With ongoing merger talks between two of Canada’s largest news publishers, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is urging Canadians to make recent legislation and federal subsidies affecting media outlets across the country a voting issue in the next general election.
“For all the subsidies and interventions the Liberals have put in place since coming to power in 2015, thousands of journalists’ jobs have been lost as dozens of newsrooms have been shuttered,” Rempel Garner wrote in a Substack post on June 28, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“So dire is the state of journalism in Canada today that virtually no regional newsrooms exist, even in big urban centres outside of Toronto, never mind talking about the desert of coverage in Canada’s rural and remote communities. What does exist is mainly dependent on government subsidies to survive.”…