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Because the majority of media in Canada is funded by the government under the guise of protecting home grown talent and such. It’s heavily subsidized and has all sorts of benefits at taxpayers largesse in order to survive the competition from the US.

Without that regulatory backing, it would be dead under a year.

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The CBC is not 'the majority of media'.

Some subset of Canadian media is required to publish some % of Canadian-produced content, but that does not make it funded by the government.

I don't know where this misinformation comes from, but I have some suspicions.

What do you mean? You realize even private media receives massive subsidies in Canada? And that those subsidies are usually promised at election time meaning there is a clear incentive to not cross the party that promises the most money (vs let's say a party that promises to slash support for the media). Even provincial government are starting to provide massive amount of cash to "support our journalism"

Just about every man, woman, child, dog, or organization in the country receives government subsidies for one thing or another.

What percentage of their budget is 'massive', and what conditions do they have to meet to receive them? Is shilling for the whigs one of them? Who determines that they've shilled enough? Do you have a source? One that's not a tabloid op-ed?

I don't think your take on what 'media ran by the government' matches what media in countries where it is actually ran by the government looks like.

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