FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW CBC BOSS

1 THE FIRST WOMAN

Catherine Tait, named president of CBC/ Radio-Canada on Monday, is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian and U.S. television and film industry. She is the first woman appointed to the five-year term position, which paid her predecessor in the range of $430,500 to $580,031. She will replace Hubert Lacroix in July.

2 WHAT’S ON HER RESUME

She is the president of Duopoly, a digital, television and film content production company; is a former president of now defunct Salter Street Films, which produced This Hour Has 22 Minutes; and a founding partner of Hollywood Suite, the largest licensee of Canadian feature films. She worked at Telefilm Canada as a policy manager in the 1980s.

3 WHAT SHE WANTS TO ACCOMPLISH

Tait says she wants the CBC to increasingly think digital in order to deal with the disruption across the broadcast industry. She is calling on the Crown corporation to be an inclusive storyteller for Indigenous Peoples, women, newcomers and LGBTQ communities, as well as a creator of quality local content.

4 SHE ACED THE INTERVIEW

Tom Clark, a former journalist and chair of the committee that recommended her, said “she got not only who the CBC was and what it means to the country, but she also got the extent of the challenges — and challenges is a small word for a really big problem.”

5 THE BUDGET

Tait will have more money than Lacroix did when he started 10 years ago. In 2016, the Liberals boosted funding to the CBC by $675 million over five years.