CBC/Radio-Canada to end executive performance bonuses

By Connie Thiessen CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors has announced it’s discontinuing executive performance bonuses, following an independent review. The executive bonus structure, known as the Short-Term Incentive Plan, sparked outrage in late 2023 when the Canadian Taxpayers Federation released data indicating that in 2022, the CBC paid out more than $16 million in bonuses in the face of a looming $125 million budget shortfall. Catherine Tait, then president of the public broadcaster, went on to defend the bonus structure before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage saying that “like every other Crown Corporation” performance pay was a key part of...