Postmedia, a company whose principal assets were assembled by my associates and myself, including the National Post, which Ken Whyte and I founded in 1998, became entangled in the financial difficulties of the succeeding owners, after we made the strategic decision to depart the business after carefully considering the implications of the internet. The company had to be extracted from insolvency and it was not relaunched nor subsequently sustained on a sound financial basis.
If the management of that time had possessed a skill at operating the business, as was their principal purpose, equivalent to their ingenuity at selling watered stock, the company would have flourished. Instead, it has floundered. The current operating management of Postmedia is blameless in these events and there is no reason to doubt that if the proposed merger with Nordstar takes place, it will be of benefit to the combined company.