Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

=== Financing ===
For the fiscal year 2006, the CBC received a total of $1.53&nbsp;billion from all revenue sources, including government funding via taxpayers, subscription fees, advertising revenue, and other revenue (e.g., real estate). Expenditures for the year included $616&nbsp;million for English television, $402&nbsp;million for French television, $126&nbsp;million for specialty channels, a total of $348&nbsp;million for radio services in both languages, $88&nbsp;million for management and technical costs, and $124&nbsp;million for "[[amortization (business)|amortization]] of property and equipment". Some of this spending was derived from amortization of funding from previous years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/annualreports/2005-2006/pdf/financials-e.pdf |title=CBC Annual Report 2005-2006 |access-date=February 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009124451/http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/annualreports/2005-2006/pdf/financials-e.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2009 }}</ref>

Among its revenue sources for the [[Canadian federal budget, 2005|year ending March 31, 2006]], the CBC received $946&nbsp;million in its annual funding from the federal government, as well as $60&nbsp;million in "one-time" supplementary funding for programming. However, this supplementary funding has been repeated annually for a number of years. This combined total is just over a billion dollars annually and is a source of heated debate. To supplement this funding, the CBC's television networks and websites sell advertising, while cable/satellite-only services such as CBC News Network additionally collect subscriber fees, in line with their privately owned counterparts. The CBC's radio services do not sell advertising except when required by law (for example, to political parties during federal elections).

CBC's funding differs from that of the public broadcasters of many European nations, which collect a [[television licence|licence fee]], or those in the United States, such as [[PBS]] and [[NPR]], which receive some public funding but rely to a large extent on voluntary contributions from individual viewers and listeners. A [[Nanos Research]] poll from August 2014 conducted for Asper Media (''[[National Post]]'', ''[[Financial Post]]'') showed 41% of Canadians wanted funding increased, 46% wanted it maintained at current levels, and only 10% wanted to see it cut.<ref>{{cite web | last = Csanady | first = Ashley | title = Majority of Conservative voters like the CBC: poll | website = Canada.com | date = September 5, 2014 | url = http://o.canada.com/news/politics-and-the-nation/majority-of-conservative-voters-like-the-cbc-poll | access-date = May 13, 2015 | archive-date = March 9, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150309042123/http://o.canada.com/news/politics-and-the-nation/majority-of-conservative-voters-like-the-cbc-poll | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The network's defenders note that the CBC's mandate differs from private media's, particularly in its focus on Canadian content; that much of the public funding actually goes to the radio networks; and that the CBC is responsible for the full cost of most of its prime-time programming, while private networks can fill up most of their prime-time schedules with American series acquired for a fraction of their production cost. CBC supporters also point out that additional, long-term funding is required to provide better Canadian dramas and improved local programming to attract and sustain a strong viewership.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}

According to the [[Canadian Media Guild]], the $115-million deficit reduction action plan cuts to CBC which started with the 2012 budget and were fully realized in 2014, amounted to "one of the biggest layoffs of content creators and journalists in Canadian history". The 2014 cuts combined with earlier ones totalled "3,600 jobs lost at CBC since 2008. The CMG asked the federal government to reverse the cuts<ref name="CMG_2014">{{cite web | url=http://www.cmg.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ENG-FINAL-DOCUMENT-JULY-2014-Funding-an-Independent-CBC-CMG-Proposals.pdf | title=CBC/Radio-Canada needs more funding and true independence: CMG proposals | work=Canadian Media Guild | date=July 2014 | access-date=14 October 2015 | pages=11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212175836/http://www.cmg.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ENG-FINAL-DOCUMENT-JULY-2014-Funding-an-Independent-CBC-CMG-Proposals.pdf | archive-date=December 12, 2014 | url-status=live }}</ref> and to repeal Clause 17 of omnibus budget bill C-60 "to remove government's interference in CBC's day-to-day operations".<ref name="CMG_2014" />

In September 2015, the Canadian Media Guild announced that the CBC planned to sell all of its properties across Canada to gain a temporary increase in available funds. Media relations manager Alexandra Fortier denied this and stated that the corporation planned to sell only half of its assets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/22/cbc-to-sell-all-property-across-canada.html|title=CBC property sell-off questioned by union|first=Michael|last=Robinson|work=Toronto Star|date=September 22, 2015|access-date=September 30, 2015|archive-date=September 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927215905/http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/22/cbc-to-sell-all-property-across-canada.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In September 2015, [[Hubert Lacroix]], then-president of CBC/Radio-Canada, spoke at the international public broadcasters' conference in [[Munich|Munich, Germany]]. He claimed for the first time that public broadcasters were "at risk of extinction".<ref name="huffingtonpost_2015">{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/18/cbc-hubert-lacroix-public-broadcasting_n_8159668.html | title=CBC President Hubert Lacroix: Public Broadcasters 'Risk Being Boiled To Death' | work=The Huffington Post Canada | date=September 18, 2015 | access-date=October 14, 2015 | author=Tencer, Daniel | archive-date=October 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022065500/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/18/cbc-hubert-lacroix-public-broadcasting_n_8159668.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The Canadian Media Guild responded that Lacroix had "made a career of shredding" the CBC by cutting one quarter of its staff—approximately 2,000 jobs since 2010 under Lacroix's tenure. More than 600 jobs were cut in 2014 in order "to plug a $130-million budget shortfall".<ref name="huffingtonpost_2015" /> Isabelle Montpetit, president of Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC), observed that Lacroix was hand-picked by Stephen Harper for the job as president of the CBC.<ref name="huffingtonpost_2015" /> For the fiscal year 2015, the CBC received $1.036&nbsp;billion from government funding and took 5% funding cuts from the previous year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/site/annual-reports/2014-2015/|title=CBC/Radio-Canada Annual Report 2014-2015|access-date=March 25, 2016|archive-date=April 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406112824/http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/site/annual-reports/2014-2015/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2015, the Liberal Party was returned to power. As part of its election platform, it promised to restore the $115&nbsp;million of funding to the CBC that was cut by the Harper Government, over three years, and add $35&nbsp;million, for a total extra funding of $150&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last=Szklarski |first=Cassandra |date=December 7, 2015 |title=A new era for CBC, hopefully: Things could finally start looking up for the beleaguered public broadcaster in 2016 |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-new-era-for-cbc-hopefully-things-could-finally-start-looking-up-for-the-beleaguered-public-broadcaster-in-2016 |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |access-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref>

On November 28, 2016, the CBC issued a request for $400&nbsp;million in additional funding, which it planned to use towards removing advertising from its television services, production and acquisition of Canadian content, and "additional funding of new investments to face consumer and technology disruption". The broadcaster argued that it had operated "[under] a business model and cultural policy framework that is profoundly broken", while other countries "[reaped] the benefits of strong, stable, well-funded public broadcasters".<ref>{{cite web|title=CBC/Radio Canada asks for $400M in increased government funding to go ad-free|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-radio-canada-ad-free-proposal-1.3871077|publisher=CBC News|access-date=November 29, 2016|archive-date=November 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129081639/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-radio-canada-ad-free-proposal-1.3871077|url-status=live}}</ref>

CBC has received $1.2 billion annually from the federal government since fiscal 2018. Government funding increased to almost $1.4 billion for 2020-2021 to cover 'retroactive salary inflation' and potential issues arising from the pandemic. It returned to $1.2 billion the following year.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020-2021 Annual Report |url=https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/finances/annual-reports/ar-2020-2021/highlights/financial-highlights |website=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322225045/https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/finances/annual-reports/ar-2020-2021/highlights/financial-highlights |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |url-status=live |access-date=March 22, 2023 }}</ref>