Ottawa adds funding to CBC, despite executives’ claims it was asked to cut its budget

Canada’s public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada’s budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.

Thursday’s funding announcement will “lessen, but not eliminate” the $125-million shortfall, said Leon Mar, spokesman for CBC/Radio-Canada. “We’re upholding our support for CBC/Radio-Canada and we encourage that organization to uphold its important mandate, and to maintain as many employees as they can in all regions of our country,” Ms. Anand said Thursday.

President and chief executive officer Catherine Tait and Shaun Poulter, executive director of strategy, public affairs and government relations, said in January they were expected to plan for that cut. “I’ve said right from the beginning that the reallocation decision for CBC/Radio-Canada was still pending,” Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said in a statement on Thursday.

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