The petition is now closed. Thanks to all who took the time to sign the petition and post comments. Though the CBC Radio Orchestra's life was ended by CBC Radio, the orchestra has been reincarnated in a new form: the National Broadcast Orchestra of Canada - Orchestre national de diffusion du Canada.
Dear Mark Steinmetz and CBC Radio, Prime Minister Harper, Members of Parliament, and the Minister of Canadian Heritage. We the undersigned want the CBC Radio Orchestra saved. We believe that the orchestra is an integral part of Canada's mosaic and an important contributor to Canada's unique and rich cultural heritage. Our Canada includes the CBC Radio Orchestra!
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Diana Lynn Thompson
James Hill
Mike Fairweather
This orchestra once came to Trail - it was a wonderful occasion for the community
Mike Strachan
Please reconsider.....
Danielle Conrad
Maureen Buhler
Please reconsider axing the CBC Radio Orchestra. Canada needs a place for aspiring classical musicians to perform and what better place than a Canadian icon...the CBC.
Monty Peters
This orchestra represents the uniqueness of our country and is an art form that connects us from one city to another across this great land we call Canada!
Gary McFarlane
Daphne Dunbar
Cliff Farmer
Debbie DeWolfe Scott
Gina Rozon
Connie Chryssoulakis
Please save the CBC Radio Orchestra. It is a wonderful orchestra and a vital piece of our cultural history.
Andrea Milne
Don\'t let this treasure die!
Marina Galkina
Kathleen Silver
Our world today needs orchestras more than ever.
Deanna Guttman
Val George
Kathy Harper
Take away Canada\'s music, art and drama and you\'re left with a country of bored, unimaginative, and listless people looking south with fear.
Claire Breen
Jillian Ridington
The CBC Orchestra is vital not just for music lovers, but for composers and musicians. Why support CBC with our taxes, if it no longer supports our artists?
Kevin Dill
Mary Collins
It will be a sad day if we do away with one of our important cultural institutions in Canada - the CBC Radio Orchestra plays a vital role in ensuring that we have a vibrant classical music scene in Canada
Carol Hardinge-Rooney
Gordon Macpherson
CBC has been a positive force for music in Canada since its inception.Let\'s not allow muddle-headed management to destroy it!
Stacey Rogers
Francesca Fung
Vicki Lum
The CBC Radio Orchestra is an essential part of our culture. We need them to continue our heritage!
Bryan Potter
Please reverse the decision to axe the CBC Radio Orchestra. It is an important part of Canada\'s arts scene.
John Morris
This is a grave mistake. The CBC Radio Orchestra is the last of the radio orchestra\'s in Canada. The CBC is now pandering to the lowest common denomination of audience and will lose. plenty of other radio stations have that position sewn up
Deborah Stroh
Scott Cowan
CBC is Canada\'s voice and helps educate the country. Don\'t contribute to killing the intellect in our students and this country\'s future.
Barbara Corlis
Chris Sankey
The CBC needs to be more like it was--special, poetic, musical, political insightful and Canadian. I would like to hear more folk music, world music, Canadian music, and classics.
Anne Mitchell
Kevin Kirkland
Please save this integral and vital artistic component, a national pride of Canada.
Elizabeth Wallace
James McLennan
Colin H. Shaw
It is organizations like the CBC Orchestra that bind this country together. Do not pull us apart
Paul Moersch
This is such an important part of our culture! I can\'t believe that this is even a question!
Pat Budgeon
bernadette rule
terrible to scrap this wonderful institution.
Sonya Eagles-Dill
Cindy Wong
Bert Put
Our orchesra is a piece of what we are. It\'s part of our heritage, it is Canadian and Lord knows, we are deminishing fast enough as it is.
Barbara and John Bond
PLEASE reconsider this decision! There is so little quality music on radio these days. Sincerely, Barb and John Bond
Lynda Spence
Please don\'t erode our Canadian arts programs through termination of the CBC Orchestra.
Patricia Breen
Cultural institutions like the CBC Orchestra nourish the soul of the nation and should not be left to the whims of the marketplace.
Vicki Loeffler
I can\'t believe that anyone with some intelligence would believe that disbanding this orchestra would benefit anyone! Rethink disbanding the CBC Radio Orchestra!