You could not be more wrong, SB, about overpaid, chair warming, doughnut munching  bureaucrats in Ottawa.  
 
That is so 1966 (the year before federal monopoly public sector unions got the "right" to strike and hold the helpless public to ransom).

These days they are much too good for doughnuts and prefer fresh croissants and the finest pastries at the most overpriced and pretentious patisseries and bistros in the nation's capital.

And the CBC is indeed the best programming available - if it is during an election campaign and you are the Liberal standard bearer.  

Otherwise, not so much.  

Straighten up and fly right (well, left actually).