There’s an old adage that anyone who has ever worked in journalism knows very well, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” .Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is probably aware of that maxim as well. But he doesn’t really care if the pen — a free press — is more significant in a democracy than the sword; that is, your right to own a gun. He wants to crush them both, the new media and your right to self-defense, as he continues to minimize your liberty and maximize his control. .Remember how Trudeau said his latest gun seizure wouldn’t affect hunting rifles. Well, in a year-end interview with CTV News, Trudeau declared just the opposite. "Our focus now is on saying OK, there are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them to hunt," Trudeau said. "But, we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list of guns that are accepted that are fine for hunting, whether it's rifles or shotguns. We're not going at the right to hunt in this country. We are going at some of the guns used to do it that are too dangerous in other contexts." .Trudeau might as well have said, “I lied.” .Of course he wants your hunting rifles. He wants a gun-free Canada, as an opinion writer for the Washington Post noted Tuesday. He suggested the Liberals are playing a political “long game,” that's gradually eroded the assumption even if it is not recognized in the Constitution or Charter of Rights, we in this country have a tacit right to bear arms. .“... the goal that most readily springs to mind is the progressive dream of a gun-free Canada — an achievement Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might come close to achieving before his time in office is up.".“As Canadian politicians on both sides are fond of repeating, there is no Second Amendment in Canada, no constitutional right to gun ownership. There is not even a clearly articulated constitutional right to property in Canada — meaning that the ability to possess guns has never been more legally secure than the right to own any of the random consumer goods Ottawa might feel the need to regulate, restrict or ban.” .The author goes on to say the Trudeau government is only interested in appeasing political opinion and winning the votes of Canadians in cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. People living outside this urban bubble can be damned; they don’t contribute to Trudeau’s Canada. .American journalists are inclined to describe Trudeau is hagiographic terms: Such a good-looking progressive committed to “fighting” climate change and ridding his country of those evil guns that make the United States occasionally resemble a shooting gallery. But Canadians know this emperor wears no clothes except those of a growing tyrant who wants to enfeeble Canadians so they can never imagine saying no to the federal government. .Thank God provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick are fighting the gun confiscation. .But who is fighting the free press confiscation, an even more ominous political shakedown? As our publisher, Derek Fildebrandt, recently wrote, the passage of Trudeau’s Bill C-12 and C-18 “would mean the death of the new media in Canada as we know it.” .These bills are so hopelessly bureaucratic, so entangled with lawyers and deliberately inundated with ambiguous words like “fairness” that only the governing Liberals could promulgate such intentionally stupid legislation. It's designed to smother the New Media and empower the dying legacy media Trudeau has already bought off with $600 million in direct taxpayer subsidies. .As I have often opined, Trudeau’s control of the media is based on the authoritarian model of using the carrot and the stick. The carrot is government money; the stick is the censorship that Bill C-18 projects. .As we pause to consider the state of Canada at the end of 2022, it is well worth noting Trudeau wants the pen and the sword and he won’t rest until he has them locked up. And possibly you, as well.
