The multi-million dollar payout to the CBC comes as polls show Canadians are increasingly distrustful of mainstream media outlets in the pocket of the Trudeau government.
The CBC’s commitment to supporting the pro-transgender narrative, despite mounting evidence against the related drugs and surgeries, reflects a reluctance to acknowledge the flaws in the ideology.
The percentage of Canadians who watch CBC content is within the statistical margin of error. Which, incidentally, I find encouraging – the ideological drivel they serve under the banner of 'Canadian content' has caused Canadians to tune out.
In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer Canada Report, 55% of respondents said that they felt legacy media lie to them by misleading or falsely reporting the truth.
Radio-Canada journalist Pasquale Turbide revealed that concerns from parents were what originally sparked her investigative report on the gender 'transitioning' of children in Quebec.
'There is evidence to suggest subsidies have created an environment in which segments of the public believe media has been bought off,' one journalist testified to a House of Commons committee last month.
Trudeau, the CBC, and the mainstream media apparatus more broadly continue to shift the blame of residential schools on the Catholic Church, and apparently even feel comfortable justifying criminal acts of arson that their own disinformation has inspired.
The CBC publishes a non-stop series of smear jobs aimed at convincing Canadians that parents should be kept in the dark while activist educators introduce them to new ideologies and worldviews.
The news comes just weeks after the CBC announced it must lay off about 600 workers, approximately 10 percent of its staff, as it faces a $125 million budget shortfall.