 The Kent Commission recommended (in section 2.a) the creation of new legislation that would "require the break-up of regional monopolies, such as that of the Irving family in New Brunswick, by prohibiting the ownership of two or more newspapers having 75% or more of the circulation, in one language, in a defined geographical area".A 2006 Senate report on media ownership in Canada also singled out New Brunswick because of the Irving companies' ownership of all English-language daily newspapers in the province.Senator Joan Fraser, co-author of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications "Final report on the Canadian News Media" stated, "We didn't find anywhere else in the developed world a situation like the situation in New Brunswick."