Quoted from CBC.ca:
"CBC is at a turning point that no one-year plan will address," he said, urging MPs to adopt a long-term charter for the CBC similar to the one enjoyed by the British Broadcasting Corp.
CBC president Robert Rabinovitch says a long-term mandate is needed for the public broadcaster.
(CBC) "Anything less is to pay lip service to public broadcasting while watching it wither," he said.
Yesterday, the Heritage Committee approved an additional $60 million in funding for each of the next two years for original programming on the CBC. This is not really additional funding though. It is a standard amount of "additional funding" that Parliament has been providing for several years, but that the CBC has to return and beg for annually.
After years of benign neglect by the Liberals and, at times, outright hositility to the CBC by the Conservatives it is time that parliament stepped up to the plate, gave the Corp appropriate funding and a mandate that speaks to a truly, uniquely Canadian public broadcaster.
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