A story about Mark Carney's ties to a Chinese group that has ties to China's United Front Work Department (UWP) has caused a stir on YouTube over the past 24-36 hours. I think the media are missing a big point here.
00:00:35.380Just to put it into perspective, when it hit me on Sunday night, from that time until Thursday morning, I lost almost 10 pounds.
00:00:44.320And I was running pretty lean, so if I'm looking pretty thin right now, that's because of the flu.
00:00:49.460Now, I've been trying to follow politics, but I can tell you for about three days, it really didn't mean a lot to me.
00:00:55.820But over the last 24 to 36 hours, there's a story you've probably been following, and you've seen hyperbolic headlines like the elections over and whatnot,
00:01:03.700by some of the people who are doing great work, and I've mentioned here on this channel before.
00:01:07.300But I think they're missing a big point here, a big one.
00:04:24.460Carney says he never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders.
00:04:29.240And then here is their statement regarding this.
00:04:32.800From the story, I got through the paywall for a short time this morning.
00:04:36.240Liberal Party spokesperson Isabella Orozco-Madison said the JCC inaccurately portrayed their executive members' discussions with Mr. Carney is in depth.
00:04:45.880Quote, we have reached out to the organization correcting the record and asked that they remove such claims immediately, unquote, she said in a statement.
00:04:53.780And again, I think maybe the Carney campaign got to the Globe and Mail.
00:04:58.340Now, this story, the follow-up, tries to soften the blow for the Carney campaign a little bit.
00:05:03.240Because I read the whole thing all the way through.
00:05:04.720Now, they've been talking, the mainstream media, I mean, have been talking about Carney and his connections with the Communist Chinese.
00:05:11.420And I'm getting to the final point here in just a moment.
00:05:14.700But they've been framing it differently than you know about.
00:05:18.300In this story itself, it's from CBC, Ian Hanna-Mansing uses the word false about Mr. Carney and the word targeting Mr. Carney come up in this quick story.
00:05:29.220You've likely heard concerns about disinformation potentially having an impact on the election.
00:05:34.000And now federal officials are warning of a campaign on the Chinese social media platform WeChat.
00:05:40.000They say the content contains false stories about liberal leader Mark Carney.
00:05:43.980It was uncovered by a special election task force set up to look into security and intelligence threats.
00:05:51.720This content has been amplified in a coordinated and inauthentic way.
00:05:57.040This information operation had contrasting positive and negative narratives.
00:06:02.020First amplifying Mr. Carney's stance with the United States and then targeting his experience and credentials.
00:06:08.340Is this WeChat using false claims about Mr. Carney?