CSIS is Canada’s Security Intelligence Service; its mission can be likened to its counterpart, the CIA.

Canada’s spy agency is being sued for racial and religious discrimination by a longtime employee who alleges that his Muslim faith marked him as a target for harassment, emotional abuse and even physical assaults.

Next, note the reference to the Muslim complainant as a “second class spy.” Right out front, CBC has established in the minds of the reader that this complainant is being treated as “second class” as a Muslim, but CBC makes sure to include the “technical” reference that he only “alleges” this mistreatment. When one considers the sheer number of active discrimination cases in the workplace Canada-wide (i.e. in every city and town of every province), it is peculiar that the publicly funded CBC, with a billion dollar a year taxpayer budget, would choose this one case to give completely one-sided blank check coverage.

There is significance in the identities of both the complainant (Muslim) and the accused (CSIS, which is tasked with national security, including bringing jihadists to justice). We routinely see a kind of eagerness to cover any stories that can be spun as instances of the victimization of Muslims. Whether Sameer Abadi’s complaint is true or not, the CBC decided to try CSIS in the court of public opinion; it allowed this complainant remarkable press coverage, in which Abadi defames his employer prior to the presentation of hard evidence in court. CBC should be covering the case as it unfolds professionally, with equal coverage of both sides and impartial journalistic standards; it should not be acting as a mouthpiece for Sameer Abadi against CSIS.

The Financial Times had it right in its article: Unfund the CBC, Canada’s Pravda and national enforcer of truth.

Canadian taxpayers have no say in the indiscreet activist “journalism” practiced by the CBC, which enjoys almost limitless funds with little accountability. There are countless Canadians who would welcome CBC giving them carte blanche to present their side of a lawsuit prior to the legal proceedings. No such luck for most.

“A ‘second class’ spy: Muslim CSIS agent alleges discrimination, abuse,” by Jonathon Gatehouse, CBC News, January 21, 2020: