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Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, HAHAHAHA.

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Sounds like Canada wants to create a tariff on content. I live near enough to Canada to hear their public radio station on my fm radio. I stopped listening when I’d had enough ‘Canadian’ only content. It was really weird to only hear Canadian artists and authors interviewed - like the rest of the world didn’t exist. Seems that Canada is already there, so why another law to bound the internet ?

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I'm a big Free Press/ Bari fan, but Rupa Subramanya has consistently disappointed me with bizarre framing of Canadian issues and disingenuous arguments. I'm not a fan of Bill C-11, but more because of it's censorship over the vague term "misinformation". The culture/crtc argument she's pushing here is wildly inaccurate and not helpful in discussing the bill's problems.

The Bieber argument doesn't hold up because she's saying people put "thumbs down" for content the algorithm recommends...but that just sounds like a shitty algorithm. She presents the bill as lacking any clarity by asking "how will this new bill list someone like The Weeknd who was born in Toronto but lives in LA? Or Bryan Adam's who lives in Europe?", even though the CRTC has ruled on this consistently for over 35 years, classifying Adam's, Neil Young, and Shania Twain as Canadian artists even if they don't live here. Says Quebecor is faithful to the Liberal Party, when there's nothing Quebecor would like more than the dissolution of all federal standards. Says no one wants to defend it to her, but doesn't sound like she genuinely tried to speak to people in favour of the bill. Then she criticizes Trudeau for not meeting with the truckers?! What message would that have sent to all of Canada if Trudeau met with childish role-playing revolutionaries. This bill really needs to be critiqued and debated in the media, but this is a mischaracterization of the issue at hand.

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How do you explain the socialists in our congress. Bernie Sanders is a hard core communists and has been since he was a young man and AOC and members of the squad all belong to DSA? In the 20th century the socialists killed more of their own citizens than Hitler did in all of his concentration camps.

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I always thought of Canada as a the sane place. Over the last few years it has seemingly gone crazy. Sure don't understand how the Canadians can keep voting these people back.

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Canadian YouTube will be 90% Doug and Bob McKenzie Great White North videos. Beauty, eh?

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Canadian You Tube will be 90% Doug and Bob McKenzie Great White North videos. Beauty, eh?

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You mean free speech as guaranteed by the American constitution is an exclusive right, a privilege only for Americans?

Then it's completely worthless from my perspective. I'm not an American citizen.

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C-11 is to Canadian Media, what the “Two Party” system is to US democracy. Limited options for the masses, in favor of ?

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In the 80’s, the hysterically funny Second City TV realized they would get a CCTV subsidy if they had 15% Canadian content. They created a skit called the The Great White North. Doug McKenzie and Rick Mouranis sitting around in long underwear, feet up on cases of Canadian beer, burping and talking about back-bacon. I loved that Canadian sense of humor. That’s gone, instead we the dystopian version - humorless dolt Justin Castro trying to suppress wrong-think.

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I'm glad I don't live in Canada.

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Fidelito continues to channel his Padre, Fidel. I have the following to say to gim:"A la pared, Fidelito!"

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Trudeau has made a pact with another Party. The leftist NDP props up the Liberals by voting WITH them on everything. Together, they have a majority of the votes ; by a slim margin, more than the Conservatives and Block Quebec combined. This move has stymied any chance of a ‘non-confidence’ vote. Canadians are furious with this move, it is un-democratic. We did NOT vote for this group to have power.

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Canada is lost....period.

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The debate on bill C-11 was shut down in parliament yesterday, and the Liberal NDP regime voted to pass the bill. Government now decides what content Canadians can and can’t see online and in other media. I called my MP to ask how they would be voting and if yes to please explain why they are in favour of government censorship. In other news - newly appointed Canadian leader Klaus Schwab will be scheduling a visit to Canada to address his new subjects.

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How many other Canadians called their MP? Five, six? Complacency has consequences and now Canadians will have to learn why the world has fought against totalitarianism for centuries. Enjoy the train ride and the socialist free things, you will be paying for a long long time. The pandemic will soon be known as the good old days in Canada as we usher in the new era of darkness.

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My husband and I called Mark Holland AND wrote to him voicing how disgusted we were by his ceasing debate on this Bill in the House yesterday before MY MP had a chance to represent his constituents. This is disgusting behaviour and un-Democratic. We made that clear.

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Don't introduce Justin Bieber as an argument. The majority of the world would be totes in favour of never hearing of him or his craptastic oeuvre.

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