It is working as intended though: Make voters believe that an important issue that affects them is being addressed, and don't actually do anything that would negatively affect the plutocrats or address wealth inequality. The first step was to create a boogey-man out of 'foreign buyers' to centre the housing affordability debate around a PR-friendly issue.

What I'm starting to realize though - through seeing this more and more - is that doublespeak phrases or talking points, like "ban", play a pretty critical role in keeping us misinformed and easily swayed. The term "ban", although factually incorrect, fits the government's agenda of self-promotion and fits CBC's agenda of reporting uncritically of the status quo. We can only begin to understand what's happening after realizing that "ban" doesn't actually mean what "ban" typically does in English.

Sorry, I'm kind of going off on a rant. M/Disinformation and the current/future state of democracy concern me a lot.

One thing I'm coming to the realization of, after learning that the recent online news bill has several shortcomings that the government failed to mention and will exclude smaller news outlets, is that financially supporting the dying breed of high-quality, critical journalism is a democratic imperative