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FELDSTED -- If they imagine for one second that we believe that they are protecting us from influence, by the big bad social media giants, they are mistaken


Facebook's Zuckerberg, Sandberg won't appear before committee, could be found in contempt of Parliament
Catharine Tunney ~~ CBC News ~~ May 27, 2019

Canadian MPs are warning that Facebook's top officials could be found in contempt of Parliament if they continue to ignore a subpoena to testify in Ottawa ... company representatives confirmed ... founder Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg would not attend.

"I don't think it would send a good message internationally about, you know, blowing off an entire country of 36 million people," said Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, the chair of the Commons committee.


NDP MP Charlie Angus; “"You have a company that acts with complete disregard for the democratic systems that we've put in place … that's just unbelievable that a company could be that dismissive ...”

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The irony is delicious!

Members of Parliament, many of which Canadians hold in contempt, want to hold someone else in contempt. These are the same MPs who recently blocked investigations of the SNC-Lavalin and Mark Norman affairs.

They are guardians of government deceit and dishonesty.

If they imagine for one second that we believe that they are protecting us from influence, by the big bad social media giants, they are mistaken (again).


The difference is that social media moguls are not ‘in the loop’ with the six Canadian media moguls (and the CBC) who own most of our media outlets have ‘an arrangement’ with the government.

The Ottawa sewers are flooding the nation ... and not from snow melt or rainfall.   

John Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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