Though the CBC is far from perfect, I have heard news, deeply alarming, that the Harper government is looking at cutting all funding to the CBC. This was floated by MP Dean Del Mastro on November 23rd. He's the Heritage Minister's parliamentary secretary. James Moore, the Heritage Minister, then failed to deny that these plans are in the works.
It doesn't surprise me that Harper's government would like to get rid of the CBC. At its best, and despite many reruns, radio 1 still opens countrywide discussions and it still reports inconvenient news on the airwaves that a privatized CBC likely would not. The move to limit citizens' knowledge and to kill another public institution is highly undemocratic. It would further put us under the control of an extremely restrictive and self-serving government and would do additional harm to our country. Stephen Harper's vision of Canada looks more and more limiting and unscrupulous all the time.