Promoting Family Values

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The families that control the Can West, Quebecor and Power Corporation media are accused of using them to promote their own interests. Excerpts from evidence presented May 8.

The concentration and convergence of information is inordinately increasing the social, political and economic power of the media owners. Their power in society has increased tenfold because of the number of platforms that they operate.

The recent example of Quebecor in Quebec is extremely disturbing. We saw a media baron and his wife literally using the air waves to flood the media and culture of Quebec by recruiting journalists from the print and electronic media belonging to Quebecor. They …