In his provocative new book The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back) — released with Sutherland House Books on Sept. 16, 2025 — veteran producer and broadcaster David Cayley examines the decline of the institution he served for more than four decades. He argues that the CBC has abandoned its duty to serve as an open forum for the whole country, narrowing instead into a partisan voice that polices dissent. In this excerpt, Cayley revisits the broadcaster’s early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing how its suppression of credible but divergent views revealed a troubling willingness to act as a mouthpiece for government rather than as a true public forum.