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There’s been much complaining lately by Conservatives that Canadian media are pro-Liberal and anti-Conservative.

The Andrew Scheer Conservatives complain about it in Ottawa. So do the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives in Ontario.

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Unifor and union president, Jerry Dias, representing 2,000 media workers at the Sun, Star and Globe & Mail, have furthered the perception of pro-Liberal, anti-Conservative media bias by declaring on social media they are Scheer’s “worst nightmare”, part of the “Resistance”, plotting to defeat him in next year’s election to “#StopScheerStupidity.”

Unifor attacked Ford and the PCs in the recent Ontario election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has contributed to the perception of pro-Liberal media bias by significantly boosting public funding to the left-leaning CBC, the state-funded broadcaster, and by earmarking $595 million over five years in Wednesday’s fall economic statement for the financially beleaguered news media industry, at the industry’s urging.