Juneau

Pioneer

Canadian Criminal

Juneau, Pierre (1922- )

Pierre Juneau, a strong cultural sovereignty's throughout his long career, was frequently described as tough, even steely. In 1989 he described himself as a bit shy, not a glad hander; also idealistic and persistent - "I guess that has something to do with what you call toughness."

He was born in the Montreal suburb of Verdun, one of five children of a building materials salesman. He married Fernande Martin in 1947 and they had two sons and a daughter. After graduating from the University of Montreal, he studied philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris and the University of Paris where he met Pierre Elliott Trudeau, later to become prime minister. Back in Montreal, Juneau went to work for the National Film Board in 1949 and Trudeau after his year's travels in 1949, serving briefly in Ottawa as an adviser to the Privy Council Office in 1950-51.

Juneau who was the one also informs of the revision of the National Film Act in 1939 1950 removed all possibility of direct governmental intervention in the administration of the organization.

With Trudeau, Juneau was one of founder who had launch the intellectual journal Cité libre in 1950.

By 1964 he was senior assistant to the commissioner and director of French-language production at the NFB but in 1966 left to become vice-chairman of the Board of Broadcast Governors.

When the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) was replaced in 1968 by the of the Canadian Radiodiffusion and telecommunication Council (CRTC, Juneau became, its first chairman and the one responsible of the 1970 Power Corporation - TÉLÉMÉDIA transaction with Trudeau and Turner and remained in that position until 1975.

Foreign control of three radio stations and two TV stations plus concerns over three stations whose shares were being traded on the stock exchange, all came to a head in 1968 with the government's issue of an order-in-council, 1968-1809, requiring that all broadcast undertakings licensed by the CRTC it be at least 80% Canadian-owned. Juneau told broadcasters that Canadian TV must reflect Canadian life and that maximums would be set for foreign content.

The CRTC also created a Canadian content policy for music programmed on radio stations, requiring no less than 30% should qualify as "Canadian".

In 1969 he had said the CBC was not doing enough to foster national unity.

In 1970, Juneau was acclaimed by the Canadian music industry as "the man of the year" by the media.

In 1971, RPM Magazine which had pioneered Canadian recording awards since 1963, named them "The Juno Awards" (although spelled Juno after the chief Roman goddess.

A CRTC policy which didn't work was the banning of the use of microwave by the cable TV industry to move U.S. signals to communities that otherwise couldn't receive them.

Prime Minister Trudeau appointed Juneau communications minister in August 1975 but Juneau resigned two months later after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in a by-election in the Montreal riding of Hochelaga.

Juneau was replace by Jeanne Sauvé

In 1978: ( A year after they had rob the ACILR-CDRIL new technology patent, in 1977).... a Canadian covert-up 1978 study to introduce Cancom was made by the federal Department of Communications showed that residents of Canada's 24 largest cities could take their pick of more than a dozen television channels.

Canada had already become the first nation in the world to put a commercial satellite in orbit, and the solution to the broadcasting problem seemed to lie in a Canadian commercial service using Canadian satellites to distribute Canadian signals. Not at all clear was who would do it - and how.

But TÉLÉMÉDIA reappear with the Hogan same false story, the founder of NovAtel Alberta concerning is Wireless Telephone

Trudeau appointed him as a policy advisor and in 1976 he was appointed chairman of the National Capital Commission.

In 1980 he was named deputy minister in the communications department in addition to duties as undersecretary of state to assisted Francis Fox, the new Canadian Communication minister.

In 1982 he was appointed CBC president and quickly faced accusations of centralizing power in his Ottawa office.

CBC vice-president Peter Herndorf resigned in 1983 in protest, although he was later quoted by the Globe and Mail own by his two friend business associated, Conrad Blake a Desmarais business Friend saying Juneau "defended the CBC very well.

He wasn't able to fend off the budget cuts but I'm not sure anyone could have ... it was a tough !!!! period." During the period, the CBC show off of is suffered $100-million in Clark budget cuts cover-up and false hostility from the Progressive Conservative government which had succeeded the Trudeau Liberals who had cover the NovAtel registration and assisted Roger to extension in Canada and in USA.

During Juneau's tenure, a CBC Broadcast Centre was built in Toronto, centralizing previously scattered operations, and the 24-hour news and information channel News World was launched in 1987.

Juneau retired in1989. He came out of retirement briefly in 1994 to oversee operations of MacLean Hunter Ltd. during CRTC hearings to approve a $3.1-billion takeover by Rogers Communications Inc.

Pierre Juneau was appointed an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1975 and he is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada, the organization founded in 1882 for the promotion of learning and research in Canada.

Jerry Fairbridge - April, 2002