(Wikileaks Exclusive) Americans hate Canadien TV show

Amoureux · Dec 1, 2010

:2thumbsup::2thumbsup::2thumbsup:
Go Home USA.. Drink the beers and wait for bank to take your home. yes please GO Home and watch you own TV.

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SUBJECT: PRIMETIME IMAGES OF US-CANADA BORDER PAINT U.S. IN
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Â¶1. (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction
between Americans and Canadians in its programming, generally
at our expense. However, the level of anti-American melodrama
has been given a huge boost in the current television season
as a number of programs offer Canadian viewers their fill of
nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious
deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them
or fall trying. CIA rendition flights, schemes to steal
Canada's water, "the Guantanamo-Syria express," F-16's flying
in for bombing runs in Quebec to eliminate escaped
terrorists: in response to the onslaught, one media
commentator concluded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that
"apparently, our immigration department's real enemies aren't
terrorists or smugglers -- they're Americans." While this
situation hardly constitutes a public diplomacy crisis per
se, the degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast
entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars,
twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of
the U.S. -- and the extent to which the Canadian public seems
willing to indulge in the feast - is noteworthy as an
indication of the kind of insidious negative popular
stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada. End
Summary.

"THE BORDER" -CANADA'S ANSWER TO 24, W/O THAT SUTHERLAND GUY
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Â¶2. (SBU) When American TV and movie producers want action,
the formula involves Middle Eastern terrorists, a ticking
nuclear device, and a (somewhat ironically, Canadian) guy
named Sutherland. Canadian producers don't need to look so
far -- they can find all the action they need right on the
U.S.-Canadian border. This piece of real estate, which most
Americans associate with snow blowing back and forth across
an imaginary line, has for the past three weeks been for
Canadian viewers the site of downed rendition flights, F-16
bombing runs, and terrorist suspects being whisked away to
Middle Eastern torture facilities. "The Border," which
state-owned CBC premiered on January 7, attracted an
impressive 710,000 viewers on its first showing -- not
exactly Hockey Night in Canada, but equivalent to an American
program drawing about eight million U.S. viewers. The show
depicts Canadian immigration and customs officers' efforts to
secure the U.S.-Canadian border and the litany of moral
dilemmas they face in doing so. The CBC bills the
high-budget program as depicting the "new war" on the border
and "the few who fight it." While the "war" is supposed to
be against criminals and terrorists trying to cross the
border, many of the immigration team's battles end up being
with U.S. government officials, often in tandem with the
CIA-colluding Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
(CSIS).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpNS9hMQsI&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - The Border: Looking Back on Season 1 - CBC-Mondays at 9pm

rollingalong · Dec 3, 2010

those tv shows both sucked and stop hiding from the other thread...you are acting cowardly and are an embarrassment to us Canadians

Sam_Stoned · Dec 3, 2010

Amoureux said:

[youtubel]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpNS9hMQsI&feature=player_embedded#![/youtubel]
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did that dude really just try to embed a youtube vid with [youtube] [/youtube]?

And he calls us stupid.

Amoureux · Dec 4, 2010

Sam_Stoned said:

did that dude really just try to embed a youtube vid with [youtube] [/youtube]?

And he calls us stupid.
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I am not technical personne. But I speak 2 languages. (Ok, my english is not good) And I understand good and evil.

The United States is evil nation.

Source : http://www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/millions-of-iraqi-youth-victims-of-ongoing-turmoil

TheMadcapSyd · Dec 4, 2010

Doesn't your country still allow the clubbing of baby seals every year.

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Sam_Stoned said:

did that dude really just try to embed a youtube vid with [youtube] [/youtube]?

And he calls us stupid.
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post count isnt high enough for embedding,... Must be a member with 1000 post...

Amoureux · Dec 5, 2010

TheMadcapSyd said:

Doesn't your country still allow the
clubbing of baby seals every year.
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The answer

Inuit Deliver Message on Seal Hunting Practices to European Parliament, Media, and IFAW
Submitted by itkadmin on Sunday, March 25, 2007
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Mary Simon delivered direct messages to Members of the European Parliament, to media covering the European Parliament, and to an official of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today in Brussels.

At the Canadian Embassy, as part of a delegation of Canadian officials in Europe visiting capital cities, Mary Simon told the media and, later parliamentarians, that the 1980s European ban on Canadian seal products devastated the Inuit economy.

“Our economy was wrecked at the time,” said Mary Simon. “The proposed exemption for the Inuit seal pelts in Belgium won’t work. Nobody distinguishes between seal pelts caught in the East Coast seal hunt, and the ringed seals caught by Inuit. Our economy, and our way of life took a direct hit from that ban in the 1980s. We don’t want that to happen again.”

Mary Simon also noted that Inuit have a constitutional right to hunt seals, by virtue of the fact that Inuit have signed five comprehensive land claim agreements between 1975 and 2006. “Seal hunting is an intrinsic part of our way of life,” said Mary Simon. “It provides food, clothing, cultural and economic sustenance, and commercial interests. Selling pelts is a by-product of our subsistence hunt. We have no intention of stopping our traditional seal hunting practices.”

In a meeting with an official from the International Fund from Animal Welfare (IFAW), Simon indicated that if fellow Inuit were present, they would likely leave the room because the IFAW position is in direct contradiction with the Inuit way of life. IFAW stated it had no intention of issuing a news release admitting some of the photographs they currently use in fundraising campaign literature is out of date – particularly the portrayal that the white coat is still hunted, as well as the use of incorrect facts, and unpublished research relating to the seal hunt.

Earlier in the day, the delegation held a press conference to set the record straight on the facts of the modern seal hunting practices in Canada, both in the case of the Inuit – who hunt seals year around – and east coast sealers, who hunt during a specific time of the year towards the end of March.

The mission continues to London on Tuesday, March 27, 2007.

Contact:

Stephen Hendrie, Director of Communications
Tel: 613.277.3178, hendrie@itk.ca
(Media enquiries only. General requests can be sent to info@itk.ca or you can visit our contact page for more ways to contact us.)
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Duck · Dec 5, 2010

I dunno about The Border, but I loved the Red Green Show.

TheMadcapSyd · Dec 5, 2010

Trailer Park Boys is one of the best shows I've seen this decade.

Sam_Stoned · Dec 6, 2010

This dude does nothing but quote and post pictures. He doesn't have a thought in his head... the man is clearly just a parrot with these ideas.

The revolution will not be copied and pasted, you ignoriant closet case.

vigilanteherbalist2 · Dec 6, 2010

I think she's still mad about her polymarriage thread

dmob12 · Dec 7, 2010

The United States is evil nation.
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You know, it's generalizations like this that piss people off. What if I were to say that everyone who isn't American eats human babies daily and washes themselves with soap rendered with human fat? Would that make it a fact? No, it wouldn't, it would just make me look stupid. Why would I look stupid? For implying that everyone from a certain area or ethnic background is exactly the same.

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