Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party's leader, has proposed defunding the CBC, while maintaining its French-language programming, but this would require amending Canada's broadcasting law. The Crown corporation has found itself in a back-and-forth with the Opposition leader over his pledge to cut the roughly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars it receives annually. Past Conservative leaders have also taken aim at the CBC, which receives its share of public money through Parliament when MPs vote on its federal budget. Poilievre's pitch to strip the CBC of its public funding is widely popular among Conservatives and earned loud cheers from the crowds who packed rooms to see him during last year's leadership campaign. But he has also suggested he supports Radio-Canada's French Services. When asked for comment on how he reconciles those two things, his office pointed to a media interview he gave to Radio-Canada in March 2022, in which he suggested maintaining support for services tailored to francophone minorities. In

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