Marla Boltman: Feds should use upcoming budget to defend, not defund, the CBC
Alongside sustainable funding, we need legislation to guard against a quiet, uncontested end to the CBC with the mere stroke of Prime Minister Poilievre’s pen or a reversal of budgetary priorities.
Pierre Poilievre says he wants to defund the CBC. We should believe him.
In fact, we should be moving now to put in place a plan to resist him, to defend the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from those who, like the would-be Conservative prime minister, seek to defund it.
Read the full op-ed in The Hill Times.