"If they told people we were Egyptians talking in Canada, yeah, the company would not get this success," a former social media manager for the company concedes

The YouTube channel Street Politics Canada is, by its own description, an “independent news organization that aims to cover unfiltered news.”

“Unlike other news organizations,” it writes, “we are clear and upfront about our biases.”

Since April 2022, it has published approximately 600 YouTube videos catering to an audience of Canadian conservatives, nearly all of which take aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. These typically consist of news clips, still photos, and basic motion graphics, accompanied by a voiceover relaying arguments and information gleaned from an assortment of Canadian sources. Titles include “Worst Prime Minister In History Gets Booed By Canadians” and “WATCH!! Trudeau Gives UNHINGED SPEECH After Protestors HECKLE him AGAIN!!” Thumbnail images often compare the prime minister to Hitler.

  • m0darn
    3·
    1 year ago

    I appreciate your engagement as a citizen.

    It absolutely was a mistake to surrender control of the committee. If opposition doesn’t like it then they don’t like FPTP.

    In the Speech from the Throne given on 4 December 2015, at the start of the 42nd Parliament, Governor General David Johnston stated that:

    To make sure that every vote counts, the Government will undertake consultations on electoral reform, and will take action to ensure that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system. (Emphasis added)

    They did undertake consultations (by setting up a compromised committee), but they didn’t take action.

    I do concede that the Liberal Party is more to blame than Trudeau himself. I don’t think he was willing to fight the party hard enough.

    • Funderpants
      3·
      1 year ago

      No they didn’t take action, but I’m not sure what action they could have taken that anyone would have been satisfied with. They could have implemented the committee reccomendations (If Trudeau had forced them to), but that had big problems, not the least of which was that a referendum (including developing of the question) would not have been finished before the next election. They could have ignored the referendum bit, and implemented some proportional system, but the NDP didn’t name a specific proportional system and besides that the LPC official party policy at the time was for STV/Ranked ballot or for a consensus option, but no concensus came out of committee. On top of all that you might remember that the ISG (independent Senate group) , didn’t form a majority in the Senate until 2019, in 2016 /2017 when this all went on the CPC was still a big enough Senate caucus to block ER if they didn’t like the terms, and the CPC didn’t consider their senators independent.

      • m0darn
        1·
        1 year ago

        Referendum:

        Question 1: Given the findings of recommendations of the Electoral Reform committee which of these electoral systems should be used in the next federal election:

        A STV

        B MMP

        C Party List (opposed by the committee)

        (No option for FPTP because the FPTP system has already chosen a change)

        Question 2: Should unelected bodies like the senate be able to obstruct the implementation of an electoral system chosen by referendum

        Yes

        No