A member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s board of directors has resigned from his position to seek the presidency of the Conservative Party of Canada, The Tyee has learned.
Brian Mitchell, a Montreal lawyer, confirmed that he resigned Sunday after eight years on the government-funded broadcaster’s board of directors and its pension board of trustees.
Meanwhile, a CBC watchdog group said Mitchell’s move, and the number of other appointees with political ties, show why there is a need for a new board appointment process for the public broadcaster.
Mitchell said he’s running in order to help rebuild the Conservatives after they were voted out of office last October.
“I think the party needs me,” Mitchell said. “The party needs my experience and my help and my loyalty.”
Mitchell is a former treasurer of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which merged with the Canadian Alliance to become the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003.
He then served as party vice-president before an unsuccessful previous bid to become party president in 2005.
He was appointed to the CBC board of directors by former prime minister Stephen Harper in 2008.
We need an INDEPENDENT public broadcaster.
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