Conservative calls on minister to apologize to Christian singer over cancellations
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A Conservative MP is calling on Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault to apologize to U.S.-based Christian musician Sean Feucht after the permits for recent concerts in venues overseen by Parks Canada were revoked.
  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    301·
    2 days ago

    His permits were revoked citing safety concerns first of all.

    And the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has no bearing at all on permitting. He held his gathering unmolested by government. Canada has freedom of speech and his was respected (despite being a foreigner). He was not silenced. He was not persecuted. He is not owed an apology.

    Another completely dishonest conservative politician drumming up hate to get attention. Disgusting.

  • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
    46·
    2 days ago

    Conservatives have been behind every bullshit moral panic for well over 100 years. Hell, within the last few weeks we’ve seen them coerce Visa and MasterCard into banning video games they don’t like.

    If this guy doesn’t meet the standards to perform at a government facility then that’s what it is. There are a lot of bands I like that I wouldn’t expect to he approved either. Imagine the conservative outrage if Nine Inch Nails were to perform Hersey in public (especially when you contrast the music with how nice Trent Reznor seems to be).

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    21·
    2 days ago

    “I will never apologize for refusing to give hate a platform.” Feel free to use that, Steven Guilbeault. No charge.

    *I apologize if Steven Guilbeault is the wrong person. I can’t read French.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    Well, Ms. Conservative MP, the government should only consider apologizing for that after you’re done apologizing, on behalf of your party, to every queer person or other minority who has been or might have been harmed by policies said party has advocated or put into place. Individually. By name.

    We’ll wait.

    • pubquiz@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      Well, no. While the right-wing industrial outrage complex might perseverate over some suspicious and hidden agenda, the truth is much simpler. Outside the bubble of red-right performative pearl clutching it is an Occam’s Razor solution that is factually and blatantly clear: when your objective is to incite violence and intolerance, there is no Federal coddling or Constitutional protection. Even when you screw your toe into the ground and bat your fluttering eyelashes claiming innocence, you cannot pretend away the true meaning of this shill’s tone-deaf rally. Hate-speech is dangerous to the public good as so is anyone who defends it.

        • pubquiz@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Are you dense? Does every article written need full referencing for you to hold your smug comments? You are the reason a difference of opinion devolves into irrelevant diatribes on supposed tangents.

          Fact: the “artist” is a right wing proponent Fact: the federal government does not support a point of view. Fact: the spewing of a political agenda is no sanctioned Fact: Even the Canadian champion of the right-wing nut-o-sphere, career political hack and recent loser, l’il pp, knows better than to spew his pus in federally funded venues.

          Grow a brain. Or a brian, as the case may be.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          1·
          2 days ago

          Let me publicly apologize to you for the reaction your comment got.

          This guy can eat a dick and I have no idea why we are giving him so much attention.

          I fail to see what is wrong with your comment though. I read it several times. Perhaps others are misunderstanding what you said. Or I am I guess.