Pierre Poilievre doesn’t care about freedom of the press

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Pierre Poilievre, champion of the free press? It wasn’t on my 2024 bingo sheet either, but Canada’s leader of the official Opposition tried to use the arrest of Rebel Media’s David Menzies to suggest that Justin Trudeau is the real threat to journalism in Canada. That’s a bold move for a guy who’s been railing against journalists and the media ever since he entered politics, and then turned the volume up on that to 11 when he became CPC leader. If nothing else, you almost have to admire the chutzpah.

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Pierre Poilievre, champion of the free press? It wasn’t on my 2024 bingo sheet either, but Canada’s leader of the official Opposition tried to use the arrest of Rebel Media’s David Menzies to suggest that Justin Trudeau is the real threat to journalism in Canada. That’s a bold move for a guy who’s been railing against journalists and the media ever since he entered politics, and then turned the volume up on that to 11 when he became CPC leader. If nothing else, you almost have to admire the chutzpah.

Almost.

To read more of this story first reported by Canada’s National Observer, click here.

A member of the RCMP takes the handcuffs off reporter David Menzies from Rebel Media during a campaign stop for Conservative leader Andrew Scheer at the Abilities Centre in Whitby, Ont. on Monday, September 30, 2019. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press files)
A member of the RCMP takes the handcuffs off reporter David Menzies from Rebel Media during a campaign stop for Conservative leader Andrew Scheer at the Abilities Centre in Whitby, Ont. on Monday, September 30, 2019. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press files)

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