Can only remove , sadly . <| sep |> Was a rat bastard involved this time too ? <| sep |> No it isn ' t . As the CBC will no longer be involved in more than half of what it does , the remaining parts and programs will actually see a budget increase ! 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 . 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 ? In regards to what qualifies as Canadian culture , the CBC is doing a decent enough job at that , I imagine it ' ll just be a handsoff approach that Bernier is well known for . A handsoff approach , okay . Except , you know , no online music . Canadians can have their culture , but only if it comes via radio waves internet data packets are offlimits . Game shows and cooking shows , no they ' re not culture either . Guess Bernier wasn ' t a fan of Wok with Yan . Maybe a director has an idea for a new show . That ' s Canadian culture , right ? Wait , did the Americans do something similar at some point in the past ? Well , can ' t have that , it might be construed as a ' bad copy ' of an American show . Sports ? No , there ' s no cultural component to sports . Offlimits . 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 . But back to the budget . Sure there ' s this unspecified , hypervague ' focusing ' of the CBC which may or may not result in savings but there ' s also increased costs from his equallyvague ' local ' focus from coast to coast to coast . Not a word about a dime saved , and plenty of new costs to go along with it . On top of that , let ' s slash $ 350 million out of the CBC ' s coffers and ask them to adopt the worst public broadcasting funding model in its stead . So what percentage of PBS ' s funding comes from private donations ? p r o dfilerpublicPBSAboutFiles % 20 and % 20 ThumbnailsFinances 2015 % 20 PBS % 20 Financial % 20 Report . pdf . CBC ' s revenue in 2016 is forecast to be $ 1 . 55 billion canada . casiteannualreports 20152016 documentscbcradiocanada 20152016 annualreport . pdf 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 . In 1995 the number of public television donors in the United States was 5 . 03 million . Over the next fifteen years the number of donors dropped every single year except one cacheqnQYOrxBlkJcurrent . o r g f i l e s archivesitefundingfunding 1202 urgency . htmlcd 3 hlenctclnkglca , for a total drop of 37 % to 3 . 2 million . That ' s pretty much 1 % of the US population . If we ' re to import the PBS model here , that means ~ 350 , 000 people are going to have to make up whatever businesses don ' t contribute , up to $ 1 , 000 per person . But hey , let ' s say it ' s half that . At $ 500 per person , that ' s 400 % what the average person gave PBS in 2010 . TLDR Dubious assertions of cost savings , brand new costs on top of that , demanding 4 x 8 x as much in donations relative to PBS from Canadians all just to tread water . Bernier ' s claim of ' improving ' the CBC with his plan is dishonest .