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submitted 3 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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.

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[-] pubquiz@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More alt-right babble, fantasy, and mythologizing. Looks like the plan would be to normalize "accidental" image use across the spectrum and normalize the sight of foreign, far-right powers openly violating norms. When the ~~domestic terrorists~~, errrr, ummm, cuntservatives do it, people will be numb to it and simply accept ii.

Not likely, L'il PP, you'll have to be more subtle if you want to overthrow democracy; learn from your American betters: this process can take years, even decades. Why, it even with state authority to gerrymander and suppress voters, it took them over 15 years to subjugate the SCOTUS, and fill it with enough bribable (Thomas, Roberts) and pliable (Gorsuch, Coney-Barrett and Cry-baby Kavanaugh) stooges that they could start cancelling laws they felt were to humanist and compassionate.

THAT's the time scale, PP, not an election cycle. Look long term. /s

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