[Acajack]

We'd be a great sewer and pavement and flu shot country without the CBC/Radio-Canada, but is that really what we want?

To me at least, a country is more than just bricks, mortar, rocks, trees and very basic public services. I agree there needs to be a balance and some needs are more critical than others, but geez...

OTOH there needs to be some major retooling of some of the CBC's services - on that I won't disagree. CBC English TV in particular has consistently failed for decades in providing fictional (comedy, drama) and variety programming that the country's anglophone population actually wants to watch.

BTW you could have a revolution complete with guillotines and such here in Quebec if you dared touch any of Radio-Canada's services. And this includes the mainstream generalist TV network.