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>insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution
hey what's with the broken links?
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-violated-rules-by-collecting-information-on-canadians-conducting-propaganda-during-pandemic-report
Military violated rules by collecting information on Canadians, conducting propaganda during pandemic: report
Investigations into the activities have concluded not only were rules not followed, but senior leaders also had no authority to conduct such initiatives.
Military commanders violated federal rules and acted without authority when they ordered intelligence teams to collect information on the public as well as use propaganda techniques against Canadians, top defence officials now admit.
Information was culled from social media accounts of members of the public in Ontario and data was compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings. Military commanders also proceeded with a plan to use propaganda techniques employed during the Afghanistan war, claiming that was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic.
But military investigations into those activities have concluded not only were rules not followed, but senior leaders also had no authority to conduct such initiatives.
“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 document signed by acting Chief of the Defence Staff Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre and Deputy Minister Jody Thomas.
A series of articles last year by this newspaper prompted four separate internal military investigations into the military’s use of propaganda and other information operations or IO techniques against Canadians.
“This included the conduct of IO 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,” Eyre and Thomas acknowledged in their document.
One of the military investigations examined the initiative last year by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau, then head of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, to issue a plan for the use of propaganda techniques against Canadians during the pandemic. The investigation found the Canadian Joint Operations Command headquarters not only didn’t follow established policy, but also such an initiative was never requested in the first place by the federal government.
Another investigation highlighted how military intelligence officers broke various rules as they gathered information from social media accounts of various members of the public. Senior leaders initially tried to justify their actions by claiming such data-mining was needed to help troops working in long-term care homes during the pandemic. They maintained there was nothing wrong with that initiative since the information collected was from publicly available social media accounts of Ontarians.
But the investigation concluded otherwise. “Teams contravened requirements by not conducting a risk assessment prior to conducting activities on the internet and they collected Canadian citizen information without our explicit direction,” Eyre and Thomas wrote.
>Military violated rules by collecting information on Canadians, conducting propaganda during pandemic
Another investigation examined a September incident where military information operations staff forged a letter from the Nova Scotia government warning about wolves on the loose in a particular region of the province. The letter was inadvertently distributed to residents, prompting panicked calls from the public to Nova Scotia officials who were unaware the military was behind the deception.
The investigation determined that the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and that policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers.
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 the public’s social media accounts.
The plan was circulated at National Defence headquarters in draft form and 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.
Training for such a capability was also put in place. The Canadian Forces 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 to help Donald Trump’s election campaign. In this case, the contracts were awarded to Emic Consulting, a British firm.
The initiative, overseen by Brig. Gen. Jay Janzen, was part of a shift at National Defence headquarters to what was dubbed “the weaponization of public affairs.”
The plan was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the initiative. In response, Janzen sent a message to public affairs officers that “these efforts were on the leading edge, and we were exploring uncharted territory. Innovation is sometimes prone to being misunderstood.”
But the 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.”
In response to the various investigations, the military plans to bring in new training and clearer directives to ensure that Canadians are not the target of future propaganda attempts.
>Training for such a capability was also put in place. The Canadian Forces 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 to help Donald Trump’s election campaign. In this case, the contracts were awarded to Emic Consulting, a British firm.
https://www.emicconsulting.co.uk/
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-military-to-establish-new-organization-to-use-propaganda-other-techniques-to-influence-canadians
Canadian military wants to establish new organization to use propaganda, other techniques to influence Canadians
Nov 02, 2020
The Canadian Forces wants to establish a new organization that will use propaganda and other techniques to try to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of Canadians, according to documents obtained by this newspaper.
The plan comes on the heels of the Canadian Forces spending 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, as well as a controversial and bizarre propaganda training mission in which the military forged letters from the Nova Scotia government to warn the public that wolves were wandering in the province.
The new Defence Strategic Communication group will advance “national interests by using defence activities to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of audiences,” according to the document dated October 2020. Target audiences for such an initiative would be the Canadian public as well as foreign populations in countries where military forces are sent.
The document is the end result of what Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance has called the “weaponization” of the military’s public affairs branch. The document is in a draft form, but work is already underway on some aspects of the plan and some techniques have been already tested on the Canadian public.
But the office of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Sunday that the plan, at least for now, is not authorized to proceed. Sajjan has raised concerns about some of the activities related to such influence and propaganda operations. “No such plan has been approved, nor will it be,” Floriane Bonneville, Sajjan’s press secretary, said after being asked by this newspaper about the initiative.
But a series of town halls were already conducted last week for a number of military personnel on the strategies contained in the draft plan.
The report quotes Brig.-Gen. Jay Janzen, director general military public affairs, who stated, “The motto ‘who dares, wins’ is as applicable to strategic communication as it is to warfare.”
The initiative also proposes the creation of a new research capability established to analyze and collect information from the social media accounts of Canadians, non-governmental organizations, industry and the news media, according to the report.
The Canadian Forces have already tested that capability earlier this year. This newspaper reported that a team assigned to a Canadian military intelligence unit monitored and collected information from people’s social media accounts in Ontario, claiming such data-mining was needed to help troops who were to work in long-term care homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
>who has the fucking joystick?
https://twitter.com/donaldtuskEPP/status/1202532538033590272
>https://www.emicconsulting.co.uk/
In anthropology taking an Emic perspective means to view a situation through the eyes of another. As individuals, organisations and cultures we all see the world and its problems through our own lens; bringing with us our assumptions, biases, and preconceptions. Every individual and every society has their own blueprint of right and wrong and it is when people impose their values and worldviews onto others that conflict starts. Avoiding this conflict starts with understanding – understanding not only our own goals, but understanding other perspectives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUrp5PlnBwQ
MP Derek Sloan raises concerns about censorship of doctors and scientists – June 17, 2021
Independent MP Derek Sloan holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to raise concerns about the alleged censorship of doctors and scientists as well as medical information related to vaccines. The former Conservative MP has been critical of lockdowns that have been in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and also sponsored a petition questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. He is joined by Byram Bridle (associate professor of viral immunology, University of Guelph), Dr. Patrick Phillips (family and emergency medicine physician in Ontario), and Don Welsh (professor of physiology and pharmacology, Western University).
https://www.christianpost.com/news/canadian-pastor-says-govt-has-personal-vendetta-against-him.html
Canadian pastor slams double standard on COVID restrictions, alleges 'personal vendetta' against him
Throughout the interview, Pawlowski repeatedly defended his actions: “I’m not afraid of what I believe in, the Bible is filled with people that have resisted authorities, evil authorities, from the very beginning to the very end.” He proclaimed that “I’m not ashamed of what of doing … because I do what my Bible tells me to do.”
Pawlowski acknowledged that actions of “hate” and “slander” “come with the territory” of living a life in accordance with the Bible. “I take the good, the bad and the ugly,” he added, vowing to continue fighting “evil laws” like other figures in the Bible, including Daniel and David. “I’m in good company,” Pawlowski declared.
The adverse treatment of Pawlowski has not gone unnoticed by religious freedom advocates in the United States. On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom urging them to “consider adding Canada to the Commission’s Watch List.
Although Hawley did not mention Pawlowski by name, he did discuss the arrest of two other Canadian pastors, Tim Stephens and James Coates, for holding in-person worship services in violation of coronavirus worship restrictions as causes for concern. “I would expect this sort of religious crackdown in Communist China, not in a prominent Western nation like Canada.”