According to a newly released secret report, the Canadian military launched a covert COVID-19 propaganda operation to brainwash people over the pandemic. The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.
Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.
The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.
But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.
The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that “information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.”
A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by the National Post using the Access to Information law.
The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.
The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.
A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario.
Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser, the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities.
Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan.
Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval.
Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.”
Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians.
The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOC’s chief of staff, summed up the command’s attitude, Gosselin noted in his report.
“This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,” the rear admiral stated.
The command saw the military’s pandemic response “as an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,” Gosselin determined.
Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a “palpable dismissive attitude” toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders.
The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vance’s order to shut it down took effect.
Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions.
There is an ongoing debate inside national defence headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques.
Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives.
Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy.
Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities.
Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.
The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians.
Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability.
The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal.
The initiative to change military public affairs strategy was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the plan.
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.”
None of the public affairs leadership was disciplined for their actions.
Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control.
“Errors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,” noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas.
“This included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.”
Canada is also they key to the entire COVID-19 origin mystery. Since the beginning of the declared pandemic GreatGameIndia has been following a critical thread of investigation into the origin of COVID-19.
The key to this entire issue is what happened in Canada’s Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory.
After over a year, Canadian authorities have released censored documents on deadly viruses stolen from Winnipeg to the Wuhan lab.
GreatGameIndia was the first to report the Chinese espionage story in Jan 2020, for which we are being actively targeted by the NATO’s war propaganda arm – the Atlantic Council.
As the Biden administration called “medical misinformation” a public health threat, even the White House said it was working with social media to flag “problematic” posts.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issues an advisory declaring misinformation “an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.”
— GreatGameIndia (@GreatGameIndia) July 16, 2021
American govt has officially launched #COVID Information War against the world in collaboration with #BigTech
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In other words the American government has officially launched COVID Information War against the world in collaboration with Big Tech.
With the rising cases of multiple adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine, now out of blue vaccination propaganda videos with no scientific basis are popping up to nudge you to just love vaccines and ask no questions.
The Pentagon uses world’s largest ‘secret army’ of 60,000 undercover operatives unofficially known as Signature Reduction to carry out ‘domestic & foreign’ operations while also infiltrating and manipulating social media.
Moreover, according to extensive email exchanges obtained by a group of lawyers in a legal dispute, even the German Interior Ministry hired scientists to develop fake coronavirus model in order to justify strict lockdown.
Recently, YouTube has been fined 100,000 euros by the German Higher Regional Court at Dresden after it wrongly deleted a user’s video which showed massive pandemic lockdown protests in Switzerland – and then failed to reinstate the video ‘immediately’ after the court ordered it to do so on April 20.
In another move to protect the native news industry from tech giants, Australia had ordered Google and Facebook to share revenue with local media for news content or pay $10M fine.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that Facebook has attacked the sovereign nation of Australia and that his government will not be intimidated by Facebook’s threats. Meanwhile, other nations from around the world have join in sparking a global war against the threats from Big Tech.
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Well, … Isn’t that Special ??
The only messages a bureaucracy understands are (1) funding reductions; (2) personnel dismissals–in that order. Unless there’s a kinetic revolution, a modern bureaucracy is unlikely to be defunded, let alone to have a pension removed; the bureaucracy is too important to some elite interest.
WATCH WE CAN DO THIS WW. @ProfTimNoakes
Very proudly South African.
Once more leading the world in the search for truth and justice.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT APPLICATION BY RICARDO MAARMAN TO END THE LOCKD… https://youtu.be/dMMH0wmVa-s
William Stead out of UK ” government by journalism”
“Quotes“They(journalists) decide what their readers shall know, or what they shall not know.
[3]”“The very conception of journalism as an instrument of government is foreign to the mind of most journalists. Yet, if they could but think of it, the editorial pen is a sceptre of power, compared with which the sceptre of many a monarch is but a gilded lath.[3]”
“In a democratic age, in the midst of a population which is able to read, no position is comparable for permanent influence and far-reaching power to that of an editor who understands his vocation. In him are vested almost all the attributes of real sovereignty.[3]”
“A journalist can not only exercise an almost absolute power of closure both upon individuals and upon causes, he has also the power of declaring urgency for subjects on which he is interested. He can excite interest, or allay it; he can provoke public impatience, or convince people that no one need worry themselves about the matter.[3]”
“Not only can he generate driving force to force measures, and force them through obstacles otherwise insuperable – the journalist can also decide upon the priority of those measures.[3]
***** edward bernays from UK…”Edward Bernays’ book Propaganda is about public relations (PR). Bernays invented PR, but in this book it is called by a more honest name: ‘propaganda’. In the old days, propaganda just meant what modern-day PR means: advocating on behalf of an organization (or government or business) and explaining and justifying the institution to the public.
***** Britian spent a lot of time cultivating lies and deception to the masses.
Canada is part of the common wealth under Queeny……not surprised privey council steering committee…..there is a privey council in USA too….
Well said Guido lol
We are fighting an information war and now our very own Canadian military has been busy using propaganda techniques to sway the citizens of Canada on how and what they should be thinking .
If anyone thinks that the book “1984” by George Orwell was interesting , reality ,is so much more .
Will we ever find out if this was in reality sanctioned by our own government and which other Canadian or otherwise ,organization was involved in this scheme .
Many thanks for this disclosure.