Juno News - August 28, 2025


CBC has hundreds of managers, directors, and producers on six-figure salaries

Topics
CBC salaries and waste
Mentioned
Pierre Poilievre
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

176.34

Word count

461

Sentence count

15


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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has a list of 65 pages of top-paid employees at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They argue that the CBC is a waste of money, and that it should be funded by the Canadian government, not the Canadian taxpayers.

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00:00:00.000 The CBC keeps getting more and more expensive, and every time there's an election, it seems
00:00:04.680 like the Liberal government just goes ahead and bids more money to the CBC.
00:00:08.920 If Pierre Polyev had won, I hope he would follow through on his promise to defund the
00:00:12.960 CBC.
00:00:13.960 I disagree with you.
00:00:14.960 I don't think it serves a public purpose at all.
00:00:17.400 Even the idea of hitting you doing radio and servicing small communities, it doesn't really
00:00:23.660 make sense anymore because of podcasters and people who go and do citizen journalism.
00:00:29.660 I can tell a lot more about what's happening in a small town if there's an emergency or something like that, just going on Twitter or going on X, than paying the CBC to have a bureaucracy.
00:00:39.160 Well, $1.4 billion was spent on the state of Budcrestor in 2023-2024, and our friends over at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation found out that there is a 65-page list of CBC employees who make over $100,000 a year.
00:00:56.200 It is really, really unbelievable.
00:00:57.760 There are over 200 people at the CBC who earn that high, high wage, including 180 managers, 277 senior managers, 124 directors, 106 senior directors, 28 executive producers.
00:01:14.180 I don't think they know what an executive producer is because usually that's the lead producer.
00:01:18.100 I don't know why you need 28 of those.
00:01:20.180 But it goes on and on and on.
00:01:21.880 there's just so much waste and part of it to your point is that they're paying
00:01:26.020 themselves ridiculous salaries and then they're giving themselves bonuses on top
00:01:29.680 of that what do you make of it yeah I mean it's also when you reading out that
00:01:33.460 list and first of all it's very funny that they have their own sunshine list
00:01:36.580 at this point like you could you know it could be its own Toronto Sun giant
00:01:41.440 giant thing but it's as their managers it's managerial bloat it's it's these
00:01:48.160 are the same issues that you hear from doctors like in our health care sector
00:01:51.220 which is it's like oh our employment in our hospital is growing and it's like it's just
00:01:55.460 middle management and administrators and another person on a keyboard with like a not particularly
00:02:01.700 real job that's not you know we know we're not serving the public with with that kind of growth
00:02:09.400 with that sort of bureaucratic growth and and particularly in the the case of the state
00:02:13.680 broadcaster who benefits from from 10 more executive producers at the cbc when half those
00:02:19.780 people would be for daytime television that's watched by 10,000 moms, maybe, and it is directed
00:02:27.440 towards advertisers who aren't even getting their dollars worth. And it's being subsidized by us
00:02:32.180 at a time when all of our public services are underwater.