CBC CEO Refuses To Rule Out Accepting Bonuses and Compensation Awarded by Trudeau Government

October 21, 2024
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Ottawa, ON – After nine years of the NDP-Liberal Government, life has become miserable for Canadians. Families are having to spend $700 more for food this year than they did in 2023, while Canadians have suffered through the worst housing inflation in the G7 relative to income. But for Trudeau’s appointees in the CBC, life has never been so good.

Today, in a House of Commons’ Committee, the CEO of the CBC, Catherine Tait, refused to rule out accepting future bonuses or compensation that may be awarded by the Trudeau Government. Since Tait will clearly accept yet another massive bonus, it is up to Justin Trudeau to deny her this unnecessary compensation.

The CBC’s executive leader has already awarded themselves millions of dollars in taxpayer money even though they have never been more out-of-touch with Canadians. Earlier this year, the CBC paid out $18.4 million in bonuses, including $3.3 million that was awarded to 45 executives. That’s $73,000 per executive, which is much more than an average working Canadian will receive in an entire year. When Tait was asked whether these executive bonuses were making Canadians lose faith in the CBC, she responded “I absolutely do not,” making clear just how blind Tait is to the issues of Canadians.

They decided to give themselves these huge bonuses in spite of their failure to produce content that Canadians actually want to consume. Since 2018, the CBC’s viewership has collapsed by nearly 50 percent, and they have failed to meet 79 percent of the key performance targets that they made for themselves.

This occurred in the same year that the CBC announced they were cutting 800 jobs in December of last year after receiving $1.4 billion from the Canadian taxpayer.

Tait has a troubling pattern of spending taxpayer dollars inappropriately. This summer, she billed Canadians $6,000 during a personal vacation to Paris, where she stayed at a luxury $1,000-a-night hotel.

The last thing Catherine Tait deserves is another bonus. Only Common Sense Conservatives will end the greed and corruption at the CBC.