Canada’s Complicity In Western Decline

As we approach the 25^th anniversary of 9/11, Basem Boshra, Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News, Canada’s largest publicly funded state media apparatus, instructed his staff to refrain from referring to 9/11 as a “terrorist attack.” Instead, he insists: “the hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan.”

This is an obvious attempt at historical revisionism. Its true intent is pedagogical. A regime’s deeds are always guided by its opinions. And opinions about the United States in Canada have acquired a character that turns what ought to be an attack on Western civilization into something, at best, ambiguous and, at worst, justifiable. The CBC walked back the 9/11 memo over the weekend, but it’s important to understand the standard that produced it.