Conservatives Sound Alarm as Facts Continues to Threaten Narrative
Canadian politics has always involved a little spin. Lately, however, some leaders have decided it’s more efficient to simply unplug reality altogether and see what happens. Facts are heavy. Outrage is light. Outrage travels faster.
This month alone, senior Conservatives demonstrated how the system now works: take a complicated legal or institutional process, ignore it completely, and announce a scandal anyway. Courts become “soft.” Universities become “censors.” Nuance is quietly escorted out of the room.
In one case, a man who defaced the National Holocaust Monument pleaded guilty and served months in jail under strict conditions. In Conservative social media land, this somehow translated into “no real jail time,” proving once again that sentencing decisions are best understood by people who didn’t read them.
Days later, a cancelled campus event became a “free speech crisis,” despite the small detail that it wasn’t cancelled at all. The facts were inconvenient. The narrative was ready.
The rule of law did its job. Politics did what it does now: posted first, corrected never.
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