By Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
A majority of Canadian taxpayers support defunding the Canadian Broadcasting Centre entirely or in part.
According to a poll commissioned by True North and conducted by One Persuasion, 61.1% of Canadians support defunding the CBC in some capacity.
When it comes to completely cutting off the CBC from taxpayer funds, 29.2% of Canadians supported the idea. Meanwhile, 31.9% of Canadians want to see “some parts of the CBC, like English language television or CBC News” defunded while the rest is maintained.
As for supporters of CBC funding, less than four in ten taxpaying Canadians, 38.9%, want to continue to fully fund the public broadcaster.
The poll was commissioned by the True North Centre for Public Policy and was conducted by One Persuasion Inc. An online panel of 1,005 Canadians was polled between August 2-7, 2024. The results were balanced and weighted to match the demographics of Canada. While an online panel does not have a margin of error, an equivalent poll of this size has a margin of error of 3.1% nineteen times out of twenty.
Younger Canadians aged 18 to 34 were the most likely to want to partially defund the public broadcaster, with over half supporting cuts prioritizing core parts such as English TV and CBC News.