Juno News - December 08, 2023


Why are they blaming Pierre Poilievre for THIS？


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00:00:00.000 The CBC cut 700 jobs earlier this week. This despite a lofty $1.3 billion annual handout from
00:00:07.540 the Trudeau government. But instead of blaming the CBC, instead of blaming the senior brass
00:00:12.380 for mismanagement and wasting taxpayer dollars, the legacy media in Canada is blaming, you guessed
00:00:18.640 it, opposition leader Pierre Polyev. It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is
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00:00:48.560 Okay, so last week I said that the legacy media had dwelled on what I thought was the stupidest
00:00:53.660 story in Canadian media history, but apparently that is a pretty low bar because it seems that
00:00:58.680 they are outdoing themselves week after week after week. So today I'm going to walk you
00:01:03.500 through the latest faux scandal involving the CBC. Well, there is a real scandal involving
00:01:08.760 the CBC. It's an absolute story of corruption and mismanagement over at the state broadcaster.
00:01:15.520 But I'm going to talk to you about how somehow the legacy media has managed to spin this into
00:01:21.360 something to be morally outraged at opposition leader Pierre Polyev, because that's just the
00:01:25.720 world that we live in. So as you know, the CBC is funded by the Trudeau government. Elon
00:01:32.360 Musk hilariously changed their logo on X when Elon Musk took over the company on Twitter and
00:01:39.820 changed it to saying that it was a state owned media to allow viewers to know the truth that
00:01:45.020 this isn't just sort of independent press. This is a state owned media company, just like
00:01:50.160 the state owned media companies in communistic dictatorship. The CBC didn't like that. They
00:01:54.800 pointed out that, hey, it's not all their money that comes from the government. It's not all
00:01:59.440 their money that's forked over from taxpayers by the Trudeau liberals. It's just a fraction. So Elon
00:02:05.440 Musk changed the logo on their Twitter account to say that they are 69 percent government funded,
00:02:10.720 because apparently that's a precise number that they receive from the government. So according to their
00:02:15.840 own reports in 2022-2023 fiscal year, the CBC received around $1.3 billion from the Trudeau
00:02:23.840 government from our tax dollars. And that's not enough. Apparently, that's not enough. Because
00:02:29.280 last week we learned that Google will be handing over $100 million to the legacy media in Canada.
00:02:35.200 They won't just distribute it themselves, they'll actually hand it over to the Trudeau government,
00:02:39.120 who will then get to dole out the cash themselves. So rather than Google just paying media companies for
00:02:45.280 their input, they're doing it through the Trudeau government. So Trudeau gets credit,
00:02:48.480 he gets to pick and choose which journalists are going to get another bailout, another payout,
00:02:53.280 this time Google funds. Well, you would think that this money, $100 million, would go to local
00:02:59.040 journalism, would go to small independent media companies, companies that the Trudeau government
00:03:03.520 talks about how they are the ones that are struggling. You wouldn't think it would go to the
00:03:07.200 state broadcaster, an organization that already gets $1.3 billion in taxpayer money. Well, if you thought
00:03:12.480 that you would be wrong, because the heritage minister, Pascal Saint-Ange, says that it would
00:03:17.280 be within the spirit of the government's new digital law, if the CBC Radio Canada were to receive money
00:03:22.800 from Google, but suggested its share of the $100 million fund may be capped. Well, apparently,
00:03:28.240 based on the formula that they seem to be using, CBC may be eligible for up to 33%, one third of this
00:03:34.480 fund, because that's how many journalists they employ. Of all the legacy media journalists in Canada,
00:03:38.640 one third work for the state broadcaster. So using that logic, they could get up to $33 million
00:03:44.640 in additional money. And like I said, not all of CBC's money comes from the government. They also have
00:03:50.720 a lot of their own assets. They're sitting on $444 million in real estate. Most of that is sunk into its
00:03:57.600 very large headquarters in downtown Toronto. They also have headquarters in downtown Ottawa, downtown
00:04:02.720 Montreal, downtown Vancouver. The Toronto property itself is assessed at something around $315 million.
00:04:11.040 This is according to a report from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in October of this year. CBC also
00:04:17.840 raises money through advertising. So it takes in nearly $200 million a year doing that. So CBC is flush with
00:04:24.480 cash. CBC has more money than any other media company in the country, perhaps more than any other media
00:04:30.160 company in the country combined. And yet on December 4th, we woke up to the news that the CBC is laying
00:04:38.640 people off. They are laying off up to 700 people. This despite all of the money that I just laid out.
00:04:45.120 And they go ahead and they announced this news three weeks before Christmas. Three weeks before
00:04:50.000 Christmas, the state broadcaster decides to say, hey, guess what, CBC? Guess what, CBC employees?
00:04:55.280 You're probably going to lose your job. We're going to be laying off a whole bunch of people,
00:04:59.040 and it's going to be happening now. I have no idea why any big company, large corporation would
00:05:03.760 decide to announce news like this during the holidays over Christmas. It just seems completely
00:05:08.960 cold and heartless of the state broadcaster, especially in the wake of all this news that
00:05:13.920 they're going to be getting even more money. They're probably going to be getting another $33 million in
00:05:18.800 addition to the $1.3 billion that they get. Well, according to a report from the Journal de Montreal,
00:05:25.040 indicates that 600 to 700 employees across the country would soon be out of work.
00:05:28.960 These anticipated layoffs affecting both English and French services mark a significant reduction
00:05:33.760 in CBC's workforce with over 300 positions in Quebec alone on the line. So the whole thing just looks
00:05:41.280 really, really bad. And then on top of that, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation swoop in with more
00:05:47.520 devastating news about the CBC. Well, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the CBC doled
00:05:54.640 out $16 million in bonuses last year in 2022. They handed that out to their staff, to the senior
00:06:02.960 management. About 1,100 employees received that total of $16 million. And it gets worse. According to
00:06:10.800 these records, since 2015, CBC management has received almost $185 million in bonuses and pay
00:06:18.640 raises with an average of $23 million spent per year. That includes $80 million in bonuses and raises
00:06:26.400 since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A time when the entire economy is contracting and most private
00:06:33.120 companies are laying people off. Most media companies, private media companies are laying people off.
00:06:37.840 The CBC is growing through government funding. They are giving out bonuses to their fat cat
00:06:44.240 bosses. So not everyone was okay with this. Well, even CBC's own employees started noticing this,
00:06:51.280 noticing the huge contradictions, the utter mismanagement that is happening over the state
00:06:55.520 broadcaster, where you have $1.3 billion in taxpayer money going to an organization that is laying people
00:07:02.400 off at Christmas time while also giving out millions of dollars in bonuses. So here is CBC host Adrienne
00:07:09.360 Arsenal grilling her boss. Kudos to her for asking these tough questions. But she's grilling her boss.
00:07:15.360 This is the CEO of the CBC, Catherine Tate, talking about how they just don't know if they're going to
00:07:22.080 give bonuses this year. They just haven't really discussed it. They haven't decided yet. And it's none of
00:07:27.040 our business anyway. Here's that clip. I'm just just curious about something. I'm going to presume
00:07:31.920 no bonuses this year. I mean, the Canadian taxpayer federation said a freedom of information request
00:07:36.800 showed 16 million were paid in bonuses in 2022. Can we establish that that is not happening this year?
00:07:44.000 It's too early to say where we are for this year. We'll be looking at that like we do all our line
00:07:50.640 items in the coming months. So there's a there's a chance bonuses could still happen at a time when
00:07:55.760 jobs are being cut? Again, I'm not going to comment on something that hasn't been discussed at this
00:08:01.200 point. So Catherine Tate is an absolute clown. Look at her with a big grin on her face. After announcing
00:08:07.760 that the CBC would be laying people off over Christmas time, you could even see the host was upset. She
00:08:12.480 seemed troubled. Her voice was even a little shaky when she was asking that question because it's such an
00:08:17.520 emotional traumatic thing that's happening over at the state broadcaster. And there's you know,
00:08:22.400 the CEO is just saying like, whatever, we'll figure it out later. Okay, so if you're a regular Canadian,
00:08:27.840 a normal person, and you're viewing all this, you're you're observing that there is something
00:08:31.760 seriously wrong with the state broadcaster. The CBC is clearly mismanaged. They clearly don't know
00:08:37.120 what they're doing, clearly bloated, so far removed from the economy and from the realistic restraints
00:08:42.880 that are happening in the economy. They're just living in their own little bubble. And I
00:08:47.280 think a fair minded Canadian would look at the situation and just say this needs to change.
00:08:51.520 This isn't right. This isn't how our government should be run. This isn't how taxpayers should be
00:08:57.520 spent. If you're a liberal, though, if you are a partisan liberal, you see this as an opportunity to
00:09:03.040 defend the CBC to say that the CBC is worth defending and shame on those conservatives because
00:09:08.560 you will recall that Pierre Polyev wants to defund the CBC has said many times that he plans to defund the
00:09:15.120 CBC. So you had Trudeau's heritage minister jump out there and start defending the layoffs,
00:09:21.040 defending the CBC and blaming the conservatives. So here is the heritage minister once again,
00:09:27.440 blaming conservative cuts, blaming the Harper government who has not been in power for what,
00:09:32.320 almost nine years, blaming them for the CBC's current management in 2023. Here's that clip.
00:09:38.320 I'm completely opposed to the vision of the leader of the opposition that thinks that
00:09:43.280 he can defund CBC and that it won't affect Radio Canada. This is wrong. The two are intertwined.
00:09:50.400 We need a strong public broadcaster from coast to coast to coast, not only in Quebec or in
00:09:58.080 French language and minority situation. The public broadcaster is offering services across the country
00:10:05.040 in both official languages, but also in eight indigenous languages. It's unique. It's essential. And even
00:10:13.520 while most of our private broadcasters no longer have the resources to send journalists across the
00:10:20.800 world to bring back a Canadian perspective on what's going on globally, CBC Radio Canada is essential into
00:10:28.320 providing those types of services. They are present in every region of the country, even though a lot
00:10:34.960 of newsrooms have closed. So they are providing local and regional information that would not be
00:10:39.920 available if the public broadcaster didn't exist. In my opinion, Pierre Poiliev is attacking every
00:10:46.480 democratic institution. CBC Radio Canada is one of them. And we need to support them and make sure that
00:10:52.480 the service is still strong and across our country. Never miss a good opportunity to blame Harper,
00:11:00.480 blame a government that hasn't been in power since 2015 for things happening in 2023. Justin Trude,
00:11:05.200 the prime minister, also jumped in on this nonsense. Here he is also in French, blaming Harper for the
00:11:11.200 current mismanagement at the CBC. We will always support CBC Radio Canada and its services to local
00:11:17.040 communities throughout the country. One of the first measures we took as a government
00:11:22.480 was to cancel the Harper government's cuts to our public broadcaster. We supported local journalism
00:11:30.720 and media, and that's very important during this difficult time. That's why we brought in Bill C-18.
00:11:37.200 At a time when, unfortunately, the leader of the opposition is not doing anything about this issue,
00:11:43.520 we will continue to support local media and journalists in Canada. And final clip here is
00:11:48.720 Trudeau's heritage minister saying, quote, we need a public broadcaster to support democracy.
00:11:55.920 Now, the decision that we need to make as a country is, you know, we need a public broadcaster
00:12:01.520 to support our democracy. What should it look like in the current situation in the future? What it looks
00:12:07.040 like? Imagine that logic that you need a bloated, propped up state broadcaster that is funded by one
00:12:14.560 party that openly supports one party. And somehow you need that in order to support your democracy.
00:12:21.920 These people are just absolutely so out of touch and so insane with the things that they say. Well,
00:12:27.680 opposition leader Pierre Polyev noticed all of this was going on. It's one of his marquee signature
00:12:33.040 policies that he wants to defund this terrible bloated organization. And so he jumped in and just
00:12:39.040 just simply noticed that all of this was happening. Noticed that the CBC was laying people off. And
00:12:45.840 here is what he tweeted. He shared a story, a CTV news story, saying that CBC is cutting 600 jobs,
00:12:51.760 some programming as it slashes its budget. And Pierre Polyev says the following. He says,
00:12:56.080 CBC is broke again and laying off staff. This is after they paid $99 million in bonuses to incompetent
00:13:02.400 executives and liberal talking heads. I'll bet none of Trudeau's favorite mouthpieces will be let go.
00:13:08.080 They'll get more bonuses. And then he shares the CTV story. So this is a pretty standard criticism
00:13:13.360 from the opposition leader from Pierre Polyev. This is pretty much what we've come to expect to
00:13:17.040 him. This is fact based. Everything that he says is true. He's simply pointing out to his followers
00:13:22.960 and to Canadians that the CBC is letting off 10% of their workforce and that they're probably going to
00:13:28.400 give out bonuses anyway. So I don't really see anything wrong with Pierre Polyev's posts. I think it's
00:13:34.560 accurate and I think it's fair, but that is not apparently what many, many people from the legacy
00:13:41.200 media saw. So apparently taking their cues from the government, they jumped in and they started to
00:13:47.840 attack Polyev, not the CBC. They didn't attack Trudeau. They didn't attack the CBC for this callous
00:13:53.440 move to lay people off over Christmas time. They attacked Pierre Polyev for the crime of noticing that
00:13:59.040 this was all happening. So here's Charles Adler, a very well-known, former conservative talk radio
00:14:04.720 host. He writes, could you be any colder to people losing jobs? Could you be any more cruel to people
00:14:11.280 keeping theirs? Is this projection? Do your staffers need to suck up to you to keep their jobs? If they
00:14:16.800 don't provide a sufficient level of sequious, do you cut them like fish? I don't really understand
00:14:22.160 what Charles Adler is going on and on about, like as if somehow Pierre Polyev noticing that the CBC was
00:14:28.480 laying off staff means that somehow Pierre Polyev mistreats his staff. I don't really understand his line
00:14:33.600 of reasoning or his basis for that tack. It seems pretty baseless. Next, we have Bruce Arthur, who is a well-known
00:14:40.800 liberal talking head on the CBC. And he writes, reveling in the pain of laid off workers is not a
00:14:46.800 nice look. Next, you have Steve Marr, a journalist over at McLean's. He writes, this seems cold. Imagine
00:14:53.040 if you were one of the people laid off having had to tell your family you have lost your job just before
00:14:58.640 Christmas. See, I agree with Steve Marr that it's very cold and it's very sad that the CBC would do this,
00:15:05.200 but I don't understand what that has to do with Pierre Polyev noticing. Why aren't you getting mad at the
00:15:10.080 CBC? Why are you getting mad at Pierre Polyev? It really just makes no sense to me. Next, we have
00:15:15.040 Amber Mack, who is a author, writer and a radio host. She writes this, let me fix this for you
00:15:21.520 since you're struggling with the human part of political leadership. And then she writes, CBC
00:15:25.920 is laying off 600 people just weeks before the holidays. This is difficult news for these media
00:15:29.680 professionals and their families during what is already a challenging time for so many Canadians.
00:15:34.800 So, you know, this is like a very plain sort of diplomatic response you would expect from a
00:15:39.760 government official who is trying to cover the fact that they had any involvement in this.
00:15:44.400 But that is not what you expect from the opposition leader. You expect accountability from the
00:15:49.040 opposition leader. You expect them to hold the government's feet to the fire and be critical.
00:15:54.160 So, no, that's not the response that I would expect from the opposition leader. Good thing
00:15:59.760 that the opposition leader is not relying on the legacy media to write his talking points. Next,
00:16:05.200 we have Lana Payne, who is the national president for UNIFOR, so a union boss. She jumps in and she
00:16:12.240 says, this is what happens when someone has never had a real job in their lives. Absolute lack of empathy
00:16:18.320 for people losing their job. Okay, I'm sorry, this person is a union boss and she's railing into a
00:16:23.360 elected official, a member of parliament who has been a member of parliament for a very long time.
00:16:29.120 Somebody's never had a real job in his life. I'm sorry, is he being a union boss,
00:16:33.440 somehow more honorable and more of a real job than being an elected official, being a parliamentarian,
00:16:38.960 someone who goes to committees, who speaks in parliament, and then someone who gets elected
00:16:43.040 a leader of their party and leads the party, like runs the office. I mean, I understand that it's
00:16:47.440 not a private sector job and you don't have to worry about the bottom line, but neither does a union.
00:16:52.240 It's not like the union has to go out there and make sure that they keep their customer base happy.
00:16:56.320 That's not what a union boss does. They just collect money, compulsory collection of money from
00:17:01.200 the union members. So sure, Pierre Polyev hasn't ever run a big company, but he still has a real
00:17:07.280 job. I don't understand the claim that somehow running a major political party, being the leader
00:17:11.920 of the opposition, running a huge staff, being a parliamentarian, being elected an official,
00:17:15.920 like how is that not a real job? I don't even understand the criticism. Final critique comes from
00:17:22.080 Rachel Gilmour, who I don't even know why we give her the attention of showing what she says.
00:17:27.760 She's, she's sort of irrelevant. She's a former journalist and now she's unemployed. But anyway,
00:17:32.000 she writes, this dude sees layoffs happening and further mocks and attacks the staff. Meanwhile,
00:17:37.280 he's been a politician making six figures his whole adult life. A real man of the people here,
00:17:42.880 folks. So this person is just clearly very, very envious and jealous of the fact that Pierre Polyev
00:17:48.000 has a job and makes money. And somehow the fact that he has a job makes money, that means that he can't
00:17:53.120 relate to other people and that somehow noticing the CBC is laying people off means that he's mocking
00:18:00.000 those people. I don't see that at all. You know, it's really interesting because journalists spend
00:18:04.720 their entire day, it seems, on Twitter. They just sit on Twitter, they read the news all day,
00:18:09.280 and they can't help themselves but to jump in and comment on every single story. And you'll notice
00:18:13.440 this. If you jump on X or Twitter, you will see that almost all of these legacy media journalists
00:18:19.360 comment on every single story that comes out as they happen in real time. Anytime that there's
00:18:24.560 anything interesting happening on Twitter, click on the tweet, and you will see tons and tons and
00:18:29.680 tons of legacy media journalists just commenting on it. And I think this is a real problem for those
00:18:35.520 journalists and for their credibility because the reality is that most of these folks are left-wing.
00:18:40.640 That's just their persuasion. That's their worldview. That's how they say things. They like Justin
00:18:44.160 Trudeau. He's their guy. And they can't help but just defending him. They can't help but criticizing
00:18:48.960 Pierre Paglia because they really, really despise the guy. And they can't help but defending Justin
00:18:53.200 Trudeau because they really, really like the guy. And it comes out, right, if you wanted to be a
00:18:58.080 respected journalist who's neutral, who we don't know who they vote for, we don't know which side
00:19:03.440 they really go for, which I think is how journalists used to be, I think 15, 20 years ago, you didn't
00:19:08.960 really know who the journalists that you were reading or watching. You didn't know how they vote because you
00:19:13.360 didn't really know what they were thinking all the time on every single issue. You just saw the things that
00:19:17.040 they were writing about and the things that they were presenting on in their professional capacity.
00:19:21.680 But now that these journalists just spend their whole day on Twitter telling you their little
00:19:26.400 thoughts on every single minor story that's popping up, we can see their true colors. We see the reality
00:19:32.480 of how left-wing they are, of how much they love Justin Trudeau, of how deranged they are when it comes to
00:19:37.680 conservatives and when it comes to Pierre Polyev. And I think this really is a perfect example. We should be
00:19:42.000 looking at the CBC and blaming them. We should be looking at the Trudeau government and blaming them
00:19:46.320 for enabling the CBC with so much money, so much more money than the previous government. As they
00:19:50.800 point out, Harper government didn't give the CBC that much. CBC gets a lot more under Justin Trudeau.
00:19:56.160 That's all a problem. And rather than looking at that critically and criticizing it as you would
00:20:00.800 expect a professional free media to do, that's not what they do. They're blaming Pierre Polyev,
00:20:06.160 which again tells you everything you need to know about these legacy media journalists. Thank you so much for
00:20:10.880 tuning in. This has been Fake News Friday. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.