Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[ArmyRick]

Thanks. I’ll reserve judgment til I can actually read the source material.

If it is just an idea, nothing can happen until the fall anyways.

 

[ArmyRick]

Thanks. I’ll reserve judgment til I can actually read the source material.

NOT concrete evidence by a long shot. This is where I first heard the rumour. I will keep snooping until I find someone from the LPC actually saying it.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

NOT concrete evidence by a long shot. This is where I first heard the rumour. I will keep snooping until I find someone from the LPC actually saying it.

Hmm.

As this references a memo dated 31 Mar 26 It would have been useful to also read the slides from other sources, including the official policy issued 6 weeks ago on 21 May:

Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants - Democratic Institutions - Canada.ca

The Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants gives federal public servants a basic understanding of the threat of disinformation to Canada’s democracy and offers guidance on how to identify, build public resilience to, and counter disinformation.

www.canada.ca

 

[ArmyRick]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

Glass half full: we should be able to up the bar for event fashion

 

[GR66]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

Nowadays it seems like headlines are often designed to generate outrage but often when you look more deeply into a story you'll find there is more to it than just the rage-bait.

Yes, Canada is now eligible to take part in the Euro-Vision contest. However, we didn't "spend $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing". We paid $150 million for the CBC to become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The EBU is an alliance of public service media, with 115 member organizations across 57 countries, in addition to 28 associates.

CBC’s promotion to EBU full member means the public broadcaster can now access “networks for investigative journalism, verification, digital news and data, as well as the Eurovision News Exchange and Euroradio Music Exchange services,” a news release from CBC and the EBU says.

The exchange also allows members to share live and edited news coverage.

And yes, as a member of the EBU Canada can now also choose to take part in the Euro-Vision contest if we choose.

Feel free to argue whether the benefits of being a member of the EBU is worth the investment or not, but it's false to say that we're just paying to take part in a song contest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-eurovision-eligible-2026-9.7248844

 

[ArmyRick]

We paid $150 million for the CBC to become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Considering I want the CBC fully defunded and all other media subsidies, damn right. We need to get our priorities straight, this ain't one of them. At all.

Buying Submarines? Good

Funding new projects such as mining, oil and other resources? Good

Fixing infrastructure? Good.

Becoming a full member of the "European Broadcasting Union"? Nope. Not cool.

No hungry person ever woke up and said "Man, if we only we part of the European Broadcasting Union, would that help us out" or a homeless person saying "Its ok I can't even think of buying or renting a home, at least we are part of the European Broadcasting Union"

 

[PPCLI Guy]

This is a likely part of a concerted effort to reorient not just financially but culturally away from the US. That strikes me as a good thing.

 

[ArmyRick]

This is a likely part of a concerted effort to reorient not just financially but culturally away from the US. That strikes me as a good thing.

But not a $150 million thing. Pick your battles. There is a Canadian culture and no, the CBC doesn't define it. I am a non-American and proud of it but I sure as fuck ain't European either.

 

[captloadie]

No hungry person ever woke up and said "Man, if we only we part of the European Broadcasting Union, would that help us out" or a homeless person saying "Its ok I can't even think of buying or renting a home, at least we are part of the European Broadcasting Union"

Maybe if you are a starving Canadian artist you see this as the Gov't listening to your needs. We don't often give creative minds enough credit for their contributions to society overall.

 

[Good2Golf]

Maybe if you are a starving Canadian artist you see this as the Gov't listening to your needs. We don't often give creative minds enough credit for their contributions to society overall.

Some would say that artists don’t put food on the table.

 

[Altair]

Bread and circuses.

People need to read up on their history.