CBC Executives Received $14.9 Million in Bonuses in 2023

CBC executives received a combined $14.9 million in bonuses for fiscal year 2023, even as the broadcaster laid off 141 employees and CEO Catherine Tait said the organization was suffering financial hardship, according to documents submitted to the House of Commons. All 46 network executives received bonuses, for a combined $3,020,021, the CBC wrote in response to an Inquiry of Ministry, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. Another 1,140 managers, or 99 percent of those on payroll, also received bonuses, worth a combined $11,883,734. The figures were disclosed at the request of Conservative MP and House Leader Andrew Scheer, who asked, “With regard to bonuses paid out at Crown corporations in the 2023-24 fiscal year, how many and what percentage of officials at or above the executive level received bonuses?”...