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### Viewing cable 08OTTAWA136, PRIMETIME IMAGES OF US-CANADA BORDER PAINT U.S. IN

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 OTTAWA 000136

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PGOV KPAO CA
    SUBJECT: PRIMETIME IMAGES OF US-CANADA BORDER PAINT U.S. IN
    INCREASINGLY NEGATIVE LIGHT

    OTTAWA 00000136  001.2 OF 003

    ¶1. (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
    has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction
    between Americans and Canadians in its programming, generally
    at our expense. However, the level of anti-American melodrama
    has been given a huge boost in the current television season
    as a number of programs offer Canadian viewers their fill of
    nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious
    deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them
    or fall trying.  CIA rendition flights, schemes to steal
    Canada's water, "the Guantanamo-Syria express," F-16's flying
    in for bombing runs in Quebec to eliminate escaped
    terrorists:  in response to the onslaught, one media
    commentator concluded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that
    "apparently, our immigration department's real enemies aren't
    terrorists or smugglers -- they're Americans."  While this
    situation hardly constitutes a public diplomacy crisis per
    se, the degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast
    entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars,
    twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of
    the U.S. -- and the extent to which the Canadian public seems
    willing to indulge in the feast - is noteworthy as an
    indication of the kind of insidious negative popular
    stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada.  End
    Summary.

    "THE BORDER" -CANADA'S ANSWER TO 24, W/O THAT SUTHERLAND GUY
    --------------------------------------------- ---------------

    ¶2. (SBU) When American TV and movie producers want action,
    the formula involves Middle Eastern terrorists, a ticking
    nuclear device, and a (somewhat ironically, Canadian) guy
    named Sutherland.  Canadian producers don't need to look so
    far -- they can find all the action they need right on the
    U.S.-Canadian border.  This piece of real estate, which most
    Americans associate with snow blowing back and forth across
    an imaginary line, has for the past three weeks been for
    Canadian viewers the site of downed rendition flights, F-16
    bombing runs, and terrorist suspects being whisked away to
    Middle Eastern torture facilities. "The Border," which
    state-owned CBC premiered on January 7, attracted an
    impressive 710,000 viewers on its first showing -- not
    exactly Hockey Night in Canada, but equivalent to an American
    program drawing about eight million U.S. viewers.  The show
    depicts Canadian immigration and customs officers' efforts to
    secure the U.S.-Canadian border and the litany of moral
    dilemmas they face in doing so.  The CBC bills the
    high-budget program as depicting the "new war" on the border
    and "the few who fight it."  While the "war" is supposed to
    be against criminals and terrorists trying to cross the
    border, many of the immigration team's battles end up being
    with U.S. government officials, often in tandem with the
    CIA-colluding Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
    (CSIS).

    ¶3. (SBU) The clash between the Americans and Canadians got
    started early in the season and has continued unabated.  In
    episode one a Syrian terrorist with a belt full of gel-based
    explosives is removed from a plane in Canada while the
    Canadian-Syrian man sitting next to him is rendered by the
    CIA/CSIS team to Syria -- a fairly transparent reference to
    QCIA/CSIS team to Syria -- a fairly transparent reference to
    the Maher Arar case.  Fortunately for the incarcerated
    individual, the sympathetic Canadian Immigration and Customs
    Security official recognizes the mistake and shrewdly causes
    the government to rescue him from a Syrian jail through
    organized media pressure.  The episode ends with a preview of
    things to come when one of the Canadian immigration officers
    notes with disgust, "Homeland Security is sending in some hot
    shot agent."

    ¶4. (SBU) Episode two expands on this theme, featuring the
    arrival of an arrogant, albeit stunningly attractive female
    DHS officer, sort of a cross between Salma Hayek and Cruella
    De Vil.  The show portrays the DHS official bossing around
    her stereotypically more compassionate Canadian colleagues
    while uttering such classic lines as, "Who do you think
    provides the muscle to protect your fine ideals?" and "You
    would have killed him.  Let the American justice system do it
    for you."  Her fallback line in most situations is "it's a
    matter of national security."

    ¶5. (SBU) But the one-liners and cross-border stereotypes
    really take off in episode three, in which an American

    OTTAWA 00000136  002.2 OF 003

    rendition aircraft with three terrorist suspects on the
    "Guantanamo to Syria express" crashes in Quebec and the
    terrorists escape -- however, not before killing a Quebec
    police officer, whose sympathetic widow appears throughout
    the show.  The DHS officer's answer to everything is American
    firepower, but in this episode even CSIS gets a chance at
    redemption as the CSIS officer in charge challenges her. Ms.
    DHS barks back, "You really want to talk territorial
    sovereignty, or should we talk about getting the terrorists
    back?"  After being chased through the woods of Quebec by a
    cross-culturally balanced CSIS-JTF2 team which kills a
    15-year-old terrorist in a shootout, the bad guys are finally
    cornered on the side of a pristine Canadian lake.  Then,
    after a conversation with Washington in which she asks "can
    you bypass NSA and State?", our DHS official calls in an
    air-strike on the terrorists without Canadian concurrence.
    Canadian planes, another official has explained, are "already
    deployed to Afghanistan, helping our neighbors fight their
    war on terror."  With only seconds to spare before the bombs
    are dropped on the Quebec site, the planes are called off
    when the CSIS-JTF team affirms positive control over the
    terrorists.  Finally, in a last-minute allowance for
    redemption, the CSIS officer informs his DHS colleague that
    the captured terrorists will not be turned over to the U.S.
    but will stand trial for the death of the Quebec police
    officer.  She does get the final word, though, hissing the
    classic phrase "you people are so nave," before the screen
    goes blank.

    DEA ALSO TAKES SOME HITS
    ------------------------

    ¶6. (SBU) If that isn't enough, "the Border" is only one of
    the CBC programs featuring cross-border relations.
    "Intelligence," which depicts a Canadian intelligence unit
    collaborating with a local drug lord-turned government
    informant, is just as stinging in its portrayal of
    U.S.-Canada law enforcement cooperation.  Through its two
    seasons, the program has followed plot lines including a DEA
    attempt to frame the Canadian informant for murder, a CIA
    plot to secretly divert Canadian water to the American
    southwest, and a rogue DEA team that actually starts selling
    drugs for a profit.  A columnist in conservative Canadian
    daily newspaper "The National Post" commented, "There's no
    question that the CSIS heroes on 'Intelligence' consider the
    Americans our most dangerous enemies."

    EVEN THE LITTLE MOSQUE GETS IN TO THE ACT
    -----------------------------------------

    ¶7. (U) Even "Little Mosque on the Prairie," a popular
    Canadian sitcom that depicts a Muslim community in a small
    Saskatchewan town, has joined the trend of featuring
    U.S.-Canada border relations.  This time, however, the State
    Department is the fall guy.  A December 2007 episode
    portrayed a Muslim economics professor trying to remove his
    name from the No-Fly-List at a U.S. consulate.  The show
    depicts a rude and eccentric U.S. consular officer
    stereotypically attempting to find any excuse to avoid being
    helpful.  Another episode depicted how an innocent trip
    across the border became a jumble of frayed nerves as Grandpa
    was scurried into secondary by U.S. border officials because
    his name matched something on the watch list.
    Qhis name matched something on the watch list.

    GIVE US YOUR WATER; OH WHAT THE HECK WE'LL TAKE YOUR COUNTRY
    TOO
    --------------------------------------------- ----

    ¶8. (U) And it appears that the season is just warming up.
    After CIA renditions, DEA murder plots, DHS missteps, and
    unhelpful consular officers, a U.S. takeover of Canada may
    have been the only theme left for the CBC "H20" mini-series.
    The series was first broadcast in 2005, when it featured an
    investigation into an American assassination of the Canadian
    prime minister and a very broad-based (and wildly
    implausible) U.S. scheme to steal Canadian water.  A two-part
    sequel, set to be broadcast in March and April 2008, will
    portray the United States as manipulating innocent, trusting
    Canadians into voting in favor of Canada's becoming part of
    the United States.  Then, after the United States completely
    takes over Canada, one brave Canadian unites Canadians and
    Europeans in an attempt to end America's hegemony.  Another

    OTTAWA 00000136  003.2 OF 003

    program could prove more benign but will certainly include
    its share of digs against all things American:  Global TV
    reportedly is gearing up for a March 2008 debut of its own
    border security drama, set to feature Canadian
    search-and-rescue officers patrolling the U.S.-Canada border.

    COMMENT
    -------

    ¶9. (SBU) EKOS pollster Frank Graves told Poloff he thought
    that at this point such shows are reflective and not causal
    in determining attitudes in Canada.  They play on the
    deep-seated caution most Canadians feel toward their large
    neighbor to the south, a sort of zeitgeist that has been in
    the background for decades.  As one example, a December 2007
    Strategic Counsel poll showed that nine percent of Canadians
    thought U.S. foreign policy was the greatest threat to the
    world -- twice as high as those who were concerned about
    weapons of mass destruction.  What Graves does find
    disturbing -- and here he believes that the causal or
    reflective question is not important -- is that support for a
    less porous border is increasing in both Canada and the U.S.:
    in the U.S. because of generalized fear of terrorism and in
    Canada because of concern over guns, sovereignty, and the
    impact that a terrorist attack on the U.S. would have on
    trade.  Graves has detected an increasingly wary attitude
    over the border that he believes could lead to greater
    distance between the two countries.

    ¶10. (SBU) While there is no single answer to this trend, it
    does serve to demonstrate the importance of constant
    creative, and adequately-funded public-diplomacy engagement
    with Canadians, at all levels and in virtually all parts of
    the country.  We need to do everything we can to make it more
    difficult for Canadians to fall into the trap of seeing all
    U.S. policies as the result of nefarious faceless U.S.
    bureaucrats anxious to squeeze their northern neighbor.
    While there are those who may rate the need for USG
    public-diplomacy programs as less vital in Canada than in
    other nations because our societies are so much alike, we
    clearly have real challenges here that simply must be
    adequately addressed.

    Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at
    http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/can ada

    WILKINS

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