Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote Twitter CEO Elon Musk to ask him to put the government label on CBC accounts.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
It’s no great injustice to label the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as “government-funded media” on Twitter, because it is. But what’s remarkable is how Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre campaigned for that label – but not for a similar label to be applied to the CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada.
Mr. Poilievre went out of his way to write Twitter CEO Elon Musk to ask him to put the government label on CBC accounts and also to tweet about it with a justification: It’s just a fact.
Once Twitter did it, Mr. Poilievre took to Twitter again crowing that the new label proved that the CBC is nothing but “Trudeau propaganda.”
You might think he did all this because Mr. Poilievre just delights in picking culture-war…
