Loading ...‘BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION TRAINING’: Canadian military spent more than $1 million on controversial program
ALL CANADIANS — PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE — IT IS BEING EXECUTED NOW — WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT OR OVERSIGHT!!!
“The training is part of a wider project originally labelled as the “weaponization of public affairs” by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance. That got underway in 2015. The Canadian Forces is also developing its skills in “influence operations,” propaganda and data mining for campaigns that can be directed at either overseas populations or at Canadians.
The Canadian Forces has already tested some of those skills this year. In July, this newspaper reported 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 working in long-term care homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
In some cases, the data collected involved basic information about the long-term care facilities. In other cases, the collection involved comments made by the public about the provincial government’s failure in taking care of the elderly in the province. That data was turned over to the Ontario government, with a warning from the team that it represented a “negative” reaction from the public.”
“Various military sources contacted this newspaper at the time to raise concerns about the Precision Information Team, warning that its operations could be seen as unethical and bordering on illegality.”
“the Canadian Forces planned a propaganda campaign aimed at heading off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic”
Suggest check what the Canadian Constitution says about use of its military for data mining activities of Canadians.
I would suggest that such activity by the military is prohibited under the Constitution.
That is, its illegal. Not “bordering on illegal”.