Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[ArmyRick]

Thanks. I’ll reserve judgment til I can actually read the source material.

If it is just an idea, nothing can happen until the fall anyways.

 

[ArmyRick]

Thanks. I’ll reserve judgment til I can actually read the source material.

NOT concrete evidence by a long shot. This is where I first heard the rumour. I will keep snooping until I find someone from the LPC actually saying it.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

NOT concrete evidence by a long shot. This is where I first heard the rumour. I will keep snooping until I find someone from the LPC actually saying it.

Hmm.

As this references a memo dated 31 Mar 26 It would have been useful to also read the slides from other sources, including the official policy issued 6 weeks ago on 21 May:

Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants - Democratic Institutions - Canada.ca

The Countering Disinformation: A Guidebook for Public Servants gives federal public servants a basic understanding of the threat of disinformation to Canada’s democracy and offers guidance on how to identify, build public resilience to, and counter disinformation.

www.canada.ca

 

[ArmyRick]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

Glass half full: we should be able to up the bar for event fashion

 

[GR66]

Back to the Euro-vision horseshit. I just found out the federal government spent $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing. What a piss poor decision and very poor optics if it is true.

Nowadays it seems like headlines are often designed to generate outrage but often when you look more deeply into a story you'll find there is more to it than just the rage-bait.

Yes, Canada is now eligible to take part in the Euro-Vision contest. However, we didn't "spend $150 million so we could enter this euro-vision music thing". We paid $150 million for the CBC to become a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The EBU is an alliance of public service media, with 115 member organizations across 57 countries, in addition to 28 associates.

CBC’s promotion to EBU full member means the public broadcaster can now access “networks for investigative journalism, verification, digital news and data, as well as the Eurovision News Exchange and Euroradio Music Exchange services,” a news release from CBC and the EBU says.

The exchange also allows members to share live and edited news coverage.

And yes, as a member of the EBU Canada can now also choose to take part in the Euro-Vision contest if we choose.

Feel free to argue whether the benefits of being a member of the EBU is worth the investment or not, but it's false to say that we're just paying to take part in a song contest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-eurovision-eligible-2026-9.7248844