Is Canadian politics getting nastier?
It's Political with Althia Raj
The Politics of Social Media
I think that's actually a strategy that you use scorched the earth. Social media allows, I mean, the lifetime on social media is fairly limited. So if that didn't work, we can try the next thing. We have something called parliamentary privilege, which was designed many, many years ago. The idea was you could say anything in parliament or anything attached to parliament without any repercussions. Well, there was no social media. There wasn't even televised question period when that was put in place. Now you have parliamentary privilege being used to basically lie. And you can clip it and putting on social media, knowing it's a lie, but it can be believed by many, many people
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