Thank you.
Minister, as you know, the CBC falls under your portfolio. It's taxpayer-funded. Therefore, it deserves the utmost transparency with regard to how those tax dollars are being used.
We had the CBC's CEO, Catherine Tait, here at committee just a few weeks ago. When I asked her about executive bonuses for 2023-24 and whether or not they had been given out and how much they were, she said they had not been given out and no bonuses had been granted.
However, an official report tabled with the House of Commons just in the last little bit shows that, actually, the bonuses were given out for that year—to the tune of $15 million for the top executives. It works out that the average executive bonus given to the CBC for 2023-24 is $65,000.
That's a one-time bonus for the year. On average, it's $65,000. That's more than the average Canadian makes in a salary. Does it concern you that your hand-picked CEO, Catherine Tait, lied to us here at committee?