The Conservative Party of Canada has deleted a video that promoted Canadian values but featured what the Defence Minister's office says are Russian fighter jets.

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.

  • AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca
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    3 months 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.

  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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). THAT’s the time scale, PP, not an election cycle. Look long term. /s

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
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    3 months ago

    “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

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    featured a speech delivered by leader Pierre Poilievre from the Calgary Stampede.

    Gotta hand it to the Cons. They are totally confident platforming from one of Canada’s historically shameful, and outwardly cruel (Examples 1 2 3) “entertainment events” as if Canada needs to go backwards 100 years.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That should be the most insulting to anyone they’re targetting with that speech. How do none of them see how disgustingly dishonest and pandering that drivel is? And then he just has to toss in weird culture war shit about censorship that doesn’t happen? And what the fuck have Conservatives ever done to even treat people with drug addictions like people let alone actually help them?

      But to my first point again: If a member of the target audience can’t see that for the pandering nonsense it is then they’re so far beyond it I genuinely do not know how sense could ever reach them. It’s gross.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

      The comment from the utube poster is priceless.

      Pierre’s creepy wish.com “It’s Morning in America” ad because he’s a creepy weirdo. Saving this for when he eventually deletes it off twitter.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    3 months 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.

  • Magister@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    LOL what a loser, I saw the video, it’s all part of youtube video from USA, Slovenia, etc, what a bunch of losers

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months 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?

  • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Even without the added Russian jets foreign establishing shots that speech was embarrassing. Really going all in on American style flag humping “patriotism”.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Also, we already have new fighter jets being delivered as we speak. Like, that is literally the one thing the CAF does not need more of. PP has already said that he won’t even try to meet our defence spending commitments, but now he wants to replace brand new, very expensive jets that we just bought?

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    3 months 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”