The consensus media and the United Nations, you know that I love them both right?
Yesterday we told you about UN Bureacrat Olivier De Schutter the special rapporteur on the non-existent right to food.
I explained that this so-called right to food doesn’t exist in our legal or constitutional traditions, it’s not in the Charter and I’m pretty sure it ain’t in the Magna Carta.
It is in the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights but that document also claims that adequate paid vacations are a human right. It also isn’t a law or legal document in Canada.
Was any of this covered in the media? Outside of Sun News, just one writer bothered to mention this.
Most just took De Schutter at his word and didn’t challenge his premise.
Look, we all know there are hungry people in Canada, there are poor people in Canada, just as there are in all countries and they will always be with us. Despite claims to the contrary you cannot eradicate poverty completely. People that were poor move up the ladder, others fall down and the cycle begins all over again.
So we know that people need help in Canada and we didn’t need Scooter from the UN coming here to tell us that.
What did he tell us though – he called for a national food strategy. That was reported widely but did they explain what it meant?
Here’s what the Toronto Star put in their story:
“De Schutter urged Canadian governments to work together to develop a national food strategy.”
The Globe and Mail wisely didn’t publish a word in their newspaper about this claptrap.
Over at Post Media they had a story that again said Scooter wanted a strategy but with no explanation of what that strategy is?
No one is explaining what this national food strategy is, they just tell you that Scooter thinks we should have one.
So let’s review what he wants.
- Higher taxes, especially for the wealthy
- A living wage, higher minimum wage
- Higher welfare payments
- An end to food banks and other charities dealing with the poor
- Bigger role for government
- A tax on sugar and fatty foods
- Rolling back trade liberalization
- Revert large farms to small farms
In essence what Scooter wants Canada to adopt is a European style of socialism.
Why wouldn’t the other media outlets tell you that?
Well maybe they don’t understand what he’s calling for, maybe they don’t get what he’s getting at.
Or maybe it’s because they agree with all those policies. For many reporters, I expect that is the case. We know the media leans left, we know there is far more acceptance of socialist policies among the consensus media than there is acceptance of conservative policies.
There is another problem here as well.
Do you ever notice that you rarely get government policy or an opposition policy proposal explained to you?
Instead it is so and so proposed X and so and so said no.
The story is rarely about the policy, not in any serious way. It is about the fight.
So yesterday it was a story about the mean conservative government saying no to the nice European socialist.
Conservatives bad, socialists good.
You know the score here.
I’m not sure the consensus media does. I don’t think they notice it. Maybe because so many of them are so far left they don’t even realize they are socialists.
We deserve better.
And that’s the Byline.
Categories: Byline
Time to quit the U.N. Increasingly it supports the worst regimes in the world and dares to criticize the less than perfect ones. Fools, thieves and demagogues.
Brian, your article comes through as a big breath of fresh air. Hopefully we have a lot more of that in Canada soon!
AH! The MESSENGERS FOR THE NDP AND LIBERALS come out speak and write for their bosses.
Why is the PM bothering to keep canada afloat is beyond me why waste his time. The messengers of the left will face what they called for Socialism to the very core. That is after the conservatives are removed from government. Then and only then will the media brag so much about their socialist government that most of us wouldn’t know nor care because we are gone.
No reasonable intelligent business will stay in canada to have their profit forcefully redistributed under the NDP Government.
You people have it easy now in Canada but wait and what will you brag about then? “Gosh, we are doing so well in the markets downturn, we are thrilled that we have to redistribute our wealth our money to those who don’t want to work.”
There is no pride in the media for our country. Man oh man if USA was doing as good as Canada. EVERY AMERICAN LEFT RIGHT CENTER MEDIA WILL BRAG DAILY showing and reshowing the jobs creating, the government proudly displaying the greatness of their country; not one reporter will speak negatively about the government for the ‘HARD WORK’ he or she struggled to do during the recession.
Unfortunately the americans are hurting right now. Yet they look to their neighbour Canada FOR COMFORT a place where they can invest work and live. The admiration for Canada is so great that NOT ONE PRICKING CANADIAN REPORTER IN THE MEDIA CAN UTTER NONE.
So my question to the media including SNN ‘why do you give rat’s ass about canada the economy or for that TSX or how much the TSX is doing when your pals the NDP PLAN AND WILL SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE ECONOMY.
The canadian public are so heavily brainwashed and so manipulated that it is of no wonder the ndp can fill their heads with milk and honey for nothing.
Brian, you should ask @realalexjones on to Byline. You and him are a tag team of anti-globalism. Globalists want to deindustrialize the 1st world and kill the 3rd world.
Ironic it bears the popular monicer “UN” because it’s UN-democractic, UN-Canadian, UN-accountable and UN-acceptable to free sovereign nations.