This Is What Is Called "Painting One's Self Into a Corner"

If Canadians are clever, politically savvy and not easily swayed, then surely no one will be moved by some American banging away at his keyboard?

No one believes that, do they?

Well, Mark Carney does:

Liberals if re-elected will make a third attempt at regulating the internet, Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested last evening. Carney made the remark after being heckled at a rally in Hamilton, Ont.: ‘Pollution that’s online washes over our virtual borders from the United States.’

Actual pollution, difference in thought, nuance in debate, or pointing out that Carney had a terrible tenure at the Bank of England, is stealing Tory ideas, is totally blocking the answer as to where he pays taxes, and is as trustworthy as a particularly hungry and rabid badger?

One cannot have it both ways.

Either Canadians are clever enough to parse through media in all forms and, therefore do not need a governmental vanguard to censor everything, or they aren't.

The truth is the government simply doesn't like those nasty tweets.