What Do Trudeau and Putin Have in Common

The CBC recently published a story about how Putin is controlling the news media in order to strengthen his own political position. This coming from Canada’s State Broadcaster who has a reputation for being the propaganda arm of Trudeau’s government. While Trudeau’s brand of controlling the media might be a kinder, gentler version of Putin’s, their underlying intent of controlling the media to maintain their political power is largely similar. Meanwhile, Canada’s newly minted Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodriguez, announces a new bill, Bill C-11, that would give the federal government more control over online media. What ever could go wrong? Bill C-11 is largely a retread of former Heritage Minister, Steven Guilbeault’s, controversial Bill C-10-- the new one, however is clearly better; it goes up to eleven where the old only went to ten! The new Heritage Minister promises that all the bad stuff that the Trudeau government was trying to enact last time in Bill C-10 has b