A record number of complaints were submitted to the CBC ombudsman during the recent federal election campaign.
Ombudsman Maxime Bertrand said her office received a higher number of complaints in April than in the “previous three months combined.”
Bertrand identified two reasons for the high number of complaints in April.
“I believe the flood of complaints is circumstantial, largely due to two factors: The orchestrated campaigns I wrote at length about last month [and] the federal election,” she said in a May 6 post, referring to complaints received about CBC personality Rosemary Barton.
In the April 1 post Bertrand referenced, she wrote about complaints made about Barton, questioning if they were part of a campaign to have her reassigned or fired….