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A dogfight is taking shape between the public broadcaster and the nation’s Opposition Leader, after the CBC posted an article entitled: “Does Paw Patrol encourage our kids to embrace capitalism?”

Quoting King’s University College criminology professor Liam Kennedy, it said the animated TV show about a team of search and rescue dogs presents a sly critique of big government, with its corrupt civic officials, privatized (and dog-operated!) emergency services and pro-individualist messaging that fails to emphasize the role of the state in, among other things, environmental protection.

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“The show puts a lot of responsibility on individuals to go and recycle and protect the environment,” Kennedy told CBC Radio in London. “It places a lot of faith in private corporations. (But) we should also depend on the state to facilitate that recycling process.”

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He added that kids watching too much Paw Patrol “might be less likely to critique the capitalist system that causes environmental harm in the first place, and reproduces inequality.”