3. Enter other issues, like cronyism between #Conservatives & pharma companies.
In 2011 Harper gave a 10 yr $425.9M contract to GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline). It required GSK to supply at least 15 million doses a month in a pandemic once its vaccine is ready #cdnpoli#COVID19CA
6. This meant 🇨🇦 was impacted on multiple fronts, including 🇺🇸 companies not licensing subsidiaries to manufacture domestically in 🇨🇦.
In spite of valiant efforts to get out ahead by securing contracts at the start of the pandemic, vaccine nationalism created problems. #cdnpoli
7. The serious issue of lack of domestic Canadian-owned means of production, is a key element of the problem (theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…).
However, there’s another major part of the problem too....the provinces. #cdnpoli#CDNhealth
8. The fiercely guarded autonomy of provinces has meant an extremely uneven response in 🇨🇦. #ABhealth & #ONhealth in particular, have been terrible standouts. From hoarding federal #Covid19 relief funds to having no clear plan for vaccine rollout, the mismanagement is shocking.
9. Instead of planning, implementing sound strategies, issuing #lockdowns (real ones, not #mockdowns) Ford & Kenney played politics, tried to have it both ways, pandering to anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, mixed messaging, while pretending to be on top of #COVID19. #ONpoli#ABleg
10. The false &/or misleading narratives in largely conservative controlled #cdnmedia have had a ripple effect. Instead of coming together, the opposition seeks opportunities to politicize at every turn. They see an #LPC successful navigation of a deadly pandemic as a 0 sum game.
11. But #COVID19 is no game. It’s costly, deadly, with long-term health & economic consequences that will ripple for years to come. Some estimates say $82 TRILLION, globally. (marketwatch.com/story/today-in…). It’s time to stop playing dumb politicking games & fight a runaway train./
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On #NeverPoilievre’s website, on the first page, is a link to propaganda from a known Kremlin mouth piece & white nationalist, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa. Even RW propaganda site #PostMillennial fired Dzsurdzsa. Once again, PP dog whistles to far right extremists & 🇷🇺. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
Who then hired this far right Kremlin mouth piece? #TrueNorthCentre, a pro Poilievre registered “charity” front operation, spreading disinformation disguised as “news”. #CdnDisinfo #cdnmedia #CdnMediaCrisis #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative
#TrueNorthCentre played a pivotal role in ousting Erin O’Toole, pushing PP, & spreading #FluTruxKlan destabilization op propaganda as well as promoting Kremlin talking points & pro Kremlin political figures like #ChristineAnderson. #cdnpoli #NeverPoilievre
On this New Year’s Day 2024, let’s look back on 2023, a year in review of some of the more notable propaganda campaigns that misled the public, using both legacy/corporate media & social media. 🧵
#NewYear2024 #AYearInReview #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #Goodbye2023 #CdnDisinfo
Let’s start with recent history. The appalling partisanship & lack of critical thinking, in addition to a willingness to comply, with the foreign ops of authoritarians like Modi, laid bare (again) our #CdnMediaCrisis. Then silence when more evidence came to light. #cdnpoli
Of course, one of the biggest ops of 2023 was the Chinese interference story. Picking off off LPC MPs in key ridings, appeared to be an aim, using unassessed unknown confidence intel, leaked by partisans. #cdnmedia played such a starring role, @MarkBourrie called it #CoupByMedia
The political right is an anti-democratic movement. They collude, network, share donors, strategies, dirty tricks, ways to cheat, propaganda/disinformation networks, lies. Stephen Harper’s #IDU co-chair, indicted in Georgia in Trump/#GOP attempts to overthrow democracy. #cdnpoli
#Conservatives & #Republicans have been using, sharing and colluding for years. #IDU #NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli https://t.co/4edSAIeQJFthetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/…
That time Andrew Scheer was super cagey and evasive about indicted Trump co-conspirator, Mike Roman, being part of his team.
PP calling #CBC “Trudeau Liberal propaganda”, had 2 objectives: to discredit CBC when holding Polievre #CPC to account AND to make CBC second guess any positive stories about Trudeau & #LPC. @CBC obliges with stories like this. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia
By the way, the Jamaican trip was a Xmas vacation. So why is this a “top story” that prominently quotes #NevrePoilievre? @CBCRadioCanada@CBCNews, care to explain?
#Cdnmedia: it’s time to decide whether you are on the side of democracy or on the side of dismantling it. #cdnpoli
🧵Musk’s attack on #CBC at the behest of #PierrePoilievreIsAFascist & #CPC, is all about FI. It is a foreign billionaire putting his fist on the scale in what amounts to a public square, to upend democracy & spread propaganda. While Musk carries water for authoritarian regimes…
When a Chinese official made this request of Musk & Twitter,
Musk had these warnings removed from Chinese state propaganda (directed at an English speaking audience, similar to RT). While their pages still say “state-affiliated media”, the warning on links has been removed.