Mr. Speaker, Canadians are distressed about the cutbacks to the CBC, but thanks to the Liberal government there is a new CBC that is taking over Canadian media. It is the Conrad Black Corporation.
The Conrad Black Corporation will bring cost effective and sanitized news coverage. It will not waste money or time on bringing balanced reporting. Mr. Black's president, Mr. Radler, has said their newspapers will not even bother reporting fairly on issues raised by New Democrats who, by the way, speak for middle class working Canadians.
The investigation of the Hollinger's monopoly has been dropped by the Federal Bureau of Competition Policy. Why? It is because Conrad Black sent $12,500 to the Liberal Party and $11,000 to the Reform Party. These contributions help in Conrad's bid to be the new unfettered and very biased CBC.
While the old CBC is being dismantled, Liberals will have a new corporate network to advertise their vision of tax loopholes for the rich at the expense of program cuts for middle class Canadians. It is, after all, Conrad Black's corporation and he believes that only the wealthy and big corporations really matter.