CP outed SUN TV's fake citizenship ceremony. Sun TV's competitors just love it.
Here is Star columnist Heather Malick:
Fake Sun TV segment has mocked our democracy
"When Stephen Harper’s government wants a happy clap-clap Canadian moment on Sun News, it goes the Full North Korean.
Yes, six of the “new Canadians” attending a “reaffirmation” ceremony for Citizenship Week in the Sun studios last fall turn out not to have been recently minted citizens after all. As The Canadian Press’ Jennifer Ditchburn has reported, they were actually federal bureaucrats told to smile and wave the damn flag like they meant it.
The thing looked like a school play with grown-ups. Sad frightened grown-ups.
According to CP, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office had asked Sun News to do a soft news segment, at the network’s studio, on new citizens taking the oath. It does sound as though the Tories and Sun News are joined at the hip. I have never worked anywhere in journalism where the government phoned and asked you to do anything. Oh yeah, when an 8-year-old designs a Christmas stamp, we’ll be there.
But journalists and government never get together and fake stuff. That would be a firing offence, presumably on both sides. How times have changed. . .."
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