Alberta politicians slam ‘vicious’ Netflix cartoon for kids

Right-wing Premier Jason Kenney says Bigfoot Family, a cartoon with talking animals, defames the oil and gas industry.

The provincial government in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is up in arms over a Netflix cartoon for children that Premier Jason Kenney says is a “vicious” attack on the oil and gas industry. The cartoon, Bigfoot Family, depicts Bigfoot, his family and their animal friends – including a talking raccoon, moose and bear – trying to stop a company from flooding an Alaska valley with oil. It has not gone over well with Kenney’s United Conservative Party government – or its widely criticised “war room”, known as the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC), founded in 2019 to counter what Alberta said was disinformation around its energy industry.