Thu May 11, 2023 – 3:04 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that his government will not adopt a Liberal Party of Canada policy proposal which calls for online news “publications” whose sources cannot be “verified” to be, in effect, censored.
The non-binding policy, which has been blasted as an affront to press freedom, was passed by party members last weekend.
Said Trudeau to reporters on Tuesday regarding the Liberal policy proposal, “we will never harm journalists’ capacity to do the professional independent work that they do.”
He then claimed that the Liberal Party is worried about “misinformation and disinformation and wanting to make sure that Canadians are protected from it.”
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Rachael Thomas said of the Liberal policy, that should it be placed into a future law, it would place Canada in the likes of “places like North Korea, China, Iran and Russia.”
In total, Liberal Party members “passed and prioritized” 24 official party policies, in order of priority at its party’s National Convention last weekend in Ottawa.
Coming in at number 10 was a policy resolution titled “Combatting Disinformation in Canada,” which was sponsored by
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