Peter Menzies: Proposed Online News Act Inserts the State Into the Newsrooms of the Nation

Peter Menzies: Proposed Online News Act Inserts the State Into the Newsrooms of the Nation
People walk past newspaper boxes in downtown Vancouver, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Peter Menzies
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More than half a century ago Canada’s then-prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, famously declared that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Last week, the government of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau very quietly inserted that same state into the newsrooms of the nation.

Peter Menzies
Peter Menzies
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Peter Menzies is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an award winning journalist, and former vice-chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
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