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‘Tone and tenor’ of calls to defund CBC different this time around, say media experts, as Conservatives hammer away at public broadcaster

President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada Catherine Tait recently told MPs in committee that over the last 30 years, the network 'has not had a real increase in its budget, real dollars aside. We are flat.'

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