Which ' half ', exactly ? Bernier ' s campaign press release I ' m sorry , ' editorial ' that happily coincides with the National Post ' s corporate interests doesn ' t make it clear . Nice to see you engage in conspiracy theories , moving on . He lists things that cross his cultural nono list game shows , cooking shows , sports , ' bad copies of American popular shows ', music streaming , and an opinion vertical on its website . Do these things cost ' half ' of the CBC ' s budget ? Hard to say , you surely don ' t know though . I ' m basing this off Bernier saying that the CBC can stop doing 34 of what it ' s currently doing . Ergo , it ' s a fair estimation that the CBC will require less funding , duh . Again though , it ' s bizarre that you so adamantly defend taxpayer funded cooking shows . Goes to show you how far gone some ppl ' s entitlements are eh ? Bernier is far from ' handsoff ' in this , he ' s personally vetting what counts as ' reflecting the needs and circumstances of our language communities ' suitable for distribution on a public system . Umm . again with the wild partisan assumption , is a pattern emerging here ? I think soo ! ! Realistically , Bernier is simply forcing the CBC to focus on only what it can provide that other broadcaster ' s can ' t . That ' s not personally vetting , but nice try . Again , we see that Bernier ' s handsoff approach will work quite well here . But back to the budget . Sure there ' s this unspecified , hypervague ' focusing ' of the CBC which may or may not result in savings Umm . don ' t know how to break this to you , but Bernier is actually quite specific that the CBC will not be doing 34 of what it is doing when he becomes Prime Minister . So it doesn ' t take a genius to see that there is going to some savings as a result of cancelled cooking shows , etc . Realistically , the CBC should be okay with 34 of its current budget under such a scenario . So really , the CBC will actually have an increased budget for the programs that will continue . That ' s great news ! There , the CBC is no longer underfunded , it ' s just overprogrammed right now . So what percentage of PBS ' s funding comes from private donations ? 10 %. CBC ' s revenue in 2016 is forecast to be $ 1 . 55 billion including the government subsidy , of which Bernier now wants $ 350 million raised through donations . Bernier wants the CBC to raise double the percentage of its current revenue from donations as compared to PBS . Umm . I don ' t know where you went to school , but that ' s terrible math . Considering that the CBC will only be doing 34 of what it is currently doing , the CBC will realistically only need a revenue of 387 . 5 million to maintain the programs that survive . Considering the public subsidy is now , what 1 . 15 Billion ? Yeah . hah , I think we ' re good here . Bernier can easily cut some of that public subsidy AND the CBC doesn ' t need to worry too much about raising money from sponsorships at the beginning . There , don ' t we all just love maths ? So yeah . pretty much everything you said is wrong and hyperpartisan . Like you said , we don ' t need any more unquestioninglyloyal cheerleaders , so you should consider starting to reason with logic instead of emotion and misguided loyalty to party brand . But I get the feeling that it ' s impossible to change your mind because you ' re already committed regardless of reasoning . C ' est la vie , atleast there ' s hope for other people who are actually capable of critical thinking