A new poll commissioned by a public relations firm found that 45 percent of Canadians want to shut down the public broadcaster CBC, with a similar number also considering its content to be propaganda.
Spark Advocacy published on April 21 the findings from a nationwide online survey held this week with field work done by pollster Abacus Data.
“As Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre ratchets up his campaign to ‘defund the CBC’, many observers are tempted to believe that he is alienating a huge swath of Canadians. Not necessarily,” wrote Spark’s Bruce Anderson.
He added this doesn’t mean Poilievre has a winning strategy but he says the survey “should put to rest the notion that he is speaking to a tiny sentiment of the most rabid parts of the right wing.”…