Jesse Kline: Even Catherine Tait doesn't know why we need the CBC

Rather than taking questions about how public tax dollars are being spent seriously, she whined about how unfairly she was being treated

The CBC has always seemed like a novel scam, whereby Ottawa takes our hard-earned money and uses it to sell us on the benefits of more socialism.

But when news broke over the summer that the public broadcaster doled out $18.4 million in bonuses last year, the same year in which it eliminated 141 jobs and went cap-in-hand to the Liberals asking for money to cover its $125-million shortfall, it became apparent that the CBC’s top brass could at best be described as champagne socialists — at worst, grifters who have grown fat gorging at the public trough.