In The Weekly Wrap, Sean Speer, editor-at-large for Hub.ca , analyses for Hub subscribers the big stories shaping politics, policy, and the economy in the week that was. Recommended reading as Facebook will not let Canadians see this article If Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are elected, they will make it abundantly clear that defunding the CBC will be a top priority. This weekend, my colleague, The Hub’s managing editor Harrison Lowman , has a provocative essay in which he describes such an outcome as a “tragedy” and “damn shame.” I respectfully disagree. The principal conservative case for defunding the CBC isn’t “revenge,” as he puts it. As I’ve written several times before, it’s because the public broadcaster has outlived its usefulness. The CBC was established decades ago due to a genuine market failure. Without a public broadcaster, many Canadians wouldn’t have had access to news and entertainment on radio and television. Today, that’s no longer the case. The CBC is...
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