A recent
@JCCFCanada report “Manufacturing Consent: How Canada’s Government Manipulates Public Opinion”, implicates the federal Liberals in engaging in manipulative persuasion tactics, spending over $595 million in media subsidies, plus millions more on behavioural-insights teams, communications units, and digital-strategy programs to shape what Canadians see and influence how they think.
The report outlines how this money is being used to:
1. Make media financially dependent on government support, reducing critical coverage.
2. Use behavioural science to influence public reactions and guide opinion.
3. Label dissenting views as “misinformation” or “extremism” to deter debate.
4. Expand surveillance of citizens’ movements, finances, and online activity.
5. Normalize emergency powers and restrictions that limit civil liberties.
6. Rely on government-funded “fact-checkers” to control which viewpoints are treated as legitimate.
Taken together, these actions mirror tactics used in authoritarian systems, where governments shape narratives, manage dissent, and influence citizens’ beliefs and behaviours without their consent.
Canadians and Parliament need to push back. We must demand transparency, stand up for free expression, safeguard digital privacy, support independent media, and limit government overreach.
Our democracy depends on keeping government power in check.
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