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The Week in Polling: A lack of support for government media subsidies, Canadian millennials lean Conservative, and growing Holocaust skepticism in Canada

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A counter-demonstrator carries an Israeli flag as protesters gather outside an Indigo store in Toronto, on Thursday November 30, 2023. Chris Young/The Canadian Press.

This is The Week in Polling, your Saturday dose of interesting numbers from top pollsters in Canada and around the world, curated by The Hub. Here’s what we’re looking at this week.

The majority of Canadians do not support government news subsidies

According to exclusive polling conducted by The Hub and Public Square Research, seven-in-ten Canadians are not supportive of the government funding the salaries of journalists at private news organizations.

The Trudeau government enacted measures through Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which includes subsidies to support the payrolls of private news media outlets, providing tax credits on news subscriptions, and mandating Google to put $100 million per year into the Canadian news industry. The Hub‘s Publisher, Rudyard Griffiths has said, “We’re pretty close, by my estimations, to a 50 percent wage subsidy on journalist salaries up to $85,000 per year.”

More than three-quarters of Canadians think that the government subsidizing journalists’ salaries at private outlets will negatively impact journalistic objectivity. Moreover, 73 percent of Canadians believe that the government subsidizing journalists’ salaries will make it more difficult for news outlets to hold the government accountable.

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