Canadian foreign minister declares war on Russian ‘propaganda,’ calls for more internet regulations
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Government regulation is needed online to curb ‘propaganda’ that is ‘happening in our democracies,’ Melanie Joly said
(LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said the Canadian government must regulate the internet to stop the spread of Russian “propaganda.”
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, a Canadian ban on both Russian state-owned RT News and Sputnik TV from broadcasting on Canada’s airwaves are not enough and “we’ve pushed digital platforms to also ban them, but we need to do more.”
Joly said her mandate as foreign minister “is really to counter propaganda online.”
The remarks by Joly were made at a recent meeting of the House of Commons foreign affairs committee and came after Liberal MP Randeep Sarai asked her what Canada was doing to “fight disinformation.”
Joly said that in all wars, despite the fact Canada is not at war with Russia, that “information is key because it justified why you start war.”
She claimed that since “the beginning of this war, before the war, there was a big propaganda campaign,” and that Russia “lied to our face and to the world.”