Thread by @realChrisBrunet

This is Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (@CBC).

Her base salary is $497,100, paid by Canadian taxpayers, and she is every inch the odious shitlib that NPR's Katherine Maher is.

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For starters, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, while being in charge of Canadian media.

She is a Hilary Clinton donor.

By 2025, she demands that all ''companies with whom she does business to ensure that at least one key creative position – producer, director, writer, showrunner and lead performer – is held by members of visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of the LGBT community''

toronto.citynews.ca/2019/06/10/cbc…

In 2019 she compared Netflix to colonialism in India and Africa.

"I was thinking about the British Empire and how, if you were there and you were the viceroy of India, you would feel that you were doing only good for the people of India. Or similar, if you were in French Africa, you would think, I’m educating them, I’m bringing their resources to the world, and I’m helping them. There was a time when cultural imperialism was absolutely accepted. Fast forward to what happens after imperialism and the damage that can do to local communities. So all I would say is, let us be mindful of how it is we as Canadians respond to global companies coming into our country."

This year she laid off 10% of the CBC's workforce, cutting 600 positions to deal with a a $125-million budget deficit, but wouldn't rule out paying CBC executives huge bonuses.

''Over $99 million in bonuses was awarded to employees at the public broadcaster between 2015 and 2022.''

''CBC defines its bonus program as a 'short-term incentive plan.'''

She supports Twitter censorship.

“As head of a media organization which values freedom of speech and of the press, I would prefer that Twitter take meaningful action on its own to address this problem,” wrote Tait.

westernstandard.news/news/documents…

She is working with the Trudeau government to create legislation to deal with “online hate.”

“We have been sharing our mounting concerns with the Canadian government, which is proposing legislation to address online hate. There is significant public support for such legislation,” wrote Tait.

westernstandard.news/news/documents…

on CBC Kids News, her network explains drag queens to kids.

Here are some DEI programs at the CBC that she created.

She commits to racial quotas in her DEI plan.

''Half of all new hires for executive and senior management positions will be Indigenous people, racialized people, or people with disabilities''

''retention and promotion rates for people from these three groups will be doubled''

In addition to her ~$500k salary last year, while the CBC ran a budget deficit of $125 million, she ran up $119,309 in personal expenses.

''Expenses included $12,841 for a 2022 Tokyo conference of Public Broadcasters International; $12,673 for a 2022 European tour to London, Brussels and Geneva; $12,220 to Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2021 for discussions with the International Olympic Committee; $10,334 for a 2023 Prague conference of Public Broadcasters International; $9,841 for a 2022 trip to Hollywood for meetings with production industry representatives; and $9,648 for a 2022 trip to London for a discussion on threats facing journalists.''

torontosun.com/news/national/…

She hired more than 20 employees for DEI roles in 2020-21 alone

63% of Management at CBC are women

More than 75% of CBC staff took unconscious bias training

Latinx and Middle Eastern people are not eligible for ''initiatives to promote and celebrate the historical contribution and heritage'' at the CBC.

Asian and black people are.

She wants more regulation of news content and for the federal government to further support “trusted sources” of news.

tnc.news/2020/02/19/cbc…

During the Canadian trucker 'Freedom Convoy', the CBC repeatedly spread the conspiracy theory that 'Russian actors' were potentially funding and fueling the protests

According to the CBC's gender transition/affirmation guide, EVERYONE MUST USE PROPER NAMES AND PRONOUNS TO ADDRESS THE TRANSITIONING EMPLOYEE.

It could be hurtful to refer to someone by the wrong name and pronouns once you have established which set they prefer.

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