{"id":396181,"date":"2019-02-18T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadian-media-boosts-trudeaus-popularity-over-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:11:37","slug":"canadian-media-boosts-trudeaus-popularity-over-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadian-media-boosts-trudeaus-popularity-over-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Media boosts Trudeau\u2019s Popularity Over Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US presidents have bombed or invaded places like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Sudan to distract from domestic scandals or to gain a quick boost in popularity. But, do Canadian politicians also pursue regime change abroad to be cheered on by the dominant media as decisive leaders?<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion on regime change in Venezuela after last Monday\u2019s \u201cLima Group\u201d meeting in Ottawa, Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O\u2019Toole <a href=\"https:\/\/theleftchapter.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/where-does-ndp-stand-on-venezuela.html?fbclid=IwAR2L2oG0zIkEl9unAEcQh2Iywz4GJRsqE3hqfCEUtTTFUCiCtraL2_TZArg\">praised Canadian<\/a> policy but added that the Liberals used the meeting of countries opposed to Nicolas Maduro\u2019s government to drown out criticism of their foreign policy. O\u2019Toole claimed the \u201cLima Group\u201d meeting was \u201cput together quite quickly and I think there are some politics behind that with some of the foreign affairs challenges the Trudeau government has been having in recent months.\u201d In other words, O\u2019Toole believes the Liberals organized a gathering that concluded with a call for the military to oust Venezuela\u2019s elected president to appear like effective international players.<\/p>\n<p>Understood within the broader <a href=\"https:\/\/yvesengler.com\/2019\/02\/08\/corporate-canada-behind-slow-motion-coup-attempt-in-venezuela\/\">corporate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yvesengler.com\/2019\/01\/27\/canada-joins-with-imperial-mafia-to-threaten-venezuela\/\">geopolitical<\/a> context, O\u2019Toole\u2019s assessment appears reasonable. After being <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/oliver-time-for-a-troubling-fact-check-of-trudeaus-canada-is-back-claim\">criticized<\/a> for its China policy, the Liberals have been widely praised for their regime change efforts in Venezuela. In a sign of media cheerleading, CTV News host Don Martin began his post \u201cLima Group\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ajmQyYco3w\">interview<\/a> with foreign minister Chrystia Freeland by stating \u201cthe Lima summit has wrapped and the object of regime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/canadian-media-boosts-trudeaus-popularity-over-venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US presidents have bombed or invaded places like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Sudan to distract from domestic scandals or to gain a quick boost in popularity. But, do Canadian politicians also pursue regime change abroad to be cheered on by the dominant media as decisive leaders? In a discussion on regime change in Venezuela after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}