What I wrote to my MP about the CBC

Leaving the name of the person out of it, myself. But this was what I wrote.

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I just saw the excerpted proposed resolutions re: CBC for the national Conservative convention. Including the one from your party's Ottawa-Orléans riding association.

I will repeat myself at the risk of being deemed surplus to requirements as a voting citizen: I reject the idea that it might be in any way desirable to do any of the following with the CBC...

1) Pravda-fication - the conversion of the public broadcaster into yet another propaganda device of the government of the day. Including this one.

2) Privatization - self-explanatory.

3) Pledge Drive-based business model - I know how vulnerable to editorial subversion by donors that renders organizations such as PBS in the States. No thank you.

4) Powering-down - shuttering the CBC for keeps in other words.

None of these four alternatives, however desirable to various members of the Conservative Party or to the current government as a whole, is acceptable to me as a Canadian citizen. All such resolutions proposed at your party's convention are therefore unwelcome.

My thanks for your time.

Dwight Williams
Canadian citizen
CBC supporter