The number of employees at the taxpayer-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) making six-figure salaries each year has doubled since the Liberal government took office in 2015, according to the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF).
In fiscal year 2015–2016, CBC had 438 hires who took home six-digit salaries that year. That group of CBC staff has steadily expanded ever since and doubled to 949 people by fiscal year 2021–2022, according to the “sunshine list” obtained by the CTF through an access-to-information request. A sunshine list is a listing of salaries, benefits, and other relevant information that provides transparency to government expenditures.
The growth of such employees translates to nearly $120 million in Canadian taxpayer money paid to CBC employees in 2021–2022, an increase from about $60 million in 2015–2016, the document shows….