On the same day Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in government, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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
The article you posted made the very serious assertion that the PM:
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.
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.
Yes, he was quoting from religious trash, but the point remains, he did not:
That is a very different argument and not something he actually said or did.
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?