Add another name to the unCanadian list
Liberal Senator Dennis Dawson wants to extend election spending limits on political advertising to cover at least some of the time between elections. Steven Fletcher, the minister of state for democratic reform is intrigued by the idea and interested in investigating it further unimpressed.
Steven Fletcher, the Conservative minister of state for democratic reform, immediately slammed the bill as an anti-democratic and "un-Canadian" assault on free speech ... "It certainly seems like it will severely limit freedom of speech and that’s un-Canadian and hurts our democracy," Fletcher said in an interview.
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