MPs Discuss CBC Directive Not to Refer to Hamas as ‘Terrorists’

People walk into the CBC building in Toronto on April 4, 2012. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

During debates in the House of Commons, a Bloc Quebecois MP said Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) management should explain why journalists were instructed in a leaked internal memo not to use the word “terrorists” when describing the Hamas attack on Israel that killed and injured thousands of citizens.

“Journalists know how to describe the despicable acts committed by Hamas on October 7. That is their job,” Quebec Bloc MP Martin Champoux said in the House on Oct. 17. “CBC management’s directive is something else entirely. It looks a lot like censorship.”