Why are we spending any money on American military hardware?
Carney was voted in under the belief that he would fight against fascism not sign us up.
Canada needs to sure they dont accidently purchase the hacker hell storm like in the 80s. This time line is a parody.
Paying Canadian people is good. Paying American defense firms not so much.
And for once the little guy gets the bigger %
Good to see Carney is holding up his end of the bargain in this case.
The liberals are spending it? Or is it the government of Canada that’s spending it?
Gentle reminder that the Carney Liberals have indicated they will be cutting funding to the CBC, which gives the CBC an incentive to be less critical of the government in the hopes that the cuts won’t happen. Read & trust accordingly
I thought the conservatives wanted to defund the CBC because the Liberals gave them money to be less critical of them.
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What you are repeating is the Conservatives’ narrative, sure!
However, those threats continually made the CBC’s coverage friendly to the Conservatives, because they wanted to be seen as ‘neutral’ (and to give the Conservatives a reason to not cut their funding if they were to win an election).
Put it this way: if you were the CBC right now, would you be inclined to go full ‘gloves off’ and be hypercritical of the Carney govt? Or would you be trying to make nice, and potentially avoid these massive cuts?
Personally, I would be doing my job of telling the truth about what’s going on regardless of who it’s bad for. 🤷♂️
Sounds like you’d agree that the Canadian reporters who happen to work for US-owned outlets like the Ottawa Citizen are also doing their best to tell the truth. Totally reasonable argument
I would hope so.
Here’s a semi-related tip I learned that I use religiously:
Journalists are not supposed to be leading you to an opinion, so I look at if they’re using qualitative words instead of quantitative
Ex; “The car drove fast.” is leading you to an opinion. They should tell you a speed in number format so you can decide if that’s too fast for yourself.
Well, hopefully you can continue to provide this type of analysis when others in this community cast doubt on high-quality reporting merely because of the nationality of an outlet’s ownership.
While I recall seeing some columnists who seem to have a specific agenda to back certain industries, I think what most people are concerned about is not that breaking reports are done by cartoonishly evil journalists, but that foreign interests have undue influence over editorial decisions. (As I see it, billionaires from our own country are equally as bad and media concentration in general should also be addressed, but it makes sense to have reasonable restrictions on foreign-ownership of media.)
