Saving the CBC

As some of my fellow Canadians will be aware, our national public broadcasting channel, the CBC, is facing a 171$ million budget deficit and is being forced to lay off 800 employees. Additionally, a number of local television and radio stations are going to be scaled back some of the CBC's land and office assets will be sold off. For its part, the CBC has proposed a bridge loan that would amount to about 6$ dollars per Canadian and go a long way to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs and programing. There is a petition circulating related to this issue and it will be delivered to Prime Minister Harper once Parliament returns to session. The petition has already collected more than 125,000 signatures but every contribution counts.

Here is the link to the petition:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_cbc/