The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 10, 2025


CBC in trouble - Conservatives forcing investigation of Liberal broadcaster


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Travis Dunraj blew the whistle on the bias at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and now the Tories are calling for a parliamentary investigation into the matter. Listen to find out why this is a good thing for the Conservative Party and why the CBC should be defunded.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:02.880 I don't think you can overemphasize just how good the CBC political corruption scandal
00:00:07.880 is for the Conservative Party and Pierre Polyev right now.
00:00:11.660 There is a reason why Conservative MP Rachel Thomas immediately called for a parliamentary
00:00:17.100 investigation into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's hiring and editorial practices.
00:00:23.520 And I think there is a very strong possibility that the NDP and the Bloc Québécois will
00:00:29.100 be joining the Conservatives on this and actually giving an investigation real teeth.
00:00:34.480 Because remember, Mark Carney and the Liberals only have a minority government, so they can't
00:00:40.020 stop the opposition from getting together and holding the CBC accountable for effectively
00:00:45.040 acting as a Liberal Party front group.
00:00:48.020 But before I get into what this investigation is going to be all about, I do want to remind
00:00:52.700 you guys, if you like my coverage of Canadian politics, make sure to leave a like on this
00:00:57.480 video, subscribe to the channel if you are not yet a subscriber, and leave a comment on
00:01:01.940 what you think about the story.
00:01:04.140 But here is the tweet from Rachel Thomas from yesterday, and she says,
00:01:09.500 Breaking news, Conservatives are calling for immediate committee hearings into the CBC for
00:01:14.740 forcing the resignation of Travis Dunraj.
00:01:17.820 He is a ex-CBC host now who was running the show Candid Tonight with Travis Dunraj, and
00:01:24.820 naturally he ended up having to resign because they started restricting his ability to even
00:01:29.140 operate as host, who actually wanted a real balance.
00:01:32.420 But going on down a little bit more on Rachel Thomas' statement, she says,
00:01:37.980 The CBC is again accused of workplace harassment and biased reporting.
00:01:41.660 All this while the CBC is funded by taxpayers and executives pay themselves massive bonuses.
00:01:48.200 We need full transparency and accountability before Parliament now.
00:01:52.680 And I want to mention, on top of CBC executives getting massive bonuses despite the fact that
00:01:58.920 they're actually laying off staff members, they were already being paid in the ballpark
00:02:05.580 of $400,000 to $500,000 a year.
00:02:09.200 Yeah, that's really public service right there.
00:02:12.380 That's always the funny thing about the CBC.
00:02:14.240 People act like it's a selfless organization because it's making Canadian media for Canadian
00:02:19.420 people using Canadian taxpayer money.
00:02:21.980 Like there's something naturally virtuous about it because of that, when in fact it just becomes
00:02:26.600 a Liberal Party slush fund.
00:02:28.680 Liberal hacks will put out Liberal hack news and they will pay themselves handsomely to do it.
00:02:34.380 But let's read a little bit of the letter here.
00:02:36.780 It says,
00:02:38.320 The resignation, or dear chair, the resignation of Travis Dunraj from CBC has reignited concerns
00:02:45.060 about the organization's workplace culture, placing renewed scrutiny on its more than $1
00:02:50.520 billion in public funding and its ongoing pattern of executive bonuses.
00:02:55.400 In a public statement, Mr. Dunraj states that he was forced to resign from the national broadcaster,
00:03:00.200 citing deeply troubling concerns of, quote, retaliation, exclusion, and psychological harm, unquote.
00:03:06.760 At the CBC, Mr. Dunraj also asserts that, quote,
00:03:10.640 What happens behind the scenes at CBC too often contradicts what's shown to the public, unquote.
00:03:15.740 Given these damning allegations and that the CBC reports to this committee,
00:03:21.180 it is critical that we hear testimony from Mr. Dunraj, CBC executives, and the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture,
00:03:29.740 Stephen Gilbeau, at the earliest opportunity possible.
00:03:34.400 Pursuant to Standing Order 106.4, we, the undersigned, are calling for the committee to be recalled in order to arrange hearings on this pressing matter.
00:03:43.780 And then, sincerely, of Rachel Thomas and Kevin Waugh.
00:03:48.560 So, yes, this is a great story for the Conservative Party to constantly hammer on.
00:03:54.720 This is actually giving Polyev and the Conservatives a good opportunity to buy back a lot of, I guess,
00:04:03.000 the unjust damage they did to themselves by calling for the CBC to be defunded.
00:04:08.500 And by the way, I absolutely support defunding the CBC,
00:04:11.800 but that issue ended up hurting them in the 2025 election,
00:04:15.680 not because the CBC is popular, but because America is unpopular.
00:04:20.140 And as you know, during the 2025 federal election,
00:04:24.020 everything became about elbows up and opposing Donald Trump.
00:04:27.600 So, because the CBC is Canadian and it's not run by Donald Trump, it became popular.
00:04:33.600 A lot of things, asbestos is probably popular right now because we have a lot of asbestos in Canada.
00:04:39.560 That's how ridiculous everything was getting, as you guys all witnessed.
00:04:43.880 So, this allows normal Canadians who really don't follow politics that closely 0.96
00:04:48.660 and don't know just how politically corrupt the CBC has been for decades
00:04:52.700 to finally understand just how blatant the bias is behind the scenes.
00:04:57.780 Because as we've seen from Travis Dunraj, who has been very brave in blowing the whistle on this,
00:05:03.420 he could have just kept getting a large salary to host a hacky show
00:05:07.060 where he interviews liberals and he didn't want to do that.
00:05:10.940 He's been coming out and saying, him and his lawyer,
00:05:14.120 that they were actively preventing him from having conservative voices on his show.
00:05:18.960 They were trying to skew the editorial viewpoint of his show in a liberal direction.
00:05:25.820 And when he started opposing them, they kicked him off his own show, wouldn't let him host it.
00:05:30.160 They removed his name from the show to humiliate him, even though he was still the primary host.
00:05:36.040 They did all these things in order to make him feel excluded, like he had done something wrong.
00:05:41.520 He was some sort of heretic inside the organization, and he's not putting up with it.
00:05:46.100 So, the conservatives need to make this like one of the main hits on the liberals.
00:05:51.300 They're only in government right now, in part because of the abuse of taxpayer money at the public broadcaster
00:05:58.760 that the liberals have known about for years.
00:06:01.800 Again, like I said in a video yesterday, the CBC gets away with the idea that they're neutral
00:06:07.240 because when they attack conservatives, it's not them attacking them, it's this expert attacking them.
00:06:12.480 It's this activist attacking them.
00:06:14.720 We're just quoting what people are saying out there.
00:06:17.260 We're not actually attacking them, when they obviously are.
00:06:21.440 Again, it's insane that at a time when Mark Carney is supposedly concerned about overspending in the government,
00:06:28.360 he still wants to give the CBC another $150 million a year added onto their already massive $1.2 billion a year budget.
00:06:40.220 So, they will be around $1.35 billion a year.
00:06:43.900 Why? I guess we need more crappy sitcoms or the U.S. wins in some vague way. 0.99
00:06:49.700 Nobody watches the CBC.
00:06:51.380 When I say nobody watches it, I don't mean literally nobody watches it.
00:06:55.020 Their market capture is like 3.42% or something like that.
00:06:59.440 That's still a lot of people being propagandized.
00:07:02.120 But it's not like it's something that's a quintessential Canadian thing that all Canadians tune into every night.
00:07:07.860 It's a very niche channel in the grand scheme of things, especially when you factor in their budget.
00:07:13.960 They, in fact, get more money per capita than Fox News has in their budget in the United States.
00:07:20.860 Fox News, which is easily the biggest American news broadcaster, is per capita smaller than the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:07:29.300 Because I think their budget's like $7 billion a year, and ours is $1.35 billion a year, and we're a tenth their size.
00:07:36.800 This is how stupid it all is.
00:07:39.720 But I just want to show you something else that just came out today.
00:07:43.600 And full credit to Sheila Gunn-Reed from Rebel News.
00:07:47.140 I'll just show the report right here.
00:07:48.540 They uncovered that the CBC has been outsourcing recruitment to outside organizations, potentially, as Sheila Gunn-Reed implies in the article and in the headline, that they're outsourcing hiring because the organization they outsource it to has a better way of being able to filter out conservatives without the CBC being implicated in basically skewing its hiring towards liberals.
00:08:17.900 And so I need to show you the actual website of the organization where they had a CBC posting on it.
00:08:25.700 It's absolutely stupid.
00:08:27.680 So here we see on this website called merx.com, M-E-R-X.com, there is a posting for CBC Radio Canada.
00:08:37.980 And we have details for different positions and whatnot.
00:08:41.920 And what I want to do is, can I find it here?
00:08:45.240 Maybe I have to go back to the article.
00:08:46.760 I might have to go back to the article.
00:08:48.080 But in it, they listed a bunch of hiring requirements or a bunch of factors that are going to play into who they're going to hire.
00:08:55.720 Things that should be very illegal if the government was directly engaging in it, if the CBC was hiring these people themselves.
00:09:02.980 But because they have outsourced the hiring to merx.com, the merx can be the hyper-woke people who end up trying to keep conservatives out because that wasn't a CBC decision.
00:09:14.180 That's just a merx decision.
00:09:16.580 So check this out.
00:09:19.140 Again, coming from Sheila Gunn-Reed, it shows the tendered outlines for main categories for recruitment.
00:09:27.180 Corporate services, finance, HR, procurement, information technology and digital service, media professionals, editorial production reporting.
00:09:35.120 And last but not least, diversity.
00:09:36.940 They are looking for diversity as a standalone category of people they're trying to hire.
00:09:43.980 That's really weird.
00:09:45.700 I'm not sure about you guys, but it sounds like it's just basically an excuse to hire liberals.
00:09:50.800 And it's not because minorities are liberal, but it's because when you have a category like that, that means nothing.
00:09:57.140 You can just hire people you like because, well, the person's black or the person's South Asian or it's a woman.
00:10:03.420 Ergo, we hired the right person.
00:10:05.220 So you can't say, well, that person doesn't have all the experience they need.
00:10:07.900 That person doesn't have an actual background in journalism or background in finance.
00:10:13.640 They're diverse.
00:10:14.480 And Sheila Gunn-Reed down here says, diversity gets its own standalone category because nothing says merit-based hiring like checking boxes before checking resumes.
00:10:24.300 Oddly enough, diversity of thought didn't make the cut.
00:10:26.720 And that is something that Travis Dunraj, a man who is obviously South Asian, has been highlighting.
00:10:32.680 That he was tired, and he even says it, like, exactly, he was tired of being a token that he is a brown guy to sit there on screen and just read the CBC scripts.
00:10:46.040 He wanted to actually have a balanced show where there's interesting conservative voices and interesting liberal voices talking to him, giving their perspectives,
00:10:53.760 not having sort of pre-filtered, safe, conservative voices who say absolutely nothing offensive to the liberal sensibility coming on, and then having actual liberals.
00:11:04.860 Because that's what the CBC does.
00:11:07.440 It'll have a very assertive representative of liberal values, and it'll have a very passive, sort of sad representative of what a conservative is, like Andrew Coyne.
00:11:19.340 Andrew Coyne isn't conservative.
00:11:20.600 All he is good at conserving is whatever the liberals create.
00:11:24.760 If the liberals create a program, he will die defending it because it is now an institution, and conservatives must conserve it.
00:11:32.020 This is the game that they play.
00:11:34.860 But mark my words, this has the ability to trip up Mark Carney's liberal government.
00:11:40.780 This could be their first major scandal, and if the liberals do not pair up with the conservatives and the other parties in investigating the CBC,
00:11:48.460 they're going to look like massive political hacks.
00:11:51.440 Right now, the NDP are completely broke.
00:11:54.840 They need stuff like this.
00:11:56.380 They need to show that the CBC is being run as a liberal front group.
00:12:00.540 They need more balanced coverage because right now the NDP has been completely iced out
00:12:05.340 because the media knows that their best hope of getting more money and staying embedded in Canadian taxpayer or having their taxpayer money continue.
00:12:17.980 The only way that's going to happen is if the liberals stay in power, and the NDP are now a threat to the liberals,
00:12:23.820 whereas before they would team up and hold the government together, now the liberals need all the votes in order to keep the conservatives out.
00:12:31.720 So the media has been de-emphasizing the NDP massively, and now they have a leadership race going on.
00:12:39.280 So again, they need as many opportunities to jab the liberals as possible, and this gives them a good one.
00:12:44.200 Obviously, the conservatives' motivation is very clear here.
00:12:46.600 They need to absolutely reputationally destroy the CBC, prove to moderate Canadians that it is not a trustworthy source of news.
00:12:55.880 And the Bloc Québécois, they like the CBC in general because Radio Canada is French media,
00:13:03.860 but maybe they'll take the opportunity to jab at the English side of it and emphasize why the French side needs more funding.
00:13:10.740 You never know. Politics is a weird game, and many people will say, you know, will do things that you normally wouldn't hear them do
00:13:18.780 just because it gives them the opportunity to attack the other side.
00:13:23.240 But anyways, so that should be it for me in this video today, guys.
00:13:27.080 We are going to have more updates down the road on the CBC issue.
00:13:32.140 The investigation is a very smart thing for the conservatives to be doing,
00:13:35.440 and I hope that they just act like a dog with a bone on this because even by just talking about it a lot,
00:13:41.720 it's going to take away the spotlight from Mark Carney trying to highlight what he considers to be achievements of his government.
00:13:49.000 You can both take down the CBC and distract from liberal achievements by doing this.
00:13:54.820 Anyways, so that's it for me today, guys. See you later.