CBC Should Be Mandated to Broadcast Free Government Messages During Crises, Privy Council Memo Suggests

CBC Should Be Mandated to Broadcast Free Government Messages During Crises, Privy Council Memo Suggests
The CBC News logo is projected onto a screen during the CBC's annual upfront presentation at The Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto on May 29, 2019. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press
Marnie Cathcart
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A government memo suggested that CBC News should be forced to provide free advertising to the government during a “national crisis.”

“In the past, services such as producing and broadcasting public service announcements in times of national crisis were covered under previous agreements with CBC/Radio-Canada,” said the memo, entitled “The Way Forward: Lessons Learned: Communications and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” covered by Blacklock’s Reporter on June 5.