EDMONTON — Over the holidays, the federal government informed us that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is in for a “redefinition” of its purpose and mandate. Don’t worry, CBC-lovers: it’s clear enough that there’s no immediate threat of change. The heritage minister, in promising to consult Canadians on why we might need such a thing as a CBC, managed to confirm that she likes it just the way it is. And sometimes we feel the same way. Only an abundantly resourced public broadcaster with tendrils in every community could produce anything like CBC News’s panoramic vision of an overlooked national problem with abandoned shopping carts.
