'It's time to defund the CBC': Taxpayers Federation's Sims unleashes on CBC at Commons Committee
Kris Sims slammed the CBC over dismal viewership numbers and ethical concerns.
"We are here to speak for thousands of hardworking taxpayers who want to defund the CBC...Nearly nobody is watching it and journalists should not be paid by the government," Kris Sims, Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation told the House of Commons Heritage Committee on Monday.
MUST WATCH: @kris_sims of @taxpayerDOTcom scorches the CBC at the Heritage Committee:
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) December 2, 2024
"We are here to speak for 1000s of hardworking taxpayers who want to defund the CBC."
"Nearly nobody is watching it and journalists should not be paid by the govt." pic.twitter.com/i5JMCSs3qR
Sims' testimony was scathing and sometimes confusing for Liberal MPs Taleeb Noormohamed and Michael Coteau, who pressed Sims to drop her principled opposition to government funding of the CBC by creating outlandish scenarios about rural "news deserts" which could only be served by the state broadcaster.
Chronic house-flipper Liberal MP @Taleeb thinks he's got a real gotcha here because he cannot understand someone who stands on principle like @kris_sims does.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) December 2, 2024
He tries and tries but she maintains: No taxpayer money to that company (the CBC). pic.twitter.com/vJsi2gzyXl
Liberal MP Michael Coteau spends 6 minutes trying to convince @kris_sims that she should support govt funding of media. It ends with him cooking up a scenario that doesn't exist in 2024 Canada and then just arguing with her. pic.twitter.com/w0NMRXC9LU
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) December 2, 2024
Sims noted that CBC's executive salaries exceeded the network's spending on Indigenous language broadcasting.
Next time someone says we should continue to pay for the grotesque bloat of the CBC, lest remote and Indigenous communities will turn into news deserts, show them this: pic.twitter.com/lGxEsdvBIs
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) December 2, 2024
CBC takes in 1.5 billion dollars in annual taxpayer subsidies, receives preferential treatment from the Canadian broadcast bureaucracy, and continues to fail both financially and with viewers.
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2024-12-02 20:29:37 -0500I used to be an avid listener to the CBC while I was in high school and, later, while I was a university student. But, over the years, I became disenchanted with it. I stopped listening to what had been my favourite programs, one show at a time. Eventually, I was down to the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts and I even gave that up a few years ago.
I get my opera and classical music programming through SiriusXM now. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2024-12-02 18:40:30 -0500Legacy media and government media MUST be defunded. Times are changing and technology has made the CBC irrelevant. It long ago has outlived its mandate of presenting Canada to Canadians.
