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Paradijs Canada (2020)

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Show title: Paradijs Canada

Episodes: 5

Playing time: 3 hour and 40 minutes

Stars: Emy Koopman

Origin: Netherlands

First aired on: NPO 2 (Nederland)

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Paradijs Canada plot

Breathtaking natural beauty, tolerant, safe and prosperous. That is the image we have of Canada in the Netherlands. But is it really so paradisiacal, or does the land of Trudeau mainly know how to put on a civilized mask? Writer Emy Koopman travels from Vancouver to Montreal in Paradise Canada to see what problems are brewing beneath the surface. The series delves into all the pressing issues of our time and examines Canada's current state of racism and gender equality, migration, climate change and the welfare state. Emy Koopman speaks to famous Canadian intellectuals such as Charles Taylor, Margaret Atwood and Jordan Peterson.

Episodes Season 1 (2020)

  1. 1. Verdwenen Vrouwen

    24 August 2020 (44 minutes)

  2. 2. Giftige Mannelijkheid

    6 September 2020 (44 minutes)

  3. 3. De Prijs van Zwart Goud

    13 September 2020 (44 minutes)

  4. 4. Booming Vancouver

    20 September 2020 (44 minutes)

  5. 5. Een Nieuw Vaderland

    27 September 2020 (44 minutes)

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Donkerwoud

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Learned a lot about pressing issues in Canada. The episode "Toxic Masculinity" got the most media attention because it featured interviews with Jordan Peterson and Margaret Atwood, but honestly, it felt a lot less urgent than other episodes. As if the episode was mainly made around those two conflicting thinkers and the other interviews seemed to be wanted. In that respect, 'Disappeared Women' and 'The Price of Black Gold' are the heart of this series for me, because both episodes so sharply portray the hidden suffering of the original population. With 'Booming Vancouver' and 'A New Fatherland' she shatters the latest myths about Canada as a left-wing utopia. It helps that Emy Koopman is a fantastic interviewer in how she builds a warm, sensitive bond with the people she portrays. A bit frail and probing, but she is also touched by the stories and she sometimes has to cross borders herself to get to the core. Whether she sits on the back of a group of motorcyclists or gets into a boat with a somewhat eccentric gentleman, who is not served by critical questions about the oil industry. And that while Koopman herself has the integrity to, for example, decline a helicopter flight if she believes that this choice would harm her environmental position. There's something heartfelt about it that makes 'Paradise Canada' more exciting television than similar travel shows.

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Movsin

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Emy Koopman does not juggle numbers, but investigates in an extremely pleasant, charming way, with many questions, both with well-known figures and with the common man or woman, who of course usually stands at the wailing wall, whether Canada is such a paradise country.

Extremely interesting and very often completely new findings with me, but I was surprised if the discrimination that arises from themes such as prejudice against population groups, the power of capital, the benevolence in which governments close their eyes to injustice, pollution...also would not have appeared in this country.

Perhaps a sixth episode that had tested the "quantity" of all those themes on a global level and against other countries would have been desirable, but then we are back with numbers and now it was pleasant, instructive to watch.

So Canada too.

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