You want to piss off a Conservative,
come armed with facts (emphasis mine).
What Quebecor won’t tell you about its attacks on the public broadcaster
For more than three years, Quebecor has been using its newspapers, and more recently, its SunNews Network TV license to pursue a campaign against CBC/Radio-Canada. But there are some things Quebecor won’t tell you:
- Quebecor has received more than half a billion dollars in direct and indirect subsidies and benefits from Canadian taxpayers over the past three years, yet it is not accountable to them.
- Quebecor uses this public subsidy and its dominant position in protected industries to make record profits yet complains that its TVA television network "competes” against Radio-Canada.
- Quebecor boss Pierre Karl Péladeau has sent over a dozen letters to the Prime Minister and others in government to complain that Radio-Canada does not spend enough money advertising in his newspapers.
The press release goes on to list the ways in which the network is accountable, despite Quebecor's irresponsible claims. It's good stuff;
read the whole thing.
3 comments:
Hey Jymn, Harper just raped Ontario and Quebec and gave all the ship money to the Irvings with sloppy seconds for an American Billionaire.
I was so happy to read this. After everything that the CBC has taken I'm glad they are fighting back. I listened to PKP at Ethics Comm and he was "outraged" and said he was looking at his legal options. I thought "Bring it on PKP. We know you're all about the money."
It seems to me, people no longer know the history of the CBC or why it came about. Anyone who allows anyone in this country to try and get rid of the CBC needs to give their head a darn good shake. Do away with the CBC and this country will be more open to discention and discord than it already is.
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