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Carney, Singh pledge support for CBC/Radio-Canada amid U.S. threats

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April 5, 2025
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh expressed support Friday for federal spending to ensure a strong national public broadcaster, a notion Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dismissed as something Canada simply can’t afford.

On the federal election trail, Carney and Singh each said a healthy CBC/Radio-Canada is crucial to protecting the country’s sovereignty in the face of attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump and the general rise of misinformation.

Poilievre has repeatedly spoken of his desire to “defund” the CBC while preserving its French-language services.


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During a campaign visit to Montreal, Carney pledged to boost CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding by an initial $150 million and enshrine its funding structure in law so that Parliament would have to approve any changes, while directing the corporation to develop a new strategic plan.

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“We will modernize the mandate of our public broadcaster, we will give it the resources it needs to fulfil its renewed mission and ensure that its future is guided by all Canadians and not subject to the whims of a small group of people led by ideology,” Carney said.

“Our plan will safeguard a reliable Canadian public square in a sea of misinformation and disinformation, so we can stay informed and tell our own stories in our own languages.”

Singh, who was also campaigning in Montreal, said it’s important to “invest significantly” in a reliable public broadcaster given the threats from misinformation and disinformation that endanger democracy, as well as Trump’s assaults on Canadian sovereignty.


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“CBC, as a public broadcaster, has been a fundamental part of celebrating Canadian culture, celebrating Quebec culture,” Singh said.

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Asked about the issue Friday in Trois-Rivières, Que., Poilievre said his approach to the public broadcaster “won’t have an impact on Radio-Canada.”

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He then took aim at Carney.

“We can’t go on spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need, or our people are going to end up with even more brutal inflation,” Poilievre said. “I will be cutting waste, bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid and other unnecessary expenses to reduce taxes, debt and inflation. That’s the choice in this election.”


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Carney said Canada’s identity and institutions face foreign interference, and instead of defending them, Poilievre is following Trump’s lead and “taking aim at our institutions like CBC/Radio-Canada.”

He rejected Poilievre’s plan to preserve only the broadcaster’s French-language operations.

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“You can’t split this, baby. His attack on CBC is an attack directly on Radio-Canada, and it is an attack on our Canadian identity.”

In Trois-Rivières, Poilievre promised to toughen the penalties for intimate partner violence if his party forms government after the April 28 election.


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He pledged to create a new criminal offence of assaulting an intimate partner, and to pass a law to require the strictest possible bail conditions for anyone accused of intimate partner violence.

Singh promised Friday that as prime minister he would close loopholes that allow corporations to put money in offshore accounts, and he took direct aim at Carney’s work for Brookfield Asset Management.

Radio-Canada recently reported that the Liberal leader co-headed a pair of green investment funds worth a combined $25 billion that were headquartered in Bermuda — a country widely viewed as a global tax haven.

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An NDP government would make companies provide a “genuine business reason” for having offshore accounts, Singh said.

The party would also end tax agreements with countries like Bermuda, review the tax code to find and close loopholes on corporate taxes and have public, country-by-country financial reporting.


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The NDP says Canada loses out on $39 billion annually in unpaid corporate taxes.

Singh said Brookfield avoided $5.3 billion in Canadian taxes between 2021 and 2024, money he says could have gone into funding things like health care and public transit in Canada.

Carney has said the investment funds are structured to avoid paying tax multiple times before ending up in the hands of the beneficiaries, which include Canadian pensioners. “It doesn’t avoid tax,” he told reporters last week.

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David Eby, British Columbia’s New Democrat premier, is throwing his support behind Singh.

Eby appeared in a video posted on media alongside Singh, asking voters in B.C. to “re-elect NDP MPs to make sure they’re out there advocating for Canadians every day.”

Eby says in the video that the federal New Democrats warrant the support of voters after helping to deliver better dental care and pharmacare, which gives Canadians access to affordable medications.

— With files from Catherine Morrison, David Baxter, Kyle Duggan and Sarah Ritchie in Ottawa, Alessia Passafiume and Maura Forrest in Montreal and Pierre St-Arnaud in Trois-Rivières, Que.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2025.

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