What better place to start than the CBC? A couple weeks ago a Senate committee came out with a report recommending that CBC television channels should go commercialess with the government footing the costs caused by having no incoming advertising revenue. With a current annual budget of close to $1 Billion dollars, it is estimated that going commercialess will cost taxpayers an extra half a billion dollars a year. Even further, the committee suggests that the Competition Act be expanded to automatically review any private media conglomerate that reaches a certain percentage of audience share in the market.

Now obviously the Liberal controlled Senate would like to see their ultra-liberal pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-Liberal party propaganda machine have free access to the market. And now that the CBC cannot survive in Canada's media market, they are depending on their good 'ol Liberal friends in the Senate to protect them and force the market to accept them. Both the Liberals and the CBC win on this deal.

But I think it is time for the CBC to wake-up and realize that the reason they are loosing market share is because...(pause for suspense)they have no good product or service to compete with! Besides sports they have nothing to offer the Canadian public - and they are not going to have that much longer (CTV has won the broadcasting rights for the next Olympics)!

Don't even get me started about the Quebec branch of the CBC, Radio-Canada, which is pro-separatist and is financially supported by CANADIAN taxpayer dollars!

In light of this, I am calling for the end of the CBC; and the mere shutting down of the CBC will not do. Commenting on a story at the Western Standard someone named Scott proposed the following:

Nothing short of the complete physical destruction of the CBC is acceptable. Purge it off the face of the Earth. Fire the staff, destroy the buildings and foundations, incinerate the rubble, and place its records and archives into a secret location (preferably in another country), for 100+ years to prevent their ideas from polluting the world.

The former building locations should be filled in with salt, gravel and dirt, and memorials to the Holocaust, the veterans, victims of terrorism, and human rights built in their place.

Privatization is not acceptable because their ideas will remain in new hands. End this monstrosity now.

Lol, I couldn't have said it better myself, Scott. Although somewhat extreme, I am all for it - maybe we should compensate the fired staff a bit, or, even a lot (giving a million dollars to every employee would sill save taxpayer dollars in the end). If the government wants to provide media access to northern communities then the government should subsidize all media operations that occur in northern communities, or other places where it would otherwise not be profitable to do so, without regard to which media conglomerate provides it. This would help to keep the "diversity" of media alive - something different than the CBC up North. Instead of spending $1 billion tax payer dollars a year, use the money to enhance, upgrade, and install telephone and internet connectivity to isolated communities that "depend on the CBC" for knowledge of the world around them. Even if the government spent $5 billion dollars to do this - an excessive amount for sure - they would still be saving money in the long run! After five years they can use this money to assist the poor and needy at home and abroad, or to better enhance our military, or for infrastructure, or to pay down our debt, or for healthcare - the possibilities are endless.

So, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and your Conservative Government: instead of increasing funding to the CBC as the Senate Committee suggests, privatize them or abolish them altogether! It's not like they like you anyways; they are more active and effective at ruining your image than the Liberals are right now anyways. It's not the Liberals you have to worry about, but the CBC! So, why don't you finally put an end to CBC favouritism by the government?

Hey Cubicle-ie (Like roomie, only we share a cubicle... get it!)

This thing looks really really great! The font/text that you were working on is perfect with the background!

Oh, and of course, the stuff you put on here is good/funny too... (Even the serious stuff is funny - your words as I recall)

I'll comment more later - promise.

but craig if you get rid of CBC, that means the show Yam Roll goes down with it...

"the show where Happy Kingdom is a magical place in which most of the inhabitants are talking pieces of sushi! Yam Roll is a cab driver who uses his super-powers to defend against monsters and other perils.He is hopelessly in love with Minamiko, the most beautiful sushi in the Kingdom. Unfortunately, she has no time for him. She is dating a carton of milk."

and that would be just tragic.

oh, my word - i think that further justifies the need to get rid of the cbc.

Craig, what's your email address? I tried to send you something but it bounced. You know mine.