Bleeding the CBC is the government’s God-given right

Filed under “P” for “pigs flying in formation; possibility of” is a CP wire story reporting that the Commons Heritage committee “is recommending the federal government commit ‘stable, multi-year funding’ to the CBC.” What? And take away the God-given right of every federal government since the Mulroney era to cut the national broadcaster’s year-over-year budget, thereby forcing it to put on “populist” T&A claptrap like MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives?

Forget it.

• CBC should receive stable, multi-year funding: report [Globe and Mail]• MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives [CBC]