Canada's state-funded news outlet, CBC, has decided to turn an internal RCMP investigation into a Mountie's offline website and erased YouTube channel into a national news story.
B.C. Mountie's anti-Trudeau website raises concerns about discriminatory views within the RCMP | CBC News - Brady Strachan:
January 11, 2023 - "RCMP are investigating after a police officer in Trail, B.C., launched a satirical, political website called the Church of Trudeau mocking the Prime Minister and funding of Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities. (churchoftrudeau.org)
A B.C. Mountie's anti-Trudeau website is causing waves in a small West Kootenay community and raising concerns about political bias among the ranks of the RCMP. The Church of Trudeau website was online last November and early December and featured theatrical performances by a man dressed up as multiple characters in what appears to be satirical political commentary about the Prime Minister and what the site referred to as 'left-wing Liberal ideologies.' CBC News has confirmed the identity of the man in photos and videos on the website as Trail, B.C., RCMP officer Brent Lord through a source familiar with the website and its contents. The RCMP says it is aware of the site and the matter is under review.
"In one of four videos CBC News has obtained, Lord plays the role of a character he calls Father B, and professes to be 'the High Prophet of the Church of Trudeau" as he explains what the website is about, stating, "our religion teaches the importance of socialism, of cancelling everyone that offends anyone, of being woke and highly emotional.' A YouTube channel associated with the site that was scrubbed of content in December once stated, 'our goal is to convert sinful conservatives who belong to a fringe minority with unacceptable views into entitled socialist liberals just like us.' Lord does not mention his job as a Mountie....
"The website's contents and the views expressed by the officer are concerning, according to Trail Mayor Colleen Jones, who said she has had 'multiple conversations with the Trail RCMP detachment commander about it. 'It's definitely not anything a community wants,' Jones said....
"To Kash Heed, a former West Vancouver police chief and former solicitor general and minister of public safety, the political nature of the website is not in line with the standard of conduct expected of a police officer. 'The RCMP should be investigating this as a code of conduct breach for this particular member,' he said.... Heed likened the officer's political statements in the videos to cases last year of police officers expressing support for the Freedom Convoy movement and donating money to the organizers, which resulted in the officers being charged with misconduct and in one case demoted for their actions."
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-trudeau-website-rcmp-trail-b-c-1.6684902
State media CBC decides BC Mountie’s anti-Trudeau website is 'discriminatory' | Western Standard - David Krayden
January 12, 2023 - "If you needed more reasons to stop funding the CBC to the tune of $1.6 billion a year, look no further than how the state media covered the story of the RCMP member from Trail, B.C. who was running an anti-Trudeau website in his spare time. The line between opinion and news is not just blurred at Mother CBC, it is invisible.
"The website isn’t even active anymore but you can find it on the Internet Archive. 'His gospel explains why belonging to a fringe minority with unacceptable views is not tolerable and how Conservatives are always trying to deceive Canadians with silly words such as government debt, scandals, inflation, and other such nonsense,' reads the website. Do we have a problem here? Well, the CBC does. It ran a 'news' story under the headline of “B.C. Mountie's anti-Trudeau website raises concerns about discriminatory views within the RCMP.”
"So now it’s discriminatory to oppose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his policies? This is a satirical website to boot. But Liberals and progressives never have any sense of humour when they're the target of the jokes....
"Lord also cites Trudeau’s latest LGBTQ initiative, noting '$35 million in new project funding support aimed at addressing specific barriers to 2SLGBTQ+ equality. Now I'm not as smart as Justin Trudeau so I don't really understand what that means, but it sounds really good and if Justin Trudeau has implemented it then it really makes sense.... I trust you Justin, I trust.' This must be one of the 'marginalized communities' the CBC fears is being maligned by the website. It really is time to stop pretending LGBTQ people are in anyway marginalized in a society where the gay lifestyle is celebrated in print, television and film. Homosexual men and lesbian women on average make more money than their heterosexual counterparts and I have never been able to locate the 'gay community' on the map anyway. They don’t all vote Liberal and most would tell the federal government they don’t need to be funded as some kind of needy group.
"CBC also found a former BC solicitor general/public safety minister and West Vancouver police chief to comment on the story. Kash Heed must also be a member of Thought Police because his words are truly Orwellian. 'We need to make sure we're hiring the right people and we have the policies, discipline and supervision in place to detect these types of behaviours and deal with them in a swift fashion.' Uh huh. We can’t have people thinking for themselves.
"Do you think for a moment if this RCMP officer were sponsoring a pro-Trudeau website that lauded the government's immigration "policies and identity politics that the CBC would be fretting so? No, of course not."
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