I know I’m going to need to be heavily sedated after writing the first sentence, but I find myself in agreement with the Blogging SupposiTory resident McCarthyist, BC Blue today. I am asking the same question he is today:
Why is CBC allowing Stockwell Day to break their 2 year cooling off policy?
However, I’m wording it differently, why is ol’ Doris Day allowed to write columns about politics on the CBC pages and Gilles Duceppe, who left politics pretty much the same day ol’ Doris did, not allowed to comment about politics on a radio segment for Radio Canada, the French CBC?
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, ol’ Doris appears to be an occasional opinion writer on their web pages. There are at least two here and here, if you have the stomach to read them. Somehow, I think he’ll be writing more in the not so distant future. He is also a contributor to Evan Solomon’s Power and Politics.
Here is where ol’ Dean Skoreyko and I will once again part company.
Yet, Gilles Duceppe’s radio segment was nixed before it even began, citing that two year cooling off period regarding ex-politicians discussing politics. Has the CBC/Radio Canada started caring all of a sudden what the Batshit crazy Harpercon Fox News North cheerleading element thought about sovereigntists participating on their shows or writing on their pages? They didn’t before. We all know that Rene Levesque was journalist with Radio Canada before going into politics, as was the Parti-Quebecois MNA for Marie-Victorin, Bernard Drainville. Also, Guy A Lepage, the host of the popular, “Tout le Monde en Parle”, a Radio Canada show, the show that helped propel Jackmania NDP sweep in La Belle province, is, himself, a sovereigntist. So are they really starting to care now?
Whatever the case, it appears more and more that the CBC is doing their best to maintain their funding from a Harpercon government threatening to defund, with egging from a base that despises politicians like Gilles Duceppe. I believe they call that pandering.
It seems to me if the Harpercons are going to defund, they’re going to do it, no matter how hard you try to please them. For the time you have remaining, how about trying to do your own thing?
If you really do have a two year cooling off policy regarding ex-politicians doing political commentary for two years, then it should be respected across the board, for all, regardless of of partisan stripe, or else, the policy is meaningless.
As for Gilles Duceppe, he obviously remains a controversial man, even if he did lose his own seat in la belle province. A man that is well hated in the rest of Canada, more specifically, ReformaTory Canada, to which I say, M. Duceppe, reviens! On a besoin de toi!
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I never thought I’d read Sister Sage agreeing with BC ‘Jesus Sucks’ Blue!
ck Reply:
August 19th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
I know, shocking! I’m sure it’s a one hit wonder. Obviously, we don’t agree for the same reasons. Trauma over.
The CBC seems to have been playing suck up to both Paul Martin and Stevie Harper (and far more obviously for the latter) for the past decade. Radio Canada less so.
Rabinovitch and Stursberg were idiots to play that game. They may have bought themselves short term life lines but they have lost tons of public support. When Chretien’s government tried to institute widespread cutbacks to the CBC, the public fought back hard and long and some decisions were reversed. I have a feeling that won’t be the case this time around. I’m sure I will see the death of our public broadcaster before I die. And that’s a crying shame.