[Newsbot]

Title: Federal bureaucrats posed as �new Canadians' for Sun News event
Category: Political
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2012-02-02 09:51:57
Canadian

[Curtman]

$1:

Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony broadcast on the Sun News network, an event requested by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office.

The bureaucrats smiled and held Canadian flags as the TV hosts referred to a group of 10 people as “new Canadians” that had “finally” received their citizenship.

Oh nice.. More "news" from the ministry of truth. The CRTC was wrong to allow them to knowingly lie to the public. The Harperites can't help themselves, lying is what they do best.

[andyt]

I have to admit I don't see what the fuss is about - nor what Sun News was trying to prove in the first place? Seems like a meh to me.

[Curtman]

You don't have a problem with the "news" containing staged events directed by Jason Kenney, telling people that something is happening that absolutely is not true?

[andyt]

It's not really news. We know new Canadians are sworn in all the time. I don't understand why they didn't just take pics of the real thing, and it certainly doesn't help their credibility, but it's not the same as if they staged a murder or something.

[Scape]

I agree that this is not news. After reading it they did suggest he just use stock photo's but the minister wanted a photo op instead and manufactured a story for them. Maybe it's really good customer service? The silver lining here is the tories have found a use for bureaucrats after all.

[OnTheIce]

Fail.

Staged photo ops are nothing new, but Kenny's office should have known better.

[bootlegga]

Scape Scape:

I agree that this is not news. After reading it they did suggest he just use stock photo's but the minister wanted a photo op instead and manufactured a story for them. Maybe it's really good customer service?

Yeah, I have to agree. It was a stupid mistake alright, but hardly newsworthy.

Scape Scape:

The silver lining here is the tories have found a use for bureaucrats after all.

[Proculation]

In a big newspaper in Quebec, it was said it was "Canadian propaganda"...

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Yeah, you'd never catch the NDP doing anything like that..oh wait, they did.

$1:

The NDP has been caught splicing together parts of Premier Brad Wall's answers to two completely different questions to fabricate a phony and misleading quote.

Dwain Lingenfelter and his NDP MLAs are now running the fabricated clip in a taxpayer-funded radio advertisement. In the ad, the NDP asks: "When working families ask for help with the rising cost of living, what is Brad Wall's response?"

The NDP ad then answers this question with a clip of Premier Wall saying: "I don't really care. We're not going to do it and they're coming back to work."

The problem is – Premier Wall never actually said that.

During a media scrum on June 23 about the Crop Insurance strike, Wall responded to a question about whether he was offended at the rhetoric the union leadership was using by saying: "I'm not worried about the impact of their rhetoric on me. I don't really care."

In response to an earlier question about SGEU President Bob Bymoen's "window of opportunity" comment, Wall said: "It goes to motive. It goes to whether or not you're going to put the future of adjustment – not potentially just for Crop Insurance but if we need some help on PDAP – if you're going to put the future of adjusting these, the adjusters and the processing of applications to a – not to the workers but to union leadership that are prepared to use these flood victims as pawns in their negotiations. We're not going to do it and they're coming back to work."

[DanSC]

Curtman Curtman:

You don't have a problem with the "news" containing staged events directed by Jason Kenney, telling people that something is happening that absolutely is not true?

That depends. Is Jason Kenny a Secret American?

I see he did go to college in America. How is he not run out of Parliament by a torch-and-pitchfork-wielding mob?

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Curtman Curtman:

$1:

The Harperites can't help themselves, lying is what they do best.

Dalton McGuinty.





-J.

[Regina]

Yeah hardly breaking news. I could see where there would be a problem too. For them to take your picture at that ceremony they need the consent of everyone there so they include the signature forms in their ceremony package. If no one wants their picture taken that's it, nothing they can do.

[BeaverFever]

Yeah, its not as if thousands of new Canadians were'nt celebrated elsewhere...


But the problem is that this event is a sad example of government and media outlets getting too cosy with eachother and colluding to stage a pageant for public consumption, without the public knowing its a pageant. Thats a problem.

[mentalfloss]

A sad exhibition of the hypocrisy of the CPC. They champion the ethics of a single citizenship against their opponents, but send in fake new Canadians during a citizenship ceremony.

Complete farce.