The CBC is currently locked in a Federal Court battle to protect its programming costs from being released to the public. A few months ago I prepared an Access to Information Request because I want to look into what programs are burning through money for what reasons. I want to know how much Kady O'Malley spends on her public account that is kept private. I want to know how much Terry Milewski is spending as he follows our Prime Minister around the world. I want to know how much each program earns in revenue, ratings, and what they spend.
The problem is that if I send my Access to Information request to the CBC, I am wasting $5 because they will simply cite section 68.1 of the Access to Information Act which states: "This Act does not apply to any information that is under the control of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that relates to its journalistic, creative or programming activities, other than information that relates to its general administration."
I find it interesting that the above would even be included in the access to information act, when it is perfectly acceptable to want to investigate their spending practices, which are subsidized by tax payers to the tune of 1.2 billion dollars last year. Milewski wants all documents outlining our active combat operations in Afghanistan made public, but his own expense account, that's off limits. It is okay to compromise the safety and security of our Armed Forces, but we can't compromise Terry's journalistic "creativity".
I've always wondered about the CBC and its Liberal hacks and connections to the missing millions from ADSCAM- we need a thorough inquiry into the CBC and all its bias and questionable practices - I sense there is an awful lot of rot and even criminality hiding under the surface.
ReplyDeleteHow much was spent to send a reporter to the Bahamas, to question Snowdy(PI) against Rahim and Helena?
ReplyDeleteHere's a good arrangement: if the Commons agrees to let Sheila Fraser do a value audit on the CBC then she gets to do one on the MPs budgets. Deal?
ReplyDeleteCBC totally disgusted me today. During the intermission between the 2nd and 3rd period of the Philadelfia-Montreal hockey game they allowed Ken Dryden to mouth off aout his vision of Canada and its multiculturalism.
ReplyDeleteWhat the f... does ths tripe have to do with the hockey game. Dryden is a morally bankrupt debtor who won't pay his leadership debts, who couldn't handle the Maple Leaf Gardens pedophile problem and who slandered a dead MP [Cadman] ad nauseum without one single fact to back up his smears.
For the CBC to allow this Leftard to spoutoff during the hockey game is absolutely ridiculous.
Please run this fat slob out of the House of Commons