[9] "A letter urging Parliament to act and addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau" was issued in February 2019 "by an eclectic group of media outlets, including Postmedia, which owns the National Post, Torstar, which publishes the Toronto Star, SaltWire Network, and the CBC among others.
[11] In June 2018, columnist Christie Blatchford (doyenne with a 48-year career in journalism), had said of a rumoured press subsidy: "God forbid Ottawa should start to subsidize newspapers too.
Among other points, he identified "a newspaper industry lobby group" who had begged the government for three years,[13] as indeed Terence Corcoran had already remarked in February 2016.
Government should keep out of the battle and not weigh the odds in favour of one side or the other.”" Some Canadian politicians saw it differently as far back as 1969 Davey Special Committee on Mass Media.
"It proposed a Press Ownership Review Board that would issue licences and guidelines, provide direct funding for newspapers and publications, creating a CBC-like structure of subsidies and government interference “to supplement the privately owned media” which, the Davey commission concluded, were a menace to a democratic society."