This cartoon by Province illustrator Dan Murphy is pure brilliance. The farty sounds are the best part.

Many thanks to Damien Gillis for sending it my way via this link to fellow Common Sense Canadian founder Rafe Mair, who writes a great “told you so” post about Province publisher Postmedia’s partisanship to industry:

Pasted hereon is one of the funniest clips I have ever seen. It’s a spoof of an Enbridge pipeline video ad by Vancouver Province cartoonist, Dan Murphy. It’s brilliant and was on the Province’s website last Friday. It was pulled a few hours later after an enraged call to the Province by Enbridge.

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Watch the above marvellous spoof – several times because it’s that funny – and remember that when the Province got its marching orders from Enbridge, the Province immediately pulled it!

Then ask yourself, doesn’t this demonstrate, beyond any doubt, why the Postmedia papers, especially the Sun and Province, have flooded their op-ed pages with industry propaganda and have avoided like the plague anything critical of this government in the environmental field? (One also must ask whether the full-page ads Enbridge has been running in the paper of late influenced the pulling of Murphy’s cartoon).

Does it not tell you that the only logical conclusion one can come to is that Postmedia papers, in Vancouver at any rate, do indeed censor and that in all probability their columnists self-censor?

This is, I admit, a delicious moment for me for all I have been saying, no doubt ad nauseum to many, about censorship in the media, has been amply demonstrated.

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