Liberal governments have never been reluctant to spend taxpayers’ money to advance their policies or the party itself. This has never been more blatant than in its policy to provide generous funding to the legacy media as well as funding to favoured journalists directly. To keep this money flowing into their pockets, journalists and media respond to this largess by writing favourably and uncritically about the Liberal party and its policies. The Liberals, of course do not portray this funding for what it is, namely, bribery. Instead, they describe this funding in glowing, uplifting terms. For example, Finance Minister Bill Morneau (2015-2020) stated:
“A strong and independent news media is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. It empowers citizens by providing them with the information they need to make sound decisions on important issues.” He further stated that government-funded media would “provide Canadians with reliable and informed journalism.”
Alarmingly, the Liberals fund:
The Canada Periodical Fund ($86 million) projected for 2024-2025 for print magazines and community newspapers which includes a new Changing Narrative Fund which supports “diverse communities and organizations, including Indigenous, Black, racialized, ethno-religious minorities, 2SLGBTQI+ and persons with disabilities” who will “have their stories, experiences and perspectives better represented….”
Further, the Journalism Labour Tax Credit ($65 million), provides a salary subsidy of 35% capped at $85,000 for eligible media organizations. Other subsidies from Google’s Online News Act agreement add an estimated $18,000 per journalist. In addition to this federal generosity, some provinces provide additional tax credits which in some cases can lead to state coverage of 100% of a journalist’s salary.
There are two other government programs contributing to the Changing Narrative Fund: Canada Media Fund, ($154 million for television, wireless devices and Internet), and Local Journalism Initiative ($19 million for aids in hiring journalists to produce content for “underserved communities”).
The CBC No discussion of government grants to legacy media would be complete without mentioning one of Mark Carney’s first decisions after being elected Prime Minister. Building upon the corruption first introduced by Justin Trudeau, Carney gave a further grant of $150 million to the CBC in addition to its annual taxpayer funding of $1.4 billion (2024-2025). Consequently, the CBC is an adoring disciple of Carney. It no longer employs real journalists but puppets prostrating themselves at Carney’s feet. The CBC is not a source of news but is a propaganda machine for the government and the Liberal Party. Is it any wonder then that in 2023, the CBC reported that 96.6% of TV-viewing Canadians do not watch CBC’s prime-time programming?
Legacy Media Keeps Missing the Stories
Taxpayer funding costing billions of dollars in annual subsidies has NOT produced “a strong and independent media” from which Canadians could obtain “reliable and informed journalism” as stated by former Finance Minister Morneau. Just the opposite has occurred. As a result, it has never been more important to monitor, question and doubt legacy media reporting, especially on matters of government policy and the integrity of our political classes.
For those paying attention, there is now abundant evidence that the legacy media is betraying Canadians by providing biased news coverage and failing to empower “citizens by providing them with the information they need to make sound decisions on important issues.” In doing so, the legacy media is actively misinforming Canadians. Incidentally, knowingly spreading false information intended to do harm is a criminal offence under s. 372 of the Criminal Code.
Hard Evidence of Legacy Media Betrayal
With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, a recent study commissioned by the independent multimedia outlet Juno News, recorded significant media bias during the 2025 election cycle. Using ChatGPT, the AI search engine graded and scored every article, editorial comment and television segment, and came up with revealing statistics on the coverage of Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre during the 36-day election campaign ending April 28, 2025.
The most serious offenders were found to be The Globe and Mail which boasts that it provides “the most authoritative news” and is “trusted Canadian journalism;” followed by CBC News which vaunts its commitment to “accuracy, fairness, balance, impartiality and integrity;” followed by CTV News which claims “trusted reporting” on national and international news.
The study’s Bias Scoreboard resulted in the following: The Globe and Mail: Carney +9, Poilievre -15 CBC News: Carney +5, Poilievre -11 CTV News: Carney +3, Poilievre – 9
The Tilt Scoreboard measurements were: The Globe and Mail: Tilt 1-2 (heavily pro-Carney) CBC News: Tilt 2-3 (heavily pro-Carney) CTV News: Tilt ~3 (pro-Carney)
According to the Juno News article “The legacy media is lying to us. Now we have proof.” Carney received “across the board praise and compliments” while Conservative leader, Poilievre received “significant negative coverage” of his policies, strategies and communications style.
During the election campaign, Canadians who consumed exclusively government funded reporting, were deprived of a wider spectrum of opinion and were corralled into Liberal friendly news narratives, which contributed to the election of Mark Carney as Prime Minister.
Mark Carney’s Permanent Media Honeymoon
Now that the election is over, Carney continues to float on a cloud of uncritical adulation by the legacy media. Canadians are now experiencing media coverage which provides Carney with a permanent honeymoon. The taxpayer funded media is consistently portraying Carney as a hardworking, earnest warrior charging on his white horse across the country, here and there, solving Canada’s problems. It continues to cover up for him. Behind the scenes, however, Carney is fundamentally changing Canada to fit his own left-wing extremist beliefs. The legacy media’s coverup of Carney includes the following:
Overspending
During the election, Carney sold Canadians on the idea that he was different from Justin Trudeau. This statement was based on his economic background, that would enable him to solve Canada’s failing economy. Since Trudeau first became Prime Minister in 2015, he doubled the government’s debt to about $1.3 trillion dollars. Although Carney will not be releasing a budget until the fall, the Liberal platform indicates that it will add another $225 billion to the debt over the next four years. The federal government released its main spending plan, formerly known as the Main Estimates, providing evidence that Carney intends to go on a spending spree. Spending for 2025-26 will increase to $488 billion – 8.4% higher than last year’s Trudeau Main Estimates. Spending increases occur in about 80% of federal departments, with agencies increasing by more than 20% over last year’s estimates.
Intensifying Ties with Communist China and the Leftist European Union
Carney is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with communist China and the European Union, and trying to loosen Canada’s natural trade ties with the U.S. By doing so, he is ignoring the fact that Communist China has been proven to: interfere in Canadian elections; is undermining Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic; has stolen critical information from Canadian universities and laboratories; has bought and controls Canada’s natural resources; and has established fentanyl drug labs in BC and is trafficking in these drugs both in the US and Canada, the proceeds being laundered through our national banks.
Despite this reality, Carney is trying intensely to move Canada’s trade from the US by ignoring the fact that the Canadian economy is structurally tied to the US economy. Canada’s infrastructure has been designed to support trade through railways, trucking routes, and pipelines. Europe and Asia cannot replace the accessibility or scale of the US market. Additionally, the economy is closely aligned with the US dollar, and a major pivot would expose Canada to currency volatility. Canada may strengthen ties with other nations, but it cannot write off its top trading partner, the United States.
Adopting Muslim Values
On June 6, 2025, the anniversary of Canada’s brave soldiers sacrificing their lives on Juno Beach in Normandy in 1944, Carney chose to attend a Muslim celebration called the Eid Ala-Adna, hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC). During his speech Carney said, “Muslim values are Canadian values”, and that all Canadians must come together to support them. By this statement Carney has ignored the fact that Canada was founded on Christian values and principles, not those of Islam. One wonders also whether Carney’s support of Muslim values includes their hatred of Jews, a desire to vanquish Israel, clogging up Canadian streets with protests denouncing Jews, the burning of synagogues, polygamy, child marriages and the subjection of women.
In the audience at the Muslim celebration, some participants were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs. After Carney left the stage, chants of free Palestine could be heard in the audience before a livestream video cut out.
Federal Summer Jobs Program
The Federal Summer Jobs program which, under the Liberals, refuses to fund Christians who are pro-life and pro-family, is currently funding left-wing controversial Islamic organizations, even though the beliefs of these organizations are on the fringes of Canadian life. Regardless, The Muslim Association of Canada has become a major beneficiary of the Canadian Summer Jobs Program, with several of its centers across the country approved for funding. In addition, the MAC has 69 job openings posted on the government’s website for several camp counsellors and office positions. Yet in a 2021 audit, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recommended that MAC have its charitable status revoked on the basis that some of its directors and employers were involved with the HAMAS support network. The MAC recently hosted Sami Hamdi at their Mississauga Convention, who publicly stated that the October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 and abduction of 240 Israeli by Hamas should be celebrated as a victory by Palestinians. Despite this, in 2023, the MAC received nearly $6 million in government funding, thousands of which came through the Summer Jobs Program.
Pipelines
Carney refuses to support a new pipeline to get Alberta’s oil and gas to tidewater. He has also refused to repeal Trudeau’s insane Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (Bill C-48) which effected a West Coast tanker ban, and the Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act (Bill C-69) which prevent new energy projects from being undertaken. Yet on the other hand, Carney is pushing through Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act, which are supposed to encourage new projects of national importance (to be determined, of course, by Carney). This troubling contradiction has not been raised by the legacy media.
There has not been a murmur of criticism by the legacy media about any of these deplorable actions and statements by Carney.
Why is the Legacy Media Silent?
It is easy to understand why Carney is committing our country to these unsavory undertakings: Carney is totally and utterly a left-wing, globalist central planner who wants Canada to follow his own personal left-wing globalist agenda, which includes adopting policies in support of Palestine over Israel, climate change, and global control of resources. Moreover, as a practical matter, with Muslims now comprising 4.9% of the Canadian population—and growing, and whereas the Jewish population is less than 1%, Carney wants the Muslim votes and is willing to pay the price regardless of what Canadians think about it.
The Legacy Media’s silence is just as easy to understand when one considers three factors: first, of course, is money. Legacy Media is being paid by the taxpayer, via the government, not to provide objective, critical reportage on the latest government foibles, but to publish a narrative that accords with government policies; second, Legacy Media by and large not only operates within the same Leftist world view as the political/bureaucratic elites, but are also themselves members or would be members of that elite, so in a very real sense, Legacy Media sees nothing inherently wrong or problematic with the government’s progressive narrative; and third, Legacy Media lacks the intellectual acumen to objectively report on the major issues of the day not only because of the complexity of most issues, but because the Legacy Media lacks historical perspective, critical thinking-skills and the moral courage to tell the truth. It is as simple and complex as that.
Parliamentary democracy and Responsible Government “work”, to the extent that they do, due in no small part to Freedom of the Press. A media dependent upon government handouts for its survival is incompatible with a “free and democratic society” which is why every Canadian should be concerned and appalled by the current state of affairs. |
