Juno News - Trudeau lifts the federal ban on ads from Meta platforms

00:00:00.000 Let's talk about Justin Trudeau and his latest attempt to manipulate Canadians and control the

00:00:05.980 media. So on Wednesday, we learned that the Trudeau government had ended its own self-imposed ban on

00:00:12.700 advertising on meta platforms. So starting soon, you'll once again be able to see Government of

00:00:18.960 Canada ads on Facebook and Instagram. The Privy Council office, which is filled with Justin

00:00:24.860 Trudeau's own personal bureaucrats recently spent $100,000 promoting Justin Trudeau's

00:00:31.680 GST tax holiday shtick, which was designed to bribe Canadians with our own money in order

00:00:38.960 to boost Justin Trudeau's public image.

00:00:41.980 But wait a minute.

00:00:42.840 Back in July of 2023, Justin Trudeau himself pledged not to give any money to Meta that

00:00:49.960 no government advertising would be spent on Meta because Meta had decided to pull Canadian news

00:00:56.680 from its platforms. So why would Meta pull Canadian news from its platforms? Well, because

00:01:02.680 one component of Justin Trudeau's censorious online news act was an attempt to shake down

00:01:08.680 the tech giant to force them to give a bailout to failing Canadian news companies. At the time,

00:01:15.880 Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said no to that request. And in turn, Justin Trudeau pulled

00:01:22.200 Canada's measly government ad spend. Well, now that Trudeau needs to use Zuckerberg's platforms

00:01:28.680 to promote his own vote buying scheme for the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau is walking that

00:01:34.920 back. But Meta's news ban still applies, making it so that Canadians cannot view or share news

00:01:42.120 stories on its platforms. So thanks to Justin Trudeau's meddling in the market

00:01:48.060 of Canadian news, independent organizations like True North have lost a

00:01:52.620 huge part of our audience, including the millions of Canadians who used to

00:01:56.360 interact with our stories on Facebook and Instagram. So did you get that? Trudeau

00:02:01.860 is saying it's okay for him and his government to be back on Facebook and

00:02:05.820 Instagram, but it's not okay for journalists and organizations like True

00:02:10.620 North. Very fitting, very rich. Now, you probably saw last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that

00:02:16.640 there were welcomed changes to Meta's policies, which recognize the public shift that we've had

00:02:22.020 towards free speech. Zuckerberg said that he would do away with politically biased third-party fact

00:02:28.380 checkers and move towards X, the X model of community notes and having more say from the

00:02:35.720 people more free speech. He also said that Meta was returning to its roots of free expression

00:02:41.100 and allowing more sharing of news and political opinions in algorithms and on the platform.

00:02:48.140 But yet again, thanks to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, Canadians will still be banned from

00:02:53.580 seeing news.

Juno News - February 07, 2025