People have made the point that the CBC especially in recent years as it tries to strive more towards profit has been cannibalising the revenues of forprofit enterprises in a way forprofit enterprises can ' t compete with because of taxpayer backing . Note the new CBC comedy site which was clearly started as a result of The beaverton . The CBC as an organisation sees successful private enterprises , directly competes with them , and crushes them with more resources . The CBC also does stuff like outbid everybody for olympic coverage . I don ' t argue the solution is , as Kellie Leitch says to dismantle the CBC , I believe even if you think the CBC should be scaled down that ' s a huge knee jerk reaction , Berniers proposal is more r e a s o n a blebernierconservativecbc 1 . 3864218 . I think the solution is to not treat the CBC as a forprofit enterprise and instead push the idea that the CBC should be in the business of more innovative and less profitable activities . The entire point of the CBC in the first place was not to make a dollar and a cent , but to give coverage to rural areas because private companies could not be motivated to cover an area as big as Canada back in the day .