Montreal lawyer Hubert Lacroix, reports Robert Fife, CTV's Ottawa bureau chief.
Lacroix is a senior lawyer with Strikeman Elliot and once served as CEO of Telemedia.
Laxcroix's mandate is to get control of the CBC's costs.
The Crown corporation receives a subsidy of $1.1B from taxpayers and ran a net operating deficit of $69 million in 2006-’07. according to its annual report.
From a CMG news release:
“We know little about Mr. Lacroix, except that he’s said to be a good corporate lawyer,” says Lise Lareau, president of the CMG. “We would welcome the opportunity to get to know him better and to share with him our views about the future of the public broadcaster.”
InsideTheCBC reports that Lacroix did some sports commentary for Radio-Canada in the 1980s.