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This should be interesting to hear.
A House of Commons Committee has summoned Bell CEO Mirko Bibic to try and explain the company's outrageous firing of some 6,000 employees over the past two months. A summons is a rare tool used by the government to force someone to testify, and it's only used when they otherwise refuse to appear. He was asked to come on Feb. 29th and March 19th, but somehow was too busy or otherwise engaged and never made it.
Now with the summons, he'll have no choice.
It should be a contentious tete-a-tete. Bibic blames government regulations - or lack of them - for not coming to poor Bell's rescue and has previously stated all the job losses are directly the government's fault for not instituting provisions of Bill C-18 sooner. Among other things, that's supposed to see Canadian broadcasters get a share from foreign streamers doing business in Canada.
Guess this is one show Bibic is not looking forward to seeing. But personally, I can't wait for April 11th!
If he finally shows up.
Bell CEO summoned to committee over job cuts. What to expect
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A friend of mine recently retired from CTV after many years as a national advertising sales rep.
He's told me a few tales of the Bell mentality that permeates CTV too.
It's a small thing, but one story was that he was parking in the CTV lot one day and he noticed that the Bentley, owned by the then CTV CEO was parked so that it took up two parking spaces.
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It would be oh so sweet if the HoC committee told Bibic that he would called to appear sometime between 9am and 5pm on April 11th... kinda like waiting around for a Bell service call...
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Tell him to call 310-BELL and get his instructions from the Manila call centre, if he can understand them.
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newsguy1 wrote:
he noticed that the Bentley, owned by the then CTV CEO was parked so that it took up two parking spaces.
Hey, maybe he was just showing some CTV pride, as a vehicular tribute to Christine Bentley!