Western Standard - CORY'S RANT Legacy media is running interference for Justin Trudeau

00:00:00.000 So in any other country, it would take a government down.

00:00:04.360 In Canada, it's not even making the top headlines with legacy media outlets.

00:00:08.600 Right now, there's some pretty solid evidence that the Prime Minister's office

00:00:11.940 may have directly pressured RCMP Commissioner Brenda Luckey

00:00:15.000 to interfere with the active investigation into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history

00:00:20.140 to score political points.

00:00:22.760 Now, some colonists out there have taken up the cause and are writing on this scandal,

00:00:25.980 but many others are trying to direct rage towards the faux scandal of Conservative MPs

00:00:31.400 who offered parliamentary tours to some activists.

00:00:34.200 It's the journalistic version of shouting,

00:00:36.240 hey squirrel, in hopes of distracting the public eye from an issue they don't want to gain traction.

00:00:41.540 Other reporters are busy offering fawning coverage of Prime Minister Trudeau

00:00:44.700 as he tours Africa and dodges questions on the scandal.

00:00:48.700 This is the sort of journalism that subsidized media buys,

00:00:52.080 with the government dangling hundreds of millions in tax subsidies in front of media outlets

00:00:55.960 and of course subsidizing the state broadcaster to the tune of $1.4 billion a year,

00:01:00.600 there's little appetite among the media outlets to upset the apple cart.

00:01:04.580 The Liberal government has created a system where media outlets have to apply

00:01:07.540 and be accredited as official with this nebulous closed-door committee.

00:01:12.160 If an outlet isn't considered to be an official media outlet,

00:01:14.260 they won't qualify for the myriad of subsidies and handouts.

00:01:17.700 With the rules for qualification not being clearly defined,

00:01:20.080 media dependent on these handouts are pretty motivated to avoid annoying the government

00:01:24.620 lest they suddenly lose that accreditation.

00:01:27.520 Just as a side note, the Western Standard applied for accreditation

00:01:30.100 and we were accepted, by the way.

00:01:32.900 We then refused the applications for the subsidies.

00:01:35.560 We just wanted to see if we could do it.

00:01:37.140 We won't give away our independence for handouts.

00:01:39.780 This method, though, of keeping the media in line appears to be working like a charm.

00:01:43.820 If such a disgraceful scandal

00:01:46.140 as Prime Ministerial interference into a mass murder investigation

00:01:49.380 were breaking 10 years ago,

00:01:51.320 the Prime Minister would be swarmed with reporters at every stop

00:01:53.820 and they'd be demanding answers.

00:01:55.160 The issue would top every headline

00:01:56.920 and an independent inquiry would be struck into the matter within days.

00:02:00.800 Today?

00:02:01.820 We're seeing a little outrage expressed on Twitter

00:02:03.780 and a few columns cutting into the issue.

00:02:05.200 That's about it.

00:02:05.680 But if Trudeau slithers out of this scandal, as he has with many others,

00:02:09.980 he'll continue on his authoritarian path of controlling media and information.

00:02:14.040 Those C-11 and C-18 are still quietly moving through Parliament 0.67

00:02:17.360 and if they pass, Canada will be second only to other nations like North Korea and China

00:02:21.120 as far as government control of information in the media and on social media are concerned.

00:02:25.640 Academics like Michael Geist have been ringing alarm bells

00:02:28.280 on this government effort to control information and discourse for years.

00:02:32.660 But a meek legacy media will barely talk about it.

00:02:35.980 Just think of the ramifications.

00:02:37.800 If this story that only reaches the third tier of legacy media attention right now,

00:02:42.820 what this is leading to.

00:02:45.440 Senior RCMP officials have stated that while the 22 bodies

00:02:48.500 of the victims of the Nova Scotia mass shootings had barely cooled yet,

00:02:52.060 the commissioner of the RCMP was bypassing communication protocols,

00:02:55.220 apparently on the behalf of the Prime Minister's office.

00:02:57.360 She was pushing for the early release of evidence to the public

00:03:01.000 in the investigation in order to help Trudeau push some gun control legislation he was cooking.

00:03:06.200 She very well could have damaged the investigation 0.82

00:03:08.760 and at the very least she should resign.

00:03:11.300 As it stands right now, Commissioner Luckey is still comfortable in her job

00:03:15.180 and the Prime Minister just said,

00:03:17.380 nah, I didn't have anything to do with it and he's moved on.

00:03:19.500 Since he's hiding overseas right now, MPs can't question him in Parliament

00:03:22.360 and Canada's pathetic legacy media corps aren't working terribly hard

00:03:25.960 to put the questions to him either.

00:03:27.780 If Justin Trudeau skates past this scandal,

00:03:30.400 much of the reason will be due to a broken media environment.

00:03:33.120 It also indicates that virtually no scandal can take this guy down.

00:03:36.640 Just think of what sort of governance we can look forward to

00:03:39.460 with Trudeau confident in the knowledge that he's politically invincible.

00:03:43.980 It's scary, guys.

00:03:45.140 If this doesn't take him down, what will?

00:03:47.300 What will?

Western Standard - June 24, 2022

CORY'S RANT Legacy media is running interference for Justin Trudeau

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