Kevin Desjardins
Kevin Desjardins is president of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
Kevin Desjardins is president of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
Canada must reject any attempt to treat our media sovereignty as a bargaining chip in this critical trade negotiation.
We fail to understand how there can be any consideration of excluding certain news providers based solely on the underlying industry or the technology in which they have traditionally operated.
Given the importance of legitimate, professional newsrooms to Canada’s democracy, these foreign web giants should not be able to choose the winners and losers in our local media landscape.