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Official Languages committee I can't tell you how much I agree with you that Pierre Landry is a loss. This was not an easy decision to make. It did not come simply. There was a lot of discussion about it, and we were very sorry to have to end his contract. As I said, it wasn't simple. We have a very large c
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee That won't be lost.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee You know what? I can't predict, and I'm actually going to pass that question to Hubert.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee Are you talking about Quebec City or about the whole region?
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee As I told you, we have 10 positions that are being cut in Quebec.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee In Montreal, naturally, we have a more urban focus on the English-language minority community. We have many special projects that you've probably heard about if you listen to Mike Finnerty, in which we specifically target the issues and concerns for that community. In Quebec Cit
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee We will have ten cuts, which we announced yesterday, within the CBC. At this point, I think four or five people will be walking out of the building. They had their contracts terminated and their positions declared redundant. For other people, we found ways to save positions throu
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee In fact just last year we had two meetings with QCGN. One was in Quebec City, where we brought people in from the régions éloignées and met with them, and with our French colleagues as well, to discuss their needs. We had another one in Montreal last year as well where we brought
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee Yes, we will meet with them.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee Sorry; that really was your question.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee What I can tell you is that, first of all, it's a network commitment, not a local commitment. Locally we continue to work with our English-language independent producers by producing six documentaries every year. Recently we brought in our executives from Toronto to meet with th
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee Every program was touched—radio, TV, and digital.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch
Official Languages committee We have the same thing as Radio-Canada. We have an internship with the journalism school at Concordia. We bring students in for the summer on paid internships so they can develop the skills they need, so that when they graduate we have somebody prepared to come into the business.
May 1st, 2014Committee meeting
Shelagh Kinch