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Line 133: In 2009, CBC President Hubert Lacroix commissioned a study to determine whether its news was biased, and if so, to what extent. He said: "Our job — and we take it seriously — is to ensure that the information that we put out is fair and unbiased in everything that we do."<ref name="Study">{{Cite web \|title=CBC to study whether its news is biased \|url=http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/05/13/13940176.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100517051012/http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/05/13/13940176.html \|archive-date=May 17, 2010 \|publisher=Ottawa Sun}}</ref> The study suggests Canadians perceived the CBC as having a more left-of-centre bias than other Canadian news organizations.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news2/pdf/public-opinionreporteng-oct1_10.pdf \|title=The News Fairness and Balance Report \|date=September 2010 \|access-date=September 4, 2021}}</ref> In April 2010, the president of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] filed a complaint with the CBC regarding [[Frank Graves (pollster)\|Frank Graves]], who directed a number of public opinion research projects on behalf of the CBC and appeared on CBC political news programs. Graves acknowledged that he offered the [[Liberal Party of Canada]] informal advice on political strategy and had made incendiary comments suggesting Conservatives are racist and homophobic, for which he later apologized.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/michael-ignatieff-is-tacking-left---finally/article4316071 \|title=Michael Ignatieff is tacking left - finally\|date=April 21, 2010\|publisher=The Globe and Mail \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108050332/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/michael-ignatieff-is-tacking-left---finally/article4316071/ \|archive-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name="globe2010">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/pollster-frank-graves-apologizes-denies-anti-tory-bias/article4352832 \|title=Pollster Frank Graves apologizes, denies anti-Tory bias \|newspaper=The Globe and Mail \|date=April 23, 2010 \|accessdate=April 21, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325011853/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/pollster-frank-graves-apologizes-denies-anti-tory-bias/article4352832/\|archive-date=March 25, 2021\|last1=Curry \|first1=Bill }}</ref> An investigation conducted by the CBC ombudsman concluded that "whatever Mr. Graves's private views, CBC journalists do not appear to have violated CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices in dealing with him".<ref>{{cite news \|title=Complaints about comments made by Frank Graves, President of EKOS Research, about a possible strategy for the Liberal Party \|publisher=CBC Office of the Ombudsman \|url=http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/graves-ekos-rev.pdf \|url-status=dead \|access-date=October 9, 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511131936/http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/graves-ekos-rev.pdf \|archive-date=May 11, 2011}}</ref> A 2017 survey of Canadians suggested that CBC TV was the most biased national news media outlet (perceived biased by 50% of Canadians overall, tied with ''The Globe and Mail'') followed closely by CBC Radio (perceived biased by 49% of Canadians overall). Respondents predominantly saw a bias towards CBC TV and radio coverage favouring the Liberal party, a view that held consistently across Conservative, Liberal and NDP voters.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://abacusdata.ca/canadian-news-media-and-fake-news-under-a-microscope/ \|title=Canadian News Media And "Fake News" Under A Microscope \|date=April 29, 2017 \|access-date=September 6, 2021}}{{registration required}}</ref>

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