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Darcy Hickson's avatar

Re:Bill C-11

A lot of ink has been spilled over the death spiral of the legacy media and why this is happening.

Standing in the middle of the wreckage is the CRTC and the Broadcasting Act, which are also relics from simpler times. Rather than scrutinize the relevance of these bureaucratic tools for the digital age, the Liberals are retooling them in feeble attempts to manage the digital age.

We know where this is heading. The public square is already suffering from a lack of respectful dialogue between multiple points of view. The authoritarian streak in this Government doesn’t like dialogue between competing visions and it is very dangerous to position an unelected group of bureaucrats to police content and decide what Canadians will be allowed to see and hear.

The pandemic has taught us lessons about group think and why it is appropriate for dissenting voices to be heard. Sometimes the dissenting voices are the ones who see things clearly.

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Merlin M's avatar

I smiled a bit when I read the article on Harjit Sajjan being to busy to read his emails during the Afghanistan withdrawal. I’d be interested in hearing exactly how he was getting his updates. Canada Post no doubt. Anyone at this level of management would know that there certainly isn’t enough time to take in all that data over the phone so email becomes imperative as it can be easily prioritized. This man may go down in history as the most incompetent minister in the history of Canadian Parliament. No small feat that.

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