Readers question the national broadcaster's budget and bonuses, along with the Supreme Court's new definition of 'woman,' plus more
Re: CBC gave $15M in bonuses and a few months later cut 800 jobs: report — March 12
It puzzles me why over a billion dollars is paid annually to the Liberal Broadcasting Corporation (a.k.a. CBC), though I suppose the reason is apparent. (The Goebbels of the Liberal party.) It also puzzles me why the CBC’s president complained about the need for more money while handing out almost $15 million in bonuses.
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Another puzzle is why, after that bonus treatment, the Liberals decided to give $96 million more in tax dollars to the already enriched CBC (for a total annual budget of $1.4 billion) and then raised income and other taxes for Canadians when many have trouble funding both food and shelter.
The Trudeau government keeps pushing millions of immigrants into a Canada that lacks housing, hospitals, doctors and nurses to accommodate them. The effect was yet more poverty as it also raised interest rates. (The Bank of Canada is not really independent, is it?)
Either the federal government is totally out of touch with the common man, or it has adopted the UN’s/WEF’s strategy of starving the working poor into submission to leftist governments.
Charles Hooker, East Garafraxa, Ont.
Re: We didn’t need ‘person with a vagina’ added to the legal vernacular’ — Jamie Sarkonak, March 14
Sorry, Supreme Court, but whatever progressive dystopian logic you might use to eliminate the use of the word “woman,” you’re leaving this old-fashioned person behind. I will not refer to the women in my family, my friends or colleagues as “people with vaginas.” Talk about sterile and base, and, to most people not living in your dystopian world, just plain rude.
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Robert Vogel, Toronto
Re: Pierre Poilievre’s policy option — ‘neo-Mulroney’ or ‘post-Harper’? — Terence Corcoran, March 6
Thank you to Terence Corcoran for a clear and concise analysis of conservative values. After listening to all the nuances in the past few years as to what the political right stands for in Canada, I don’t think I am the lone conservative who was becoming increasingly confused as to what the latest definition of conservative values actually was.
Mr. Corcoran has given much needed clarity to increasingly fuzzy thinking on this subject. Based on his comments, I sincerely trust that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party can strongly encourage free trade both globally and more importantly, in Canada among our provinces and territories. And a decrease in invasive central government interference is required. More state intervention leads to overall decreasing prosperity.
The current feds in Canada keep trying to expand their mandate. This needs to be stopped. As has been clearly proven in the past decade, many of the decisions made by our federal government have inevitably resulted in less overall economic prosperity for all and have led to increased insecurity in light of an increasingly dangerous geopolitical world.
Glynis Van Steen, Burlington, Ont.
Re: Canadian pensions face new call to invest at home, this time from major business leaders — Barbara Shecter, March 6
A full-page ad in the National Post on March 6 from a collection of CEOs, union executives and others laments that Canadian pension funds have substantially reduced their investments in publicly traded Canadian companies. It seems that fund managers have connected increased government red tape, spending and taxes with lower returns and decided to invest elsewhere.
Instead of asking for a course correction, those who signed the letter are asking provincial and federal governments to compel Canadian pension funds to invest in their publicly traded companies. Politically connected special interest groups requesting increased government interference in the Canadian economy is a textbook example of why Canada isn’t working for many of its citizens.
Governments in Canada already restrict citizens’ spending in numerous ways — no spending our own after-tax money on health care unless approved by the government, restrictions on buying alcohol in one province and transporting it to another (enforced by the Supreme Court), and in most provinces, being unable to hire tradespeople licensed in another province. Now these business elites want the government to control the savings of millions of Canadians by dictating how pensions funds make investment decisions, undermining their primary mandate of seeking maximum returns while minimizing risks.
The rights and freedoms of Canadians are being steadily eroded by government, the bureaucracy and elites who all support each other at the expense of the country at large. Add on Bill C-63, Canada’s new Online Harms (censorship) Act and we’re getting ever closer to China’s model of government. At least they get things built.
Gary Krieger, North York, Ont.
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