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'Get away from your inner circle': Liberal MP 'shocked' PM didn't take more time to reflect on calls to resign (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Longtime Liberal MP Wayne Long says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should give more weight to the views of his backbenchers in determining his future leading the Party, rather than relying on those in his immediate orbit.

“Seriously, get away from your inner circle,” Long told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday. “I don't want to name names, but get away from people, because obviously, prime ministers are somewhat insulated.”

Those sources also told CTV News at least two dozen MPs told Trudeau they’d like him to step aside during the meeting, over the course of the first ninety minutes.

But in a press conference fewer than 18 hours later, Trudeau was adamant he’s running again, a statement which caught some in his caucus, including Long, by surprise.

“I think we had hoped for serious reflection,” he told Kapelos. “Reflection in 18 hours tells me the Prime Minister, with respect, already had his mind made up.”

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[–] psvrh 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As we're seeing in the US now, and the in the UK with the ratfucking of Jeremy Corbyn, the owners of the mainstream media are not interested in covering actual left-wing values. Singh isn't great--I preferred Angus--but anything progressive he says will either get laundered by the media, or ignored completely

What just happened with the LA Times and the Washington Post vis a vis endorsing Harris should be a warning sign to progressives everywhere: the media, or at least it's owners, are already in the tank for the political right. It doesn't matter how much you try to be serious or sensible: the mass media will ignore or belittle you, while they throw softballs to the Conservatives.

It's especially an issue in Canada, where media ownership consolidation is worse than it is in the US.

This isn't to let the NDP off the hook: they need someone like Bernie Sanders, someone willing to bang the class-war drum, but what they're getting are consensus-builders who aren't much better than Trudeau et al.

[–] avidamoeba 2 points 3 months ago

I gotta say, these processes you describe that affect the media and other things become so clear when you look at reality through the class war lens. Things that get muddy when looking through the left/right lens.