CBC CEO tells Senate that the public broadcaster will not retreat (corrected)

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - CBC/Radio-Canada chief executive Hubert Lacroix shot back at those who think the public broadcaster should only be to Canadians what the privates are not.“I do not believe that the answer is to become some kind of niche broadcaster limited to only doing what private broadcasters will not do or have no business incentive to do. No other public broadcaster in the world is put in that kind of a box,” he said during an appearance before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications this week.Lacroix was responding to statements made by both the Canadian Media Production Association...