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What is it about taxpayer-funded ‘national broadcasters’ that makes them so prone to biting the hand that funds them? The BBC in Britain, the ABC in Australia... Both are characterised by their unrelenting hostility to the nation which funds them. The BBC peddles risible ‘history’ shows trying to tell white Britons that Britain isn’t really their indigenous homeland, while the ABC peddles demonstrable lies about ‘genocide’.
Canada’s CBC seems cut from much the same threadbare cloth.
A retired RCMP officer who says he was tricked into appearing on a CBC prank show has provided a full account of his experience, describing how he was made to partake in a sort of humiliation ritual in which former police were subject to allegations of mistreatment of indigenous peoples.
‘Prank shows’ are the lowest form of ‘comedy’. It was trite enough when Allen Funt or The Chaser’s taxpayer-funded man-children did it; the current rash (in all senses of the word) of YouTube ‘pranksters’ are just the apotheosis of a genre marked only by its inanity.
Combine it with the taxpayer-funded activism of a ‘national broadcaster’, though, and this hateful tripe is what you get.
In an hour-long video posted to his personal channel, a YouTuber under the name Clinton Jaws, a nearly 40-year RCMP veteran, said he and other former officers were invited to attend a Vancouver event that was hosted by a production company funded by the broadcaster, which organizers reportedly said would be attended by Prince William. (The National Post spoke to Jaws, who declined to confirm his real surname.)
The whole thing was in fact a prank performed by Northland Tales, a satirical program described as an “unscripted, half-hour comedy series where an indigenous activist trio uses pranks as a form of social action,” which is being produced by the CBC. Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (ATPN) is a co-producer.
Instead of an honour ceremony, the former officers were led into a CBC studio, introduced on stage, and subjected to a staged farce that more resembled a struggle session with a whoopee cushion on the rack.
A fake video of King Charles appeared on a giant screen announcing the dissolution of the RCMP to atone for its alleged wrongs against First Nations. A supposed First Nation chief then took the stage to lecture them. A fake Prince William delivered another speech. The clear target: officers who have voiced doubts about the existence of unmarked graves at former residential schools or who have spoken favourably about Sir John A Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister.
“They got me, hook line and sinker,” Jaws said. “I’m one of the cops out of six that they pranked.”
“It wasn’t even a prank, it was something very odd. I felt evil around me when it was happening to me” […]
Jaws said he walked off stage but was followed out of the room by a camera crew that refused to turn off its cameras. In the hallway, Jaws said he saw Michael Burnett, the organizer who invited Jaws to the interview, refusing to make eye contact with Jaws.
The real story here isn’t the prank itself. It’s that the national broadcaster, funded by Canadian taxpayers, deliberately targeted retired police officers, many of whom struggle with mental health issues after decades of service, for public shaming simply because they refuse to swallow the approved narrative on residential schools.
Three years after the initial headlines about ‘mass graves’ at Kamloops, no evidence of actual graves has ever been produced. Independent researchers and forensic experts have found nothing to substantiate the sensational claims that launched a national reckoning – not to mention a rash of church burning (tacitly endorsed by then-PM Justin Trudeau). Yet the CBC and its activist allies continue to treat any scepticism as heresy worthy of public mockery.
This isn’t comedy. It’s propaganda with a laugh track. The same CBC that lectures Canadians about reconciliation has no problem using public dollars to stage humiliation rituals against those who ask inconvenient questions. Meanwhile, actual victims of residential schools, and the many who have defended the truth of what happened there, are sidelined in favour of activist theatre.
The pattern is clear: these institutions aren’t interested in journalism or even entertainment. They exist to enforce ideological conformity, using public money to punish dissent. Canadians who pay their salaries have every right to ask why their broadcaster is in the business of tricking and humiliating their fellow citizens.
