When leading documentary director Harry Rasky talks about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation of today, there is despair and frustration in his voice.

"You have to consider what was lost at the CBC when they decided to fire their producers," he said, referring to events of a few years ago. "It would be, in the context of this place, like a university that decided to get rid of its professors and have occasional lecturers do the teaching. What would you be left with?" Acclaimed documentary-maker Rasky was presenting the lecture at the conclusion of the Wendy Michener Symposium which, over several weeks, featured five productions chosen from the Harry Rasky film archives at York.

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