text: Following years of massive cuts, mass firings, direct interference, and political appointments by both Liberal Conservative-In-Name-Only governments, the CBC has been hobbled and its ability to function effectively - most notably in the area of news - has been undermined, and has resulted in a huge shift to the right, so in this regard, it has certainly lost its way (or perhaps it's more accurate to say deliberately led astray), but the opposite of what's proposed here is necessary to repair what's been so badly damaged.
  
  Konrad, unsurprisingly, never acknowledges that actions of the bloated private media corporations in creating their own situation. Throughout the 90's and early 00's, hard-right ideologues like the Aspers and Thomsons bought out the bulk of the Canadian media in order to stifle diversity, frighten those left working into acquiescence, and push their own ideology in an effort to alter the tone of debate in this country.
  
  But Canadians are not American, and reject this.