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On the Sunday before Canada Day, Conservative MP Wai Young spoke at Harvest City Church, a large evangelical house of worship in her riding of Vancouver South.

The church later posted her remarks online, where the left-wing Press Progress website found them and brought them to the attention of the Internet, which mocked them at length.

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Young began by saying Prime Minister Stephen Harper “finds it a little troubling, I guess,” that he’s now one of the “senior statespeople” at international gatherings.

“Canada is blessed with a stable government,” she said, but bad journalism puts that at risk. “I wanted to say to you that I do not read the newspapers anymore, because most of the facts in there are not factual,” she said.

Too many journalists slant the truth, she said.

“Given that it’s so difficult to get real information nowadays, I just want to go back to people of faith, to just say that we’re here because we believe that Jesus served. He served but he acted as well.”