Documents obtained by CBC News in Canada suggest the Canadian military reprimanded soldiers who raised concerns about being ordered to monitor Canadians’ online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, members of a military team were instructed to create anonymous social media accounts to track COVID-related discussions, misinformation, and political debate online. Some soldiers objected, warning that carrying out this work from home on personal computers could violate intelligence-gathering rules. However, commanders reportedly dismissed the concerns, telling staff to stop “barrack room lawyering” and follow orders.
A later internal investigation found that the activities had indeed broken intelligence-gathering rules because military personnel used personal devices and home internet connections to collect information on Canadians. Documents show the monitoring extended to tracking what opposition political parties were saying about the pandemic. Retired general Jonathan Vance, then chief of the defence staff, eventually halted the program in April 2020, reportedly acknowledging it had gone too far and damaged public trust, although some monitoring allegedly continued for months.
To read how a secret dossier published by the UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper proves that the British government knew as early as March 2020 that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 was engineered in a laboratory, see this article on our website.
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Canada’s military reprimanded soldiers after they raised concerns about an order to monitor Canadians’ online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, CBC News has learned.
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Documents obtained by CBC News in Canada suggest the Canadian military reprimanded soldiers who raised concerns about being ordered to monitor Canadians’ online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, members of a military team were instructed to create anonymous social media accounts to track COVID-related discussions, misinformation, and political debate online. Some soldiers objected, warning that carrying out this work from home on personal computers could violate intelligence-gathering rules. However, commanders reportedly dismissed the concerns, telling staff to stop “barrack room lawyering” and follow orders.
A later internal investigation found that the activities had indeed broken intelligence-gathering rules because military personnel used personal devices and home internet connections to collect information on Canadians. Documents show the monitoring extended to tracking what opposition political parties were saying about the pandemic. Retired general Jonathan Vance, then chief of the defence staff, eventually halted the program in April 2020, reportedly acknowledging it had gone too far and damaged public trust, although some monitoring allegedly continued for months.
To read how a secret dossier published by the UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper proves that the British government knew as early as March 2020 that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 was engineered in a laboratory, see this article on our website.
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