It was Oscar Wilde who once opined that, “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” 

Sadly, this appears to be the case with a man who seeks to be Canada’s next prime minister. The quote is particularly apropos when it comes to his promise to “defund the CBC.” 

When pondering the loss of CBC, I think about the stories that won’t be told, the little and big, the national and the local. I think about the musicians never being heard, the songs not sung, the writers not read and the artists of all kinds not seen. In Canada, CBC offers talented Canadians a stage, often a starting point and audience.  

The threat from Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is just one of a collection of three-word slogans, but there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Like most three-word slogans, it sounds simple enough: no more money for the CBC. 

But Poilievre claims defunding would just be on English services, demonstrating a profound lack of understanding of how the CBC works. The English and French arms of the organization work in the same buildings, and share the same infrastructure, human and physical........

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