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| _Patrick_ Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male
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 Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 12:00 pm Post subject: Senator Marjory LeBreton on CBC lockout - Great stuff! |
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Senator wants CBC lockout to linger
The Canadian Press
Sunday, September 11, 2005
OTTAWA -- A high-profile Tory senator says she hopes thousands of CBC workers remain locked out for months because so they won't be covering the next federal election.
Marjory LeBreton -- a former top aide to Brian Mulroney who still occasionally acts as a spokeswoman for the ex-prime minister -- said the CBC is biased in favour of the Liberals and New Democrats.
In a letter to an Ottawa newspaper, she cited poll numbers that suggested NDP and Liberal supporters missed CBC coverage the most.
"The lockout has deprived them of their biggest cheerleaders on the national scene," LeBreton wrote in a letter published in the Sept. 12 edition of the Hill Times newspaper.
"As far as I am concerned, I hope it takes months to settle the CBC lockout.
"The thought of going through a national election campaign inconveniencing those Liberal and NDP supporters who rely on the CBC is truly something to look forward to."
About 5,500 workers at the public broadcaster -- including journalists, technicians and other staff -- have been locked out from their jobs for almost a month.
LeBreton, 65, cited a recent Decima survey as proof the CBC was biased.
In the August poll of 1,000 Canadians, 10 per cent of respondents called the labour dispute "a major inconvenience" while 27 per cent called it "a minor inconvenience." Sixty-one per cent reported no impact at all.
The poll also indicated that older people, and NDP and Liberal supporters missed the public broadcaster the most. LeBreton said Canadians can get their news elsewhere in the CBC's absence.
A federal election campaign is expected around January. Prime Minister Paul Martin has promised to call a vote 30 days after the final report on the sponsorship scandal is released.
CBC employees were locked out on Aug. 15 during a dispute over work conditions.
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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A red Tory making sense. Well, I've never thought I would see the day. 
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"Liberals watch more tv and eat more bon bons too. They have more time for these activities between their protests. Conservatives are busy working to pay taxes so liberals can enjoy that kind of life." -texasredtop |
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| Heartofsong83 Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Total posts: 13384 Location: Up in the woods... Age: 26 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Young Tory wrote: | | A red Tory making sense. Well, I've never thought I would see the day. |
Maybe she's a fiscal Red Tory, but a strong social conservative? |
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Roy Wilson
Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Total posts: 27708 Location: Peterborough Age: 61 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Again I ask "whats a CBC? 
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Young Tory
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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There's no such thing as a fiscal red Tory.  
There is a fiscal conservative,
social conservative or both fiscal and a social conservative.
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Terry Roberts
Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Total posts: 98 Location: Toronto Age: 41 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Senator Marjory LeBreton has always been a good warrior against the Liberal party. To denigrate her contributions serves no purpose, she was a strong female voice AGAINST the libs when that was an extreme rarity in Canada.
After reading this in Kate Taylor's column in the Globe today maybe we can get some bipartisan support here. Yeah right.
| Quote: | The senator is, of course, a close associate of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, a man who once said he got worse press than Adolf Hitler. He was preceded by Joe Clark, a Conservative prime minister whose entourage also detested the CBC and accused it of purposefully making their guy look dumb, and he was followed by Jean Chrétien, a Liberal prime minister whose regime conducted a witch hunt against CBC television reporter Terry Milewski because it disliked news coverage of protests at the APEC meeting in Vancouver.
Chrétien was also convinced that the French service of the CBC, Radio-Canada, was run by separatists. |
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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She was on Raif Mair 600 Am this morning. She said the elitists have a controlling grip on the media in Canada and any journalist who does not print what they want is fired. She also said that a public debate should be held on whether Canadians should be financing the CBC. Basically, she thinks the Canadian system is a disgraceful elitist scam. Finally, a senator I agree with.  |
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| Kamal Joined: 22 May 2005 Total posts: 25 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 09/ 14/ 05 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| What has been interesting is the collective yawn from most Canadians on this issue , so who knows how long the lockout will last, perhaps till after the election , possibly it could , the union does not seem to have much support. |
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Terry Roberts
Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Total posts: 98 Location: Toronto Age: 41 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 12:00 am Post subject: |
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The right needs to put together a decent current affairs show.
Wouldn't the Coors foundation or a few thinktanks fund that?
A Meet The Press, or Fox News Sunday style venture.
My one idea to kick ass would be a conservative Canadian news humour show similar to the Daily Show. If it was funny and cheap it could get some late night airtime.
You can only bore the public with straight edge, but you can capture their souls with humour. |
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| Quote: | The right needs to put together a decent current affairs show.
Wouldn't the Coors foundation or a few thinktanks fund that?
A Meet The Press, or Fox News Sunday style venture.
My one idea to kick ass would be a conservative Canadian news humour show similar to the Daily Show. If it was funny and cheap it could get some late night airtime.
You can only bore the public with straight edge, but you can capture their souls with humour. |
Good luck getting it broadcasted on an elitist controlled Canadian Station. A relative of mine was an editorial cartoonist that got blacklisted by the elitists in Canada yet his work was published in all the major newspapers and magazines in the U.S.A. This country is a commie sh*thole. |
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Terry Roberts
Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Total posts: 98 Location: Toronto Age: 41 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I think Global is pretty open now, CTV isn't chopped liver. I think both would love to counter program CBC's political socialist festival of This Hour Has 22 boring Minutes and Rick Mercer's Bash an American shows. |
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| The Masked Tory Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Total posts: 592 Location: The Great Right Wilderness Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Terry Roberts wrote: | | I think Global is pretty open now, CTV isn't chopped liver. I think both would love to counter program CBC's political socialist festival of This Hour Has 22 boring Minutes and Rick Mercer's Bash an American shows. |
Global is owned by the family that just happens to be one of the largest contributors to the Liberal Party of Canada in the last 50 years. How is that 'open'?? |
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hoarydragon
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Total posts: 4839 Location: Windsor Age: 55 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Terry Roberts wrote: | | I think Global is pretty open now, CTV isn't chopped liver. I think both would love to counter program CBC's political socialist festival of This Hour Has 22 boring Minutes and Rick Mercer's Bash an American shows. |
CTV SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Heartofsong83 Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Total posts: 13384 Location: Up in the woods... Age: 26 Gender: Male
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| The Masked Tory wrote: | | Terry Roberts wrote: | | I think Global is pretty open now, CTV isn't chopped liver. I think both would love to counter program CBC's political socialist festival of This Hour Has 22 boring Minutes and Rick Mercer's Bash an American shows. |
Global is owned by the family that just happens to be one of the largest contributors to the Liberal Party of Canada in the last 50 years. How is that 'open'?? |
When it comes to a national perspective, all TV network news sucks. I only watch them for local news. |
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| gimbol Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Total posts: 3948
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| Posted: 09/ 15/ 05 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know what the elitists are bitching about?
CBC is still on the air, its not like they don't broadcast even with the lockout.
Perhaps thats what they fear most. Even without their presence, it still goes to air.
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