Peter Menzies: Ottawa’s Fix for the News Business Will Actually Hurt It

Peter Menzies: Ottawa’s Fix for the News Business Will Actually Hurt It
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez holds a press conference regarding the introduction of the Online News Act, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 5, 2022. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Peter Menzies
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Unless Canada intends to put most of its news media permanently under some form of government subsidy, Ottawa must get serious about a long-term plan for the sustainability of the industry. And that means not forcing people to give news away for free when other people are trying to build subscription-based business models.

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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