This paper explores the extent to which new media facilitate the acquisition by citizens of political information related to campaigns. It compares systematically their impacts versus those associated with traditional media. Using data from the project Making Electoral Democracy Work for two Canadian provincial elections (in Ontario 2011 and Quebec 2012), it is shown that Canadians consume traditional media more than new media and that traditional media have a significantly more positive impact than new media on the level of political information. The conclusion invites cyberoptimists to prudence regarding the democratization of information.