Evan Solomon: Question Period and Sector Union

evan solomon: Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter, for all the latest politics news This comment was made as he sought to defend what has become a controversial decision to include Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada, on the panel to pick representatives who will give advice on who should be eligible for the federal dollars, according to CTV. Over the last few years, the Liberals have begun signaling their intent to intervene to help save or support the news industry, which has seen hundreds of operations shuttered and thousands of jobs lost in the last decade. The whole process will be public, said Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez in an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CTV's Question Period. In the 2019 budget, the government spelled out its plan to support Canadian journalism Nearly 600 million in subsidies and tax credits to go to select outlets and organizations over the next five years. These groups include journalism associations and advocacy groups that represent reporters across Canada, including French-language and ethnic press organizations, and the union Unifor. Rodriguez announced this week that he is asking eight associations that represent journalists in Canada to offer up a candidate to work on the independent panel tasked with making recommendations on who should be eligible for the tax measures. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.