Benefits proposal needs renovation, says CFTPA

GATINEAU – While several television producers who produce shows for CanWest and may be beneficiaries of the deal’s benefits package, voiced their support for the CanWest Global and Goldman Sachs purchase of Alliance Atlantis (including Insight Productions, Tricon Films, Barna-Alper Productions and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), the producers’ association had some harsher words for the benefits package the deal contemplates. (Even supporter Lazlo Barna wants to see the benefits money spent over five years and not 10). The Canadian Film and Television Producers’ Association does not object to the control structure of the deal, as many others have already...