I found this story earlier this year so I thought I'd blog about it. At the beginning of the 2008 Canadian election, four of the five main party leaders called for some form of gun control. The story I'm talking about predates the election but the point is that when talking about guns, CBC always advocates or interviews advocates of gun control and almost never interviews advocates of gun ownership. When politicians like David Miller, Dalton McGuinty, and Stephane Dion stand up and call for more gun control, the silence is defening. Nobody asks probative questions. Nobody looks into stats regarding gun control. Nothing. Nada. It's taboo in Canada to be for gun rights or gun ownership. It's even more taboo to advocate gun ownership as a means of self defense.
Back to CBC and it's liberal bias. The Liberal party in Quebec passed what was called the "Anastasia's law". The law was in repsonse to the 2006 Dawson College shooting. The bottom half of the CBC news article is basically the opinions of notoriously pro-gun control advocate named Wendy Cukier. CBC might as well got Wendy Cukier to write the story for them. Did CBC bother to take the perspective of gun owners? Nope. There are between 2 and 4 million gun owners in Canada. You'd figure they might have a say about gun related stories on the CBC. Obviously not.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/01/mtl-anastasialaw0901.html
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