Canadian legacy media journalists are just Trudeau's employees
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It's no wonder so many Canadians have lost trust in the legacy media over the past eight years. It's not just that the media is biased towards the Liberal Party, it's that they are fully in the tank for the Liberals. They can't survive without them because the quality of their content is terrible, and as much as they pretend to be neutral arbiters of truth, they are obviously trying to skew every story to move people with their support still up in the air towards the Liberals, and I think this post perfectly encapsulates this problem.
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It's no wonder that so many Canadians have lost trust in the legacy media over the past eight
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years. It's not just that the media is biased towards the Liberal Party, it's that they are
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fully in the tank for the Liberals. They want Justin Trudeau to win because they want their
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subsidies to keep rolling in. They can't survive without them because the quality of their content
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is terrible. And as much as they pretend to be neutral arbiters of truth, they are obviously
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trying to skew every story to move people with their support still up in the air towards the
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Liberals. And I think this post perfectly encapsulates this problem. So this legacy media journalist was
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reacting to this post from Pierre Polyev. I'll go to what this person was saying in just a second here.
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But Pierre Polyev said, hurrah, he hiked your rent another 10% this year. Another round of applause
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everyone. And it's a post jabbing at Justin Trudeau going after him because rent had increased in
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Canada 10% in the year 2023. Now this legacy media journalist, this freelancer, Dale Smith then
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reacts to this Polyev post by saying, rental increases are provincial jurisdiction. Provinces
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have control over how much rent can rise in a year. They have the power to stop it from rising that much
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and they choose not to. Premiers, not Justin Trudeau. Now Dale Smith might say that, well, my Twitter
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account is just my own opinions. But he does present himself as just a journalist, not an op-ed writer,
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not just a guy who writes opinion articles. He is somebody who is a journalist. What kind of
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journalistic skills is he using in this post? He is just basically saying that Polyev can't criticize
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Justin Trudeau because housing is a provincial matter. And while that's true, it's true in the most surface
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level ways possible. The federal government obviously does have a lot of control over housing
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prices. And his pitch that rent control is the solution to this problem is utterly insane. No,
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you cannot just rent control yourself out of a housing crisis. Rents and housing prices are going
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up for a reason. And those reasons are taxation, regulations, and immigration. Things that Justin Trudeau
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has a lot of control over. But no, it's Premier Daniel Smith's fault in Dale Smith's mind. But
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really, it's not. It's just anybody but Justin Trudeau's fault. Or at the very least, it's whoever
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Pierre Polyev is not blaming because he just hates Pierre Polyev and he wants Pierre Polyev to lose the
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next election. This is the character of so many people in the legacy media. Even if they act more neutral,
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all of their stories are skewed towards naysaying the conservatives, bringing in experts to contradict
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them, bringing in people to say, oh, this conservative once kicked my dog or whatever.
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It's always trying to subtly push people towards thinking that the conservatives don't really know
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what they're talking about. They're not like those intellectual policy wonks in the Liberal Party or
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the NDP. That's what the media wants at the end of the day, that they present the news in such a way
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that you think, well, these conservatives really don't know what they're talking about. And I bump
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into people like that all the time at the doors. It's becoming far less because people are actually
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being hurt so badly by the Liberal Party's policies that they're no longer willing to just listen to
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the news and hear that Pierre Polyev is a big rube and you better vote for Justin Trudeau if you're a
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smart and handsome voter. People don't get won over by that anymore. But you still bump into a few
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people who think, I'm not dumb enough to vote for the conservatives. If you think that it takes a
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certain level of unintelligence to vote for a smaller government, then you've been watching way
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too much cable news. You're watching too much CBC, CTV news, global city TV, because all those outlets
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are merely sneering at whatever the conservatives say. And these people are mirroring the sneering.
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How sad is it that I keep running into these men who are in their mid-60s, and yet they
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have the politics of 18-year-old girls in anthropology in college. It's insane. All
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these guys are like, I would never vote for the bigoted conservatives. And obviously the vast
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majority of Canadians at any age group and gender are voting for the conservatives. But it astounds
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me that you bump into people who are rich because of conservative policies in the past, because they
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actually let you succeed in the economy. But now they want to sit back home and say,
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conservatives said something that must be wrong because they're not smart like I and Lisa Laflamme
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are, like I and Dale Smith are. If you believe liberal party media narratives, despite the fact
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that every single time the liberals roll out a new program or economic growth policy, it utterly fails,
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then you're just the fool. You haven't been fooled. You are a fool. So you are fooled.
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So that should be it for me today. I don't want to go on too long about this. But that Dale Smith
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tweet really demonstrates what a lot of legacy media journalists truly think about politics.
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If a conservative says something, it's wrong. If a liberal says something, it must somehow have a
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little bit of a rub of truth to it. And mark my words, Dale Smith in two months, if Pierre
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Polyev says anything about health care, he will say that Polyev wants to take away public health care.
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He wants to destroy the universal system in this country. And he will be mad if I come back at him
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and say, isn't health care a provincial matter? He'll say, but the federal government has so much
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control over it. What can you do? Anyways, the give, send, go link for our legal fund is in the
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description of this video below. And if you live in my riding of Calgary, Signal Hill on the west side,
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and are a conservative member, make sure to mark me number one on your ballot so we actually have
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real conservatives representing strong conservative ridings, not just failed pro-lockdown MLAs trying
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to sneak into different areas or people who are purely running on their resumes because they don't
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actually have many conservative principles to show you. Anyways, that's it for me today. Have a good one.