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From: chapman@fornax.uucp
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:33:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 22 01:33:40 1987
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> >From: chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman)
> 
> >Canada has 10% of the US population; does the CBC
> >cost more to run than 10% of what it costs to run one of {NBC,ABC,CBS}?
> 
>     Lets compare apples and oranges.  Is the cost to the Canadian
>     government for subsidizing CBC more than 10% of the cost to the
>     American government for subsidizing NBC,ABC, and CBS combined ?

If you want to talk about subsidization go ahead but my comment was directed
more at the people who constantly carp about how innefficient the CBC.
My question was: is the CBC relatively less/more efficient/costly
than a US network?
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>     If the cbc is such a great deal, why hasn't it been able to 
>     operate insuch a way as to become financially independent? 

Why should it? Seriously.  Not every aspect of life has to be run as
a business venture you know - although to hear some people talk you
would never realize it.

>     Why hasn't it been able to operate in such a way as to at least
>     break even including the government subsidizes ?  The obvious
>     conclusion is that its mandate is not supported by a majority

It may be obvious but it's not necessarily the correct conclusion.

>     of Canadians, and if its mandate is not supported by a majority
>     of Canadians then it should be allowed to die.  

So nothing should be done in a democracy unless a majority supports it?
I don't know any country that actually runs that way.
I also don't think it is always preferable either, e.g. what about the
rights of minorities.
This impinges on something I have been thinking about for a long time
so I think I will hold the rest of my comments until I have time for
a more lucid & comprehensive posting.
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