A day after CBC/Radio-Canada announced it plans to slash its staff by about 10 per cent to address mounting budget troubles, the company’s executives went before the broadcasting regulator with a request that could pump more money into the system.
Barbara Williams, the CBC’s vice-president of English services, and her French counterpart Dany Meloul said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should push ahead with a plan to force foreign players like Amazon, Apple, Disney and Netflix to pay up to support struggling Canadian content producers.
These foreign operators have built streaming services with millions of Canadian subscribers and they don’t do enough to support
