If the PM does not understand the meaning of these words, how can Canadians possibly trust his government to regulate their speech?
It was even more reassuring to hear him declare himself a “former literature student,” a man who prides himself on “defer to the actual definitions of words.” This is just the kind of semantic and lexical prowess Canadians expect from a prime minister who is going to rule what can and cannot be said, what is misinformation and disinformation, what requires the state to block communications when necessary and when to give communications a pass.
There came — alas, and however — an Oh my Lord, is this happening, moment. For having just boasted he “cares about the meaning of words,” Trudeau got the meaning of precisely those two words wrong, and exchanged the meaning of disinformation for misinformation, and misinformation for disinformation. It was not that he accidentally slipped on a verbal banana skin, it’s like he put it under his shoe after oiling the sole with goose fat and olive oil.
How could a “literature student” so confident of his feel and understanding of the texture and swim of words, their beautiful shadings of meaning, their richness of association on the one hand and their deadly precision — their ability to fix and boundary meaning — on the other, have got these two central terms so wrong, reversed in actual meaning … and be so wrong while speaking with the confident lassitude of an elder sage?If Trudeau does not understand the meaning of these words, how can...
It is also an axiom that when you boast of “caring about the meaning of words” it is not a full wisdom to give a public illustration that you do not know the “meaning” of the key words in what would be most oppressive legislation. That in fact you were “misinforming” Canadians about both disinformation and misinformation. You have voided, by example and illustration, your competence to sponsor such legislation.
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