I can't speak for the CBC, obviously. I wouldn't consider it a sign of bias against Tom, no. People who produce programs—and boy, am I familiar with that—have to time it to the second. Maybe there just wasn't time.
The accusation that the media influence political affairs, if that was your point, is probably valid. That's my opinion, because when you have some CBC commentator embedding in her remarks, “that MPP who stood up in the House and said, 'No more nurses, no more teachers'”, and my careful study of Hansard shows there was no such episode whatsoever—