Sunlight is the ultimate antiseptic. It's jaw-dropping that we're putting tens of millions of dollars a year of public taxpayer funds into media organizations and we are requiring no disclosure on their part that they are recipients of the labour tax credit. If media argues again and again that government should be transparent and that transparency leads to accountability—it is the sine qua non of their own journalism—then why do large legacy media outlets not disclose that they are beneficiaries of the labour tax credit and communicate to their readers, listeners and viewers the millions of dollars they receive?
The National Post, to their credit, does this, because they have to file as part of their publicly traded status as a corporation, but many other media, including The Globe and Mail.... I don't know if Angus can talk about the Toronto Star and whether it's been open about whether it has, in fact, availed itself of the labour tax credit. I assume it has. I don't see that anywhere in the Toronto Star. I don't see it on its masthead. I don't see it on Toronto Star's website.
I mean, come on; let's bring some transparency to this conversation. This would be one important first step toward restoring public trust.