If Pierre Poilievre wants to defund the CBC while maintaining its French-language programming, he’ll have to overhaul the country’s broadcasting law in order to do it.
That’s according to the Crown corporation, which has found itself in a back-and-forth with the Opposition leader over his pledge to cut the roughly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars it receives annually.
Past Conservative leaders have also taken aim at the CBC, which receives its share of public money through Parliament when MPs vote on its federal budget.
Poilievre’s pitch to strip the CBC of its public funding is widely popular among Conservatives and earned loud cheers from
