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As we speak, Canada is quietly negotiating away rights to our water. The cloak-and-dagger dealings mirror the subject of a critically acclaimed CBC series that was dropped late last year. Coincidence?The last we had a glimpse of weed king Jimmy Reardon, he was sinking to the ground in front of his Vancouver club, Chickadee, shot multiple times and bleeding.
Did he bleed out? Was that it for Reardon and Intelligence, the gritty CBC street drama that had fans hooked for two seasons, ending abruptly last December?
Before the show was dropped recently from the network's upcoming fall lineup, there was buzz the CBC first buried, then killed Intelligence, because the storyline hit a nerve in corporate ranks. It's about the mass export of Canadian water to a thirsty U.S. amid the overall threat of economic integration.
As one theory had it, new CBC brass under Richard Stursberg, head of English-language operations, was worried enough about the spectre of privatization under the federal Conservatives without making it worse with a show about one of Ottawa's most secret operations: the sale of Canadian water ...