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Respected Canadian Senator Hugh Segal raises RCI issue in Senate

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2012 CUTS/COUPURES

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October 26, 2012
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BREAKING NEWS: Conservative Senator Hugh Segal spoke in the Canadian Senate yesterday, October 25, about the 80% cut to Radio Canada International’s budget, and reiterated his intention to have a Senate Committee ask questions of management about the cuts.

You can read his comments here

We’ll have more details about this later.

And don’t forget the petition to save our transmitter site in Sackville, New Brunswick tinyurl.com/sackvillepetition

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Wojtek Gwiazda has been the spokesperson for the RCI Action Committee since 1991. The Committee is supported and funded by the union that represents almost all RCI employees: the Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de Radio-Canada (STTRC formerly SCRC). E-mail: wojtekrciaction@gmail.com