Sun News demands CRTC give revenue producing mandatory carriage

But its bid by far has garnered the most attention because of the right-leaning network's resolutely free-enterprise point of view. The irony that it's now asking the broadcast regulator to compel viewers to pay for the channel in their monthly bills, whether or not they watch it, is not lost on Sun News' many critics.

National Post columnist Andrew Coyne called the demand "infinite humbug ... demanding what is in effect a tax on cable subscribers even as it rails against the tax-funded CBC."

Network vice-president Kory Teneycke told the hearing a so-called "must-offer" licence, where providers are only required to make the channel available but leave it up to customers to subscribe or not, would be unsatisfactory, The Canadian Press reported.

These people are the media arm of the Conservatives and as I have said previously, once the Harper government is in control of CBC, Canadians will only have a Conservative point of view.

Rest assured that the Harper gestapo will coerce CRTC into forcing us to pay for something we don't want..... but that has always been the plan.... yes my friends and the Queen of Denial Stephen Harper will insist that they have no control over CRTC.