Conservative MPs are trying to persuade people they’re standing in quicksand, and that they are the only branch to cling to
It’s a good thing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his colleagues have courageously called out the media collusion racket that’s being mean to their party on marching orders from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.wrote, “Trudeau’s media are desperate to stop his continued downfall,” adding, “Today, CBC’s news service CP wrote a hit piece on me because I dared criticize the World Economic Forum – a group of multinational CEOs and powerful politicians that push their interests.
Next, Tory MP and former leadership contender Leslyn Lewis sailed into the fray. “‘Conspiracy theorist’ is used to bully free-thinkers into submission so there’s no need to respond to the merits of an issue,” she wrote. “It’s disturbing to see news outlets collude to propagate biased and poorly researched claims and charges without explanation or commitment to facts.”You can find more of this dark collusion at work in other recent news stories.
That’s because it’s not a conspiracy, it’s the way a wire service works. The Canadian Press covers events across the country that other newsrooms might not be able to staff, and news outlets subscribe to CP copy to augment their own. They can combine CP files with their own reporting, or run CP files exactly as they go out over the wire, including the headline, which is what happened here.
as MPs for two decades. Ms. Lewis was first elected in 2021, but she too knows this is disingenuous, because the wire service is a fact of life on the Hill.
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