Althea Raj
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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Justin Ling's point was basically that we shouldn't accept political ads that don't feature real people, especially when the ads claim to be about real people.
And I think that that message resonates with me, and I think it probably resonates with other people, hence why you wanted to talk about it this morning.
I'm more troubled by where it leads us than this particular example.
You can imagine a scenario where political parties, to use Rob's point, misrepresent things that their opponents are doing and then don't tell the listener that, you know, this image of Mark Carney that we are showing in a MAGA meeting with Donald Trump, that that actually did not happen.
Or, you know, the reverse, the liberals doing, misrepresenting Pierre Polyev's words.
I think we and parliamentarians should be having a discussion of where the limits are.
A few years ago, the Trudeau government brought in legislation that suggested that you couldn't lie about your political opponents during the election campaign.
You can make untrue statements and claims about opponents.
And so if this is something that we are uncomfortable with, like we, the citizens of Canada, that is something that we should tell our parliamentarians that we don't want to see in our politics.
Justin Ling, the columnist who wrote this piece, makes that comparison with the United States where there's all sorts of untrue statements and misrepresentation generated by political actors down south that has led to more division
in the United States.
And this particular video shows a scenario that you don't actually see.
Yes, food banks have seen a huge increase since 2019.
But this image of like this dark vision of people spiraling across the building, waiting in line for the food bank with empty carts and
If we're going to talk about our problems in our society, perhaps we should actually represent what is happening.
So when you people are not getting angry about things that are not actually true, but are only real.
portrayed as such.
And this video, most people, I think, who consume media on that platform recognized it for being AI generated.
But what if we can't?
To me, that is the thing that troubles me most.
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