Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly shared a trailer video for next week’s federal budget on X, formerly Twitter, on April 5. The video opens with a screenshot of a tweet from “Amy Sminson” that reads, “I wish Budget 2024 had a trailer so Canadians could know what we’re getting into.”

However, the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs admitted in an email to National Post that the tweet that supposedly requested the video was created for “artistic effect” and did not come from a real person.