Taxpayers should pay more for CBC: Globe columnist

The Globe's  columnist Simon Houpt argues that the CBC needs more and not less funding and that it should get out of commercials altogether.

He writes:
"But one issue proved a lightning rod (at the recent CRTC hearings): the proposal to allow advertising on its Radio 2 service. And if the complaints about it were correct, the complainants’ solution – to keep Radio 2 ad-free – didn’t go far enough.
"The CBC needs to ban ads entirely from all of its airwaves.
"Why? First, some background. Fans of CBC abhor the idea of ads on radio. At a press event held by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting a few days before the hearing, actors Gordon Pinsent and Eric Peterson, and the bestselling author Vincent Lam, argued passionately for the need for a commercial-free space."
The column