April 4, 2023 - To Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and CEO of the CRTC:
Last week, Egale Canada and a prominent Canadian leader for trans rights and inclusion were featured on the infamously incendiary Tucker Carlson Tonight program on the American Fox News Channel. The coverage aimed to provoke hatred and violence against 2SLGBTQI communities, particularly those who are Two Spirit, trans, nonbinary and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN).
This programming is in clear violation of Canadian broadcasting standards and has no place on Canadian broadcasting networks. Carlson made false and horrifying claims about 2STNBGN people, painting them as violent and dangerous. During the segment, Carlson made the inflammatory and false claim that trans people are “targeting” Christians. To position trans people in existential opposition to Christianity is an incitement of violence against trans people that is plain to any viewer. The segment also contained a range of other malicious misinformation about 2STNBGN people, including that trans people are given preferential treatment in employment and other opportunities. This is clearly an attempt to stoke resentment against 2STNBGN people......
Update to the Open Letter
The CRTC opened a Part 1 Application (2023-0210-8 – Egale Canada) for the removal of Fox News from the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution. Interested parties and the public can submit their comments through the CRTC’s website until June 2, 2023.
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact/#complaint
What I learned - Fox abuses the freedoms available in Canada and the USA - they are mostly opinion shows which should be labeled and fact checked - all hate should be banned.
Labels on cigarette packages show what damages can be done using the product and gives fair warning to users.
labels for all the broadcast opinion shows about possible misinformation and emotional triggers and deceitful conspiracies and foreign interference and propaganda would help show the damages of watching these types of shows and gives fair warning to users.
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