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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will not consider adopting a controversial party policy to target disinformation that critics have denounced as an assault on the free press.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made it clear on Tuesday that a government led by him would not ever implement the recently passed Liberal party policy aimed at fighting disinformation online by requiring platforms to have 'material whose sources can be traced.'
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The prime minister dismissed a controversial policy his own party endorsed at its convention last weekend.
The fact that a motion cruised through last week’s federal Liberal convention that, if ever enacted, would amount to state control of all media, speaks volumes about the mindset of the federal Liberals these days.
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