We’ve reached a breaking point: Online hate threatens our democracy:
Federal Liberal cabinet ministers are trading in their summer
barbecue bibs for crisp autumn button-downs this week as they gather for
a three-day work retreat in Vancouver before beginning their pilgrimage back to Ottawa for the opening of Parliament’s next legislative session.
Having
fanned out across the country over the past 10 weeks, ministers will
have heard many common themes from Canadians. They’ll, no doubt, report
back about how they’ve been told by constituents to do more to address
critical issues like affordability and the skyrocketing prices for
consumer goods, global warming and refugee resettlement, to name just a
few.
But when ministers convene to compare notes on their summer
dispatches, there’s another far more insidious problem that needs to be
brought to the cabinet table for deliberation. It’s one, in fact, that
threatens the very fabric of our democracy: anger, aggression and hate
spurred by increasing social polarization.
We’ve reached a breaking point: Online hate threatens our democracy: Federal Liberal cabinet ministers are trading in their summer
barbecue bibs for crisp autumn button-downs this week as they gather for
a three-day work retreat in Vancouver before beginning their pilgrimage back to Ottawa for the opening of Parliament’s next legislative session.Having
fanned out across the country over the past 10 weeks, ministers will
have heard many common themes from Canadians. They’ll, no doubt, report
back about how they’ve been told by constituents to do more to address
critical issues like affordability and the skyrocketing prices for
consumer goods, global warming and refugee resettlement, to name just a
few.But when ministers convene to compare notes on their summer
dispatches, there’s another far more insidious problem that needs to be
brought to the cabinet table for deliberation. It’s one, in fact, that
threatens the very fabric of our democracy: anger, aggression and hate
spurred by increasing social polarization.Read More