Globe and Mail exposes Putin's propaganda war on Canada

The Kremlin's disinformation campaign is apparently much more extensive than we hitherto realized. Here are just a few of the falsehoods the Ruskies have been pushing, according to Steven Chase on page A3 of today's paper:

- Chrystia Freeland is a shameless warmonger

- Justin Trudeau doesn't care about the lives of Indigenous children

- Canada is a colony of the US empire

- PM Fluffy is a tool of the wealthy, and not only that, he is also a neoliberal capitalist pawn of the oligarchy.

I'll be the first to admit I've been totally taken in by Putin's propaganda. As a matter of fact, these points of view have, at least until today, struck me as self evident and non-controversial. I might quibble a little with the particulars - for example, I don't believe Justin gives a rat's ass about ANY Indigenous people, children or adults - but the overall thrust, that Canada is a meek and docile handmaiden to US power... well, to have that exposed as a lie is quite a shock!

Then again, the only source for Mr. Chase's scary story are the Champions of American Exceptionalism at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a so-called Canadian think tank that happily solicits and receives funding from the US State Department.

Forget Putin; who's keeping us safe from US propaganda?

A red-letter day for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

This is indeed a special day for the non-partisan Macdonald-Laurier Institue, which is often accused of being just another oh-so-predictable right-wing think tank.

But they're not, because they're not partisan. So even though top tanker Brian Lee Crowley is very much a Harper gang insider, they're not partisan. If you don't believe me look it up. If there's one thing that the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is clear about, it's that they're non-partisan.

What makes today so special for the non-partisan thinkers at the non-partisan Institute is that they have managed to place not one but TWO non-partisan anti-tax screeds in a single issue of Canada's national newspaper!

On page A-13 the Institute's non-partisan research co-ordinator debunks the profoundly flawed but popular notion that rich people should pay taxes.

Then on page B-2 Crowley himself steps up to the podium and demolishes the equally flawed notion that rich corporations should pay taxes!

Truly a double dose of non-partisan goodness!