Internal documents have revealed that CBC told its employees to vet the races of proposed guests before inviting them to appear on a program, to ensure that they met a diversity quota.
As first reported by Rebel News, an internal memo with the state broadcaster revealed that producers were directed to Google and to research potential interview subjects to determine what their ethnicity was.
The effort was part of a quota system within CBC meant to “better reflect the diversity of Canadian communities.”
A Guest Sourcing Survey asked producers to rely on publicly available “diversity data” like internet searches to find out if guests were people of colour or indigenous.
“Current Affairs is currently collecting publicly available diversity data on its guests with a view to ensuring its programming better reflects the diversity of Canadian communities,” the questionnaire explained.
“Please complete the following information below based on publicly available information. Please answer the following questions about each person or source in your story that has contributed meaningfully.”
The document asked producers to identify the gender and ethnicity of participants as well as to determine whether they were “biracial/multiracial.”
“Was the guest speaking specifically about a topic related to their ethnicity?” management asked. “Is the character an appointed figure, i.e. a politician?”
Producers were supposed to also provide “additional details of ethnic origin for persons of colour.”
The two-page document was required for every person who appeared on-air, including random Canadians appearing on on-street interviews.
CBC’s diversity questionnaire was exposed after former producer Tara Henley referenced it in a Jan. 3 article explaining why she resigned from the Crown corporation. According to Henley, the CBC has been compromised by the radical far-left.
“To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity,” wrote Henley.
“It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that the “woke” worldview is near universal — even if it is far from popular with those you know, and speak to, and interview, and read.”
