Radio-Canada: TVA alleges secrecy
TVA is alleging secrecy around the construction and terms of the new Radio-Canada building but this is an area in which I don’t think we can exactly expect them to display a lack of bias.
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steph 18:18 on 2019-04-25 Permalink
Yes something stinks here. Selling a public building to rent space in a private building is backwards. How many more PPP are we going to take-on before we learn a lesson.
Kate 20:20 on 2019-04-25 Permalink
The Gazette has a piece today about how much better the unfinished new building is, which rings a little hollow. “CBC/Radio-Canada will be paying rent of $20 million per year in the new facility for the next 30 years — the same amount it was paying to maintain the current building.” Spokesman is quoted “it was important to become a tenant rather than an owner” but why being a tenant makes them a better broadcaster is a strange point that’s not even questioned.
Uatu 10:32 on 2019-04-26 Permalink
Hahaha…. If it’s anything like the Superhospital, then get ready to pay for 1000$ light switches for the next 30yrs. PPPs are just cash cows for the private partner. Good luck to all of us since it’s our taxes footing the bill.
thomas 13:15 on 2019-04-26 Permalink
I can see the logic why Radio-Canada would prefer to rent. Given the way Radio-Canada is funded I suspect it is much easier to provide a known rental expense when preparing their budget to the government. Radio-Canada doesn’t have a surplus to deal with unexpected repairs to an aging and under-utilized building. Thus if major repairs other than upkeep are required they would have to pay for it though cuts elsewhere.
Kate 10:19 on 2019-04-27 Permalink
thomas, you make a good point here. The Maison was put up in an era of optimism with an assumption the national broadcaster needed all that space. It’s sort of sad that, since then, most of the broadcasting has been done from the basement. And, like so many projects done around that time, all the thought went into accomplishing the project, almost none into the cost and process of maintaining it.