John Bolton - July 09, 2025


We need ANSWERS about CBC TAXPAYER paid propaganda - What does Barton know？


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Travis Donraj writes a blistering resignation letter, blowing the lid off what actually happens at the public broadcaster. What does the CBC think of itself? And what does the Prime Minister have to say about it?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. It is 6.05 a.m. on Wednesday, July the 9th,
00:00:05.120 with the big blue mug of coffee this morning, as usual. I hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:11.080 And I wanted to delve a little deeper into this CBC story that continues to grow online. This is
00:00:17.340 the story about Travis Donraj, the former CBC employee. He writes this scathing resignation
00:00:24.040 letter blowing the lid off what actually happens at the public broadcaster. Mr. Donraj, a journalist,
00:00:30.840 and I believe that in the true sense of the word, by the way. I think he has credibility. I think he
00:00:35.220 needs to be listened to. I also think we need answers. I've got some questions of the heads of
00:00:40.880 the CBC, the people who work there, the big names on the CBC need to be asked some questions,
00:00:45.300 although they're being told to shut their mouths right now. And I also think somebody needs to put
00:00:49.920 a microphone in the face of the prime minister and ask him whether he wants to continue with
00:00:56.580 the funding, additional funding to the CBC, and continue along with legislation that would
00:01:02.700 put that funding into law in Canada. So the really awful thing about this is you're being
00:01:11.960 propagandized with your own money. But the other awful thing is that there are people you probably
00:01:16.200 know. They're probably your neighbors who are perfectly fine with this. They run to the CBC for
00:01:21.300 their confirmation bias, and they don't want to hear conservative voices. They don't get it on
00:01:27.120 the CBC. They don't like conservatives. They don't like Poliev. They don't like what they call
00:01:32.520 Maple MAGA. So they're perfectly fine with this. And this is a very slippery slope, folks, a very
00:01:38.640 slippery slope. So let's go over and just take a look at a couple of articles just out over the last
00:01:43.940 day. Chris Selle will thank Travis Donraj for pulling back the curtain on CBC News. Now, Mr. Selle is
00:01:50.740 correct here. But the thing is, we all knew this was happening in the first place. If you're a
00:01:55.560 conservative, you knew this was happening. Just a little bit from his article, he accused the network,
00:02:01.600 credibly, it must be said, of performative diversity, tokenism, and perpetuating a system
00:02:07.960 designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others. Donraj is brown-skinned and quickly 1.00
00:02:13.960 developed a reputation on the Canada Tonight news magazine show for inviting, shall we say,
00:02:19.220 non-CBC types onto the public airways. An appearance by Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilly
00:02:24.960 caused particular consternation among those who carry CBC tote bags. And Catherine Marshall, who's
00:02:31.040 representing Donraj in a planned complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, alleged this week
00:02:36.820 that CBC management assumed Donraj would hold a liberal worldview because of his skin color and
00:02:43.820 were dismayed when it didn't pan out the way they assumed it would. Pretty awful. And this is your
00:02:49.020 tax dollars, folks. Then there's this from Terry Newman. Donraj is a journalist. He doesn't belong at
00:02:54.420 the CBC. A scathing rebuke of other people like Rosemary Barton, David Cochran, Ian Hannah Mansing,
00:03:01.800 other people who work there. Mr. Newman basically saying they're not journalists because if they know
00:03:07.500 about this happening, they're not journalists and they are propagandists for the liberal government.
00:03:12.640 The thing that really bothered me the other day, this is the article that kind of broke this story
00:03:16.560 a few days ago, was this line right here. Donraj's lawyer, Catherine Marshall, said Monday that the
00:03:22.420 CBC didn't want him booking conservative voices on his show. Well, what does the CBC think of itself?
00:03:29.240 And this is the mind-boggling thing. I went online to look up this article or this document right here.
00:03:35.720 Now, this was released, I believe, in February. It went up on March the 13th on the Government of
00:03:40.520 Canada website, The Future of the CBC. All these people who love the CBC sat down and came up with
00:03:46.580 a plan going forward with the CBC. And Mark Carney is following this to the letter. I just want to go
00:03:54.200 over a little bit of this for you because it's mind-boggling how ignorant it is. Okay.
00:04:00.120 The trust of citizens. This is in the same document. Citizens' trust in public media has
00:04:05.660 also declined in recent years in many countries. In an increasingly fragmented and polarized media
00:04:11.380 environment, they tend to turn to information sources that correspond to their personal opinions
00:04:16.140 and values. I talked about confirmation bias. That's where liberals go, to the CBC.
00:04:20.540 Now, what the CBC is worried about is that people are going to other sources. They don't want you to
00:04:27.120 do that. They want to, well, they want to control the narrative. This phenomenon, combined with the
00:04:35.680 proliferation of false information and conspiracy theories, say the arbiters of misinformation,
00:04:40.660 the CBC and the government, weakens the position of public broadcasters, which are perceived by some
00:04:46.320 as institutional actors, often biased and ineffective. Moving along here. Now, this is
00:04:52.460 about the funding. And this is what Mark Carney is all about. In Canada, CBC Radio Canada's public funding
00:04:59.060 comes from parliamentary appropriations. These are voted on every year by parliament as part of the budget
00:05:04.780 process. Through a specific provision added in the Broadcasting Act, the minister would aim to provide
00:05:10.880 sufficient resources to CBC Radio Canada in the long term by establishing a statutory appropriation
00:05:17.800 based on an annual per capita amount. This funding level based on a per capita formula enshrined in the
00:05:24.940 act would provide greater certainty for funding than parliamentary appropriations, which can vary from one year
00:05:31.000 to the next without sufficient notice. Just one more line here. The difference between a parliamentary
00:05:36.060 appropriation and a statutory appropriation is that the latter is enshrined in an act of parliament that
00:05:42.620 is not voted on annually by parliament as part of the budget process. And this is what Mark Carney
00:05:48.820 wants. Written into law how much the CBC gets, and I'm sure what they get will only go up. And you can't
00:05:55.360 get rid of the funding just by looking at what's the budget each year. Basically, that's it. This is what he had
00:06:02.520 to say. And you've seen this video before. We will not only increase CBC Radio Canada's funding by $150
00:06:09.100 million, but we will also make this funding statutory, meaning that parliament as a whole will need to
00:06:16.060 approve any future changes to its funding, not just the cabinet. So $150 million more. This is a question
00:06:23.200 he needs to be asked in the wake of Mr. Don Raj's resignation letter. And then you go over here,
00:06:28.680 and this is an article right here, right from the CBC website, for God's sakes. Another $150 million
00:06:34.620 boost to underfunded CBC, they put. And no doubt that they were, you know, salivating the fact that
00:06:41.640 Carney was going to give them more money. Going back to the document I was just showing you, this could
00:06:46.160 be called, this is called political environment. They could have called this polyapolitical environment
00:06:50.800 because I think this paragraph was written right here because of peer polyap. Public broadcasters
00:06:57.320 are also facing political pressures, which can affect their editorial independence and a number
00:07:03.040 of Western countries. The relationship between government and public media is becoming increasingly
00:07:08.060 fraught. Some governments are using their financial authority to put pressure on newsrooms
00:07:12.720 or adopt laws that limit freedom of the press. These attacks are often motivated by ideological
00:07:19.860 considerations and are aimed at limiting the influence of public media, which are either perceived as
00:07:25.740 overly critical of governments or as loudspeakers for government messages.
00:07:32.760 I mean, this could have been written for what peer poly have wanted, defund the CBC.
00:07:38.140 Publicly funded broadcasters are in a delicate position because of their role in broadcasting
00:07:42.440 neutral, high quality information. They're often the target of those who want to influence public
00:07:48.960 opinion. Can you believe this actually got written? Their ability to maintain their independence
00:07:53.980 in the face of these pressures is essential to preserve their credibility and legitimacy.
00:08:00.560 Somebody actually thinks this of the CBC. You and I knew differently. Now, let's look at some
00:08:06.340 revenue sources here. Okay, this is going back to 2021-2022. This year, the operating funding was
00:08:14.040 $1.139.7 million. Capital funding recognized in income was $93.6 million and working capital $4 million.
00:08:22.220 Government funding, this is your money, $1.139 million. That's $1,139,700,000. Now, let's move ahead
00:08:32.260 here. According to its annual report, CBC Radio Canada received $1.24 billion in federal funds in
00:08:38.720 2022, $1.39 billion in 2021. It keeps going up. And Carney says he wants to give them $150 million more.
00:08:48.600 So, I have some questions. I woke up this morning thinking, who are the big names on CBC? Rosemary
00:08:56.760 Barton. How much does Rosemary Barton get paid to spread liberal propaganda? And how does she know 1.00
00:09:04.820 about this? I looked up online. AI says it's not publicly available. We don't know. And I want to know.
00:09:10.920 I went in David Cochran. How much does he make? Not publicly available. I want to know.
00:09:19.960 These are two of their biggest names and voices. What are we paying them to advance liberal talking
00:09:25.260 points and to suppress conservative voices? And what do they know about this? That's what I want to know.
00:09:30.380 I want to know if they're aware of this so-called performative diversity tokenism and perpetuating a
00:09:38.900 system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others. Conservatives. Or is this just
00:09:44.540 what they do because it's in their nature? I want to know if some journalists will ask Mark Carney about
00:09:50.940 this. Are you going to hold back on mandating this funding for the CBC in law? Are you going to give
00:09:57.420 them another $150 million after we've heard this information from Mr. Donraj? Or they're just going
00:10:03.080 to attack Mr. Donraj? Because that's probably what's going to happen. I also accuse the CBC of
00:10:10.260 election interference. I mean, we see the bias when we watch the CBC. The CBC claims objectivity and
00:10:20.860 neutrality. It's in the document they put out back in February. But we don't believe them. And we knew
00:10:25.360 this was true all along. That they're not objective. They're not neutral. And again, we go back to Terry
00:10:32.820 Newman's article on Travis Donraj. He doesn't belong at the CBC because he's a journalist. It doesn't say
00:10:39.280 a lot about Rosemary Barton, David Cochran, Ian Hannah Mansing, if they knew this kind of nonsense was
00:10:44.160 going on. I want to know how long I have to continue to fund this corporation that does not speak for me and
00:10:51.280 takes my money and yours. That's what I want to know. I think this is disgraceful. What do you think?
00:10:57.540 You probably have some additional questions as well. Put them in the comments below. That's all I got to
00:11:02.540 say on this topic today. But it just makes me damn mad that we didn't elect a government that said they
00:11:08.220 were going to defund the CBC. I think it's time we move on. The CBC doesn't want anybody else to have a
00:11:14.680 voice here. They say it in their document. They're worried about independent voices having a say and
00:11:21.300 they want to keep their voices quieted. And remember this. Let's go back to this right here.
00:11:28.240 Gibeau is now back in charge of controlling the internet. Liberal. This is only going to get worse.
00:11:35.980 Thank you very much for watching. I do appreciate it. If you liked the video, give me a thumbs up,
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