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Episode #175: Hub Roundtable: How to defund the CBC
Season 1, Ep. 175
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Hub Dialogues (part of The Hub, Canada’s daily information source for public policy – https://www.thehub.ca) are in-depth conversations about big ideas from the worlds of business, economics, geopolitics, public policy, and technology.
The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.
This week’s Hub Dialogue roundtable discusses Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's plan to defund the CBC and what it might look like when the idea becomes public policy. We also talk about new proposals to tighten mortgage lending and what this tells us about the Canadian obsession with real estate.
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