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Over the last two weeks I’ve heard from scores of people concerned about, Bill C-10 — An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act.
Despite its name, this Liberal bill is nothing short of an assault on free expression.
The bill would allow the government to regulate and restrict “broadcasts.”
What will they define as “broadcasts” you ask?
“It’s your Facebook post. It’s your tweet. It’s your cat videos. It’s your pictures of your children and grandchildren and that sort of stuff,” said Peter Menzies, former CRTC vice-chair.
Canada is a free society and in a free society people need to have the freedom to access the internet.
This bill is completely out of line.
If you agree please sign my petition against the Liberal government’s plan to censor free speech on the internet.
Watch my interview with CityNews Edmonton above.
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like we are in 2021. Sometimes it feels like we’re in 1984.
Last week, I shared a graphic noting the global scrutiny Justin Trudeau’s failure to procure vaccines has come under.
This is a well documented issue and multiple international and Canadian news agencies have commented on it, including CNN, BBC, etc.
Yet, despite the factualness of the post, Instagram censored it.
This is extremely alarming.
The idea that web giants are silencing Canadians when they criticize our government is an outrage.
There’s serious problems with the Liberals COVID-19 policies. Every Canadian needs to be free to voice their concerns and push for better outcomes. After all, that’s what democracy is all about.
If you are looking for up-to-date information on the COVID-19 virus and public health announcements please check with Alberta Health Services or the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Liberal Minister Steven Guilbeault offers his confused rationale for taking out “user-generated” content from Bill C-10. Watch the video and judge for yourself.
We Conservatives remain the only federal party opposed to the Liberals online censorship bill.
Dozens of countries around the world have fully vaccinated more people against COVID than Canada. Liberals have failed Canadians.
Great to talk with the good folks of the MS Society. Let’s all do our part and support everyone living with MS.
I’m always glad to meet with our friends at the Africa Centre to help support the good work they do in the community.
— Your free speech is at risk with Ottawa’s push to regulate online content, experts warn. Link
— Ottawa’s move to regulate video posts on YouTube and social media called ‘assault’ on free speech. Link
— Canadians need clarity from federal officials on COVID-19 health measures, vaccines. Link
— Not enough Canadians know how important the oilsands are. Link
— Liberals’ dangerous arrogance didn’t begin and won’t end with internet-regulation bill. Link
— Trudeau’s plan for the Internet: More patriotic propaganda, less choice for users. Link
— “Kerry, even though I don’t live in your riding, I still appreciate receiving your emails and getting a chance to give insight as a constituent and citizen and also participate in your polls.” — Kathy H.
— Yes, the travel ban should have been done months ago, common sense!” — Allen M.
— “All was too slow from the very beginning of the pandemic! This government is not solving problems just creating more!” — Hazel C.
In my last e-newsletter, I asked folks if they thought the Liberals were too slow to ban travel from COVID-19 hot spots.
Folks were unanimous in saying the Liberals were too slow to introduce tough border controls.
A big thanks to everyone who took part. I always appreciate hearing from you.
You can find up-to-date information from Alberta Health Services or the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Alberta Health Services can also be reached by phone at 811.
There are programs available to help you and your family during this COVID pandemic.
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I’m always eager to hear from you. Do you have beefs? Bouquets? Suggestions?
Drop me a note to my e-mail address.
Please note our local Edmonton constituency office is currently still open to serve you but it’s by appointment only. We simply ask that you call ahead to book an appointment.
Call or e-mail us and we’ll be happy to serve you.
Thanks so much. Stay healthy!
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Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is concocting an internet control bill pitched as being all about what he calls “the safety and security of the Canadian population.”
One key component will be to crack down on so-called “hate speech.”
We all know that’s code for censorship of any speech Liberals don’t like.
We already have laws in our Criminal Code against libel, slander and promoting hatred. We cannot allow the Trudeau government to layer on additional draconian laws.
Sign my petition below against this alarming intrusion into Canadians’ free speech.
I’ll not share your e-mail address or name with anyone but I’ll write a letter to Minister Guilbeault and the prime minister on your behalf demanding they stop this insidious legislation.
I was pleased to speak in the House of Commons about the Liberals’ terrible record on battling the COVID pandemic. Click on the video below to watch my member’s statement.
Scores of countries have contained the COVID-19 virus. What’s one thing most of those countries have in common? A strong border policy for limiting international spread.
This common sense approach is backed by the evidence. Yet, the Liberals have continuously failed to secure the border.
For example, as early as February 2020 we Conservatives were calling for stricter border controls for COVID-19 hot spots, but the Liberals wasted more than a month before they implemented even modest border controls.
The steps they have taken are half measures that recklessly allows the transmission of new COVID-19 variants into Canada.
One expert called Trudeau’s border measures a “Swiss-cheese policy” because it has so many loopholes.
Now we’re in a situation where the government is having to consider even more stringent travel bans. It did not have to come to this.
Canadians deserve better.
Gotta love this mural on a building in the historic Highlands neighbourhood that’s part of my Edmonton Griesbach federal riding. What’s your favourite mural in Edmonton? Send them my way at [email protected] or leave a comment when you do a survey.
I’m always grateful for the constituents who take time to fill out my householder surveys so I know what’s most important to folks I represent as their Member of Parliament.
— ‘It’s kind of depressing’: Exasperated Canadians watch Americans get vaccinated faster. Link
— Trudeau minister mocks Erin O’Toole for wearing a pro-oil and gas t-shirt. Link
— If Pearson was treated like Amazon, it would be closed. Link
— With tougher border rules appearing to work, Iceland to relax some domestic restrictions. Link
— Coun. Druh Farrell sends hardworking family’s dreams up in smoke. Link
— Entertainment Tribalism and the Loss of Common Ground. Link
— Trudeau’s COVID failures, lies a political epidemic. Link
— “Alberta O&G is once again left out disgraceful. Shades of The disastrous Pierre Trudeau!.” — Jack H.
— “Promote Canadian energy vs. importing foreign sources.” — Gerald C.
— “Complete the current pipeline.” — George H.
In my last e-newsletter, I asked folks if they were concerned about Canada’s record debt levels and the lack of a plan back to balance.
The vast majority of folks said they were concerned.
A big thanks to everyone who took part. I always appreciate hearing from you.
Do you think the Liberals were too slow to ban travel to COVID-19 hot spots?
Have your say in my unofficial poll.
I’ll publish the results in next week’s e-newsletter.
You can find up-to-date information from Alberta Health Services or the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Alberta Health Services can also be reached by phone at 811.
There are programs available to help you and your family during this COVID pandemic.
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I’m always eager to hear from you. Do you have beefs? Bouquets? Suggestions?
Drop me a note to my e-mail address.
Please note our local Edmonton constituency office is currently still open to serve you but it’s by appointment only. We simply ask that you call ahead to book an appointment.
Call or e-mail us and we’ll be happy to serve you.
Thanks so much. Stay healthy!
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By KERRY DIOTTE
Member of Parliament
“Opportunity is coming. Growth is coming. Jobs are coming.”
Those were the upbeat and naive words used by Liberal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in summing up the first budget her government has tabled in two long years.
I beg to differ with her optimistic summation.
Something is coming all right. But it’s a train — a runaway train of Liberal spending.
There’s more than $100 billion alone in brand new spending.
It details plans to tack on a half a trillion dollars in national debt.
As well, it will push our debt to GDP ratio to the stratosphere. That debt to GDP ration will soar to nearly 50% in five years.
Our deficit will be an obscene $354.2 billion.
That’s the amount of money the Liberals will spend that we don’t have.
The Liberals called this budget “A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience.”
But there’s no true plan.
As our Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole pointed out — this is not an economic recovery budget. This is an election budget.
There’s money offered like juicy carrots to just about everybody.
Here’s just SOME of the spending: $30 billion for national daycare, $8.9 billion for low-wage Canadians, $5.7 billion for youth, $12 billion for wage, rent and business subsidies,” “$18 billion to further narrow gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples,” “$2.2 billion to help end the national tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls,” and “$5 billion over seven years, starting in 2021-22, in the Net Zero Accelerator.”
Yes, there are a half dozen references in the budget speech to the word “green.’’ Freeland boasted of “investing in Canada’s green transition and the green jobs that go with it.”
But you know two words that failed to get a mention in the budget speech?
There was not one mention of the word oil or gas.
It just goes to show you how out of touch these Liberals are with Alberta and the lifeblood energy industry that fuels this nation and pays the bills for the country.
While there was plenty of talk about green schemes there was no mention, for instance, of things such as promoting pipelines to get our ethical natural resources to world markets.
How on earth will we ever be able to afford this massive Liberal, election-style spending spree unless we champion our God-given natural resources and support them?
Taxing and spending is not the magic bullet. But that seems to be the bullet train Justin Trudeau and his Liberals love.
The Liberals should (but won’t) heed the words of the late, former British PM Margaret Thatcher who’s frequently quoted as saying: “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
So true. Woe Canada.
I’m often asked what Conservatives would have done differently than Justin Trudeau on the COVID pandemic front.
There are lots of things — but here are some key ones:
1) Unlike Trudeau we would have recognized earlier on that COVID was a worldwide pandemic.
2) We would have quickly closed our borders to people arriving from COVID hotspots instead of saying such an action was somehow racist.
3) We wouldn’t have depleted Canada’s supply of PPE by shipping 16 tonnes of it to China.
4) We wouldn’t have gambled by trying to partner with China to get a vaccine — a deal that fell flat and left us late to the game in purchasing vaccines from other pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer.
5) We’d have been quicker to produce a contact tracing app.
6) We’d have more rapidly produced and employed federal rapid testing.
These are several key things we would have done differently as we worked to support Canadians through the pandemic.
Trudeau’s failed COVID-19 response is making international headlines. Recently, CNN responded on how Trudeau has botched the vaccine.
Instead of accepting responsibility for his government’s failures, the prime minister doubled down. He bizarrely claimed Britain was facing a “very serious third wave.” This is despite the fact that Britain has far fewer active cases and are actually beginning to open up thanks to their successful vaccine program.
He then went on to claim the factual CNN report wasn’t actually factual. CNN journalist Jake Tapper was having none of the “Tru-Anon” talking points and conspiracies.
Canadians deserve better!
My friend and colleague Eric Duncan is right. The ban doesn’t make sense, prevents donors from donating and needlessly discriminates against the LGBTQ+ community. It’s time to end it.
The British governments refusal to uprate pensions for British-Canadians is an unfair policy that hurts thousands of Canadians — including several of my constituents.
These pensioners paid their dues, they deserve their full pensions.
Other countries have agreements, why not Canada?
In my last e-newsletter, I asked folks if they thought Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government has botched Canada’s vaccine procurement.
Folks universally agreed that the Liberals botched it.
A big thanks to everyone who took part. I always appreciate hearing from you.
In the recent Liberal budget the Liberals commit to billions of dollars of more debt in an endless spending spree. This is of course a government that came in promising to only run three small deficits, we all remember how that worked out.
Are you concerned about Canada’s record debt levels and the lack of a Liberal plan back to balance?
Have your say in my unofficial poll.
I’ll publish the results in next week’s e-newsletter.
You can find up-to-date information from Alberta Health Services or the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Alberta Health Services can also be reached by phone at 811.
There are programs available to help you and your family during this COVID pandemic.
Share this valuable e-newsletter with a friend or post it on social mediaYou can share it here.
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Members of Parliament get the most current, accurate and comprehensive updates regarding the COVID-19 crisis. Want regular highlights of these? Sign up for my e-newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up here.
I’m always eager to hear from you. Do you have beefs? Bouquets? Suggestions?
Drop me a note to my e-mail address.
Please note our local Edmonton constituency office is currently still open to serve you but it’s by appointment only. We simply ask that you call ahead to book an appointment.
Call or e-mail us and we’ll be happy to serve you.
Thanks so much. Stay healthy!
E-mail:
[email protected]
Phone:
(780) 495-3261
Mail (postage free):
Kerry Diotte, MP
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6