The province’s largest journalists’ trade organization and the Quebec Press Council happily sat down with the government to bash out a power-sharing agreement on deciding who’s a proper journalist and who isn’t. On this issue, Canada’s two solitudes could hardly be more starkly apparent. Indeed, leadership candidate Erin O’Toole has used the media bailout as a major part of his “real conservative” branding exercise. And now he’s using the panel report to his advantage. Government licensing of the media has no place in a free country.”A whole lot of panelists disagree.

Source: National Post February 04, 2020 01:30 UTC