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More than 18 months have passed since CBC poured a boatload of money into rebooting and heavily promoting its flagship news show, The National.

Now with four hosts and flagging ratings, the public broadcaster is stubbornly staying the course with the new format despite it clearly not resonating with the average Canadian.

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Beyond a disjointed format and snail-pace tempo, the rebooted show has forgotten its namesake. Instead of putting Canadian stories about scandal, injustice and drama at the forefront, The National has largely become the Trump Show — letting the buffoonery of the U.S. president overshadow what is going on here.

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Take a look at the comment sections and social media and you’ll see that a lot of Canadians are unimpressed with the new direction.

One example of where The National missed the mark came the day the bombshell broke that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office invited a man convicted in 1986 of the attempted assassination of an Indian state cabinet minister on the PM’s notorious India trip. The producers at The National buried the story 12 minutes into the show.