CBC hired the firm Cormex Research to analyze Lang's coverage of banks in general to see if her past coverage favoured RBC. But what does this have to do with the issue at hand?

Gee, I don't know, maybe to determine if Lang was showing any systematic bias towards RBC?

Gord Nixon knew an interview with Lang would be "fair" because his board member was her partner. And that's among the reasons why she had such great access to him. The CBC basically suggests that conflicts of interest are neat because they give you a leg up on exclusives, nevermind the journalistic ethics.

At a time when most of the country wanted to far and feather the executives of RBC... yes, the fact that there was an RBC board member who would speak in Lang's defense is exactly what made Gord Nixon feel that Lang was not going to pick up a pitchfork and join the mob.

The CBC's review: "Before going with an investigative story, there should be consultation with any relevant content unit. If it’s about business, that means the Business Unit."

Oh yeah, that's absolutely what Tomlinson should have done. Take note, CBC journos: before scandalizing a major Canadian institution, find out if anyone in the building is involved with a board member therein, and run your stuff by them first.

Holy total mischaracterization, batman! What CBC is saying here is "talk to someone who knows something about the topic you're planning on reporting about before you embarrass everybody by reporting things which aren't true".

The CBC's review: "Lang argued that our coverage was unfair to RBC, which may not have been doing anything wrong... Lang’s critique of the stories is technically correct. Neither RBC nor iGate were shown to have broken the rules."

This raises a really great meta-question: Does CBC News read CBC News? Because, on CBC News' website, in its RBC TFWP coverage, CBC News says the rules were broken, right above and below the giant, bolded subhead "Displacement Against Rules."

Except that, you know, RBC wasn't actually bringing in workers from abroad to displace Canadian employees. Lang's critique of the stories was technically correct -- the best kind of correct.

Neither CBC nor Lang have provided any coherent explanation as to why she went to the Globe in the first place.

This is completely irrelevant... but the answer is probably that lots of high-profile individuals, both journalists and otherwise, write op-eds for the Globe; it's possible to provide a far more detailed review of a topic in writing than you can ever do on radio or TV.

As far as I can see, Canadaland's review of CBC's review is exactly what it claims CBC's review to be.