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The Conservative Party is seeking to suppress some members of the media at their annual convention, despite their lip service to freedom of the press.
For a party whose leader has touted his belief in freedom of expression in the past, certain members of the media have faced bullying tactics and stonewalling at the annual Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) convention which kicked off this week in Quebec City.
Both The Maple and Breach Media have been denied accreditation to cover the event, according to Maple news editor Alex Cosh.
Furthermore, reporter Nora Loreto, who was working on behalf of The Maple to cover the event, says she was harassed by Conservative Party security at the convention and threatened with jail for doing her job.
‘Zero respect for freedom of the press’
Cosh called this behaviour by the CPC blatant bullying. Cosh told rabble.ca that even hours after requesting an explanation from Fischer, he still had not received a response.
“It’s a party that evidently has zero respect for freedom of press despite all of its overtures about so-called freedom of speech and all that kind of bluster that their leadership loves to spout all the time,” he said. “These are just empty words and as we’ve seen today, they’re not followed up by uh actions.”
Social conservatives are pushing to check Poilievre’s power
Social conservatives are pushing to check Poilievre’s power
The Conservatives are riding high in national polling and head into this weekend’s policy convention — the party’s first in-person convention since 2018 — with a sense of cautious optimism after eight years on the opposition benches.
But it wouldn’t be a Conservative gathering without some good old fashioned intra-party power struggles.
Alissa Golob, the executive director of anti-abortion group Right Now, said her organization is pushing for more transparency around party nominations and more power resting with local riding associations — rather than Poilievre and his team in Ottawa.
The group’s goal is to nominate and elect more anti-abortion politicians to the House of Commons, with an aim of passing legislation to restrict abortion access in Canada.
And, they’re attacking children
A policy proposal would prohibit “life altering medicinal or surgical interventions” for minors experiencing gender “confusion or dysphoria.” The proposal is up for debate after the conservative government in Saskatchewan announced they would force gender diverse students to use their birth names at school – a policy that is now facing a legal challenge.
The Progressive Conservative government in New Brunswick has also put in place new rules requiring children to obtain parental consent before changing their preferred name or pronouns — a policy the province’s child and youth advocate argued violates Charter rights.|Read more https://globalnews.ca/news/9945982/socons-push-to-check-poilievre-power/|
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