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Where to begin with this? Essentially, this is the government handing the @TorontoStar a bunch of cash to do a job the government should do on its own. Committee monitoring is a fairly basic function of any Ministerial or Whip's office. There is no need to outsource it. (1/n)
@TorontoStar The @TorontoStar also already provides a subscription-based committee monitoring service. If the gov't wanted TorStar coverage, why didn't they simply subscribe? Why did they sole-source this service at six times the price of the subscription? (2/n)
@TorontoStar It's hard to believe the Liberals wouldn't see a conflict in gifting an inflated contract to the largest newspaper chain in the country in an election year. Then again, the same government is handing out $595M in tax breaks to media outlets, so maybe it's not. (3/n)
@TorontoStar However, Canadians need to know that the government is trying to funnel cash directly to news organizations who are in the business of providing fair, balanced, and unbiased scrutiny of that same government. (4/4)
