OTTAWA – The CBC will receive the funding it needs to fulfill its five-year strategic plan, says Heritage Minister James Moore.
According to a report in The Toronto Star, Minister Moore affirmed the government’s commitment to the national broadcaster during a Commons committee on Thursday.
“CBC, through their board of directors, has approved their 2015 plan. This is a plan that we support and that we have been pushing for and hoping that the CBC would implement for a long time – staying in the regions, (enhancing) digital technology and protecting their mandate to ensure that it’s all-Canadian programming,” Moore said.
“Those are the three things that we wanted CBC to do, and they’ve done it with their 2015 plan. …In the budget, they will have enough funding to deliver that plan.”
However, the report continues, the Corp may not receive a separate $60 million programming fund that CBC president and CEO Hubert Lacroix has repeatedly described has important to fulfilling the broadcaster’s plans through 2015.
Moore said that the fund’s fate would be revealed in the 2012 federal budget, which will likely be delivered in March.
