If admitting you have a problem is the first step toward solving it, then perhaps things are looking just a bit up at Canada’s public broadcaster. Catherine Tait, CBC’s spectacularly out-of-touch Brooklyn-based president, is gone. And CBC’s new five-year strategic plan, revealed this week by recently installed president Marie-Philippe Bouchard , correctly diagnoses several of the Crown corporation’s problems: Young people don’t consume its content very much, and nor do western and rural Canadians, and nor do new Canadians.

The new plan proposes appealing to “non-users (and) dissatisfied users” with “different programming and editorial output.” It intends to “return to the regions” a broadcaster whose resources it seems to realize have been too concentrated in Toronto, Ottawa and Montr

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