Fri Dec 2, 2022 – 7:18 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — One of Canada’s largest media companies, Corus Entertainment, whose many subsidiaries were active in pushing COVID measures and the anti-Freedom Convoy narrative, is actively lobbying the federal government for large sums of taxpayer money.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, earlier in the week Canada’s House of Commons finance committee released details of a petition from Corus Entertainment wherein the media giant has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government to subsidize their payroll by 25 percent.
Corus – of which mainstream media outlet Global News is a part – stated in the petition that “Unlike other Canadian news and broadcast content, Canadian broadcast news is not entitled to ongoing, direct financial support from the federal government.”
“Corus urges the federal government to redress this inequity.”
In addition to taxpayer dollars, Corus asked for an explanation as to why only print media outlets got taxpayer-funded wage subsidies.
“While public support for Canadian print journalists is laudable it remains unclear why Canadian broadcast journalists should be entitled to any less support,” wrote Corus managers.
“Respectfully we are unaware of any evidence-based rationale for this policy inequity.”
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