The president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada defended the public broadcaster and its independence Thursday from a fresh barrage of pointed Conservative questions about its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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    “I’m curious as to how the CBC can then claim to be independent if they can’t survive without government dollars,” Thomas said.

    Conservative MP can’t understand that some people can’t be bought.

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      Uhm… These people are morons…

      Gov’t funded doesn’t mean Liberal (party) funded… The CBC gets funding when conservatives are in power as well…

      The fact that conservatives think that funding = favourable coverage says more about them than anything else