The two plaintiffs are the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF) and the Muslim Council of Montreal (MCM).

The hour long documentary, entitled "Confrontation at Concordia," was first aired on May 9, 2003 on the Global TV network and concentrated mostly on pro-Palestinian activism at the school during the 2002-2003 academic school year.

The documentary addressed such issues as the September 9th protest against former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Concordia University, the expulsion of Palestinian activist Samer Elatrash, the Concordia Student Union (CSU) general assembly on racism and the war in Iraq, a freeze on Hillel-Concordia’s funding, the CSU student elections, the anti-war movement on campus and Montreal in general and discrimination against a Muslim student member of the Board of Governors.

GlobalTV is owned by Israel Asper, and his CanWest/Global foundation was one of the co-sponsors of Netanyahu's speech, which was subsequently cancelled due to the overwhelming objection by protestors over his presence on campus.

Many consider Netanyahu to be a war criminal, due to his numerous human rights abuses against the Palestinian people during his time in office, who more rightly belongs behind bars and not a university lectern passing himself off as an advocate of peace.

In its press release announcing its CRTC submission, CMF referred to the documentary as a "biased presentation of Jewish relations with Muslim and Arab students on Concordia university" and called it "hate propaganda and racism against Muslims and Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular."

The group further stated that Israel Asper is known for diffusing "hate propaganda against Canadian Muslims and Arabs" and that the program was "a clear and outrageous exercise of hate propaganda" against that segment of Canadian society.

"As a result," the CMF press release stated, "we demand a full investigation of the program and the practices of this media group."

In its thirteen page submission to the commission, MCM stated they felt the "documentary to be unfair in its representation of its subjects and biased in its presentation."

Some of the objections the organization made in its submission stated that: "it presents the September 9th protest as more violent than it was, it unfairly portrays Palestinian solidarity activists and their allies as extremists, anti-semites, Nazis, fascists and terrorists, it provides no compelling proof for such charges, 'it provides no space for those accused to refute the allegations, it provides no balance on its presentation of the issues, it misrepresents significant historical and news events, and it redefines Jewishness as linked to the state of Israel, thus unfairly politicizing a religion and a people."