Editing Senate of Canada (section)

=== Investigative functions ===
The Senate also performs investigative functions. In the 1960s, the Senate authored the first Canadian reports on media concentration with the Special Senate Subcommittee on Mass Media, or the Davey Commission,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/esm-ms/prob4_e.cfm#davey|title=Concentration of Newspaper Ownership|access-date=November 17, 2007|publisher=[[Canadian Heritage]]}}</ref> since "appointed senators would be better insulated from editorial pressure brought by publishers"; this triggered the formation of press councils.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/11/13/ToriedLove/|title=Aspers and Harper, A Toried Love|last=Edge|first=Marc|date=November 13, 2007|work=[[The Tyee]]|access-date=November 17, 2007}}</ref> More recent investigations include the Kirby Commissions on health care (as opposed to the [[Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada|Romanow Commission]]) and mental health care by Senator [[Michael J. L. Kirby|Michael Kirby]] and the ''Final Report on the Canadian News Media'' in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/391/tran/rep/repfinjun06vol1-e.htm|title=Concentration of Newspaper Ownership|date=June 2006|access-date=November 17, 2007|publisher=Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications}}</ref>