00:00:00.000Hundreds of truck drivers, allies, and average ordinary Canadians descended on Ottawa this week to call on the government to do a better job at representing them.
00:00:10.240But what does the state broadcaster see? Just a group of angry Albertans.
00:00:15.300Yes, that was the tweet that CBC News put out accompanying a story that had a very similar narrative to it.
00:00:21.140That this convoy that started in Red Deer, Alberta, and made its way all the way to the state's capital this week was really just a group of angry, disgruntled Westerners.
00:00:31.120Which has been pointed out by a number of people to really be a CBC slur.
00:00:35.960The fact is this may have started in Alberta, but this has been a nationally unifying event.
00:00:40.600As we saw from footage of people flashing their high beams and honking their horns as these trucks made their way through their towns and provinces on its way to Ottawa over a four-day trek.
00:00:51.780But in spite of this, people that want opposition to a carbon tax enshrined in law, people that want a pipeline built, people that want better government on issues ranging from taxes and government spending to immigration.
00:01:03.960CBC looks at them and sees nothing more than a group of racist hillbillies.
00:01:08.800It's much like that sketch CBC did about the Yellow Vest protest on the alleged comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, depicting them as just a bunch of redneck racists.
00:01:18.540Except we're not talking about sketch comedy here.
00:01:20.560We're talking about average Canadians.
00:01:22.800The kind that are the most impacted by decisions or indecision from the federal government.
00:01:28.360The kind that have to bankroll CBC but are clearly looked down upon by the state broadcaster more than they're represented by it.
00:01:36.140You've seen the CBC tweet about the angry Albertans.
00:01:38.980The story it's promoting isn't much better.
00:01:41.560It accuses the convoy of being a magnet for extremist anti-immigrant elements.
00:01:46.760Except the interesting thing is that nowhere in the CBC story does it reveal what these anti-immigrant extremist elements are.
00:01:54.560It quotes a number of the organizers of the event who are very clear in saying they condemn racism.
00:01:59.520It quotes some expert on racism to say that racism is bad and whatnot.
00:02:03.560But the story doesn't actually acknowledge what it says it's about.
00:02:08.220Which is that there's apparently this anti-immigrant and very racist sentiment that exists in the United We Roll convoy.
00:02:14.200And some of the peripheral protests that have cropped up around it.
00:02:17.880The same thing happened in another CBC story about Yellow Vest protests that were taking place in Red Deer.
00:02:23.420Now the Yellow Vest movement is different from the United We Roll convoy.
00:02:27.640But there is a lot of overlap because there are a lot of people that have very similar objectives that are grassroots members or at least supporters of both organizations.
00:02:37.420And the CBC story about these organic protests had less to do with the actual protests themselves.
00:02:43.100And more to do with this mythical idea that immigrants or refugees might be offended by it because the protests were taking place about a block away from a newcomer resettlement center in Red Deer.
00:02:57.360Except the story, when you read the text, wasn't actually about the Yellow Vest protesters.
00:04:24.940And this is why the event saw so much mainstream support from Maxime Bernier and Andrew Scheer, from a number of conservative members of parliament, and from people in the media who are of a conservative bent.
00:04:36.580There are a few of us out there that looked at this event and saw a message that was positive.
00:04:42.100So what the media will do, though, the mainstream media, is find the one person expressing a radical view and say that they represent the whole.
00:04:50.100Now, the worst part about this is that these are the same people that stand up and say that we can't do that with radical Islam, for example.
00:04:58.500We can't let one radical Islamist speak for the entire Muslim faith.
00:05:04.360But why, then, are they taking people that have radical views or people that are inarticulate and trying to make them the poster boys and poster girls for a movement that overwhelmingly is made up of the average, ordinary people that need to be at the center of representation in Canada's government?
00:05:22.820It's true that CBC just doesn't get it.
00:05:26.080But unfortunately, we still have to pay for it.
00:05:28.440It's never been more important to have a voice in the media that is standing up for the issues you care about and, more importantly, for the people like you.
00:05:36.900I'm proud to be doing that at True North, but I can't do it alone.
00:05:40.380There's a link in the description box where you can join the Heritage Club or the Patriot Club with a monthly contribution to let us keep doing this work that the state broadcaster and a lot of their colleagues are not doing.