The problem is that this is NOT a CBC show. It's a production of Bristow Global Media which brought us the very classy Hockey Wives. Ha!

Of course, this has something to do with the defunding of the CBC. Who commissioned this? And who greenlighted it as it proceeded? As John Doyle points out, it's a juvenile concept which isn't original as it has been used in Autralia and elsewhere.

The Story of Us is basically twitter TV. Uninformed and popular and very high school. And that's hardly what we want for our 150th birthday. But it was likely given the go ahead long before Justin Trudeau became prime minister.

We've already had Canada A People's History. That was a CBC production and well received. Whereas the Story of Us doesn't even seem to have a writer behind the crazy quilt. And doesn't seem to have a POV.

This is what comes of outsourcing. The Conservatives, who no doubt bear the greatest responsibility for this mess, are calling for further defunding of the CBC. Not Bristow.