CBC/Radio-Canada unveiled a new three-year plan on Monday to improve its employment and representation of Indigenous peoples, which includes the establishment of a new Indigenous office to oversee those efforts.
The launch of the public broadcaster’s first national Indigenous strategy was made at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
“Our aim is to better reflect, respect and amplify diverse Indigenous perspectives across the public broadcaster,” Robert Doane, a Gitxsan journalist and the strategy’s new senior director, said in a statement.
Doane says the goal of is to build on CBC/Radio-Canada’s connection with First Nations, Inuit and Métis, which he said goes back to the launch of CBC
