Juno News - July 14, 2026


Should Canadians be worried about this federal memo？


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

154.97

Word count

343

Sentence count

4


Summary

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A 35-page internal memo uncovered by Blacklock s reporter marks the beginning of a troubling trend. The government may be planning to sue Canadian citizens for their social media posts that they believe represent "misinformation" and "disinformation."

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00:00:00.000 And I know you're keeping a close eye on this story.
00:00:02.480 The possibility, as has been discovered in a story by BlackLock's reporter, that potentially the government is looking at suing people over their social media posts on the grounds that it represents misinformation.
00:00:15.940 And this is obviously an attack on people's freedom of expression, people's voicing opinions that the government doesn't like.
00:00:23.500 this is troubling uh for people like yourself in the business of trying to inform people about what
00:00:30.180 the government is up to isn't it uh yeah very troubling i mean i think uh canadians should
00:00:37.720 be pretty concerned about this one thankfully you know we still have the access to information act
00:00:42.640 request possibilities and that's how we were able to find out about this 35 page internal memo
00:00:49.120 that's been going around the federal government through the uh minister of industry melanie jolly
00:00:54.960 her her office and you know a lot of it was redacted of course as the government likes to do
00:01:01.360 but um the parts that were visible are pretty chilling um they're literally discussing the
00:01:07.520 possibility of suing canadian citizens for posting quote misinformation online um so we're talking
00:01:15.920 about your posts your facebook posts your tweets uh your linkedin comment it's all going to
00:01:22.640 potentially be uh you know silenced if they don't like what you have to say um and not not only that
00:01:30.000 uh mark they're they're literally talking about uh preventive action so not not only just reacting
00:01:37.760 to misinformation but trying to you know stop it before it happens under their so-called
00:01:44.480 misinformation and disinformation strategy so we're talking real-time surveillance of them
00:01:50.800 trying to shut you down before you even have the ability to post something so this is like big big
00:01:57.280 brother on steroids this is uh this is like minority report kind of thought crime stuff and
00:02:03.920 again you know this is just a memo at this point but even just the fact that they're discussing
00:02:08.960 these things should be of a grave concern to Canadians.