Job Cuts Announced at CBC/Radio-Canada

— That the eighth report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, presented on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, be not now concurred in, but that it be recommitted to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage for further consideration, provided that it be an instruction to the committee to study the consequences of defunding the CBC and Radio-Canada, including how the Liberal threat to cut funding led to hundreds of CBC-Radio-Canada job cuts and the effects on smaller communities, as promised by the Leader of the Official Opposition, provided that it be a further instruction to the committee:

(a) that it report its findings to the House no later than Tuesday, December 17, 2024;

(b) that, during this study, the following witnesses be ordered to appear for no less than two hours each: (i) Catherine Tait, (ii) Marie-Philippe Bouchard;

(c) that the Minister of Canadian Heritage be ordered to appear for at least one hour; and

(d) that, in addition to the witnesses mentioned in paragraph (b), it hear at least three hours of additional expert testimony.

The report was referred back to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.