They don’t push back on it at all, just repeat his bullshit. They even go a bit further with it. Our entire news apparatus is united against China, etc. The CBC just released some more anti-Syria and anti-Russia shit the other day when a Syrian diplomat died. They cant help but to push “foreign interference into out democracies” at every point. The typical Canadian believes all of these things, I’d say, at least 50%.
CBC is the textbook example of liberalism I can think of. Once you see it, it’s more blatantly obvious how ghoulish they are hiding behind a progressive mask. Like they’ll waste money on useless* anti-racism vids, and then propagate shit against Muslims, Chinese, Russians under the guise of intelligent geopolitics, featuring some Cambridge or UofT ghoul.
*Not that their vids are bad, like spotlights of racism in Canada, but the effect is so negligible when they do nothing about them and in fact encourage such behaviour by releasing horseshit like this. Why do they act surprised about an increase in anti-Asian attacks? Could it be because they’re pedaling racist bullshit about COVID and China? Exaggerate the “backwardness” of Chinese but deliver it through the mouthpiece of some useless tenured faculty in a useless department like poli-sci or IR to legitimize Orientalism? What about Muslims or anyone who looked brown after 9/11, or black people with Ebola? Nah, impossible. We’re just balanced, critical journalists. Our only flaw is that we show a Toronto-heavy perspective!!.