The cultural ignorance of the Conservative candidates is a revealing insult
You can’t make it up, although one suspects some of the people involved did make it up. The people in question are the ones who want to lead the Conservative Party of Canada. You’d think they’d want to be accurate and you’d think they’d be superpositive about good Canadian-made productions in storytelling and themes. Especially supersuccessful Canadian TV in the international market.
Not so. In that eccentrically organized but revealing Conservative leadership candidates TV debate the other night, the candidates were asked about their personal taste in books, music and the last binge-watch TV they enjoyed. Not hard questions but good, get-to-know-you questions.
The list of shows they mentioned amounts to a telltale revelation. These people seem to be completely ignorant of Canadian-made TV that’s renowned, award-winning and made in their own backyards. It was like dirty laundry being aired; it was an excursion into the mind-boggling.
The snobbery nears self-parody. Roman Baber is called out for stating he learned to speak English from Al Bundy in ‘Married with children’ and you can practically see the author hyperventilating on his fainting couch. Hell that makes me like Baber even more, I thought he came across as a genuine human being during the last debate. I’m probably voting PPC again given the CPC’s leftward drift but this biased crap outdoes the CBC.
CanCon is typically humourless PC garbage that force feeds the lived experience of transvestite migrant farm labourers or other such drivel. That’s because all arts funding eventually becomes toxic lesbians funding other toxic lesbians with your tax dollars. It’s a grift and people instinctively know to stay away. (Go incognito)
