What to do with Radio Canada and the CBC?

[casper]

Best option is to go down the PBS model out of the US. Perhaps with some Canadian twists.

Each existing CBC station is setup as it is own locally community (non-profit) owned and independently controlled entity.

CBC at the national level can continue to run News World (or what ever it calls in 24/7/365 news channel). The local stations can rebroadcast The National.

CBC also runs some national cable drama/entertainment channel limited to 100% created Canadian content. Some of that it creates, some it picks up from the local now independent CBC affiliates. Some of it is are reruns from its library of staff going through its history.

Once this is setup, the plan is for government to slowly reduce funding over say 50 years. The regional stations can run adds if they like or raise money. The national cable channels should be able to fund their operations from adds.