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    The CBC is a big part of the reason Canada isn’t as messed up as the US.

    Canada has for-profit media and plenty of media that leans left or right. But, CBC exists to anchor that media universe with a boring, institutionalist, honest view.

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    Any problems the CBC has will be dwarfed by the massive problems having a for profit media cause.

    When money becomes the only goal, society will be harmed.

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      When money becomes the only goal, society will be harmed.

      That’s true in every part of society, not only the media.

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        I don’t necessarily agree. There are some industries where the market is free enough that competition really does work.

        Just not things like housing, healthcare, and the media.

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    As more and more traditional media die, the more we need CBC. It’s only becoming more important.

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    The conservatives truly want to destroy Canada, they look to the south, see the divided country down there, and say “yes, please, some of that up here”

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      I won’t be voting for the Liberal party again unless they give us the electoral reform they promised us and didn’t deliver when they had a majority government.

      I’m hopeful for a strong NDP opposition to a Conservative minority.

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      Lol, I have been voting since the 2000’s and never voted CPC or any other Conservative party until 2019 (and still haven’t provincially)… Provide me with an alternate that leaves both the Liberals and NDP without power and I’ll gladly not vote CPC this time around.

      Full disclosure: I’ve recently been considering voting PPC for the first time.

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          I actually joined their party once to vote for a new leader. My person lost and with the shitshow that followed I’ll be avoiding them too.

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              I have never actuslly voted Green in an election.

              Also, I believe the PPC is more libertarian than right but i could be wrong.

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                I mean, how socially regressive is too regressive to be libertarian? They’ve been pretty clear on their stances with respect to immigrants and other minorities.

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                Without socialist economics, libertarianism is extremely regressive, as it just means turning the economic power of the ruling class into the only power that exists. North American libertarianism is far right as fuck.

                (If you want to see what libertarianism plus socialism looks like, google Errico Malatesta.)

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    Only fools would conclude that the problem of executive bonuses is caused by a public funding model. If you thought private companies don’t hand out outlandish bonuses to executives, you haven’t been paying attention.

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      Also, bonuses are also explicitly part of many compensation packages. It’s contractually required for them to be paid, in many cases.

      There are lots of reasons why this is done, too; for example, it can be used to reduce risk. If bonuses are tied to the success of a program, then the CBC doesn’t pay as much for “duds” that don’t earn as much revenue.

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    We can go back to “reforms” Harper government done like muzzling scientists and defunding projects serving public interest. Of course those same people would want to defund the only outlet not in their pockets. I haven’t seen a single point on Conservative agenda that is not going to harm average person short or long term. yet people still vote them in and Liberals behaving like entitled pricks do not make situation any better. Even NDP has shifted to the right. There’s no federal party with representation in Parliament that has workers as a central point of their agenda. Everything is now about business which is very much not the same

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      Trudeau has run his course and has become too entrenched. People are screaming for change and we never vote NDP. Pollieve is poison. He’s going to gut our desperately needed social programs for tax cuts that benefit corporations the most.

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        I will never understand the thing about Canadians refusing to vote for the only major party that plans to actually improve their lives.

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          With our current system you either vote strategically or with your heart, and those are often conflicting. Either I vote with my heart (NDP), or I vote strategically (LPC) to counter the CPC.

          I’d like to at least see the approval voting system one day.

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          I’ve voted NDP many times over the years.

          But when they run a non-viable seat filler in my riding, voting ABC becomes the pragmatic choice.

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          I will never understand the NDP not switching their leadership and messaging.

          Singh is not going to win. They need a more pro worker and pro jobs message.

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            funny thing but if you look closely the most positive that have been done lately was coming from NDP and kindly forced onto Liberals. So i reality NDP doesn’t need to win (like everyone said - populous is color blind to orange) they need another minority where they hold balance of power in their hands. So I wouldn’t write off Singh as he properly played his cards so far. Yeah, he’s not Jack but he did put policies forward and got them in through Libs. It must be residual US thing where Social Democrats == Commies == enemies of the state

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          Induced behaviour. If the NDP was promising to roll over for every major corporation the way the LPC and CPC do, I’m sure the public would suddenly find that they’ve always loved the NDP, can’t remember any other way. Our collective memory is curated.

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    As much as I like the cbc, the upper management should not be handing out bonuses while workers are being laid off.

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      Some of these bonuses are part of the performance evaluation they already signed on and whether they met these objectives or not. You can’t really go back on an agreement made before the cuts.

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        That’s not how bonuses work.

        This move was greedy on the part of management in the CBC and they should better structure their compensation.

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          Most of those initial job cuts before the funding issue was fixed were vacant positions that were abolished and not fulfilled, which were already budgeted for.

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        Which is funny, because these types–Welch-style managers–are exactly Pierre’s people.

        You’d think he’d be in favour of wealthy upper taking bonuses while the workers are ground into paste.

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            No, they’re happy to pay their friends from the public purse, too. They’re just not also above throwing those friends under the bus when they think it’s politically advantageous.

            Especially if they were someone else’s friend.

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          They aren’t kissing his ass, or harper’s as, or even the specific asses of the correct Conservative donors. That or they went to the wrong school…

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    Most people would just say CBC should be run differently, but everyone familiar with the Conservatives know they really just itching to do a fire sale for all crown properties.