Petit-Michel, we seem to pretty much agree on most of this.
CBC has actually been caught deliberately misquoting several times in this past year, however mostly in regards to the convoy, which may only be because that is really the only time I paid any attention to them. I think this was the most obvious place because, thanks to social media, we had a steady flow of pictures, videos, and independent reporting from random people along the way. When the CBC did get called out on these instances, there was no public apology issued, they simply quietly removed the news stories. This was actually brought up in the inquiry, most notably for me when they were questioning the deputy prime minister about the articles having been removed and her refusing to reply to the question. I live in a very small city, and we were lucky enough to have several people attend the convoy. When you live in a city where everyone knows everyone else, you get looped in on that stuff pretty quick, even if you don’t want to be.
You are absolutely right that the media does not really change sides when the government does. I know there is differences in funding to them under a left or right government, but I think that is more to do with the historical action of our right leaning governments tightening purse strings across the board and not a reflection of their views on media. I also however feel that the media has not been as biased as it is now in previous years. In Canada the bias really started appearing when the Harper government was voted out. Even in small things like the media complaining that Harper called it “his government”, but they are trumpeting support when Trudeau calls it “his government”.
I think part of this problem comes back to what Fab has been saying. CBC does tend to get the news out there first, and does tend to put their slant on it, but then the rest of our media just takes those stories and runs with them. I would hope for a neutral or at least balanced approach, but that does not seem to happen. Support the left, cancel the right. Even in entertainment this can be seen, and your and my entertainment is greatly overlapped. Cancel Tim Allen for having a political statement, but the View and that red haired lady that was parading around with a fake severed Trump head are good to go.
CBC did actually have a whistleblower last year. Marianne Klowak was a reporter there that quit and went public about the woke culture being enforced. They could not get stories published if they did not follow the company line. It was in the news for a little bit, but has largely been swept under the carpet now.
Being from and in western Canada, I know that my bias is against the current government, but that is somewhat understandable if a person looks at a map of canada showing which party was elected in which riding. Our current government is very focused on Ontario and Quebec, where the Liberal party historically gets their votes from, while I do not think they got a single seat west of Ontario. I think the NDP got 3 or 5 seats west of Ontario. To me, that geographic and geopolitical divide cause issues, as they tend to paint the whole country with the same brush. But hey, the last time a Trudeau was in power, western Canadians threw rotting fruit at his train as he passed through, due to his alienation of the west, so I guess the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
But now my serious question: our last election here was O’Toole vs Trudeau, and yours there was Trump vs Biden, how is it that these are the best options to be presented for running countries? Biden and O’Toole clearly aren’t capable of coherent mental thoughts, Trump has the disease where he says every thought to enters his mind, and Trudeau’s grocery bill consists of mostly crayons. Heck, there was just a person that won either a congress or senate seat after having suffered a stroke and isn’t even capable of language. It’s hard to have hope for a great and strong future when we are not even fielding strong leaders.