Canada’s public broadcaster sold to American wrestler

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, better known as the CBC, is a major player in Canadian television, radio and internet news and entertainment. As a Crown Corporation, it is dependent on government funding to subsidize its programming (to supplement advertising revenues on television and web). However, the network has been consistently critical of the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Now that the Conservatives have won a majority of seats in Parliament, it appears that the CBC will be the target of what some see as vindictive budget cuts.

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is a non-partisan group trying to cement public support for the CBC against a possible worst-case scenario, which would be the outright sale of the network to private (possibly foreign) hands. The campaign may seem a little irrelevant to non-Canadians, but the satirical videos promoting it are an interesting and entertaining look into the uniquely Canadian culture of good-natured anti- Americanism:

See another video after the break.

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