Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Defund the CBC! ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 71

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton. I promise I'll be back on Sunday, and it's a bit of a surprise. I know you can't wait, but I'll be back in a few moments.

00:00:16.740 So we are in a very precarious position in this country. We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.

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00:01:05.640 I don't like to ask, but there's many ways you can do that, and you can find out how to do so in the description, and I'll leave that to you.

00:01:14.220 But I thank you so much for putting us over 15,000. We were there, then we lost some mysteriously overnight on December 31st.

00:01:25.760 We hit 15,000 before New Year's Eve, midnight New Year's Eve. But we're back up again. We're over 15,100 now.

00:01:34.780 So, I don't know what we're going to do this year. I don't have an objective yet in terms of final numbers, but I'll let you know when I do.

00:01:46.000 So, thank you again, though, for your support. Financially, so many of you have given support.

00:01:52.100 But just for subscribing, telling your friends and family about this, because I think we're offering a product here that is not only as good as a lot of other commentators are offering,

00:02:04.260 but I think it's better, because I'm proud of the fact that I do original content for you. I get out there, I interview people, I give you the news, I don't sit in my basement and predict that Justin Trudeau is going to implode tomorrow.

00:02:18.880 Believe me, if the end was near for Justin Trudeau, I would be the first one announcing it. But he's going to tenaciously cling to power. You know he will.

00:02:27.560 So, before I get into today's topic, which of course is CBC, and you're saying, why would you talk about CBC right now?

00:02:36.360 Because once you get into the news cycle, once you get into question period dictating what the top five stories of the day are,

00:02:44.020 sometimes you overlook issues and episodes that you really mean to do, and policies that you need to address.

00:02:55.760 And defunding CBC is a big one. But before I get into that, I want to share a couple of comments from yesterday.

00:03:03.360 You know, I did that broadcast yesterday about Trudeau's vacation. I was playing, broke down in Jamaica. He was staying at this lavish luxury resort on the water that just happened to be a former slave plantation.

00:03:18.020 So, I got a great comment from at Joe Knox 2108. And he said, heard this place was a plantation at one time. Wonder if he, Trudeau, did blackface again.

00:03:35.900 I love that. I just love that. I wonder too, because it would be so apropos for someone like Trudeau, who has no sense of appropriateness, does he?

00:03:50.020 Or no sense of decorum, or no sense of decency. He did blackface most of his adult life. 0.99

00:03:56.680 From a teenager on, to God knows when he really stopped. He won't say. He can't even remember how many videos he recorded, let alone how many times he did it without a camera present.

00:04:10.080 Got away with it. And yet he continues to castigate his political enemies as a bunch of racists.

00:04:18.000 Who's the racist? Who's the guy who did blackface? Did he do it in Jamaica at a former slave plantation? 0.90

00:04:24.560 Wouldn't put it past him. I don't know. But that was one of the funniest remarks.

00:04:31.120 The other great remark I had yesterday, I mentioned the Online Safety Act, which is Trudeau's third censorship legislation.

00:04:41.820 It's the third part of his censorship trilogy to clamp down on online news and to censor what people can say on the Internet.

00:04:53.380 And the Online Censorship Act, sorry, the Online Safety Act is going to outlaw disinformation and misinformation and malinformation without defining what these terms even mean.

00:05:07.940 And what defining what kind of news is going to contravene it.

00:05:12.000 So meaning everybody who says something Justin doesn't like is going to be guilty of it.

00:05:17.740 So that's key. We defeat this legislation this year in whatever way we can in a parliamentary legal manner, obviously.

00:05:26.960 But we need to convince enough MPs in the opposition to not support this legislation because it's bad for free speech.

00:05:37.380 But anyway, I got a great remark here.

00:05:41.140 Dirty Dog 995, who says the Online Safety Act should be where politicians are not allowed online.

00:05:50.480 It would be a lot safer, yeah, if politicians in general were not allowed online, especially the ones in this Trudeau government.

00:05:58.500 So thank you for your comments.

00:06:01.240 We're still going up and up with the comments on that.

00:06:04.680 I'm trying to address and respond to as many as I can.

00:06:08.720 And I just really am thankful that you're taking the time and the effort and you're making the effort to comment on the show.

00:06:18.300 Because I appreciate anything you say.

00:06:23.040 Obviously, I love to hear the positive feedback.

00:06:26.800 It's very important when you do a show like this.

00:06:29.240 You need to know people are being edified by it.

00:06:32.740 People are learning from it.

00:06:33.980 It's helping people to understand the news and helping you to find a means to advance common sense policies in this country and how to fight the nonsensical policies of the Trudeau government.

00:06:50.720 I think that's one of the reasons I'm here, because I can say and do what I want to a certain degree, obviously.

00:06:58.260 But it's very important you continue to tell me what you want me to say, what you want me to do, what you want me to discuss, because I think that's part of this process.

00:07:09.720 It's a discourse.

00:07:11.460 It's a discourse.

00:07:13.360 So why are we talking about CBC?

00:07:15.180 Well, like I said, it's probably something that I'm not going to discuss.

00:07:19.880 I did a story a couple of weeks back for the post-millennial.

00:07:23.620 There she is, the president and CEO of CBC, Catherine Tate.

00:07:31.580 Now, that's a that's quite a picture.

00:07:35.620 Yes.

00:07:36.440 And I'm not going to make any remarks about Catherine Tate's demeanor here or anything else.

00:07:44.020 Clearly, she is a member of the Trudeau elite.

00:07:48.300 She was put there by Justin Trudeau for a reason, which is to keep CBC sucking up your taxpayer money and really to be an organization that mouths Trudeau's policies.

00:08:01.480 Occasionally, they do some good work.

00:08:04.060 Occasionally, they do.

00:08:05.620 But they are state media and obviously and ultimately they are beholden to Justin Trudeau.

00:08:11.820 So what does the headline say here?

00:08:13.260 CBC president to appear before Heritage Committee to explain job cuts and bonuses for executives.

00:08:19.560 Yes.

00:08:21.060 Huge, huge job cuts at CBC.

00:08:24.340 And really no explanation as to how a crown corporation that receives $1.3 to $1.4 billion a year has to cut all of these positions.

00:08:43.620 And it's absolutely astounding.

00:08:46.920 And at the same time, keep the Christmas bonuses going for the executives.

00:08:52.600 Where does all the money go at CBC?

00:08:56.060 How is it blowing?

00:08:58.860 It's blowing because they have the highest priced senior executive in media in North America.

00:09:09.380 And they continue to get their Christmas bonuses, even though they've got huge job cuts.

00:09:17.820 I mean, huge job cuts.

00:09:19.740 And yet, hey, that's no big deal.

00:09:25.760 That's no big deal here.

00:09:28.160 So I show you that story.

00:09:32.140 And I want to go to a little clip here from conservative leader Pierre Pollyon.

00:09:39.940 I want to listen to the awards, and I'll see you in the right corner.

00:09:57.920 And I'll see you in the draft.

00:10:00.460 Come on, everybody, give this young guy a round of applause.

00:10:12.460 Ladies and gentlemen, I think we might have another future Prime Minister here.

00:10:18.460 What's your name?

00:10:20.460 Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex, good to meet you.

00:10:23.460 What do you think about defunding the CBC?

00:10:25.460 Good idea?

00:10:26.460 I can't get a yes or no answer from the Liberals.

00:10:39.460 Now, I put that there because Pierre Polyev made defunding the CBC a very important part of his leadership campaign

00:10:51.460 when he was running to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

00:10:58.460 I think he needs to follow through on that when he becomes Prime Minister.

00:11:05.460 Now, why do I say there's any doubt about that?

00:11:09.460 You know, I just mentioned the fact that Catherine Tate is cutting 600 jobs at CBC because they just can't afford it anymore and 200 more jobs on the horizon. 0.96

00:11:21.460 Now, Pierre Polyev has even joked about the fact that he's going to turn the CBC's Ottawa headquarters into low-income housing.

00:11:31.460 He needs to follow through in this.

00:11:33.460 And why do I think there's a possibility he won't?

00:11:36.460 Now, I believe he's sincere about this.

00:11:40.460 But what happened under nine years of the Stephen Harper government?

00:11:45.460 I wrote a policy paper in the midst of those nine years.

00:11:50.460 It was called Time to Leave Home, a case for the privatization of the CBC.

00:11:56.460 And I argued not only that it was tendentiously left-wing in its politics, that it had an obvious bias, that it generally sided with liberal policies, even when the liberals weren't in power, because they thought the Conservatives would not ever cut them too drastically and certainly never defund them.

00:12:22.460 So I took this policy paper to various high-profile members of the Conservative government at the time, including cabinet ministers.

00:12:32.460 And I said, this is a great idea.

00:12:35.460 And I said, this paper will tell you how you can justify it beyond just saying we don't like the CBC and we don't like its left-wing analysis of the news.

00:12:47.460 It's time for the CBC to function as any other media broadcaster, to go their own way, to stop feeding on the public trop, to stop taking from taxpayers, to stop being tethered to the federal government and receiving billions of dollars.

00:13:08.460 Because it's just good for the economy and it's good for freedom of speech and freedom of the press in this country.

00:13:20.460 We don't need a state broadcaster.

00:13:22.460 The original reason for the CBC, because it was instituted by a Conservative government in 1935 under R.B. Bennett, a Conservative government.

00:13:34.460 The rationale was that we needed Canadian content because we were immersed in American news and American entertainment and we needed to provide unique Canadian content.

00:13:50.460 That argument disappeared decades ago with the advent of super cable news.

00:13:57.460 And now with the internet, there's no need for a state broadcaster to provide Canadian content.

00:14:04.460 I'm providing Canadian content.

00:14:07.460 My peers are providing Canadian content.

00:14:10.460 There's dozens of stations on satellite TV that are providing Canadian content.

00:14:18.460 Cable news and cable stations provide loads of Canadian content.

00:14:27.460 So the rationale has disappeared.

00:14:30.460 They don't need it.

00:14:32.460 They have to survive on their own.

00:14:35.460 They have to do this because it just makes sense.

00:14:40.460 There's no need for you and I to continue to subsidize them.

00:14:44.460 And it just provides a bad example for other media, which, of course, Trudeau has also put on the government payroll.

00:14:54.460 And he's spending tens of millions of dollars to subsidize the legacy media, obviously in the hopes and the realization that they will provide positive media coverage for him.

00:15:09.460 And that's exactly what happens.

00:15:11.460 Media becomes beholden to the government if the government pays its bills.

00:15:17.460 I believe there's enough good journalists at CBC who could probably make that station work quite effectively without 1.3 to 1.4 billion dollars a year from taxpayers.

00:15:30.460 And if they can't, too bad.

00:15:32.460 Other stations have to function in the real world.

00:15:36.460 Let's listen to Catherine Tate, the president of CBC, who is really a gift, a godsend to Pierre Paulio, because she exemplifies everything that's wrong with the CBC, everything that's wrong with the government buying the news.

00:15:57.460 She's an elitist and she really believes we can't function without the CBC.

00:16:04.460 To this point.

00:16:06.460 You know, we're not immune.

00:16:08.460 CBC Radio-Canada has enormous privilege of public funding.

00:16:13.460 It's something that we are grateful for.

00:16:15.460 And we also have different obligations than our private sector colleagues.

00:16:18.460 We serve minority language communities in areas outside of Quebec for Francophones.

00:16:26.460 We're in the, in the north.

00:16:28.460 These are markets that will never be commercially viable, but it's important work and it's absolutely core to our mission.

00:16:35.460 But we also have the same pressures with respect to inflation, cost of production, cost of operations, declines in revenue related to our traditional television services.

00:16:47.460 All of that has created a perfect storm and the pressure, the unbelievably fierce competition from the foreign streamers that accelerated and was amplified coming out during the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic. 1.00

00:17:04.460 Sounds like something that's spread very thin.

00:17:07.460 We are enormously spread thin.

00:17:09.460 I mean, it's just incredible.

00:17:11.460 This organization has the same budget that it had 30 years ago.

00:17:17.460 Do you buy that for a minute?

00:17:20.460 They haven't had an increase in their budget in 30 years.

00:17:22.460 That is a, that is completely, a complete falsehood.

00:17:27.460 Of course, they've had increases in their budget in the last 30 years.

00:17:31.460 And what makes CBC so unique, so singular that they can't deal with the economic forces around them, but other companies are expected to do so?

00:17:43.460 They have got an immediate $1.3 billion cash infusion.

00:17:49.460 Plus they run paid advertising on the television side of CBC.

00:17:55.460 They're getting money from government and private sources.

00:18:00.460 And yet it's just too much time to get rid of your bloated executive at the very least.

00:18:08.460 Time to stop paying people three times the average wage that they would receive in the private sector.

00:18:15.460 But even better, it's time to cut off your funding altogether and to say, go it alone or don't go at all.

00:18:25.460 I'm just curious about something.

00:18:27.460 I'm going to presume no bonuses this year.

00:18:29.460 I mean, the Canadian Taxpayer Federation said a Freedom of Information request showed 16 million were paid in bonuses in 2022.

00:18:36.460 Can we establish that that is not happening this year?

00:18:39.460 It's too early to say where we are for this year.

00:18:43.460 We'll be looking at that like we do all our line items in the coming months.

00:18:48.460 So there's a chance bonuses could still happen at a time when jobs are being cut?

00:18:53.460 Again, I'm not going to comment on something that hasn't been discussed at this point.

00:18:58.460 So.

00:18:59.460 OK, well, the tractors.

00:19:02.460 Yeah, I'm not going to comment on that because, yeah, it's probably going to happen.

00:19:06.460 And then, yes, it is absolutely outrageous that she would.

00:19:11.460 Hell.

00:19:15.460 CBC journalists that, you know, we really don't want to cut those bonuses because, you know, that's not like CBC.

00:19:23.460 So I'm not going to give you an answer.

00:19:25.460 Right. I'm going to give you talking points just like Justin Trudeau does.

00:19:29.460 I'm going to be evasive just like the liberal government expects me to be.

00:19:33.460 So that's an old friend of mine asking the questions.

00:19:36.460 Adrienne Arsenault.

00:19:37.460 What do I know Adrienne from?

00:19:38.460 She used to come to my base in Comox, British Columbia, when I was the public affairs officer there.

00:19:44.460 And she always came with a crew to my base to do stories about the operations we were doing to search and rescue, maritime patrol, fighter ops.

00:19:53.460 And it was always a pleasure to deal with Adrienne.

00:19:57.460 She was a good reporter and she is a good reporter because she had the guts to at least ask that question to CBC's president.

00:20:07.460 And you could see she was expecting a better answer than that.

00:20:11.460 But Adrienne was a good reporter.

00:20:13.460 I have fond memories of Adrienne being always willing to give national defense a fair shake and to give us fair coverage.

00:20:22.460 I never asked for propaganda.

00:20:24.460 I just said, be fair with us, Adrienne.

00:20:26.460 And she always was.

00:20:27.460 And we had a we had a very good friendship in those days when I was a Comox.

00:20:31.460 And but it reminds me of CBC showing up at the gate.

00:20:39.460 With four people.

00:20:41.460 And I used to say, how in the hell can you afford to send four people on a story?

00:20:46.460 And it was indicative of how CBC loves to waste money, because if I was doing a story with the local CTV station, they would send one journalist.

00:21:01.460 With a camera.

00:21:04.460 He would ask me the questions.

00:21:06.460 He would do the interview with his camera and he would be responsible for the script.

00:21:13.460 And everything else.

00:21:15.460 And unlike CBC, that had somebody designated to buy the bagels.

00:21:21.460 The private sector companies obviously couldn't afford that.

00:21:26.460 So the CBC was always bloated in terms of its personnel and always had too many people assigned to every story because they had the luxury of doing that.

00:21:38.460 So when you hear Catherine Tate go on about all the economic pressures and the forces, they have been wasting your money for decades because they assume it's going to keep coming.

00:21:52.460 They have such a sense of entitlement.

00:21:55.460 It is just like everything else that is feeding off public trough.

00:22:02.460 They think it's never going to end and it never should end because they're so special in the work they do.

00:22:08.460 But I respected Adrian for those questions.

00:22:10.460 I wanted to make that clear and glad she did that.

00:22:12.460 But it really is time to move on, folks.

00:22:16.460 It's time.

00:22:17.460 And Pierre Polyev has got to follow through on this promise because it's integral.

00:22:23.460 Stephen Harper refused to defund or seriously cut the CBC for nine years.

00:22:28.460 He was afraid to do it politically.

00:22:30.460 God knows why.

00:22:31.460 There's never been a more opportune time to defund the CBC.

00:22:36.460 I think most Canadians would agree with it and applaud it heartily.

00:22:42.460 And it's necessary not just to save a billion dollars plus a year.

00:22:47.460 It's necessary to save free speech and freedom of press in Canada because we've got to get rid of a state media and eliminate all subsidies, all subsidies to legacy media.

00:23:01.460 Otherwise, journalists are in the pocket of the government, no matter what that government may be.

00:23:08.460 I want to show one more clip here.

00:23:13.460 It illustrates, I think, how arrogant the CBC can be.

00:23:18.460 And this is the deputy conservative leader, Melissa Lansman.

00:23:21.460 Quite hard on Melissa a couple of weeks back when she said she was going to write a blank check or that a conservative government should write a blank check to Ukraine to keep this war going for as long as it takes.

00:23:36.460 And the mistaken idea that if we don't keep funding the black hole of Kiev, there's going to be a continued movement from Russia into Western Europe.

00:23:50.460 We need to stop funding Ukraine. 0.95

00:23:52.460 But I'm not going to say anything more about that today.

00:23:54.460 I think on this occasion, Melissa was quite right on.

00:23:57.460 Sure, I would give the floor to Lansman, please.

00:24:00.460 Madam Chair, Hamas itself admits that it uses terrorism to further its goals.

00:24:06.460 Those facts are not disputed.

00:24:08.460 And the choice not to call Hamas terrorists is willful obstruction of the facts.

00:24:13.460 It is biased and it does help Hamas. 0.82

00:24:16.460 That said, your funding has increased 21%.

00:24:20.460 Since 2016, the primetime ratings have dropped 7.6% since 2018.

00:24:29.460 Trust is down 40%.

00:24:31.460 That's a 60% distrust.

00:24:34.460 I will never apologize for holding the CBC to account for $1.4 billion of taxpayer money that you receive.

00:24:44.460 The NDP used to be an opposition party.

00:24:46.460 They used to do that in committee.

00:24:48.460 They used to do that in the House.

00:24:50.460 And I will never apologize for that.

00:24:52.460 But can you tell...

00:24:54.460 I'm sorry, Ms.

00:24:56.460 Yeah, I'm sorry, Ms. Lansman, your time is up.

00:25:01.460 Good job, Melissa Lansman, exposing the CBC, telling everybody how much money they waste and the fact their ratings are on the decline.

00:25:11.460 Now, when the war in the Middle East and Gaza began, Catherine Tate made the editorial decision and gave the order in an internal memo telling reporters for CBC that they could not use the word terrorism or terrorist and apply that to Hamas.

00:25:31.460 Now, I'm not enthusiastic about what Israel has done in Gaza since October 7th anymore than I wouldn't say it was a slaughter by terrorists against Israelis on October 7th.

00:25:48.460 But the point is, you cannot tell reporters to use politically correct language based on what policy.

00:25:59.460 Hamas is a terrorist organization. 0.99

00:26:03.460 Hamas fighters are terrorists. 1.00

00:26:07.460 That's a fact of life. 0.99

00:26:09.460 It's a fact of life.

00:26:10.460 And I wouldn't want to sugarcoat what is happening in Gaza right now by the Israelis by saying, oh, we can't be critical because, well, we just don't do that because we put political opinion and we put political language ahead of objective truth.

00:26:28.460 And we don't want to report the events as they really are.

00:26:33.460 So Lantzman made a very good point here.

00:26:36.460 Don't tell reporters they can't refer to Hamas people as terrorists. 1.00

00:26:40.460 Because once you start doing that, you politically define the war, you politically define anything that is news.

00:26:51.460 But of course, CBC has been doing that for years, haven't they?

00:26:54.460 Because you look at their coverage of conservative, small C conservative or libertarian events, and they're never important.

00:27:05.460 They're never important.

00:27:07.460 They're never on the radar.

00:27:09.460 They always underestimate the amount of people.

00:27:13.460 When we had the one million person march for children, they grossly underestimated or grossly lied about the amount of parental rights champions who are on the streets fighting against gender ideology.

00:27:31.460 They did that intentionally because they were ideologically in tune with the whole LGBTQ agenda. 0.57

00:27:40.460 And they were opposed to parents knowing about what their children are doing in schools.

00:27:47.460 They are ideologically in tune with Justin Trudeau and his extremist social agenda.

00:27:54.460 So we know how CBC operates.

00:27:57.460 And as long as they keep getting the money, they'll keep telling the lies.

00:28:01.460 And they'll keep underrepresenting events and numbers that are associated with small C conservative organizations or people.

00:28:14.460 So it's very important we defund the CBC.

00:28:17.460 I encourage Pierre Polyev, follow through on this.

00:28:21.460 Stephen Harper didn't have the guts to do it.

00:28:24.460 Nine years he could have done it, and he didn't.

00:28:28.460 The time is now.

00:28:30.460 When you are Prime Minister, Mr. Polyev, follow through on one of your paramount promises.

00:28:37.460 Defund the CBC, save Canadian taxpayers $1.3 billion a year, and reinvigorate freedom of press and freedom of speech in this country by saying no more state media and get rid of those subsidies for legacy media as well.

00:28:53.460 Glad we had a chance to talk about this today.

00:28:56.460 I'll be back tomorrow with the news of the day.

00:28:59.460 No more question period for another four weeks or so.

00:29:05.460 But there's always news magically appearing after the Christmas and New Year break.

00:29:11.460 And we'll be seeing a lot of news happening in the next couple of days and weeks.

00:29:16.460 And I'll be following it, and I'll be passing it on to you.

00:29:19.460 And I'll be commenting on why it's important and where we're going.

00:29:23.460 This is going to be a very, very pivotal year.

00:29:27.460 Now, I keep saying it, and I'm going to say it one more time.

00:29:30.460 We have to resolve to resist what the Trudeau government is doing to us.

00:29:34.460 We have to convince enough opposition MPs that the Trudeau government needs to fall this year before it wreaks more damage on this country.

00:29:49.460 Before it causes a major catastrophe from which we cannot recover.

00:29:56.460 We need the Liberal government to fall this year.

00:30:00.460 And we can do that through parliamentary means.

00:30:03.460 We just need to convince MPs that it's for everybody's good, the national good, as well as theirs.

00:30:11.460 But we're going to keep fighting and giving you the news, reporting the issues, and letting you know what's important on Stand On Guard.

00:30:20.460 Thanks for watching today.

00:30:22.460 Happy rest of your Sunday.

00:30:24.460 Snowing here in Ottawa.

00:30:26.460 I've got to go out and shovel some snow.

00:30:28.460 But that's okay.

00:30:30.460 We had a really good time for most of the Christmas and New Year's.

00:30:35.460 Not a lot of shoveling going on here.

00:30:37.460 For those of you who've had a lot of shoveling, my turn today.

00:30:42.460 Thanks for watching again.

00:30:44.460 We love you and God bless you.

00:30:46.460 Bye.

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - January 08, 2024

Defund the CBC! ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 71

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