Stephen Glass, Jason Blair, and now Canada’s Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson? (Hat tip: Peter Warren of CKNW and Corus)
Here’s a former CBC reporter, who was promoted by the Liberals (as they often do to CBC reporters) to a higher rank within the Liberal Party’s Canada—in this case to the post of Leader Of All The Land—who seems to have gotten her own report of her own story a little wrong.
More than simply a former reporter, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson wrote a long op/ed carried by Canwest newspapers across Canada, in which she writes about a recent excursion—this one including a trip to Auschwitz to participate in the memorials there last month.
OTTAWA – We need only to look at what we are really doing in the world and at home and we’ll know what it is to be Canadian. Most recently, I had the opportunity to be with our troops in Afghanistan over New Year’s, to represent Canada at the installation of President Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine and to bear witness at the ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
But then the former reporter seemed to get her story mixed-up.
Seems to me, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands died on March 29, 2004. And yet the Queen spoke on the bus that Clarkson was riding in last month.
In the bus on the way to Auschwitz, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, the president of Poland and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of what we were remembering. Everybody was aware of the role that Canada played in the Second World War and we did not have to explain, especially not to the Queen of the Netherlands, how much we had sacrificed.
I think it is a good thing for our young soldiers to realize how much our Armed Forces have been respected and honoured by those they helped save.
Now I’m questioning if she was really there.
But how would she have been penalized at the CBC were she to make up bogus stories like that?
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