Sheila Gunn-Reid welcomes Chris Sims and Ryan Thorpe of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who reveal CBC’s $1.4B annual budget despite low viewership, exposing 1,600+ employees earning over $100K—including 493 producers and CEO Catherine Tate ($460K–$551K with a potential $154K bonus). The CTF criticizes EV mandates as a $300B taxpayer burden, risking blackouts while bailing out Ontario/Quebec automakers, clashing with Premier Doug Ford’s "investment" framing. Concerns over election meddling in Battle River Crowfoot’s chaotic by-election—210 candidates, lost absentee ballots in Quebec/BC, and suspicious financial agents—suggest deeper systemic flaws in public trust and accountability. [Automatically generated summary]
CBC's six-figure fat cats exposed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
And I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you are watching The Gunn Show.
My name is Chris Sims.
I'm the Alberta Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
I'm here with my colleague Ryan Thorpe, the investigative journalist for the CTF.
We are here to speak for thousands of hardworking taxpayers who want to defund the CBC.
This needs to happen for three important reasons.
The cost of the CBC.
Nearly nobody is watching the CBC, and journalists should not be paid by the government.
First, the cost.
The CBC is getting $1.4 billion from taxpayers this year.
That money could instead pay the salaries of around 7,000 paramedics and 7,000 police officers.
That money could instead pay for groceries for about 85,000 Canadian families for a year.
Instead, taxpayers are paying $1.4 billion so the CBC can hand out huge bonuses, get microscopic ratings, and overpay its out-of-touch executives.
CBC CEO Catherine Tate refused to tell this committee if she will take a severance when she leaves the state broadcaster.
Tate considers that to be a personal matter, end quote.
It's not personal if it's taxpayers' money.
So remember when the CBC cried poor and begged Canadians for a few hundred million dollars in taxpayer bailouts, you know, like more than they already get, when their journalists moaned about disinformation while being the biggest peddlers of it, while quietly cashing some of the fattest paychecks in the industry?
Well, surprise, surprise, it turns out the state broadcaster isn't exactly running on fumes.
Thanks to new records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we now know that more than 1,600 CBC employees, producers, directors, managers, and bureaucrats are pulling down over $100,000 a year.
Now, this includes, and just it's unbelievably top-heavy, like unbelievably top-heavy.
And that's not even counting the 130 advisors, whatever those people do, 81 analysts, whatever those people do, and 120 hosts, all making six figures plus, while crying that independent media like ours are a threat to democracy.
The CBC isn't just bloated.
It's morbidly obese with bureaucracy.
It's a publicly funded empire of suits managing other suits, all while CBC ratings tank and trust in the media plummets.
Canadians are skipping meals, skipping vacations, struggling to pay rent and mortgages.
Meanwhile, the CBC is handing out six-figure salaries like it's Halloween candy.
Joining me tonight to break this all down is my good friend Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
They're the watchdog that's pulling back the curtain on the Kearney Broadcasting Corporation's cushy little club that we aren't in.
So don't go anywhere.
This is going to make your blood boil.
Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation show Tate is paid between $460,000 and $551,000 this year with a bonus of up to 28%.
That is a bonus of $154,000.
That bonus is more than the average Canadian family earns in a year.
Joining me now is my good friend, but also good friend of taxpayers everywhere, Chris Sims.
She's the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
And boy, oh boy, as I should tell everybody, Chris is also a former journalist, so she has a very unique perspective on journalists being paid by the taxpayer.
As in, she agrees with me, they should never be paid by the taxpayer.
But CBC is, I think, the very worst offender because not only do they get $1.5-ish billion dollars a year from the taxpayer to subsidize their operations, nobody watches.
And their salaries are completely out of whack with the rest of the industry.
Tell us about this latest Canadian Taxpayers Federation investigation into the salary.
I would call it a problem down at the CBC.
It's a huge problem.
And this actually gets me pretty mad because, like you just said, I worked in the industry, including like in the parliamentary press gallery in like mainstream media outlets for years and years, like 15, 20 years in and out.
And what gets me is that it was always kind of this understood thing that for every one journalist working in like even, you know, CTV, global, CFRA radio, something like that, back then, a really truly private company.
For every one of you, there were like four CBC reporters there.
And those four CBC reporters had like, you know, 20 managers among them.
That was always the kind of understanding.
Now it's true.
We have the documents to show it.
And credit where it's due.
This is my good friend and colleague, Franco Terrazano, that was working on this out of our Ottawa office, along with Jake, our research director.
So I'm just the hair in teeth on this one.
Boy, oh boy, Sheila, did they ever find something?
So they put in freedom of information requests to find out how many human beings working at the CBC were making over $100,000.
People usually call that a sunshine list.
We also ask for the roles.
Okay.
So like, you know, director, producer, journalist, manager, et cetera.
The amount of managers, Sheila, just enough to choke a horse.
Okay.
And I was a producer for most of my journalistic life.
So no knock-on producers, but do you need more than 700 of them?
Right.
Like astonishing, truly astonishing, Sheila.
And if I may, I would just offer this as a longtime reporter who truly wants to find the W-5 level journalism.
This is one of the reasons, folks, that they're not, they're not journalisming.
Okay.
If you have 12 managers for every one reporter over at the CBC, it's no wonder they're suffocating and tripping over their own feet.
This is a major problem and it's a huge waste of taxpayers' money.
I think it's around 500 managers, like 700 producers.
There's things, Sheila, what is a lead architect?
I work in the industry.
I have no idea.
Straight up, I don't know.
And I used to help CTV National go to air sometimes.
So I get it.
Okay.
I've been around the big lights and big cameras.
Never heard of an architect in media, let alone a lead architect.
And they've got, I think, two dozen of them or more.
Like, this is where we're pointing out the CBC is enormously bloated in its middle management section and a huge waste of money.
Yeah, we see all the time journalists being laid off and you see like your frontline journalists being laid off, but uh I think they're being sacrificed in favor of middle manager salaries.
I've got the list in front of me from Franco.
He says CBC records show that it employs more than 250 directors, 450 managers, 780 producers, all of them paid more than $100,000.
I don't know the difference between those other two, but 493 producers, 36 technical producers, 168 senior producers.
Again, I don't know the distinction between them and the 86 executive producers.
130 advisors, 81 analysts, 120 hosts, 80 project leads, 30 lead architects, whatever that is, and then 25 supervisors who apparently do a different role than all the managers.
So I looked up because, again, I had no idea when an advisor would be in that situation.
So they've got 130 of them being paid more than $100,000 a year.
And so I looked it up and I was in a big rush.
So I just took whatever the evil Skynet summation is of an advisor.
I don't know what that is on the interwebs because I'm too old.
But apparently, an advisor at the CBC could do anything from truly advising on the origins of Remembrance Day or something like that, like a legit thing.
Everything from that, Sheila, to proper DEI implementation.
Like imagine, imagine having, right?
And you knew it was waiting for it, right?
So imagine not only having all of the being lousy with managers trying to do your job and all these executive people on top of you.
You'd also have advisors and analysts running around.
And like, I can just say from personal experience, because I actually worked full disclosure, I worked at CBC for about six weeks.
It was in between other jobs.
They were fine to me.
I just observed things that were pretty out of whack when it was compared to other private companies.
Like they would send podcasts of videotaped yoga sessions to your desk.
Like it would be in your inbox.
You could log in and watch it.
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I'm not kidding.
Like the person I never watched it.
Yeah.
No, no, I'm not joking.
So there was, I never watched it because, you know, I was actually really loved their archives.
So I was nerding out and making obituary tapes, you know, for future things to happen.
Right.
So I actually helped put together the Nelson Mandela one.
Oh, wow.
And so, yeah.
And so I'm minding my own business and sticking to my knitting because I wasn't exactly a fit, even though, again, they were fine to me.
It was for six weeks.
But yeah, there was a thing where you could like click on it and each day they would have a new video cast of your yoga session at your desk.
So this is the problem.
When people are wondering why the CBC has a 1.8 audience share in prime time, when so many people are saying that they're losing trust in, you know, in all mainstream journalism, to be fair, more than 60% of Canadians think that mainstream journalists are deliberately misleading them with things they know to be untrue.
Like this is why you're starting to have people tune out and not trust.
It's when you have one reporter for like two dozen middle managers.
And this is the issue here: we're all paying for it.
Yeah.
We're all paying for it.
Sheila, if this were a private company, who cares?
Right.
Pay them and dummy.
Right.
Who cares?
But this is taxpayers' money.
We're all being forced to pay for this.
And it's $1.4 billion this year, which is the equivalent of the salaries of 7,000 cops plus 7,000 paramedics.
We say 1.4 billion, but that doesn't even factor in all the exclusive ad deals they get with the federal government.
Yeah.
Yes.
And we, funny, you should mention that.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we asked just the full amount.
We don't need granular gory detail.
We don't need to know, you know, how much fun you had getting your CBC gem ad on my hockey game for the 80th time.
That's fine.
Give us the exact amount, the full amount that you spend on advertising, CBC.
No.
What do you mean?
So they told, they told us no, that they're not going to tell us.
Trade secrets.
Yeah.
But this is again, if it were a trade secret, it would be like, oh, you can't be in on our negotiations with SportsNet or whatever.
Okay, we get that.
And frankly, we don't care.
We're the Taxpayers Federation.
Give us a lump sum.
They won't even give us a lump sum.
So we're actually taking them to court.
I hope.
Like we're having to fight the state broadcaster, which is taxpayer funded in order to find out what our tax dollars are being spent on, even in like anonymous blob amounts.
Oh, quickly, sorry.
Yes.
Speaking of anonymous, there's like 200 people on this list that we have on our website who are making more than $100,000 per year.
No names and no roles.
They're just these like phantom people.
So we know they exist.
We just don't know who they are, what their role is, but we know they're making more than 100 grand.
200 of them.
Imagine like zero accountability.
This is it.
And they could say, oh, they don't want to embarrass their hosts.
No, no, their hosts' names, tons of them are on there.
Like we didn't even put that in the news release, but a lot of the host names are on there.
Not the exact amount that they make, but over 100 grand.
Yeah, yeah.
And, but yet, there are, I'm so curious to know what those 200 mystery roles are.
Like, are they double agents?
I don't know.
Are they Janet?
I don't know.
Are they people whose job it is to spy on the independent media and then steal their stories?
So often happens.
I just can't even talk to you about it.
Yeah.
No, I never.
It's, I can't even believe that they encouraged you even back then to just watch yoga at your desk.
I know, like, even Ezra, he'll complain, like, oh my God, I was on Twitter too much today or on X too much today.
Like, he's concerned that he's wasting his own time on the internet.
And then CBC is actively encouraging their employees to waste time on the internet.
And this was for the record, this was back around 2011, 2012.
And again, they were nice about it and they weren't forcing anybody to watch it.
I'm just remarking that they had that amount of time, those numbers of people, and because they're getting taxpayers' money.
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And if that's something they want to spend their own shareholders' money on, who are willingly giving them money, like fill your boots.
I don't care.
Do all the yoga all day that you want.
But this is taxpayers' money and they're not being accountable, which is why we're trying to hold them to account.
I would just love to see a real forensic analysis of just the time thievery happening down on CBC.
It's just atrocious.
Now, speaking of thievery, I think these electric vehicle mandates and the electric vehicle subsidies going to these Ontario and Quebec-based auto manufacturers, it's downright thievery from the Canadian taxpayer who will never, even if they wanted these bizarre electric cars that don't really work in our climate, they couldn't afford them anyway.
And yet they're forced to subsidize them to companies that are going broke, not just in Canada, but around the world.
And Doug Ford, on one side, he's happy to take the subsidies into his province, but then he's sort of missing the boat on the fact that if we move to entirely electric vehicles, we can't power them.
I know.
I know there's so much here, and I'll go over it quickly.
A, you know, super nice to hear the Ontario Premier Doug Ford say that he's against a mandate.
That was something.
But the issue here is that he said he was against the so-called electric vehicle mandate coming from the feds.
But in the next breath, he's like, oh, but we should still keep spending.
He said the word investing.
Anytime a politician or government bureaucrat says investing, hold on to your wallet.
You know what?
It's funny because I think Mark Carney one time said we're going to stop spending and start investing.
And I'm like, those are the same thing.
I have a simple rule: spend less, invest more.
Let's say you buy a home.
The down payment and the mortgage costs a lot up front, but your home builds value over time.
That's an investment.
Now, you still have other bills like heat and electricity.
You need them, but they don't make you better off in the long run.
Those are operational expenses.
I will balance our operational budget in three years.
We'll spend what we need to with the money we already have.
And we'll do things that encourage the big investments that create jobs and grow our economy, like building millions of homes, making Canada a clean energy superpower, and creating new trade routes so we're not dependent on the United States.
Spend less, invest more.
Same thing.
It's the same picture.
I know.
It's so crazy.
And so this is what he's saying.
And I heard the clip the other day and I was just like, what are you talking about, man?
So he's going both ways on this.
So we're trying to urge him to go in one direction.
And that is this: get rid of the mandates, meaning let people choose what kind of vehicle they want to purchase, get government out of the way, and scrap the funding.
Like stop handing out corporate welfare, taxpayers' money to massive international mega-rich corporations.
Like this is not hard.
Also, he said, I'm in favor of the market.
No, you're not.
Not if you're putting a humongous subsidy thumb on the scale, using taxpayers' money to pretend you're an investment banker.
That is not the market.
So, what the market is, of course, is if, you know, Sally wants to purchase a battery-powered vehicle for whatever reason she chooses, that's up to her.
She goes and buys one with her own money.
Right.
End of story.
Supply and demand works.
It's a beautiful thing.
But what the governments are doing, both in Ottawa and Toronto, is one, trying to force people to purchase a certain type of vehicle, in this case, a battery-powered vehicle, and two, spend taxpayers' money doing it.
And it is in the billions of dollars, Sheila.
And very quickly, to your point exactly on the energy, the federal government itself has already done studies on this, or at least contracted out studies.
It's going to cost close to $300 billion to switch over to battery-powered vehicles.
Like we do not have the dough for this.
We don't have the dough.
We don't have the electricity.
This is how we get rolling brownouts.
And the side story in all of this, if we go on a little side quest, is the propping up of the electric vehicle market and the 100% tariffs on the electric vehicles coming in from China to protect the heavily subsidized electric vehicle industry here in Canada have resulted in tariffs on Canadian canola.
So Western farmers are paying the price for all of Doug Ford's panhandling to the feds.
Yes.
And in the meantime, we are busy ignoring the fact that our largest trading partner, with whom we have a very special, specific, integrated auto manufacturing market, like there's, I think they did an estimate, like one part, for example, can cross that Windsor Bridge for a vehicle, like maybe eight times before it's finally finished into one vehicle.
Of course, going between Windsor and Detroit, right?
As my grandmother used to, you know, pronounce it.
So that is totally integrated.
And the United States is 10 times bigger than us.
It's a humongous economy compared to us.
So you start doing supply and demand economics over there, and we're just going to whistle and pretend that that doesn't affect the fact that we have this mandate that they're going to ban the sale of normal gasoline and diesel powered vehicles by 2035.
The restrictions start in five months, folks.
In five months, your local auto dealership will need to sell 20% of their sales must be wholly electric cars.
If they don't make that quota, tough beans for them.
They get a whole bunch of penalties.
And if they don't want penalties, they have to buy into this crazy like credit scheme going on with the feds.
Like this has got boondoggle written all over it.
Like they really, this is one thing, Sheila.
If I could beg them to do one thing before they come back into session, it's to have the actual grown adults get together and say, we need to pull the pin on this, all of it.
We just need to rip off the band-aid, nothing to see here.
They can pretend they never met any of these silly ideas so they can start fresh when the house comes back.
Yeah.
And I think we should be wary of what comes next.
So if Canadians are not buying these electric vehicles and they have a mandate to meet by 2035, what's the next step to force us into that?
Probably limiting the parts that we receive to replace our good old reliable combustion engines.
I think that's the next step to just sort of shoehorn Canadians into this.
Now, yeah, sorry, very quickly, I'm hearing all sorts of things about border restrictions and stuff too.
So people thinking they can just cross over and bring it back.
They're going to be up in your grill in two seconds.
So yeah.
It's a nightmare.
Before I let you go, because I'm up against the clock.
Tell us, no, that's okay.
Tell us.
It's my fault too.
Tell us about the Alberta Next panel and what you would like to see there.
Yeah, for sure.
So very quickly, Alberta is wonderful for grassroots direct democracy.
And kudos to Premier Danielle Smith.
And I would say the same thing.
I don't care what party they're representing.
Kudos to Premier Daniel Smith for going in there and doing big old town halls across Alberta.
It's called Alberta Next.
It's coming to southern Alberta later on in August.
So just Google Alberta Next panel if you want to speak up to the Premier and say what you want to see.
What we would like to see if we were there would be this, have much smaller government.
We can do with way smaller government here in Alberta, stand up to those big government union bosses and reduce spending because we love Alberta.
We think Premier Smith is doing a great job standing up to Ottawa.
But unfortunately, the ugly truth is our debt is still going up, not down.
And that is because we are still spending too much.
So it's this help me help you, Jerry Maguire situation.
It would be directly telling the Premier and the government, you must pay down the debt, make it go down and have smaller government.
And how do people get involved in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Army of the Little People?
And that is what we are.
We fight everything from the ban on gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles to what we used to be known as the consumer carbon tax.
Thanks so much.
And it's because of tax fighters like all of you.
Go to taxpayer.com, find the petition that speaks to your heart, sign up, and now you're on the Army signup list.
Next time it's time to swamp a politician's email box or wear a chicken suit in front of their office and shame them into action, you're up.
Yep.
Or dress like a pig and hand out awards.
You know, the funnest thing.
Chris, I'm so sorry to rush you.
I have to get on the live stream.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you so much for standing up for families just like mine against government overreach and big spending.
Say hi to the rebels for me.
I will.
Around this time last year, the CBC asked for more money.
After that, just before Christmas, the CBC announced layoffs in its newsrooms.
I've worked in many newsrooms, and getting let go is not a bowl of cherries.
But what about the bonuses at that same time?
Documents obtained by the CTF show the CBC did hand out bonuses costing $18 million.
As the CBC fan group Friends of Canadian Media put it, quote, this decision is deeply out of touch and unbefitting of our national public broadcaster, end quote.
Thank you to the members from the Conservatives, the block, and the NDP who voted to hold the CBC to account for these bonuses.
Let's take a look at viewership.
According to its own latest quarterly report, CBC News Network's audience share is 1.7%, meaning more than 98% of Canadians are choosing to not watch CBC's news channel.
We have some breaking news here in committee.
Documents obtained by the CTF show, the CBC's Supper Hour news audience is so small, it's difficult to measure.
All right.
As you know, the last portion of the show belongs to you because without you, there's no rebel news.
So there are a couple ways to get a hold of me.
I will give you my email address right now at Sheila at RebelNews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know exactly why you are emailing me because boy, do I get a lot of emails every single day and some of them, not so nice.
Not so nice.
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That's how the algorithms work, or so I'm told.
So I try to understand.
I think this is sort of beyond my pay grade.
However, we did have a live stream on Tuesday night.
My good friend Lise Murrell and I were covering the electoral forum for the by-election in Battle River Crowfoot, hosted in beautiful Camrose, Alberta, by the Chamber of Commerce.
And they had 10 candidates on the stage, some independents, and then, you know, your NDP, your conservative, your PPC, your liberal guy who got voted quite a fair bit.
And then Grant Abraham from the United Party.
And there's a local lady named Bonnie Critchley, who I found quite crotchety, actually.
And some people disagreed with my takes about her, but I mean, you can watch the live stream and judge for yourself.
Maybe I got it wrong, but she just rubbed me in the most friction of ways.
I didn't care for her style, but anyway, I'm not for everybody either.
So I get it.
But I went over to see what you guys were saying.
People who didn't catch us live, so they weren't able to interact with us live.
But I wanted to know what you guys were saying.
So BitMow5 says, should have had all 215-ish candidates there.
What a shit show that would have been.
Now, what he's referring to there is the fact that I think it was, I checked this morning, it's Wednesday, they had 210 candidates registered in that riding because that riding is being targeted by the election meddlers of the longest ballot committee.
So they're going after Pierre Polyev again.
They went after him with 90 candidates, 90 plus, I believe it is actually, in his Ottawa Carlton riding that he lost.
That's why he's running out here in one of the safest conservative ridings in the entire country, thanks to local MP Damian Kurek, who was in the crowd last night stepping down.
And instead of fixing the problem after seeing what a problem it was just a few short months ago, Elections Canada, whom I'm not sure do any real work around here at this point, they just let these people rip.
And now they've more than doubled their election meddling.
And instead of having the ballot printed where you can just put a check mark, they can't do that now because they let this go on and the ballot would be seven feet long.
Like Shaquille O'Neal could lay down beside the ballot.
And so now they've moved into just write in.
So you write your name.
What's the problem with that?
Except for the fact that everybody spells Pierre Polyev's name wrong.
And so all of those wrongly spelled ballots will have to be examined individually by scrutineers for voter intent.
So, oh, did they mean to spell Polyev?
Why did they write Polyver?
All of that.
So it's just a mess.
And I think the people of Battle River Crowfoot deserve an election that is not made a mockery by these left-wing agitators.
What an insult to the people there.
Think you're being cute?
Longest ballot committee?
You're disrespecting the voters of that community.
That's okay because you're from somewhere else.
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It doesn't matter.
These people that want international doctors should line up to see them first.
Somebody mentioned that in the debate, they said, you know, like we should accredit international doctors.
I'm not against accrediting international doctors.
I hear the arguments that we have a doctor shortage.
So I don't know.
We could maybe graduate more, though.
I definitely don't think we need international truck drivers.
We've got plenty of people who could get their class one driver's license in Alberta.
We don't need to bring in international workers to change the oil down at the Mr. Lube or the Lube City.
That's a job that used to be done by 15 to 19 year olds in this country who are now facing high unemployment rates.
They can't get an after-school job because those are being gobbled up by people from outside of the country.
We're importing a slave class.
And the left tells me they're against slavery, but I ain't so sure.
B with H1 says, when you're sick and wait four, five, six hours for service, our hospitals are broken four, five, and six hours.
Where are you going that the wait times are so short?
It can be 12 hours.
We can just get fed up and go home.
The and sorry, the liberal candidate there who kept getting booed, he said, well, I got two artificial knees.
So the system works just fine for me.
Oh, good.
Then it's fixed for everybody.
How about all the people who can't get an oncology appointment in time?
How about all the people who give up, burn through their life savings, and go to the United States for their knee replacement surgery because they cannot wait 18 months?
How about people who end up having to get that second knee replacement because they damaged the second knee, putting all the weight on it because they were waiting for the first knee to be fixed?
How about those people?
I guess they don't exist.
Those horror stories don't exist.
How about the fact that they told us they had to shut down society to protect an already overburdened healthcare system?
So you can't out of one side of your mouth say, the health system is on the brink.
We've got to lock everybody in their house because we've got a seasonal, a new strain of the seasonal flu coming around the bend.
It's on the cusp.
It's so strained.
We have to close down your business, your school, your sports, your life, and keep you away from your friends and family for two years straight because our healthcare system's on the cusp.
according to the liberals and the left and even the conservative premier in this province, who is now the former conservative premier in this province, Jason Kenney, while simultaneously saying our healthcare system is perfectly fine.
What are you people talking about?
Got to pick a lane, brother.
Flying Beaver 57, catching on the replay, Sheila.
Watch the second half of it on Northern Perspective because I fell asleep while waiting.
Okay, well, I'm just glad you watched us.
It was sort of something we threw together last minute, but I love doing these things.
And I especially like doing them with Lise.
It hardly feels like work when you get to work with your best friend.
Jordan McManaman, 8008, says, did up a spreadsheet at work yesterday.
And there is 37 people running in the by-election that ran in Carleton.
Right.
Those people should all be charged with election meddling.
I don't even know what you could charge them under, but you should be able to jettison them off the ballot.
And anybody who's acting as their financial agent, because you need a financial agent, jettisoned.
Anybody who shares that financial agent, so like 200 of these people, 199-ish, you got to go because you're involved in an election fixing scheme.
Again, what is it exactly Elections Canada does around here?
They lost ballots.
They screwed up Quebec riding so bad that resulted in the liberals winning by one vote.
Come on.
That should be a by-election.
They lost 822 some odd ballots that were absentee ballots in a BC riding.
And then they aren't even telling us why a lot of other ballots were counted or weren't counted.
They just say, well, maybe they weren't returned in time.
Okay, that's okay.
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I get that.
Who didn't return them?
The people who cast them or the Elections Canada workers who had them?
That's the clarity I would like, but I don't know what they do at Elections Canada.
They don't protect our election integrity.
We had China meddling in the last two elections, at least in 2021 and 2019.
Stefan Perot is the head of Elections Canada, and I don't know why he hasn't been walked out carrying a box of his belongings into the sunset.
Get out of the building.
We've changed the locks, Stephan Perot.
That's what I want to hear.
That's not what we're going to get as long as their incompetence or something worse works in favor of the liberals.
Jordan goes on to write, I also find it suspicious that there is a fanjoy running in the by-election, which is the same surname as the man he lost to in Carleton.
I think it's Allison Fanjoy.
I used to have some run-ins with her on Twitter back in the day.
If it's the same woman, I think at one point she had blue hair.
I think it's the same woman.
But yeah, suspic for sure.
Pretty sus, as the kids say.
Lemon B8437.
Bonnie drives a Dodge Ram, but close gas ladies.
Okay, so Bonnie Critchley, the independent in that riding.
Oh, there's many independents, but she seems to be the one that's getting all the media coverage because she's positions herself as a centrist, but right of center.
She's real caustic.
She comes along on the stage, just I just feel like there's some polish missing there, but maybe that's her style.
And again, I say this as somebody who's definitely not for everybody.
I get your letters, I know.
But I said that I bet she drives a Subaru.
I guess she drives a Dodge Ram, which that's a respectable vehicle, by the way.
So is a Subaru.
My son drove a Subaru.
But I think some of you know what I'm getting at.
Charlotte LaFlesh says, appreciate your commentary.
That's myself and Lise.
Lise, of course, is in Regina, so very like a laser beam on Western issues.
Felt like I was sitting with my sisters watching TV.
Well, that's nice.
Thank you so much.
Again, I realize we're not for everybody.
Some people don't like our commentary.
But I feel like we, as Westerners who are raising families and trying to get by, I feel like some of you can see yourselves in some of our spicy takes.
You know what I mean?
All right.
Well, everybody, that's the show for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I did not have enough time with Chris, but I was up against the clock when I recorded that interview.
And that's to my great shame and regret.
And I will reschedule with her so she can just have all the time she wants to rail against government spending because that's one of my favorite topics.
Thanks to the team in Toronto for putting the show together.