It’s absurd to equate ideologically driven propaganda with journalism, but @JohnIbbitson & @globeandmail will try.
Failure to see the direct line between the same rhetoric & tactics that led to #TrumpInsurrection & what 🇨🇦’s political right has been doing, is willful blindness.
From members of #CPC, including #ErinOToole, on the disinformation dumpster fire that is #Parler (aka #NaziTwitter) to provincial #Conservatives obvious chummy relationships with crypto-fascists of the #GOP, draws clear & obvious lines between 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸’s political right. #cdnpoli
If Canadian voters can look at this and NOT see the connection in messaging, then Canada is in grave danger of following the same path that has led to catastrophic results elsewhere. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia
Take a look at this vile lie being spread by #ErinOToole#JeffBallingall & #CPC. Look at this & tell me the political right isn’t colluding to overthrow democracy. Btw, the strengthened election laws are designed to limit #DarkMoney funding. #cdnpoli#TrumpTreason
The question everyone, especially law enforcement, needs to ask is: how did #Cult45 members get into the Capital building?? Someone on the inside is complicit in this fascist display. #WashingtonDC#DCProtests
#MitchMcConnell fully enabled & helped create this fascist Frankenstein monster. His empty words now mean nothing.
#Cult45 thugs roaming the Capital building shouting “DEFEND TRUMP”. Their goal is not truth, democracy or the constitution, it is fulfilling the delusion of a psychopath. #WashingtonDC#TrumpRally
Ongoing lists need to be shared so people never forget the damage #MikeHarris caused. Tunnels for Eglington subway were already excavated. Harris wasted the $750M project & filled the tunnels in at a cost of $40M, setting #TTC & #Toronto back decades in transit. #ONpoli#TOpoli
Then there was the brutality to poor & marginalized people. #MikeHarris used them as scapegoats. Harris’ gov’t hired US firm Arthur Anderson (of Enron fame) to handle welfare cuts. Horror stories ensued, like the case of Kimberly Rogers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_… h/t @monicarooney
When #MikeHarris inflicted ‘welfare reform’, average rent in Toronto was over $800/month for a 1 bedroom. Harris cut single welfare to $520/month leading to a housing crisis.
The assault on Ontario’s poor has never recovered from Harris’ damage. thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…#ONpoli
Disinformation, propaganda & #Conservative operative, Jeff Ballingall. A thread.
Erin O’Toole’s chief digital strategist, Jeff Ballingall, can be likened to a young Roger Stone, in terms of how far he is willing to push the envelope. #cdnpoli#CPC#ErinOToole
Ballingall has chided organizations he’s worked for, such as RW conservative outfit “Canadian Taxpayers Federation” for being too “risk averse” in their propaganda campaigns.
He found other RW political campaigns he’d supported too risk averse too....
So Ballingall started his “Proud” groups on #Facebook. #Ontario Proud, later “Canada Proud”, which became third party advertisers, unconstrained by rules...or ethics. #cdnpoli#ONpoli#CPC#ErinOToole
#PostMedia along with #PierrePoilievre & other #CPC hacks, all rolled out the exact same messaging at once. Making the false claim, in fact, the disinformation & propaganda claim, that “800,000 ineligible people” got #CERB. Other online RW media, followed suit. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia
Revenue Canada had to come out to dispel this false claim levelled by #PostMedia & #CPC.
This is also the #CPC plan to take power, with the aid of US hedge-fund controlled Postmedia & other propaganda outlets, sow division via disinformation & propaganda. #cdnmedia#cdnpoli
In spite of Revenue Canada correcting the record on this propaganda, #PierrePoilievre, #PostMedia & other disinformation rags like #BlacklocksReporter#PostMillennial etc, continue to amplify the same false claims. Clearly none of these publications care about the facts #cdnpoli
CANADALAND is being sued by ridiculous little incel, Keean Bexte (who once had me swarmed on Twitter for calling out The Rebel’s United We Roll scam & his influx of fake followers).
The question that always must be asked in situations like this: who’s bankrolling Bexte? #cdnpoli