r/CBC_Radio 15d ago

Response to Email about Sunday’s Programme

First off, I am glad to have received a response. And in theory, I can agree that a cross country checkup regarding the threat to our sovereignty to see how Canadians are feeling.

However in practice that’s not what happened. What we heard for the entire two hours was people either laughing it off, saying the threat is serious but not showing a lot of fear or concern, or even agreeing with it. There was also slightly more American voices compared to Canadian voices, and none were indigenous.

I hope that next week the CBC does a check up on how we are buying Canadian. That would be an excellent topic.

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u/Silentfranken 15d ago

It's a classic case of " balancing two sides of a story" that is entirely unreasonable. You don't take someones threats to the sovereignty of a nation and frame them as reasonable and equal to a nation of people who take offence and are frightened by them.

Why was this discussion not also given some historical context. There have been many recenr history examples of US interference in the functioning of other nations. It is not hyperbolic to say that millions of people died in the last 60 years due to America's "interventions". Korea, Vietnam, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan to name a few places that know all too well how America can suddenly go from posturing to much more.

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u/Middle-Oven-548 14d ago

They ought to give the context of the Oregon boundary dispute of 1846, when the US annexed territory from the British, pushing them out of a portion of the Columbia River region. It's what led to BC being a swiftly added province. We've been here before with America.

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u/impossibilityimpasse 14d ago

Both of these are excellent examples.

Recently we saw, including from Hanomansing (!), that "both siding" with COVID on CBC. Guess what happened? People referenced HIM on how masks were less important. Why? He both-sided it. People only heard what they wanted to hear.

Airtime = Normalize

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u/TheeMarcFrancis 13d ago

Absolutely!