#AttackOnPress

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2023-02-22

#OPINION: Pierre Poilievre’s media-bashing foreshadows his approach to governing. This is a dark hole that the Conservative leader is taking his party down. Threats and even attacks on journalists are on the rise in many countries.

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OPINION: Pierre Poilievre’s media-bashing foreshadows his approach to governing

This is a dark hole that the Conservative leader is taking his party down. Threats and even attacks on journalists are on the rise in many countries.

By Robin V. Sears
Contributing Columnist
Wed., Feb. 22, 2023
3 min. read

Photo: Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s “boast that, if elected, one of his first acts will be to abolish the CBC, but not Radio/Canada — a hypocritical appeal to Quebec voters — should ring loud alarms. Tory spinners claim they don’t intend to get rid of the CBC, merely to privatize it. This is a nonsense,” writes Robin Sears.  DAVE CHIDLEY / THE CANADIAN PRESS

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