Why Pierre Poilievre has suddenly gone silent on defunding the CBC [View all]
Why Pierre Poilievre has suddenly gone silent on defunding the CBC
Poilievre has not mentioned his promise to gut the public broadcaster at any of his press conferences or policy announcements since the campaign started on Sunday.
March 27, 2025
By Alex BallingallDeputy Ottawa Bureau Chief
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/why-pierre-poilievre-has-suddenly-gone-silent-on-defunding-the-cbc/article_5c58ee2c-11ba-4399-a78f-be1130c600a9.html
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OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre wants you to know: if he’s prime minister, taxes will get axed. Red tape will get slashed. Crime will get smacked down.
But there is another long-standing Poilievre priority that the party has not highlighted in the same way over the opening stretch of the campaign this week.
His plan to “defund” the CBC.
Poilievre has not mentioned his promise to gut the public broadcaster at any of his press conferences or policy announcements since the election campaign started on Sunday. When he’s talked about spending cuts, it has been about peeling back bureaucracy and slashing government outsourcing and foreign aid.
His plan to defund the CBC, however, hasn’t been entirely absent on the campaign trail — during a rally in Hamilton he referenced transforming the broadcaster’s headquarters into housing stock — but little else has been said of what was once a regular talking point. Noticeably, his campaign put out a Québec-focused platform that talked about preserving Radio-Canada — the French part of the service Poilievre says he wants to keep — without referencing his promise to “defund” the English part of the CBC.
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