Montreal media lawyer Hubert Lacroix will replace Robert Rabinovitch as president and chief executive officer of CBC/Radio-Canada.
Lacroix does have a bit of broadcast experience, having worked for Radio-Canada as a commentator for basketball during the Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1996. He was also a contributor to the Saturday evening sports show Hebdo-Sports on Radio-Canada, where he reported mainly on amateur sports.
The appointment was made by the Prime Minister’s office.
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Huber Lacroix’s background is Law and he is an expert in mergers and acquisitions… Interesting choice to head Canada’s public broadcaster.
Was he selected so that Harper government can finally privatize CBC TV?
A major transformation of the national CBC is surely needed. The CBC has not even been trying to fulfill its mandate in recent years, and correcting that is likely going to require some very significant changes. The one big decision he should make is to sell the Toronto Broadcast Centre, decentralize the CBC, and make it Canadian again. The CBC in recent years has been very un-Canadian in spite of the fact that it’s been paid for by all of Canada. The Conservatives could generate a large amount of good will if they could reform the CBC and make it serve the people who are paying for it, all of Canada.
Fervently hoping that your theory’s completely wrong!
One can only hope Ex. One can only hope.
Hey David…the only problem with your plan is that the CBC does not own the Broadcasting Centre. CBC owns the land and entered into an exclusive 99 year lease with the original developer Cadillac Fairview…in exchange CF built the Broadcasting Centre and the Workers Comp tower…that’s why there’s a VP of Real Estate…someone has to keep a lid on all these crazy contracts.
Stig: Wow. Well, one way or another that lease has to be broken then, else the probability that the CBC will be privatized will rise dramatically. Given the choice of having the national CBC the way it is now or privatising it, even many lefties like me who live outside of Southern Ontario would I’m sure start to look favourably on privatisation. The CBC of Strobo/Gomeshi/Mesley et al is Toronto’s CBC, not Canada’s CBC, and I and many Canadians are no longer interested in paying for programing that is no longer even trying to live up to its mandate to represent and serve all of Canada. If the CBC can’t be reformed due to too much rot, bad contracts, corruption, and the like, then it’s time to scrap it and try something different, like a CKUA type idea perhaps.
The conversion of CBC to Radio-Quebec is almost complete. Those who wish that the CBC would dry up and blow away may get their wish. Ignoring the unusual coincidence that the last two presidents have been from Quebec, it is a fact, although not widely known, that the majority of head office and corporate level administrative staff are based in Montreal. Only a small contingent remains in Ottawa for appearances sake. Of course, there is also the fact that the disparity in the distribution of the budget between the various services means that for every dollar the English services spend per viewer, the French services spend about $1.80 (all figures derived from publicly available documents). As the English services are slowly strangled to death, in preparation for dismemberment, the corporation quietly and covertly moves its operations into the one province that seems to be hell bent on tearing this country apart. Who is driving the bus anyways?
I await with bated breath the wingnut claiming that the CBC secretly yearns for a free Saskatchewan.