In his provocative new book The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back) — release 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 speak to and for the whole country, retreating instead into narrow ideological echo chambers. In this excerpt, he examines what happened when Jian Ghomeshi became host of ‘Q’, a pop culture show that signalled a different CBC Radio was emerging.