Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of Reader Supported News, is reporting that Canadian regulators have announced they’ll be rejecting efforts by Canada’s right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.

Canada’s Radio Act requires that “a licenser may not broadcast … any false or misleading news,” and the provision has kept FOX PAC and right-wing talk radio not only at bay but out of Canada. While folks like Limbaugh, Hannity, et al, will no doubt shriek and argue that it’s Socialism repressing the right to free speech; as a result of Canada’s Radio Act the nation has very high quality news coverage, including the kind of foreign affairs and investigative journalism that used to be found in the good old US of A before Ronald Reagan’s abolishing of the “Fairness Doctrine” in 1987.

Unlike here in America, “political dialogue in Canada is reportedly marked by civility, modesty, honesty, collegiality, and idealism”, Kennedy writes.

Fortunately for the Great White North, when Harper moved to abolish the anti-lying provision of the Radio Act, Canadians rose up to oppose him fearing their tradition of honest non-partisan news would be replaced by the toxic, overtly partisan, biased and dishonest news coverage familiar to American citizens who listen to FOX PAC and talk radio. According to Kennedy, “Harper’s proposal was coincidentally timed to facilitate the launch of a new right-wing network, ‘Sun TV News’ which Canadians call ‘Fox News North.’”

Score one for truth; thankfully there are public servants who still do what they’re hired to do, and that’s to protect and serve.

FOX PAC is a cancer growing on the collective brains of all its viewers, and considering the combined IQ of its hosts would make Forrest Gump look like Edward R. Murrow it’s no surprise it’s slowly rotting out the political core of the GOTP nourishing them daily on its fetid diet of lies, hate and fear.

So, thank you Canada for being brave enough to stand up for honest journalism, and for showing the almighty conservative dollar that unlike in the U.S. it doesn’t make all your decisions.