A satirical YouTube channel that makes “Honest Government Ads” is calling attention to Canada’s many controversial political issues.
The expletive-ridden video , by the Australian media company thejuicemedia, is framed as a tourism ad armed with a strong dose of irony.
It starts by calling Canada “a land of vanishing wonders,” of assets such as “affordable housing, The Greenbelt, the news and honest prices and honesty in general.”
The five-minute ‘ad’ has generated 327,000 views on YouTube since it was posted two days ago.
“You probably know us as the peaceful, polite, nature-loving country with the woke-babe PM and the friendly horsey police,” the presenter Ellen Burbidge says before making the case that it is anything but.
It also dedicates a large portion of that run time to the Coastal GasLink pipeline in B.C. and the police action taken against Wet’suwet’en protestors, “a sovereign First Nation that has the temerity to still exist.”
“If completed, (Coastal Gasoline will) carry fracked gas from the Montney Play to the coast, so that a bunch of foreign companies can export it and make a lot of (money),” the presenter says.
The video has generated more than 4,000 retweets on Twitter and appears to resonate with the vast majority of users.
“Well. That was fairly disturbing. Eh?” replied user @shayera0
“I laughed. I cried,” wrote user @jpnairn succinctly.
“Another well-aimed swipe at government hypocrisy, greed & brutality. Keep it going guys!” another user wrote .
Source: National Post