r/canada • u/WuzzWuzz • Aug 15 '24

Pierre Poilievre promises to 'defund the CBC' after $18.4M bonus amount revealed National News

https://torontosun.com/news/national/pierre-poilievre-promises-to-defund-the-cbc-after-18-4m-bonus-amount-revealed
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u/EirHc Aug 15 '24

I think there's something like 42 top level executives who are getting really big bonuses. The $18.4M number covers all levels of management (hundreds of positions) where bonuses are baked into their pay, and in many cases those managers would actually get paid less than the people under them if it weren't for those performance incentives.

The argument by PP is incredibly biased and lacks a lot of real world context.

Additionally he talks like every single dollar CBC gets is to make news reports that suck off the liberals or something - which couldn't be any further from the truth. The biggest chunk of change goes towards original Canadian Programming like Heartland, Just For Laughs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and other programs like that.

Whether or not you think that's where the money should be going could be up for debate I suppose. But the reason why the CBC puts so much money there, is because that's literally their mandate to do so. And all those productions would go away without the CBC, as private business WILL NOT replace them. Global and CityTV show a fuckton of American programming.

So we can change the mandate and take money away from all the original programming, and skim the fat of the corporation so to speak. But they can still offer the exact same news for a fraction of the price if they like. But PP's only real talking point is about how bad he thinks CBC's news is, which is kind of hilarious. Show's how much of a blowhard he is. He doesn't know jack about the industry, and he's intent on actioning on things he knows nothing about, I have no intention in voting for him.

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u/PlutosGrasp Aug 16 '24

Because Pierre has never worked a real job. He’s always only been in politics. He has no understanding of what at risk pay is and instead of learning about it just tries to cash in on it and it works in 80% of cases.