Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Because He Admires China's Basic Dictatorship


 

When people tell you who they are, believe them:

Bill C-18, the Online News Act, represents a massive win for News Media Canada, the lobbying arm for news organizations such as Postmedia and Torstar. After obtaining hundreds of millions in taxpayer support with programs such as the Local Journalism Initiative (made permanent in Budget 2022), the Journalism Labour Tax Credit, and the Digital Subscription Tax Credit, the organization set its sights on the Internet platforms. In fact, not content with obtaining payments for reproduction of news content, it lobbied for a far broader approach that even includes payment for links or merely “facilitating access” to news content. The bill has already led to spiked op-eds critical of the government in the papers represented by News Media Canada, with critical commentary an outlier.

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The Liberal government is upholding a key ruling by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that critics say doesn’t do enough to increase competition – or lower prices—in Canada’s wireless market.

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According to the report, Quebec during COVID was “easily the worst offender of freedoms guaranteed by the Charter and the worst place to live in Canada.”

“With its totalitarian-style nightly curfews, inter-provincial travel restrictions, restrictions on travel within the province, threats of a tax on the unvaccinated, disregard for religious freedom, an imposition of vaccine passports for places of worship, and the continuation of mandatory mask-wearing, Quebec earns the top spot as the worst offender of the Charter,” Carpay said.

 

Aaaaaannnnnddd, let's stop.

The Charter was written by a communist and serves only to strengthen the Crown, not preserve the existing rights of citizens.

Stop pretending that it is akin to the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta or the American Constitution.

Any document that can unilaterally cancel rights at the whim of a snowboard instructor isn't a document with which we should be mounting legal cases.

Abolish the Charter and return to the Bill of Rights.

That or get used to having your kitten videos banned and your bank accounts frozen.

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