The Conservative Party of Canada has deleted a video that was meant to promote its Canadian values but featured images of what the Defence Minister’s office says are Russian fighter jets.
The party acknowledged on Monday that mistakes happen, while also pointing out that the Liberals have dealt with a stock image backlash in the past.
The video in question was posted by the party on X on Saturday with the slogan “Canada. Our Home” and featured a speech delivered by leader Pierre Poilievre from the Calgary Stampede.
In the video, Poilievre describes a Canadian man driving on a highway on his way to work after dropping off his kid at school, and spots a brand new fighter jet in the sky.
- cygnus ( @cygnus@lemmy.ca ) 50•30 days ago
An ironic Freudian slip coming from the Conservatives. I’m sure they’d just love to see MiGs and Sukhois over Ottawa, restoring the “traditional values” of homophobia and wife-beating.
- osaerisxero ( @osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ) 30•30 days ago
Or the script came straight from Russia unedited. Hard to tell sometimes which is more likely
“They’re doing a training mission in the sky, getting ready to defend our home and native land,” Poilievre said.
“He was looking kind of dumb with his finger and his thumb In the shape of an “L” on his forehead”
- anachronist ( @anachronist@midwest.social ) English8•30 days ago
He ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. That’s for sure. I think the world is gonna roll him. The ice is getting pretty thin, the water’s warm. Do you think he can swim?
- Funderpants ( @FunderPants@lemmy.ca ) 5•30 days ago
I did not consent to hearing smash-mouth in my head. Who do I report you to?
Milhouse.
- Swordgeek ( @swordgeek@lemmy.ca ) 33•30 days ago
First off, there’s no “may have.” They were Russian jets, undeniably.
Immediately after that scene was a white student at Kyiv Polytechnik.
Scenes from Serbia, the US, and many other countries made up the rest of the video.
Also:
- The family (in Tuscany) celebrating ten years of sobriety for one son by…drinking.
- Dad pulling away in his pickup truck after dropping his kids off at school…when the kids JUST GOT OFF A SCHOOL BUS!
- the fields of headless “barley or canola”
- anachronist ( @anachronist@midwest.social ) English13•30 days ago
I think I’m beginning to understand how Trudeau keeps winning.
- dubyakay ( @dubyakay@lemmy.ca ) 3•29 days ago
This has got to be a joke…
… It was a joke, right?
- StillPaisleyCat ( @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ) 12•29 days ago
No joke, and the story has legs internationally regrettably.
This isn’t 10 or 15 years ago when global stock video clips were just taking off standard resource in ad company toolboxes.
- IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English33•30 days ago
Good multicultural message too … I actually saw the back of one young black man’s head.
This has got be the most white nationalistic propaganda I’ve ever seen.
What is this … 1935?
- zqwzzle ( @zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ) English13•30 days ago
Don’t have to go back that far.
- ImplyingImplications ( @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ) 21•30 days ago
Fighter jets defending our country? From who? Are they going to shoot rent and grocery prices?
- pbjamm ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English14•29 days ago
Even without the added Russian jets and foreign establishing shots that speech was embarrassing. Really going all in on American style flag humping “patriotism”.
- Showroom7561 ( @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ) 10•29 days ago
- AnotherDirtyAnglo ( @AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca ) 9•29 days ago
You think the people that commissioned this train wreck were careless, lacked attention to detail, and has so little over that it produced in a terminally putrid result?
Just take a moment to imagine how much they’re going to fuck up if they get elected into positions of power.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 9•30 days ago
In your dream PP.
- Mammothmothman ( @Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca ) 5•30 days ago
What a bunch of woolgathering.
- Nik282000 ( @nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 5•30 days ago
Was this produced by South Park? The Beaverton?
- Jim Knowles ( @sparky57@mastodon.social ) 3•30 days ago
@girlfreddy we did sorta have the russian designed CF121 Stratocaster smuggled in and hidden at CYCH Chatham (now Miramichi) . but it was an april fools joke. Quite a few fell for it.
:wq