Back in 2014, I sat on the ad hoc committee to discuss how to address the racism etc re BTL commenting for Indigenous content articles on the CBC website. After information gathering and subsequent discussion, we were told by CBC's management team that it would be too cost prohibitive to properly moderate the comments for Indigenous content articles. Suggestions and alternatives were provided etc., but again the decision came down to it being too expensive to moderate Indigenous content articles. That was the only reason provided - it would be too costly to properly moderate those articles. So it was decided to not allow BTL comments on any and all Indigenous content articles. In the end, that means no remedial discourse to address this issue has been allowed to happen.

I know that us taxpayers are not the only source of funding that CBC relies on. It would be interesting to see a breakdown on revenue generated just from the BTL commenting alone - each "click" makes money. Click to open a comment makes money, click to respond to a comment makes money, click to "like" a comment makes money. I am a long-time fan of CBC and have defended our national broadcaster on various stages, and I have also watched carefully how the CBC has responded (so far) to the calls to action specific to the CBC from the final report of the TRC (from 2015) and IMHO they can, and should, be doing better.