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The whole thing can be viewed on the website for Mesley’s new show. It was also nicely condensed by former National Post editor Ken Whyte, who tweeted out a blow-by-blow summary.

The National Post’s Stuart Thomson also offered a terrific analysis of it.

In style, Mesley comes across as a blend of Fox News’s Sean Hannity and CNN’s Don Lemon — two masters of rabidly partisan broadcasting. But that’s no reason to fire or sanction her.

Nor is there reason fire or sanction Barton, one of the four hosts of CBC’s The National. A few weeks ago, Barton suggested that Bernier had timed his criticisms of Canadian multiculturalism to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the race riots in Charlottesville, Va. Barton defended her implication by arguing Bernier was not available for an interview to confirm or deny whether her deliberate-timing theory was correct.

As intellectually warped as the Mesley/Barton smears on Bernier were — and warped is the right word — talk of firing and sanctions is misplaced. The problem certainly demands radical reform, but you can’t fire journalists for doing the very job the CBC hired them to do: to front for a state-funded corporate news organization that has become, by design, a purveyor of leftism and social activism.

Reform must come at the top, and the only way that happens is by stopping the flow of government money that provides CBC executives with the power to shape the corporation’s ideological agenda. There is just one solution: Unfund the CBC.