I'm with Tasha

Tait -- pretty pleased with herself, isn't she!

CBC CEO and president Catherine Tait actually made her own case for abolishing this monstrosity of a network during an interview she gave to Adrienne Arseneault the other day and Tasha Kheiriddin hammered about it in a recent column.  "Catherine Tait has perfectly made the case that the entire CBC should be abolished," writes Kheiriddin.  

According to Tait's brilliance, viewers will hardly notice any changes -- in spite of the Mother Corp (aka the Mother Lode) having to axe 600 positions.  No changes??!!!!  Then what the hell have you been doing with our money, Ms. Tait??!!!??  If there's that much superfluous fat in the system, you have failed Canadians miserably.

How about starting with cutting bonuses?  Tait makes $520,000 a year, or $43,000 a month.  $43,000 a month!!??!!  Under her are two "executive" vice presidents, who make about $400,000 each, and three "regular" vice presidents, who pocket about $350,000!!!  Last year, they also handed themselves $16 million in bonuses!!!!

For what??!!!!

That's obscene!!!!!

CBC TV is appalling and since the loss of Peter Gzowski and Jian Ghomeshi, et al, radio is well on its way to the dumpster -- in spite of the valiant efforts of Tom Power.  The CBC's original mandate was to ensure all Canadians -- even those in remote areas -- had access to national news.  That meant a few microphones and receivers in a few shacks up north.  Doable, fair enough, but what's its mandate today?  No one seems to know, especially Ms. Tait, who hasn't ruled out bonuses this year.  Maybe that's her mandate:  Give myself a few million as a bonus.

Ms. Tait has hobbled the broadcaster with her obsessive political correctness, diversity and Indigeneity at the expense of basic journalism and compelling programming.  It's just wrong.  

I used to babysit her and her two older sisters and she was a holy terror back then.  Her mother, Janice, worked for B.  Let's just say the apple doesn't fall far....

Speaking of money, Canada's native chiefs are meeting in Ottawa this week to elect a new head of the AFN, having dumped the hapless RoseAnn Archibald when she started poking around in their offshore bank accounts.  What's on the agenda?  Patting themselves on the back for wrestling another $23 billion -- yes billion! -- for past "injustices and underfunding" for child welfare.  Hey, if you were doing such a great job of looking after your kids, why were they put in care in the first place?  Rhetorical.

The other biggie is the opioid crisis on reserves.  While bemoaning the "whiff of colonialism" they claim still lingers on the file, they are asking for yet more money from Ottawa to deal with it.  Isn't that colonialism?  Asking for money from someone else?  You can't have it both ways.  You can't rail against colonialism at the same time as asking for money from them.  Sorry, you can't suck and blow, friends.

And, by the way, why is there an opioid crisis in the first place?  Oh, sorry, no one can ever ask that question, not allowed.  Ever.  That logic evidently escapes them.

It's all so depressing and predictable.  Can't wait for Tanya's take on the gathering!

The guy on the left is the guy who'll be caving.

p.s.  At this rate, I'll never get an essay in 'The Globe and Mail'.