Things you hear from the CBC

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Canada’s largest anti-Conservative activist group fights back:

The head of the CBC is hitting back at Conservative Leader Stephen Harper over the national broadcaster’s funding. CEO Hubert Lacroix says the CBC has healthy ratings, but is crippled by a broken funding model.

Lacroix, whose network makes money from ads just like any other network but also gets to scrape an additional billion dollars a year from taxpayers’ pockets, said —

…Canada must look to other European countries for ideas on how to fund public broadcasting. He says Germany has a household fee, while France collects revenue from Internet service providers.

59 Replies to “Things you hear from the CBC”

  3. I think that the new funding idea the Canadian Wheat Board was forced to adopt would work very well for the CBC. It needs a 20 megaton dose of exlax. ..followed by a good deworming.

  5. BTW, Lacroix recently had a finding against him by the Corporation’s Human Resources group that he had improperly billed $30,000 in expenses.
    Maybe he’s trying for a Grit Senate appointment?
    See the top two reports here:
    https://bcblue.wordpress.com/?s=Lacroix
    And I suggest a 5,000% tax on newspapers and magazines to fund the CBC.

  7. I still fault Harper for not pulling all Communist Broadcasting Corps funding when he won the last election!

  8. That the socialist republics of Germany or France could be held out as exemplars of how to run a public broadcaster is downright nonsense.
    Edward Teach has the answer…Pledge Drives.

  11. Hey, Hubert baby! If you think that the CBC is doing so well rating-wise, why not stop its sucking on the Federal Government’s teat and go head-to-head in the real world with, say, Global TV?
    Hubert, you up to it?

  12. It is all about ratings. That’s how TV programming works. Period. Remove all subsidies, including those given to private broadcasters.

  13. They should at least be able to match Global, that non-stop fountain of climate fraud misinformation and pro-Chinese propaganda. Or CTV, the privatized clone of CBC.
    It’s too bad that Sun TV didn’t think of production values, they might still be around.

  14. Mr. Harper had every opportunity to trash the CBC, and with full support of the Canadian electorate! What irks me at CBC is the constant government bashing on all issues!! I am however confident that the lack of viewers in the end is what will do the CBC in!

  15. Typical left-wing thinking. I don’t care if you want it. I do. And you should pay for it because I won’t.
    Complete and total defunding is long overdue. Let those who clamour for the CBC’s continuation pay for it from their own resources. The “Friends of the CBC” comes to mind. When the CBC is finally exorcised from the host, the “Friends” will dry up and blow away within a month.
    The fact that the CBC is no more will be all but forgotten a year later. Remember the Canadian Wheat Board? The long gun registry? The long form census? Neither do I.

  17. Hubie sees the comet coming – pay for view cable will destroy CBCs Cable “tiering” subsidy. Maybe he would do better in Eurabia – sell the CBC to the EU.

  20. This is related.
    In the Liberal ‘fiscal framework’ they never mentioned the 1/2 BILLION that they promised the CBC.
    I’m sure it was just an honest oversight.
    Birds of a feather …

  21. Apparently the CBC is a political party as in the town where I live, there are people’s yards with near permanent lawn signs saying “I vote CBC”. They must double vote because most of those same yards have NDP or Green lawn signs. Those folks should have to pay for their private political party of choice.
    As partisan as the CBC is, I wouldn’t call them “Canada’s largest anti-Conservative activist group”. The public sector unions are much larger. The teachers union of any one province alone is much bigger. Isn’t it interesting that the truly largest anti-conservative activist group are all on the public teat. Not only do you get to pay their wages but you must allow them to influence who gets to represent your side of the negotiating table. If not a conflict of interest, it is perhaps a conspiracy to shaft taxpayers.

  22. Every time the Conservative Party calls me for more money,I say not yet.
    I politely remind them that I gave to get them elected last election and all I wanted was for them to defund the CBC.
    They haven’t yet.
    And, I haven’t given them any more money yet.
    I’m tired of fighting to get them elected and fighting the CBC spin on any important matter with regards to Canada and the present governing party’s policies.
    And I tell them that.
    Every time they phone.

  24. I must live in the same town.
    Still can’t figure out why the CBC gets its own election signs. Since when did a tax-payer funded bureaucracy get to campaign on behalf of parties that promise to give it more funding? The signs alone are enough reason to defund the CBC.

  25. My doctor told me I had low B.P. I asked what can the the average person do to increase low
    blood pressure. He said watch CBC. So I did. Now I am on anti-hypertensives @ $85.00
    per month to control my high b.p.

  26. It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings.
    Are we hearing the wailing, er singing?
    —-
    John Chittick I as well have a problem with how political influential the public sector union is, this is an unhealthy balance and can corrupt true democracy, esp when GOV grows itself best. This way of forced into union of all employee’s is more than unfair advantage as well, like legal extortion.
    How many countries have done this, gone further even and what happened to them, is what people should really be asking.

  27. A Quebecois acquaintance in Vancouver is ranting on Facebook about how horrible Harper is and that Canada’s democracy is being zapped away. His latest narrative is all about the CBC.
    Today I posted a photo of my mail-in ballot that I’ll be mailing tomorrow from San Francisco. To this he wrote, “Responsible Canadians don’t vote Conservative.” He then went off on the supposed lack of democracy. I told him that his rhetoric was way over the top and asked him if next he’d be comparing Harper to Hitler. I’ve not heard a wimper since.

  28. Lacroix has a $1,500 monthly living allowance, a car allowance, club memberships AND an annual salary between $350,000 and $421,000.
    When I see my taxes going towards that I really have to wonder, why work hard? It’s an honest question.

  29. The Conservatives did not run on defunding the CBC last election and so far have not announced they are defunding the CBC this time. Harper basically only does what he campaigns on. The cuts to the CBC were the same as the cuts to other government departments.

  30. Exactly. When Harper Conservatives took the helm about eight years ago, they INCREASED funding to the CBC in each subsequent budget. Then I think there was one (1) budget where there was a cut of a couple hundred million — consistent with cuts to other sectors because of the worldwide recession. But it never fell below the one billion dollar mark and I think it’s currently at $1.1 billion.
    Let’s face it, it’s just the CBC’s weasel way of inserting itself into the election campaign — they are ideologically aligned with the NDP. The CBC used to OVERTLY CAMPAIGN against Conservatives, but there were a lot of complaints so now they have to do it in a less obvious fashion.
    It’s a weasel news organization, and completely Partisan. We shouldn’t give them another penny until they start covering political news and commentary from a variety of perspectives, not exclusively NDP Marxist-“progressive”. Canada is a pluralistic society.
    On a side note, it never ceases to amaze me how CBC reporters are one day in Hong Kong, suddenly the same reporter appears three days later in London, then in Mexico City, then in Johannesburg, etc. And usually it’s just a 30 second news blip in each location. Can’t they hire local “stringers” for a 30 second news blip? Should taxpayers really have to pay all those travel expenses, five-star hotels, and classy restaurants around the world for a news blip? And what are CBC reporters doing the rest of the time in these exotic places while they are not on air for 30 seconds? They’re probably out shopping or taking in the sites and entertainment. Or doing political work for the NDP and the Socialist International. All on the taxpayer dime. That’s why the CBC has refused to allow a Government audit of its activities — they have refused to comply with an audit unless it is ordered by the Courts. No coincidence that it is the NDP that has consistently fought tooth and nail against a CBC audit.

  32. It’s just bizarre to me that you guys still have a national broadcaster. I don’t even know what to say about that, besides get off your asses.

  33. I hate to wimp out, but we are under a Socialist dictatorship here in many sectors — it’s impossible to free ourselves at this point without a “counter-revolution” and outside help. We’ve tried everything else, unsuccessfully. It would be helpful if more powerful Nations such as the U.S. imposed sanctions against Canada until there is a full return to pluralism. In the area of free speech alone, it would make a huge difference if Canadians could exercise the same level of free speech through our mass media the way it is exercised in the U.S.

  34. ricardo:
    My complaint for years has been, why can’t CBC simply buy local footage from stringers? Particularly irritating is the rush to hurricanes and natural disasters in USA. Not to mention the talking head is assisted by a large backup crew.These people lodge somewhere, and thus take up beds sorely needed for local victims.
    The expense incurred for a 30 second shot of a reporter leaning against a windy breakwater, is wasted money.In Can news, CBC is notorious for showing up with 5 times as many people as the local channels; CBC radio, Radio-Can, CBC TV etc, all working separately.CBC budget is far too large, not the reverse.

  35. Ah the old “democracy is being eroded” lament from the left. This is the oft-heard but never elaborated on complaint from the anti-Harper crowd. If I had a dollar for every time that I’ve seen or heard that absurd comment or something akin to it, I could fund the CBC. I have never received a satisfactory explanation or example of this so-called loss of democracy and, more often than not, get only a blank look when the complainant is challenged.
    I don’t hear of dissidents being jailed. I see no evidence of the media being muzzled or journalists disappearing. Real Canadian citizens are not being prohibited from voting. I have yet to notice any armed thugs at my polling station during elections. And I note that an openly anti-government, extremely biased national broadcaster still receives an enormous subsidy each and every year.
    So where exactly is the loss of democracy? Those that pull out this old, lame statement have never lived in anything other than a democracy and wouldn’t know a dictator if they were bitten in the ass by one.

  36. I bet all CEOs wish they could whine for a taxpayer funded payday when they couldn’t get the bottom line looking like their competitors. I wonder how his pay compares to the CEO of the private broadcasters, the ones who don’t feel they can push a “that was easy” button.

  37. It won’t hurt the PM because nobody watches the CBC so they won’t know anything about it.
    Why should we be forced to pay for something that we NEVER watch?
    BTW, here’s watch the PM should have said in the first 6 months of his mandate.
    “Hello, CBC? You’re on your own.”

  38. CBC no diffrent then any of the rest of the leftists propegandists like NBC,ABC,CBS and CNN all you ever get from them is the usial lies day after day 24/7 12 months,weeks and 365 days all year long LIES,LIES,LIES i quit watching the news over ten(10) years ago

  39. Biff
    As usual, its the usual boilerplate rhetoric from the exploding heads of the HDS crew.
    Typically, the “loss of democracy” comes from their staunch opposition to “omnibus bills”. Yeah, its pretty deranged thinking. The reason is that there are multiple law items within the bill, and somehow, the left views this as a HORRID abuse of power…..yeah, really.
    Another reason is that the PMSH government wont allow the opposition to change their proposed laws or clauses within. Yeah, really….its called “you’re not the government, we listened to you, now we are passing OUR law”
    The derangement and rhetoric on the left is sickening.
    You could also include the horrid removal of the Long Form Census and the Scientists Gagged within the Derangement, Loss of Democracy, “fascist” accusations, all of which are patently ridiculous, but standard fare for the Lunatic Left

  40. It is the waste of money given to the malcontent CBC and other wastes of money that drive entrepreneurial types to the underground economy. When that happens ….. Firstly, your customers will appreciate the discount they are afforded and you will net more money even while charging less.
    Then you can sleep at night knowing that you have managed to with-hold, roughly the amount of money that would have gone in taxes to fund shit you hate. It’s quite simple and you will, ironically, find more leftists in that sort of small underground business than conservatives …. I live in BC … I know!
    If you read “How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World” You will know better how to deal with the issues that you may find yourself trapped in. A burning issue whereby you need to campaign to convince others that you are right and this change should be made …. is a waste of your energy, time and health.
    The only person you control is you, so you must take direct action in your life to have things as you want them. It can be done if you wise up and let go of your anger ….. Live your life as YOU want to and don’t worry about how others are living theirs …. it’s their life, not yours. Your life is your business so you’d best run it right or your very being will go bankrupt and you will become indistinguishable from an obsessed leftist twat.

  41. Part of CBC’s mandate, is to tell Canadian’s stories to the a national audience. From the outset this has been corrupted to mean producers/writers in Toronto/Montreal telling their stories to like minded colleagues. These people have a loathing for the outer regions which is palpable. Judging by the programs aired, it is but a vast wasteland of racism, bigotry and simple mindedness. Stories are essentially negative, from the Butterball Babies to residential school excesses, no scab on the Canadian psyche too small for CBC to pick.
    What other country would fund a broadcaster $1.3B to trash its reputation at every turn? Just one example heard recently on The Current. The NY based Reputation Institute again listed Canada as # 1 worldwide. The CBC reporter interviewing an official from NY tried repeatedly to put negative words in his mouth and finally gave up. It would only count for CBC if we slipped from 1st to 10th spot.
    I see no solution except to privatize it completely.

  42. G.. Excellent idea. I have not as yet given them a reason, but i wills start doing that asap.!
    It is high time the Canukistan Broadcasting Cabal is Defuned 100%. Sink of swim…methinks it will drop to the floor of a deep chasm. They have no ratings as no one watches it.!

  43. Gotta agree with you on the leftist propaganda coming from the American networks. However, unlike our beloved CBC, these guys pay their own bills. The CBC reminds me of an unemployed man living in his mommy’s basement, receiving an obscenely huge allowance for doing nothing and spending his entire time complaining what a bitch his mother is. What would a normal, well-adjusted family do in this situation? Kick the useless fool out, of course.

  44. ”Part of CBC’s mandate is to tell Canadian’s stories to the a national audience. From the outset this has been corrupted to mean producers/writers in Toronto/Montreal telling their stories to like minded colleagues.”

    Exactly, and to a lesser extent it also entails finding like-minded individuals in the “outer regions” and touting them as exemplars of Canadian-ness in order to give the impression that the narrow 416/Laurentian/OPG worldview is widely held by all decent Canadians.
    The CBC absolutely does not reflect the Canadian view. They treat people with non-“progressive” views as people who don’t “get” what Canada is all about.

  45. CBC is bad,we pay for it. CTV is on the same political bent. Give a listen to full of herself Lisa LaFlamme and be thankful we don’t pay her salary. I’d still like to know what she means when she states in her ad “this is an election like no other”.

  47. I haven’t watched CBC forever. And CBC radio? Yeah, right! What I have found, however, is that Global is as bad now as I remember CBC in the past. That evening anchor – Donna Whatever – has a permanent sneer on her face which becomes even more pronounced when she says, ‘Harper’ or ‘the Conservatives’. CTV isn’t much better. I really miss SUN News, but when the media is controlled by Bell, Rogers and Shaw, we who pay for all the crap are the ones who get screwed.

  48. I agree. Ever since Sun News shut down, all the networks have been predictably Toronto-centric in terms of their viewpoint. From what (little) I’ve seen of CTV, though, they seem to be the most balanced in their coverage of the campaign — which isn’t saying much. They’re still very much biased, so “balanced” is a relative term.
    They’ve got Robert Fife, and a lot of their commentators/panelists are clearly Liberal shills, but they also have a reasonable amount of coverage that is reasonably pro-Conservative, or at least matter-of-fact and not openly biased.
    Global is (IMO) the worst offender, running neck-in-neck with the CBC. The difference between Global and the CBC is that the CBC gets to scrape over a billion dollars a year from Canadian taxpayers’ pockets, which means that conservative Canadian taxpayers are forced to pay for a relentless, 24/7, coast-to-coast anti-Conservative propaganda campaign.
    The CBC’s supporters, and groups like Friends of the CBC, would have a completely different attitude towards the Ceeb if the situation was reversed, i.e. if their taxes went to pay for an anti-progressive national broadcaster.

  50. Drove through a ‘progressive area’ — you know close to the major University — of one of Canada’s large metropolitan areas a few days ago. Guess what political party had the majority of signs? That’s right, the CBC! There were signs everywhere that declared proudly: “I VOTE CBC”. Well I’m wondering if I can get me one of them to put up on my lawn. I will have to come clean though, I’ll have to add a little line above the main line that admits: “SINCE THE LOBOTOMY, I VOTE CBC”.
    I have to admit my effort at sarcasm is a bit late but maybe Kate could run a contest where us CBC Haytards can express our discontent.
    CBC LobotoMe

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