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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The overseer of Canada’s state-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has blasted the news outlet for depicting white Conservative Party voters along with seniors as racists.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, CBC ombudsman Jack Nagler wrote that it was “not okay to publish a headline that declared political parties and by inference their voters as ‘hating’ people.”
Nagler was referencing a CBC “first person” story published on October 25 by Elections Canada poll worker Zeehaa Rehman.
The story noted, “On Election Day, I greeted people who voted for parties that hate people like me. Elections provide numerical evidence of the rise of right-wing politics and that should worry us all.”
Nagler wrote that Rehman’s story was “neither fair nor precise enough to be considered accurate” and did indeed breach the CBC’s Journalistic Standards And Practices guide.
The CBC now claims it is putting in measures to make sure this does not happen again after getting multiple complaints
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