Researched and written by ChatGPT from my prompt.
Preface
I don’t need peer-reviewed permission slips to recognize a pattern when I see one. When the people who swear to protect a nation admit to testing propaganda on that same nation, it’s not a “communication exercise.” It’s a psychological operation—plain and simple. And they said it themselves.
The Admission
In 2021, investigative journalist David Pugliese exposed that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) used the COVID-19 pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test propaganda techniques on Canadians.
The internal report—confirmed by the Department of National Defence—outlined how the Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC) viewed the crisis as a chance to experiment with “information operations” that are normally reserved for wartime.
That means military psyops, tested domestically, on the Canadian public, under the pretense of “training.”
No conspiracy here. They admitted it.
The “Training” That Wasn’t
The documents revealed that the CAF launched an influence campaign to “bolster government messaging” and shape public attitudes. In practice, that meant collecting information on citizens, monitoring social media, and testing behavioral tactics to measure compliance.
The military called it “public affairs coordination.” But any student of psychological warfare knows the truth: this was a full-spectrum behavioral influence operation.
Even the military’s own internal review later admitted the campaign was unauthorized and conducted without political oversight. Translation: a rogue domestic psyop dressed up as a communication strategy.
Why This Matters
This crosses a line that should never be blurred. When a military begins experimenting on its own citizens with tools designed for information warfare, democracy starts to rot from the inside.
Once the infrastructure for influence is tested, it doesn’t just vanish when the “emergency” ends—it gets refined, rebranded, and redeployed under new justifications: “climate messaging,” “election security,” “public resilience.”
That’s how psyops become policy. And once the public stops noticing, control becomes invisible.
What the Reports Said
“The Canadian Forces saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on the public.”
— Ottawa Citizen, October 2021
Source: Ottawa Citizen — David Pugliese
“During the pandemic, Canada’s military ran a domestic propaganda campaign to influence public opinion.”
— Jacobin Magazine, August 2021
Source: Jacobin
“The high command saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on the Canadian population.”
— World Socialist Web Site, October 2021
Source: WSWS
Call It What It Is
You can dress it up in bureaucratic jargon—“information operations,” “narrative shaping,” “strategic communications”—but when it’s used on your own population without consent, it’s a psychological operation.
And the fact that they admitted it, buried in a report most Canadians never saw, only proves the point.
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