Canada: How to waste $1 billion a year

Even as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s importance has plummeted, “its self-importance has skyrocketed,” said Ezra Levant at the Toronto Sun.

Ezra Levant

Toronto Sun

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Yet even as its importance has plummeted, “its self-importance has skyrocketed.” In a debate with me this week, CBC anchors claimed that the vital service they provide is to act as a filter or curator of the news, highlighting what is most important for Canadians to know—as decided by them, of course. That argument is a repellent mixture of authoritarianism and outright “snobbery.” Canada has managed to privatize its other state-owned companies with great success: the gas company Petro-Canada, the airline Air Canada, and even the national train service. “The CBC had its moment. That moment is gone. Time to sell it.”