When 100% of the CBC's budget is dependent on dollars being given out by the federal government, that would mean there is dependance there, which is to say it's the opposite of independence. When the CBC CEO, the president, Ms. Tait, just said to me that it would not be able to provide the coverage without that money, again, that says it is beholden to the government. It cannot survive without the government dollars, which means, then, that it's hard to believe that the news coverage is entirely independent.
I'm curious, again, as to how the CBC can then claim to be independent if it can't survive without the government dollars.