00:00:00.000Hi, I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Folks, we have some breaking news for you. This is an exclusive story from Juno News and The Candice Malcolm Show.
00:00:11.180We are reporting today that the CBC, the Canadian State Broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has hired temporary foreign workers through its program.
00:00:21.740They have issued labor market impact assessments, which means that they are looking for people who fit a certain job and when they can't find it, they can go ahead and hire temporary foreign workers.
00:00:32.800They have hired 20 of them according to records and documents obtained by Juno News. This is really unbelievable, okay?
00:00:41.080You have the State Broadcaster of Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the organization that claims to speak for Canadians and represent Canadian culture and basically be Canada, right?
00:00:50.580And yet they are hiring foreigners. They are participating in this program, temporary foreign worker program, that places foreigners ahead of Canadians.
00:01:00.340This is really unbelievable. I'm going to walk you through it.
00:01:02.380So the most recent approval for a temporary foreign worker came in Q3 of 2024. This dates back over the past decades.
00:01:09.760But 20 people over the past decade have come through this temporary foreign worker program.
00:01:15.520And the individual jobs that they have hired for, I mean, it's absurd, folks.
00:01:20.540Computer programmers, computer network technicians, business management consultants, marketing research and consultants.
00:01:28.000You have announcers and broadcasters, broadcast technicians, web designers and developers, and interactive media developers.
00:01:35.780So the CBC, with a straight face, is claiming that they cannot find those people in Canada, that there are no people in the country that fit the description for their job.
00:01:46.420And therefore, they have to go abroad and recruit foreigners to come and be broadcasters and announcers at the CBC, to be technicians, to do web design, to do web development.
00:01:57.220It is just patently, patently false that you can't find those workers in Canada.
00:02:04.880How many unemployed journalists are there in this country?
00:02:07.340How many people have been laid off from places like the CBC and the Toronto Star and other legacy media broadcast companies because the legacy media is dying because Canadians aren't tuning in?
00:02:17.900And yet they say that there is no Canadians that fill these jobs, and therefore they had to go through this scam program in our immigration system, the same scam program that is now letting in hundreds of thousands.
00:02:30.560Remember, we reported earlier this week that there was supposed to be a cap, and the Liberal government has already blown through the cap after just six months of data.
00:02:37.860The system is broken, and even the state broadcaster is partaking and taking advantage of this broken system.
00:02:46.500And to talk a bit more about this, I'm pleased to introduce Alexander Brown.
00:02:50.500Alexander has a show here at Juno News called Not Sorry.
00:02:53.620He's also the director of communications, the director of the National Citizens Coalition.
00:02:57.740Alexander, thanks for joining the show.
00:02:59.400What do you think of our breaking news story here today?
00:03:02.020Candace, you were right to call it a scam because that is what it is.
00:03:06.760That is how we're seeing it be used now.
00:03:09.740It is an excuse to suppress wages, to look for something very specific, sort of outside of the Canadian sort of normal job stream.
00:03:20.860Anyone from now we know CBC employees to bakers, butchers, certainly truck drivers, which we go into on my latest episode quite in an in-depth manner.
00:03:31.680Even those who worked on the temporary foreign worker program before 2015, with Jason Kenney, those key advisors, I've spoken with all of them, they were advising to abolish the program.
00:03:46.200Like, because they saw the trouble coming.
00:03:48.200They saw that companies were going to take advantage of this.
00:03:51.200They saw that the wrong government in power would let them.
00:03:54.160And now this is just completely out of control.
00:03:57.860And if the CBC were to even be sticking to its mandate as the Canadian public broadcaster, they shouldn't be hiring a single person using the temporary foreign worker program.
00:05:56.660Like, there's this whole whisper network of, you know, how that's actually working out now.
00:06:01.060But it's like they cut right to it, because you're offering $36 an hour for something very specific.
00:06:07.060There's something embedded in the job description that, like, doesn't quite – you know, shouldn't actually be within the purview of what the role is.
00:06:13.960Right now, Michelle Rempel-Garner, who's the shadow minister on immigration, the immigration critic, is doing really great work where she's going to, like, kind of like the LMIA job bank.
00:06:23.740And she's just saying, like, hey, guys, these are the jobs that are – you know, these folks have already gotten approved for to go out to the temporary foreign worker program.
00:06:32.680And it's just an astonishing range of $36 an hour well-paying positions that we all know Canadians who would be well-suited for and who are looking.
00:06:53.320Like, that is – CIBC put out a warning saying, you know, these are recession numbers, but that's worse than that.
00:06:58.340Well, and what does it say for, like, the future generation, right?
00:07:01.820These are young men aged 15 to 24, and the fact that one in four, one in five of them can't find a job that's looking, like, what's going to become of these young men?
00:07:54.120And so, happy to see Pierre Polyev speaking in Charlottetown PEI yesterday, talking about how Canada is expected to bring in a record number of temporary foreign workers this year.
00:08:04.660As our young people have a quarter century high in their unemployment, Mark Carney brings in, this year is expected to bring in a record number of temporary foreign workers to take the jobs of Canadian youth, driving down our kids' wages and their ability to earn a living.
00:08:23.420So while he drives up the cost of housing, preventing them from owning homes, he drives down their wages by allowing greedy multinational corporations to bring in low wage foreign workers that take away Canadian jobs, including in high unemployment regions of this country.
00:09:11.360Like, I spent the summer calling for, with the National Citizens Coalition, you know, responsible immigration numbers, press releases on, you know, don't just buy Canadian, you know, with all that elbows up fervor.
00:09:39.240And I'm happy to see immigration breaking through.
00:09:41.200And I hope the conservatives are able to push the needle on this issue and, you know, go hard because it's necessary and it's long overdue.
00:09:49.840I want to go back to the CBC because speaking of the National Post, I saw this story in the National Post on Tuesday.
00:09:55.900CBC is heading to court to fight an order to disclose subscriber numbers for GEM streaming service.
00:10:14.200And even though they're a public broadcaster, they get money from the taxpayer, they are here to provide a service to Canadians, they also want to charge you to stream their news network, their 24-hour cable news network.
00:10:30.240And then they also throw in a bunch of movies and series.
00:10:34.360And when you go on to the CBC GEM website, you'll see that the vast majority, Alex, like, from my count, eight out of the ten shows that they're promoting were not Canadian, right?
00:10:45.760Like, the whole idea is that they're promoting Canadian culture and Canadian arts.
00:10:50.060And yet, when you go ahead and you look at the shows that they are promoting here, Plan B, so that's the one Canadian show I am not familiar with this program.
00:12:45.080I think we know why that, you know, this is having to go to court too, is that they know that the numbers are terrible.
00:12:51.460Like, it's, it's, I might, like, become immediately ostracized from conservative circles for saying that, like, I think the CBC has some utility.
00:13:00.220But when it comes to scripted and international scripted, what the heck are we doing?
00:13:04.240At least the BBC, you know, makes things with, with, you know, Benedict Cumberbatch and, and, like, esteemed thespians.
00:13:11.800Like, we're just getting the world's slop.
00:13:14.580And then we're turning around and going, no one's watching.
00:13:16.800And we don't want to tell them the numbers because they're grisly.
00:13:19.560And, you know, Canadians are being robbed of their purchasing power because our money's worth less because we're wasting money on this stuff.
00:13:26.540Like, shout out to Juno News and your work.
00:13:29.620You know, at the six-month anniversary, you release all those great numbers.
00:13:32.980Like, look at all these great numbers we're doing.
00:13:37.060You know, there are no subsidies here.
00:13:39.000We're reaching tens of millions of people, you know, through the election.
00:13:42.220I'm sure those numbers were staggering.
00:13:44.420They know that if they actually, you know, go to market, those subscribers are in the thousands.
00:13:49.340And, you know, the subsidies are in the billions.
00:13:53.380It's really, like, it's such a mismatch.
00:13:55.220And even just to add on to the waste, right, so we have a government agency that for some reason gets $1.4 billion a year from the taxpayers just to report the news, right?
00:14:05.520To your point, there are many, many free market organizations that will do that because they can find a profit, right?
00:14:11.640Like, they're doing it without the subsidies.
00:14:13.800And, in fact, the other way around, we pay taxes, right?
00:14:16.200So, you know, they're getting money that way.
00:14:18.080Then they're turning around and charging people $5.99 a month for the privilege of getting to watch CBC News World.
00:14:23.100Like, why isn't that just publicly available since we're already paying for it with our taxes?
00:14:26.800And then on top of that, Alex, they're going to go to court and use countless resources to defend themselves against an access to information request, which is part of the public disclosure process.
00:14:37.740So it should be, I mean, you should do it, right?
00:14:40.460But instead, they're going to spend, who knows, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of dollars trying to block an attempt at transparency.
00:14:47.040It's just like their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
00:14:50.580We could have done the whole episode on this.
00:15:11.520You know, I'm in my shoebox apartment in Vancouver right now.
00:15:16.040Like, it's, they fought tooth and nail to, you know, not disclose, you know, lavish executive bonuses, too, because they know it looks bad.
00:15:25.520Whenever you open up the books and you're not above board and you're trying to pull the wool over people's eyes, like, it's going to come out.
00:15:34.660And it's going to look bad and it's not remotely relatable.
00:15:37.580And that darn service that might be useful to people during the Olympics because they get to keep up with Team Canada, the actual Team Canada, not the fake Liberal Team Canada, for that to be $5.99 is an insult.
00:15:56.560Okay, we've got a couple more examples of the ridiculous successes over at the CBC, but first a quick word from our sponsor.
00:16:02.600So the Trudeau government had laid the groundwork, but now with Mark Carney in charge, it feels like the government's getting bolder about deciding what we're allowed to see online.
00:16:11.900News stories disappear from social media, content gets blocked, and it's all framed as safety or regulations.
00:16:17.880We know too well about this, by the way, here at Juno News and the Candace Malcolm Show.
00:16:21.580Some of our best episodes from the election are no longer here.
00:16:25.620They just disappeared from YouTube, from Google searches.
00:17:16.220I don't think it serves a public purpose at all.
00:17:19.200Even the idea of, you know, hitting you doing radio and servicing small communities, it doesn't really make sense anymore because of podcasters and people who go and do citizen journalism.
00:17:31.320Like, I can tell a lot more about what's happening in a small town if there's an emergency or something like that, just going on Twitter or going on X, than paying the CBC to have a bureaucracy.
00:17:40.560Well, you know, $1.4 billion was spent on the state Budcrestor in 2023-2024.
00:17:47.180And our friends over at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation found out that there is a 65-page list of CBC employees who make over $100,000 a year.
00:17:59.740There are over 200 people at the CBC who earn that high, high wage, including 180 managers, 277 senior managers, 124 directors, 106 senior directors, 28 executive producers.
00:18:16.160I don't think they know what an executive producer is because usually that's the lead producer.
00:18:20.080I don't know why you need 28 of those.
00:18:25.740And part of it, to your point, is that they're paying themselves ridiculous salaries and then they're giving themselves bonuses on top of that.
00:18:33.500I mean, it's also when you're reading out that list.
00:18:35.920And first of all, it's very funny that they have their own sunshine list at this point.
00:18:39.760Like, you could, you know, it could be its own Toronto Sun giant, giant thing.
00:18:44.720But it's as their managers, it's managerial bloat.
00:18:49.120These are the same issues that you hear from doctors, like, in our healthcare sector, which is, it's like, oh, our employment in our hospital is growing.
00:18:56.440And it's like, it's just middle management and administrators and another person on a keyboard with, like, a not particularly real job.
00:19:04.840That's not, you know, we know we're not serving the public with that kind of growth, with that sort of bureaucratic growth.
00:19:13.420And particularly in the case of the state broadcaster, who benefits from 10 more executive producers at the CBC when half those people would be for daytime television that's, you know, watched by, you know, 10,000 moms, maybe.
00:19:27.500And it is directed towards advertisers who aren't even getting their dollars worth.
00:19:32.320And it's being subsidized by us at a time when all of our public services are underwater.
00:19:40.800And our purchasing power is underwater.
00:19:43.120And so you can, right there, I knew I would get in trouble by saying, you know, there's, you know, part of the CBC, you know, there should be some utility.
00:19:56.160Well, it is interesting that, you know, you mentioned that there's, like, the added middle managers and sort of paper pushers at desks that have been added.
00:20:05.380It happens basically at every bureaucracy.
00:20:07.720I mean, we saw this under the Trudeau government.
00:20:09.980I think it was that the bureaucracy doubled in size.
00:20:12.860Or that they added 99,000 or 100,000 new positions in the federal bureaucracy.
00:20:19.660Like, so many of those roles, I mean, I don't know.
00:20:23.440I don't know if they're useful or not because, like you said, they're administrators.
00:20:27.000It happens in education as well that you have just as many education bureaucrats as actual teachers.
00:20:32.460And so class sizes are getting bigger and parents are complaining about the diminishing educational standards and diminishing test scores.
00:20:39.600And instead of hiring more teachers and more educators, they're putting in more bureaucrats who are the ones that are pushing the woke, like, DEI, ESG agenda.
00:20:50.740And so it's, like, it's just such an easy call that these people can't, like, we have to stop doing this.
00:20:58.420They're make-work programs for university grads that would otherwise be unemployed, I guess.
00:21:02.700And then, you know, to make matters worse, the CBC is turning around and hiring foreign workers for some of these positions as well, which is outrageous.
00:21:10.740And, like, they are make-work projects.
00:21:12.120Like, this is the equivalent of, like, driving past that construction site where you never see anyone doing anything and you see the sign that this was, like, contracted out to the government or Metrolinx or something.
00:21:25.900Like, we're just spinning our wheels and wasting our time with this stuff.
00:21:30.160And a lot of these managerial jobs, like, especially with what's changing quickly in industries with AI, the role of AI, these people are just drone pilots for Grok and ChatGPT.
00:21:42.380Like, they're not actually doing anything.
00:21:44.600And, like, you could – a kid could do that for cheaper coming out of university who we're actually trying to launch and we're actually trying to build up their upward social mobility.
00:21:53.000There's no reason for that to be in a $100,000 position when there's already 20 of them at the company and they're just moving letters and numbers and they're not really even doing that themselves anymore.
00:22:05.260Well, and it's so interesting, too, that, like, we had this story – I think it was last week or two weeks ago – that the private sector workforce in Canada is now made up – I think it's 20% of temporary foreign workers.
00:22:18.520And so when you just step back and you look at the Canadian workforce, right, we have this huge problem of youth unemployment, as we were discussing.
00:22:24.760We have a huge influx of temporary workers who don't really have a stake in our future, or at least by law they don't.
00:22:31.520I mean, maybe they want to transition to become permanent residents, but that's not the type of visa that they came to the country on.
00:22:37.040So the presumption is that they're going to leave eventually, which I don't know why you would even want that in your country, Alex.
00:22:43.160And then on top of that, you know, you have all of this bloat and all of these kind of middlemen – I mean, I wish that we had a more entrepreneurial sense in our country, that we had more people not in, like, a cushy job in the bureaucracy where they're just, you know, there for the pension and they're taking it easy and not working very hard.
00:23:03.000But we could really benefit from more of this bright, well-educated, smart people going out there and starting jobs and being innovative and pushing the ball forward to grow our economy and create more opportunities for everybody.
00:23:16.820But instead, they kind of get, like, lured in to these, like, complacent positions in the economy.
00:23:29.120Like, we are putting in our own glass ceilings.
00:23:31.460Like, people are seeing the chair that they can graduate into and then they get there and then they just, like, okay, I'm done.
00:23:37.760I'm going to block, you know, all these kids below me.
00:23:40.500I remember during the election, Tristan Hopper, writer for the National Post, made the analogy that, like, the carny voters, like, pulled up the ladder.
00:23:47.580And then not only did they pull up the ladder, they, like, threw down a grenade and that's what we're doing.
00:23:52.840Like, it's, it's, there's supposed to be ladders to success.
00:23:57.160There's supposed to be avenues to explore and get into that this, this country, I know that, like, there, there are some who now just view, like, modern, the modern global economy as just some, like, a country's an economic zone.
00:24:12.460This was, it's, it's supposed to benefit these kids first and that it isn't is just going to make them more upset, drive them into alienation, potential radicalization.
00:24:22.740It's, it's, like, I see what would have happened to me.
00:24:25.780I, I, I come by this shared frustration honestly.
00:24:47.580I would have been spending too much time on the internet and I would have been watching all these Canadian charts go in the wrong direction.
00:24:53.200And, and now we're going to turn around and go like, gee, I can't believe, you know, all these kids are supporting the conservatives or, or gee, all these kids, you know, are really going through it.
00:25:02.160And, you know, we have mental health crises and, and, and you name it.
00:25:07.800We're abandoning them wholesale and, and corporate Canada and the liberal government and, and all these lousy interests and, and even sort of not so conservative, conservative governments, just, they aren't doing right by them.
00:25:19.980And they have to, and we have to be kind of pricks about this the next little while.
00:25:25.020Cause you know, come, come September it's, it's, if they try to get away with this, no.
00:25:47.480And for a while, conservatives were kind of flat foot and maybe saying like, oh, okay, I guess we just shouldn't talk about immigration anymore.
00:25:54.680And we, you can't use that excuse because it's so self-evident to everyone in Canada, including people who themselves are foreign born and immigrants who came to Canada legally.
00:26:04.640They can look around and see that the situation is broken and that it desperately needs fixing.
00:26:10.180Well, Alex, we always appreciate your time and insight and everyone go check out his show, Not Sorry.
00:26:14.880You're going to see a lot more of his pointed criticisms, especially on immigration.