"What this is about", or has become, is a long plea for fairness,from someone whose bread and butter comes from the sale of things, the advertising that is adding to the commodification of the universe.
I cannot find in your ramblings ANY call for excellence and honesty in programming. And your dismissal of the BBC attests to that vacuum of concern. Your arguments are frighteningly like those of the Great Misled...and its very easy to see how their concerns as "taxpayers" came to replace their role as citizens.
As for this: "But I see you are making an argument that the BBC gets more money than the CBC so that justifies the current funding or maybe an increase? I thought Canada was unique, so why are we comparing the CBC to the BBC which is an international broadcaster as much as it is a domestic broadcaster."
EVERY goddam advanced industrial country forks out more for its public broadcaster - PER BLOODY CAPITA - than Canada. THAT is Canada's uniqueness, one that is going to be increasingly important with every effing budget that the Cons bring down.
Wake up.
