Help Save the CBC from Poilievre and the Conservative Cuts!

The Conservative Party of Canada promises to kill the CBC

Will you help defend the CBC?

The CBC helped build Canada. It unites us. It shares our stories, our hopes, our dreams. It has been pivotal in creating the best country in the world.

A recent study reveals that almost 80% of Canadians, including Conservative voters, believe in the importance of having a public broadcaster and want to preserve the CBC.

As the U.S. threatens our nationhood, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives promise to defund and shut down the CBC within their first 100 days in office.

If you care about Canadian tradition, values, and journalism, we invite you to help Save the CBC -- a key issue in the upcoming federal election.

Please, join us and donate today to fund this national campaign. Our strategy is outlined below. But first, let us make the case why the CBC is so important to Canadians.

What’s at stake

The Nature of Things, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Rick Mercer Report, Kids in the Hall, Kim’s Convenience, The Friendly Giant, Marketplace, The Fifth Estate…just a few of the CBC’s iconic programs—educating us and our children, entertaining us, and delivering fearless journalism. This is the CBC we want to protect and preserve.

That's just television. Radio voices have resonated across the country (Peter Gzowski, Carol Off, Matt Galloway, Michael Enright, Susan Bonner, Bob McDonald, Shelagh Rogers, and Nahlah Ayed just to name a few). And we’ve all enjoyed our favourite programs (such as Morningside, As It Happens, The Sunday Edition, The Debaters, Quirks & Quarks, The Current). Plus, countless local radio shows.

The CBC has shaped our culture, informed our perspectives, and connected us as Canadians. We must fight to preserve it, especially in the face of what is happening to independent media around the globe. Commercial media companies care only about the bottom line. They will not fill the void. If we lose the CBC, we lose: Canadian history, science, provocative ideas, and rural, urban, and Indigenous stories.

Right-wing, authoritarian politicians are attacking independent media. In the U.S., PBS and NPR are in Donald Trump’s crosshairs. Extremists like Victor Orban in Hungary openly have said reshaping the nation’s media was key to seizing and holding power. Narendra Modi evicted outspoken foreign reporters from India, who worked for outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.

The CBC is a public voice that serves the public interest. Private media serve their own interest.

A hedge fund in New York, linked to Donald Trump, owns Canada's Postmedia newspaper chain (most of the daily papers in our country). They promote conservative opinions, and have endorsed the Conservative Party in every city and in every election.

Social media giants are owned by billionaires who protect their own interests, and they have all abandoned fact-checking. They allow online hate to thrive, and they suppress objective journalism.

In Canada, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party have vowed to shut down public broadcasting. That would erase national programming and local news and information -- essential to millions who live in rural, and remote communities, and to Indigenous Canadians across the North.

The CBC is in danger, as are other principles that matter to us as Canadians: freedom, understanding, safety, consumer protection, and our national identity.

As you know, the CBC is a critical promoter of Canadian arts and culture. Eliminating it would be a devastating blow to the creative economy of our country.

How we can Save the CBC

Saving the CBC is an election issue. We will target swing ridings where strategic voting can defeat a Conservative. In 2015, this tactic helped unseat the incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party.

We're fighting back in strategic way, that works. Please join us with a donation to protect a key part of Canada’s heritage. Every gift matters.

Here's how your support helps:

$25 reaches 100 new social media followers to spread the message.

$50 ensures our video ads reach 200 voters in a swing riding.

$200 will pay for an organizer for a day.

$1,000 funds 300 lawn signs, amplifying our reach.

$4,000 supports an organizer for a month—coordinating volunteers, messaging, and strategy.

All donations will be devoted to this cause. The people leading the Save the CBC campaign are volunteers. Our team consists of Conservatives, Liberals, NDPers, Greens and independents.

We are organizers, fundraisers, and citizens who care about the CBC, and want to protect it. You should know we have the experience, the strategy, and the know-how to make a real impact in this election. But we need to build capacity—hiring organizers and researchers, and running targeted ads in swing ridings.

Please consider joining us. Donate. Volunteer. Send your contact details and let us how you can help.

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The CBC tells our stories every day.

Please defend it with a donation today.