Thursday, January 11, 2018

COPY OF EMAIL TO MINISTER OVERSEEING THE CBC

To: The Hon. Melanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, House of Commons, OTTAWA, ON.

CC: Hubert T Lacroix, CBC President an CEO; Heather Conway, Executive Vice-President, CBC English Services; Alex Johnston, Vice-President, Strategy and Public Affairs; Diane Girard, CBC’s Values and Ethics Commissioner; other selected parties and agencies 
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Mme Joly: This email correspondence is to lodge a complaint against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for consistently failing to meet hiring and employment retention goals for employees with disabilities. This billion dollar government funded federal corporation has not only failed to targets for their own INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY PLAN (2015-2018) -- they have failed to meet disability employment goals within the Employment Equity Act and policies dating back 30 years! This must not continue.

For more information and clarification, please see my blog, MediaPerspective at http://www.mediaperspective.org/ for 3 posts about this matter, beneath a copy of this email:

  1. CBC: FAILING EMPLOYMENT EQUITY FOR 30 YEARS;
  2. CBC’S FARCICAL INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY PLAN (2015-2018);
  3. CBC’S PERSISTENT BIGOTRY       

All of these posts were sent to senior management of the CBC. Only Diane Girard responded saying, in part: “…The allegations in your email are broad ones. If you have a specific complaint regarding the behaviour of one of our employees, please indicate the nature of your complaint you want to make and send us specific details.” The commissioner for Values and Ethics completely missed the point. I was referring to a systemic problem within the CBC and Ms Girard thought I was complaining about an individual employee?! That was an outrageous response!

The time for accountability has come. The CBC MUST incorporate real and measurable and visible disability inclusion and diversity. Ms Joly, I ask you to investigate the CBC’s decades long failure to meet disability employment targets dating back 30 years.

I am,
Respectfully yours,

Mark Davis Pickup
4417-51 Street
Beaumont, Alberta
T4X 1C8
Tel: 780.929.9230

(NB: Posts referred to see below.)