What happened to my Canada?

[jsburbidge]

I was going to work today when I noticed a number (actually, an excessive number, due to the TTC's habit of selling ads for the same thing for every single slot in a subway car) of advertisements for a CBC program called "The Border".  The terms of the ads suggested that it was playing up the idea that law enforcement officers have to break the law in order to do their jobs, with the implicit contempt for the rule of law which that implies.  On checking the CBC website, I determined that this was a Canadian series about Canadian border issues, and not (as I had thought at first it must be) a US-set series.

I thought we were the country with values of Peace, Order, and Good Government, plus Due Process, and so forth.  Not one which plays up the model of the maverick lawman.