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    730 CBC employees make over $100,000 a year

    By Andy Radia | Canada Politics – Tue, 31 Jan, 2012

    Rick Mercer, seen experiencing a zero gravity environment on an episode of CBC-TV's Rick Mercer Report.How much does Peter Mansbridge make?  How about Rick Mercer?

    While we don't know exact figures, you can bet those two gentlemen are among the 730 CBC employees who earn more than $100,000 a year.

    On Monday, Heritage Minister James Moore responded to an order paper submitted in November by fellow Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber.

    Rathgeber  had asked the public broadcaster to disclose how much it spends on everything from alcohol and hospitality to the salaries and expenses of its top personalities.

    According to a story at iPolitics, Moore and the CBC were short on details.

    While the CBC did disclose that approximately 730 employees are paid more than $100,000 a year, the taxpayer funded corporation won't tell Parliament who they are and exactly how much they earn.

    Their names and precise salaries, according to the documents tabled in Parliament, are protected under Federal Privacy Act.

    The only employee whose salary range and expenses the broadcaster was willing to divulge was CBC/Radio-Canada President Hubert Lacroix. The CBC said Lacroix's salary, set by the Governor in Council, was between $358,400 and $421,600 in 2011.

    Lacroix is also provided with a 2011 Ford Taurus and a driver who earns between $34,000 and $56,500, according to the iPolitics report.

    The CBC's disclosure is the latest development  in an ongoing saga that has pitted Conservative MPs against each other.

    On the one hand you have Heritage Minister James Moore touting the value of the CBC every opportunity he gets.

    "CBC/Radio-Canada's engagement of both official languages, and indeed eight aboriginal languages in the North, is not something the private sector and the free market is doing easily or willingly, and it's not happening across the country," Moore recently told the Toronto Star,  adding that the CBC will be asked to do its share to find savings.

    "The importance of CBC to ensure that both of Canada's official languages are represented all over the regions of this country is essential."

    On the other hand you have Tory MPs like Rob Anders and Garry Breitkreuz who have both submitted petitions to Parliament calling on the government to stop funding the CBC.

    At the very least, the difference of opinion should make for some interesting caucus meetings leading up to the 2012 budget.

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    • jg
      jg  •  3 months ago
      Those same MPs make very close to a hundred grand a year. They don't even have to show up to work to get paid. Never mind the six week xmas break, plus a huge pension plan. Perhaps it's past due for the whole government salary situation to be exposed, and revised.
      • Mohammad
        Mohammad 3 months ago
        Well that does not justfy anything. Both should be rectified.
      • BCResident
        BCResident 3 months ago
        No JG, you are wrong. MP's don't make close to $100,000 per year. They make MUCH more; the base salary is $157,731 per year. Cabinet Ministers make an extra $75,516 for a total of $233,247 per year. Can you imagine that? Let me put it another way - not including all the extras and perks, Canadian Tax Payers pay MPs almost $50 Million per year in BASE salary. What is even more disgusting is how much MP salaries have increased since 2000 - in that year an MP earned $68,200 per year. Using the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator, that is the equivalent of $84,773.94 in today's money - yet they earn almost DOUBLE that amount. How many sectors have seen a 200% raise in their buying power over the last decade??? Let me answer that - NONE, other than our politicians.
    • Jasmine
      Jasmine  •  London, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      Dude makes between 350,000 and 420,000 a year but can't afford or get it together enough to drive his own car????? WTF??? Thats OUR money!
      • footballmanc...
        footballmanc... 3 months ago
        i get sick and tired of people saying it s their money. you dot think, they pay taxes.the public sector is one of canada biggest employers. all these workers pay taxes and most likely more than you sogive them a break and go after the politicians who r screwing up this country instead...
      • pristine
        pristine 3 months ago
        you must be working for cbc footballdick thats the problem that public sector is the bigest employer in canada and guess who have to support those parasites ? look at the greece and other country were govermant is way bigger than private sector its friking disaster waiting to happened dumn lefty, at least if the feckers good produce but useless crap like cbc is comon and there is no money for hospitals
      • stealyourface
        stealyourface 3 months ago
        pristine-since you can barely spell i'll not take too much offense at you calling the public sector workers as parasites since you prob couldn't get hired anyways and are stuck making lots of friends as a walmart greeter. But I will agree, this is way too much money being spent on people not really contributing anything to our society but probably at every useless unnecessary meeting.
    • saber
      saber  •  Ottawa, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      308 MP's soon to be 335, and 108 senators make well over 100K a year...just sayin
      • Murray
        Murray 3 months ago
        Why do we even need a Senate ?
      • Round Belly
        Round Belly 3 months ago
        or a CBC who pay the sepertist and have them on air each day as stars in Quebec
    • BCResident
      BCResident  •  3 months ago
      They sound like politicians - fattening themselves at the public trough with zero accountability.
    • Paul
      Paul  •  Burlington, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      the cbc employees are paid with tax dollars, private broadcasters are not.that is why we have an interest in what cbc is doing with tax dollars
      • Christopher
        Christopher 3 months ago
        To a degree; Canadian made programs on private networks get funding from Canadian tax revenue via tax credits or outright funding.
      • Round Belly
        Round Belly 3 months ago
        Christopher in no way do other networks get 1.1 billion for programing. They may get money up front but way more goes out back in tax. That and the private networks are FORCED to fund the CBC . Not right or fair. CRTC has to go.
      • K.J.
        K.J. 3 months ago
        You are correct,Round Belly, it is not right or fair, provided that you think that fair is only a relevant concept when it supports the rights of business and that everything else must be commodified. Why should CTV and Can west have their tax dollars supporting their competition. This assumes that our airwaves and broadcast frequencies are private property to be used as their owners see fit. In this country, the airwaves and broadcast frequencies are public property and the CRTC is the regulatory body. As with anything large enterprise, there are problems with the CRTC and with the CBC. Unlike its commercial rivals, the CBC has a mandate to create and promote Canadian content and to bring the country together by presenting our richly diverse population to each other. If we rid of the CRTC and the CBC and we will lose any influence over our own culture.
    • watdmt
      watdmt  •  3 months ago
      How meny senior cpls live on less then 30000 a yr?
      • I Used to Be Shy
        I Used to Be Shy 3 months ago
        Plenty ,if they live with their children or in really, really, really shitty rental homes.
      • A G
        A G 3 months ago
        What does that have to do with this story. If somebody works at the grocery store or is a secretary or drives truck they are not going to make what Peter Mansbridge or Wendy Mesley makes.
      • gene
        gene 3 months ago
        I'm 71 married and make 21k.
    • steve
      steve  •  Ottawa, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      MPs make $167,000 a year with 6 weeks off at Xmas and 3 months off in the summer. The pension can be collected after being an MP for 6 years and a 19 year old MP can collect $40,0000 a year if retiring at 27 years old!!!! That's a very healthy pension for a person 65+. Elementary school kids have to go to school longer than MPs have to work
    • Hans G
      Hans G  •  3 months ago
      730 employees make more than $100,000 per year. Yes, but how much more? Several hundred thousand more, millions more? What are the exact amounts?
    • LLOYD G P
      LLOYD G P  •  Kitchener, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      I'm sure the salaries are nothing compared to the pensions they will receive! No wonder these CBC employees didn't want their salaries posted.
    • Misti
      Misti  •  3 months ago
      730 CBC employees earning over $100,000 is nothing. Over 600 employees at NB Power in New Brunswick are paid over $100,00 per year, their top guy somewhere between $400,000 - $429.999, all on taxpayer's dime including that of Canadians since NB, as a "have not" Province, gets transfer payments.
      Note, those high salaries are across the board for all depts. of the NB Government according to the NB Gov't Unaudited Supplementary Employee Lists. (this list also does not give precise amounts, but rather gives a salary range.)
      To put that into perspective, CBC reaches over 34 million Canadians via tv, radio and internet and can reach millions more worldwide. NB Power serves just over 751,000 people.
    • Telurian
      Telurian  •  Mississauga, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      Rick lives in the Bridal Path area of Toronto... he makes a fortune for the corny and repetitive humor he spins out...
    • TB
      TB  •  Windsor, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      Bread and circus. Dump the CBC the Senate and Don Cherry.
    • Gentle Rider
      Gentle Rider  •  3 months ago
      they ought not be protected from privacy on earnings since the taxpayers pay the bill and have a right to know.
    • JOE
      JOE  •  Toronto, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      I would like a job at The CBC.Can anyone help.
    • vizzers
      vizzers  •  Vancouver, British Columbia  •  3 months ago
      I have a right to know where MY money goes.PERIOD.Don't hide behind Privacy Act !
    • corby
      corby  •  Wakefield, New Brunswick  •  3 months ago
      its like the natives ,if you dont show your books ,the cash flow should stop.as a tax payer im entitled to know where my dollars are going
    • realcanadian
      realcanadian  •  Chatham-Kent, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      Other employees of the government ( including hospital employees) have their salaries made public if they make 100 000 or over, why is the CBC any different?
    • Compassion
      Compassion  •  Langley, British Columbia  •  3 months ago
      If the average annual income in Canada was over $100K, then it would have been ok. However, the Canadian individual's average annual income is not even $50K, so this is highly anomalous! It is tantamount to stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. The question is, can we, the poor working class, the unemployed and the underemployed, do anything about it?
    • clydel
      clydel  •  Burlington, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      If CBC is taxpayer funded, all the people should have their pays and allowances made public..It is our tax dollars that are paying these people..Any public servant should not hide behind privacy laws when they are recieving taxpayers dollars..How much does the CBC get yearly from the taxpayer..Maybe like everything else that is being curtailed, the CBC should submit an itemed account of every penny they spend..It is the rights of the taxpayer to know this..As far as keeping both languages represented across Canada along with the Native languages is appaling..We should never have had to keep the french language in the first place. There are more people from other foriegh Countries that don't want or ask for their language to be represented in Canada, the way that the Canadian French, who are a very small percentage of the people in Canada. How many people are their in the Native Communities that actually speak their native tongue..This is another waste of taxpayers money.. The Federal Govt just keep giving the Canadian tax dollars away. The real workers of Canada get screwed every time a politician opens his/her mouth..Maybe its time for a BIG change/revolt
    • harold
      harold  •  Kingston, Ontario  •  3 months ago
      his driver makes over 34,000? wtf. he's a glorified taxi driver
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