More Federal Government Subsidies for Dead Journalism.
The Canadian federal government gave another $539 million in taxpayer money to journalism outlets.
Worse, the federal government is borrowing money. This is how former Yugoslavia ended up breaking apart and fighting in a civil war.
Canada has a serious problem in that its private sector industries can’t survive without government money. Citizens can’t make ends meet: so the government bloats the public sector because of it.
Canada may think it is out of the woods after US midterms, but Donald Trump opened a door, and what’s on the other side is extremely dangerous.
The EU won’t save Canada. The Democrats won’t save Canada. The federal government isn’t saving Canada.
It is postponing the inevitable, and every time it does, the problems get worse.
Journalism in Canada hasn’t overhauled itself. It keeps doing the same thing, and still losing audiences.
If the government said, “Too bad for you,” that industry would have corrected itself because it would have had no other choice.
And now it is a kept profession with no hope of recovering.
It’s a true tragedy. We have supremely capable and talented people in this country, but they are deliberately being kept down and sabotaged because it would offend the duffers and the parasites that there are solutions and a better way.
For the journalists who broke away and created their own SubStacks and continued untethered, good on you. Continue to do so. Just don’t fall into a partisan trap when doing it.
