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I think the best bits from the article are: > Right-wing commentators sought to discredit these protests [1980's peace movement] by heavily featuring and platf

I think the best bits from the article are: > Right-wing commentators sought to discredit these protests [1980's peace movement] by heavily featuring and platforming the most off-topic or the most radical protesters and then seeking to paint all protesters with that broad brush. This approach generally failed and was mocked by the mainstream press, who depicted the diversity of protesters and homemade signs as a sign of the depth of its support. ... > And, in progressive, urban Canada, this broad-brush guilt-by-association strategy exhumed from the 1980s appears to be working, no matter how intellectually lazy its journalistic practitioners are being. Let me rehearse the kinds of sloppy reporting we are seeing here:

loceng 5y ago
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  > The Trudeau-Federal government continues to try to pass bills for internet censorship - with active calls and propaganda align with their trying to promote the majority of Canadians to hate and fear - so they can silence those who won't toe the line, who don't agree with them. They can control the narrative on the state media, not the internet! That's dangerous (for them, not the people!). Wow. That sounds like par for the course. Didn’t his father even suspend constitutional rights (apparently that’s a thing over there?) for similarly dubious reasons back in the 70’s?
  - loceng 5y ago
    I don't know Trudeau senior's history very well. If you watch the video however Peckford shares some history - that Justin's father attempted to get his own version of the Charter of Rights passed, because he thought the provinces' leadership was being too unreasonable; trying to just get his own way without consensus. The judge in that case shut him down, and he was forced to go back to the table with the provinces - the judges citing that the provinces have sovereign power, and because the Charter is a Federal document that all provinces must agree to it. Like father like son, not shocking then to see Justin Trudeau promoting hate while violating the Charter itself.

loceng 5y ago

908B64B197 5y ago
> The Trudeau-Federal government continues to try to pass bills for internet censorship - with active calls and propaganda align with their trying to promote the majority of Canadians to hate and fear - so they can silence those who won't toe the line, who don't agree with them. They can control the narrative on the state media, not the internet! That's dangerous (for them, not the people!). Wow. That sounds like par for the course. Didn’t his father even suspend constitutional rights (apparently that’s a thing over there?) for similarly dubious reasons back in the 70’s?
- loceng 5y ago
  I don't know Trudeau senior's history very well. If you watch the video however Peckford shares some history - that Justin's father attempted to get his own version of the Charter of Rights passed, because he thought the provinces' leadership was being too unreasonable; trying to just get his own way without consensus. The judge in that case shut him down, and he was forced to go back to the table with the provinces - the judges citing that the provinces have sovereign power, and because the Charter is a Federal document that all provinces must agree to it. Like father like son, not shocking then to see Justin Trudeau promoting hate while violating the Charter itself.