"...it didn’t mean to offend"  No kidding. Of COURSE CBC didn't.  That's like the United CEO saying, the airline never intended passengers "to be mistreated this way..."  Well, what way DID you intend to mistreat them??

Anyhoo, only in Canada.  

I can't conceive of PBS running an American history series and then being forced to take it off the air and apologize because viewers took offense and complained. Cuz they wouldn't. Think about that: and Americans REALLY take their history to heart.  

Guess we do, in a twisted way ("Hey!  The are buttons wrong!  Hey! that's a women's lib behaviour!") The only thing it seems Canadians really do "stand on guard for" is their own corner of the country.  Biggest whine: "Us, too!  Us, too!"  And "We came first! "  Down south, folks in Maryland see a show on the Alamo?  No problem.  Viewers in Texas see a show on Oregon Trail?  Who cares?  And they don't care about buttons, speech or what the women were doing or not doing.  It's ENTERTAINMENT.