Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor

Not sure how people who hate Trudeau as much as some do, who know everything about him can be so ignorant to the fact he routinely faces unvetted questions from the average voter all the time as PM during his town halls.

It's not new, but I've noticed and been very surprised that as a result of COVID, the convoys, etc. more people who have historically been not about conspiracy theories and secret agendas are likely now to believe in these things happening and how it's "so obvious and clear", but only when it comes to anything JT-related.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Definitely says what Musk think of - and how much distain they have - for NPR.

Notice I didn't say Twitter, because I truly believe there are people inside that company trying to mitigate the crazy and truly care.

Anyone like that either quit or were fired when they tried to have Musk stop and think before implementing stupidity. There is no one left but Musk, Musk committed yes techs, and those on work Visas who don't really have a choice if they want to stay in the US.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I think Twitter has identified PBS as Government Funded.

Which led to PBS quitting Twitter altogether, which led to Elon saying "defund PBS". The agenda here isn't really subtle.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

If enough legitimate news groups (gov't funded or otherwise) quit Twitter, it will be a nail in the coffin. Perhaps not the last nail, but I do think it is the beginning of the end. Alienating advertisers, then content providers just will leave the nut jobs and self-aggrandizing blowhards.

[TherapyforGlencross]

Pierre is such a joke. I’d really like to vote CPC this election round, but with that guy running the show I’m very resistant to wanting to vote for him. His Twitter CBC schtick is such a turnoff for an undecided voter like myself. It’s funny because while Trudeau has next to no experience other than teaching, PP has nothing, pure political career. How he can be such a populist is beyond me, he doesn’t know ####. I really wish O’Toole was the CPC leader.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Which led to PBS quitting Twitter altogether, which led to Elon saying "defund PBS". The agenda here isn't really subtle.

I'm not well-versed (or maybe not versed at all) on where PBS gets it's funding. But isn't it "made possible by viewers like you"? or has something changed there?

Also, shout out to the "Friends of 7" who were older than me in school and played some amusing pranks on the math teacher!

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Slava

I'm not well-versed (or maybe not versed at all) on where PBS gets it's funding. But isn't it "made possible by viewers like you"? or has something changed there?

Also, shout out to the "Friends of 7" who were older than me in school and played some amusing pranks on the math teacher!

In fact, federal funding provides only about 15% of the revenue for the public television system. That’s an investment of $1.35 per taxpayer per year.

https://www.pbs.org/foundation/areas...ustaining-pbs/

[JohnnyB]

This is very much the type of stuff I expect of politics south of the border. Ugly, and panders to the constituency of nuts and conspiracy theorists.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1647750040142876674

[Fuzz]

And I think the labels are stupid if the broadcaster has any sort of neutrality clause, like the CBC:

Its editorial independence is protected in law in the Broadcasting Act

Why does it matter if it is funded by taxpayers? If it is independent, then you have as much chance of finding bias there as any other commercial news source or "citizen journalist". It's a stupid label in a further attempt to reduce the perceived legitimacy of real media, becuase Musk thinks they wrote some means stories about him, his cars, his tunnels, or his rockets.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

This is very much the type of stuff I expect of politics south of the border. Ugly, and panders to the constituency of nuts and conspiracy theorists.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1647750040142876674

Pierre is a ####ing idiot, attempting to sell this to his narcoleptic ninnies. Does this mean when Harper was PM the CBC was Harper Propaganda, not news? No, of course not. You'd have to be an absolute moron to think that.

[Harry Lime]

He does know that under his own definition, the CBC would then be his own propaganda arm if he was going to win the next election? I have to agree with Glencross, PP is a big turnoff for voting for the conservatives, he is hurting their brand by not behaving like he belongs in the PMO.

[Locke]

These people must be seriously insane.

Its in the name.

You just wait until the BBC hears about this travesty.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Locke

These people must be seriously insane.

Its in the name.

You just wait until the BBC hears about this travesty.

I bet they’re having the same issue with their own nut jobs.

[opendoor]

I didn't think there was any way Trudeau could win another election with all his baggage, but Poilievre is doing his best to make sure that happens.

It's amazing how brain dead the Conservatives are when it comes to not turning off moderates. All they needed was a halfway competent candidate who'd shut up the crazies like Harper did, and they'd probably cruise to a victory with little effort. Instead they've decided the campus Young Conservative energy is the ticket. It might still work, but they're making it a lot harder on themselves than they needed to.

[Ozy_Flame]

Of all the issues in Canada to focus on, Pierre goes off the deep-end pretending like 99% of Canada didn't already know the CBC receives government funding.

And there's a separate between government-funding and editorial control, which the latter is what Pierre really has a problem with. If CBC was writing ass-kissing articles all day long about how great Pierre was, none of this would be an issue. In fact he's probably say it was a great use of public funds and a stalwart of a strong democracy.

This, among many other things, shows why he doesn't have the gumption, tact, or tolerance to be a formidable PM.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

He does know that under his own definition, the CBC would then be his own propaganda arm if he was going to win the next election? I have to agree with Glencross, PP is a big turnoff for voting for the conservatives, he is hurting their brand by not behaving like he belongs in the PMO.

I see stuff like that and just see him as dangerous and legitimizing the beliefs that undermine trust in institutions. It completely voids any progress that he could potentially make with me via other legitimate policy positions, but then I suppose I'm not his target market

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

I see stuff like that and just see him as dangerous and legitimizing the beliefs that undermine trust in institutions. It completely voids any progress that he could potentially make with me via other legitimate policy positions, but then I suppose I'm not his target market

You live in Shanghai? You're more of his target market than you might realize

[undercoverbrother]

nails it

https://twitter.com/user/status/1647764546973745152

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

You live in Shanghai? You're more of his target market than you might realize

I live in Vancouver.

[Ozy_Flame]

Perhaps time to change your handle.