Just Do It

83 Replies to “Just Do It”

1. How I wish this would come true, but remember, Milei’s a libertarian, and even well-respected small-c conservative commentators in Canada don’t have much respect for libertarians or for the solutions they want to try to shrink the size and influence of government.

   I like Poilievre (and I understand those who don’t), but whatever else you think of him, he is definitely not a libertarian.

   1. I concur. I was involved in conservative politics back in Harper’s time and was on a national committee. I remember coming at things from a libertarian bent, I quickly realized these people saw government as a good thing, if only they were running it. I gave up.

      1. I agree, and believe we’ll only see symbolic cuts to the CBC, but they will NOT be fully defunded or shut down in any way.

   2. Dittos here!

   3. Agreed Garth.

      Perhaps it’s time to look into moving to Argentina.

      Not the worst idea I’ve come up with in my life. Staying here just continues to whittle down the nest egg.

      I hear the weather is nice there.

      I wonder what is the rum like there? If it’s good I’m gonna pack my bags.

      1. Why would you think you would be welcome in Argentina? They will hate you as much as we hate foreigners. You get one homeland. You can’t just turn it into shit and move on.

         1. Well,I turned it to shit and moved on.

            Even left a bigger shit surprise behind.

   4. Polievere will govern like a Liberal lite. Here are some crumbs, while the uni-party rolls on.

      1. Canadian conservatives are just slower, cheaper Liberals. Same policies same everything just not as quickly. No Conserygovernment has ever eliminated, stopped or reduced any Liberal policy. Ever. If they did we wouldn’t have a expo maple leaf flag in Liberal colours.

         1. Well…The Avro Arrow.

2. It’s a start

3. Why does he look like one of the lead characters in the old series UFO from the UK?

   1. In this photo, he looks a bit like Andy Robinson.

   2. He does look like a cross between Alec Freeman (George Sewell) and Paul Foster (Michael Billington), so that’d be two main characters. Let’s hope he lasts longer than “UFO”.

      1. And let’s not call him Surely.

      2. Bring back the silver mini-skirts and go go boots.

         1. Sorry, all we got was the purple hair.

4. Also delete the CRTC and zap the pRam.

   1. CRTC first! Then CBC. I used to think CBC radio could stay but hadn’t really listened to it in almost 30 years. I was staying with a friend two years ago and he always had CBC radio on. I changed my mind. Unless you fire everyone and start over.

      1. Agreed to both of you. It’s the appalling CRTC which has to go. It’s the one stifling competition, enforcing CanCon. CRTC has deliberately created a phony system that blocks new market entries. It’s the CRTC that ensures the media functions as an Old Boys’ Club oligarchy.

   2. If you get rid of the CRTC there is no more broadcast of anything. CRTC decides who gets to use which frequency for what. Without someone doing that use of electromagnetic spectrum becomes impossible. They don’t need the power to regulate content but someone has to manage bandwidth.

      1. That should take two people, at most.

         1. Ok it takes two people. It still has to be done. The government probably has thousands of people doing things that could be done by two.

      2. Seriously? There might be some functions that still require doing but the CRTC is not necessary for those things to happen. It has to go if only for the stifling of any competition to the mainstream liberal narrative. Sun News anyone?

      3. Rusty: I have to correct you. The CRTC only allocates the radio spectrum designated for broadcasting to radio and TV broadcasters, such as CBC, CTV and Global. The government department that is responsible for all spectrum is Innovation, Science and Industry. Within that department is a group that allocates spectrum to various telecommunications functions and companies, such as the spectrum used by the cellphone companies.

         If you want further info., this is a link to a useful summary of how spectrum allocation works.

         https://hillnotes.ca/2021/05/10/understanding-spectrum-management-in-canada/

         1. Thanks for the link. Very informative.

5. CBC – Communists Being Canned

   1. Commie Bastard Channel

6. Our only hope is that other leaders see him doing courageous things, and they are inspired by it, or they are scared enough that they follow suit.

   Shutting down the state run news agency is exactly the opposite of what he would do if he was an ultra right wing authoritarian totalitarian dictatorial genocidal leader.

7. And on a clear night, with a gentle west wind, I can hear the sound of a thousand CBC Ottawa sphincters puckering.

   1. PP won’t kill the CBC, though he has made noises that suggest it, and has used dog whistles to raise his profile.
      Expect to be disappointed by Polievre’s decisions regarding CBC.
      The Ceeb needs to be torn down, destructed, erased, etc. Anything less is a failure and a broken promise.

      1. I have no confidence whatsoever if the Conservatives come to power they will do anything about the CBC, the carbon tax, massive non-Western immigration or anything else that needs to be destroyed.

         1. Agreed. In order for massive cuts to happen, the entire senior bureaucracy would need to be terminated in favour of hundreds, perhaps thousands of new recruits. They would have to be experienced enough to understand the hierarchies of government ministries, but steely enough to carry out the tough decisions required, without being influenced by craven, socialists in the bureaucracy.
            Those people used to exist in government 30 years go, early in my career, but they have largely disappeared. Current management, top down, believe in the gravy train and privilege of fully protected status. That’s why government ministries need to be GUTTED!

            1. Yes GUTTED, many eliminated and those few left, right sized. Think hundreds, never thousands.

      2. I could be wrong, but I don’t think PP ever said that he wanted to kill the CBC. He said that he would only defund it.

8. A while back Mike Bullard posted a thread on billing games going at Canadian tv networks. I admit that I didn’t understand everything he was saying but it looks like a weird billing/invoicing racket where organizations are getting paid for equipment despite that equipment not being delivered. A snippet from the thread:

   “This stuff adds up to thousands over the course of a week. We asked for a crane cam many times and didn”t get it but found out later we were paying for one. Around 2001 Bell took over CTV and I asked for a show audit….all of this came out and the line producer was fired by the executive producer. A week later he hired her back to work on other shows”

   https://twitter.com/MikeBullard1997/status/1756302175393755273

   Not sure if this costs Canadian taxpayers any money, but it wouldn’t suprise me if taxpayers were getting ripped off in some way since we are subsidizing media companies.

   1. Of course it costs Citizens money, that equipment is a line item cost in a budget, and thus an expense, which is then charged against the revenue of the program, and reduces the stated “profit”.

      1. I never considered that angle. I wonder if these types of billing games are being played by other taxpayer subsidized media organizations? Or other corporate welfare companies subsidized by taxpayers? There seems to be layers on top of layers of financial rackets in the Canadian economy, especially those linked to government.

         Defund them all….

      2. I know it’s nearly impossible to make it through the usual canadian crap, but at the end of practically every show is filled to the brim with govt funding credits.

         1. I’ve noticed. They can’t properly fund a functional federal government to process things like passports but they’ve got all kinds of cash for corporate welfare, foreign countries, outside contractors and consultants, vanity projects, virtue signalling and Canadian culture. Lots of fat to cut in the federal budget after the next election. Whole departments should go.

         2. It’s not just Canadian Crap, it’s also disney crap like the mandalorian funded by ontario, canada and quebec.

            The film and television industry benefits from tax credits, and a lower dollar, otherwise the industry probably wouldn’t be as big as it is

            1. Has there ever in history been a pro Conservative govt funded Canadian show?

            2. Does _Suits_ count?

9. The scary thing is that his actions – balancing the budget, getting rid of state-funded propoganda, and shrinking government – are seen as so unique,extreme, and rare. And that this is the only country doing it. It should be the norm, not the exception.
   Yet here we are. He is touted as a madman, while the other countries march on towards self-destruction.

   1. Exactly correct, sir or madam.

10. Its not so much the opinions expressed.. Its forcing me to pay for it, then laughing in my face..

11. PeePee will never defund the CBC.

    I honestly think it’s more likely Trudeau’s incompetence somehow contributes to the eventual demise of mother corp before a conservative govt mothballs or privatizes it.

12. PP reminds me of all the hope the west placed on Brian (Quebec) Mulroney.
    Brian said all the right things and we sucked it up.
    PP (history repeats it self) will do what the golden triangle wants.

13. We would need at least another 15-20 years of Trudeau to arrive at a place where currently considered extreme measures would become palatable.
    I never for one moment believed that PP would be able to scrap the CBC. The best we could hope for would be a staged reduction of the budget over a few years and a freeze on hiring and forbidding bonusues not linked to well defined performance metrics. I dunno why but I’m guessing it’s because of the now mythic status of the CBC which might prevail even with no listeners/viewers.

    And Kate’s Nike “Just Do It” is naive in the extreme. Realize that the power behind Trudeau did not Just Do It. The destruction was incremental over nearly 10 years.

    Canada is a company town, that company being Ottawa. It’ll take multiple terms to reverse the damage and Just Do It will give you only ONE.

    1. What do you call it when you keep doing the same thing and expect different results?

       1. YeahWell:

          Mental illness.
          What do call people who make impossible, grandiose suggestions like “Just Do It” with absolutely no attention to the realities on the ground; and who expect 50+ years of socialism to be suddenly overturned when the people have no idea what has been done to them (frog in boiling water) and when Argentinian desperation is nowhere in sight.

          Answer: one term losers.

          1. The belief that we’ll get ever get the 10 (min) terms necessary to fix things incrementally is absurd. The libs did “Just Do It” over 2 terms. Conservatives should do the same in one term. Its easier to destroy than to build, and destroying the CBC utterly could be done in one term. same goes for gun control. 1 term with no “restricted” permits would lead to a free-for all of purchasing, etc, that, even when the libs get back in power, it would be too late as millions of guns would already be in circulation, etc.
             Incrementalism is a failed policy, history proves it.
             if your more worried about terms, you’re more worried about party than people.

             1. Where are these Conservatives of which you speak?

                A strange creature that only exists for 30 day election periods beyond the fevered imaginations of the truly easily fooled.

    2. Menticide, Javier Milei seems to be “Just doing it”, and is producing budget surpluses as a result. If this is explained to the citizenry, just as you would explain a household budget, and then keep everyone updated as to how it’s going, and how much more $ they now have in their paychecks and wallets, it should produce future majority gov’ts capable of further progress.

       As I’ve said in relation to the gun laws reform file, baby steps are for babies. I want adult strides. Put another way, I don’t want to eat the elephant at all, even one bite at a time. I want the damn thing shot dead, and it’s stinking carcass hauled off to the landfill and buried.

14. Sure. Let’s shut all journalism down. We’ll all be better off.

    1. All state-funded urinalism should come to an end.

    2. If all the journalists are liars we’ll be better off.

    3. Go start a newspaper, why don’t you?

15. The best thing that PP could do politically and still rid the taxpayers of the abomination of the CBC would be to convert it to subscriber only service like PBS. I doubt very much that the left would voluntarily fund much of its current cost and PP can claim that those that love the CBC should step up and failure to do so is proof that it doesn’t deserve to exist.

    The CRTC should of course be abolished along with most existing federal Ministries.

    1. JC, this is a great idea. I hope someone from the CPC is paying attention to this site.

       1. They are not. They are salivating over their pensions and lifetimes of board appointments, speaking engagements and book deals.

16. Milei had a few choices: Leave the media company as is, force it to run stories sympathetic to his government, or shut it down.

    The first is neglect, the second is corrupt. He chose ethically.

17. Its easier to destroy than to build. If PP actually had the balls to dismantle the CBC and sell it off piecemeal, it would take much effort of a subsequent lib gov’t to rebuild it. People who say incrementalism is a good strategy for the conservatives are basically apologists for liberal policies.

    1. Yup. You will likely only get one 4 year kick at the can, anyway. So you may as well crush and destroy the effin thing. Kill all the weeds, create a moonscape, and plant your own seeds.

    2. PP knows that hundreds of felonies could instantly appear given too much toe stepping/shibboleth bashing.

       Canada resembles the US in a lot more than just crooked politicians, co-opted media and dumb voters.

18. No need to dismantle, subsrcription only, day 1, the bankruptcy trustees and auctioneers handle the rest.

    1. Great idea. Canadians can put their money where their stupid mouths are.

19. It’s CBC, not “ journalism.”

20. The Cons with PP have a long list of easy targets.
    Correction: The citizens that aren’t stupid bastards have a long list of easy targets.
    Politicians have a short list:
    1. Attain power
    2. Maintain power.
    The end.
    If I’m wrong, great.
    But I’ve seen Lucy holding that football before.

21. I too wonder..
    Who are these Canadian Conservatives of which many here speak?
    What are they conserving?
    That Long Jawed Parasite that just passed away..It claimed to be a “Conservative” too..
    Is that true?
    What values,ethics and standards do we,here in the West, share with the majority of eastern Voters?
    Are we still willing to sentence our grandchildren to perpetual servitude for services we never see?
    How is that “Free Government Healthcare working out for you?
    I call these people Fools and Bandits,who have been stealing us blind for 6 decades..
    And we should “Vote for more?”

22. The CBC is used as a tool of government. Like the one ring, PP will not throw it into the volcano. He will use it to make sure no other parties rise on the right, and use it to advocate his position.

    1. No, the CBC is a tool of the far-left. If it was a tool of the gov’t, we wouldn’t see it attack sitting CPC gov’ts so much.

23. Rip the band-aid off QUICKLY. And there are a LOT of band-aids that need to go.

    1. I agree, attack the state on so many levels that their carefully coordinated strategies don’t work. They always come with a “whole of government” (and media) approach. Hit them everywhere at once, and as the incompetent managers they have proved to be they will thrash and flail, that’s when you can gut them.

24. Kate … would you mind terribly if I put NPR and PBS on the defund list?

    1. You have all those filthy rich culturally Marxists corporations and foundations that fund those outlets. We need them to up their funding which will use up more of that evil bounty making less available to spend on Canadian ENGOs who buy green lefty politicians here.

25. One would think that ‘conservatives’ would want to retain the CBC, and ‘liberals’ would want it gone.

26. The man makes all the right decisions. Cleans up the swam at home, snubs BRICS and supports Ukraine.

27. CBC is not using all that money for programming and staff. Huge amounts of it are disappearing somewhere siphoned off the way ArriveScam siphoned money off.

    The solution is two fold. Not one more penny. CBC should survive or fold on its own merit.

    Canadians need to start suing CBC and all the presstitutes that promoted the lockdowns and the jab for the harm they caused Canadians. It should be fairly easy to prove CBC colluded with Big Pharma to lie to Canadians about the jab. Take that pediatrician getting 2 million from Pfizer who became the go-to guy for CBC promoting the jab for kids for they censored anyone who disagreed. If that’s not collusion I don’t know what is. And then there’s the hatred heaped on us unjabbed due to CBC’s biased coverage. We unjabbed should sue for the harm they caused us. And Big Pharma says they never said “safe and effective” but I sure heard it a lot from CBC presstitutes. It should be easy to bankrupt CBC with a few carefully planned law suites.

    1. If you are forced to ingest a substance, it must be safe and effective or it’s an initiation of force at gunpoint.

       How libertarian of me.

28. Milei, Orban and Netanyahu are showing us how it’s done. We need to pay attention.

29. It won’t help that much. The people running the media all graduated from the same schools, all believe the same things and all say the same things, whether they work for the Liberal Party or for the people that control the Liberal Party from Bay Street to Beijing.

    You want them to start telling the truth?

    Give every Jewish Canadian a machine gun, all the ammo he asks for and permission to take the life of anybody he considers an enemy of the Jewish people.
    Do that and you won’t hear any more anti-Semitic bilge about how the Jews are starving Arab children.

    The CBC and all the others will finally start telling you the truth, then, because they’ll finally have more to lose from continuing to carry water for people who hate you and want you dead than from telling the truth.

    People like this have no sense of right and wrong. All they care about is what’s in their own narrow interest. They will swear black is white if they think they have anything to gain from it. They will only do the right thing if they have nothing to gain from doing the wrong thing. So we need to change their incentives accordingly.

    1. The problem with that theory is that Jewish Canadians are just like many other Canadians and have made common cause with the Liberal Party because it is in their narrow self interest. I don’t think I want to empower them any differently than any other Canadian, as they have demonstrated no special virtue.