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Trudeau’s latest censorship bill may mark the beginning of the end of a free press in Canada.

The Liberal Anti-Competition Pro-Corporate Media Consolidation and Censorship Law, otherwise known as Bill C-18, or “Online News Act” is now officially law.

The royal assent of Bill C-18 could spell the end of independent media in Canada and the END of Canadian independent journalism’s heroic run against the floundering pro-regime, taxpayer funded legacy media.

It’s important, – no, imperative for our nation – that this bill be named exactly for what it is: A law to censor independent media, and force media market share back into the hands of deteriorating, pro-government establishment media networks, chiefly the CBC, the Liberal’s prized flagship PR apparatus.

In advance of the vote on the bill, Facebook and Google, platforms integral to the dissemination of new media content and where the vast majority of Canadians consumer their news, will be blocking all Canadian news content from Canadian social media accounts in order to comply with C-18.

This was in response to the Bill C-18’s provisions that would force various internet platforms to fork up to the CRTC so that government can continue to subsidize ailing legacy media.

This is a brute force ‘Hail Mary’ attempt by the out of touch establishment media and our tyrannical Liberal censorship state; a collaborated effort to control the flow of information, manage the market for media and ideas, and concentrate power into established interests with predictable messaging.

Let’s be clear: this is a naked merger of state and corporate power to silence the free press and prescribe selected, centrally approved messaging for free thinkers like you and me with pro-government, pre-approved messaging from corporate media giants who are on the teat of government.

Liberal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who came to Canada from Argentina, has been working overtime to make a feeble last minute pitch to Canadians that Facebook’s unprecedented removal of Canadian media to avoid paying fines is proof of why tech companies should become ATMs for the Liberal propaganda machine.

But don’t be fooled, the logical reactions of Facebook and Google are exactly what the Trudeau and Rodriguez want.

How do we know this?

Because Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were warned months in advance advance of tabling this legislation that it would result in the widespread destruction of voices who questioned the government on anything from vaccine mandates, lockdowns, scandals, overspending and woke propaganda.

And it wasn’t just Facebook. Just days before the Bill passed, Minister Pablo Rodriguez (still from Argentina) met with Google negotiators warning them of a Canadian news BLACK OUT.

That’s right. An imminent Canadian news content Black Out on the world’s most prolific search engine and across the internet.

Justin Trudeau’s Argentinian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, made no delay in quickly summoning his allies in the Senate and corporate media to quickly defend his position.

Trudeau appointed Senator Marc Gold, the LPC’s chief Senate mouthpiece quickly publicly defended the passing of the bill citing lay offs and closures in Canadian Media over the last decade.

Bought off Liberal Party connections in outlets like the CTV worked at breakneck speed to quickly push stories praising the most draconian censorship law on record, parroting the bizarre nonsensical argument that cutting off independent media will lead to higher wages for journalists.

But these are all misleading LIES: The Liberals know full well that Canadians, not Big Tech, are the ones who will pay in the grand scheme of these new censorship controls.

For our readers and supporters of independent journalism, I’d like clarify in absolute terms what C-18 aims to accomplish, and why you need to be aware of the struggle that lies ahead.

Bill C-18 was meticulously planned, coordinated, and promoted by Big Media and its Liberal Party masters to:
• Silence independent voices online,
• Kill competition in journalism,
• Crack down on decent against the Liberal State.
• Return underserved market share to floundering government subsidized Big Media, whose ratings and viewership has been in steady free fall and:
• Create a shrinking marketplace of government approved media to force down the throats of Canadians.

That’s right. The Trudeau Liberals knew full well what the consequences were for Canadian citizens, consumers and contributors, but they decided to put the interests of their corporate media lapdogs before those of ordinary people like you and me.

The funding for the CRTC won’t magically appear.

Lazy journalists won’t magically get re-hired.

Mainstream media will continue down its path of Liberal-washed narrative parroting and state dependancy allows it to continue to exist.

And independent, critical journalists like our team at The Counter Signal and others like us, will be censored out of existence.

Bill C-18 was never about funding. It’s about censorship and control.

Our future and the future of a free and competitive marketplace for Canadian media depends on the repealing of the Liberal Big Media Consolidation Law.

We absolutely MUST to fight tooth and nail to have the effects of the Bill mitigated, and ultimately entirely repealed if we’re going to compete with the increasingly hostile and collusive multi-headed juggernaut of State Media.

To fight this war against free and independent journalism, The Counter Signal is taking drastic measures to ensure that the TRUTH reaches as many Canadians as possible during the impending Canadian Media Black Out.

To offset the restrictive marketing costs designed to permanently price us out of business. We’ve established the MEDIA FREEDOM FUND. All proceeds to the Media Freedom Fund go toward advancing and expanding independent media networks so that our content can continue to get into the hands of Canadians.

The first 20 contributors to give $250 or more will be invited to an emergency insider strategy call that will discuss new ways to disseminate independent Canadian Journalism under the new laws.

Next to the Chinese Communist Party (also connected to the Liberal Party), Bill C-18 is among the greatest threats to freedom of expression and a free press in Canada.

1. Quickly bookmark our website in preparation for the incoming Canadian Media search engine BLACK OUT, and;

2. Please purchase a subscription to The Counter Signal TODAY to stay up to date on the latest coverage of this bitter fight for the future of independent journalism in Canada and;

3. If you’re able, please become a member of the the Media Freedom Fund here. . This bold initiative will help independent journalism develop new independent journalism reach Canadians with the truth.

But if enough independent voices just like yours and mine take a stand and fight back, we can hopefully use this dark time as a catalyst for change and the advancement of consumer choice and free speech in Canada.

The Counter Signal is not out of the fight yet and I’m proud to have you at my side.
Keep fighting for what is right.

Keean Bexte

Editor-in-Chief
TheCounterSignal.com