Canada "profoundly ill-served" by CRTC SUN News Decision
OTTAWA, Aug. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - "Canada has been profoundly ill-served by the decision of the CRTC to deny SUN News Network's application," said Joseph C. Ben-Ami, President of the Meighen Institute, an independent Ottawa-based conservative think-tank.
"Democracy is meaningless in the absence of competing opinions and ideas. SUN News Network provides an important service by being open to this diversity. Certainly it serve's Canadian interests better than CNN, an all-American network that provides no Canadian content nor Canadian perspectives."
Ben-Ami acknowledged that left-wing bias at the CRTC probably influenced its decision, but cautioned against making that the issue.
"The real problem isn't the CRTC's bias, as real as it may be," explained Ben-Ami, "it's that the CRTC exists at all. As it stands, government bureaucrats get to decide what Canadians watch by dictating what private cable companies must transmit? I submit that in a truly free country, this should not be so."
SOURCE: Meighen Institute
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