This isn’t over, Camille Labchuk tells the CBC
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- If the CBC thought Camille Labchuk would go away quietly after being dishonourably discharged from a CBC project it’d invited her to in in the first place, it thought wrong.
“I just received the shocking news that CBC has disqualified me from the Canadas Next Great Prime Minister contest,” she said angrily in an email when she heard about the decision.
“They say it is because I ran for Parliament in 2006, but when they asked me to enter the competition in November (yes, they recruited me) I raised this point with the producer and asked if it made me ineligible.
“The producer told me (in writing) that I was ‘good to go’.”
Not long after, “The CBC admits the producers made a mistake by telling Labchuk they would override the rule, and the corporation has apologized, but Labchuk remains disqualified,” said the, well, the CBC.
But when Labchuk isn’t running for prime minister, she’s a communications consultant.
And she’s communicating.
“The support I’ve received has been phenomenal,”old p2pnet. “Several hundred people have written to the CBC. I’ve been contacted by people I don’t even know who are offering their support and expressing their outrage at this unfair decision.”
And the mainstream media is becoming increasingly interested.
“There are news stories all over the place today and more to come tomorrow,” she said, promising:
“The CBC won’t get away with this.”
Labchuk hasn’t spoken further with the CBC, “nor have they contacted me to propose compensation since I was booted,” she says.
But, she added, “I’ll be discussing my next steps with a lawyer shortly and I’ll keep you updated.”
Will the CBC do the right thing and reinstate Labchuk? Or will it stand by spokesman Jeff Keay’s non-statement, to wit »»»
For those people who didn’t apply to become participants based on the existing rule, and for the integrity of the brand of the show, if you like, we needed to be consistent and enforce the rules equally across the board.
“This is like Elections Canada confirming a candidate and then the night before the election, when they’re in first place in the polls, telling them they’re kicked out,” the Charlottetown Guardian has her saying.
The top cash prize is $50,000 and a paid internship, says the story, adding:
“The contestants also get to rub shoulders with the celebrity judges, including former prime ministers,” a perk that’s more than just a little interesting to Labchuk who once ran as a Green Party candidate and who plans to stay in politics
Her mother is, not at all incidentally, the daughter of PEI Green Party leader Sharon Labchuk.
Stay tuned.
said angrily – CBC cancels Camille, January 10, 2009
CBC – Islander disqualified from Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister, January 12, 2009
Charlottetown Guardian – Labchuk disqualified as Next Great PM contestant, January 13, 2009
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