The Rover: Defunding the CBC Will Silence Homegrown Stories
A view from a Franco-Ontarian hinterland
As a young Franco-Ontarienne, I was raised on Radio-Canada and CBC. As a young Franco-Ontarienne, I toggled between French and English, a two-tongued bilinguish bébé, a daughter of Canada’s Solitudes, that deafening silence which reverberates between the peoples of this country.
Read the full piece in The Rover.
There is a legal route to block de-funding CBC via the Official Languages Act and the harm that would cause to official language minorities. Kirwan Cox, Quebec English-language Production Council, qepcouncil@gmail.com
I wish that some of the broadcasts could reach across the border. Several times I've tried to watch something from CBC or listen to something from Radio-Canada, but got a message that says "not available in your region." Radio-free Canada?