CBC revels over fall-out of Sun TV’s fake citizenship ceremony

Both the Conservatives and Sun Media are under fire this week over a revelation that six federal bureaucrats posed as new Canadians at a fake citizenship ceremony broadcast on the Sun TV last October.

As the National Post reported, immigration minister Jason Kenney is ignoring opposition requests to apologize for the ruse, blaming it on public servants in his department and urged Canadians to look past it.

"The department organizes dozens of special citizenship and reaffirmation ceremonies every year which, I think, are a great way of highlighting the value of Canadian citizenship," he said, noting he only caught wind of the incident this week.

"It turns out in the ceremony in question . . . some of the people invited didn't arrive. I think the response to that was poorly handled. I regret that, but we shouldn't allow it to undermine the important value of these special citizenship and reaffirmation ceremonies."

While the opposition parties are taking the Conservatives to task over the flub, some at the CBC are reveling in Sun News' 'misfortune.

For over the past year, the CBC has been the favourite 'punching bag' for the Sun News Network.

The attacks, led by controversial on-air personality Ezra Levant, have been relentless, and at times unfair, focusing on the CBC's $1.1 billion budget and their lack of transparency.

Now it's the CBC's turn.

CBC News Network's Evan Solomon looked almost giddy on his show, Thursday, leading a panel talking about the 'scandal.'

Shortly after the citizenship ceremony story broke The National's anchor Peter Mansbridge tweeted this: "The real "state broadcaster" stands up"

Veteran political reporter, and prolific tweeter Kady O'malley retweeted a couple of salvos at the right leaning network.

"From now on I'm going to us "fake the oath" as the Canadian media equivalent of "jump the shark," she retweeted.

It seems in broadcasting, as in politics, turnabout is fair play.