James Moore
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3,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
James Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you're an English-speaking Canadian, certainly outside of the provinces of Quebec, CBC's budget goes up, CBC's budget goes down.
You might have the same view about that as if any other public broad, TV Ontario's budget goes up or down.
You might be disappointed.
You might be happy.
You might be angry.
I don't know.
But in Quebec, there's a very different lens put on that.
The CBC, the public broadcaster, certainly in 1995, maybe less so today, was seen as Canada's commitment to physical infrastructure that would protect the French language on the North American continent.
Without the public broadcaster and its physical imprint, not just in Quebec, but across all of Canada, the physical commitment to the CBC is a physical and infrastructural commitment to the French language in North America.
You destroy that, you destroy the sense of safety that the Quebec language has, which is why often the Quebec government will counterbalance those cuts with commitments to language and culture in terms of private sector institutions, language laws, sign laws and all that.
There's a direct correlation between the two.
And so when people just say defund or get rid of the CBC, there's a knock-on effect of what that means in terms of the sense of cultural sovereignty of the French language in the North American footprint.
I didn't know any of this going into the job of Canadian Minister of Canadian Heritage in 2008.
You'll learn this over the fullness of time.
So bridging our two conversations together, there's anxiety that I think that I have, and I think a lot of Canadians have, that if a government is sort of seen to be fumbling in the dark because they have only a Quebec lens on the culture files or only a sort of a soft...
understanding about the cultural dynamics in Canada relative to the beast of the United States and the beast of the English language and what it means for minority communities in the country.
I think we could be fumbling in the dark in terms of what the knock-on effects will be in terms of Canadian unity and so on.
it's also by the way not just a social portfolio in terms of culture there's a big economic component to this as well um you know you think about canada's film industry video game industry intellectual property law where where we're at in terms of film and television creativity and all that it is a massive economic generator of the culture files and so you to be a successful minister
You have to be mindful about the language.
Two and a half million French-speaking Canadians outside of the province of Quebec.
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