Broadcasting - Staff Letter addressed to Nathalie Blais (Canadian Union of Public Employees)
Gatineau, 16 April 2026
Reference: 2026-0033-7
BY EMAIL
Nathalie Blais
Research Advisor
Canadian Union of Public Employees
565 Crémazie East Street, Suite 700
Montréal, Québec H2M 2V9
nblais@scfp.ca
Subject: Procedural request from the Canadian Union of Public Employees regarding the application by Groupe TVA Inc. - 2026-0033-7
Dear Nathalie Blais,
Thank you for your letter dated 30 March 2026, filed on behalf of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) regarding the application submitted by Groupe TVA inc. (TVA) for its station CFCM-DT Québec (application 2026-0033-7).
In your letter, you request that two additional letters be added to the public record of TVA’s application, in support of the intervention submitted by CUPE on 19 March 2026. One letter is from the Mayor of Québec City and the other from the Mayor of the City of Lévis. You submit that, as these are the two largest municipalities served by TVA Québec (CFCM-DT), their position on maintaining the station’s local programming is of public interest.
On April 1, 2026, Québecor Média inc. (Québecor Média), on behalf of TVA, filed a letter opposing this procedural request. TVA challenges the filing of the two letters on the grounds that they were submitted after the close of the intervention period and without the exceptional justification required under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Please note that a decision regarding this request will be issued by the Commission in due course.
A copy of this letter will be added to the public record of this proceeding.
Should you have any questions, please contact Audrey Aubin – Senior Analyst, French-language Audiovisual Programming at Audrey.Aubin@crtc.gc.ca.
Sincerely,
Original signed by
Michael Craig
Director, Audiovisual Programming and Distribution
CRTC
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