Juno News - True North Report： Federal government will make a list of approved media outlets

00:00:00.320 Good afternoon, Canada. Welcome to another True North Report. My name is Andrew Lawton, fellow with True North,

00:00:06.540 columnist and video creator, commentator, raconteur, I don't know, whatever you want to call me,

00:00:12.180 but all of that stuff doing over at TNC.news. Thank you very much for tuning in on this lovely Thursday afternoon,

00:00:18.840 or if you're on the West Coast, Thursday morning for about 10 more minutes.

00:00:22.280 I don't even know what time it is. I've just come back from the United Kingdom.

00:00:25.000 I have no idea whether it's morning, evening, night. For all I know, it's Sunday in the year 2012 right now,

00:00:31.880 but I'm catching up. I am glad to be back home. I'm here for a little while before heading back out on the road

00:00:38.160 for more stuff to cover, but I do appreciate very much you tuning in from wherever it is in the world

00:00:45.420 from which you are tuning in. Thank you. So as I mentioned in that little opening breath there,

00:00:51.160 did just return from the United Kingdom, where if you followed the videos that we were putting on

00:00:56.220 Facebook and coverage we were posting on TNC.news, you'll know I was covering the Tommy Robinson court

00:01:02.540 appearance. Now this was a procedural hearing, just a little over two hours in length, but an important

00:01:08.600 one because it was the hearing that determined whether Tommy Robinson would have to face effectively

00:01:15.580 trial again for a charge for which he's already served jail time. And I'm not going to bury the

00:01:21.980 lead on this. The answer is yes, he has to face another trial for this. And that's going to be on

00:01:26.900 July 4th and 5th. But I wanted to go live to talk about this because it really does connect with a lot

00:01:34.140 of other things that are happening right now. And I couldn't have scripted this all better because

00:01:39.840 everything is coming to a head in Canada and the UK. And I'd say the Western world more broadly

00:01:44.640 when it comes to free speech and press freedom. And I want to get into some of that today.

00:01:50.720 David in the chat says, welcome home. Well, thank you very much, David. Glad to be home.

00:01:54.880 So let's start out with the term press freedom here because press freedom and freedom of speech are

00:02:01.040 effectively the same thing. And we view them as different because people tend to hold up journalists

00:02:06.960 as someone that are supposed to be on a higher level than society. But journalists are really

00:02:12.080 meant to be representatives of society and representatives of the people. Journalists

00:02:17.520 should have no fewer rights or no more rights than non-journalists. And they simply have a different 0.98

00:02:24.560 platform to advance it. But there's no difference in my mind from the ability for the Globe and Mail

00:02:30.960 to publish a story than there is for my neighbor to write something on Facebook. That doesn't mean

00:02:37.040 the quality is going to be the same. In some cases, the neighbor I think might have something better

00:02:40.800 than the Globe and Mail. But the fundamental freedom is the same. So I'm going to use in this discussion

00:02:47.200 terms like press freedom and freedom of speech, not exclusively interchangeably, but a lot of the times

00:02:54.720 I'm going to be talking about the concepts in a way that it could apply to both of them equally.

00:02:59.760 And I think this is important because the press freedom that we have in say Canada or the United

00:03:09.120 Kingdom, to go to the Tommy Robinson thing, comes along with a responsibility, yes. If you have a

00:03:14.480 platform, you have an audience, you have a moral obligation to tell the truth, you have a moral

00:03:20.800 obligation to be fair, a moral obligation to be honest and to have integrity. But you do not have a legal

00:03:28.560 obligation to hew to a particular party line or talking point. You may have a social contract with

00:03:36.400 your readers. I think that the Toronto Star has a social contract with its readers to have a liberal

00:03:41.920 bias. CBC, a bit of a different story. You know, the National Post when it started, I think had a social

00:03:47.840 contract with its readers to be a bit more conservative. But again, these are completely allowable.

00:03:53.680 And I have no issue with the Toronto Star having the ability to be a liberal paper. I have no issue

00:03:59.440 with the Globe and Mail being able to be liberal. I have no issue with any outlet, the Daily or the

00:04:05.040 National Observer being a far left publication. That's fine. But my rules on this are very simple,

00:04:11.040 be honest, be open, and be very transparent about what your biases are. And this is why I've never,

00:04:19.520 I've grown into it. I used to specifically say to people, I'm not a journalist, I'm a commentator.

00:04:24.400 And I think that in the last seven, eight years, the definition of journalism has changed a fair bit,

00:04:30.000 or at the very least, it's broadened. Because we realize there are activist journalists,

00:04:34.320 there are opinion journalists, there are straight down the middle journalists,

00:04:37.680 there are gonzo journalists. You have all of these different things. And as long as you're doing

00:04:41.840 journalism, you're trying to get the truth, you're covering, you're asking the questions,

00:04:45.680 I think we need to have a very wide line as around what we call a journalist.

00:04:52.720 And the reason I say that is because right now, the federal government

00:04:55.840 government is going to be putting forward a list of approved journalists. This is,

00:05:01.920 this is legitimately real here. And I'm going to read from a Black Locks reporter story.

00:05:07.600 Journalists testifying at the Commons Finance Committee on Wednesday, expressed wariness over

00:05:13.840 practical or perceived government meddling in news coverage under a 595 million dollar industry

00:05:20.400 bailout. One MP called the program a blank check that leaves cabinet appointees to decide which

00:05:26.960 publishers win subsidies. And this was a response to a story that Black Locks initially broke,

00:05:34.480 a day earlier, about how the Department of Finance said to the Senate Finance Committee that there's

00:05:41.120 going to be a list of qualifying journalism organizations. And this is what Finance Canada

00:05:48.240 spokesperson said, that the rules will allow for quote, say, the Canada Revenue Agency to have a list

00:05:54.720 saying here are the organizations that qualify for the digital tax credits. So this is quite

00:06:03.840 significant because now we're seeing government decide which media outlets are deserving of government

00:06:13.120 funds, of which media outlets are deemed reliable by government standards. And the reason this is so

00:06:19.680 chilling is because a biased politician who is ultimately supposed to be the one held to account by

00:06:26.800 media is now responsible for determining which media is reliable and which media is not reliable.

00:06:35.440 Now let me say right out of the gate, I have no expectations of being on this list. I have no desire

00:06:40.880 to be on the list. I'm not asking to be on the list. But I think the list shouldn't exist because I think

00:06:46.080 that government bailouts shouldn't exist for journalism. And we have a few different examples of this. So not only is

00:06:51.920 there the $595 million one, there's also a tax credit project for websites that are operated by

00:07:04.080 quote, a qualified Canadian journalism organization. And you could have a 15% tax credit for subscribers

00:07:11.920 of media outlets. So True North is a great example of this. We have programs where you can subscribe,

00:07:18.880 you can become a member, and I do encourage you to do it. You can join my Heritage Club,

00:07:22.960 you can join my Patriot Club. Candace has a Heritage Club and a Patriot Club as well. The benefits are

00:07:28.320 very similar. But the whole point of this is that if you join one of these clubs, you should be able to,

00:07:36.160 if you're able to write off your Toronto Star or Globe and Mail subscription, you are also, in my view,

00:07:42.960 someone that should be able to write off subscriptions to an organization like True North,

00:07:48.160 to Rabble, to the Daily Mail, to Rebel, or not the Daily Mail, to the, I keep wanting to call the

00:07:54.160 National Observer, the Daily Observer, and that becomes the Daily Mail. They couldn't be further

00:07:58.240 from one another. But I was just in the UK. So I blame it on that. But if you want to support the media,

00:08:06.000 why not support these independent organizations and outlets that are doing this shoe leather journalism,

00:08:11.600 that a lot of the mainstream media outlets aren't. And this is the whole point. But now there's going to be

00:08:17.200 an approved media outlet. And it's only a matter of time before this approval list extends to other areas.

00:08:26.640 And I want to give you a great example of this from when I was in the UK. So I was covering

00:08:31.840 the Tommy Robinson case. And to get into the courtroom, the Old Bailey, the famous courtroom in London,

00:08:38.720 you have to, it's not like here in Canada, where you can just walk into a court off the street,

00:08:43.520 you've got to be on the list. And they have a licensing for journalists. Now it's not a government

00:08:48.880 license, but they've got in the United Kingdom, these industry licenses where you can get a press

00:08:54.160 card. And a lot of government agencies, including police, will only engage with media officials who have

00:09:02.880 these press identification cards. So even though it's not a license, it almost functions as a

00:09:08.880 journalism license, which is a very dangerous thing to do. Because I'm a foreign reporter in this case,

00:09:15.120 I don't have one of these licenses. So it was actually quite an ordeal to be granted access to the

00:09:20.480 court. I had to get a letter from my editor, who in this case was Candace. I had to submit a name and

00:09:27.120 address and all of this stuff in advance. And there were no issues getting into the courtroom. But to

00:09:32.560 cover it, there is a barrier. And if I as just a British citizen with a blog, said one day, I'd like

00:09:39.120 to cover this case and write about it, I would not be able to do that, because I would not be in the eyes

00:09:44.400 of the British courts, an accredited journalist. So we're going one step further than that. We're not

00:09:50.160 just having bureaucrats that are looking at identification cards, and having this as a barrier, 1.00

00:09:55.120 we're talking about a government that's putting a list of these are the approved media outlets. Well,

00:10:00.320 what happens if down the road, the government says, we're only going to allow people from this approved

00:10:05.760 list to cover a press conference? What if the government says we're only going to allow people

00:10:11.600 from this approved list to ask for interviews with cabinet ministers? Well, once they set up this

00:10:19.440 infrastructure of having this list, they are giving themselves the license to determine who is or is

00:10:27.120 not real news, or dare I say, fake news. And you know, it's funny, I gave this example, I don't want to,

00:10:33.600 I did an interview about this topic on Ezra Levant's show on The Rebel, but I want to read an example that

00:10:39.120 I gave in that interview, that I think is an important one here. So, so this morning at 8 22 a.m.,

00:10:45.840 I got a push notification from CBC, and I'll see if I can actually, if you can see this here,

00:10:52.240 can you, is it showing up? Air Canada to purchase Air Transat. So very specific, Air Canada to purchase

00:11:00.640 Air Transat. And I know there was a reflection in there, but then I got nearly an hour later at 9 18,

00:11:08.240 another push notification, correction, Air Canada, oh I got rid of it here, oh correction, Air Canada

00:11:17.120 to enter into talks to purchase Air Transat. Air Canada in exclusive talks, a previous notification

00:11:24.560 says Air Canada to purchase. So here's a story, now thankfully the stock market hadn't opened yet,

00:11:28.960 so it didn't have too much of an impact negatively, but CBC puts out a nationwide press notification saying

00:11:36.800 that there is going to be a purchase of Air Transat, and an hour later determines, oh no no no no,

00:11:41.760 they're just talking about it. Now this is a mistake that anyone could make. I could understand

00:11:47.360 someone making this error, news outlets always have retractions and corrections,

00:11:51.760 I'm not going to call CBC fake news, but by definition this morning CBC was not reliable.

00:11:58.320 By definition CBC was not reliable. So is the government going to put CBC on the reliable list,

00:12:03.920 or the unreliable list? How many mistakes does it take for an outlet to become non-reliable,

00:12:10.960 for an outlet to be non-approved? Will biased outlets that are open and transparent about their bias be

00:12:16.560 allowed on? Will Daily Mail or Press Progress, I did it again, National Observer or Press Progress,

00:12:22.080 will they be allowed on there? Who knows? Would a Rebel or a Spencer Fernando type be allowed? 0.91

00:12:32.160 Who knows? And it's not to say these people are asking for it, I'm talking about them as examples.

00:12:36.720 What about Post-Millennial? A Conservative MP asked in a committee about that,

00:12:41.120 would Post-Millennial, which is a right-leaning publication, be allowed? And this is such a huge

00:12:48.000 thing here. So when we talk about reliable, when we talk about reliable, the reason that I bring

00:12:54.800 this up is because, first off, this is the language that was used in the Black Clock story, but the

00:13:00.080 government has been talking about this entire plan in the context of fake news versus real news. And

00:13:06.480 that's why the approved, the approved is so significant here. Because they're only going

00:13:13.520 to approve things that they say are not fake news. Well, Justin Trudeau called the Globe and Mail

00:13:19.520 story about Jody Wills and Raybould in February false. He said it's not true. And he didn't call

00:13:24.960 them fake news, but he might as well have. So eventually everyone in media is not going to have a

00:13:32.160 social contract or moral obligation to their readers or their subscribers or even in their

00:13:37.680 advertisers. These outlets are going to have only accountability to the government if that

00:13:45.360 government money is becoming central to their existence. And as I said, this is starting with

00:13:50.800 this little $11 million tax credit fund, but I just know this list is ultimately going to roll into

00:13:57.360 that $595 million bailout fund as well. Because that's the whole point. How would you as a government

00:14:06.160 disseminate that money if not to outlets that you have approved? So government now has a list,

00:14:12.640 and it's like Santa Claus, making the list, checking it twice, and they're going to find out which media

00:14:17.120 outlets are naughty or nice. So let's look at all the ways that this could go wrong. We know that the

00:14:23.440 prime minister's office plants op-eds. We heard testimony of this from Jody Wilson-Raybould that

00:14:28.880 Katie Telford would call up a paper and plant an op-ed to support whatever the government was doing 0.99

00:14:36.560 or someone in the government was doing. So if that were to happen and an outlet said we don't want to

00:14:42.720 run that op-ed, well, would they turn down the government? Would they turn down who is going to be

00:14:49.440 responsible for this list? How do you come up with a black and white definition of reliability,

00:14:56.000 of approvability, of qualifications? How do you come up with a black and white definition

00:15:00.320 that doesn't result in political interference in some way? And the reason that I find this to be

00:15:08.240 such a dangerous proposal and a dangerous policy for, I mean, there are a number of reasons, but

00:15:15.840 we are two months away from the government hosting a press freedom summit with the United Kingdom.

00:15:21.920 Two months away. And I've talked about this in the past. I did a video on it. We're crowdfunding for it.

00:15:26.720 If you are able to help us, I would very, very much appreciate it over at tnc.news. You can support

00:15:32.720 the crowdfunding campaign to cover the press freedom summit. But Canada and the UK will be co-hosting a

00:15:37.840 press freedom summit about essentially defending the free press and promoting the Canadian and British

00:15:46.160 approaches to the free press. And now we have the government saying we're going to put a list

00:15:52.800 together of the media outlets that we think are acceptable and can be approved. Well, what happens

00:15:59.360 if someone who's not on that list wants to cover the press freedom summit? And this is a great example

00:16:04.000 of something that I'm going to have to go through. I'm going to be going to Chrystia Freeland's office

00:16:07.040 and saying, I'd like to cover this. I may not be on your approved list, but I'm still doing it.

00:16:12.000 I'm reliable. I'm not on your side politically, but I'm an honest, transparent and truthful

00:16:17.920 journalist when it comes to these things. And it's going to backfire on the government

00:16:24.080 when people start to see or even suspect that there may be strings attached on money that's going

00:16:32.000 towards journalism outlets and media outlets. And I have to say that the connection to the UK in this

00:16:40.800 is that because Canada and the UK are co-hosting the press freedom summit, that's taking place one

00:16:46.560 week after Tommy Robinson will be facing a contempt of court retrial in London, England. July 4th and 5th

00:16:54.960 is when he's on trial. The press freedom summit is July 10th and 11th. I'm definitely going to be there for

00:16:59.760 the press freedom summit if we're able to meet our fundraising goal. The Tommy Robinson case is as well

00:17:04.720 important here because here we have a guy who's being prosecuted by the British government for being

00:17:10.080 an activist journalist, for doing a live stream on Facebook outside a courtroom talking about what was

00:17:16.720 happening, filming people that were going into the courtroom. But remember filming them in a public square,

00:17:24.320 a public space on the street. Now you put this in context, Tommy Robinson when he was walking into

00:17:30.000 court in London on Tuesday was surrounded by cameras and reporters. They were a lot more aggressive than

00:17:36.640 he was in Leeds a year ago when he was filming outside the courtroom in the sex grooming case that

00:17:43.760 ultimately got him arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed in five hours. In five and a half

00:17:51.280 hours I think it was. So the UK is not in a position right now to claim the moral high ground on anything

00:17:59.360 when it comes to journalism and journalism freedom. The Canadian government is better than the UK slightly

00:18:05.680 but now that we're talking about approved media lists I don't think we can say that as Canadians we can rest

00:18:11.280 on our laurels and accept that free press and free speech and broader issues of journalistic freedom are

00:18:17.600 there because we have a government that insists it is able to and has a moral responsibility to

00:18:26.320 coming up with a list of who's fake news and who's real news. This has been a recurring theme

00:18:31.600 from Karina Gould for example. This has been part of the pitch that the Canadian government has tried to

00:18:37.280 put to social media companies to say you've got to clean up your act or we're going to regulate you into

00:18:41.840 oblivion and I forget who it was I can't think of their name but there was some MP that was all upset

00:18:50.160 that Facebook and Twitter and Google aren't like being deferential to Canada and I'm sorry Canada has

00:18:56.160 36 million people we are a dwarf in the eyes of these social media giants and I think that what these

00:19:02.560 governments should be doing if they're not happy with it is realize how big of an animal these companies

00:19:07.520 have gotten but the answer to this is not regulating them you can never regulate content into being

00:19:13.920 true and you can never regulate truth in the way that these government officials are trying to you

00:19:19.840 know Doug says on Facebook I think I would like to approve or disapprove of my own list thank you very

00:19:25.440 much this is nothing more than the liberals financing liberal friendly news outlets it's going to be that

00:19:31.920 I mean you have two problems here if you want to take the political angle which I am by making a list

00:19:38.160 of government approved media outlets you're effectively going to leave out people that are fierce critics

00:19:42.800 of your government but even if you take a pragmatic argument it's only going to favor the big boys

00:19:49.360 it's only going to favor the big boys the only people that are going to be consistently on this list

00:19:54.240 are going to be your post media your Rogers your Globe and Mail your Toronto Star your Bell

00:20:01.920 name anyone else that's the Canadian media industry for you Canadian media is dominated by a group of

00:20:09.360 companies that you can put on one hand you've got any of you include broadcast you've got chorus bell

00:20:15.840 Rogers and then you add print in there you've got post media star metro globe and mail and globe and

00:20:20.720 mail is a single paper star metro is a network of papers post media is a giant network of papers so you've

00:20:27.120 basically got three print companies in Canada that are in daily newspaper journalism they're going

00:20:34.000 to be the ones that are benefiting from this they're going to be the ones that are benefiting

00:20:37.120 the most from the 595 million dollars they're going to be the ones that are benefiting most from this tax credit

00:20:44.320 that is spawning the list of approved media they're the ones that are going to be raking in all this money from the government

00:20:51.920 and again my answer to this is not the government needs to give more money to the little guys my answer

00:20:57.440 to this is that government should give no money to anyone in this space it's the age-old expression

00:21:03.520 he who pays the piper calls the tune everyone knows this he who pays the piper calls the tune this means

00:21:10.240 that when someone is receiving money from you you have a level of ownership over them there's no such thing

00:21:16.320 as no strings attached money there can be more strings or fewer strings but there's always at

00:21:21.440 least one string if you're paying someone and now we have governments that are giving money to

00:21:27.360 journalism outlets we now have journalism outlets that will become dependent and reliant on this

00:21:32.960 this has been uh the toronto star uh uh i'm not editor-in-chief but publisher john hondritz thing for

00:21:39.600 for years he's been advocating for government to bail out journalism because he says

00:21:43.520 it's a duty to protect journalism well no all it means is that you have to start qualifying

00:21:49.360 journalists with government journalists we already have government journalists we have cbc

00:21:54.640 we have cbc so we already have government approved journalism right there and i'd say as a consumer of

00:22:01.040 it i gave you an example of a significant error in a story that cbc made this morning that's not to say

00:22:07.520 other outlets haven't made their own mistakes it's not to say it's a mistake that no one else could have or

00:22:12.400 would have made it's just saying that even the government approved 1.3 billion funded cbc

00:22:18.720 makes mistakes so if reliability becomes the focal point here we're going to have a line that will be

00:22:26.880 arbitrarily drawn that will have a political caveat drawn into it because there will have to be

00:22:34.240 you know the government doesn't want to give money to people that are going to be criticizing it

00:22:39.200 so government's going to be giving money to its friends and even people that aren't friends of

00:22:44.560 the government will effectively have to start orienting themselves around how are we going to

00:22:49.920 make sure this money is not threatened because again i'm getting one step ahead of this i i know

00:22:56.720 that this list of approved media outlets which the government itself has testified to in a committee

00:23:01.120 meeting is going to become the precursor to how bailout funds are distributed it has to be because this is the

00:23:07.040 only way they're going to be able to determine who gets access to these funds that are used for the

00:23:12.640 bailout and we're talking about uh you know just shy of 0.6 billion dollars here just under 600 million

00:23:21.360 dollars going towards this it's unconscionable so i go back to what true north wants to do in the uk in

00:23:27.680 july what i want to do in the uk in july how can canada proclaim itself to be this great provider of press

00:23:34.720 freedom or the protector of press freedom when there's when the government in canada is moving

00:23:40.240 to a place where press freedom is essentially being trumped by the economic dependence that the media

00:23:49.600 will have on the canadian government and and let's let's take another angle of this here let's say

00:23:57.040 that the national post and again i'm just picking them up as an example it doesn't matter who

00:24:00.960 let's say the national post is getting access to this money and for whatever reason for whatever

00:24:06.720 reason the federal government one year decides we don't think the national post is on our approved

00:24:12.240 list anymore we don't think the national post is eligible well this decision which may have been

00:24:17.600 entirely above border fair will now be one that's stacked up against columns you know if you're the

00:24:23.760 national post you're going to say oh well they don't like this story we wrote about trudeau they

00:24:27.520 don't like this column that we ran they don't like that conrad black was pardoned and he's got a

00:24:32.000 thing here by the way amazing that conrad black was pardoned uh they don't like all of this stuff

00:24:36.240 and and that's why they took it away so now it forces there to at least be skepticism about any

00:24:42.560 decision that's made it's going to be filtered through that lens of content and remember that the

00:24:47.520 appearance of a conflict is in and of itself as powerful as a conflict if it could be a conflict

00:24:53.600 it's a conflict and you know i think that you have to draw some lines and set some limits when you

00:24:59.120 use that but when we're talking about government money going to prop up journalism whether it's

00:25:05.040 government money subsidizing uh out or subscriptions to journalism or literal direct subsidies to

00:25:11.840 journalism outlets this is an inevitability in the future that media outlets will not want to rock the

00:25:18.160 boat too much and i mentioned black locks reporter look i'm a subscriber to black locks they do a lot

00:25:24.080 of great work they're uh subscription based they are expensive they're a small team it's not an

00:25:30.960 inexpensive subscription but it's a valuable subscription are they going to be on the approved

00:25:35.760 list do they want to be on the approved list they've said in the past if memory serves they don't

00:25:39.520 want access to the bailout funds but look i would love if i could write off what i spend on a

00:25:45.200 subscription to a place like black locks but but all of a sudden if if the answer is no and i can only

00:25:51.440 write off a toronto star globe and mail subscription maybe as a consumer i would say oh well i guess i

00:26:01.760 won't subscribe to that one because it's going to be more advantageous to do this one so in by doing

00:26:07.280 this the government is picking winners and losers the government is picking among the media winners and

00:26:13.600 losers and you know that the friends of the government that are lining up hat and hand on

00:26:18.160 this like pigs at the trough are going to be the big winners economically maybe not in the scheme of 0.99

00:26:23.600 life winners but economically they're going to be the winners of this so the time has never been more

00:26:29.520 critical to support independent journalism because this is what we are up against i mean independent media

00:26:35.520 outlets are now up against the heavy hand of government supporting the big guys and supporting

00:26:43.360 i i fear the work that's being done by only those who wish to support the government narrative and the

00:26:52.160 government message we were coming up on election in what six months or five months i guess five months

00:27:00.560 until the october election how do you think it's going to work out if people are worried in their

00:27:07.200 coverage that oh well if this one gets re-elected they could take me off the list they could put me on the

00:27:12.320 the list i mean this is not a discussion that media outlets should even have to be having

00:27:16.880 it puts them in a terrible place it puts the government in an even worse place and for readers

00:27:21.360 you're wondering who's beholden to whom that's it so again i'm going to make a pitch and if i sound

00:27:26.160 like a broken record i'm not going to apologize because we need your support as a media outlet

00:27:32.480 because this is what we're up against so if you want to uh chip in a few bucks a month to join the

00:27:36.720 heritage club please do if you want to support the specific press freedom project that i'm doing

00:27:41.920 right now we've got a special link to that that i'll post in the facebook once i'm done here

00:27:47.440 uh the because again i don't have all these producers that are doing this for me i'm doing

00:27:50.720 it alone and i'm happy to do that but we're going to post the link to the crowdfunding campaign

00:27:55.760 because someone needs to hold the government to account when it thinks that it gets to set the

00:28:00.160 boundaries and set the limits on which media outlets are supportable and which ones are not

00:28:06.000 supportable and that is such a gong show that is passing for an approach to truth in an era of

00:28:16.080 untruth this is how the liberals are trying to present it so that's what's coming up you can do

00:28:19.840 all that at tnc.news uh in the meantime if you want to follow my coverage of the tommy robinson case

00:28:25.760 uh some videos did a couple of columns that's all stuff you can find at tnc.news as well i very very

00:28:32.000 much look forward to you sending me any thoughts you have about it my email address andrew at andrew

00:28:36.880 lawton.ca signing off for now we'll be back next week andrew lawton for true north thank you god

00:28:42.320 god bless and good day canada

Juno News - May 16, 2019

True North Report： Federal government will make a list of approved media outlets

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