• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Excellent production quality. This is A-tier propaganda. He’s even careful to obfuscate how much of this new development is cooking the planet.

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        2 days ago

        I’m not trying to be cool,. This is straight up propaganda. He has an agenda of his own which he is intentionally obfuscating. This video has had a lot of effort (and your money) poured into it, attempting to convince you that he is on your side, that he has your interests at heart… which is blatantly false.

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            The bulk of his plan to build “Canada Strong” (this sort of thing used to be called “propaganda”, now we just call it “marketing”) is to invest in energy oil and gas infrastructure. This in an economic and ecological climate that cannot tolerate further dependence on fossil fuels. It’s been less than a month since Kelowna and Peachland were directly threatened by wildfires, since the country was blanketed in smoke, but by all means, lets burn more oil.

            Embracing of AI is another key component of what he’s proposing: a non-solution to a variety of non-problems and a classic example of the decoupling of the economy from what we actually produce. There is no path to a successful economy that runs through such massive investments in snake oil and yet, here we have Carney talking about it like it’s a critical part of our future.

            Expanding our military economy is another big part of “Canada Strong”, which sounds like good financial planning until you realise that the return on investment and job creation around military spending pales in comparison to similar investment in things like health care and education.

            This video was not cheap to produce. It was shot on-location with talented staff. It was scripted (just look at those subtitles), shot from multiple angles, with professional lighting. It was then run through post production that included charts, graphs, and animation.

            This sort of thing is not cheap. If the intent was merely to keep the public informed about the government’s plans, all of it could have been a simple press release. The fact that they spent so much money to produce it tells you that there is intention here beyond merely providing information. Obfuscating that intention has a price tag, and Canadians paid it.

            So, for the 2 people who were actually interested in being critical about government messaging and honestly wanted me to elaborate, hopefully this will help. Carney is not here for Canadians. He is here to enrich his friends in the same industries that are literally destroying the world. His careful choice of language to obfuscate this fact, and the heavy spend on production, tell you that he knows that this is unpopular, but that he’s chosen manipulation over better policy.