What sort of leaders accuse the opposition of being foreign agents? Oh, yeah… Canada’s

The Senate voted 41 to 32 to reject the amendment to Bill C-9 that would have criminalised residential school denialism and jailed Canadians for up to two years. The Carney government opposed it. Aaron Pete, Chief of Chawathil First Nation, had said he was prepared to go to jail over it. Meanwhile Corus Entertainment stock sits at three cents, and the Liberal Party is calling the official opposition foreign agents. Topics covered: ► The Senate vote of 41 to 32 on June 4 rejecting the amendment to Bill C-9 that would have criminalised condoning, denying, downplaying, or misrepresenting facts related to the residential school system, with a maximum two-year jail term, after government representative Pierre Moreau said the amendment came without thorough legal study or meaningful consultation with First Nations and Inuit peoples ► The timing: the vote came the same week the Globe and Mail admitted five years of unverified Kamloops reporting, and the law would have criminalised asking questions about a claim the Globe's own editors just admitted was never properly verified ► Aaron Pete, Chief of Chawathil First Nation and host of the Sitka podcast, who said publicly he was prepared to go to jail to expose the law as morally repugnant, and who Jim and Iain are bringing on the show next week ► The Liberal Party's pattern of accusing the official opposition of being foreign agents, MAGA-aligned, and disloyal to Canada for criticising government policies, which Jim connects to the same tactic used by Putin to label his opposition as foreign agents in Russia, Orban in Hungary, and authoritarian governments globally ► David Eby calling the new BC Conservative leader MAGA North within hours of their election, which Jim translates as calling a democratically elected opposition leader a foreign agent, and argues represents a profound sickness at the heart of Canadian democracy ► Marco Rubio's Senate confirmation statement that one of the consistent features of every totalitarian system is controlling the ability of citizens to communicate with one another, and Jim and Iain's application of that framework to Canada's Meta news ban, the CRTC levy, and the constant government discussion of blocking X ► Carney telling Canadians X is a cesspool of misinformation while calling CBC the only trusted source, with Jim noting that CBC is the outlet the government controls and funds and is therefore precisely the source a government would promote over a free platform ► Corus Entertainment stock at three cents following a March 2026 court-approved debt-for-equity restructuring that reduced debt by over $500 million but wiped out approximately 98% of shareholder value, with management taking bonuses during 25% staff layoffs and the company continuing to receive government funding in exchange for pro-Liberal coverage ► Jim's argument that the Liberal government has not saved Canadian media through funding. It has corrupted and crippled it, turning once-viable news organisations into government-dependent propaganda vehicles that sing Liberal prayers in return for survival money, whose audience has abandoned them, and whose stock charts tell the whole story If the party of freedom of the press blocks news on social media and calls the opposition foreign agents, what exactly does freedom of the press mean in Canada? Let us know what you think in the comments. The Really Big Show: the thinking Canadian's daily briefing, independent and informed. 🔴 Live every weekday at 9AM PST 📍 Independent. Unapologetic. Canadian. 👉 Support the show: https://thereallybigshow.ca Subscribe | Share | Comment — help us grow independent Canadian media. #canadiannews #canadapolitics #canada #nowmedia #thereallybigshow #freespeech #corus #billc9 #residentialschools #canadianmedia