Stand on Guard with David Krayden - Blatant Propaganda at Your Expense! ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 146

00:00:00.000 hi welcome back to another episode of stand on guard back to monday no question period today

00:00:06.620 the house of course is in recess there will be some committee meetings over the summer

00:00:10.760 hopefully they'll be talking about foreign influence and spies but time is running out

00:00:17.840 for justin trudeau the clock is ticking on justin trudeau for a number of reasons and

00:00:25.860 we're going to be going to a but we've seen the liberal government tap in a while but none other

00:00:34.020 than that shall we say lecturing cabinet minister deputy prime minister and finance minister christy

00:00:43.520 freeland has been getting some tough questions on how the liberals use social media influencers at

00:00:53.200 taxpayer expense to promote liberal policies to spew propaganda essentially that's what this is

00:01:00.420 this is not anything else than propaganda and i wouldn't have a problem with the liberal party

00:01:06.560 doing this but when it's taxpayer money you have to say something is askew so we will be going to that

00:01:14.840 shortly but i wanted to show you some background about what is that is actually going on here we've

00:01:20.800 got a number of things i want to discuss today and i will be right back with all of them

00:01:28.840 so we are in a very precarious position in this country we need political change but we also need

00:01:38.120 to resolve to resist

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00:02:12.760 it this is a family this station it really is and even though question period has been put on hold

00:02:20.000 for a couple of three months three months we will be doing live broadcasts increasingly and i want to

00:02:26.860 keep you up on the news and what i'm talking about today i think is just evidentiary of how corrupt

00:02:35.320 the liberal government has become and i really want to emphasize that this is just rank corruption

00:02:43.340 in terms of it promoting itself at taxpayer expense now there's a by-election toronto as well today

00:02:51.200 uh toronto saint paul's this was carolyn bennett's old seat the she was health minister for years and 0.95

00:02:59.760 then she became mental health minister very very cantankerous woman but it was a safe liberal seat 0.85

00:03:06.780 they used to win by 20 points right now it's neck and neck and the conservatives could actually take

00:03:11.100 this seat this will be of course a good indication that there are no strings attached to justin trudeau in

00:03:19.560 terms of winning elections that he is not helping candidates win elections so we'll we'll see what

00:03:27.300 happens there and i'll take a look at some polling before we do that and i also want to talk about

00:03:33.900 what in on earth was the royal canadian navy doing in cuba last week when the defense minister bill

00:03:42.320 blair claimed that it was some kind of deterrence move against russia turns out it wasn't but we'll get

00:03:48.920 into that so i want to give you a little background first here on what is going on with social media

00:03:55.660 influencers and where justin trudeau's head is at because arguably i'm no psychologist or

00:04:01.620 psychiatrist but i can recognize strains of schizophrenia when i see it and it simply means

00:04:08.340 trying to compartmentalize two opposing ideas at the same time and acting like there's nothing

00:04:13.760 irrational about it and that's exactly what true has done let's let's listen to this collection here

00:04:18.180 out there a deliberate undermining of mainstream media there are the conspiracy theorists there are

00:04:25.920 the social media drivers who are trying to do everything they can to keep people in their little

00:04:31.600 filter bubbles to prevent people from actually agreeing on a common set of facts the way you know

00:04:37.700 the cbc and ctv when they were our only sources of news you know used to used to and global used to

00:04:43.580 project okay so that's pretty odd for justin trudeau to be talking about the halcyon days in canada

00:04:52.880 of three networks three news networks he doesn't mention the fact there were probably two dailies in

00:05:00.380 every major canadian city and we of course we had the well he he would not probably look at the

00:05:08.280 national post as part of his equation we had the globe and mail as sort of canada's national

00:05:13.140 newspaper and that would be great with trudeau that's what he wants you to read that's the media

00:05:18.200 he wants you to view doesn't he doesn't get into radio but of course it's a pre-internet age isn't it

00:05:23.800 he's talking about you can't put the genie back in the bottle any more than we can put nuclear bomb back

00:05:29.640 in the bottle and pretend that didn't happen we are living in an internet age and trudeau was doing

00:05:35.900 everything possible to stifle that information on the internet and we know we know about his censorship

00:05:43.220 bills and we know the one that's just introduced in march the online harms act which did not reach

00:05:50.580 second reading thank god before the house recessed but interesting because march 2023 we learned that

00:05:58.860 the fed spent more than 600 000 hiring influencers social media influencers in 2021 this was the trudeau

00:06:05.420 government turning to social and this was largely to counteract any qualms people had about getting

00:06:13.660 the covet 19 vaccine because there was a lot of information on the internet saying that this vaccine

00:06:21.380 might not be as safe and effective as the government was claiming it was we now know it was neither

00:06:27.360 of those two it was not effective in stopping or preventing you from getting covid and there are

00:06:33.640 reasons to doubt its safety and we have to look into that too but here's exactly what's going been

00:06:41.920 going on with the social media influencers social media influencers to get the word out on some of their

00:06:46.860 initiatives documents recently tabled in the house of commons show ottawa paid influencers more than

00:06:51.840 600 000 in taxpayers money last year and more than a dozen federal departments and agencies employed

00:06:58.540 those influencers to try and help get the messages out from everything to do with the covid vaccine rollout

00:07:04.860 to winterlude staycations let's go to ottawa ctv's rachel aiello is standing bush covering this story

00:07:12.040 today so rachel some people are going to say smart move other people are going to say wow interesting use

00:07:17.240 of taxpayers money walk us through the story here yeah todd well it's really a new frontier

00:07:23.420 advertising through social media influencers obviously government departments for a long time

00:07:28.240 have been trying to reach a canadian audiences where they are traditional tv watchers uh online

00:07:33.620 themselves through their own accounts but what we're seeing in increasing numbers todd is the

00:07:37.800 government using influencers to get their message out so instead of seeing a post from the government

00:07:42.100 of canada themselves what you'll see is a post from probably someone you follow uh saying that

00:07:47.700 they're partnering with the government of canada and they're bringing you this message so i dug through

00:07:51.620 these documents and took a look at the trends and what the government has been doing in the last year

00:07:56.580 and it was really interesting to see some of the strategies at play obviously with the covid vaccine

00:08:01.460 rollout they had an aim of targeting diverse groups groups of canadians who might not necessarily be

00:08:08.740 traditional media watchers and also wanting to ensure um uptake in the covid vaccine is there

00:08:15.300 in groups of people of color for example uh the lgbtq community and you saw that play out with who

00:08:21.700 they appointed or hired or contracted for these uh influencer posts so we saw a rather diverse group

00:08:27.620 of folks be tasked with then taking to their social media accounts many of them with large

00:08:32.900 followings some of them with very specific audiences todd you know they are a clear

00:08:37.380 cash or a trusted community and sharing their rationale for why they got vaccinated and these

00:08:43.140 were all sponsored paid posts that the government backed in in order to increase the take up in the

00:08:48.100 covid 19 vaccine i just landed in ottawa look who i ran into this is this is classic moment here

00:08:57.780 you might remember this this was during the canada strong and free conference

00:09:03.140 you know in april and this is uh a social media influencer but not one the liberals really would

00:09:09.300 want to use yeah cat canada because she goes by her moniker on on x and here she is sitting 1.00

00:09:17.860 obviously in the business class section with christie freeland the deputy prime minister and uh

00:09:23.620 freeland actually invited her to be one of her social influence social media influence but but she 1.00

00:09:29.540 didn't have any idea that it might not be the most appropriate choice for can you wave to my

00:09:34.260 followers on twitter sure hi everything

00:09:40.900 yes so she got a bit of pushback on that and by the way uh we all know the covet 19 vaccine was

00:09:46.980 safe and effective according to to youtube anyway so we uh we always have to add that disclaimer don't we

00:09:54.420 uh so there she is uh deputy deputy prime minister christia freeland sitting on the airplane with a

00:10:03.860 small c conservative social media influencer cat canada and here's christia freeland looking extremely

00:10:12.900 uncomfortable trying to explain what the government's policy on social media influencers actually um but

00:10:20.180 we've seen the liberal government tapping influencers and we're now seeing departments using uh marketing

00:10:25.300 money to also tap influencers um to deliver government messaging uh i guess why pay influencers why do this

00:10:36.420 um i'm happy to offer a really general answer which is she look happy to you she looks extremely

00:10:46.580 stressed extremely uncomfortable and unwilling to answer that question and you'll find out as

00:10:54.260 as she attempts to answer the question she doesn't um it is really important for

00:11:01.940 our government to be sure canadians know what we are doing on their behalf um we work

00:11:12.020 for you guys and we work for all canadians and the money that the government of canada invests

00:11:19.540 is the money of canadians and so we are all really really focused on talking to canadians on being out

00:11:29.940 in person and talking to as many people as we can in person um as you guys know i used to be a journalist

00:11:37.540 um i still read two newspapers every day in print um and take pictures of the articles that i share with

00:11:45.780 people um and i am a huge believer in the value of the work that all of you guys do the work of

00:11:56.180 professional salary journalists um we also recognize that a lot of canadians get their information from

00:12:03.780 other sources and it's our responsibility to be sure that we are meeting canadians where they are

00:12:09.540 i don't know if anyone else want i guess i'll just add um you know i have four kids all of us up

00:12:16.180 here have kids and we see that our newspapers on our kitchen counters are not getting read read by our

00:12:22.900 children at least i do and i'll just say that this is um this is a time where the way in which media

00:12:32.660 is is consumed uh is evolving uh is evolving and we need to evolve with the times okay so evolve with

00:12:43.700 the times on your own dime don't expect taxpayers to pay for your propaganda and this of course is

00:12:52.420 immediately where she goes to suggest that anything that is opposing liberal policy is misinformation

00:12:59.620 disinformation and she's just about to get there and certainly when i was minister of national defense

00:13:08.260 we saw in numerous instances that misinformation and disinformation were creeping into our media

00:13:19.300 our systems across the country and in the private and public sector were being hacked

00:13:24.580 uh by cyber criminals and so essentially i don't think we should look at the use of influencers

00:13:34.500 in a silo we should actually think about how as a government we are responding to the

00:13:45.060 use of misinformation and disinformation

00:13:48.420 to change the way in which people think and in yesteryear

00:13:57.780 what was understood to be the truth

00:14:01.540 you see how pained they are to try to rationalize and justify their misuse of taxpayer money to pay for

00:14:10.020 liberal propaganda because it's all it's all everybody else's fault there's this massive conspiracy out

00:14:18.100 there on social media to discredit the wonderful policies promulgated by the liberal government

00:14:24.820 and it's their job to spend your money to ensure you don't believe any of it was more objective

00:14:31.140 we are now in an era where people debate what is true and in order to be in the realm of discussing

00:14:42.340 i thought we always debated what is true is that not something we should be doing is it only true if

00:14:48.180 the liberal government says it is we need to ensure that the work that we are doing in whatever portfolio

00:14:55.860 is actually disseminated in an honest and clear way so that canadians can understand what their taxpayer

00:15:07.140 dollars are paying for

00:15:11.380 thank you uh for all those answers my follow-up is um you know if tick tock is potentially a national

00:15:18.260 security risk then why are you leaning on its influencers to deliver government messaging and get a

00:15:26.020 load of this answer non-answer

00:15:32.020 yeah christian come to my right i mean as you know um we do take the potential threat posed by tick

00:15:42.340 tock tock very seriously and our government has taken real meaningful action there that is the right

00:15:51.460 thing to do and that is certainly an issue which we are discussing with our allies the broader question

00:16:01.140 of foreign interference and how as countries um we can protect our own democracy and the democracy of our

00:16:10.980 our partners and i'll just say that influencers being influencers are heard on other media platforms

00:16:19.620 other than tick tock oh how nice but if tick tock is not if is not kosher for the federal government

00:16:30.980 to use why is it okay for the liberal party to use it i mean what where's the disconnect end here it is

00:16:38.820 incredible hypocrisy but that's what we've come to expect from this government so so this is a very

00:16:47.700 serious issue because of course we've got trudeau spending your dollars your tax dollars on government

00:16:54.660 propaganda at the same time he wants to eliminate stations like this he wants to eliminate

00:17:02.020 new media and independent media from the internet because they all

00:17:07.540 are guilty misinformation disinformation which are terms he doesn't use as readily as anita anand did

00:17:14.900 in that interview he likes to talk about harm now that if you're spinning any kind of story

00:17:23.460 that is not written by the liberal party that you're in you are producing harm on canadians and you

00:17:30.580 must be silenced and the online harms act will do that by putting you in prison for life locking you up

00:17:37.220 at home with a bracelet if you're considered to be potentially guilty of a thought crime

00:17:44.420 and of course subjecting you to human rights tribunals which can find the life out of you and keep you poor 0.91

00:17:51.060 for the rest of your existence and that's what trudeau's plan is so it's it's twofold

00:17:55.940 force taxpayers to pay for his propaganda stop any media outlets that disagree with him that's where

00:18:05.300 trudeau is coming so how is this affecting things right now now as i said there's a by-election coming

00:18:10.820 up in toronto st paul now and this is the this is the average here that we have the conservatives are

00:18:19.380 about 20 points ahead of this poll they've maintained a 20 point spread now for about four months

00:18:26.100 so this is this is a huge i'd love to see the block disappear entirely here but it would

00:18:33.860 the this is indicative of how the liberal support has cratered and it continues to crater and

00:18:48.660 yeah and that's the by-election we'll have the results on tonight it's it is too close to call

00:18:54.420 but it's a good possibility that the conservatives could take it and that of course would be another

00:18:59.860 reason for justin trudeau to consider his future as the leader of the liberal party and prime minister

00:19:04.180 of canada do i think that's going to take him down no i don't i don't think that's going to be enough

00:19:09.780 impetus for him to to truly assess his future and say it's time to go i think he'll continue as long

00:19:21.220 as it's feasible does as long as he can fend off attacks from the caucus and the cabinet and the party

00:19:27.540 bosses he'll do that but interestingly enough you know there's the liberal hope throughout the ages

00:19:35.220 has always been get rid of the unpopular leader who's passed his shelf life and

00:19:43.780 put in a new leader and the you will have a rebirth of the party and canadians will just naturally

00:19:51.140 support it and it of course hasn't always happened has it paul martin did not catch on with canadians

00:19:58.900 even though he took over the job from jean chretien

00:20:05.620 and it's it's john turner did not catch on with canadians when he took on the job after pierre trudeau

00:20:12.900 so it's interesting if you look at this even if they put freeland who i guess is supposedly the front

00:20:21.380 runner there's 20 points behind it's not it's not going to work and dominic leblanc minus 13

00:20:34.020 now i can't imagine champagne that one of the most annoying and grating cabinet ministers 0.94

00:20:41.220 even thinking he could possibly be be a leader of the liberal party but he's uh he's at minus 11

00:20:49.380 so and mark carney well there's a there's a minus four percent there but there's really nobody who is

00:20:58.500 the savior of the liberal party anymore it's not going to happen the liberal party is not going to

00:21:05.380 recover from justin trudeau so i that's one reason i don't think he will be leaving anytime soon

00:21:15.060 because he believes he's the best leader of the liberal party and he will fight to keep that that

00:21:21.300 position i want to move to a story here before i forget this was interesting because

00:21:26.580 this question came up in the last week of question period i think about a week ago now

00:21:34.020 and it was uh the conservative defense uh critic james uh bazan who was actually an old friend

00:21:44.020 and he asked the defense minister bill blair what was the canadian navy royal canadian navy doing down in

00:21:50.500 havana and bill blair gave a horribly mangled response it was barely

00:22:00.420 coherent and a lot of people commented like is there something wrong with bill here because he really

00:22:07.300 didn't seem to have a grasp of the answer but the gist of his response was that the navy was in havana

00:22:15.620 as part of some deterrence show against russia because russian ships had been there now

00:22:23.220 whether or not bill blair actually believed this or not i i and i doubt it very much but how much

00:22:31.860 how much does he not know about his own department if he didn't know what the canadian

00:22:36.500 navy was actually doing they were there to put on a conga show

00:22:39.780 entertainment for for havana had nothing to do with deterrence and blair was obviously aware of that

00:22:52.180 but he came up with this cover story and i mean get a load of this guy here i mean i don't know who this

00:22:58.180 is but i would suggest that perhaps the physical fitness requirements and the canadian armed forces have

00:23:09.060 been gradually reduced over the years because i i don't recall regular force people looking like

00:23:18.420 this when i was in uniform but you know i'm not making fun of the man's weight yeah but

00:23:26.500 the canadian armed forces and the canadian navy used to have stringent regulations in terms of being

00:23:32.580 physically fit i know i know they got rid of the body mass index years ago but i still thought you

00:23:40.100 had you had to pass fitness tests twice a year i did but i was in uniform and i could still pass them

00:23:45.620 today but anyway a little surprised to see this picture of this individual and like i said i don't know who

00:23:52.740 it is but he was uh it was this photo was tweeted by the canadian embassy in cuba

00:23:59.380 they're quite proud of this guy on the trumpet performing for the for the cubans interesting

00:24:06.980 to say the least but that is you know we don't know

00:24:12.180 i thought i was going to make it through this but i'm not

00:24:18.500 no he's not ultimately time is ticking away for justin trito and i think he will continue to try to

00:24:27.140 hold on but he can't ignore the facts forever so even though he thinks he's ready to fight another

00:24:35.300 election he believes he can win and win another election i don't believe that illusion that delusion

00:24:45.380 is shared by the rank and file liberal party membership most of the cabinet or most of the

00:24:53.220 caucus which definitely sees trudeau as a liability at this point so he might want to hang on to that

00:25:00.820 next election but i doubt the liberal party will let him stay because time is ticking for justin trudeau

00:25:10.740 and that's that's where we are with with this story so what do we need to do this summer we have to

00:25:18.100 stay vigilant but a number of things and one is to never forget that the trudeau government is trying

00:25:25.380 to pass the most authoritarian anti-free speech law for lack of better i'm not going to call it a hate

00:25:34.900 speech law because it isn't it is a law that wants to undermine and destroy free speech in canada the

00:25:42.980 online harms act and as long as the most authoritarian legislation like it in the world for a democratic

00:25:50.660 country a supposedly democratic country we must continue to fight that we must continue to ask for

00:25:57.460 names of these spies in the house of commons and not let this story die throughout the summer

00:26:02.980 i think that's extremely important we have to keep fighting for truth and we have to keep fighting for

00:26:08.340 accuracy and that's something we never get from from justin trudeau so i thank you for watching today

00:26:15.780 and we are going to be on again tomorrow and like i say we will continue this live relationship

00:26:24.260 throughout the summer question period or no question period and i think it's important to stay informed

00:26:31.060 informed and to stay on top of the news thanks for watching everybody god bless you

Stand on Guard with David Krayden - June 24, 2024

Blatant Propaganda at Your Expense! ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 146

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