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A word document, copy of the article below,  you might be able to use for copying:

2021-09 A plan devised by the Canadian Military uses covid to hone propaganda skills

Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques

on Canadians, Forces report says. Ottawa Citizen

A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on

propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.

David Pugliese  •  Ottawa Citizen

Sep 27, 2021

Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.

The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that “information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.”

A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law.

The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.

A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario. Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders. Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser, the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities.

BLM organizers have questioned why military officials gathered information on their initiative, pointing out they followed pandemic rules and did not hold any gatherings outside LTC homes.

Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan. Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval.

Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.” Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians.

The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOC’s chief of staff, summed up the command’s attitude, Gosselin noted in his report. “This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,” the rear admiral stated.

The command saw the military’s pandemic response “as an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,” Gosselin determined.

Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a “palpable dismissive attitude” toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders.

The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vance’s order to shut it down took effect.

Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions.

There is an ongoing debate inside national defence headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques. Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives. Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy.

Military propaganda training and initiatives within Canada over the last year have proved to be controversial.

The Canadian Forces had to launch an investigation after a September 2020 incident when military information operations staff forged a letter from the Nova Scotia government warning about wolves on the loose in a particular region of the province. The letter was inadvertently distributed to residents, prompting panicked calls to Nova Scotia officials who were unaware the military was behind the deception. The investigation determined the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers.

Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities. Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.

The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians. Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability.

The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal to help Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election campaign.

The initiative to change military public affairs strategy was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the plan. A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was “incompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.” None of the public affairs leadership was disciplined for their actions.

Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control. “Errors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,” noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas. “This included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.”

This is a two-part posting:

1.    Template, EMPLOYEE to his employer  (happens to be a Credit Union)

Part 1 of 2:   (appears Below)

2.  Template, customer/client (me) to the Business (a different Credit Union in this case)

Part 2 of 2: go to  Customer letter to a Business:  forced inoculation of employees is too fascist/nazi-ist for me.    https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25869

A valuable supporting document:  Lawyer Jeffrey Rath, letter to College of Physicians and Surgeons demanding resignations over mandated vaccines        https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25917

The employee created an opportunity.  We went into immediate action.  And now invite you to join the party!

A younger fellow with a family – – both he and his wife are worried that they are about to lose their jobs because of forced inoculation in the workplace.

  LETTER FROM EMPLOYEE TO HIS EMPLOYER

PREFACE,   the employee writes:

I sent this to the GM/CEO yesterday (October 4, 2021).  I heard that another credit union in this area is mandating so I expect mine to follow.

I hope to find a bank/credit union that doesn’t mandate because I will be taking my funds and business there.

(https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25849)

 FROM EMPLOYEE TO EMPLOYER,  FORCED INOCULATION

DON’T WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD.  DO A PRE-EMPT, if possible.

Word it however you like.

I am told that you intend to implement a policy that employees must have a specific medical treatment (a covid 19 inoculation) in order to maintain their employment.

I urge you not to implement such a policy.

This medical treatment is in direct contradiction to my religious beliefs and my creed. Both are explicitly protected by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other principles and laws that are fundamental to the functioning of a free society.

In addition, an unwanted injection is the equivalent of a physical assault, an assault on my body, which is a criminal act.

Mandatory inoculations are an affront! There are other creatures in this world that are unwillingly injected with man-made substances. These creatures are mostly livestock and experimental testing animals. Which category are you trying to put me in? Man was made in God’s image, not a cow’s image, not a pig’s image, not a mouse’s image and not a rhesus monkey’s image.

The mandatory inoculation of a man/woman reduces them to the level of an animal (or a slave if you prefer, or even a prisoner at Auschwitz if we’re looking at recent history. Nuremberg included doctors trials and convictions out of which came medical codes of ethics. People have sovereignty over their own bodies.)

Covid-19 turned out not to be especially fatal to Canadians. The initial predictions were of a fatality rate of around 3.5%. Maybe it would have been worse here if we were malnourished, polluted or otherwise unhealthy but that is not the reality.

An internet search reports that 27,921 Canadians have died with covid so far but that is of a population of around 38,000,000. That is only 0.073% of the population or about 1/50th of the 3.5% prediction.

Upon learning of the covid threat my household took steps to look after our health and when we contracted covid in mid-December of 2020 we were not especially affected other than feeling poorly for a couple days. We isolated over Christmas (of our own free will and responsibility) and lost our sense of smell until well into 2021.

Because I have had covid, I am now blessed with a natural resistance to covid that is superior to what an inoculation can provide.

The covid inoculations are not risk free. Bodily harm, including death, can and does result from these inoculations. This is under-reported in Canadian media, although for example, the myocarditis and thrombosis (heart) associated with the inoculations was on some TV News in the last few days.

To be coerced or forced into a medical procedure against my desires is not different to me than a physical or sexual assault and may actually be more damaging since the perpetrator is supposed to be someone who can be trusted.

I do not believe that God wants me to deal with unrepentant evil murdering criminals and nor do I want to. Most of the manufacturers of the covid inoculations are convicted felons who have paid unfathomable (to me) fines for the pain and suffering they have knowingly caused with their products.

They have no liability for any harm and suffering their covid inoculations cause. In no way, shape or form do I wish to support, financially or otherwise, such people! I have no reason to believe the ones who have not been convicted yet are any different and I reserve my trust until it is legitimately earned. Traditionally, most inoculations take 10-15 years to develop and test, so this trust cannot be earned before the year 2031.

I have responsibilities to my spouse, my children, my family and my employer. These responsibilities include staying healthy and not wittingly becoming a burden to them. According to U.S. government tracking, these inoculations are the most dangerous inoculations since records were kept starting in the 1980’s. I should not take an action against my will that can turn me into a burden on others.

I urge you to re-consider any policy to make covid inoculation a condition of employment.

Thank-you for your consideration.