Canadian Politics Today

The Liberals accusing their opponents of "spreading misinformation" is just the more polite, Canadian version of Trump shouting "fake news! fake news!"

Reminder that the when the C-21 amendments were first introduced in November and critics pointed out that hunting rifles were affected, Marco Moronico told us that was misinformation and that the amendments would only ban "AR-15 style assault rifles".
 -which was a bald-faced lie because the list is published and it's all there in black and white that many common hunting firearms were affected.

And when that lie ran out of gas, Marco and the Liberals updated their message to "guys we are fine-tuning the list to make sure we are only targeting these dangerous weapons designed to kill the maximum number of people in the shortest amount of time."  (if you drink a shot each time you hear Justin or Marco use the phrase "kill the maximum amount of people in the shortest amount of time" in their C-21 messaging, you'd end up in a coma.)

And then it changed to "we are listening to feedback and we are taking the time to get this right."

And in his year end chat with Senator Barton, Justin told Rosie "okay, yes, we are banning some hunting guns that are just too dangerous, but if you have a gun that is affected by the ban, you can just go buy a gun that we haven't banned yet."  (he has gone from "you don't need an AR-15 to bring down a deer" to "we'll decide what you need to bring down a deer.")

After a month and a half of obfuscation, the Liberals have, finally, acknowledged that what they'd called "misinformation" was the truth all along.

And yet, just a couple of days after acknowledging that they indeed banning some hunting guns, Justin was doing his year-end social media Q&A, and between questions about whether he would bring back the beard and about what kind of pants dogs would wear if dogs wore pants, Justin answered a question about C-21 and said that they were only going after assault style weapons and complained about "misinformation".  He seems so comfortable saying one thing to one audience then something different to another audience.

 -k