For anyone truly interested in real and meaningful access to information, attempts to undermine and diminish the public broadcaster must be seen as both dangerous and counterproductive. A diversity of media voices is essential to ensuring Canadians have a variety of news information sources and is also a factor in promoting higher-quality news gathering among all broadcasters and news organizations.
In Canada the public broadcaster is recognized within the Broadcasting Act as a key pillar of a system that provides “a public service essential to the maintenance--”