Conservatives CBC funding: Could the next election kill the broadcaster? [Video]

In late 2023, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said it was time for the federal government to redefine what the CBC does and how it does it.

A year later — and with a federal election expected sometime this spring — her office is promising the minister will unveil the planned changes to the public broadcaster’s mandate in “due course.” But with Parliamentary business on hold until late March due to prorogation, and opposition parties champing at the bit to trigger an election, getting any legislative changes to the CBC’s mandate passed may be a long shot.

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In the meantime, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is sticking to his promise to “defund” the CBC if his party forms the next government.

“Yes, I am going to do it,” he said in a recent interview with the …