Loading ...CANADA – Trudeau gov’t department requests increased funding to monitor internet ‘disinformation’
The Department of Canadian Heritage, headed by Minister Pascale St-Onge, proposed a $7.1 million-a year program called the Digital Citizen Initiative, to keep up surveillance on internet users who promote ‘fake news.’
“The Initiative addresses real and continuing needs of Canadians with respect to online disinformation and related harms,” said the report Evaluation of The Digital Citizen Initiative. “The demand for funding appears to outweigh available resources. The scope and scale of the issue are rapidly expanding along with the potential for harm.”
“Disinformation impacts Canadians’ health and safety, civic discourse and engagement, political beliefs, perceptions of democratic institutions, confidence in political systems and trust in media,” it continued. “It may also amplify mistrust amongst communities, discrimination, stigma and marginalization and social divisions.”
The report failed to provide any examples of so-called disinformation but claimed, “the initiative filled a need by funding research to help understand disinformation.”
There was a time when Canada even with its terrible weather might have been a choice. WTF is going on up there?
It’s been going on for decades, trader. Canadians don’t believe in freedom. We believe in government. The phrase “peace, order and good government” has a prominent place in our constitutional documents. It’s one of those moderate sounding ideas that is more correctly seen as a highway to hell. Who is to decide what “good government” is? Well, the government, of course. If you protest, “order” will be restored, and “peace” will follow. It’s all very favourable to a nazi outcome, which is precisely how our politics have devolved.
Orswell’s that ends Well