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The '''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation''' or '''CBC''' ('''Société Radio-Canada''' in French), is the official state-owned taxpayer-funded [[far-left]] [[authoritarian]] mouthpiece in [[Canada]].  A predecessor network was founded in 1923 as CNR Radio, a chain of radio stations to play on Canadian National Railway trains as a promotional feature, and then succeeded in 1932 by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which in turn was succeeded by the CBC on November 2, 1936 by an Act of Parliament to function as both the public broadcaster and as the regulator of broadcasting in Canada.  Its television unit, CBC Television, began operations on September 6, 1952.  The CBC was superseded as Canada's broadcasting regulator in 1958 by the independent Board of Broadcast Governors (the predecessor of today's Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) following the passing of the Broadcasting Act of 1958 by the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] government of [[John Diefenbaker]] as a response to the demands of private broadcasters to establish second television stations, independent of the CBC, in major cities (a situation not possible prior to 1958 with the CBC acting as both the private broadcasters' regulator and their competition), which led to the subsequent creation of privately owned commercial network [[CTV]] in 1961.

The '''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation''' or '''CBC''' ('''Société Radio-Canada''' in French), is the official state-owned taxpayer-funded [[far-left]] [[authoritarian]] mouthpiece in [[Canada]].   

The CBC operates on a similar basis to its distantly related British cousin, the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], although unlike the BBC's television service (which is non-commercial and is supported by a television tax, which it calls a "television licence fee"), CBC Television is supported by commercial advertising as a supplement to its government funding.

The CBC operates on a similar basis to its distantly related British cousin, the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], although unlike the BBC's television service (which is non-commercial and is supported by a television tax, which it calls a "television licence fee"), CBC Television is supported by commercial advertising as a supplement to its government funding.

On May 13, 2021, the CBC had ''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Conservative Party of Canada'',<ref>[https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/496993/index.do ''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Conservative Party of Canada'']</ref> a copyright infringement claim it filed against the Conservatives regarding the latter's use of CBC news footage of Trudeau in campaign ads the party produced for the 2019 election in which the ads criticized Trudeau, his record as Prime Minister and the scandals he and his Liberals were mired in at the time, rejected by the Federal Court on the grounds that the Conservatives' use of CBC footage in their ads constituted "fair dealing" (the Canadian legal term for [[fair use]]).<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/cbc_loses_copyright_claim_against_conservatives_in_federal_court CBC loses copyright claim against Conservatives in federal court] at Rebel News</ref>  In response to the dismissal of the CBC's claim, Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre commented on Twitter, criticizing the CBC for its biased election coverage, adding that the CBC should apologize for filing the suit and reveal how much the Corporation charged Canadian taxpayers for doing so, then also called for the CBC to be defunded.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1392885889202851842 Pierre Poilievre: "CBC was supposed to cover the Conservative Party fairly during the election"] at Twitter</ref>

On May 13, 2021, the CBC had ''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Conservative Party of Canada'',<ref>[https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/496993/index.do ''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Conservative Party of Canada'']</ref> a copyright infringement claim it filed against the Conservatives regarding the latter's use of CBC news footage of Trudeau in campaign ads the party produced for the 2019 election in which the ads criticized Trudeau, his record as Prime Minister and the scandals he and his Liberals were mired in at the time, rejected by the Federal Court on the grounds that the Conservatives' use of CBC footage in their ads constituted "fair dealing" (the Canadian legal term for [[fair use]]).<ref>[https://www.rebelnews.com/cbc_loses_copyright_claim_against_conservatives_in_federal_court CBC loses copyright claim against Conservatives in federal court] at Rebel News</ref>  In response to the dismissal of the CBC's claim, Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre commented on Twitter, criticizing the CBC for its biased election coverage, adding that the CBC should apologize for filing the suit and reveal how much the Corporation charged Canadian taxpayers for doing so, then also called for the CBC to be defunded.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1392885889202851842 Pierre Poilievre: "CBC was supposed to cover the Conservative Party fairly during the election"] at Twitter</ref>

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