Rebel News Podcast - July 31, 2025


SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ CBC'S six-figure FAT CATS exposed by taxpayer advocates


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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has a new piece of investigative journalism that will make you think twice before you hand over your money to the state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It's a story about a bunch of fat cats who are getting paid way more than the average Canadian family.

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00:00:00.320 CBC's six-figure fat cats exposed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:00:05.120 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you are watching The Gunn Show.
00:00:24.540 My name is Chris Sims. I'm the Alberta Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:00:28.720 I'm here with my colleague Ryan Thorpe, the investigative journalist for the CTF.
00:00:34.040 We are here to speak for thousands of hard-working taxpayers who want to defund the CBC.
00:00:39.880 This needs to happen for three important reasons.
00:00:42.860 The cost of the CBC. Nearly nobody is watching the CBC.
00:00:47.120 And journalists should not be paid by the government.
00:00:50.960 First, the cost.
00:00:52.780 The CBC is getting $1.4 billion from taxpayers this year.
00:00:57.060 That money could instead pay the salaries of around 7,000 paramedics and 7,000 police officers.
00:01:04.480 That money could instead pay for groceries for about 85,000 Canadian families for a year.
00:01:12.320 Instead, taxpayers are paying $1.4 billion so the CBC can hand out huge bonuses,
00:01:18.920 get microscopic ratings, and overpay its out-of-touch executives.
00:01:22.920 CBC CEO Catherine Tate refused to tell this committee if she will take a severance when she leaves the state broadcaster.
00:01:30.900 Tate considers that to be a personal matter, end quote.
00:01:34.280 It's not personal if it's taxpayers' money.
00:01:37.020 So remember when the CBC cried poor and begged Canadians for a few hundred million dollars in taxpayer bailouts?
00:01:43.200 You know, like more than they already get?
00:01:45.240 When their journalists moaned about disinformation while being the biggest peddlers of it?
00:01:50.020 While quietly cashing some of the fattest paychecks in the industry?
00:01:54.700 Well, surprise, surprise, it turns out the state broadcaster isn't exactly running on fumes.
00:01:59.160 Thanks to new records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we now know that more than 1,600 CBC employees,
00:02:07.160 producers, directors, managers, and bureaucrats are pulling down over $100,000 a year.
00:02:12.800 Now, this includes, and just, it's unbelievably top-heavy.
00:02:18.400 Like, unbelievably top-heavy.
00:02:19.920 493 producers, 86 executive producers, 277 senior managers, 124 directors, and 28 executive directors.
00:02:31.620 And that's not even counting the 130 advisors, whatever those people do, 81 analysts, whatever those people do,
00:02:39.380 and 120 hosts, all making six figures plus while crying that independent media like ours are a threat to democracy.
00:02:50.220 The CBC isn't just bloated.
00:02:51.800 It's morbidly obese with bureaucracy.
00:02:54.680 It's a publicly funded empire of suits managing other suits,
00:02:58.380 all while CBC ratings tank and trust in the media plummets.
00:03:03.220 Canadians are skipping meals, skipping vacations, struggling to pay rent and mortgages.
00:03:08.020 Meanwhile, the CBC is handing out six-figure salaries like it's Halloween candy.
00:03:12.820 Joining me tonight to break this all down is my good friend, Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:03:18.620 They're the watchdog that's pulling back the curtain on the Kearney Broadcasting Corporation's cushy little club that we aren't in.
00:03:25.500 So don't go anywhere.
00:03:26.920 This is going to make your blood boil.
00:03:28.460 Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show Tate is paid between $460,000 and $551,000 this year,
00:03:39.780 with a bonus of up to 28%.
00:03:42.480 That is a bonus of $154,000.
00:03:47.040 That bonus is more than the average Canadian family earns in a year.
00:03:51.920 Joining me now is my good friend, but also good friend of Taxpayers Everywhere, Chris Sims.
00:04:04.560 She's the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:04:08.120 And boy, oh boy.
00:04:10.660 I should tell everybody, Chris is also a former journalist.
00:04:14.280 So she has a very unique perspective on journalists being paid by the taxpayer, as in she agrees with me.
00:04:22.700 They should never be paid by the taxpayer.
00:04:25.360 But CBC is, I think, the very worst offender, because not only do they get $1.5-ish billion a year from the taxpayer to subsidize their operations,
00:04:38.620 nobody watches, and their salaries are completely out of whack with the rest of the industry.
00:04:46.600 Tell us about this latest Canadian Taxpayers Federation investigation into the salary, I would call it a problem, down at the CBC.
00:04:54.700 It's a huge problem.
00:04:56.480 And this actually gets me pretty mad, because, like you just said, I worked in the industry,
00:05:02.120 including, like, in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, in, like, mainstream media outlets for years and years, like, 15, 20 years, in and out.
00:05:10.540 And what gets me is that it was always kind of this understood thing that for every one journalist working in, like, even, you know, CTV, Global, CFRA Radio, something like that,
00:05:22.700 back then, a really, truly private company, for every one of you, there were, like, four CBC reporters there,
00:05:30.900 and those four CBC reporters had, like, you know, 20 managers among them.
00:05:36.800 That was always the kind of understanding.
00:05:39.860 Now, it's true.
00:05:42.020 We have the documents to show it.
00:05:43.920 And credit where it's due, this is my good friend and colleague, Franco Terrazano,
00:05:47.600 that was working on this out of our Ottawa office, along with Jake, our research director.
00:05:51.920 So, I'm just the hair and teeth on this one.
00:05:54.180 Boy, oh boy, Sheila, did they ever find something.
00:05:56.900 So, they put in Freedom of Information requests to find out how many human beings working at the CBC were making over $100,000.
00:06:07.140 People usually call that a sunshine list.
00:06:10.040 We also asked for the roles, okay?
00:06:13.160 So, like, you know, director, producer, journalist, manager, etc.
00:06:17.060 The amount of managers, Sheila, just enough to choke a horse, okay?
00:06:23.760 And I was a producer for most of my journalistic life, so no knock-on producers.
00:06:29.260 But do you need more than 700 of them?
00:06:33.320 Right.
00:06:33.980 Like, astonishing, truly astonishing, Sheila.
00:06:36.860 And if I may, I would just offer this as a long-time reporter who truly wants to find the W5-level journalism.
00:06:45.880 This is one of the reasons, folks, that they're not journalism-ing, okay?
00:06:52.160 If you have 12 managers for every one reporter over at the CBC, it's no wonder they're suffocating and tripping over their own feet.
00:07:02.680 This is a major problem, and it's a huge waste of taxpayers' money.
00:07:07.780 I think it's around 500 managers.
00:07:12.080 Like, 700 producers.
00:07:14.140 There's things...
00:07:15.120 Sheila, what is a lead architect?
00:07:18.040 I work in the industry.
00:07:19.440 I have no idea.
00:07:21.360 Straight up, I don't know.
00:07:22.860 And I used to help CTV National go to air sometimes.
00:07:25.820 So, I get it, okay?
00:07:27.080 I've been around the big lights and big cameras.
00:07:28.940 I've never heard of an architect in media, let alone a lead architect.
00:07:33.460 And they've got, I think, two dozen of them or more.
00:07:36.080 Like, this is where we're pointing out the CBC is enormously bloated in its middle management section and a huge waste of money.
00:07:44.680 Yeah, we see all the time journalists being laid off.
00:07:47.240 And you see, like, your frontline journalists being laid off.
00:07:49.660 But I think they're being sacrificed in favor of middle manager salaries.
00:07:55.720 I've got the list in front of me from Franco.
00:07:58.680 He says, CBC records show that it employs more than 250 directors, 450 managers, 780 producers.
00:08:07.420 All of them paid more than $100,000.
00:08:10.240 And he breaks it down further.
00:08:12.140 180 managers, 277 senior managers, 124 directors, 106 senior directors, 28 executive directors.
00:08:20.700 I don't know the difference between those other two, 493 producers, 36 technical producers, 168 senior producers.
00:08:30.660 Again, I don't know the distinction between them and the 86 executive producers, 130 advisors, 81 analysts, 120 hosts, 80 project leads, 30 lead architects, whatever that is.
00:08:45.860 And then 25 supervisors who appear to do a different role than all the managers.
00:08:50.740 So I looked up because, again, I had no idea when an advisor would be in that situation.
00:08:56.820 So they've got 130 of them being paid more than $100,000 a year.
00:09:02.300 And so I looked it up.
00:09:03.840 And I was in a big rush.
00:09:05.660 So I just took whatever the, you know, evil Skynet, you know, summation is of an advisor.
00:09:10.460 I don't know what that is on the interwebs because I'm too old.
00:09:13.560 But apparently an advisor at the CBC could do anything from truly advising on like, you know, the origins of Remembrance Day or something like that, like a legit thing.
00:09:24.640 Everything from that, Sheila, to proper DEI implementation.
00:09:29.580 Like imagine, imagine having, right?
00:09:33.080 And you knew it was waiting for it, right?
00:09:34.360 So imagine not only having all of the, being lousy with managers trying to do your job and all these executive people on top of you.
00:09:42.940 You'd also have advisors and analysts running around.
00:09:47.360 And like I can just say from personal experience, because I actually worked, full disclosure, I worked at CBC for about six weeks.
00:09:54.460 It was in between other jobs.
00:09:56.140 They were fine to me.
00:09:57.720 I just observed things that were pretty out of whack when it was compared to other private companies.
00:10:03.100 Like they would send podcasts of videotaped yoga sessions to your desk.
00:10:09.700 Like it would be in your inbox.
00:10:11.380 You could log in and watch it.
00:10:12.780 I'm not kidding.
00:10:13.860 Like the person, I never watched it.
00:10:15.940 Yeah.
00:10:16.380 No, no, I'm not joking.
00:10:18.320 So there was, I never watched it because, you know, I was actually really loved their archives.
00:10:22.060 So I was nerding out and making obituary tapes, you know, for future things to happen.
00:10:27.460 Right.
00:10:27.740 So I actually helped put together the Nelson Mandela one.
00:10:30.120 Oh, wow.
00:10:30.420 And so, yeah, and so I'm minding my own business and sticking to my knitting because I wasn't exactly a fit, even though, again, they were fine to me.
00:10:37.240 It was for six weeks.
00:10:38.800 But, yeah, there was a thing where you could, like, click on it.
00:10:41.700 And each day they would have a new video cast of your yoga session at your desk.
00:10:45.860 So this is the problem.
00:10:48.100 When people are wondering why the CBC has a 1.8 audience share in primetime, when so many people are saying that they're losing trust in, you know, in all mainstream journalism, to be fair.
00:11:00.460 More than 60% of Canadians think that mainstream journalists are deliberately misleading them with things they know to be untrue.
00:11:07.840 Like, this is why you're starting to have people tune out and not trust.
00:11:12.300 It's when you have one reporter for, like, two dozen middle managers.
00:11:17.060 And this is the issue here is we're all paying for it.
00:11:20.600 Yeah.
00:11:20.800 We're all paying for it.
00:11:22.060 Sheila, if this were a private company, who cares?
00:11:24.460 Right.
00:11:24.600 We don't care.
00:11:25.340 Pay them in gummy bears.
00:11:26.480 Right.
00:11:26.760 Who cares?
00:11:28.140 But this is taxpayers' money.
00:11:29.640 We're all being forced to pay for this.
00:11:31.680 And it's $1.4 billion this year, which is the equivalent of the salaries of 7,000 cops plus 7,000 paramedics.
00:11:41.700 We say $1.4 billion, but that doesn't even factor in all the exclusive ad deals they get with the federal government.
00:11:48.960 Yeah.
00:11:49.120 Yes.
00:11:49.900 And we, funny you should mention that, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we asked just the full amount.
00:11:57.920 We don't need granular, gory detail.
00:11:59.840 We don't need to know, you know, how much fun you had getting your CBC gem ad on my hockey game for the 80th time.
00:12:06.120 That's fine.
00:12:07.280 Give us the exact amount, the full amount that you spend on advertising, CBC.
00:12:12.220 No.
00:12:13.580 What do you mean no?
00:12:14.960 They told us no, that they're not going to tell us.
00:12:18.220 Trade secrets.
00:12:19.400 Yeah.
00:12:19.840 But this is, again, if it were a trade secret, it would be like, oh, you can't be in on our negotiations with Sportsnet or whatever.
00:12:25.540 Okay, we get that.
00:12:26.320 And frankly, we don't care.
00:12:27.500 We're the Taxpayers Federation.
00:12:29.040 Give us a lump sum.
00:12:30.520 They won't even give us a lump sum.
00:12:31.980 So we're actually taking them to court.
00:12:33.780 I hope.
00:12:34.060 Like we're having to fight the state broadcaster, which is taxpayer funded, in order to find out what our tax dollars are being spent on, even in like anonymous blob amounts.
00:12:42.800 Oh, quickly.
00:12:43.840 Sorry.
00:12:44.140 Yes.
00:12:44.400 Speaking of anonymous, there's like 200 people on this list that we have on our website who are making more than $100,000 per year.
00:12:53.760 No names and no roles.
00:12:56.700 They're just these like phantom people.
00:12:59.100 So we know they exist.
00:13:00.900 We just don't know who they are, what their role is, but we know they're making more than $100,000.
00:13:05.520 200 of them.
00:13:06.960 Imagine, like zero accountability.
00:13:10.160 This is it.
00:13:10.640 And they could say, oh, they don't want to embarrass their hosts.
00:13:13.480 No, no.
00:13:14.100 Their hosts' names, tons of them are on there.
00:13:17.040 Like we didn't even put that in the news release, but a lot of the hosts' names are on there.
00:13:20.700 Sure.
00:13:21.240 Not the exact amount that they make, but over $100,000.
00:13:23.600 The range, no.
00:13:24.300 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:25.200 But yet there are, I am so curious to know what those 200 mystery roles are.
00:13:33.620 Like, are they double agents?
00:13:35.380 I don't know.
00:13:36.220 Are they Janet?
00:13:36.820 I don't know.
00:13:37.420 Are they people whose job it is to spy on the independent media and then steal their stories?
00:13:44.180 As this so often happens?
00:13:47.360 I just can't even.
00:13:48.060 I don't know what you're talking about.
00:13:48.700 Yeah.
00:13:49.200 Oh, I never.
00:13:51.260 It's, I can't even believe that they encouraged you even back then to just watch yoga at your desk.
00:13:58.040 I know, like even Ezra, he'll complain like, oh my God, I was on Twitter too much today or on X too much today.
00:14:03.940 Like, he's concerned that he's wasting his own time on the internet and then CBC is actively encouraging their employees to waste time on the internet.
00:14:13.620 And this was, for the record, this was back around 2011, 2012.
00:14:17.620 And again, they were super nice about it.
00:14:19.680 Sure.
00:14:19.780 And they weren't forcing anybody to watch it.
00:14:21.580 I'm just remarking that they had that amount of time, those numbers of people, and because they're getting taxpayers' money.
00:14:29.480 And if that's something they want to spend their own shareholders' money on, who are willingly giving them money, like, fill your boots.
00:14:36.340 I don't care.
00:14:37.560 Do all the yoga all day that you want.
00:14:39.420 But this is taxpayers' money, and they're not being accountable, which is why we're trying to hold them to account.
00:14:44.840 I would just love to see a real forensic analysis of just the time thievery happening down at CBC.
00:14:53.480 It's just atrocious.
00:14:54.520 Now, speaking of thievery, I think these electric vehicle mandates and the electric vehicle subsidies going to these Ontario and Quebec-based auto manufacturers,
00:15:07.240 it's downright thievery from the Canadian taxpayer who will never, even if they wanted these bizarre electric cars that don't really work in our climate,
00:15:16.380 they couldn't afford them anyway.
00:15:17.680 And yet they're forced to subsidize them to companies that are going broke, not just in Canada, but around the world.
00:15:23.600 And Doug Ford, on one side, he's happy to take the subsidies into his province, but then he's sort of missing the boat on the fact that if we move to entirely electric vehicles, we can't power them.
00:15:40.460 I know.
00:15:41.080 I know.
00:15:41.500 There's so much here, and I'll go over it quickly.
00:15:44.840 A, you know, super nice to hear the Ontario Premier, Doug Ford, say that he's against a mandate.
00:15:50.560 That was something.
00:15:52.540 But the issue here is that he said he was against the so-called electric vehicle mandate coming from the feds, but in the next breath, he's like, oh, but we should still keep spending.
00:16:02.580 He said the word investing.
00:16:04.080 Anytime a politician or government bureaucrat says investing, hold on to your wallet.
00:16:08.560 You know what, it's funny, because I think Mark Carney one time said, we're going to stop spending and start investing.
00:16:13.560 And I'm like, those are the same thing.
00:16:15.240 I have a simple rule.
00:16:16.780 Spend less, invest more.
00:16:18.580 Let's say you buy a home.
00:16:19.740 The down payment and the mortgage cost a lot up front, but your home builds value over time.
00:16:24.320 That's an investment.
00:16:25.380 Now, you still have other bills like heat and electricity.
00:16:28.160 You need them, but they don't make you better off in the long run.
00:16:31.460 Those are operational expenses.
00:16:33.820 I will balance our operational budget in three years.
00:16:36.880 We'll spend what we need to with the money we already have.
00:16:40.460 And we'll do things that encourage the big investments that create jobs and grow our economy, like building millions of homes, making Canada a clean energy superpower, and creating new trade routes so we're not dependent on the United States.
00:16:55.020 Spend less, invest more.
00:16:57.540 It's the same thing.
00:16:58.480 It's the same picture.
00:16:59.680 I know.
00:17:00.120 It's so crazy.
00:17:01.680 And so this is what he's saying.
00:17:03.480 And I heard the clip the other day, and I was just like, what are you talking about, man?
00:17:07.540 So he's going both ways on this.
00:17:09.360 So we're trying to urge him to go in one direction, and that is this.
00:17:14.920 Get rid of the mandates, meaning let people choose what kind of vehicle they want to purchase, get government out of the way, and scrap the funding.
00:17:25.060 Like, stop handing out corporate welfare, taxpayers' money to massive, international, mega-rich corporations.
00:17:33.240 Like, this is not hard.
00:17:34.900 Also, he said, I'm in favor of the market.
00:17:37.340 No, you're not.
00:17:39.400 Not if you're putting a humongous subsidy thumb on the scale, using taxpayers' money to pretend you're an investment banker.
00:17:46.300 That is not the market.
00:17:48.140 So what the market is, of course, is if, you know, Sally wants to purchase a battery-powered vehicle for whatever reason she chooses, that's up to her.
00:17:55.820 She goes and buys one with her own money.
00:17:58.540 End of story.
00:17:59.620 Supply and demand works.
00:18:00.960 It's a beautiful thing.
00:18:02.160 But what the governments are doing, both in Ottawa and Toronto, is one, trying to force people to purchase a certain type of vehicle, in this case, a battery-powered vehicle.
00:18:12.320 And two, spend taxpayers' money doing it.
00:18:15.560 And it is in the billions of dollars, Sheila.
00:18:18.080 And very quickly, to your point exactly, on the energy, the federal government itself has already done studies on this, or at least contracted out studies.
00:18:27.160 It's going to cost close to $300 billion to switch over to battery-powered vehicles.
00:18:36.060 Like, we do not have the dough for this.
00:18:38.440 We don't have the dough.
00:18:39.180 We don't have the electricity.
00:18:40.400 This is how we get rolling brownouts.
00:18:42.300 And the side story in all of this, if we go on a little side quest, is the propping up of the electric vehicle market and the 100% tariffs on the electric vehicles coming in from China to protect the heavily subsidized electric vehicle industry here in Canada have resulted in tariffs on Canadian canola.
00:19:08.360 So Western farmers are paying the price for all of Doug Ford's panhandling to the feds.
00:19:15.680 Yes.
00:19:16.240 And in the meantime, we are busy ignoring the fact that our largest trading partner, with whom we have a very special, specific, integrated auto manufacturing market, like, there's, I think they did an estimate, like, one part, for example, can cross that Windsor Bridge for a vehicle, like, maybe eight times before it's finally finished.
00:19:38.160 Into one vehicle, of course, going between Windsor and Detroit, right, as my grandmother used to, you know, pronounce it.
00:19:44.680 So that is totally integrated.
00:19:46.680 And the United States is 10 times bigger than us.
00:19:49.400 It's a humongous economy compared to us.
00:19:51.440 So you start doing supply and demand economics over there, and we're just going to whistle and pretend that that doesn't affect the fact that we have this mandate that they're going to ban the sale of normal gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035.
00:20:07.720 The restrictions start in five months, folks.
00:20:10.740 In five months, your local auto dealership will need to sell 20% of their sales must be wholly electric cars.
00:20:20.160 If they don't make that quota, tough beans for them.
00:20:23.140 They get a whole bunch of penalties.
00:20:24.860 And if they don't want penalties, they have to buy into this crazy, like, credit scheme going on with the feds.
00:20:30.460 Like, this has got boondoggle written all over it.
00:20:34.060 Like, they really, this is one thing, Sheila, if I could beg them to do one thing before they come back into session, it's to have the actual grown adults get together and say, we need to pull the pin on this.
00:20:45.480 All of it.
00:20:46.180 We just need to rip off the Band-Aid.
00:20:47.800 Nothing to see here.
00:20:48.780 They can pretend they never met any of these silly ideas so they can start fresh when the house comes back.
00:20:53.920 Yeah, and I think we should be wary of what comes next.
00:20:58.940 So, if Canadians are not buying these electric vehicles and they have a mandate to meet by 2035, what's the next step to force us into that?
00:21:07.560 Probably limiting the parts that we receive to replace our good old reliable combustion engines.
00:21:15.700 I think that's the next step to just sort of shoehorn Canadians into this. 1.00
00:21:19.180 Now, I'm hearing, yeah, sorry, very quickly, I'm hearing all sorts of things about border restrictions and stuff, too.
00:21:24.440 So, people thinking they can just cross over and bring it back, they're going to be up in your grill in two seconds.
00:21:29.800 So, yeah.
00:21:30.880 It's a nightmare.
00:21:32.060 Before I let you go, because I'm up against the clock.
00:21:36.580 Sorry, Sheila.
00:21:37.160 No, that's okay.
00:21:37.980 Tell us, it's my fault, too.
00:21:39.520 Tell us about the Alberta Next panel and what you would like to see there.
00:21:43.640 Yeah, for sure.
00:21:44.240 So, very quickly, Alberta is wonderful for grassroots direct democracy and kudos to Premier Daniel Smith.
00:21:50.280 And I would say the same thing.
00:21:51.580 I don't care what party they're representing.
00:21:53.260 Kudos to Premier Daniel Smith for going in there and doing big old town halls across Alberta.
00:21:58.360 It's called Alberta Next.
00:21:59.760 It's coming to southern Alberta later on in August.
00:22:03.000 So, just Google Alberta Next panel if you want to speak up to the Premier and say what you want to see.
00:22:08.300 What we would like to see if we were there would be this, have much smaller government.
00:22:14.520 We can do with way smaller government here in Alberta, stand up to those big government union bosses and reduce spending.
00:22:21.880 Because we love Alberta.
00:22:23.540 We think Premier Smith is doing a great job standing up to Ottawa.
00:22:26.380 But unfortunately, the ugly truth is our debt is still going up, not down.
00:22:32.400 And that is because we are still spending too much.
00:22:35.800 So, let's this help me help you, Jerry Maguire situation.
00:22:39.200 It would be directly telling the Premier and the government, you must pay down the debt.
00:22:44.860 Make it go down and have smaller government.
00:22:47.700 And how do people get involved in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation army of the little people?
00:22:55.940 And that is what we are.
00:22:57.460 We fight everything from the ban on gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles to what we used to be known as the consumer carbon tax.
00:23:03.740 Thanks so much.
00:23:04.380 And it's because of tax fighters like all of you.
00:23:06.780 Go to taxpayer.com.
00:23:08.760 Find the petition that speaks to your heart.
00:23:11.340 Sign up.
00:23:11.940 And now you're on the army sign-up list.
00:23:14.040 Next time it's time to swamp a politician's email box or wear a chicken suit in front of their office and shame them into action. 0.99
00:23:21.060 You're up.
00:23:21.840 Yep.
00:23:22.100 Or dress like a pig and hand out awards.
00:23:24.460 You know?
00:23:25.080 The funnest thing.
00:23:26.120 The funnest thing.
00:23:27.380 Chris, I'm so sorry to rush you.
00:23:29.060 I have to get on the live stream.
00:23:30.440 Thank you so much for joining us and thank you so much for standing up for families just like mine against government overreach and big spending.
00:23:39.500 Say hi to the rebels for me.
00:23:40.900 I will.
00:23:41.200 Around this time last year, the CBC asked for more money.
00:23:45.760 After that, just before Christmas, the CBC announced layoffs in its newsrooms.
00:23:51.180 I've worked in many newsrooms and getting let go is not a bowl of cherries.
00:23:55.700 But what about the bonuses at that same time?
00:23:58.140 Documents obtained by the CTF show the CBC did hand out bonuses, costing $18 million.
00:24:06.100 As the CBC fan group Friends of Canadian Media put it, quote,
00:24:10.720 this decision is deeply out of touch and unbefitting of our national public broadcaster, end quote.
00:24:17.140 Thank you to the members from the Conservatives, the Bloc, and the NDP who voted to hold the CBC to account for these bonuses.
00:24:25.700 Let's take a look at viewership.
00:24:27.260 According to its own latest quarterly report, CBC News Network's audience share is 1.7%,
00:24:34.720 meaning more than 98% of Canadians are choosing to not watch CBC's news channel.
00:24:42.060 We have some breaking news here in committee.
00:24:44.720 Documents obtained by the CTF show the CBC's Supper Hour news audience is so small it's difficult to measure.
00:24:57.260 All right, as you know, the last portion of the show belongs to you because without you, there's no Rebel News.
00:25:04.720 So there are a couple of ways to get a hold of me.
00:25:06.640 I will give you my email address right now at Sheila at RebelNews.com.
00:25:10.260 Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know exactly why you are emailing me because,
00:25:15.860 boy, do I get a lot of emails every single day.
00:25:17.880 And some of them, not so nice.
00:25:19.400 Not so nice.
00:25:20.400 Today's comments actually come from YouTube.
00:25:25.400 So if you find us on YouTube, you find us on Rumble, leave comments there because I like to know what you are saying,
00:25:32.400 but there's an added benefit to us.
00:25:34.320 So the more you comment and interact with our content, the more it becomes served up to other people.
00:25:45.180 That's how the algorithms work or so I'm told.
00:25:48.160 So I try to understand.
00:25:50.200 I think this is sort of beyond my pay grade.
00:25:53.120 However, we did have a live stream on Tuesday night.
00:25:58.820 But my good friend, Lise Merle, and I were covering the electoral forum for the by-election in Battle River, Crowfoot,
00:26:09.120 hosted in beautiful Camrose, Alberta, by the Chamber of Commerce.
00:26:12.180 And they had 10 candidates on the stage, some independents, and then, you know, your NDP, your conservative, your PPC,
00:26:21.620 your liberal guy who got booed quite a fair bit.
00:26:24.120 And then Grant Abraham from the United Party.
00:26:31.540 And there's a local lady named Bonnie Critchley who I found quite crotchety, actually. 1.00
00:26:37.980 And some people disagreed with my takes about her, but I mean, you can watch the live stream and judge for yourself.
00:26:43.600 Maybe I got it wrong.
00:26:45.180 But she just, she rubbed me in the most frictiony of ways. 0.99
00:26:51.060 I didn't, I didn't care for her style.
00:26:52.920 But anyway, I'm not for everybody either.
00:26:55.520 So I get it.
00:26:57.340 But I went over to see what you guys were saying.
00:26:59.760 People who didn't catch us live, so they weren't able to interact with us live.
00:27:03.800 But I wanted to know what you guys were saying.
00:27:07.780 So Bitmail5 says, should have had all 215-ish candidates there.
00:27:14.100 What a shit show that would have been.
00:27:15.760 Now, what he's referring to there is the fact that, I think it was, I checked this morning, it's Wednesday.
00:27:22.300 They had 210 candidates registered in that riding because that riding is being targeted by the election meddlers of the longest ballot committee.
00:27:30.800 So they're going after Pierre Polyev again.
00:27:32.620 They went after him with 90 candidates, 90 plus, I believe it is, actually, in his Ottawa Carleton riding that he lost.
00:27:44.300 That's why he's running out here in one of the safest conservative ridings in the entire country, thanks to local MP Damien Keurig, who was in the crowd last night stepping down.
00:27:52.660 And instead of fixing the problem after seeing what a problem it was just a few short months ago, Elections Canada, whom I'm not sure do any real work around here at this point, they just let these people rip.
00:28:05.800 And now they've more than doubled their election meddling.
00:28:08.760 And instead of having the ballot printed, where you can just put a checkmark, they can't do that now because they let this go on and the ballot would be seven feet long.
00:28:24.660 Like Shaquille O'Neal could lay down beside the ballot.
00:28:28.580 And so now they've moved into just write in.
00:28:31.760 So you write your name.
00:28:32.840 What's the problem with that?
00:28:34.340 Except for the fact that everybody spells Pierre Polyev's name wrong.
00:28:37.540 And so all of those wrongly spelled ballots will have to be examined individually by scrutineers for voter intent.
00:28:46.920 So, oh, did they mean to spell Polyev?
00:28:48.980 Why did they write Polyver?
00:28:51.180 All of that.
00:28:52.900 So it's just a mess.
00:28:56.720 And I think the people of Battle River Crowfoot deserve an election that is not made a mockery by these left-wing agitators.
00:29:07.540 What an insult to the people there.
00:29:09.520 Think you're being cute?
00:29:11.140 Longest ballot committee?
00:29:12.560 You're disrespecting the voters of that community.
00:29:15.820 That's okay.
00:29:16.640 Because you're from somewhere else. 0.98
00:29:18.120 It doesn't matter.
00:29:20.000 These people that want international doctors should line up to see them first.
00:29:23.760 Somebody mentioned that.
00:29:25.620 In the debate, they said, you know, like we should accredit international doctors.
00:29:28.520 I'm not against accrediting international doctors.
00:29:34.060 I hear the arguments that we have a doctor shortage.
00:29:36.760 So I don't know.
00:29:37.920 We could maybe graduate more, though.
00:29:40.500 I definitely don't think we need international truck drivers.
00:29:43.620 We've got plenty of people who could get their class one driver's license in Alberta.
00:29:48.640 We don't need to bring in international workers to change the oil down at the Mr. Lube or the Lube City.
00:29:56.500 That's a job that used to be done by 15 to 19-year-olds in this country who are now facing high unemployment rates.
00:30:03.360 They can't get an after-school job because those are being gobbled up by people from outside of the country. 1.00
00:30:07.580 We're importing a slave class. 1.00
00:30:08.980 And the left tells me they're against slavery, but I ain't so sure.
00:30:14.680 B with H1 says, when you're sick and wait four, five, six hours for service, our hospitals are broken.
00:30:23.400 Four, five, and six hours.
00:30:24.540 Where are you going that the wait times are so short?
00:30:27.700 It can be 12 hours.
00:30:29.000 We can just get fed up and go home.
00:30:32.140 Sorry, the liberal candidate there who kept getting booed, he said,
00:30:37.780 Well, I got two artificial knees, so the system works just fine for me.
00:30:42.640 Oh, good.
00:30:42.960 Then it's fixed for everybody.
00:30:46.240 How about all the people who can't get an oncology appointment in time?
00:30:50.040 How about all the people who give up, burn through their life savings,
00:30:53.740 and go to the United States for their knee replacement surgery because they cannot wait 18 months?
00:31:01.600 How about people who end up having to get that second knee replacement
00:31:04.900 because they damaged the second knee, putting all the weight on it
00:31:08.820 because they were waiting for the first knee to be fixed?
00:31:11.400 How about those people?
00:31:16.060 I guess they don't exist.
00:31:17.580 Those horror stories don't exist.
00:31:18.980 How about the fact that they told us they had to shut down society
00:31:23.620 to protect an already overburdened healthcare system?
00:31:26.440 So you can't out of one side of your mouth say,
00:31:28.820 The health system is on the brink.
00:31:31.780 We've got to lock everybody in their house because we've got a new strain of the seasonal flu
00:31:37.080 coming around the bend.
00:31:40.720 It's on the cusp.
00:31:41.920 It's so strained.
00:31:43.080 We have to close down your business, your school, your sports, your life,
00:31:48.180 and keep you away from your friends and family for two years straight
00:31:52.200 because our healthcare system's on the cusp, according to the liberals and the left
00:31:56.600 and even the conservative premier in this province,
00:32:00.020 who is now the former conservative premier in this province, Jason Kenney,
00:32:03.360 while simultaneously saying,
00:32:05.060 Our healthcare system is perfectly fine.
00:32:06.640 What are you people talking about?
00:32:09.800 Got to pick a lane, brother.
00:32:13.200 Flying Beaver 57.
00:32:14.600 Catching on the replay, Sheila.
00:32:16.240 Watch the second half of it on Northern Perspective
00:32:18.680 because I fell asleep while waiting.
00:32:21.940 Okay.
00:32:22.460 Well, I'm just glad you watched us.
00:32:23.940 It was sort of something we threw together last minute,
00:32:26.220 but I love doing these things and I especially like doing them with lease.
00:32:30.620 It hardly feels like work when you get to work with your best friend.
00:32:34.320 Jordan McManaman 8008
00:32:39.020 says,
00:32:40.340 Did up a spreadsheet at work yesterday.
00:32:44.320 And there is 37 people running in the by-election that ran in Carleton.
00:32:48.680 Right.
00:32:49.640 Those people should all be charged with election meddling. 0.90
00:32:52.300 I don't even know what you could charge them under,
00:32:54.480 but you should be able to jettison them off the ballot.
00:32:57.460 And anybody who's acting as their financial agent,
00:33:00.520 because you need a financial agent,
00:33:02.860 jettisoned.
00:33:04.300 Anybody who shares that financial agent,
00:33:07.020 so like 200 of these people,
00:33:08.800 $199-ish,
00:33:10.240 you got to go
00:33:11.440 because you're involved in an election fixing scheme.
00:33:14.780 Again,
00:33:18.440 what is it exactly elections Canada does around here?
00:33:21.360 They lost ballots.
00:33:22.920 They screwed up a Quebec riding so bad
00:33:26.260 that resulted in the Liberals winning by one vote.
00:33:29.780 Come on.
00:33:30.860 That should be a by-election.
00:33:32.860 They lost 822 somewhat ballots
00:33:35.880 that were absentee ballots in a BC riding.
00:33:39.080 And then they aren't even telling us
00:33:42.080 why a lot of other ballots were counted
00:33:44.520 or weren't counted.
00:33:46.720 They just say,
00:33:47.360 well, maybe they weren't returned in time.
00:33:49.060 Okay, I get that.
00:33:51.020 Who didn't return them?
00:33:52.520 The people who cast them
00:33:54.180 or the Elections Canada workers who had them?
00:33:57.400 That's the clarity I would like,
00:33:59.020 but I don't know what they do at Elections Canada.
00:34:01.520 They don't protect our election integrity.
00:34:04.500 We had China meddling in the last two elections,
00:34:06.540 at least in 2021 and 2019.
00:34:10.820 Stéphane Perrault is the head of Elections Canada
00:34:13.540 and I don't know why he hasn't been walked out
00:34:15.660 carrying a box of his belongings into the sunset.
00:34:20.200 Get out of the building.
00:34:21.960 We've changed the locks, Stéphane Perrault.
00:34:24.920 That's what I want to hear.
00:34:25.780 That's not what we're going to get
00:34:26.800 as long as their incompetence
00:34:29.360 or something worse
00:34:30.960 works in favour of the Liberals.
00:34:35.340 Jordan goes on to write,
00:34:36.320 but I also find it suspicious
00:34:37.440 that there is a Fanjoy running in the by-election,
00:34:40.100 which is the same surname
00:34:40.980 as the man he lost to in Carleton.
00:34:43.200 It's Alison Fanjoy.
00:34:44.480 I used to have some run-ins with her 0.96
00:34:45.980 on Twitter back in the day,
00:34:50.540 if it's the same woman.
00:34:52.780 I think at one point she had blue hair.
00:34:55.300 I think it's the same woman.
00:34:58.100 But yeah, suspish for sure.
00:35:00.960 Pretty sus, as the kids say. 1.00
00:35:02.580 Lemon B8437.
00:35:07.300 Bonnie drives a Dodge Ram,
00:35:09.260 but close gas, ladies. 1.00
00:35:10.500 Okay, so Bonnie Critchley, 0.93
00:35:11.740 the independent in that writing.
00:35:13.880 Oh, there's many independents,
00:35:14.920 but she seems to be the one
00:35:15.920 that's getting all the media coverage
00:35:17.300 because she positions herself
00:35:20.560 as a centrist, but right of center.
00:35:22.960 She's real caustic. 1.00
00:35:24.400 She comes along on this stage.
00:35:28.860 I just feel like there's some polish missing there, 1.00
00:35:32.360 but maybe that's her style. 1.00
00:35:33.340 And again, I say this as somebody
00:35:34.480 who's definitely not for everybody.
00:35:35.860 I get your letters, I know.
00:35:38.280 But I said that I bet she drives a Subaru. 0.95
00:35:45.040 I guess she drives a Dodge Ram, 1.00
00:35:46.460 which that's a respectable vehicle, by the way.
00:35:48.580 So is a Subaru.
00:35:49.820 My son drove a Subaru.
00:35:50.860 I don't know, but I think some of you
00:35:53.200 know what I'm getting at.
00:35:55.740 Charlotte LaFleche says,
00:35:58.360 appreciate your commentary.
00:36:00.220 That's myself and Lise.
00:36:01.600 Lise, of course, is in Regina,
00:36:03.540 so very like a laser beam on Western issues.
00:36:07.200 Felt like I was sitting with my sisters watching TV.
00:36:10.740 Well, that's nice.
00:36:11.420 Thank you so much.
00:36:12.300 Again, I realize we're not for everybody.
00:36:13.780 Some people don't like our commentary,
00:36:14.880 but I feel like we as Westerners
00:36:18.580 who are raising families
00:36:20.960 and trying to get by,
00:36:25.060 I feel like some of you
00:36:28.060 can see yourselves
00:36:30.560 in some of our spicy takes.
00:36:33.460 You know what I mean?
00:36:34.600 All right.
00:36:35.080 Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
00:36:37.280 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:36:38.980 I did not have enough time with Chris,
00:36:40.940 but I was up against the clock
00:36:43.740 when I recorded that interview
00:36:45.580 and that's to my great shame and regret
00:36:48.280 and I will reschedule with her
00:36:49.860 so she can just have all the time 1.00
00:36:51.460 she wants to rail against government spending
00:36:54.300 because that's one of my favorite topics.
00:36:57.100 Thanks to the team in Toronto
00:36:58.540 for putting the show together
00:36:59.460 and as always,
00:37:00.720 don't let the government tell you
00:37:02.000 that you've had too much to think.
00:37:10.940 We'll be right back.