If anyone's got a few minutes for a long read, here's my comprehensive effort to discredit the disinformation campaign against Mark Carney. For those who find it useful, please feel free to share the whole post or extract any arguments or soundbites to counter specific attacks you see online.
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People are free to vote for whoever they want, and I'm not here to tell anyone otherwise. I believe in democracy, where each individual votes for a leader based on what that leader has to offer.
What worries me this time around is that we're at risk of voters choosing a candidate not based on that candidate's experience, platform and ideas, but rather on emotionally charged opinions of a candidate that have been informed by baseless attacks, outright lies, and funded propaganda.
To that end, I want to counter some blatant disinformation that I am seeing with regards to Mark Carney, propagated by right wing lobby groups and propaganda mills such as Canada Proud, and foreign bots and lobbyists.
I know Mark Carney. I've met him, and ....
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