Quebec mayor files Commission complaint over Global TV

By Glenn Wanamaker

QUEBEC CITY – Quebec City Mayor Jean-Paul L’Allier has filed a complaint with the CRTC about Global Television’s plan to transfer several key technical jobs to Toronto. In a letter filed Monday, Mayor L’Allier, a former Quebec communications minister, accuses the network of breaking its promise made at licence hearings in 1996 and asks the CRTC to respect licencing conditions. As reported by www.cartt.ca in July, Global will transfer master control and traffic jobs to Toronto at the end of this month, leaving eight full-time employees and one half-time employee at CKMI. Global insists however there will not be any...