The budget released last month by Mr. Jim Flaherty and the Conservatives has left out any word of financial appropriations for the CBC’s annual budget. This, coupled with a projected shortfall of $65 million in annual advertising revenue is leaving the CBC in a fiscal scramble.

Traditionally the CBC is given unspecific details about its total appropriation from the Federal Government. However, the CBC has regularly received an allocation of $60 million in government funds. The remainder of the $1 billion annual operating budget of the CBC is made up primarily from CBC Television advertising revenue.
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