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.
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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:
Russian fighter jets doing exercise sorties and soon after, they can be observed by a student in Kyiv? That’s not too unlikely I suppose.
I think I’m beginning to understand how Trudeau keeps winning.
This has got to be a joke…
… It was a joke, right?
The Backlash as Canada conservatives’ ‘our home’ video features other countries Party deletes video after viewers list gaffes, including scenes of US, Serbia and Slovenia – plus Russian jets
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.