Tell CBC To Make Canadian Sovereignty An Issue!

<b>what horseshit!</b>

Leave it to this Anon to come up with an intelligent response. NOT!

Anyways Susan, I have had someone from CBC trying to get in touch with me regarding an email I sent them. They wanted election issue ideas for them to cover so I gave them a few ideas. I should be talking to someone from CBC this weekend.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

I wrote to CBC and hope they will take a look at what
is important to Canadians before we vote; I suggested, the Census, Sovereignty, the BM system, getting rid of NAFTA and replacing it with fair trade, and our social systems especially public healthcare; I would like to know what each party stands for on these issues, for the most part I already know, but it would be good to hear them say it on public television so that all Canadians know what they are voting for on election day.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Don't forget "proportional representation" Whelan, there is no justice in a party with 40 % of the votes getting 60% of the seats.

I wrote to the CBC on this issue as well! If enough of us do this, they`ll have no choice but to listen!

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Dave Ruston

I asked the CBC to produce a story on privatization of the CBC and how eight-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollars could buy a lot of health care and education.

Anon why would you want a show like that. The poll's that have been done show good support for CBC to stay publicly funded.

Its only a small group of right wing bozo's that want it privatized. good luck.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

Although I didn't put it on my list, I think it is important, but I didn't want to overwhelm them with issues, the main ones tie everything together, for me anyway. They did respond and said they would circulate the issues I brought up to the producers of various news shows, so that is progress, I think. But of course we can all email them regularly with various issues to keep the momentem going!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Let me guess! it was a CBC poll and the question was 'Do you want to see Canada ripped to shreds with babies starving in the streets OR do you support the CBC?'

I'm with you with concerns about poverty. I read a really good book about this one time that really open my mind to the poverty in Canada. Its called "Pay the rent or feed the kids", check that book out.

re:babies starving in the streets cause we have CBC.

That's a warped theory of yours, but let's talk about it anyways.

I'm gonna assume you support any party that will privatize the CBC. If that is the case then you would support the New Conservative Party. If I'm assuming correctly then you don't make any sense acusing the CBC for the cause of starving kids/poverty in Canada.

The poverty in Canada if you do your research, especially allot of Statscan data you will see that our poverty level amongst single parent familes, and amongst young adults has risen since Mulroney did all his changes to many social programs. I agreed with getting people off welfare who shouldn't have been on welfare, which seemd to be Mulroney's focus. That I agree with Mulroney. HOWEVER, what he did and how he did it didn't make matters any better. He made Canada's poverty level worse, not better.

The poverty you seem to bring up as a concern is two decades of Conservative/Mulroney and Liberal/Chretien-Martin cut backs. It doesn't have as much to do with the CBC as you seem to suggest.

Do some research and get back to us on this one. Oh and its worth mentiong that at least the CBC gave us many good shows that brought to people's awareness the poverty in Canada.

Kevin

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"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

It's all very ironic that conservatives are in favour of privatising the CBC, given that conservatives created the damn thing in the first place.

That said, the CBC is a beakon of light in a sea of crap US tele-programming.

Poverty according to Statscan starts at the LICO or Low Income Cut-Off. The LICO is not an absolute measure of poverty but a measure that is derived from a number of different factors that don't necessarily reflect measures of poverty, just measures of how far they are away from the average. Not meeting the average income for a Canadian does not mean these people are living in poverty, they can't afford luxuries, but using the term poverty is a political ploy for liberal socialist intervention and tax increases.

<p>The Anon above who said the poll was probably done by CBC. It was done by Ipsos. <p><a href="http://www.friends.ca/files/PDF/IR-breakdown.pdf">Here's a breakdown of the poll</a><p>---<br>"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

I said they should ask the leaders/candidates if we have a "foreign-ownership problem" and that if we don't, how much foreign ownership do we need before it becomes a problem?

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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing