another season or two. This is a sovereignty issue that by rights should be something that Canadians everywhere can identify with...but the silence is deafening. I've come to expect this of Canadian governments but not Canadians themselves.

I can barely identify with my people never mind my country anymore.

Good night and good luck.

[Alta4ever]

I agree, so many of the CTV and Global shows are disgusting American site coms

Apposed to the disgusting content on the CBC.

If people want ot watch it they can support it. I for one do not watch the CBC and its leftist social engineering. I am tired of my tax dollars being wasted on these programs, if you want to watch you pony up the dough. My tax dollars can be better spent elsewhere.

[Shakeyhands]

Apposed to the disgusting content on the CBC.

If people want ot watch it they can support it. I for one do not watch the CBC and its leftist social engineering. I am tired of my tax dollars being wasted on these programs, if you want to watch you pony up the dough. My tax dollars can be better spent elsewhere.

I bet you could find someone to send you your forty dollars just so they didn't have to listen to you whine about it. Its 40 bucks, hell, even if its $60/Cdn thats not a bad deal for the hockey and some of the other Canadian content that would be lost.

[margrace]

Are they disgusting simply because they are 'damn yankees', or you just don't care for them, I enjoy many of their disgusting programs'. If all we had to rely on was the CBC, we'd be doing a lot more reading etc.

Actually, voluntary donations isn't a bad idea, something like PBS, where they have the fundraisers, the CBC really should be self supporting. It should not be a State run organization, which is mostly an arm of the Liberals anyway.

My idea of television is PBS, did you watch Bill Maher today, SCN, TVO used to be good but with the sell in with the Harris government it has slipped and the BC station. These along with AChanel news and the Weather chanel are all we watch. The CBC of course but the rest are a lot of useless nonsense catering to the great unwashed.

[Topaz]

Maybe CBC could get half of its funding from the government and the other half through fundraising and if Canadians that wanted it, could get a tax write off for supporting it.

[White Doors]

My idea of television is PBS, did you watch Bill Maher today, SCN, TVO used to be good but with the sell in with the Harris government it has slipped and the BC station. These along with AChanel news and the Weather chanel are all we watch. The CBC of course but the rest are a lot of useless nonsense catering to the great unwashed.

presumably you are one of the washed one's margrace?

lol

[M.Dancer]

If $40 isn't enough boost it to $50 or $60. The CBC is just about the only thing that makes me feel Canadian anymore.

I watch Rent a Goalie....a show so funny, it won't be found in the CBC...

[M.Dancer]

I agree, so many of the CTV and Global shows are disgusting American site coms

I spit on american site coms

[M.Dancer]

"The Trouble with Tracy"

Was wonderfully bad....and was a CTV show....

[Wild Bill]

Was wonderfully bad....and was a CTV show....

Ok, I'll give you that one but DON'T try to tell me that Ralph was cool!

[M.Dancer]

Ok, I'll give you that one but DON'T try to tell me that Ralph was cool!

No...I won't even suggest that "the hour" is cool....on the otherhand, "90 Minutes live" on the otherhand was so cool it couldn't find an audience cool enough to follow it.

I mean really, was there anybody cooler than Peter Gzowski?

[Oleg Bach]

No...I won't even suggest that "the hour" is cool....on the otherhand, "90 Minutes live" on the otherhand was so cool it couldn't find an audience cool enough to follow it.

I mean really, was there anybody cooler than Peter Gzowski?

Peter who?