It's a fair criticism that substantially all of Canada's non-CBC media is owned by fairly right-leaning American entities (at least, right-leaning by Canadian s

It's a fair criticism that substantially all of Canada's non-CBC media is owned by fairly right-leaning American entities (at least, right-leaning by Canadian standards). I'm not sure this is something that even most Canadians are aware of. National Post is owned by Postmedia, which is in turn 66% owned by American media conglomerate Chatham Asset Management. I'm not claiming that has anything to do with this specific article - I don't know enough to - just hoping to provide some color around parents comment. With that in mind, I think this is a completely reasonable use of anonymized data by PHAC and the article does feel heavily sensationalized. I assume all the major insurers in the US are doing this - and far worse - but being private entities we have zero insight into it whatsoever. I would much rather PHAC have this data than a federated Kaiser-type entity that has my financial and physical health by the short-and-curlies so to speak. There's a lot of interesting things for HN to talk about, but for the general public this should be a non-story.