No public broadcaster anywhere in the free world faces the degree of political interference as that proposed for the CBC in Bill C-60.
The government's latest Omnibus Budget legislation would make the Prime Minister the ultimate boss of all of the CBC's employees if the government takes control of collective bargaining at the CBC as Bill C-60 proposes to do.
Harper's Conservatives would enjoy new power to influence the news and the role of producers who create it at our national public broadcaster. These are issues that are addressed in the collective agreements the CBC negotiates with its staff.
Any government would love to manipulate the news in their own interest, but few are brazen enough to actually try.
The Conservative government says this is just an industrial relations matter.
But it's definitely much more than that.
This is about the fine line between public broadcasting and state broadcasting.
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