The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.

Is there a quiet campaign to hamstring and silence the CBC? In Losing Our Voice Alain Saulnier, long-time head of news and public affairs at Radio-Canada, documents the decades of political interference that have jeopardized the very existence of one of Canada's most important cultural institutions.

For French-speaking Canadians, with limited options in their own language, the national broadcaster is all the more important. But tensions surrounding national unity and identity have exacerbated the tendency of federal politicians to meddle in CBC/Radio-Canada's content and management. Saulnier takes us behind the scenes as these tensions play out, and culminate in the punitive Harper budget cuts.

• Preface
• Acknowledgements 
• Introduction 
• Chapter 1: Beginnings 
• Chapter 2: Temporary Difficulties 
• Chapter 3: The End of the Monopoly, the Beginning of Tensions 
• Chapter 4: A Collision of Identities: From the October Crisis in 1970 to the Election of the Parti Québécois in 1976 
• Chapter 5: Pierre Trudeau Promises Change 
• Chapter 6: 1984: Marcel Masse and Pierre Juneau 
• Chapter 7: From One Referendum to Another 
• Chapter 8: From One Government to Another 
• Chapter 9: The Lacroix Style 
• Chapter 10: The Conservative Style 
• Chapter 11: The Great Dismantling  
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Notes 
• Index