US mainstream media companies are not the only ones in the western world facing an absolute crunch, and being forced to conduct mass layoffs of staff in the wake of plummeting viewership, nonstop online trolling and shitposting of their social media content, and loss of subscribers to paywall content. Canadian state media also facing similar backlash, and being forced to fire entire ranks of employees as subscribers drop out by the millions. The same media organizations which have staunchly parrotted the lines of the Trudeau regime from the beginning of the COVID saga are now begging the government for bailouts as business dries up and Trudeau lashes out, blaming "conspiracy theorists" for drawing viewers away from state media: