OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the Liberals’ decision to name an anti-Conservative union to a panel that will decide which media outlets receive government funding is the latest example of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stacking the deck” in his favour to get re-elected in October. They are a very aggressive, partisan group with very aggressive and partisan goals, even as late as a couple of days ago attacking Conservatives and me personally, and yet Justin Trudeau has decided to put this group on the panel,” Scheer said. This further proves Unifor’s partisan leanings against his party and should disqualify the union from participating in the process, Scheer said. “Unifor is the single largest media union representing over 13,000 workers coming from a wide diversity of newspapers. “The independent debates commission we announced reflects what was heard from cross country consultations.

Source: thestar May 26, 2019 23:49 UTC