Your Vile Gatekeepers and You

Let's trust these guys:

A Commons petition is demanding that Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez name names in his department’s award of a $133,822 grant to a group subsequently stripped of funding for anti-Semitism. The petition endorsed by the Canadian Anti-Semitism Education Foundation seeks an inquiry with powers to subpoena documents: “Who in the government knew about the consultant’s history of racism and hatred?”

 

This Rodriguez: 

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says that in the face of considerable attention on an increase in hate and harassment online, the federal government feels it has an "obligation" to advance legislative and regulatory changes aimed at tamping down harmful content.

 

(Sidebar: I would say tax-funded anti-semitism is harmful, Pablo.) 

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Canadians widely oppose federal regulation of the internet says confidential in-house research by the Privy Council Office. Consumers, not cabinet, should determine what is fit to watch, wrote federal pollsters: “Most participants felt these decisions should primarily be left to the viewer.”

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YouTube, Apple Music and other lobbyists are petitioning the Senate to slow final passage of Bill C-11, the first in Canada to regulate the internet. “We urge this committee to pause,” executives wrote in a letter to the Senate transport and communications committee: ‘It is the wrong approach.’ 

 

This anti-semitism:

Heritage Canada will ensure multiple government officials review funding applications — and get better training on how to vet social media posts — following the revelations the Liberal government funded anti-racism training by a consultant with a history of antisemitic tweets.

B’nai Brith Canada said Monday evening Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen sent a letter to the organization promising changes at Heritage Canada in response to the Laith Marouf scandal.

 

I would argue that what is needed is the removal of anti-semites in the cabinet who in turn fund anti-semites with Canadians' tax dollars. Anyone guilty of funding such vile Jew-haters should lose their pensions. 

That would save money AND stop bigotry.