But back to Canadian media and it’s wall-to-wall soft-left to hard-left leanings. And certainly nothing remotely like this fine publication, The Spectator Australia (which is why we have Canadian subscribers). And, relatedly, once the government gets in the business of paying legacy media private sector salaries, you will find that the private companies and the journos rather like this money coming in. But so are the participating big media companies, the ones with their hands out for these thirty pieces of silver. But be relentless, repetitive and unbending in calling this out as incompatible with a free society – paying some, not all, private media companies’ journalists’ salaries.