Thank you, Chair.
I just felt I needed to correct the record for my NDP colleague. There is a CBC article from March 2021 saying, “Canadian trust in journalism is wavering.... Recent survey found 49% of Canadians think journalists are purposely trying to mislead”.
We have all seen examples where things have been skewed either to the far right or to the far left. Neither is good for our democracy, and because we don't have a definition of “journalist independence”, I think that is what this amendment is trying to address, to make sure we're not getting those voices that Canadians, frankly, don't want to hear, and that erode the trust that people have in the news.