The Star says in part:
"What the networks really want is a fee-for-carriage – a fee for the cable transmission of their broadcasts, which would ultimately be borne by viewers. But this proposal has already been shot down by the CRTC. And the Conservatives are leery of overruling the CRTC lest they be blamed for hiking everyone's cable bill. Hence, the proposal to help the networks through the back door by airing more government ads.
"This is a bad idea. Stripped to its essentials, public money would flow to private networks on the heels of a government rebuff of an appeal from the public network, the CBC, for more funding.
"The government should bury this idea before it gains momentum."
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