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Part of me loves the idea of a commercial free CBC, but I wonder whether it will make them just another bloated bureaucracy - less hungry and also much less likely to bite the hand that feeds them.

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CBC has a pretty good history of pushing back against both itself and the government, I've never felt the CBC was corrupt or a government mouthpiece, I do worry about that last point also though.

CBC employees were targeted by their employer for making critical comments about Harper on their personal social media accounts.

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By that reasoning they are currently much less likely to bite the hands of all of their corporate advertisers.

Is a broadcasting company that's accountable to private corporations really preferable to one that's accountable to the public?

That's easily solved by securing their funding for several years into the future (possibly to the next government). That way the government can't retaliate for any hard hitting journalism.

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