
In fact, the only consistent complaint from the media establishment in Canada over the last year and half has been that the authoritarianism wasn’t sufficiently oppressive. Their tolerance for other people’s suffering has been inexhaustible. They’ve filled their op eds and Twitter feeds with demands that politicians impose ever harsher measures. Any display of independence, resistance or free will from uppity peasants was met with calls for the full force of the state to be used to crush dissent.
Canadian journalists have shown open contempt for pain of the working class — Going to Getugly