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Competition Act changes sign of how Canada is tumbling into Orwellian dystopia
Ottawa’s insistence that amendments to greenwashing are necessary legislation is more about mind control and “doublethink” policy processes
We are the dead.”
“You are the dead.”
Those two lines from George Orwell’s famed novel 1984 are perhaps the most profound in the entire work.
They capture Orwell’s disturbing sense of despair for what he perceived in the late 1940s as authoritarianism run amok. And 75 years after their penning, the sentences have an eerie contemporary context for anyone concerned about governmental overreach and politicians to whom voters appear as mere mindless pawns.
The lament came as protagonist Winston Smith declared to his furtive companion Julia of life’s hopelessness in a dystopian society under constant and repressive surveillance and “truth adjustments.” The robotically metallic response to his declaration, emanating from a microphone within the ubiquitous “telescreen” in his quarters, affirmed Smith’s belief that Big Brother (The Party) is everywhere.
Watching everyone. Thinking for everyone.
Sounds very much like how the federal Liberals seem to be running Canada these days.
“Don’t worry about thinking for yourselves, good citizens, that’s the Cabinet’s job. We are Truth.”
In Orwellspeak: the “Party” and Smith’s country, Oceania, equate to the Liberals and contemporary Canada.
