Canada rules the world

InSecurity re-imagines Canada as a superpower

By BRIAN GORMAN, Edmonton Journal
ON SCREEN:
INSECURITY
TUESDAY; CBC

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If you want to parody spy shows and movies, re-imagining Canada as a world power goes a long way toward establishing the right tone of insanity. As series co-creator Kevin White says, InSecurity -debuting Tuesday, Jan. 4, on CBC Television - is set in "a superpower that is tricking the world."

"We all thought that was a pretty funny idea," he says. "Instead of going the route of Canada being under-funded and not very good, which we kind of know to be the norm, let's go the other way.

"So Canada's a superpower."

We may not be a superpower in this world, but the characters of InSecurity will be painfully familiar to anyone who has followed some of the crazy goings-on in Canadian security and intelligence over the years.

Set in Ottawa, it follows the exploits of a team of super-agents charged with protecting some of the country's top secrets -such as the "fact" that we have one of the world's most powerful military establishments.

CON'D

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