Canada’s Poilievre Calls For Defunding CBC After Correspondent Laments Hamas Leader’s Death

After a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lamented the assassination of terrorist Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who led political operations for the terrorist group, and publicly celebrated the October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre called for defunding the broadcasting company.

Correspondent Chris Brown, whose anti-Israel bias seems apparent in his social media posts, posted on X, “If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen.”

If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen. https://t.co/DME8MUzuaV

— Chris Brown (@CBCChrisBrown) July 31, 2024

Poilievre fired back, “CBC is mourning the loss of the leader of Hamas, who carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Destroy Hamas. Defund the CBC.”

Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’ Politburo since 2017, spoke at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, three months after the October 7 massacre. He declared, “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it … the time has come for the Jihad of the swords,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.

“In 2012, when asked by Reuters reporters if Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle, Haniyeh replied of course not and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms – popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance,’” The Hindu reported.

After the October 7 massacre, Poilievre released a statement saying, “I unequivocally condemn the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists and the sadistic violence they have subsequently carried out against innocent civilians. Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks and respond against the attackers. Canadians pledge their solidarity with all the victims.”

On October 11, he stated bluntly, “Let us remember that every loss of life in this conflict is the direct consequence of Hamas’s conduct. Hamas is a sadistic, genocidal, terrorist death cult and it must be stopped. … So Conservatives call for the government to take action to counter Hamas any way we can.”

“One way would be to impose more severe sanctions on Iran, which is the sponsor of Hamas, and to criminalize the IRGC, which is the terrorist arm of the Iranian government that coordinates support for Hamas and Hezbollah,” he added.