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Originally Posted by Acajack
The CBC is the type of thing that if you scrap it, chances are nothing similar will ever come back. The appetite for setting us up with the "trappings of a true nation" such as that went out the window a couple of decades ago.
Though as a caveat I'd add that if Radio-Canada were scrapped the Quebec government would probably step in and take it over. They've been periodically hinting for ages that they'd like to have the French networks under their wing.
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I'm actually somewhat surprised that the CBC survived the Harper majority more or less intact, apart from RCI which was in rough shape even before then. The CBC is one of those larger than life bogeymen for true-believer Conservatives that I thought the CPC would take some grand symbolic step like privatizing the English-language TV network or something like that.
But that said, if the (English) CBC were dismantled, I would expect something else to assume its role even if it were much smaller in scope. Perhaps a national version of an educational broadcaster like TVO, or maybe a government-subsidized, viewer-supported network. It might be a shadow of what currently exists but at least it would be something.