This quote ties in very well with my way of thinking, reminding us good free-market and values-full conservative Canadians that we’re not even remotely alone in our thinking, so buck up and keep fighting…
[…] CBC-TV is already dead, counters Barry Cooper, managing director of the Fraser Institute’s Alberta Policy Research Centre in Calgary and the author of a recent study critical of a creeping anti-American sentiment in CBC News’ reporting.
“The big lesson of the past seven weeks is that the CBC does nothing like it says it does, in terms of its importance to Canadians,” Mr. Cooper said.
To say the dispute proved that CBC is irrelevant is “understating it enormously,” he said.
[…] “The people who support CBC, particularly CBC Television—if they’re not actually working for the CBC—are part of a group of mostly central Canadian nationalists, mostly socialist nationalists, who think there is something inherently virtuous about having taxpayers pay for television,” he said. […]
Yes, obviously, that last sentence is duly entered into the nominations for our coveted ProudToBeCanadian.ca Quote Of The Week Award.
But I would also like to draw attention to something even more exciting if that’s possible. It’s the fact that the National Post inadvertently got caught up in the moment and neglected to describe the Fraser Institute in the usual way. Look again and see for yourselves. They called it simply the “Fraser Institute”. Not “the right-wing” Fraser Institute, or the “take the following with a HA-YUGE grain of salt” Fraser Institute. Oops!
I don’t doubt they’ll make up for it down the road. They’ll probably call the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives “balanced” or “sober” or something.
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