Minister Mum on Confidence in CBC Head, Says Work to Find Successor Begins Next Year

Published on December 12, 2023

Heritage Minister Pascale St. Onge says the government will convene a committee early in the new year to begin searching for a new head of CBC/Radio-Canada. The mandate of the public broadcaster’s current president and CEO Catherine Tait, who was first appointed in 2018 and saw her contract renewed in June, is set to expire in January 2025. Ms. St. Onge wouldn’t directly answer reporters’ questions on Dec. 12 about whether she still has confidence in Ms. Tait, saying the government’s focus is finding her successor. “I’m saying that right now we are going to concentrate on finding the right person to lead the public broadcaster at the end of Catherine Tait’s mandate.”...

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