This Must Be Killing The CBC

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), reported on its web site on November 22, that the Auditor General found "disturbing flaws" in Canada's immigration system, particularly with respect to VISA (a seal indicating a visitor's intention to stay abroad) issuance.

The Auditor General's findings are interesting, but what is more interesting is the terrible rectal pain the CBC is being caused by having to admit, to its great distaste, that in the Auditor General's eyes the present Conservative Government deserves a "passing grade".

It goes without saying the CBC would never suggest the Conservatives are doing a good job.  It's already painful enough for them to realize conservatism is superior to liberalism, and while conservatism is always worthy of a "pass", liberalism is always worthy of a "fail".

Here's a sample of what the CBC had to distastefully report:

"The report overall gives a passing grade to the Conservative government on how it tracked spending for three of the programs under its $47-billion Economic Action Plan introduced in 2009 but said it's not clear how the government is going to determine the effectiveness of one of them."

Two out of three isn't bad for any Government, when you historically have a track record of zero out of three for monitoring anything (especially spending and determining spending effectiveness).

""For the three specific programs we audited, the government was diligent in monitoring the progress of projects and their spending," Wiersema said in a statement. "It also took corrective action as required to ensure projects were completed as intended.""

Conservatives diligent?  Liberals must be having epileptic fits.  Corrective action?  Completing projects on time?  How will liberals ever get back into power?

Of course, the CBC could not let this go unchallenged.  So, they decided to manufacture some "news" of their own.

"His audit did not include an analysis of whether the projects funded were worthy of the cash, only if the money was properly tracked by the departments spending it."

Interestingly, the CBC fails to report that the Auditor General's report also did not include an analysis of whether satellite television has any correlation with a need for public parks, and whether there is a direct tie between liberalism and mental retardation.

"The Conservatives have touted the EAP as a successful program that created jobs, but Wiersema's report says data was collected in a number of ways by various departments, making it difficult for the government to assess how well its goals were achieved."

Aren't liberals always complaining that one size does not fit all, and hence we must have uniquely tailored solutions for every single thing we do in life?  Isn't that why so many of our University students suffer from mental retardation?  Yet, if that (individualized solutions) doesn't benefit them, then all of a sudden it's bad?  Since when is Government supposed to have an easy job?

Thankfully, the Auditor General did throw the CBC a bone, in that he did essentially fail the Canada Border Services Agency and Citizenship and Immigration Canada.  You see, immigration is allowed to work only if benevolent liberals let people into the country (without qualification, screening, or criteria).

What's really funny about the Citizenship and Immigration Canada criticism is, the CBC (likely unknowingly) reports that "Wiersema said many of these problems have been identified by previous audits and the department has committed to fixing them, but they haven't followed through on those promises.".  In other words, this was a problem festering through previous (read :Liberal) Governments.

The CBC's reporting of this last part is what's called a Random Act Of Journalism.

Of course, the CBC mantra is plain and simple - if there's no bad news, make it up (unless it's about our guys, in which case bury it).  If there's good news, report it (unless it's not about our guys, in which case bury it).