"I think we have to make a very important distinction between belief and knowledge. And this is something that I think is lost these days, particularly in the news media. Theres actually a difference between (and we should draw attention to it when its transgressed) [...] what we know [and] what were expected to believe, or told to believe."
"In these impoverished conditions, its much easier for journalists to construe events in such a way as to uphold an ideologically rigid "narrative" than to go about the hard work of building true stories from the construction material of hard facts."
"There is something very strange and new and different that is occupying all the places where the left used to be and so these stories, it didnt really matter that they werent true but they were weaponized, if you like, in this narrative about Canada as an irredeemably racist white colonial apartheid settler state."
"What I worry about is that the truth doesnt matter, and I think this is something that has changed from 20 years ago, its not just that the truth doesnt matter anymore, its that it doesnt matter that the truth doesnt matter anymore. [...] I also think that people really do want some kind of an honest assessment of things that are important. Of something grounded in fact. I think that is something that is actually necessary for a liberal democracy to function."