Privatize the CBC?
I'm passing this message from Friends of Canadian Broadcasting to my blues and jazz
fan list and to the Ottawa
Musicians list for whatever interest there may be in this eventuality and this campaign to
oppose it.
Personally, I consider the CBC provides a valuable and informative service to Canadians
and contributes support
to Canadian artists, musicians and much more. I feel its loss would be greatly felt by
both Canadian and other
devoted listeners.
Jim Roy
Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide
www.ottawabluesjazz.ca
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The very future of Canadian public broadcasting is at stake.
Please help finance our campaign for the CBC’s very survival.
This is the question the Conservative Party asks in its latest fundraising
letter, threatening to kill our CBC.
The very existence of Canada's national public broadcaster is at stake.
Since his election in 2006, Stephen Harper has harboured a thinly concealed,
extreme and hostile agenda against our CBC, raising its ugly head from time to time. But
mostly, Harper has tried to hide it from public scrutiny because he knows that affection
for public broadcasting is widespread in Canada.
But apparently, desperate times call for desperate measures. The
Conservatives have lost 25% of the support they assembled to win the May 2011 election.
Harper and company have languished in this deep hole for many months.
This may explain why the Conservatives would trot out their radical plan to
kill the CBC – a desperate bid to secure their base. After all, for Harper it’s all about
winning – not what’s good for Canada.
Now that this radical plan is visible for all to see, it’s logical to conclude
the Conservatives will sell or kill the CBC if they are re-elected.
Please give generously so FRIENDS can prepare for the most ambitious electoral
strategy we have ever mounted.
Our strategy is to build grassroots teams at the local level where it matters
most, that is in ridings where the outcome of the 2015 election will likely be too close
to call. It is these ridings with razor-thin pluralities where the political parties will
focus their attention in the race to win. If we can mount a strong show of support for
public broadcasting in these ridings, we may be able to persuade the Conservatives to
reconsider.
We’ve already started to prepare for 2015, but we need your help to make this
strategy successful.
So far, we have launched a new social media video to declare for all to see
and hear that though Harper wants to control and silence our CBC, he cannot drown us all
out.
We have also conducted the first phase of an innovative recruitment campaign
to strengthen FRIENDS’ grassroots network. But we need to do much more, especially
recruiting additional supporters in key ridings.
And we are testing on-the-ground campaign techniques during the current
by-elections. Just this weekend, FRIENDS volunteers hit the streets in Trinity-Spadina to
gather new support for the CBC.
But we need to do much more – and fast. The Canada Elections Act severely
restricts the amount we can spend to get our message out to the public during an election
campaign – but not before the campaign formally begins. So now is the time to act.
Please give generously to help us ramp up our preparations, including:
a.. Engaging local campaign organizers
b.. Reaching out to voters in swing ridings through telephone town hall
events and other innovative techniques
c.. Online and traditional advertising
The very future of Canadian public broadcasting is at stake. This will be our
most important campaign of 2014.
Please join me in making a special gift today:
Yours sincerely,
Ian Morrison
Spokesperson
FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting
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