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Tom

100,000 to Save the CBC!

Dear friends across Canada,




Our call to save the CBC from drastic budget cuts will be delivered to
Parliament tomorrow - let's urgently tell friends and blow past our 100,000
signature goal!


Sign the petition!





In just 6 days, almost 100,000 of us have come together and signed the petition
to Save the CBC and Radio Canada from deeply damaging budget cuts - one of the
largest online petitions in Canadian history!



Tomorrow, MPs from each opposition party have agreed to jointly receive our
petition and deliver it in Parliament to the government. While they do, planes
will fly over Parliament Hill trailing giant banners
that deliver our message and the number of signatures on the petition.
We're already getting media calls, and on Saturday we'll be
distributing thousands of Save the CBC buttons at the high profile
Genie Awards.



Our message is getting out, but it's only as powerful as the number of people
that sign it -- click below to sign if you haven't and let's forward this email
to as many friends as possible - let's blow past our 100,000 goal by tomorrow!



http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_cbc/



The CBC is vital for Canadian art, culture and identity. These
cuts have been forced on it for no good reason - the CBC has asked the
government for sensible bridge financing - borrowing against their
funding next year to spread the cuts out and make sure vital assets
aren't damaged this year. The government has refused because, as we
know from numerous past statements from Prime Minister Harper, they
have an ideological agenda of opposition to a public broadcaster.
They'd like to see the CBC privatized and sold off. With the CBC
already forced to get half of its revenue from advertizing (compelling
it to carry expensive American TV shows) that process is well underway.
Even while the CBC survives in name, it's public character and mission are under
attack.



With enough of a public outcry, we can reverse the government's decision. But
even if we don't, a powerful statement is being made, to this government and
future ones, that Canadians want the CBC and Radio Canada to survive
as public service broadcasters. If enough of us act together now,
they'll think twice the next time they look to undermine the CBC, and
together we'll form a voice that can empower our national broadcasters
to fully return to their precious public service mission.



http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_cbc/