Trudeau's CBC Finally Achieves Cult Status

Q: Why is CBC like a NASCAR racer?

A: Because both can only turn left

A CBC (Can’t Be Credible) bulletin from the front in Oceania’s war with EastAsia: Seems a formerly loyal soldier has deserted, leaving a highly unfortunate series of lies behind. The treacherous Tara Henley says she was once a loyal lefty but now finds herself on the right (translate: wrong) side of the spectrum in the newsroom. And right at CBC is a euphemism for “soon be unemployed.” (Ask Randy Bachman).

Tara suggests that the public broadcaster might be veering left in its editorial slant. “People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported.

“Or why our pop culture radio show’s coverage of the Dave Chappelle Netflix special failed to include any of the legions of fans, or comics, that did not find it offensive. Or why, exactly, taxpayers should be funding articles that scold Canadians for using words such as “brainstorm” and “lame.”

She continues the heresy: “To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.

“To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are not about qualifications or experience — but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies, the demonstration of fealty to dogma.” The nerve.

The viper Henley noted that while the shift leftward has been happening for most of the decade she worked at CBC, the past 18 months have seen warp speed on Woke politics. Luckily she doesn’t note how that coincides with the fresh infusion of billions into CBC from Chairman Justin. People might get the wrong idea.

Luckily, more loyal troopers defended the rigour and colonist-bashing of the Mother Corp. Commissar Sara Hagi tweeted “ @KindaHagi The cbc has a ton of issues but the idea that it overvalues race is hilarious... What loser. Just accept nobody liked you and maybe poc were doing a better job than you and move on.” (Note: Sara now says this putdown was all just a joke. Sure.)

The lame-brain jock @dowbboy bitched: “They’re moved all the trappings of prep safe-school pettiness to @CBC newsroom. The cowardly firing of CBC execs over not placating fainting goats in the newsroom was the start. Pushing Wendy Mesley off a cliff was the warning sign things had gone too far. This confirms the worst.”

Ha. Ha. The joke’s on him. We’ve got all the Canadian newsrooms on our side now. CTV, Global, CITY. Since getting Trudeaubucks they’re all singing from the Justin handbook. Charmaine De Silva, CITY TV News director in YVR: “Proud to work for a news organization that challenges the status quo, elevates voices that aren’t typically heard, and that is working, bit by bit, to right the imbalance that has existed for so long. If you’re uncomfortable w/this, reflect on your white supremacy.” Note perfect.

That’s our new formula: add white supremacy and stir. Ditto the sponsors. People think they advertise on Canadian TV so you can see their products. Amateurs. They’re all doing love letters to how Woke they’ve become. Notice how one day, out of the blue, they all decided to show mixed-race couples in commercials? Like they got the same memo at the same time? Coincidence? That was us.

Gay couples the same. Presto, change-o. And you can’t turn on the TV without seeing bipoc people dominating the images, even though the 2016 census said black people represent about 3.5 percent of the Canadian population. It’s not about equality for advertisers, though. It’s about the networks and sponsors buying peace from the BLM radicals who’ll ruin their businesses if they don’t submit.

That means equity hiring and buying. The 15 Percent Pledge is the brainchild of Toronto native Aurora James, whose company, Brother Vellies, makes footwear, handbags and belts. When radicals demanded more targeted buying James jumped in. James is asking/ demanding Canadian retailers to commit to supporting "brands that are representative of the diverse Canadian population.”

She told CBC: ”Canada is also, in my purview, quick to act when they realize there's inequality happening. I hope some of these retailers will be quick to act on this as well.” As in, “Nice little network you have here. Too bad if something were to happen to it.”

People wonder where all this wack-a-doodle Wokeness comes from, and why so fast. Well, we’ve been running this hustle on Canadian and American university campuses for a generation now. Trying out the moves, seeing which boycotts work best on timorous college administrators, etc.

We just ran one at Calgary’s Mount Royal University where a tenured professor, Frances Widdowson, got out over her skis on indigenous issues. She’s been a senior expert in the field for ages, published by the scholarly press. But when she strayed from the approved Trudeaupian narrative on residential schools we had to set an example.

Widdowson suggested young natives were being radicalized by extremists in the movement. She resisted attempts to “indigenize” studies at MRU and elsewhere, radicals rejecting Enlightenment traditions of learning. This brought down the wrath of indigenous education “establishment” epitomized by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: “It is simply stunning that a prominent so-called academic press…(which has lost all credibility as a result), would publish this book…The book is part of a racist colonial machine that still manages to find room to operate in Canada.”

Surely MRU would defend its scholar? No. The school that hired an associate VP of Indigenization and Decolonization caved, and Widdowson was fired to placate the lettered mob. Everyone is now lawyered up. So you see it’s been just a short jump from destroying the independence of professors to destroying the independence of news gathering. And we’re just getting started.

Signed: Big Brother/ Sister/ Other

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx