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Re: CBC "The Greatest Canadian" contest - bullshit

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From: lhontas
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 05:58

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In calgary.general Basilic <Basilic@no.thanks> wrote:
> I guess a lot of you hockey fans saw this commercial.

> The CBC has a contest where you, Joe/Jane Public, gets to nominate who the
> Greatest Canadian is/was. After you nominate, they tally the votes and pick
> a winner.

> Nothing wrong so far....but,

> on their web site, www.cbc.ca/greatest , they offer a list of people to
> choose from. No, you don't have to choose one of these, you could, in fact,
> choose whomever you like, could be your neighbour.

> Now, going through this list I saw that they have listed non Canadians,
> i.e.. Bell, Cartier, Champlain, Cunard (only made it to the C's). This is
> quite deceiving, whereas some people could get the idea that these non
> Canadians were actually Canadian, funny as it sounds.

> That's the rotten CBC for you. I've complained to them stating that they
> should rename the contest, to something like "The most influential person
> towards Canada" or modify the list to contain true Canadians (born here or
> immigrated and became naturalized). We'll see if they do anything. IMO I
> don't think so because the CBC are decievers and are quite BIASED.

> Having vented, go Suzuki go.

Elijah Harper!

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