There is no formal mechanism to monitor media content in Canada, though there were past efforts. In 1987, the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank, established the National Media Archive that monitored the national newscasts of CBC/Radio-Canada and CTV. The project was largely dismissed as a vehicle to promote the anti-CBC, free-market ideology of the Fraser Institute and was discontinued after a decade. The anti–public broadcasting view remains one held closely by conservative politicians and supporters in Canada.
