Cabinet has reappointed Catherine Tait as president and CEO of CBC and Radio-Canada for just an 18-month term as Ottawa reassesses the public broadcaster’s mandate going forward in a shifting online “environment,” says Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez.
Tait was appointed to a five-year term as CBC’s president in July 2018, but Rodriguez told reporters in Ottawa on June 1 that Canada’s online information landscape will be “so different” in a year and a half due to the recent passage of the Online Streaming Act and the expected passing of Bill C-18 that he’s decided to reappoint Tait to only an 18-month term….