Fri Mar 31, 2023 – 9:06 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – On Thursday during debate in the House of Commons regarding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s internet censorship Bill C-11, Speaker of the House Anthony Rota took issue with Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre’s displaying a copy of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, calling it a “prop.”
Poilievre was using 1984 to make a point about how C-11 will bring forth more government control of everyday Canadians’ lives, noting how the classic novel is not supposed to be “an instruction manual.”
Poilievre was debating Bill C-11 with Trudeau’s Parliamentary Secretary Greg Fergus, saying “Even Margaret Atwood, no conservative, has said that this bill represents ‘creeping totalitarianism,’ Creeping totalitarianism. It gives the power to a woke agency, the CRTC, named by liberals, to manipulate social media algorithms in order to shut down voices it does not want people to hear.”
“When will this government realize that Orwell’s 1984 was not an instruction manual,” Poilievre said.
In response, Fergus said, “We’re doing and making sure that big tech is going to be paying their fair share.”
Poilievre said in response, “And therein lies the problem. The
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