On Friday, April 22, Dr. Leslyn Lewis, who is vying to become leader of the Conservative Party, appeared at a rally in Mississauga, Ontario, just a few miles outside Toronto. David Menzies of The Rebel was there and asked her to comment on the CBC’s coverage of the “freedom convoy.” Agreeing with Menzies that it was shameful that an utterly non-violent crowd had been depicted as a mob of White racists seeking to overthrow the Canadian government, Lewis promised she would de-fund the CBC which receives over a billion dollars of Canadian taxpayers’ money annually, should she be elected our next Prime Minister. Her statement was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
Perhaps indicative of the level of integrity “conservatives” have come to expect from the CBC, The Rebel reported that three days after her rally, Dr. Lewis’ statement had not yet been mentioned on CBC.ca, the network’s online site. The actual News, apparently, is of less importance than not only its ideological biases but the more than a billion dollars it receives annually from a Canadian public most of which, sadly, seems mindlessly addicted to the same biases.