No light — lots of heat — on troubled CBC – Hamilton Spectator

July 27, 2015

The Senate is so thoroughly discredited that its blueprint for the CBC was destined for oblivion before it was released last week.

It is just as well. The 63-page report by a 10-member Senate committee is a shoddy piece of work — poorly researched, internally contradictory, short on vision.

It accurately reflects the hostility of Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers toward the CBC. But it does not grapple with the big questions facing Canada’s 74-year-old public broadcaster. It does not offer a thoughtful analysis of what is wrong with CBC. It does not sketch out a path to financial sustainability or national relevance.

The report does contain a few sensible recommendations but for the most part, it is a “lost opportunity” as Sen. Art Eggleton wrote in his dissenting report.

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