Heritage minister says media sector facing ‘significant crisis’ as CBC lays off 10% of workforce

Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien said during question period on Monday that CBC and Radio Canada cutting approximately 600 jobs demonstrated that “things are not going well in the world of media,” adding that this means a cultural sense of belonging and the quality of information “will suffer.” Heritage minister Pascale St-Onge said that her thoughts are with “all employees of CBC [and] Radio Canada” as they were in a corporate meeting, and that she is aware of “a significant crisis” in the media sector but that the federal government will continue to support the industry.