You do not need to be Nostradamus or consult a Mayan calendar to see what's coming. Sun Network is led by Luc Lavoie once employed by Quebecor (he's baaak) and a former Mulroney henchman. Lavoie was preceded by Kory Teneyke a former Tory spin doctor (also formerly of Quebecor) . Brian Mulroney sits on the Board of Directors at Quebecor. The whole shebang is owned by the union busting Pierre Karl Peladeau (say hello to Rupert Murdoch North).
In the run up, Sun Newspapers have been doing a hit job on the CBC and filling pages with puff pieces on the Sun News Network which should rightly be labeled "Advertisement".
You can expect more attacks on the "liberal media" ... this is the right wing code everywhere for "fact based". The right wing media (read Fox in particular) in the U.S. prefer to manufacture their own facts and cobble them into their own "realities" and serve them up to an increasingly dumbed down audience.
One likes to think of Canadians as being little better educated and more discerning even if there is, as a counter example, an actual Creationist museum in Alberta. But, expect the production to be slick and extremely well financed in the beginning with as much snake oil as the traffic will bear. I mean they promise "colourful intelligent commentary" ... from the likes of Ezra Levant?? You have to be joking.
The CRTC, already under fire from the Harperites, can expect even more of the same as Fox North will not have as much "freedom" to be "inventive" with the news as their model to the south.
If everything turns sour and Harper becomes that which he aspires to be, President of Canada, then watch as the game rules change and the propaganda arm becomes "unfettered" (Regulations? We don't need no steenking regulations!)... Avec lui, le deluge, to twist a phrase.
Then? ....Version 2.0 coming to a cable near you.
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