The federal Conservatives’ top Quebec Tory says the party’s concerns about the CBC do not apply to the broadcaster’s French-language wing, but one of its senators suggests there is a need to look at it mandate.
Quebec Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, speaking in French, told reporters on his way into the party’s weekly caucus meeting this morning that Radio-Canada’s mandate should be re-centred to its core mission.
Boisvenu says the party’s position has always been that if the public money the broadcaster receives is put into programming such as variety shows that compete with the private market, that’s an unhealthy situation….