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I acquired a method of (so I'm told) contacting MPs directly that bypasses their office and goes straight to them. I took advantage of that to contact the Prime Minister regarding some topics of significance, import, or interest.
Greetings, Mr. Carney
You talk about protecting our children, our people, from criminal and other activity abounding on social media sites housed in the US. You know that the easiest solution is simply to provide a Canadian created, owned, and operated form of social media that resides in Canada and is subject to Canadian laws and protections? You can't fully combat some of the more negative issues inherent in exposure to US social media without providing an alternative for people to use. We currently have none. Everything is US-centric. How about we change that?
You need services run on federated models - alternatives, or an alternative, for things such as Bluesky/Twitter/Mastodon, Pixelfed/Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Tumblr, and/or what LiveJournal once provided for the lovers of long-form content. Much of that could be amalgomated into one or two services that could do it (all) most. These services should be set up as separate entities from the government to help mitigate some of the complaints from the chronic naysayers about propaganda and/or censorship. It won't stop people fully, as you know, but it can take some of the wind out of some of the sails.
I realise that, to certain factions, offering a method of communication, dissemination of information, community, and organising is a problem, but how about we stop sliding down that road to fascistic curtailing of information? An ignorant populace might be more easily controllable in some eyes, but it certainly doesn't do anyone any favours in the long term, does it?
But playing the heavy on certain behaviours isn't going to change that. Community might mitigate it though, don't you think. Canadian-centric community.
Either we make it, or we buy it out.