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Whoa Canada
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Whoa Canada

63 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Stephen Harper's decade in power draws fire from Shit Harper Did, a group of self-described digital pranksters who built a following making viral videos mocking the Canadian prime minister's public image. The film gathers their campaign into a single feature, released as Harper runs for re-election, and widens the target from one man to the machinery of government surveillance he oversees. It centers on the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's signals-intelligence agency, housed in what the film calls the country's most expensive government building, and traces claims that its staff monitor citizens' phone calls and online communications, with protesters and dissenters singled out over any genuine threat. Archival material pushes the history back to the early 1900s, linking current surveillance practices to the state's treatment of the suffrage movement and to a longer record of discriminatory laws and disputed elections. The tone stays closer to prank video than lecture, but the throughline is consistent: a government watching the people least likely to be dangerous and most likely to object.