Eight years into overseeing a massive and unprecedented downsizing of the CBC, the most ruthless in the public broadcaster's 80-year history, with more than 2,000 or 25 per cent of staff laid off in five years and no end in sight, CBC President Hubert T. Lacroix now says he should have sounded the alarm earlier.
Lacroix's sudden admission and defence of the public broadcaster he has made a career of shredding comes not in his own backyard, where CBC supporters have been sounding the alarm for years, but at an international conference on public broadcasting in Germany.
In a prepared speech, Lacroix admitted that public broadcasters "are at fault for not speaking loudly enough about the threats we face," and "like the proverbial frog put in cold water that is slowly heated, we've resisted telling people that we risk being boiled to death."
