Justin Trudeau is the Borg

Canada's Prime Minister wants us in lockstep with mainstream media, all thinking the same.

Screen capture from a YouTube compilation - ‘The Borg Collective Speaks’ (click image)

While visiting Alberta this week, Justin Trudeau was interviewed live by Ryan Jespersen, a former Edmonton morning show host whose podcasts are available on YouTube and elsewhere. That’s when our Prime Minister said the following:

There is, out there, a deliberate undermining of mainstream media. There are the conspiracy theorists, there are the social media drivers who are trying to do everything they can to…prevent people from actually agreeing on a common set of facts - the way CBC and CTV, when they were our only sources of news (and Global) used to project across the country at least a common understanding of things.

Screen capture from a YouTube compilation - ‘The Borg Collective Speaks’ (click image)

Mr Trudeau referred to "people on the fringes" who eschew the "mainstream view." He said his government’s trying to “make sure Canadians understand the importance of not being fooled by misinformation, by disinformation.” Earlier in the interview, he said Albertans were being "fooled by right-wing politicians" and that oil sands workers have "been fooled" by energy companies.

Screen capture from a YouTube compilation - ‘The Borg Collective Speaks’ (click image)

Mr Trudeau is the Borg from Star Trek. He doesn’t respect alternative views. He has zero interest in listening or negotiating. If your analysis conflicts with his, you're the problem. Renounce the fringe. Fall into line like the other Borg drones. Adopt the common understanding of things being fed to you by the government funded mainstream media.

Screen capture from a YouTube compilation - ‘The Borg Collective Speaks’ (click image)

Before he entered politics, Mr Trudeau could point to few real-world accomplishments. He was a rich kid who went to private school. He dropped out of an engineering program at the University of Montreal, and out of a Masters program at McGill. He earned a teaching degree, but only taught for a few years. He’s never run a business. He’s never worried about making payroll. He's never battled government red tape.

Yet somehow be believes only his opinions are legitimate. In his universe, people who see the world differently have either been hoodwinked, or are fraudulent troublemakers. He is the Borg. No one else can possibly be correct.

Screen capture from a YouTube compilation - ‘The Borg Collective Speaks’ (click image)

While interviewing truckers and others who participated in the Freedom Convoy, I’ve been surprised by how vehemently ordinary people now reject the mainstream media. It comes up again and again – spontaneously, without any prompting.

Many feel betrayed. A great example is Jeannette, who hosted truckers on her farm 30 minutes east of Ottawa. She went from being the CBC’s biggest fan to thoroughly disillusioned. Click here to read her story from the beginning, or here for the installment in which she talks about that.

In They Made Me Look Like a Psycho, Nova Scotia trucker Jeff describes what happened after he gave interviews to CBC and CTV.

The people doing the most to undermine the media are actually the media themselves.

Click above to listen to Justin Trudeau’s interview. The mainstream media discussion happens at the end. I’ve cued the video to begin there.