Aidan White Men Quotations

In a democracy you do not have hooded men carrying assault rifles breaking into the offices of a newspaper and a television station in the middle of the night and beating up journalists and other staff. To talk of press freedom in such circumstances is grotesque.

Here is a Government desperate to avoid the spotlight of public concern over deeply embarrassing revelations of corruption in high places.

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics.

We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local programming that caters to the country's different communities rather than abandoning its public service mandate by getting foreign news and entertainment shows to fill the gaps in its service.