April 5 Montréal The CRTC held a […]

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1977-04-05

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April 5 Montréal The CRTC held a hearing concerning the licence-renewal application for CBH (Halifax), the CBC -affiliate radio station that had refused to air a public service announcement for GAE. The CRTC wanted to know specifically how the CBC had arrived at its decision to refuse public service announcements for gay groups. Stuart Russell made a submission representing GAE, which was followed by a submission by Barry MacDonald, representing CBH. MacDonald said that the CBC had deemed homosexuality controversial and that it believed that the majority of Canadians would be opposed to condoning homosexual acts as acceptable behaviour, thus the blanket ban on service announcements for gay groups. Under questioning from the CRTC, MacDonald admitted that the CBC had not conducted any polls to determine if Canadians considered homosexual activity to be controversial.

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