In the middle of Canwest's historic bankruptcy, the CRTC recently granted the beleaguered Winnipeg-based media conglomerate a new licence for a Reality TV television station.

Really, CRTC? A new licence for Canwest?

This is the same company that has filed for creditor protection in Canada and the U.S., is $4 billion in debt, and owes money to a vast array of businesses, including as much as $8.5 million to Fox television and a little as $13.75 to Surrey's Guildford Cab.

This is the same company that will probably owe hundreds of millions of dollars more from a shady deal with an American investment bank that somehow skirted around Canada's foreign ownership rules in the first place.

This is the same company that may not even be able to pay its employees' severance and vacation pay.

This is the same company that took command over an unprecedented level of Canada's media and then spat on basic democratic and press freedoms by bullying its journalists and critics.

And the CRTC granted them another licence? And for a reality tv station?

This is the same type of television station that even Fox can't profit from.

This the same genre of tasteless television that one of Canwest's own columnists says is "cruel and hollow" and is helping transform our culture into vapid, narcissistic mush.

Considering the deplorable manner in which Canwest has treated its other media holdings, I guess a reality tv station isn't that much of a stretch.

One only hopes that this new Reality TV station will turn its cameras on the Asper family, owners of Canwest, so Canadians can watch in great detail and delight as the family media empire crumbles and journalism is returned back into the hands of its rightful owners: the Canadian public.