Legault chooses Facebook over the experts
Professors at UdeM are among those condemning the CAQ’s “simplistic” hatchet job on immigration, including the prof who was Simon Jolin-Barrette’s thesis supervisor till he quit to go into politics. Meanwhile, François Legault rejects the Montreal Chamber of Commerce’s resistance to his immigration changes, saying 90% of his Facebook followers agree with his plans.
That there is a textbook modern definition of populism. Never mind the professors and the business people, it must be right because Facebook says so.
Ephraim 15:17 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
90% of his facebook followers are bootlickers….
LJ 15:38 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Classic example of biased sampling…what an idiotic statement from Legault who is either ignorant of basic statistical principles or is being deliberately misleading.
Daniel 16:50 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Oh god, this is the most frightening thing I’ve seen in a while — to think that we are being governed by Facebook.
Blork 17:00 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Government of the people, for the people, by the Russian social engineering and hacker people.
Kevin 17:18 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Last night I told someone trying to reach me for a high school reunion that I was not on Facebook because Facebook was only for grandparents.
I’ll now amend my previous comment: Facebook is for grandparents and morons.
For og’s sake: it’s so fucking easy to game what is seen in the comments on Facebook. If the premier doesn’t know this, he’s not fit to be premier.
Sal 18:07 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
This is confirmation bias at it’s best. “99% of the members of my right-wing chat group agree with me.”
Douglas 22:08 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Is this guy turning into our version of Ford? Everytime he is in the news its about something irrelevant they are trying to do.
Kate 23:53 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Douglas, it’s quite relevant, according to a scale of values you perhaps do not share.
Chris 10:36 on 2019-11-08 Permalink
Why do y’all take him at face value? Of course Legault knows his own fb membership is a biased sample, he’s just trying to pull a fast one on the unwashed masses.