News Reaction 26 of September 2014
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"It's sending the wrong sort of signal about the type of government [the Liberals] would want to run if they were elected," says Christopher Waddell, an associate professor at Carleton University's school of journalism and communication.On the contrary sir, it sends exactly the right signal.
It is not because Mr Trudeau chose a public and political life that it gives any media outlet a license for slander or the politicization of his entire family's history.
There has to be a line drawn, on what is a public servant's private life is open for public discussion or not. These are tactics usually reserved for two-bit-grocery-isle-tabloids and some of us are glad that Mr. Trudeau is in a position to say "enough" and have the clout to make it stick.
There is a general trend in society to use every pretext of freedom [of speech] to capitalize without an ounce of reflection or responsibility, let alone "imputability."
If I was going to invent a new swear word, that would be it: "imputable". People rarely own up to their own mistakes or responsibilities. But that's for another blog.
We already have a Prime Minister that hides as much as he can from actual public policy making. And that is a problem. Harper's private life, honestly we [shouldn't] give a flying fig about it and rightly so.
Why Justin Trudeau's family history is "fair game"? And why is his reactions are any indications of what kind of government he would be part of? That is sheer academic speculation, a fishing trip for attention and for spilling more ink on the matter.
I say congratulations Mr. Trudeau for having a spine and not hiding it. Let them know when someone oversteps their bounds.
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