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It’s not really about the CBC for Conservatives

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The fight over the CBC has a settled quality to it: Conservative voters barely trust the public broadcaster, while Liberal voters overwhelmingly do. “Defund the CBC” has become a reliable applause line in Conservative politics. It’s tempting to treat this as a story about one broadcaster—its coverage, its hosts, its corrections. But step back from the CBC and a bigger, more uncomfortable picture comes into focus. The CBC is not the disease. It’s the thermometer.

Start with the trust numbers on the CBC itself. Across two decades of survey data, the gap between how much Liberals and Conservatives trust the public broadcaster is large—and, importantly, it is not new. If anything, it was widest around 2015 and has narrowed slightly since. Whatever is driving Conservative distrust of the CBC, it is not some fresh scandal but something more structural.

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