Last week, the Prime Minister's office announced that, "the CBC cannot be insulated from all market realities" as CBC joins other media in cost cuts and layoffs.

According to federal government estimates, total spending on the CBC will be reduced by $62.8 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year, a move of which I approve; but the government should additionally include the real culprit.

Many people no longer listen to CBC because it's become heavily biased and un-Canadian. This type of jabber on private radio is at least done at the expense of those who choose to put their money there through advertising. Alternatively, CBC uses our hard-earned taxes to undermine the very Christian worldview responsible for our civilization the very concept of freedom of speech. Many Canadians cannot listen without getting angry. You would expect that in its position of responsibility as a publicly-funded corporation, balanced reporting should at least be attempted—tossing in a token of truth here and there does not constitute balance.

The lies are no threat to the Truth. Truth can stand on its own. The problem is that CBC and their kind do not create a true marketplace of ideas or a public forum for honest debate; the lies get the air-time and the Truth is trampled as outmoded, rigid and hypocritical, or simply censored. The tax-funded media establishment perpetuates secular ideology as if it were their right to promote this sub-culture at our expense, with little or no accountability. And when the axe finally falls, as it did when Prime Minister Harper refused to fund their budget shortfall, the selfappointed keepers of the national identity-as-they-see-it act like Canada might cease to exist without 800 of them. Wow, 800 to axe and they still have …how many?

CS Lewis' words on newspapers are also true of watching TV and listening to radio: "To abstain from reading—and from buying—a paper which you have once caught telling lies seems a very moderate form of asceticism [religious self-denial]. Yet how few practice it?"

The CHP's Better Solution would not only have been to reduce funding for the CBC but to target the agency that is actually responsible. Through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, we would ensure that the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications (CRTC) responsibly regulates and supervises all broadcasting that falls under federal jurisdiction to ensure honest, balanced reporting for all Canadians to enjoy.