Liberal Senator Laurier LaPierre says a Senate committee study of ownership concentration in the media would prevent the issue from getting lost in a wide-ranging study by a House of Commons committee. Included in the mandate of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s current review of the relevance of the Broadcasting Act is the effect of media cross ownership.

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