Disruption

Hedy Fry, Chair 42nd PARLIAMENT, FIRST SESSION Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER’S PERMISSION Reproduction of the proceedings of the House of Commons and its Committees, in whole or in part and in any medium, is hereby permitted provided that the reproduction is accurate and is not presented as official. [...] Local media include all of the means of covering the news and community life in the regions, suburbs, cities and towns that the local media serve. [...] In 2010, the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) stated the following: … a democratic political system cannot function without diverse, free, and independent sources of news, making press freedom and the watchdog role of the press a pillar of contemporary societies and well-informed citizens. [...] In 2003, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, chaired by Clifford Lincoln, conducted a study in order, “to determine whether the ideals and objectives set out in the Broadcasting Act of 1991 were being met and whether the Act itself was in need of reform.”6 Three years later, the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications conducted a study on the Canadian ne [...] The chair of the subcommittee, Senator John Kerry, stated that the media “is the foundation of our democracy,”8 but that it is also “an endangered species.”9 In 2010, the United Kingdom House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee released a report on the future of local media.