TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – A former Canadian Liberal MP has called for Fox News be banned in Canada
Adam Vaughan claimed on social media that the American news network was the trucker Freedom Convoy’s “biggest amplifier” and a vessel for information geared towards the Conservative Party of Canada’s “base.”
“Never ever forget that when @CPC_HQ MPs want to get to their base this is the show they lineup to get on: Fox News,” Vaughan tweeted.
“(Fox News) was the convoy’s biggest amplifier. While folks talk about taking RT off the air… Fox News is just as corrosive… Maybe it should be returned to its country of origin.”
Never ever forget that when @CPC_HQ MPs want to get to their base this is the show they lineup to get on: Fox News was the convoys biggest amplifier: While folks talk about taking RT off the air…Fox News is just as corrosive…maybe it should be returned to its country of origin https://t.co/mAdAIyNNT5
— Adam Vaughan (@TOAdamVaughan) March 1, 2022
Vaughan served as a Liberal MP for Toronto’s Spadina-Fort York riding from 2014 to 2021.
His tweet included a video link to a segment with popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which Carlson said that he is “totally opposed to these [Russia] sanctions and I don’t think that we should be at war with Russia.”
“I think we should probably choose the side of Russia if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine. That is my view,” Carlson added.
Carlson also supported the Canadian Freedom Convoy and mentioned it many times on his show.
Vaughan’s suggestion that Fox News be banned in Canada follows the decision of many Canadian cable and internet providers to cut off access to RT News.
RT News and Sputnik are owned by the Russian Federation and operate news channels in many countries. They have come under scrutiny as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Both Canada’s Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have said they support the removal of RT and other Russian TV channels from Canadian airwaves.
Canada’s own state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and other mainstream media outlets were quick to condemn the Freedom Trucker Convoy, which ended after Trudeau used the Emergencies Act (EA) to clear out the protesters.