Canadian Tax Dollars: Tongue In Cheek

Public Diplomacy Dept: 1. SBU Summary: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction between Americans and Canadians in its programming, generally at our expense. However, the level of anti-American melodrama has been given a huge boost in the current television season as a number of programs offer Canadian viewers their fill of nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them or fall trying. CIA rendition flights, schemes to steal Canada s water, the Guantanamo-Syria express, F-16 s flying in for bombing runs in Quebec to eliminate escaped terrorists: in response to the onslaught, one media commentator concluded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that apparently, our immigration department s real enemies aren t terrorists or smugglers they re Americans, according to The Star. SUMMARY: SUBJECT: Primetime images of U.S.-Canada border paint U.S. in increasingly negative light While this situation hardly constitutes a public diplomacy crisis per se, the degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of the U.S. and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast - is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada. End As reported in the news.
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