Heritage minister says CBC is needed with Elon Musk’s ‘meddling’ in Canadian politics

Elon Musk’s “meddling” in politics and recent changes at Meta to eliminate fact-checking make Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s promise to defund the CBC even more consequential, said Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge.She said the issue isn’t about left or right-wing politics, or “even if you like the CBC or not.”“It’s about talking about killing one of the most important sources of information for Canadians at a time where we know that the information system is controlled by foreign billionaires,” St-Onge said in an interview. “And to me, it’s very preoccupying to see that [Poilievre] doesn’t understand that.”