The media's skewed coverage of Roxham Road crisis
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the death of a man who was shot and killed by border patrol agents on the border with the United States, and the way the Canadian media covered it. We also discuss the ongoing crisis of refugees crossing the border into Canada from the US.
Transcript
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CBC, for this show anyway, tends to be the gift that keeps on giving.
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Many of you who are active on social media and you follow footage of the convoy
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and other big events in the Canadian political sphere,
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And I apologize to Mocha for likely butchering his last name.
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He's everywhere and including Roxham Road where he's done tremendous footage.
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So at some point he went to Roxham Road and was filming
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and a Canadian press photographer got a picture of him walking around.
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Now CBC then shows this story in an article about Roxham Road.
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Man Dies After Encountering Patrol Agents at Canada-US Border.
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And there's a picture of our friend Mocha next to a big sign that says,
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it gets even more concerning because they offer a biographical description of him
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but they've also taken away his Canadian citizenship of 21 years and made him an illegal.
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Lazy reporting and, you know, the whole issue with Roxham Road,
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which I covered while I was at the Toronto Sun before I came to True North,
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has been a huge issue that has filtered into our cities.
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It's impacted on the city of Toronto where I make my home.
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Nobody or hardly anybody in the legacy media covers this sort of stuff.
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But they get into these sideshows that are absolutely ridiculous.
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It's rather frustrating to see this kind of lazy, inaccurate reporting
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when, in fact, Roxham Road should be dissected as to the impact on Canada's cities.
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As I said, in particular, Toronto, I think what's happened is Quebec has diverted
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a lot of the refugees who are crossing the border illegally
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and being allowed to cross the border illegally, I don't understand it at all,
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Yeah, and I mean, obviously, this nonsense about the photo
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is a bit of a sidebar to the overarching issue.
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And the media, I think, has done a tremendous disservice
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by buying into the government's language of this being irregular migration
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They refuse to call illegal immigration, illegal immigration,
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which is part of the problem here because this is about narratives.
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And you've got the federal government saying, on one hand,
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you know, oh, yes, we're taking this seriously, but it's complicated.
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And yeah, it's not just as easy as going there and turning people away.
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And now they've just gone back to this being an open,
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I don't even think a revolving door because no one's going the other way.