One of the results of the Liberals’ long-unexpected election win earlier this year is that the issue of CBC’s future immediately came off the boil — and it wasn’t even all that big of an issue during the campaign, despite Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s unambiguous promise to defund CBC’s English-language operations entirely. Travis Dhanraj, a balanced and energetic reporter and until recently host of CBC’s Canada Tonight, who mysteriously vanished from CBC’s airwaves earlier this year, dropped a bomb this week that could bring the issue back to life very quickly, and perhaps very usefully.