The Alberta authorities’s power “conflict room” goes to battle with a Netflix youngsters’s film saying it inaccurately portrays the oil trade.
The Canadian Power Centre says greater than 1,000 individuals have despatched an automatic letter off its web site to Netflix Canada to let it know the animated movie appears like propaganda.
Bigfoot Household is concerning the son of the legendary creature who fights an oil firm, and made its debut on the streaming service earlier this yr.
The family-friendly journey movie follows Adam and his dad as they tackle an evil oil tycoon who needs to blow up a fictional place named Rocky Valley for its oil.
The power centre says in a press release that the film villainizes power employees and tells lies concerning the oil trade.
The United Conservative authorities established the $30-million-a-year conflict room to advertise the power trade and to fireside again in opposition to what the federal government deems to be misinformation.
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The centre says a mum or dad flagged the film.
“The movie claims an oil firm intends to make use of a bomb to blow aside a mountain panorama inside a wildlife protect, then flood a pristine valley with oil,” the centre mentioned in an emailed assertion Friday.
“Pushing again in opposition to misinformation concerning the oil and fuel trade is a serious a part of what the Canadian Power Centre was set as much as do.”
The centre has an automatic system on its web site, which permits supporters to fill out a type and ship a letter to Netflix Canada’s head of communications encouraging the streaming service to “inform the reality.”
“Bigfoot Household wrongly portrays oil and fuel extraction to an viewers of younger Canadians and ignores the trade’s dedication to environmental stewardship and accountable improvement,” the letter reads.
“Responsibly produced Canadian power is required on the earth greater than ever as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Youngsters are the longer term, and so they deserve the reality.”
The centre mentioned greater than half the individuals who have despatched the letter by means of the web site are from outdoors Alberta.
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Netflix Canada didn’t reply to a request for a remark.
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