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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by g7s@lemmy.ml to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I am not actively following Canadian politics, but recently Reddit swarms me with media/videos about Canada, with the kind of rhetoric I know from right winged people in Germany (AfD, CDU).

They are blaming Trudeau and immigration for everything that happens in Canada currently. Calling immigrants terrorists etc.

I always had to imagine in my head, that Canadians are friendly, open-minded people, but the media suggest otherwise.

So dear people, enlighten me with your opinion please!

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 month ago

The right are overrepresented online due to foreign influence campaigns

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

I think you give foreign actors too much credit. Canada's got plenty of gullible right wing idiots on its own.

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

Are there sections of Canada that are overly right leaning? Kinda like Texas or Florida of the USA?

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alberta is the Canadian Texas/Florida unfortunately. The two large cities vote left, but the rural / agricultural voting block outweighs them, so the provincial government has been right wing for decades. With one exception in recent years there was a Premier that was so insufferable and corrupt that in protest an NDP government was elected but that was just a one shot.

[-] Slabic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

This is partly false. Edmonton and Calgary vote blue federal and usually orange for provincial. Results from the last federal election https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6183209

Provincial - https://globalnews.ca/news/9633315/live-alberta-election-results-2023-vote/

Which I think has a lot to do with union and provincial government employees. But I'm just another stupid Albertan.

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Orange = NDP = left. I was talking about the provincial government and premier

[-] Slabic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Right. That's why I said partly false. Perhaps, "not the whole truth" would be better working? By stating the cities vote left and leaving it at that implies they always vote left, when they don't. All I was saying. Thanks.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, the CBC video comment sections. b'dum-tss

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

~~foreign~~domestic influence campaigns

Canada Proud, NatPo and Post Media in general, etc.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

NatPo is a foreign influencer - they're no longer domestically owned.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Do you mean this - "... Chatham Asset Management LLC is an American hedge fund..."?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

TIL. I thought PostMedia is an all-Canadian propi.

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