I would like to answer all your questions.
To be clear, the decision to cut jobs at Radio-Canada was not made by the government, but rather by Radio-Canada management. I even have quotations of remarks the union made before the cuts were announced, including one by Alex Levasseur, President of the Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada. He said this:
The eventual cuts will not be ordered by the federal government.
France Bélisle, Director of Communications and Public Relations at CBC/Radio-Canada, said the following:
The problem is that the advertising market is depressed for all media.
It was Hubert, his team and the unions that really provided the evidence.