Bill C-11: Why is YouTube mad at Canada?

A new law that seeks to give Canadian artists a leg up online has left many influencers and tech giants alike seeing red.

They took out subway ads, they posted TikToks, but in the end, the score was Silicon Valley-0, Ottawa-1.

After many twists and turns, and over two-and-a-half years of review, the Canadian government has passed a new law that makes tech giants like YouTube and TikTok support Canadian cultural content.


A pox on both their houses YouTube is Orwellian and Trudeau’s Liberals are Woke Stalinists. 

“Content creators” fear both being included in the government’s planned forced diet of CanCon which will relegate them to a digital Ghetto, and to a lesser extent being excluded as not Canadian “enough” by the CRTC’s annointed “God’s Of All CanCon.” I plan to continue ignoring CanCan as I have always done. Let’s face it with rare exceptions most of it is unpalatable government agenda swill.

I will now reveal an ugly personal truth: Overplay due to CanCon destroyed virtually all pleasure derived from listening to Gordon Lightfoot’s music.

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Polls suggest public has begun to suspect Trudeau is a deceitful ChiCom co-conspirator

John Ivison: Interference news has Liberals looking soft on a country intent on undermining our democracy

Polls suggest voters are skeptical, not only of the Trudeau government’s relationship with China, but also about the PM’s ability to tell voters the truth

OTTAWA — The serenity shown by one senior Liberal official in late March over the Chinese foreign interference saga was at odds with the fever that was gripping Ottawa.

At the time, it seemed the government was in real trouble. There was compelling testimony that suggested the Liberal party was warned by the security services that some of its candidates were helped by the Chinese government in successive elections.


The Michael Chong revelations leave little doubt that the Trudeau and his Liberal Party are criminally negligent for failing to notify Chong of the threat to his family from the Communist Chinese.

It was not an oversight. It is collusion, it is treason.

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Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship

As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees.

It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking that will include Jordan Peterson’s shows) is of “high standard.”

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Jesse Kline: Trudeau Liberals buy labour peace with other people’s money

It should have been clear from the outset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were never going to let the government workers strike drag on for weeks, especially when the problem could be solved using their preferred solution — spending other people’s money.

After 12 days of job action that saw federal services grind to an even more sluggish pace than usual, around 120,000 civil servants returned to work on Monday following a tentative agreement reached between the Canadian government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) over the weekend, which covers four bargaining units under the Treasury Board’s purview.

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Liberals put forward new amendments to gun legislation following initial backlash

The Liberal government is introducing a revised set of amendments to its pending gun legislation after dropping some initial changes that sparked outcry from firearm owners.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Tuesday the amendments to Bill C-21 include a new definition of prohibited firearms that encompasses certain “assault-style” rifles.

“These reforms are about keeping AR-15 assault-style firearms off of our streets while at the same time respecting gun owners,” he told a press conference.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Censorious Liberal attempt to block news article shows why they want to control the internet

Recently released documents show that although the federal government is sparing in its requests to social media companies to take down comments , such requests can be abused to censor news coverage that paints the government in a bad light. This is especially concerning given the Liberals’ attempts to gain more control over the internet.

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Taxpayers get soaked by Volkswagen giveaway

More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant.

In St. Thomas, Ont., flanked by Premier Doug Ford, Trudeau announced taxpayers are set to give Volkswagen up to $13 billion in exchange for a $7-billion electric car-battery plant.

The plant is costing taxpayers $13 billion and is set to employ 3,000 workers.

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Trudeau has asked for yet another bullshit investigation designed to exonerate himself of blame for allowing his ChiCom pals efforts to harm a Conservative MP

Trudeau says he’s asked for investigation of Chinese foreign interference aimed at Conservative MP

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’s asked his officials to investigate a report in The Globe and Mail that says the Chinese government has targeted Canadian MPs behind a Parliamentary motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs to constitute genocide.

Speaking in Question Period Monday, Mr. Trudeau was asked by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre why a report on the matter from CSIS was produced in 2021 but no action was taken. He noted the Chinese diplomat reported by The Globe and Mail as involved in targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong is still listed as working in Beijing’s Toronto consulate.

“This is absolutely unacceptable and it shouldn’t have happened,” Mr. Trudeau told the Commons.

Seriously. We need to learn to riot like the French.

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Liberal Minister Pinnochio Mendicino Caught In Lie: Chinese Police Stations Still Open In Quebec

Alleged Chinese police stations still open in Quebec, despite minister’s claims

MONTREAL – Two Montreal-area community groups under investigation for allegedly hosting secret Chinese government police stations say they are operating normally.

Their comments contradict claims made last week by federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who told a parliamentary committee that the RCMP had closed all the alleged secret police stations in the country.

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Crowd displeaser: As Online Streaming Act becomes law, just about everyone is unhappy

To support its cultural industries in the face of American dominance, Canada has for many decades depended on regulating television and radio broadcasters to share and finance Canadian stories and songs. Yet the barely regulated internet, a product of Silicon Valley’s maverick free-market mindset, now allows users to make and hoover up the content of their choosing. For people seeking stories and songs around the world, borders now barely exist.

The federal government has been trying since 2020 to wrangle together legislation that would force streaming services such as Netflix and Spotify to promote and finance the country’s cultural content just like old-guard broadcasters must. It finally received royal assent on April 27, but it wasn’t easy. What unfolded in the past few years far more resembled an agonizing battle than a nation-building exercise.

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Michael Chong’s statement on the criminal indifference of Justin Trudeau’s government to the threats made to his family by Communist China

Expect nothing better of Justin he is Xi’s puppet.

Link to the Globe Report here, and here.

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Canadians can’t afford groceries but Trudeau buys PSAC vote bloc loyalty with 12.6 per cent raise compounded over four years and a $2500.00 pension payment

Tentative agreement reached for 120,000 public servants

… In a statement on its website, PSAC said the tentative agreement includes wage increases of 12.6 per cent compounded over four years, and a one-time, pensionable lump sum payment of $2,500.

It includes language on remote work that gives members “additional protection” from “arbitrary decisions,” and it requires managers to assess requests individually instead of by group, and give responses in writing to allow members and PSAC to “hold the employer accountable to equitable and fair decision-making,” PSAC said.

Trudeau and his civil servants are vile thieves. I will vote for the party that vows to slice and dice the public service unions.

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Tom Mulcair: Should Trudeau lead the Liberals against Poilievre? Mark Carney won’t say and this could be why

Former Bank of Canada (and Bank of England) governor Mark Carney was on CTV Question Period on Sunday and Vassy Kapelos was at the top of her game.

When Carney figure skated around her direct question as to whether Justin Trudeau should lead the Liberals against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the next election, she asked it again.

Justin step down? Carney an electable replacement? Neither will happen.

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Why Does Xi’s Puppet Trudeau Fight The Implementation Of A Foreign Agent Registry? Maybe Because A Report By CSIS Says It Would Be An Obstacle To China’s Interference In Canada

China views Canada as a ‘high priority’ for interference: CSIS report

China sees Canada as a “high-priority target” and employs “incentives and punishment” as part of a vast influence network directed at legislators, business executives and diaspora communities in this country, according to a top-secret intelligence assessment from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The report warned that Beijing is the “foremost perpetrator” of foreign interference in Canada. Its agents are unconcerned about repercussions, the report says, because of the lack of obstacles such as a foreign-influence registry of the kind established in the United States and Australia.


Justin has been harping about the potential dangers of a foreign agent registry because Canada is of course racist and we’ll probably use it to single out his ChiCom buddies and disrupt the China Grift. That sounds like the voice of Xi’s Puppet rather than a PM with the nation’s best interests in mind.

The continued exposure of China’s influence operations in Canada points to willful blindness bordering on collusion by the Trudeau government.

I maintain the ongoing exposure of China’s shenanigans may not be the work of a single leaker in CSIS and may in fact be a joint effort involving an ally or allies of Canada seeking to topple Xi’s Puppet because of the obvious security risk Trudeau and his party pose to the west.


PS. In the CBC article linked above detailing the potential harms of a foreign registry Trudeau references the internment of Italian Canadians during WW II. One small problem for Junior is that with a few unfortunate exceptions most detainess really were fascists.

The harm done by Justin Trudeau’s apology to Italian-Canadians might require an apology of its own

… Mr. Liberati compiled his own biographical database of the internees. He found police had detailed dossiers indicating involvement in fascist organizations for at least 100 of them. Even 500, however, represented a small fraction of the 3,500 Italian-Canadians known to have been members of local fascist groups.

“[M]any who later professed their loyalty to Canada had in fact been fervent Fascists and had maintained their positions even during their internment,” Mr. Liberati writes.


The spotlight is shining a little hotter on the Trudeau Family Business

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Government Media Bailout Didn’t Work: Department of Canadian Heritage

Despite the federal government providing a $595 million bailout to the media industry four years ago, news corporations have seen a continuous decline, according to the Department of Canadian Heritage.

The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications heard testimony from associate assistant deputy heritage minister Thomas Ripley on April 25 as part of the discussion on Bill 18, the Online News Act.

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