Look! There’s a deer in the headlights!
A panel commissioned by @JustinTrudeau has recommended that news websites ad podcasters in Canada be required to get a government licence. Unbelievably Trudeau’s Heritage Minister @s_guilbeault agrees with the idea. So much for a free and open media.
pic.twitter.com/azwC8sDg55— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) February 2, 2020
This just in…
“Media can be confusing”. Rattled Heritage Minister @s_guilbeault walks it back. Now suggests @CRTCeng will not license media but answers few questions. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/1204RLAzcP
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) February 3, 2020
Update: Post Millennial has more;
Guilbeault walked back the comments on Monday, stating that the government had “no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations,” nor will the government “regulate news content.”
“… Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources,” said Guilbeault to reporters in Ottawa.
This announcement comes after deep criticism of a previous announcement by the Liberal government, where they said they would force news organizations to apply for a licence.
Guilbeault’s announcement faced intense scrutiny from across the political spectrum with some commentators suggesting that it would be a dangerous attack on the freedom of the press.
Gong show update.
I've seen this 5 times and I still can't tell if Trudeau is going to force me to get a license.
"On the issue of discoverability media organizations would need to have a licence but that would not – and media can be confusing I recognize that."
What are you tripping on, Minister? pic.twitter.com/qhovk5dhYS— Keean Brexite 🇬🇧 (@TheRealKeean) February 3, 2020
Great!
Keep up the good work Ezra Levant……..
It’s “Celebration” time:
https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M
What confusion? Literally all msm in Canada is already bribed and paid for by the Liberals, and are openly and actively working as the propaganda wing of the party. Trudeau has repeatedly threatened punitive actions against anyone, or any media outlet that criticizes him or publishes speech that HE deems unacceptable. The Liberals spent 130K in an attempt to shut out Rebel Media and True North from covering the election, and recently directed Election’s Canada to go after Ezra Levant for publishing “The Librano’s” a book that exposed Trudeau’s corruption. There is no confusion. Trudeau and his minions are waging a calculated war against free speech that they deem unacceptable. Part of his admiration for China and their Communist policies.
Hey GRM, you forgot about his admiration for what the minstrel see’s daily in the mirror.
As an aside, would anyone be surprised if he has a full length mirror in his office!
Has anyone seen this yet “New Canadian Media.. News from an immigrant perspective”.. I know we are paying for this, and I’m sure we will hear MUCH more from these people.. Are they operating from a back room at a mosque..
Only a corrupt mind of “Liberal”, dictator wanna be, would think of banning a book.
The part of the election write up on media, read by the same two stasis, is pretty clear.
There is not case, it should not even come up, not being even noticed in a free society.
Well … is it free?
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Justin’s not shy about speaking for the rest of us…
“There is no place in our country for discrimination driven by
fear or misinformation,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
“This is not something Canadians will ever stand for.”
you mean like wearing blackface and dancing around
like a monkey?
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All these idiot effing Marxists seem to forget that the next government will be Conservative whom they believe to be fascists and what goes around comes around. Trudeau really does make an effort to see that his cabinet ministers are all stupider than him and he’s really effing stupid himself.
The quality of conservative think-tanks has me very concerned. The current conservative “big tent” approach is pretty much what the dnc is dealing with, possibly to a lesser degree, for now.
No doubt that this is yet another idiot Queerbeker in a position of power that should never happen, but Turdhole’s crew designate this fool as a “Star candidate”… I guess because the asshole fascist is a enviro terrorist… I like how he describes the carefully selected Liberal Party authoritarian gang who came up with all this Soviet style censorship as an “independent body”… yeah, just like Turdholes “independent Senators”.
Socialists always work like this: “Two steps forward and one step back”.
Plus it was a testing of the waters to see what the blow-back would be.
This will come up again in a different form later, perhaps in the guise of “diversity” or some other garbage.
In other words, one must be vigilant.
Bingo! In another time (and most assuredly not appropriate in this day and age) guillotine manufacturing would be a booming industry.
What the Dicktater party is saying: “Ooops, we didn’t think anyone was paying that much attention…we’ll try again later from a different angle to continue our assault on the liberty of the peasants.”
no, no, and no.
at best its ‘two steps forward two steps back’.
the total net progress from leftist thought since the early 1900s has been a big fat ZERO.
In reality, it’s one step forward, two steps back, the intention being to take us back to that Golden Age of serfdom. It always was and always will be.
Gary D.
That is a guaranteed.
They are just playing with the LIV’s and NPS’s.
Once the “Liberals” convince them of their superiority, they will come back with more dictatorial rules.
Whoever controls the medium controls the message. Welcome to the velvet totalitarianism (for now) of the LPC/CBC fusion.
There is no alternate voice, with taxpayer funded CBC linked at the lip with the LPC. CBC must be defunded, it is Pravda North.
Plus their programming sucks since they lost HNIC. Get rid of this vestigial parasite on Canadian thought and culture.
Instead our despots wish to make it overarching whereby what CBC socialists apparatchiks decide “what Canadians want.”
I’m not truly sure what Canadians want, just what this Canadian doesn’t want – statist propaganda and cannibal conservatism.
So you’ve put it off for a while, until the commie rat bastards come up with a different way.
If you count on the regressive con’s to fix the problem refer to above.
I think what put this plan off the rails is that the plan includes social media.
It was all good until the left found out the new rules would apply to them as well.
And that’s just not on.
This minister has the prospect of being the liberals new dead albatross.
lOOks like the PMO occupant is unhappy with the results of the 600 mill BRIBE.
what a fcukin thug. and *still* Canaduh INSISTS his ilk run things.
no thanks to CONservatists offerings incl . . . . mckay? BLECH.
Frightened wee fools never will understand the limits of power.
If you are all powerful,you are bogged down in trivia, because you must control everything.
If you allow free will things diverge from your authoritarian demands rather quickly.
The Liberals and NDP and Cons desire to only hear good things about themselves in the press, brought us to this state.
That and our average “reporter” is dumber than a sack of hammers and much less useful.
The simple and bleedingly obvious fact that the media is unable to sell its product to the paying citizens..Tells you the citizen is very clear on the value of that “product”.
Government solution?
Subsidize the dead.
Our current media are zombies,kept mobile with infusions of stolen money and utterly dependent on their “Motivators” for content.
What life relevant information does a zombie provide?
Advertisers have to stay in some contact with reality,no sales means no more adds.
State owned mouthpieces will repeat whatever is necessary to keep the paycheck coming.
So of course us taxpayers ,who involuntarily provide for the leeches, can trust them.
They will repeat whatever they are told.
So will the “License to Report” be similar to the License to possess?
What might this bureau register?
A Black&Decker Heat Gun?
Or a Weller Soldering Pistol?
Both obviously Restricted Weapons in Can Ah Duh.
How minute will the details go?
License to report on ?
1 Dogcatcher appointments?
2 Bylaws?
3 Provincial Matters?
4 Interprovincial affairs?
5 Dear Leader and those surrounding it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
What might be a Journeyman Reporter Class 3.5?
Talk about timing. Superbowl Sunday is the one day of the year some Canadians realize the CRTC exists because they are forced to watch CTV promote its own shows instead of seeing the hyped up Superbowl ads.
“‘… Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources’ said Guilbeault to reporters in Ottawa.”
The quality of Canadian news is actually none of the government’s business.
A licensing requirement would likely violate the Charter section 2b. Although the charter does allow exceptions, those exceptions have to pass a gauntlet of legal tests.
Not to worry. The supreme court has an aptitude to read into our Constitution whatever Liberals desire.
“The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
That statement is the opening statement in St Pierre’s blessed Charter. It says that you have rights, until they make laws that make those rights null and void. It basically makes everything they say after it meaningless.
“That statement is the opening statement in St Pierre’s blessed Charter. It says that you have rights, until they make laws that make those rights null and void. It basically makes everything they say after it meaningless.”
Bingo!! Peeairs unaccountable undemocratic Court (who all have to speak french) will decide when you have “rights and freedoms” and when you don’t… very Liberal Party.
“It says that you have rights, until they make laws that make those rights null and void.”
It means that no rights are guaranteed. They are “dead letter”. You formally have them, until you try to exercise them. Then No.
If that disheveled parody on a human is a Canadian federal minister, than the country is in serious trouble as it is.
We already have one like that in charge.
That would be a feeler, push out some outlandish ideological idea, to see what the backlash is. Then try to control the response, with several media fart catching sessions, where the ‘elites’ sneer and belittle the people complaining.
The next step is to invite some semi-famous schmuck who is outraged by the very idea, and on air, he’ll lose several debates, then eventually become convinced that it is a brilliant idea.
The bought and paid for media will then spend several weeks braying and congratulating the ‘converted’ even though he’d been studying his lines several weeks or months ahead of time.
Prog idea is implemented,.. Wash rinse, repeat. Next piece of the freedon cake is identified for the chopping block.
News media can post content from anywhere in the world. Who cares what Canada thinks.
Canadians saw Justin buy the media.
What did they do about it?
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Precisely.
We have nothing on the North Koreans at this point.
Most Canadians prefer the status quo until it disrupts the NHL playoffs and their access to TimBits, cheap beer, and Farcebook. Leave those alone and everything else in the country can go to hell as far as they’re concerned.
It’s been that way at least as far back as PET’s early days.
Bingo.
saw a science thing last nite about infinite universes.
in one of them, a shrek looking bloke walks up to the minister, rips his fcukin head off, and craps down the hole.
this is ALL quintessential liebralism. that Canaduh WANTS.
I hate my government. I am a tax slave. They tell me to “just shut up and pay your taxes”.
Earn less = pay less income tax. Take time to make, grow, repair/maintain your own stuff, to buy and trade for secondhand stuff. And never miss a chance to tell a government employee, “Nothing personal, but we really can’t afford you and we don’t really need you. Your indexed-linked government pension will be paid eventually, in dollars that aren’t worth anything when the government has suffocated the economy and everybody who has nothing because of it will hate you and your children.”
“A panel recommends”….
Just like with the HRC groups and the SCC, if you get to choose the membership of the panel (or court) you have basically already chosen the desired outcome.
Then you can pretend that you are at arm’s length, because after all, “an independent panel” has made their recommendations.
And as some have stated earlier, just keep floating bizarre ideas until they sound mainstream to the masses. (LGBQ, etc.)
I ran his blinks through the Morse code / French to English translator. It’s difficult he was going so fast.
Blinks seem to say that Chrystia Freeland is his new unquestioned lord n’ master and then he moves into a grocery list; Milk, cheese, butter, bullets, gags.
Do his high baud rate Morse code blinks count as an unregistered media outlet?
…will have to be licensed…
Shit hits fan.
…will not have to be licensed…
What a dope! Mommy, can I come and stay at your house?
What did any of you expect? This is exactly what was to be expected of Guilbeault. He’s the former head of Greenpeace Quebec.
Did any of you bother looking at his resume?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Guilbeault
This little fucker is straight out of the Gerald Butts/Justin Trudeau school of totalitarianism. And as a Greenpeacer, he’s a militant antinuke as well as all the rest.
A year ago Morneau announced pending changes to corporate tax law. A massive revolt ensued and they walked it back. Six months later they implemented other (just as seriously limiting) changes to corporate tax law. No announcement. They just implemented. That is how this government works. They suck!
Watch for…
1. Media companies regardless of size will have to register with the Canadian government if they want their content to be visible on the Internet – but it’s a free service, government just trying to protect Canadians from fake news.
2. Implementation of a small “cost recovery” fee to registered media companies – and if you’re not registered you can’t post media.
3. Increase in fee followed by a minimum standard of behavior expected of media companies. If you don’t pay the fee and follow the “minimum” standards you can’t post media.
4. 1984 style implementation of rules for full media compliance – just what the government had in mind in the first place.
Ask one of the morons that voted for Justy what the hell this is supposed to mean: “… Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources,”
Ask the morons in the media that fluff him for money what the hell that word salad means.
Maybe they speak the same dialect of stupidity that he does.
“diversity” = many.
“high-quality” = approved by the government.
Translation: the government will be controlling a great many news sources.
‘diversity to’?
I wonder if that poor fool meant ‘access to ‘?
Let us see now.
It was not enough that the Liberal control freaks wanted good press so they bought them for $600 million.
That in itself is a total control move.
Now they want to control those that they could not buy.
Another dictatorial, total control move.
The thing is that the government, any government in a free country has no say in how the media, any media, writes, talks, presents.
There of courser is the danger that somebody will write stupid things.
Now, pray tell, how would that be any different from today.
Just pick up a newspaper, listen to the CeeBeeCee or watch any which channel on the idiot tube you want. People never had so much fantasy, misinformation, lies, omissions ….. to choose from.
In practical terms it’s unlimited.
You wanna listen to the news fantasies, editorials, talking heads wishful thinking, lots to pick from.
The government hack sez:
“… Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources,”
OK now, it is not up to some useless government paper pusher to decide what “high quality” news is.
I’m the sole decider of that.
In fact I are highly trained decider (heh) for my own purposes what is and isn’t news.
No “Liberal” would be dictator need to apply.
It is rather discouraging that there is even a discussion on free flow of information.
While there of course is the disinformation campaign from the mass media cartel, the government and the rest of the ruling class, I are eminently qualified (heh), you may say I’m and “expert” who will sort out the trash and news.
Ok, that’s enough of that.
You get or may not get the drift.
They merely dance to the tune of the tribe’s Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin.
Yes, and remain in line with our allies in Iran, Cuba, and China.
So this is another Liberal “star”, is it? The guy is just plain creepy…..and dumb as a post. What a joke the Liberal “government” is.
Oh yeah, this guy is a real piece of work.
What this was, is he let the mask off for a moment, and the true totalitarian slipped out and spoke what Liberals REALLY think.
He was Queerbec’s Greenpeace Fuhrer, and was rumoured to become Trudope’s Environment minister. Alas, no, maybe Groper had a sense that this guy is a whackjob too. Yet, he was made a cabinet minister.
Despite the denial’s , NO ONE should trust this piece of garbage! EVER! These monsters are out to destroy this country!
Now now be charitable. someone has to hire the people that have political aspirations but do not have the brains or skills required to do the job. Hence the guy that dances around like a guy killing a snake with a stick
Not to give them any ideas, but I think I recall that back in the 1940s, all radio receivers had to have a license.
Here is an Australian link to this subject.
RADIO RECEIVER LICENCES
If you think the carbon tax is a cash grab, think of how much they could haul in if they brought back this provision and licensed every radio and TV receiver?
But why stop there. Make it so you need a license for any device to connect to the internet.
/thankmelater
Overton window: first they talk about it pretend it is widely talked about what Canadians want. Pretend to walk it back but most assuredly it is coming.
The biggest joke, unbelievable, CBC went with the most salacious parts of the dossier for months FROM BUZZFEED!!! like it was fact!! Unverified gossipy 100% made up shite!! Burn it to the ground!! Learn to code!!
“… Our focus will be and always has been that Canadians have diversity to high-quality news sources,”
I thought these guys were supposed to be, “pro-choice”. What’s next: psychiatric detention for, “failing to recognize Liberal reality”?
If you felt a cold sensation up your butt hole, that means they have obtained a Chicken-Shit concession from all Canadians… Yep! threaten and they get compliance… Cowards are easy to herd!
JMHO
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/110.nsf/eng/00012.html
Here it is … the Yale Report.
97 recommendations designed to regulate and control all media in Canada.
It’s not just about licensing news organizations … all streaming services will become subject to taxation and Canadian content regulations. Our liberal government will require Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, to pay a % of their Canadian revenues into the New Media Fund but, because they are not Canadian companies, they will not have access to those funds once they are required by law to produce Canadian content which is selected for production by bureaucrats in Ottawa … think about that! … civil servants will be producing the Canadian content for Netflix … sell your stock now!
The CBC will have a new role … they will determine what news is real and what news is fake … their appropriations will be increased by 100’s of millions of dollars even though numeris has determined that fewer than 1% of Canadians watch CBC News … $1.5 billion dollars producing news that nobody watches … soon to be ad-free …
Go ahead … read the Yale Report … it is a marxist playbook.
Thanks for your website Kate!
I was remiss @ 11:46 am to not have included SDA…..
keep up the good work!