Translation: If the CBC music stations start selling ads, the private-sector companies will have to fight that much harder to sell ads on their own stations. I am not and never have been opposed to the notion of taxpayer dollars going to a public broadcaster. But it is entirely reasonable to ask whether the CBC, in its current role, is the proper form for such a broadcaster. It would save the government money, yes, but at the cost of devastating the revenue streams for private-sector news organizations and entertainment providers — many of whom most, really are already struggling.
It is, in a sense, an unnatural creation that would suddenly be dropped into an already existent, and fragile, ecosystem. Not looking to cloud your day but winter is knocking!
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The frozen North is on a near-enough-equal footing with downtown Toronto when it comes to digital access, and children are no longer plunked down thoughtlessly in front of a cathode-ray tube for hours at a stretch.
In this environment, the CBC is not proving to be much good at specifying exactly why it is needed. The gesture looks for all the world like a gratuitous, specific cheap shot at Postmedia, whose various owners in recent times have all shared a passionate devotion to trashing the corp.
Of course, times change and new media paradigms develop and blah blah blah, but the distinction here is crucial: The original pretext for the creation of the CBC was the limited, theoretically public nature of broadcast spectrum. To the degree that the CBC is now just one digital content provider among many, with a hypothesized mandate that puts it in a position to compete with newspapers, it can rightly be privatized, or destroyed, or handed over to its own employees, in order to unburden the public treasury.
Polls always demonstrate high levels of purported political support for the CBC. The Conservatives also announced on Tuesday a plan to protect access to pensions when companies go through bankruptcy or restructuring. The proposal would bar executives from receiving bonuses during that process unless their workers' pension plan was fully funded. The plan would also force companies to disclose the funding status of pensions, which the Conservatives say will increase transparency.
O'Toole's health-care comments came a day after Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland posted to Twitter a selectively edited clip of O'Toole speaking about health care. In the posted video, O'Toole said he would be open to more for-profit health care in Canada to help address some of the current system's failings. Left out of Freeland's edited video montage was O'Toole's subsequent statement — that universal access to health services must be maintained.
Twitter has since flagged the clip as "manipulated media. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the edited clip accurately reflects O'Toole's attitude toward private health care. O'Toole hit back, saying that on Trudeau's watch, the private sector's role in health care has grown considerably.
In Quebec, for example, the province recently signed 20 contracts with private clinics to outsource some surgeries and reduce waiting times. Radio-Canada reported in February that some 20, surgeries in that province have been done at private clinics already.
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