Physicist Leo Szilard decided he might keep a diary. He told his friend Hans Bethe that he wasn’t going to publish it. “I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.” Bethe responded, “Don’t you think God knows the facts?” Szilard replied, “Yes. He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts.”

To understand Justin Trudeau one must see him as he sees himself. Like the benevolent character in Catcher In The Rye, he thinks he’s stopping innocent children toppling over a cliff. Unlike Holden Caulfield, however, he does want nasty people to go flying over that same cliff. In his world you must choose his side or the other.

So he keeps coming up with craziness like Bill C-11. When comms experts gather in the future to study political persuasion they will no doubt land upon the famed Trudeau Bill C-11 Blunder. Perfected in the second decade of this century it was characterized by a besieged government replacing one toxic storyline with another oeuvre even more mind-bendingly toxic.

In the classic example they will see how a desperate prime minister Justin Trudeau replaced the stain of applauding a former Waffen SS trooper in Parliament with a decision to reverse earlier assurances that he would not seek to censor smaller online content providers in Canada.

Having already stated last spring that any notions the CRTC (read: the PMO) will regulate content of such as podcasts as a “myth”, they added that “a person who creates audio or video content or creates a podcast, is not a broadcaster under” the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11).

But now, “following broad consultations”, the government has had second thoughts. Seeking to de-Hunka-fy its swooning fortunes, PMJT’s bureaucrats have changed their (read: his) mind. Stating that programs under the Broadcasting Act “are comprised of sounds intended to inform, enlighten or entertain” the government is asking that the web-based carriers of said podcasters register them so that the CRTC (read: the PMO) can monitor them for content. (And destroy their profit model.)

See? They’re cleverly saying the podcasters themselves don’t have to register; it’s the people who carry their products who have to submit. This is like saying we aren’t controlling the auto makers, just the people who own the roads. They will determine what’s a safe car or good driving. It’s diabolically clever. Or Stalinist.

Monitor them for what you may ask? In its best sanctimonious voice the government says it needs to assure the nation that there is enough pure Canadian content instead of that cheap American stuff that people actually want to watch or read. Also it wants to get rid of icky counter-narratives that show the Liberals as gormless hacks who couldn’t sell ice cubes in the desert.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is also offering assurances that this Canadianization of the internet will not end up with only Bruce Arthur allowed to write columns or Netflix forced to show The Beachcombers over Need For Speed. Because their word is their bond, we can take that to the bank. (So long as that bank has Sam Bankman-Fried as its CEO.

That what was once unthinkable has now become doctrine is unsurprising if you’re following this prime minister and his coterie of Klaus Schwabians. Remember how the jolly burgermeister once said he had “penetrated” as much as half the Canadian cabinet? People thought he was kidding. Bad call. (We discussed Trudeau’s Manchurian Candidate relationship with the WEF in July.)

Anyone disagreeing with world government and personal social credit scores is now in the cross-hairs. They are the modern successors to the totalitarian scoundrels who made the 20th century a charnel house. Like Nicolai Ceausescu’s Romanian government in 1983. It created a law requiring typewriter owners obtain a license from the police to own or even retain these 'dangerous' devices. Because every keyboard at the time was distinct, the soon-to-be-ventilated Ceausescu could know exactly who was sending nasty letters to the editor. Or planning a coup. The police would take samples from each typewriter on file. Ah, as Klaus would say, the good old days.

Didn’t save the Romanian strongman or the other Commie/ Nazi bastards who polluted the world last century. But Schwab and Trudeau are making another stab at global domination. Already blaming BadThink for the wrong people winning the Slovak election, the WEF… er, the EU has enacted new repressive online censorship laws along the lines of C-11 to create GoodThink in the Euro citizenry. What could go wrong?

PMJT has set a deadline of mid-November for compliance to the new reality. With Jagmeet Singh’s caucus on board to stamp out positive Pierre Poilievre stories, the coast will be clear for unelected, anonymous bureaucrats to build algorithms that ferret out those who believe that free speech means exactly that.

Most galling in all this is the obvious conclusion that Trudeau, Rodriguez and their colleagues have’t a clue what they’re doing, says Aaron Wudrick of the Mac Donald/ Laurier Institute. “@awudrick ·2h Pre-internet, CanCon rules were meant to address a) scarcity & b) content aimed *at Canadians*. The internet eliminated scarcity, & shifted audience of Canadian content from domestic to global. None of the Trudeau govt's legislation suggests they understand either change.”

No doubt there will be resistance, but this government knows how to handle subversives who challenge the goals of the state (read: the PMO). Whipping up those media drudges who were most useful in the Freedom Convoy suppression they’ll echo new House Speaker Greg Fergus who found right-wing reactionaries saluting the Nazi flag in the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

Wait, that’s been done. In the house of Commons. Oh well, they’ll come up with something to move the narrative away from Hunka Town and toward a bright new day devoid of right-wing terror. With 18 months till Trudeau is forced to call an election that could be just enough time to pass the no-return point on censorship.

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Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx

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