Secret reason why CBC not covering FINTRAC releasing $475,000 during a covid-infected-cash scare

the three cute little chimps Cee & Bee & Cee see no $475,000, hear no $475,000 and taste no $475,000

No matter how I tried, doing as various irate Facebookers suggested, when I googled “CBC+$475,000+Wortman” just now, I got nothing, zero, zilch, total radio silence.

People on the various FACEBOOK forums devoted to dissecting the Gabriel Wortman disaster have every reason to be angry and fuming mad.

They are wondering why “the people’s paper”, the CBC,  have still not re-reported the various Macleans Magazine revelations (+ arresting video stills), on how GW had once again skated.

Skated $475,000 in $100 bills past FINTRAC.

Skated a cool half a mill in the green stuff right past the hapless federal agency in the very week when a covid-panicked federal government was urging the restricted use of cash to reduce the spread of covid droplets, even pondering a cash-ban.

My only theory is that like the RCMP , the CBC (ditto FINTRAC & the gun registration system) is yet another federally-funded agency that has faced constant threats to de-fund it or disband it - only this time from the right, not the left.

To guard itself from attacks on its fat paycheques from the right, the CBC internal culture has made an informal agreement with itself to make lots of little cuts on issues like illegal guns and money laundering/offshore tax havens but never to be seen landing any lethal blows.

Older, whiter, suburban Canadians - Canadians mostly on the right  - actually like looser gun controls - except those imposed on young urban kids of color.

And generally it is people on the right who have the lolly that needs hiding from the tax men & FINTRAC , it is the right that needs money laundries and tax havens - not poor urban black kids.

And the right is far more pro-RCMP, regardless of their misdeeds, than the left is.

It may therefore not be the direct issue of whether or not Wortman was a murderous Mountie CI that has made the CBC shy away from reporting on this RCMP skating operation.

It is the indirect (de-funding) consequences if the future-PM Peter MacKay’s right wing comes to believe that the fatal assault on the reputation of their beloved RCMP was led by the much-hated CBC.

Better, much better, then if the private sector’s Maclean’s Magazine feels all the wrath of the right...