Canada’s public broadcaster CBC-Radio-Canada is reducing the amount of money it spends on its investigative, French-language program, Enquête (Investigation.) The program is famous for having uncovered widespread corruption in the construction industry in the province of Quebec. That led to a public inquiry into fraud involving government bureaucrats, politicians, union officials and industry heads.
The broadcaster’s cuts are part of an overall plan to deal with a $130-million budget shortfall resulting from on-going reductions in funding from government, reduced ad revenues and the loss of a lucrative hockey broadcast contract.
Enquête will lose three members of its staff of 32. In all of CBC-Radio-Canada, 657 people will lose their jobs.
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