Summary of expenses for George C.B. Smith

Period from October 1st to December 31, 2008

The Senior Vice-President, Corporate Priorities and Implementation, carries out his duties as an extension to the President & CEO’s office. This position is dedicated to implementing CBC/Radio-Canada’s priorities across the Corporation, ensuring that the organisation and its employees adapt and are accountable to new priorities and ways of doing things, both organisationally and culturally. He also leads the process of concluding the current labour negotiations.

The Senior Vice-President attends Senior Executive Team meetings every six weeks in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa. He also travels regionally for stakeholder events and meetings of the Board of Directors, six times a year in different locations across Canada.

Travel Expenses

Date(s) Purpose(s) Cost(s)
02-03/10/2008 Montreal: Interview meeting with VP People & Culture candidate, meeting with Egon Zehnder International (EZI) re Executive Search, videoconference with CFO, meeting with Carole Gariepy 396.26
05-10/10/2008 Port Credit: Negotiations meetings CBC/Canadian Media Guild (CMG) 879.06
16-17/10/2008 Toronto: Interview VP CFO candidate, meetings with Richard Stursberg, Fred Mattocks and Elizabeth Dalzell 994.62
23-24/10/2008 Montreal: Meetings with Hubert Lacroix re: Candidate for VP CFO position, Meeting with L. Facchin and M. Hamelin/P.Rochefort 489.52
29-30/10/2008 Toronto: Management caucus re: negotiations, English Services Senior Management Team (SMT) Peace Process, sessions re; Taking care of U 806.06
02-07/11/2008 Port Credit: Negotiations meetings CBC/CMG 1,082.06
11-13/11/2008 Toronto: Leaders Forum and APS Collective Agreement Signature 755.55
13-14/11/2008 Montreal: Interview VP People & Culture candidate; meeting with Michèle Parent 433.60
19-20/11/2008 Montreal: meetings with Carole Gariépy; Hubert Lacroix, Francine Létourneau & Egon Zehnder International (EZI) (Executive Search) 540.08
21-22/10/2008 Toronto: English Services Senior Management Team (SMT) negotiation meetings, After-Action Review workshop, Meeting with D. Oldfield (CMG), Meeting with J. Cruickshank 1,131.70
22-28/11/2008 Port Credit : Negotiation meetings CBC/CMG 1,027.89
03-04/12/2008 Toronto: Meeting with John Cruickshank, meetings with regards to union negotitations and other various meetings 953.86
04-05/12/2008 Montreal: Meeting with VP People & Culture, Industrial Relations meeting, meetings with Hubert Lacroix and Michèle Parent 447.18
07-13/12/2008 Port Credit: Negotiations meetings CBC/CMG 723.95
15-16/12/2008 Toronto: Senior Executive Team (SET) meeting 208.90
22-23/12/2008 Montreal: meetings with VP People and Culture re: transition and IR French Network 418.37
Total 11,288.66

Duty Entertainment Expenses

Date(s) Event Description(s) Cost(s)
6/10/2008 Port Credit: Dinner with CBC/CMG Negotiations Team and external Mediator 488.63
7/10/2008 Port Credit: CBC/CMG Negotiations Team and external Mediator 160.35
23/10/2008 Ottawa: Meeting with Dan Oldfield - CMG 58.62
24/10/2008 Montreal: Interview VP People and Culture 17.00
28/10/2008 Ottawa: Business luncheon with external consultant 28.81
2/11/2008 Port Credit : Dinner with Mediator (CBC/CMG Negotiations) 139.46
3/11/2008 Port Credit: Lunch CBC/CMG Negotiations Team and external Mediator 201.40
4/11/2008 Port Credit: Coffee CBC Negotiation Team and external Mediator 44.07
4/11/2008 Port Credit: Dinner CBC/CMG Negotiations Team and external Mediator 312.53
13/11/2008 Toronto: Dinner with external consultant 213.68
24/11/2008 Port Credit: Dinner with CBC Negotiations Team and external Mediator 151.21
25/11/2008 Port Credit: Dinner with CBC/CMG Negotiations team and external Mediator 386.45
3/12/2008 Toronto: Breakfast with review process participants and external Consultant 231.14
Total 2,433.35
GRAND TOTAL 13,722.01

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