In this week's show, we're joined by Dan Dix, an independent journalist from Vancouver, Canada, to talk about the government's new deal with the U.S. on the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a deal that gives the Americans half the profits from tolls collected on the bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. We also hear about a 35-page internal memo from the minister of industry, Melanie Joly, discussing the possibility of suing Canadian citizens for spreading misinformation online.
00:00:00.000Critics are slamming a deal that gives the Americans half the profits from tolls collected
00:00:10.400on the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Canada paid the $6.4 billion cost of building the bridge,
00:00:18.300linking Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan. President Trump insisted on a revenue-sharing
00:00:23.420agreement, and Prime Minister Carney agreed.
00:00:53.420build up well conservative party leader pierre paulia says carney got taken to the cleaners
00:00:58.620imagine you spent a million dollars building a rental property and then your neighbor said
00:01:04.300he wanted to collect half the rent you paid 100 of the cost and you get only 50 of the revenue
00:01:09.580what a terrible deal well that's exactly the deal that mark carney just brought home on the gordie
00:01:15.500how international bridge canada paid for the entire 6.4 billion dollar price tag we even
00:01:22.860and funded the infrastructure on the American side of the river, all with the understanding
00:01:27.200that we would collect 100% of the tolls until we recouped our money. Carney just agreed to
00:01:32.340give half the tolls to a Michigan economic development body that did not pay a dime to
00:01:37.280build the thing. This is our grandmaster negotiator. President Trump meantime declared
00:01:43.940victory posting this on Truth Social. I was able to cut a much better deal for America,
00:01:50.240And by doing so, we'll be allowing the new and spectacular Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, to open on July 27th as scheduled.
00:02:03.660While many Canadians could not afford the hefty cost of a ticket to any of the World Cup games, but it turns out some politicians and their staffers were let in for free.
00:02:14.800This story from BlackLock's reporter. Soccer was free for federal VIPs.
00:02:21.320Cabinet members and political aides received dozens of free passes to attend the FIFA World Cup,
00:02:28.400including four staff and a summer student in the office of Liberal MP Adam Van Kvorden,
00:02:35.100who was the Secretary of State for Sport. The tournament cost taxpayers $1.07 billion.
00:02:41.640dollars. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson also got two free tickets to see Switzerland and Algeria.
00:02:50.220Prime Minister Carney, meantime, was in Calgary for the stampede, but not everyone was happy to
00:02:55.480see him. Our guest today is Dan Dix, who's an independent journalist coming to us from
00:03:00.660the Vancouver area, I believe. Is that where you are, Dan?
00:03:04.120Yeah, I'm currently located in Squamish, just a little bit north of Vancouver, but yeah,
00:03:08.600over here in British Columbia. And I know you're keeping a close eye on this story.
00:03:13.240The possibility, as has been discovered in a story by Black Locks reporter, that potentially
00:03:19.320the government is looking at suing people over their social media posts on the grounds that it
00:03:24.280represents misinformation. And this is obviously an attack on people's freedom of expression,
00:03:30.840people's voicing opinions that the government doesn't like. This is troubling for people like
00:03:36.520yourself in the business of trying to inform people about what the government is up to, isn't it?
00:03:45.020Yeah, very troubling. I mean, I think Canadians should be pretty concerned about this one.
00:03:50.020Thankfully, you know, we still have the Access to Information Act request possibilities,
00:03:54.260and that's how we were able to find out about this 35-page internal memo that's been going
00:04:00.360around the federal government through the uh minister of industry melanie jolly her her office
00:04:06.520and you know a lot of it was redacted of course as the government likes to do but um the parts
00:04:13.000that were visible are pretty chilling um they're literally discussing the possibility of suing
00:04:20.200canadian citizens for posting quote misinformation online um so we're talking about your posts your
00:04:27.640facebook posts your tweets uh your linkedin comment it's all going to potentially be uh you
00:04:34.680know silenced if they don't like what you have to say um and not not only that uh mark they're
00:04:41.320they're literally talking about uh preventive action so not not only just reacting to misinformation
00:04:49.880but trying to you know stop it before it happens under their so-called misinformation and
00:04:55.800disinformation strategy so we're talking real time surveillance of them trying to shut you down
00:05:02.360before you even have the ability to post something so this is like big big brother on steroids this
00:05:09.160is uh this is like minority report kind of thought crime stuff and um again you know this is just a
00:05:16.280memo at this point but even just the fact that they're discussing these things uh should be of
00:05:21.080a grave concern to Canadians their goal is has been stated as you know coming up with ways of
00:05:29.880bringing back the public trust in government information so they don't think that you as a
00:05:39.240you know sovereign citizen is capable of deciding what is right what is wrong what is factually true
00:05:45.400and what is incorrect no they want to be the arbiters of truth they want to be the ones who
00:05:50.680are going to decide uh what is true and what is not and um literally have the ability to take you
00:05:57.880to court over this and and sue you you wouldn't be able to have any kind of judicial oversight
00:06:03.160you wouldn't be able to have any kind of a neutral you know fact checker they would just
00:06:08.520be able to say no that's misinformation and uh and and and you know have you sued for this
00:06:15.080so it's absolutely crazy and uh you know I find it kind of rich when you know they're they're
00:06:21.800saying they need to uphold the public trust in government information and I think Canadians need
00:06:27.000to ask themselves why have we lost trust in the government information in the first place
00:06:32.040well because we've been lied to so many times and because the government is often trying to steer
00:06:38.200our ideas and our beliefs and our opinions and our behaviors in their own desired
00:06:44.120I actually gave a presentation on this back a few months ago when I was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, talking about how the government came up with something called the Innovation Unit, the Impact and Innovation Unit, straight out of the Privy Council, where they were coming up with ways to steer Canadians' behaviors into areas where they normally wouldn't necessarily go on their own, especially during the COVID era with stuff like masking and social distancing
00:07:13.120and taking part in the global inoculation program,
00:07:16.080they had a think tank for how to make us think about these things.
00:07:20.080And so I think a lot of Canadians have realized
00:07:22.560that their mistrust in their so-called information is justified.
00:07:29.340And they're going to flip the script here
00:07:31.400and try to sue you for going against anything that they have to say.
00:07:40.040I mean, this has nothing to do with protecting Canadians
00:07:42.900this has to do with them protecting their narratives. So if you want to dissent,
00:07:49.260if you have ideas that contradict theirs, if you want to post inconvenient facts that
00:07:55.620goes against their narratives, they want to have the ability to be able to shut you down
00:08:00.800by suing you into oblivion. It's absolutely insane. Yeah, I mean, they look over at China
00:08:06.060and think, wow, only we could do what they do, where they totally control the information,0.91
00:08:11.940they geoblock any information. There's certain sites you cannot go on. Only government-approved
00:08:18.560information is released to the public. I have no doubt that these guys think that that's just
00:08:23.540the best way to go. The whole freedom of speech thing or the freedom of expression thing, they
00:08:28.140don't understand it, and they don't get this internet thing either, because people are going
00:08:32.200to post whatever the hell they want on social media, and they have no control over it, and it
00:08:36.680drives them absolutely batty, because then they do their internal polling and see that nobody
00:08:41.780believes anything that they say, or maybe, you know, 25, 30% of people actually trust the
00:08:48.040government. And this is after they've already bought off the media. So they already have this
00:08:54.220tsunami of propaganda, you know, hitting the population, but that's not good enough. You know,
00:09:00.620they've got the, they own the media, they bought them off. So, you know, yeah, they've got a couple
00:09:06.240of outlets that don't take government money and that they are a thorn on the side of the government
00:09:12.240and so it's social media that they need to get a grip on they want to get all you know they want
00:09:17.160to be able to control it because they see that nobody believes a word that they say and so that's
00:09:22.980how they're trying to do that by using the hammer basically lawfare against people threatening people
00:09:29.820and who knows? They may even go the way of the UK. What do they do over there, Dan? I mean,
00:09:36.940they have jailed over 12,000 people, arrested 12,000 people because of Facebook posts that
00:09:43.320they don't like. Many of those posts have been around immigration, which people out there are
00:09:48.360extremely upset about. So you're creating essentially a powder keg by trying to prevent
00:09:53.580people from expressing opinions that they don't like. It's a very tyrannical and extremely
00:09:59.480disturbing way for governments to operate. But it just shows the mentality of these people.
00:10:05.700I mean, how serious are they about doing this, do you think?
00:10:09.680Oh, they're very serious. They've already put pen to paper and started to, you know,
00:10:14.460make laws to make this happen. You know, we can see that as very recently with the passings of
00:10:21.520Bill C-8 and Bill C-9, you know, the so-called Cybersecurity Act and the Combating Hate Act in
00:10:27.340C-9. C-9 would go after your protected, you know, speech. And C-8 is the infrastructure and the
00:10:35.980mechanisms for how to actually shut you down. So they're putting pen to paper. These bills have
00:10:40.680reached royal assent. They're becoming law. So they're not messing around. They're very,
00:10:46.020very serious about this. And you got to consider what is in these particular bills, like, you know,
00:10:50.920c9 is you know adding things to combat hate but obviously who decides what is hateful but beyond
00:10:59.780what they've added to the bill what's concerning is some of the things they've taken out like the
00:11:04.900the religious defense protections yeah so for example this is where you know the conversation
00:11:12.720of the bible comes into play if you are quoting scripture for example you're reading from0.86
00:11:18.340Romans or maybe Leviticus, and you say something like, you know, in quoting it, a man is not to
00:11:25.520lie with another man as he would a woman. That's an abomination. Well, there was a time when people0.99
00:11:31.220would say that that's hate speech. You're not allowed to say something like that. And you could
00:11:35.820say, well, you know, I'm sorry you feel like that, but it's, you know, my religious right to quote my,
00:11:42.080you know, religious beliefs. They're removing that so that you won't be able to use that as
00:11:48.000defense anymore and then you know some whatever leftists can have you shut down because they're
00:11:54.080butthurt about what you said and then you follow that up with bill c8 and this is you know the
00:11:59.920the mechanisms for how to shut down somebody who they've determined to be quote hateful and uh this
00:12:06.240is given the telecommunication companies the you know the the abilities to shut you down um if they
00:12:12.560say so and they even have gag orders on these companies so that they they won't even tell you
00:12:18.080why you've been shut down but they've literally set up the switch that can be flipped at any time
00:12:24.800on anyone for just about any reason to silence your voice online this is like censorship on pcp
00:12:33.520um and yeah they're very serious about it they've literally put pen to paper and are making it law
00:12:38.080now yeah and to your point earlier about how seriously these people in government are treating
00:12:43.820it i mean they're it's already happening right according to the story and i believe that the
00:12:48.200managers are already monitoring so they're they're paying these civil servants to go online to go on
00:12:55.200facebook and x and everywhere else and monitor the uh official social media channels and media
00:13:03.540outlets on a daily basis for comments and recurring, quote-unquote, inaccuracies. This
00:13:09.420is right out of the memo. Disinformation or misinformation and disinformation strategy.
00:13:16.320New measures will be used to transition from a reactive stance to one that is focused on
00:13:22.980prevention. So they want to essentially shut people up ahead of time. They want people to
00:13:29.460self-censor, Dan. They want you to think twice before you post, you know, anything about this
00:13:36.180government. So they're discouraging the free and open discourse that they say they champion, but
00:13:43.780obviously they do not. They just really don't like us talking about them. And the more we talk about
00:13:49.860it, the more angry they get, and the more they cook up these bills and measures aimed at shutting
00:13:58.100people up yeah yeah you nailed it there with they want to help people to self-censor i mean
00:14:05.680that's the crux of it you know and and when when you when when there's people out there who rely
00:14:12.080on you know their livelihoods are you know dealing with online activity they they may realize that
00:14:19.000wait a minute they've set up the switch that can be flipped at any time maybe i shouldn't voice my
00:14:23.940opinion about this particular thing. Maybe I should just sit back and be a little bit quiet
00:14:28.460because I don't want to lose my job. And that's literally the opposite of what we need to do.
00:14:34.460I think Canadians need to move forward with integrity and move forward on principle.
00:14:42.720And you want to be able to tell your kids and your grandkids that you didn't just succumb to
00:14:46.940Big Brother. You didn't, you know, silence yourself. You spoke truth as you saw it without
00:14:52.940any kind of fear of what they're going to do and I think that's what people need to do moving
00:14:57.380forward self-censorship as you put it is is the goal and they they want to silence you before you
00:15:04.240even think about you know saying anything and not even think about posting so yeah that's why they
00:15:10.640have this measure in this misinformation and disinformation strategy to prevent your discussions
00:15:17.600so-called early detection, which, again, is just real-time surveillance of some of the things
00:15:25.460you're saying. And if they determine that you might cause something hateful to be said,
00:15:32.180and surprisingly, you don't even have to cause any harm to anybody. It's just if they perceive
00:15:38.240that your words, not your actions, your words might upset somebody and make somebody else feel
00:15:44.860hateful about something that's going to be enough to shut you down yeah like precog in minority
00:15:50.660report as you already mentioned it's interesting the bevo also talks about well they don't call
00:15:56.940it the streisand effect i call it the streisand effect but this is something that happens when
00:16:02.340you am you inadvertently amplify the very thing that you want to stop so they talk about further
00:16:10.300backlash, noting that the targeting of certain individuals could generate unwanted publicity,
00:16:17.580responding to misinformation. This is the quote right out of the memo. Responding to misinformation
00:16:23.180can unintentionally amplify it by increasing visibility or lending legitimacy to fringe
00:16:31.660sources. So they're torn here, Dan. You know, yeah, we hate these people and we want to shut
00:16:37.100them up. But we know that if we use the hammer of lawsuits against these people, then it'll end up
00:16:43.380being reported potentially by whatever remnants of legitimate media, they're still out there,
00:16:49.520and it'll get out and we'll end up amplifying the very thing that we want to shut down. So I guess
00:16:56.400that's what they're trying to navigate right now, isn't it, Dan? Well, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean,
00:17:01.760they literally openly admitted that it could backfire on them, that it might amplify certain
00:17:08.480ideas. But then they went ahead and did it anyways. You know, they continued on moving
00:17:13.380forward with this memo and suggesting that this is what they should do. But, you know, like they
00:17:19.500said and admitted, yeah, it could backfire on them, you know. And I think that's why, you know,
00:17:25.620during the COVID era, as I was saying earlier, they were coming up with, you know, think tanks
00:17:30.440and ways to counter people's ideas about that.
00:17:34.200And it's interesting, you mentioned how a lot of this is coming from a blueprint from the UK.
00:17:39.080Well, it was in the United Kingdom, where I think it was a book that was co-authored by Cass Sunstein,
00:17:46.720where it was called Nudge, and it was dealing with the nudge theory or the nudge factor,
00:17:51.280where you can slowly nudge people along to get them to do certain behaviors that they normally wouldn't be willing to do.
00:17:59.440And the government took their cue from that here in Canada, set up a think tank and started to try to figure out how to nudge people along into their desired areas of, you know, into their direction.
00:18:12.820And and and so they know how to manipulate us and they want to, you know, make sure that they're on top of us not being able to counter that.
00:18:22.940So, again, if you're going against the status quo, if you have any serious discussions you want to talk about in terms of their narrative, they want to be able to squash that.
00:18:35.320And so, again, it's not about protecting people as they're going to paint this as.
00:18:40.820It's about protecting the government narrative and whatever that may be moving forward.
00:18:48.060And basically, like we said, censorship on PCP.
00:18:51.020well that's interesting because i think my job is to throw a monkey wrench into their messaging
00:18:55.540every chance i get how do people find you online dan the best place to go is pressfortruth.ca
00:19:03.120at the top of the website you can find a number of links or you could go to pressfortruth.ca
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00:19:21.820pressfortruth.ca. Dan Dix, thank you so much for coming on the show, Dan. We really appreciate it.
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