CBC Restructuring

May 15, 2014 – CBC Restructuring

With the loss of Hockey Night in Canada to Rogers, and the accompanying revenue, CBC has been forced to do some restructuring. They have been trimming staff and eliminating some of their higher cost programming, but they are fundamentally running the CBC in the same fashion as before, and that’s too bad. Because with over 1 billion dollars per year in tax dollars going to CBC it’s time we asked what we are getting for our money. Ratings for CBC are down and increasingly people are turning away from regular TV to watch programs online with Netflix and other similar services. CBC needs to be relevant and it needs to pay its own way. In Canada we have lots of choices for Canadian entertainment, news, and information. If the CBC cannot remake itself, it needs to be shut down. A billion dollars is not chump change.
I’m Brad Trost, Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Humboldt and I’m working for you. For more information, check out my website at bradtrost.ca.