Queen’s Park Watch: Dwight Duncan Versus the Media
Last week Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan caused a mini-furor at a press conference when a question about how Ontario became a “have-not” province catapulted him into a rant about how the “right-wing media” were misrepresenting the facts and how the province was as “have” as have could be. On a roll, Duncan then compared our home-grown media types to Rupert Murdoch, the beleaguered press baron and James Bond–villain archetype whose minions famously hacked into celebrity cellphones. When queried further on what specific outlets were right-wing, the minister cued up “Freebird” and took the assembled wretch-stained inksters on a road trip, pointing “down the 401: the Windsor Star, the Chatham Daily News, the London Free Press, the Toronto Sun, the National Post, Global…”
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