Trudeau's efforts to control the media aren't novel
Liberal efforts to censor speech and control public media are legend
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government keeps passing bills intended to either censor speech, compel speech (like certain pronouns) or make the media dependent on Ottawa so they will promote the Liberal party narrative. On February 4, 2023 the Liberal bill to censor internet content received Senate approval and Bill C-11 became law. Liberal Bill C-10 censored social media content created by Canadians, putting free speech at risk.
While Liberal Bill C-16 did not directly compel use of certain pronouns, it enforced decisions of the Human Rights Tribunal that did just that. English speaking Canadians can no longer use the English language as it has existed for centuries when referrring to other Canadians who now have the right to tell you what pronoun you must use to refer to them. This a first in Canadian law - compulsory speech.
The Liberal government promised $595 million to support Canadian media in addition to $1.2 billion paid to support the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (“CBC”). “Support” is a euphemism for dependency and media that criticize Liberal talking points can expect to get short shrift. Spend (or more correctly “waste”) an hour or two listening to anything carried by the CBC and if you don’t fall asleep listening to the droning of journalists who have effectively become civil servants, you might detect a left wing bias. If you don’t, get help for your cognitive problems.
This is not new ground for the Liberals. One of the longest serving Ontario Liberal Premiers, Mitch Hepburn, was kept in power for 14 years by the Globe & Mail owned at the time by George McCullagh. Hepburn was an alcoholic who spent his time in a suite in King Eddie entertaining hookers when he wasn’t sloshed out of his mind, and formed a coalition with the Communist Party of Canada when his grip on power faded.
William Lyon Mackenzie King (“King”), a Hitler sympathizer, was Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister and kept his grip on power with the sustained support of McCullagh’s Globe and Mail. Fearing a political crisis with Quebec over conscription, King wouldn’t send conscripts from Quebec to the War in Europe instead pretending they were needed to prepare for a possible Japanese invasion of Canada’s West Coast.
King was racist and anti-Semitic.
“King was impressed by Hitler when the two met in Berlin, Germany, on 29 June 1937. He wrote in his diary that Hitler “is really one who truly loves his fellow man.” Although they discussed many topics, King did not bring up the Nazi party’s anti-Jewish policies during the meeting. There was widespread discrimination against Jews even in Canada. The country’s immigration policy at the time was influenced by anti-Semitic views.”1
Canadians sent to serve in the War suffered from inadequate training, inferior equipment, and a government in Ottawa that cared less. Thousands of young Canadians died as a result. A lack of Liberal support for Canada’s military persists today under our Liberal government and veterans are treated with contempt by government.
Liberal government continued after King’s regime when Louis St. Laurent became Prime Minister in 1948 and held office until losing to John Diefenbaker in 1957, and resumed when Lester Bowles (“Mike”) Pearson defeated Diefenbaker and led the Liberal government until 1968. After a short hiatus when Joe Clark (“Joe Who”) was Prime Minister, the Liberals regained power under Pierre Elliot Trudeau (“PET”), a communist sympathizer with a close relationship with Fidel Castro in communist Cuba. PET was Prime Minister until 1984 when he handed the reigns to John Turner who lasted one year.
Canada has had Liberal governments for most of its existence. Brian Mulroney’s reign as Prime Minister lasted a remarkable 9 years from 1984 - 1993, only to see Kim Campbell last barely one year and Jean Chretien resume the Liberal dynasty for another decade. Conservatives prevailed for almost the next decade under Paul Martin and his successor Steven Harper, and Liberals took the drivers seat again with Justin Trudeau (PET junior) who has been Prime Minister since 2015.
It is small wonder Canada suffers from massive government debt and slow economic growth owing to its Liberal heritage, a situation Justin Trudeau insists on making worse with his nonsensical attack on the energy industry fueled by a specious claim that CO2 causes climate change, and policies like the Impact Assessment Act that all but prevent major project such as mines or pipelines from being constructed in Canada despite a pressing need for both.
The rubber will soon hit the road. Voting support for Liberals has always been bought and paid for with taxpayer dollars augmented by needless borrowing, but the national credit card is reaching its credit limit and taxpayers already pony up an average of 33% of household income to governments, ignoring the royalties levied on resource industries. In total Canadians paid about $750 billion in taxes of one form or another in 2019 in a GDP of $1.7 trillion.
In Liberal Canada, home prices are out of reach for all but the wealthy, households are burdened with a useless carbon tax, energy prices keep rising, inflation is eating up household budgets, and our government keeps doling out taxpayer money to the World Economic Forum, the United Nations and foreign corporations like Volkwagen.
It is time to end this silliness. Vote Conservative.
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Playing loose with history imo
"Kim Campbell and Jean Chretien resume the Liberal dynasty for another decade. Conservatives prevailed for almost the next decade under Paul Martin and his successor Steven Harper"
Kim was Con PM for what a few weeks?, Martin was a liberal all his life, and Harper got in mainly because Layton was from Quebec(used a cane like Lucien B) and Ignatieff was a joke. Harper pandered too much to Quebec, but at least he had a brain. I recall Oct 31, 2007(?), when ironically I was in Quebec City and it snowed about 10 inches, me in dress shoes :), quite a time on my laptop that day...
Personally Quebec should be banned from having PM's for 20+ years, its a foreign country and they are stealing from Canada every grant, every subsidy, civil code, tax laws and rules in land transfers which are written to benefit Quebec.
Harper was able to get Canada more or less recovered from PET's policies, but it will take another 30 years after Justin goes away. Not a fan of Chretien (He cancelled the GST, didnt he?) but he at least put Canada on his top 5(maybe 3) priority list.
Not being Canadian, I won't comment on specifics. That said I agree with the basic premise-collusion between media and government favoring the Liberal (what does that even mean?) point of view. We see it in the U.S. as our clearly compromised president is insulated by a mass media that refuses to do its job. The Fourth Estate has given itself over entirely to the Liberal narrative. It astounds me, the degree to which we are afflicted with self-loathing, as well as the rate at which we are dismantling the foundations of our society and in the final analysis, our civilization.