CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait scored an own goal on Tuesday, handing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre a powerful fundraising tool.
in an article ostensibly about the CBC’s plans for eventually abandoning its radio and television services and going fully digital — someday — she handed Poilievre a cudgel with which to beat up the public broadcaster.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
But for the CBC president and CEO to say it explicitly, in public, is manna from heaven for the Conservatives. Asked later by a CBC reporter whether she was concerned her comments about Poilievre would undermine working journalists at the CBC by pitting the public broadcaster against one political party, Tait said she wasn’t because she’s not a journalist but the CEO.Article content
The problem is, she walked into what a newspaper publisher rightly described to me years ago as, “six minutes of satisfaction, followed by six miles of bad road,” in this case for CBC journalists, particularly on Parliament Hill.
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