Rather than dismissing the CBC as a waste of taxpayer dollars, we should acknowledge it as a critical incubator of soft power—a currency that’s more powerful than ever before in a global landscape dominated by social media and steaming platforms.
Lost amidst the national media’s fixation on a small number of Confederate flags and Swastikas spotted at the protests were a much larger number of Fleur-de-lis; a good amount of French could be heard from protestors on the ground as well. The media has also been slow to draw a connection between the protests and Premier Legault’s draconian winter curfew.
