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As Election 2019 marches on into its second week, you would never know that the parties running in the election are actually releasing policy statements on what they would do if elected. Instead, thanks to the Liberals and their smear tactics, we now know that Andrew Scheer did not share a stage with Faith Goldy at the United We Roll rally back in the winter but she offered to take Justin Trudeau for a drink.

Thanks to the Liberals and their clapping seals in the media, the antics in this election belong on a tabloid news show, not on the nightly news to inform Canadians and help them make their choice as to who to cast a vote for.

Oh, wait, Canada’s bought and paid for media has become tabloid news these days and they are the news. This is where social media has been invaluable to call out the latest election news which is now known as “the great poutine caper. “

Someone on social media posed these questions and they are right.

“Where are the hard questions about the issues Canadians care about?

“Why was an important announcement by Scheer buried down in the headlines? “

“Why is he peppered with questions all day long but Trudeau gets a pass? We know the CBC was awarded $675 million over 5 years after the last election but now the rest of the media will be subsidized with $595 million of our tax dollars. Are they afraid to bite the hand that feeds them?”

Macleans columnist Andrew MacDougall, a former communications director for Stephen Harper also wonders the same thing.

“A free and independent press exists to query the policies of the powerful. They’re there to surface scandal and hold people to account. They’re there to ask the hard questions us ordinary folk can’t sneak past our politicians’ Praetorian Guard during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ or Facebook Live session. And right now that free and independent press isn’t doing its job.” “To wit, yesterday Andrew Scheer dropped the biggest policy announcement of the campaign to date—and it’s not at all obvious that it even happened.

At time of writing, there are currently 18 stories on the popular National Newswatch website that appear before the first story on Andrew Scheer’s proposed “Universal Tax Cut” announced yesterday, which proposes to cut the tax rate on taxable income under $47,630 to 13.75 per cent from 15 per cent, a savings worth hundreds of dollars to the average family. This sounds like something you—the voter—might wish to know about, right? But unless you scroll and look for the small print you’re likely to miss it.”

FYI: National Newswatch is run by Bruce Anderson– chairman of Abacus Data and father of Trudeau’s Communications director Kate Purchase.

Anywhere you went to find real news – whether it was the CBC, CTV, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star or local and regional papers, Scheer’s tax cut policy was “buried beneath the fold” – in other words, buried below the “fluff” stories such as “Five things Jagmeet Singh wants you to know about his turban” and other such tripe.

A good example of burying this tax cut was on a Southern Ontario TV station that has a wide broadcast area – where, in order of importance to them, the lead story was Elizabeth May’s policy rollout, Jagmeet Singh’s turban, Justin Trudeau attending the rally for tennis champion Bianca Andreescu and finally, Andrew Scheer’s tax cut.

One of the big questions of Election 2019 so far is Trudeau’s lack of media availability along with his non-appearance at the recent CityTV/Macleans debate.

That all came to a head yesterday with the “great poutine caper” – “showing a CBC reporter fawning over attention from Justin Trudeau, accepting poutine fries with a hearty laugh. It was notable because the CBC reporter – David Cochrane – had previously been defending Justin Trudeau’s indefensible avoidance of the reporters’ questions and scrutiny.”

Ezra Levant noted this about David Cochrane : ““That smiling, laughing journalist is @CochraneCBC, who has spent two days acting as Trudeau’s lawyer, defending his decision not to take questions from the media. He’s been a good boy, and deserves a good boy treat. And look at that good boy smile!”

Andrew McDougall, in his Macleans column, said this about David Cochrane:

“To be fair, Team Trudeau did tell journalists the weekend was dedicated to ‘rapid movement’ and questions would thus be impossible, an excuse that would have been excoriated by a press pack in my days working for Stephen Harper, but elicited a patient and understanding thread from CBC reporter David Cochrane, a display of docility that will merit an entire chapter when “the history of the death of political journalism in Canada” is written.

To his credit, Cochrane did ask Trudeau about his lack of availability when next given the chance. (It is for others to judge, however, whether that question could have better been spent querying Trudeau on his just-announced policy to intrude on provincial jurisdiction regarding child care.)”

Looking at David Cochrane’s Twitter feed, the gig is up as Canadians see behind the façade of Trudeau and his bought and paid for media.

The “poutine video” went viral over many Twitter accounts but the most disturbing thing was that the video was rapidly taken down – for “copyright infringement.”

But, as fast as it was taken down, it went back up again, thanks to many conservative thinkers on social media, like “Elect Conservatives” who uploaded the video after it was taken down.

It’s only been via Twitter and bloggers like Spencer Fernando and independent news sites like Post Millenial who have brought this story to light.



The fact the video was taken down is another issue to be delved into. It sets a dangerous precedent that a news channel would go that far to take down a video in order to protect themselves and their leader. But, it is the CBC – which, among other names, is known as the media wing of the Liberal party, thanks to their 1.2 billion dollar/year taxpayer funding.

Canadians have known for years about the decidedly Liberal bias in Canadian news but with the Liberal media bailout – led by UNIFOR’S conservative hating , bellowing bully Jerry Dias, it’s been taken to new lows.

It’s keeping news that matters from Canadians, which is what this government wants. It’s been said before that the Liberals will pull out the stops to win at any costs and this latest incident proves it.

Andrew Scheer has been available to the press each and every day, more than willing to answer questions about his policies and how they will benefit Canadians along with stories that matter, like the recent story of the RCMP official arrested for alleged espionage. The same can be said for both Elizabeth May and Jagmeet Singh who have both had press availability.

Singh and May actually showed up to last week’s debate, unlike Trudeau who, according to Maclean’s columnist Andrew MacDougall, “hid in plain sight, refusing to scrum while insisting the press cover his down-to-earth photo ops in places like Saint-Tite, Quebec, and his glitzier stop with tennis sensation Bianca Andreescu in Mississauga.”

With Trudeau in hiding over the weekend, his trained seals have been out on the campaign trail, not pushing policies but digging up old tweets about Conservatives and forwarding it to their media minions who dutifully put the stories above the fold.

Never mind that Liberal candidates have skeletons in their closets which Rachel Curran, a former Stephen Harper aide has been tweeting about. Funny thing – no media has questioned Justin Trudeau about the dodgy Liberal candidates.

It’s been said before but it bears repeating that “truth has no agenda” but the Liberals do – and have pulled out all of the stops in order to claim victory on October 21st, 2019. From the media bailout to restricting social media, to changing the rules when it comes to political advertising and debates, the Liberals have either changed the rules, ignored the rules or made up new rules to favour them.

In the pre-election days, Justin Trudeau promised that this campaign would be “clean” and that has not materialized. It’s fearmongering 101. It’s smears based on conversations that date back 10 or more years. He has accused the Conservatives of dividing Canada, of denying “climate change” and of bringing forth legislation that the Conservatives closed the door on many years ago along with Trudeau and his minions calling Canadians “racist” for speaking out against their immigration policies. When your own policiies are indefensible, you resort to this.

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