The CRTC Wants Your Thoughts on the CBC

These are great:

"Dear CBC: Stop trying to influence public opinion and engineer a new social order."

"recognize they have become bloated, irrelevant, arrogant and pointless then objectively review and remove that which does not honestly reflect the stated objectives."

"1. How do you say: "Stop being a bunch of underworked, overpayed ideologues and propagandists" in English?"

"Remove 1 billion dollars of wasted tax payer money and swim on your own since the sole purpose seems to be a promotion of left-wing agenda which appeals to a small, narrow-minded minority of Canada's population."

I would change the video to this one:

Left-wing CBC Employees List: All are politically biased to the NDP/Liberal/Green parties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_LMbcIzuY

And it's true: Don Cherry, Rex Murphy, and Kevin O'Leary are the only right-of-centre CBC employees imaginable. Virtually all others are political liberals!

Fire.Them.All

Thanks for the link. I have also posted this on my Facebook page for others to make comments.

Is this the first time they have asked us?

I am a little disappointed in how the questions were written, but I also made a comment on that.

Seriously! CBC does a pretty good job all around,and I think it has worked well at keeping Canadian nationalism alive!

Howevah! The continuous bashing of the Harper Conservatives shows a lack of professional journalism. It's not about you CBC! It's about the story. And that story--quite often-gets spun around in your direction.

As for Radio-Canada, it's all about Quebec. I don't think that 5% of their programming is directed at the French portion of Canada outside of La Belle Province.

Hey, Kleen Bill: "CBC does a pretty good job all around,and I think it has worked well at keeping Canadian nationalism alive!"

I vociferously disagree. Please quantify this statement. Give me a few examples. Heck, give me one. And 'we all watch Hockey Night in Canada!' doesn't count.

One of a few comments I have submitted.

"The irony of these questions and by the responses submitted, is that the existence of the CBC is a divisive one. Even if there is 75% for CBC and 25% against, it's existence in a country that preaches unity spends tax payers dollars without full consent to a broadcaster that absolutely can not meet the standards of unity."

Both the crtc and the cbc should be abolished.

"it has worked well at keeping Canadian nationalism alive!"

What, exactly, does that mean? Please provide an example. At first glance, it appears to be a warm and fuzzy statement with no substance.

CBCpravda All Liberal All of the Time

nuff said

"it has worked well at keeping Canadian nationalism alive!"

If anything it is dividing us more and more. This loud mouthpiece for anarcho marxist enclaves of the beaches in Torotno, Vanriot, etc.

And then there are the rest of us, the productive taxpaying suckers outside these elite playgrounds forced to pay for this crap. We know damn well we are being taken for fools by the fat cat leftard indexed pension elitist snobs.

Queue the tumbrils! Off with their heads!

I neither like the crtc or the cbc for that matter and would rather like to see both state runagencies just dissolve already.

Maybe the people who watch cbc should get into their thick (Neo-Con, Socialist, Communist, Marxist) skulls that it's a "state run propaganda operation" masking itself as a openly democratic news agency.

I have an even more sinister idea -- relocate them to Saskatoon.

I found the video quite informative. Previously I had thought that Canadian tax payers provided 60% of CBC’s revenue. But I stand corrected. Their graph shows that it’s really Parliament that provides 60% of their revenue. Everyday after question period the MPs must descend into the Parliamentary basement to bottle maple syrup and compose hit songs for Justin Bieber to the tune of $1 billion/year!

What is this bullsh1t "cbc-consultation.ca" website all about anyway? Will it have any bearing on whether the CBC receives their license renewal? No. How insanely dogmatic is a faux referendum on a faux renewal process? AFAIK it accomplishes two main things: employing bureaucrats and giving us a pressure release valve.

Of course loudmouth me had to opine over there just like everybody else. And one thing strikes me as blindingly obvious.. the precise alignment of CBC supporters and detractors along political lines is a clear indictment of the CBC's oft derided balance. So the argument itself is the strongest argument against the CBC's objectivity.

Those were all rhetorical questions.

Pull the plug on Canada's longest run communist channel, paid by us.
If their that good they can survive on thier own.

CBC is the glue that holds together the fabric of this Nation.

I've heard that so many times over the years,but no one seems to be able to point to exactly WHAT that "glue" consists of.

CBC seems to have it's own agenda,that of the Big City arts communities and their fellow travellers. Listen to CBC Radio,and it's one long litany of "Dr,Suzuki Says",with slanted reporting and interviews all from the Left side of the political spectrum.

When the program host DOES interview a conservative,the contempt in her voice makes it quite apparent the person does not speak for CBC.

The Harper-bashing before May 2/11 was a good indicator of where the staff of CBC stand.

We owe CBC and it's cabal of like-minded Lefties absolutely NOTHING,we sure as hell don't owe them a living that is significantly better than the average taxpayer.

Privatize it.

Like my response to every one of the loaded questions. SHUT IT DOWN!

The Harper skewering on CBC has always been a disorder for these leftie millies, but CTV is every bit as bad or worse. Fife the magic newsfairy and Lloyd along with Sandie take great effort to steer the public thought to all things failure/lieberal, and hate Harper, it is a clinical self loathing phychosis to these idiots. They all must have little Harper dolls to abuse at night just to help them through, kind of like the Capital One Viking ads. Jack the Dripper could get caught after a Conservative/NDPEE fun hockey game, torching conservative cars in one frame and laying on top of Libby on the pavement in the next one, and these CBC CTV asses would scream about Steven attending the game.

I don't mean to be too cynical, but this exercise will not end up with a result that most of us on this site want, that being either privatization or cutting the taxpayer funding.

That does not mean we should not vent at the site. I did and feel better. It is not often that we get a chance to tell the socialist what we think.

Would love to be wrong but I don't see any sign or glimmer of hope we'll get rid of the CBC, no government has the cajones, including this Conservative majority government.

I'm always in amazement at how similar the CBC is to the MSM in the U.S. We have been asleep at the wheel while the socialists have taken over our schools, Media and many other entities. We have sat back thinking that " They wouldn't be that crazy," while the social planners have run roughshod over us. We should have been speaking up a long time ago and I know that I'm as guilty as anyone for being lazy to stand up to them and their aggressive methods. It's time we put things back where they belong.

Used to listen to CBC radio while driving 200kms home from working in the nethers of Northwestern Ontario. (CBC was the only station that I could get).

One day I heard Michael Enright interview Preston Manning, who at that time was the Leader of the Opposition.

Enright was so blatantly vicious and disrespectful to Manning that I shut off my car radio after he was done with his hatchet job and never tuned in to CBC again. You would have thought Enright had been speaking to Hitler.

johnbrooks above said it best: Fire. Them. All.

Presumably, the CRTC has access to the thousands, if not tens of thousands, of complaints to the CBC Ombudsman--a CBC employee. (Conflict of interest, anyone?) Why reinvent the wheel?

If the CRTC were to check out the complaints, it would see, very clearly, with documentation, the CBC's up-front, anti-c(C)onservative, left-wing, pro-Liberal bias, 24/7/365.

Fie on the CBC--and on the CRTC if it refuses to see the forest for the trees.

How can they run such a second-rate network with a budget of 1.8 billion dollars? That works out to about 5 million dollars a day,each and every day, plus they do little on weekends.
It's no wonder that the CBC leads all gov't departments in blocking "Access to Information" requests.

BTW,the cbc have not released complete results of their 'vote compass',as promised . The cbc have given the results to the people who designed the 'tool',thereby allowing them to say that it is out of their hands. It was electoral fraud.They know it,we know it,life goes on in the media cesspool.

Here's the deal: If CBC's "Power and Politics" ever says a good word about our PM Harper, I will give my grandson $50. Three months have gone by and my $50 is still in my pocket!

Another contribution:

The CBC is strongly biased towards the Liberal Party of Canada, and now more than ever needs to be privatized. Our military veterans need all the help they can get. I propose we sell the left-wing biased CBC and give the $1 Billion yearly to our Canadian Forces veterans.The CBC remains very unwatched since its employees receive a cheque even when they produce low quality, little-watched drivel. The CBC is not accountable. Why try? They get paid nomatter what.Do you know what CBC's most-watched shows are? Hockey, and Jeopardy. Global National and CTV News with Lloyd Robertson always -- every night -- attract more viewers than "The National" with Peter Mansbridge. CBC news has struggled for years get as many viewers, but always fails. And this is
with a $1 Billion gravy train courtesy of Canadian taxpayers! (CTV and Global don't get this advantage!)Most Canadians watch CBC only for hockey. Defund the slanted, politically correct, biased CBC. Now.

After clicking on the hyperlink to check it out, I first read the most recent comment:

"Not being a leftwing "liebril" it does nothing to fill my need for news, let me know when they start giving some unbiased information. STOP FUNDING "

That pithy comment seems to pretty well reflect a comments column 'gone horribly wrong'. :-)

I went over to leave a comment. 20 minutes later,it still hasn't gone up.
Isn't it great how there is only a 'like' option for the comments. Everything is peachy keen in the utopia..... " You will do as you are told,until the rights to you are sold", ---Frank Zappa,from " I'm the Slime(oozing out from your TV set) " a song written 40 years ago,still relevant today.

The State has no business funding a one sided partisan leftist social engineering Orwellian experiment.
It has failed miserably.Cut all funding from tax payers and cut taxes to Canadians, we are taxed to death. Our economy is suffering from the Trudeaupian socialist left turn we took in the 60's and may never recover. You're not smart enough to take our money and buy TV and Radio shows that will benefit our country or Canadians.The whole idea that you think you need to, is frankly, kooky.You serve no purpose other than to fight and advocate for your own entitlements and to make Canadians poorer.Dissolve the CRTC entirely and the size of our bureaucracy by 1/2 right away.The message is clear from these comments what Canada thinks of the CBC and the CRTC.The CRTC will, of course, do the opposite and prove their own intransigence and professional negligence by disregarding what the people of Canada clearly want.In short, the CRTC and CBC are malevolent forces and funding them with tax payer money forced from us through the threat of violence is morally wrong and no longer fiscally sound policy.

Mike in Calgary:

There is a Canada outside of Calgary!! I don't watch or like hockey, so I'm the last guy they should ever interview to talk about CBC. I am old enough to remember when they gave us Radio and TV when and where no one else would.

CBC Radio One (Sask) is the only station that goes outside of the realm of the day to day blah blah of people calling in to talk radio and complaining about barking dogs and slow traffic.

No--if you're a fanatical right win extremist you won't appreciate the CBC or Radio Canada. If you're an ordinary Conservative like myslef who takes the time to listen to the other person's point of view and who really doens't care if he wins the argument or not, then you just might appreciate Radio One.

And last but not least, at 50,000 watts, it comes in clear in remote areas!

PS: Carl: How was Enright rude to Preston Manning?? That I would like to know! I've listend to Michael Enright for many years and I've yet to hear him insult anyone!

they couldn't even keep the HNC anthem, fo-get a bootem.

"F.T.A."

Hey Kleen Bill,

I know where your're coming from - I couldn't believe it myself! I'll even admit I liked Enright up to that point. But after that incident I just couldn't respect him anymore. Yes, it was that bad.
Maybe CBC has an archive of the interview - I'd like to hear it myself again after all these years.

What if we re-established the true mandate of the CBC?
Instead of offering outdated, inefficient tech we take the existing infrastructure and tweak it to provide an updated and valuable service to all Canadians.
Personally, I don't mind the 'radio' facet of the CBC; my beef lies with the 'television' side. The production and transmission of an substandard product funded by taxpayers that can be received via satellite in ANY rural area should be replaced with the provision of a service that is genuinely needed to link our communities together again....like high speed internet.
With the real estate that the CBC already has, and the infrastructure network that already exists across the country; could we not provide this updated service to Canadians? Wouldn't this link be a valuable tool that communities could use to connect with other Canadian communities to promote their issues, solve their problems and attract new people; thereby growing rural communities that can still be 'connected' to the urban communities? Would it not be great to have 'telecommuting' options for a connected communities, rural or urban? Or video conferencing between neighbouring communities for planning, development and growth? How about the business prospects that would spring from such a network?
The money we spend on the CBC could be utilized in a manner that would truly benefit Canadian communities in a positive, real world manner. It just requires some creative thought and a willingness to begin action.
Also, with a stable, effective and secure network available, the issues with Canada Post would no longer matter as an digital option would exist for lettermail. More Savings!

Jan,better yet,why don't we stop collecting taxes to pay for the cbc, or internet service that will provide digital pap?

The Constantly Bashing Conservatives (I think somebody coined that phrase after the '08 election on SDA) network prides itself on keeping on the government of Canada to open its books. That is fine, yet, the CBC REFUSES the Auditor General to look at their books so the average tax payer can see how corrupt their spending habits are. They refuse any accountability to the tax payer for over a billion dollars a year.

"The CBC is strongly biased towards the Liberal Party of Canada, and now more than ever needs to be privatized. Our military veterans need all the help they can get. I propose we sell the left-wing biased CBC and give the $1 Billion yearly to our Canadian Forces veterans." Posted by: Alimony at June 20, 2011 11:26 AM

I agree that the billion dollars should go to the vets who actually fought for the freedom for the CBC to exist.

I dropped off my two cents worth. Most of the comments end with FIRE THEM ALLLLLLLL!!!!!! so no doubt the entire exercise will be abandoned.

But the Ottawa mandarin's assistant who thought up this thing is probably getting punched out behind the water cooler, or whatever those mid-to-upper level government pussies do to guys they don't like anymore. Talk about making a whole section of government look bad! Yeehaw!

Frankly, the only thing Harper & Co. can realistically do about the CBC is jettison the entire upper AND middle management, fire ALL the off stage news and programming staff, and stick in guys with a relentless Conservative bias. Make it into the Conservative Broadcasting Corporation, and be kind of obvious about it.

If the CPC could outrage the Toronto culture cognoscenti and get -them- screaming to shut down the Conservative propaganda machine that the CBC becomes, then it could be done. Harper could regretfully bow to Opposition pressure and kill the damn thing.

Get working on that, boys!

wallyj; how does your idea solve anything? The CBC is an entrenched ideology that will not go down without a fight, costing billions in the process. I suggest 'pulling the tongue from the head' of the company making their mandate the delivery of a service again, not the delivery of a message. What I suggest DOES NOT equate to digital pap. The CBC would not be in the `broadcasting` business anymore so they wouldn`t create product to distribute, just stable links to the internet. How is this any different from spending on any other infrastructure project? We build highways to join our communities? Why not digital superhighways? It would be infinitely more valuable in this day and age, and less costly than the physical equivalent?

Jan,my idea revolves around the concept that our money should not be switched from one failing operation to another gov't endeavour.

As of this time, internet access is not a citizen's right.

Surprisingly, the things that CBC does to fulfill its original mandate account for only a small portion of it's operating budget. For example, all of it's radio services (commercial-free since 1974) cost well under $400 million/a. And those areas could be leaner.

They actually went off the rails with Mulroney's ill-advised Broadcasting Act in 1991, which entrenched them trying to do too many things that the private sector was/is better equipped to do.

I wouldn't fire them all. But they could accomplish what they were intended to with HALF the budget they currently receive, no question.

Those AGW alarmists in favour of keeping the 1.1 billion taxpayer money to fund the CBC never once mentioned in their 'pithy' comments the needs of the planet. Just think how much smaller Canada's carbon footprint would be if the CBC went off the air. I'm beginning to think the AGW crowd aren't really serious about saving the planet from humans.

I tried posting my CRTC comment but they require your email address. I don't want to give it because they don't tell you what they're going to do with it. I'm not hiding anything by withholding it, it's simply that I've had my E-mail address "pirated" before and used to open accounts in my name -- essentially impersonating me.

You should never give out your E-mail without privacy guarantees.

There doesn’t seem to be many SDA'ers over there giving support as I would have thought.

If you don't like the CBC now is a good opportunity to tell it to their face.

ricardo >

Just make one up - like:

RFG@CBC.com

It'll work............ : )

Thanks Knight 99. Now we know why they shouldn't outlaw "anonymous" as some are proposing, because it has practical purposes for personal security. Not everybody using anonymous is doing it because they are "slimeballs hiding in the shadows".

Hey, Knight 99, 'saw your comments. Good on ya'.

I answered all of the comments yesterday.

Some leftard idiot is accusing all the negative commenters of "hacking," the usual for the lefties who can't handle any views other than their own.

I wasn't too happy with the CBC documentary they aired on the weekend dissing Canada's intelligence services (I think it was on "Doc Zone", CBC T.O.).

As usual the CBC seems to coordinate its programming to go hand-in-hand with whatever the Left is supporting (or opposing). In this case, both the NDP and Libs have been trying to get rid of CSIS director Richard Fadden ever since he revealed that some Canadian politicians may be in contact with agents from unfriendly countries, for example China.

The politicians went ballistic over this revelation and I honestly don't understand why. If I were an MP and CSIS warned me that some of the people I may be dealing with may in fact be spies, I would be most appreciative.

Firstly, because politicians are not trained to spot this sort of thing -- CSIS is in fact trained and they are doing what we are paying to do if they warn us. Secondly, they are probably saving the politician's career if they warn him/her -- a trained foreign spy could make mince-meat out of some of our gullible politicians. Spies often spend years in specialized study of every possible nuance -- including psychological, cultural and behavioural sciences -- in order to recruit a high profile target like someone in government, sometimes using blackmail or extortion.

The CBC is ignorant.

'Saw your comments, Knight 99! Good on ya!

I left mine yesterday.

Some leftard idiot is accusing negative commenters of "hacking." So typical of the poor cry babies who can't handle POVs other than their own.

Phantom, love your Conservative Broadcasting Corporation idea. Such a sneaky way of getting the moonbats to demand the CBC lose funding.