There was an 'interesting' piece on the CBC about immigration. The point of the story was that we should allow all immigrants, basically no screening process. It was based mostly on prominent Canadians who came here from another country, but who would have failed Canada's current immigration "test".

They mentioned Alexander MacKenzie was mentioned. Yup, it's pretty hard to beat the restrictive immigration rules of a country that doesn't exist. Would Canada have come up with another 2nd Prime Minister without Alex? Or would the country have been more likely to simply fold. Years after defeating the Americans in the War of 1812, I'm kinda doubting your average Canadian, nor leadership, would feel very terrified by anybody.

Also mentioned was one gentleman by the name of Wayne Gretzky. No, The Great One did not immigrate here from some other country. Nor did his father. His grandfather however, was an immigrant to Canada. The main point made by the reporter was that Wayne Gretzky's grandfather misspelled his own last name, originally spelled Gretsky.

The point being, that by todays standards of requiring a person being able to spell their own name properly to live and work here, we would have lost the greatest hockey player to ever live. Considering literacy rates 100 years ago, a guy writing an 'S' backwards on an official immigration form becomes understandable if not admirable, when taking background into regard. Is a hypothetical situation 100 years ago really the kind of data the average Canadian should base their opinions on? I kinda doubt it.

The best part of the mini-doc was when the reporter made reference to the fact that he would have failed the current immigration checks. And he took it after living here for over 40 years. And yet, he ends up working for the CBC trashing the Canadian government on public television. Funny, huh?

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The CBC's brand of activist journalism is tired and old. Two weeks ago Kate at SDA nailed the CBC for photoshopping an image of Toronto to make it appear more polluted.

This week Stephen Taylor has caught the CBC slipping images of Canadian soldiers into reports on Iraq. The CBC intentionally tries to get viewers to confuse the Afghan mission and the war in Iraq. Worse yet, it implies that somehow George W. Bush's veto yesterday has some effect on our troops, which it does not.

When will the CBC stop misrepresenting the truth in order to promote it's own agenda? The CBC can't be trusted. As the proverb goes, "fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"

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