What is the Difference Between a Bail Out and Ad Spending? I Explain It to Gerald Butts

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Channel: CanadaPoli · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Is he saying the 600 million spent on buying the media in Canada is the same type of spending as has been happening for years?
Is a media bail out and budgeted ad spending the same thing?
Is spending on advertising going to end now that they have given the media 600 million dollars?
Why does he believe that the public think it’s okay that ‘many millions’ of taxpayers dollars are spent on advertising every year?


Main 2 points
Conflating support for public broadcasting and paying for News Media
Do benefits of public broadcasting translate to paying just for news media?


Gerald Butts 
https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/1066354735257657344

LPC Tweet
https://twitter.com/liberal_party/status/1066097193742811137

Ken Whyte Tweet
https://twitter.com/KenWhyte3/status/1066351134384644096

Ad Spends Q1 2018
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-communications/government-advertising.html

Ad Spend history 2005 - 2017
https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-communications/government-advertising/allocations-central-fund.html

CBC Public Broadcaster Comparison
http://www.nordicity.com/de/cache/work/99/CBC-Public%20Broadcaster%20Comparison%202016.pdf

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