Broadcasting

 Any threat to a Canadian-wide broadcasting system worries me. We are a broad country that stretches, as few others mostly East and West. The sort of circular mode as in the US is not ours. Things that go to and fro are not in a dizzy circular fashion. And while I complain about the media, I would be devastated if I could not to listen to my morning news from one end of the country to the other, while abluting daily. Radio doesn't need headsets of any kind and you are doing tasks that require full body attention without dangling wires or things stuck in your ears. Radio, like open air, is the freest kind of listening device. Also a country-wide system, paid for by the government: us, so that we don't have to tolerate advertising rattling in our ears or interrupting our thoughts as we listen, makes it perfect national communication. If one must doddle the texting thumb or tap out an email in response to what we hear, that, too, can be done. Of most concern is that we, in this country,  depend on the reliability of our broadcasting system to protect us as well as join us in its  unifying force. We need an objective source of information and while we often complain about "the media", we love our CBC. Unlike other countries, our nation wide system  is widely respected and always considered, reliable. Without our national broadcasting system, what would we do for a stable, uninterrupted twenty-four hour source of information, or warnings of possible weather or other dangers or polling of Canadian thought  sweeping right across our country from East to West to North. Other countries I can think of, are dial confusing as your scour through, trying to find reliable access to a radio station that tells it like it is without silly ads blasting at you and annoying you. Knowing the weather in all parts of the country, events from shore to shore to shore and the thinking that sweeps from all our coasts making us Canadians sharing each others problems and achievements  and being able to comment on them knowing that our input won't be interfered with as in a commercial venue we must not allow it to leave.  Never let our cross country radio disappear because if it does, part of our Canadian unity will also.