Rally for the CBC

Toronto - We were playing a save the CBC rally in Toronto Thursday. It seems Bush lackey, 'Steve' Harper and his minister in charge of tearing down culture in Canada, Bev Oda, are trying to destroy the CBC by not supplying it with enough funding.

That Harper is such a philistine: I have heard he is a big hockey fan, and it shows. How can ay government not supply the CBC with enough money to buy the shows it needs to survive. I bet if it was a hockey game the CBC was buying, the money would magically appear.

The turn out was pretty good, maybe 12 or 13 people, which doesn't sound like much, but we know from experience, when you want to save institutions like the CBC, people just aren't interested. We only played a couple of songs as it was starting to get cold, and my Autoharp was going out of tune. However, we did get a chance to meet a CBC big shot, one of the director's of programming. Stevie what shows the government was cutting, and Mr. Big shot told us it was hockey.

"Hockey?" asked Stevie. "We thought it was Thursday night opera or Corner Gas"

"Corner Gas isn't CBC."

"No? So what shows do you have?"

"Hockey Night in Canada. Coronation Street. The Air Farce. Monday Report with Rick Mercer.

"Rick Mercer? That comedian with the curly hair and the smirk? He's not funny." Said Stevie.

"We had high hopes for a Ralph Benmergui variety show that we are in negotiations for, but now that the NeoCons have revealed that part of their hidden agenda is not provide us with 1.4 Billion dollars for hockey night in Canada, we probably can't afford Benmergui’s asking price."

"$1.4 Billion dollars. Who would pay that for hockey?"

"CTV. And of course they have the money dammit. How can we compete with people who are spending their own money? How are we supposed to fund our “politicians of the left mini-series” series now?"

Anyway, things didn't turn out too bad, as the exec had us in studio to do "The Hockey Song," on a show that would be played after the hockey game. Unfortunately, we didn't realize there were two hockey games on, and the show didn't come on until 2:00 AM. We heard the next day we had a nine rating. “Nine doesn’t sound so bad,” Stevie said.

“Nine viewers”.