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Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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> A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was “incompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.”

I would hope that deploying the military against your own citizens is against more than just an executive branch policy that can be changed at any moment.

Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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Not really surprising.

The current leader's family has always maintained close personal ties to dictatorships, such as the Castro family. [0] [1]

The father even went as far as to "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there) for dubious reasons back in the 70's.

[0] https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-e...

Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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Not really surprising. The current leader's family has always maintained close personal ties to dictatorships, such as the Castro family. [0] [1] The father even went as far as to "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there) for dubious reasons back in the 70's. [0] https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-…

> The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative

Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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Not really surprising. The current leader's family has always maintained close personal ties to dictatorships, such as the Castro family. [0] [1] The father even went as far as to "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there) for dubious reasons back in the 70's. [0] https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-…

> "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there)

That's a thing in the US too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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post #7

Not really surprising. The current leader's family has always maintained close personal ties to dictatorships, such as the Castro family. [0] [1] The father even went as far as to "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there) for dubious reasons back in the 70's. [0] https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-…

> The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative

I wonder if that statement will stand the test of time (and declassification).

Re: Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques

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Not really surprising. The current leader's family has always maintained close personal ties to dictatorships, such as the Castro family. [0] [1] The father even went as far as to "suspend constitutional rights" (apparently that's a thing over there) for dubious reasons back in the 70's. [0] https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-…

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

The War Measures Act [0] is a law that grants government powers in times of war or insurrection. There was, you guess it, an insurrection in the 70s [1] and the it was appropriately triggered.

Also the whole article describes an operation that even senior military commanders were unaware of — what possible connection could there be to the PM?

Pure dumb speculation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Measures_Act [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis

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