CBC Exposed: The CBC must take us all for fools ...

The CBC must take us all for fools and given that we keep paying their bills, we just might be.

Last week the state broadcaster trumpeted that it was a finalist for an award given to government bodies that show openness and transparency.

“We take transparency and accountability very seriously,” CBC president Hubert Lacroix said in a statement.

Then this week I opened my mail. I shouldn’t have been surprised really, it was par for the course for CBC: It sent me more files with all the relevant information stripped out.

See, back in 2007 when CBC came under the Access to Information Act, my employer Quebecor submitted an access request asking how much revenue CBC generated from Hockey Night in Canada.

They didn’t ask how much each ad cost or what special deal certain companies received. It was a request as to how much money CBC generated from hockey.

Given that CBC is owned by the government and paid for by all of us, this is the type of information it should readily turn over. After all, CBC regularly submits requests asking other government departments for information on files far more sensitive than hockey broadcasts and receives that information which it then turns into news stories.

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The privileged government media giant, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation- the CBC, is out of control, a bull in the proverbial china shop, with huge amounts of money pouring into their abyss of spending waste every day. And, it’s not enough to spend the vast amount of money they receive from advertising revenues and from the viewer fees gobbled up from the public – paid to them from the cable and satellite companies – no, that is not enough money for the untouchable, powerful CBC execs. They demand and get more money from the federal bureaucrats and politicians. Unfortunately, that ‘more’ is a lot of money and it comes from the little guys such as you, the taxed to death taxpayers of Canada.

The CBC receives a billion dollars plus, every year from us and the Corp., as they are called, have special powers to prevent any normal public investigation of their funding expenses- expenses such as compensation to senior executives and to talent, and on their huge spending for programming content costs. Mega public money is devoured by them every day with little accountability.

Their competition, CTV and Shaw/Global, for example, survive and indeed prosper from the advertising and cable/satellite fees earned. However, this significant amount of normal broadcast industry standard revenue, easily capable of making a private sector broadcast group happy, is not sufficient for the money burning privileged CBC. In fact, we taxpayers are giving them more than an additional one billion dollars every year. Yes that’s $1 billion. More than one billion dollars of your tax money, plucked out of your pocket and given as a free gift to this government owned media service every twelve months. And, if that is not enough to shock you, please know that the CBC continues to operate in an arrogant ‘we are exempt from the rules’ manner, making it difficult for the public to access any information about how they operate. To attempt to find out how much the Corp. pays their talent, or to simply have a review of their budgets, perhaps see how they run their programming and ‘objective’ news operation, you will likely have to fight hard including pursuing the difficult ‘access to information’ process-and years later if you do get it the info you requested may be redacted. Good luck trying. CBC executives continue to act as if we the taxpayers are just an unlimited ATM vehicle for their pleasure. Enough is Enough. It’s time for a change!

Please read through this new grass roots blog and we invite you to join with us to take some affirmative action. Vote here to sell the CBC or send a complaint to the CBC’s government regulatory body, the CRTC. Do you work at the CBC, or are you a former employee? (We know many hard working employees there, they are not the problem, the CBC execs are the problem) so become a whistleblower, send in your news story, your videos exposing the CBC exec s ‘wasteful management. Together we can make a positive difference. We can tell the people in charge, the senior politicians and bureaucrats who can make this change, that it is not acceptable to reach into our pocketbooks to grab one billion dollars every year to give to a privileged, arrogant government owned out of control media service. It’s time to say no, to say ‘you’re hard earned tax money is not to be wasted anymore, that you are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore’. We need change. Act now!

It’s time to sell the CBC. Use those billions in proceeds from the sale plus also keep the more than one billion dollars wasted in that giant media ATM cave every year, to invest it into something of real value- health care, education, the arts, or perhaps cut our taxes? Help us take action today. Read on, vote, see Contacts to pursue change, visit us regularly for up-dated stories, get informed, become involved.

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