CBC/Radio-Canada
NDP
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Provide $150M/year more to CBC/Radio-Canada
Liberal
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Update CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate with a governance plan, more local bureaus and reporters, a commitment to including Indigenous perspectives and transmitting emergency information, investment in digital tools
"Strengthen CBC/Radio Canada’s mandate by:
- Developing a governance plan with CBC/Radio Canada to improve accountability, empower leadership, streamline processes and tap into the spirit of innovation. This will also improve citizen engagement and understanding of our country, from the West Coast to the East Coast and to the far reaches of the Canadian North. It is only by engaging all parts of our country that we can tell its stories.
- Equipping them to further promote and support Canadian culture including Quebec’s unique culture, which is at the heart of our national identity.
- Strengthening local news, so that all Canadians have access to timely, relevant and reliable news.
- Adding to their mandate the clear and consistent transmission of life-saving information during emergencies.
- Including a commitment of including Indigenous perspectives.
- Fully equipping them to combat disinformation so that Canadians have a news source they know and trust.
- Bolstering innovation and investing in new digital tools so that they can deliver the news when and how Canadians want it."
— liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21
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Enshrine and protect CBC/Radio-Canada's funding by making it statutory
"Enshrining and protecting their funding by making it statutory, thereby empowering Parliament and the Canadian people – not ideologues – to decide the future of this critical institution;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Enshrine and protect CBC/Radio Canada by introducing legislation to establish statutory funding. Funding for our national public broadcaster should not be subject to the whims of government; our national institutions deserve to be protected by Parliament and changed only with the consent of the House of Commons and the people it represents." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21
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Provide an initial $150M funding increase for CBC/Radio-Canada
"Provide an initial $150 million boost in annual funding while directing CBC/Radio Canada to develop a strategic plan consistent with this new mandate. We will work towards bringing CBC/Radio Canada’s long-term funding levels in line with the average funding of other national public broadcasters over time." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21
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Direct CBC/Radio-Canada to develop a strategic plan for the new mandate, which will likely require an increased long-term funding level
"Providing an initial $150 million funding increase, while directing CBC/Radio-Canada to develop a strategic plan consistent with this new mandate. That is expected to require a long-term funding level in line with the average funding of other national public broadcasters over time." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
CFP
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CBC/Radio-Canada will be refocused to serve the mission of aggregating and verifying national and international news, conducting investigative journalism, and contributing to a unified national narrative.
The CFP will establish a Ministry of Information as a strategic tool to support Canada’s sovereignty, democracy, and global standing by combatting disinformation and foreign interference. The CBC/Radio-Canada, as the national public broadcaster, will be refocused to serve the mission of aggregating and verifying national and international news, conducting investigative journalism, and contributing to a unified national narrative.
CBC/Radio-Canada will also offer international broadcasting in support of Canada’s foreign policy goals and serve as a training ground for new Canadian journalists, filling the gap left by the closure of America’s. Fact-based journalism is a powerful tool against disinformation and propaganda, particularly from hostile actors like China, Russia, India, North Korea, Trump-aligned factions, and foreign influence operations.
These reforms of the CBC/Radio-Canada would allow it to be a tool for government to connect with Canadians while equally having responsibility to hold government to account and providing Canadians access to trusted and accurate information.
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The CFP proposes that CBC/Radio-Canada be fully government funded and withdraw from the advertising market
As a flagship institution for promoting Canadian culture, our national broadcaster must reassess its role in delivering cultural content. The CFP proposes that CBC/Radio-Canada be fully government funded and withdraw from the advertising market, freeing up an estimated $350 million in ad revenue to be shared among private media companies. In exchange, the federal government will fully compensate the lost revenue and provide an additional $3 per Canadian to improve services in rural and underserved regions.