Take England, as an example, where there is the Press Association (PA), the equivalent, more or less, of CP. Much of the news which comes out of England via CP and into Canadian newspapers comes from PA.

All of those news items, distilled by PA from British newspapers and picked up off the PA wire by CP, or by AP, are now unavailable to Canadian newspapers.

So Canwest has expanded its news service. So what? If it expands its news operation in London England to two people from one, or even if it expands its news operation in London, England, to twenty-two people, it will still be unable to generate all those hundreds upon hundreds of brief news stories from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland which interest thousands of Canadians who have ties to those countries.