Quebec election: PQ would boost democracy, protect media from Google

MONT-LAURIER — A Parti Québécois government would bolster democracy by supporting Quebec media, strengthening freedom-of-information legislation and making decisions by the National Assembly’s ethics commissioner mandatory, leader Jean-François Lisée announced Tuesday.
Provincial and local media are “an indispensable tool for democracy” that need protection from digital giants like Facebook and Google, which scoop up 70 per cent of media advert