A Liberal MP was scrambling Wednesday to react to a controversial Liberal Party policy proposal that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself dismissed as a bad idea.
Just hours after Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday that the party resolution on combating disinformation — roundly attacked by critics as a threat to freedom of the press — is “not a policy” his government “would ever implement,” Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz tweeted that the policy was one of the top three she voted for the party to prioritize.
Dzerowicz said she hadn’t seen Trudeau’s comments when she tweeted her support for the resolution, which was passed Saturday at the Liberal