Except that I did read the article you posted and it does make claims about the PM. I also did read the CBC article linked above and it contains precisely zero mention of Mark Carney whatsoever.

Also, this whole "omg ur pearl clutching" silliness doesn't help at all, either.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Correct, the article published in The Star covers the specific national prayer breakfast event that Carney attended. The CBC article does not cover this event, the parts it does cover match what The Star reports. Here's the video of the event itself. Are you going to claim that the video is fabricated now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MISUFPHP-po

[–] Corvid_Moon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The article you posted made the very serious assertion that the PM:

declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

He never did any such thing.

In the 2 hour video you linked, he spoke for about 10 minutes between 50:00 - 60:00 into the video. In it, he merely gave thanks to certain values like generosity and kindness, made quotes that weren't even really religiously-charged, if at all, and that was it; his speech was over.

So unless he said in French what your initial article asserts he did (because I don't speak the language yet and there was no translator), then I'm going to have to say your initial article (and headline) is quite misleading.

It almost had me fooled too, if Omgpwnies hadn't pointed out the discrepancy, which made me actually look into it further.

The PM has his faults, I don't dispute that, but we shouldn't be adding unnecessary visceral into the public discourse. This kind of division brought by misinformation is not what we need in this country right now.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's literally quoting the bible at a religious event, in his post as a Canadian official, and saying that these are his guiding values. The fact that you're trying to spin this as anything else is frankly incredible.

[–] Corvid_Moon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, he was quoting from religious trash, but the point remains, he did not:

declare religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

That is a very different argument and not something he actually said or did.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except that he does exactly that by stating that he gets his values from religion. Perhsaps you don't understand the difference between characterization and quoting?

[–] Corvid_Moon@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've also noticed you seem to be a (pro-Russian) American, based on your post history. You have a long-standing history of posting in the Canada space here being hyper critical about anything that happens in this country, and you do so with suspicious frequency. Readers can draw their own conclusions from this.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, there it is. Right on schedule. When you people run out of actual arguments, you just rifle through someone's history to piece together a little personal smear. It's truly the only play in the liberal handbook, isn't it? It's always this performative pearl-clutching and desperate deflection into ad hominem attacks. Do you ever get tired of this routine? It's so transparent. Just say you have no substantive rebuttal and be done with it.

[–] Corvid_Moon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I am a happy socialist thank you very much.

But I am also a Canadian first, and I'll ba damned if I run into some yank foreigner trying to instigate division in my country and not do anything about it.

I've already went ahead and reported you to the mods. Will it do anything? Most likely not, but it's better than doing nothing, and I will defend my country in any way I can. So kindly get fucked now thanks :)