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Welcome to the Propaganda Games Courtesy of Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division

Published November 3, 2020 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Big Brother


“If people don’t think the government is there, looking after them, they might lose confidence in the government’s ability to do that.”
— LCdr Jordan Holder, senior MARLANT Public Affairs Officer


The mandate of the Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division, whose motto is “Veritas” was once described thus:

The mission of the Public Affairs Branch is to inform Canadians of the policies, programs, services, activities, operations and initiatives of the Canadian Forces in a manner that is accurate, complete, objective, timely, relevant, understandable and open and transparent within the law. Public Affairs Officers are assigned to Commands, Formations, and Bases across Canada and are often deployed overseas.

You can wipe “Veritas” (Truth) from their mission.

Normally western governments employ print and broadcast media to distribute information to mere citizens. Here in Canada, the military does it.

Today’s Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division is far more concerned with manipulating public opinion and trolling social media accounts than it is with disseminating the truth.

This disturbing news is affirmed by the actions of the Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division itself, which faked a letter from the Nova Scotia Wildlife Division as part of “honing its expertise for launching propaganda missions at home and abroad.”

There is so much wrong with this approach it’s hard to know where to begin, so I’ll start here:

 

Follow the Money

The Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division spent over $1 million training its officers in “behaviour modification techniques” for use on social media and other delivery systems.

The Canadian Forces’ intentional deception was characterized as “an exercise in  testing the military’s skills in trying to manipulate the population with false information” by Emma Briant, a professor who specializes in researching military propaganda.

“It’s a very dangerous path when you start targeting your own public with false information and try to manipulate them,” said Professor Briant.

Welcome to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, whose government minions wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped them across the face with a wet lasagna noodle.

I keep telling the Canadian government that 1984 by George Orwell was fiction, not an instruction manual, but clearly I’m making no headway on that front.

 

Truth is Irrelevant

In our modern and enlightened age, Truth is an outdated concept we just can’t quite kill. Like a bad rash or Justin Trudeau speech, the Truth just keeps hanging around despite our best efforts to wipe it from our national memory.

It’s almost as if The Truth didn’t receive the Canadian Human Rights Commission memo aka R. v. Whatcott:

The lack of defences is not fatal to the constitutionality of the provision. Truthful statements can be presented in a manner that would meet the definition of hate speech, and not all truthful statements must be free from restriction.

The Truth is no defense for fear someone will be offended by it.

How woke of our Supreme Court.

 

Weaponizing the Public Affairs Division

The National Post reports the Canadian Forces has created a new Defence Strategic Communication group which will advance “national interests by using defence activities to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of audiences,” according to the document dated October 2020.

This weaponization of the Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division against mere citizens must be sanctioned by the Minister of National Defence.  How else can the Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division get budget approval for this program?

It will come as no surprise to you that the office of Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence says the plan is not authorized to proceed, despite the fact it’s already proceeded, as outlined above.

I find the Minister’s assurance difficult to believe, given:

  • the Public Affairs Division forged documents from the Nova Scotia Wildlife Division in some weird psy-ops game gone wrong.
  • Public Affairs Division conducted a series of town hall meetings for military personnel last week specifically outlining the strategies contained in the plan.
  • the plan quotes Brigadier-General Jay Janzen, director general military public affairs: “The motto ‘who dares, wins’ is as applicable to strategic communication as it is to warfare.”
  • a Canadian military intelligence unit monitored and collected information from the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts of users in Ontario earlier this year.
  • the plan calls for the use of “select Canadian Forces staff to push out pre-approved government and military messages to the public.
  • Although this social media activity would appear to come from personal accounts of military personnel, Canadian Forces public affairs officers behind the scenes would craft, coordinate and publish those messages.

Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.

Remember these words from Floriane Bonneville, Press Secretary for Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence:


“No such plan has been approved, nor will it be.


Such an unequivocal statement from the Minister’s press secretary can mean only one thing: if this approval hasn’t already been given, it will be shortly.

The most chilling line from the National Post story arguably comes at the very end.

As part of that PR effort, dossiers were created about journalists the military believed would cover the issue of racists in the ranks, including the CBC’s Murray Brewster.

The dossier about Brewster, who has since broken a number of stories about the far-right in the Canadian Forces, contained transcripts of his interviews with senior military staff and the warning, “He’s familiar with the defence system, and his reporting, while factual, often emphasizes the mistakes and shortcoming of DND and the CAF.”

Bonneville said the minister did not and will not authorize the creation of the dossiers on journalists. She did not, however, provide an explanation on why the files were created by Canadian Forces staff.

In addition, under Sajjan’s watch, an invitation-only Facebook page has been created where serving and retired military and DND public affairs staff share information about journalists. There are more than 400 participants on the Facebook page, which is officially supported by the DND.

The Trudeau government is playing both ends against the middle.

If buying off media outlets doesn’t deliver the desired results, federal government dossiers on “uncooperative journalists” undoubtedly will — after appropriate pressure is applied, of course.

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Tags: 1984 by George Orwell, Canadian Forces Public Affairs Division, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Defence Strategic Communication group, Floriane Bonneville, Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, Ministry of Truth, The Truth is no defense

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Comments

  1. John doe says

    November 3, 2020 at 7:28 am

    Wanna bet we’re in there?

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      November 3, 2020 at 10:46 am

      As a group of gun owners, John, or individually? LOL

      Reply
  2. Chris McGarry says

    November 3, 2020 at 8:38 am

    This will only work against people who don’t know the truth and already believe whatever b.s. the media throws at them. I think it’s a waste of money and time and will not work, as there is a global awakening taking place.

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      November 3, 2020 at 10:48 am

      I hope you’re correct in your assessment, Chris, but people seem quite content to believe anything the government says. Those of us who are willing to find the truth are still an extremely small minority, as far as I can discern.

      Reply
      • Harry says

        November 3, 2020 at 11:32 am

        I think your wrong Christopher! People I know do not believe anything the gov’t says. Like the saying goes ” the cheques in the mail” but never arrives!

        Reply
        • Christopher di Armani says

          November 3, 2020 at 12:32 pm

          Nothing would make me happier, Harry, than being wrong on this count.

          Reply
        • peter bolten says

          November 5, 2020 at 10:04 am

          My personal experience , Harry, from having a life long friend that retired after many years of Federal DND service, being a ‘Yes Man’ never questioning the Federal employers edicts and commands, then coming out as a Liberal and blasting me and family ties and other old shared acquaintances, even his americanized Brother, for being firearms owners, with all the well rehearsed blah blah blah rhetoric and eerily frightening talk of what should be that we are now seeing as gun owners and hunters and shooters
          I got to thinking about this, and i am sure some time ago he may well be one of those aforementioned retired military informants holding a high rank and feeding ideas and observations to this type of program.
          I shared with him over a lifetime of family gatherings, a roof over his head during his fragmented family life issues, helped steer him as a teenager out of a doomed life of crime and drugs [ hence his DND career]. Camped with me and friends and family and shared wild shot game and caught fish, knows me as a good person… then the Benedict Arnold , et tu Brute ACT on me and ours.
          He believed in some type of Federal organization that twisted his prejudices to betray those he knows. Money, greed, is a factor, and an intolerance toward many minorities and outdoor heritages.
          It is a hurtful life experience that I carry. I don’t understand it.

          Reply
  3. Arie Intveld says

    November 6, 2020 at 2:43 am

    Please note that Floriane Bonneville, Press Secretary for Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence DID NOT say that the Defence StratComm DOES NOT EXIST.

    Good news! Gun range hearing protection gear just found another use … isolation from Canadian Armed Forces propaganda.

    Stay selectively deaf.

    Reply

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