Blacklock's Reporter

A “fact-checking” program launched in 2019 by then-Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould paid researchers nearly $370,000 to discourage media and the public from questioning authority, Access To Information records show. Researchers stressed the importance of invoking Canadian values to avoid being seen as Liberal partisans: “Dissenting voices, in some cases even just one, can weaken the power of a normative belief.”