Canada’s policy toward autocratic foreign countries who broadcast propaganda should be consistent and apply to organs of the Chinese state, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says.
“We need a consistent policy for all dictatorships. We shouldn’t allow one rule for Russia and another completely for China,” Poilievre said in French on April 5 while visiting Thetford Mines, Quebec.
“We shouldn’t give licences to organs of foreign dictatorships in Canada.”
Poilievre was asked by a reporter about recent calls from sectors of the Chinese diaspora to ban media entities controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Conservative leader said he wasn’t familiar with the specific Chinese entity mentioned by the reporter, China Central Television (CCTV), but that he would study the issue….