We are being made monkeys of by the hedge funds and private equity firms which have scooped up most of our largest newspapers and turned these formidable weapons of mass propaganda on us. The vulture capitalists are laughing all the way to the bank while we shower them with bailout money and blame Big Tech for not sitting still to be similarly fleeced.
Why would Ottawa not bail it out? It did already just a few years ago, and C-18 was clearly intended to bail them out again. While the latter is seemingly a failure, they'll find some way to keep them going.