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It’s one thing to upset a special interest group. It’s another to turn many millions of people against you.

The Trudeau Liberals raised the ire of progressives when they backed away from electoral reform. They faced stiff opposition from small business groups when they started monkeying around with tax issues.

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But all of this will look like small potatoes if they try to clamp down on what people get up to on social media platforms, such as Facebook.

The Liberals have been ever so softly publicly toying with the notion of somehow regulating social media. If they proceed with this, the blowback will be immense.

“Trudeau has warned social networking giant Facebook it needs to fix its ‘fake news’ problems or face stronger regulations from Ottawa,” the Toronto Star reported earlier this month. “Trudeau told Facebook chief operating office Sheryl Sandberg in November he was concerned the company wasn’t doing enough to stop the spread of misleading information on their platform.”