canada

TL;DR: Whiny cops throw temper tantrum because some first nations blokes pranked them and made them atone for their sins.

One episode, however, lured retired RCMP officers to CBC’s Vancouver studios with the claim that they would be honoured for their service and would be given a chance to talk about life in retirement. The former Mounties were flown to Vancouver, all expenses paid, and appeared in their red serge uniforms for a show they were told was called “After the Call.”

Instead, they ... were berated about real and perceived injustices carried out by the RCMP over their entire history. According to friends of those who participated, the former officers were humiliated and felt devastated.

"Hey I know I did this for a job for my whole career and was an active part of a system which dehumanised and oppressed your people, but calling me out on that is just going too far."

“Two Aboriginal men walked into the studio and dumped a bag of shoes, children’s shoes, onto the coffee table in front of me,” Widdowson said.

Children’s shoes have been used as a symbol of the children who died at residential schools. That’s when she realized that it wasn’t a documentary but an attempt to attack her over her views on residential schools.

OH NO not the FEELINGS of a putrescent, repugnant residential school denialist! The horror!

For real though this is a genius idea for a television show and I hope that we get to see at least some of the footage. I guess they made the mistake of doing it through the CBC.

:cbc-cool: