Good news. House of Commons committee votes to expand foreign election interference probe days after a new report of Chinese attempts to meddle in Canada’s federal elections became news. #cdnpoliglobalnews.ca/news/9500434/f…
Contrast that article with this one from November 2022. Debunking Claims Of Supposed Chinese Election Interference. An Atlantic Council report alleging China interfered in the 2021 federal election is based on the flimsiest of evidence. #cdnpolireadpassage.com/debunking-clai…
2/2 Last week @PierrePoilievre accused Trudeau of ignoring the Chinese interference & benefiting from it. O'Toole made the same allegation as Poilievre but CPC didn't reply to requests for comment or provide further evidence backing the claim. cbc.ca/radio/thehouse…
1/2 @journo_dale reports: "Amidst all of this, the Star obtained documents from the Conservatives showing that they were considering going public about the alleged interference over Chinese-language social media they were seeing during the last campaign cont'd
2/2 but decided not to for fear of political backlash." Instead, they sent it to the committee overseeing the integrity of the election ... who are now complaining that their concerns weren’t taken seriously. routineproceedings.com/2023/02/22/rou…
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IMO @PierrePoilievre 's dishonourable rhetoric on rising food, gas, oil prices, interest rates & rents is evidence of intent to deceive.
Why doesn't the media challenge him to provide alternative proposals instead of publishing his attacks on Trudeau for things he can't control?
@PierrePoilievre knows that #groceryprices result from factors that include yields, weather, wildfires, drought, global supply chain problems and grocery chain price gouging, etc. Implying otherwise is #misinformation.
I love the one-word change and will be singing it. Singer Jully Black's one-word change to O Canada at NBA All-Star game draws praise. She sang 'O Canada! Our home on native land,' with emphasis on the word 'on' cbc.ca/news/entertain…
#cdnpoli 🧵@JustinTrudeu
does NOT set #fueloilprices and @PierrePoilievre
knows that. We live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. The price of oil is set in the global marketplace so the supply/demand balance determines the price of O&G products around the world.
The Canadian government has constitutional authority to regulate gasoline prices only in an emergency. However, provinces and territories can regulate prices, and Quebec and the Atlantic provinces do so. consumerscouncil.com
@JustinTrudeau does NOT set #groceryprices and @PierrePoilievre knows that. They result from factors that include yields, wildfires, drought, global supply chain problems and grocery chain price gouging, etc. Implying otherwise is #misinformation.
The majority of Canadians didn't blockade supply chains or occupy the national capital for a month-long party and bitch-in clearly designed from the outset to be an attack on our PM @JustinTrudeau under the guise of a mandate protest that was identical to the US border mandate.
@JustinTrudeau 1/2 “The Government of Canada and the United States have now made being vaccinated a requirement to cross the border. This regulation is not changing so, as an industry, we must adapt and comply with this mandate,” said CTA president Stephen Laskowski.
2/2 “The only way to cross the border, in a commercial truck or any other vehicle, is to get vaccinated.” Canadian Trucking Alliance Statement to Those Engaged in Road/Border Protests cantruck.ca/canadian-truck…
🧵@PierrePoilievre is the classic bad actor fingerpointing when the finger points back to him. His attacks on objective CBC journalists are baseless. Most Canadians get news from American-owned PostMedia outlets that are right-leaning promoters of conservative POV.
CBC’s straight news reporting is consistently low-biased, factual, and covers both sides of issues. Editorial positions lean slightly left and rate high for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. mediabiasfactcheck.com/cbc-news-canad…
Postmedia outlets have right-leaning editorial bias often and publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favour conservative causes. postmedia.com/brands/#brands…
🧵 "Nearly a year after the start of Canada’s 2022 #FreedomConvoy—a series of protests and blockades that brought together a wide variety of #farrightactivists and #extremists, as well as ordinary Canadians who found common ground with the aggrieved message of the organizers ...
the question of whether and to what degree foreign actors were involved remains largely unanswered. This paper attempts to answer some of those questions by providing a brief but targeted analysis of #Russia’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy via #media and #social media.
The analysis examines Russian involvement in the convoy through the lenses of overt state media coverage, state-affiliated #proxywebsites, and overlap between #Russianpropaganda and #convoycontent on social media.