Juno News - Inside the bombshell CBC anti-conservative entrapment scandal (ft. Aaron Gunn)

00:00:00.000 The CBC and APTN have just been exposed for running a taxpayer-funded, months-long covert

00:00:13.280 sting operation against conservative commentators, politicians, authors, and even former RCMP

00:00:19.960 officers. Armed with loads of taxpayer-funded public money, an indigenous production company

00:00:26.040 called NLT1 Productions, alongside an American far-left TV producer named Igor Vamos, set

00:00:34.100 out to entrap outspoken dissident voices to create a show for CBC Entertainment. They

00:00:40.640 did this using completely fake names, fake studios, and entirely fake production companies.

00:00:46.880 The list of targets for this operation mainly focused on censored authors and conservative

00:00:51.520 commentators. But Juneau News can report that this CBC operation even attempted to lure an MP

00:00:59.340 Aaron Gunn under these false pretenses. Aaron Gunn will join us later in the show to discuss

00:01:05.400 what happened. Now, why would they do this? What is the target? Well, it's simple. All of the

00:01:11.600 targeted voices were vocal supporters of Sir Johnny MacDonald or questioned the Kamloops 215 claim.

00:01:19.680 Take this in and sit with this for a moment. The CBC was willing to use your money to embarrass

00:01:25.380 and humiliate dissidents of the state-enforced narrative. They are so desperate to continue

00:01:31.780 lying about Sir John A. Macdonald and Canadian history that they are willing to sink to these

00:01:36.980 depths. Now, if these people hate Canada this much and want to see our country ripped apart by these

00:01:43.040 false narratives, no one is stopping them from leaving. The Canadian government and big tech

00:01:48.560 find new ways every day to shut down conservative voices there's no longer this big moment when you

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00:02:33.420 for the episode is this. Does someone at the CBC need to be fired over this scandal? Let me know

00:02:40.940 your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it. As Juno News can reveal after obtaining

00:02:45.580 exclusive emails between Aaron Gunn's team and these fake production companies operating under

00:02:51.820 the oversight of the CBC. Aaron Gunn's staff were offered money to lure in Gunn and other outspoken

00:03:00.260 vocal supporters of Sir John A. Macdonald to be a part of this sham interview process. A real

00:03:06.380 conservative production company was approached by one of these fake conservative production

00:03:11.380 companies, calling themselves Forge Media, which was a front for the taxpayer-funded NLT1

00:03:18.320 Productions outfit, positioning themselves as conservative media, seeking censored voices

00:03:23.620 like MP Aaron Gunn to be lured into this CBC trap. Forge Media, this fake company operating

00:03:30.540 as part of this CBC project, told a staff member on Aaron Gunn's team that the CBC was

00:03:37.380 quote, under pressure, unquote, to provide a balanced view of Sir John A. Macdonald's legacy.

00:03:44.080 Now, of course, this was the dead giveaway for Gunn, who pulled the plug after receiving this

00:03:48.800 information. Who would honestly believe that the CBC was interested in providing a balanced view

00:03:55.700 of John A. Macdonald, let alone feeling under pressure to do so? Good try with that one, I

00:04:01.940 suppose. Well, Aaron Gunn took to Twitter earlier this week to explain what was going on. As he

00:04:06.920 writes, I always thought the role of media was to hold the powerful accountable and to unapologetically

00:04:12.180 seek the truth. Apparently, the CBC views it as trying to deceive and trick individual citizens

00:04:17.740 and opposition members of parliament into bizarre and intentional traps. It's something you would

00:04:22.800 expect from a university fraternity, not a taxpayer-funded broadcaster. I want answers.

00:04:28.360 Why is the taxpayer-funded broadcaster contacting Canadians and a member of parliament in disguise

00:04:33.060 and trying to trick us into participating in a twisted social experiment

00:04:37.360 in partnership with American leftists like Igor Vamos.

00:04:41.240 Will taxpayers also need to cover the legal bills for CBC

00:04:44.500 in the inevitable lawsuits that they are about to face?

00:04:47.640 I interviewed more than 300 Canadians for my documentaries

00:04:50.600 and didn't receive any taxpayer money. 0.98

00:04:52.780 Not once did I engage in garbage like this. 0.98

00:04:56.260 This is honestly outrageous. 0.95

00:04:58.180 For the supposed crime of defending our first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald,

00:05:03.060 our best Prime Minister, this CBC outfit wanted to humiliate and embarrass a sitting member of

00:05:10.900 Parliament, a member of the opposition, in a covert interview sham. Well, MP Aaron Gunn joins

00:05:18.400 us now to discuss what happened and his side of the story. Joining me now is the MP for North

00:05:24.180 Island Power River, Aaron Gunn. Aaron, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you so much for

00:05:30.520 talking about this issue and having me on today. All right so you were one of the targets for this

00:05:37.620 CBC backed entrapment scheme to try and humiliate defenders of Sir John A. McDonald. The premise is

00:05:44.800 just absurd to begin with but explain to us how how much they tried to get you the process that

00:05:51.560 of which they tried to deceive you and your team and and what went down there. Yeah so the first

00:05:57.780 thing, it was near the end of March and they started off by actually reaching out to some

00:06:02.960 of those closest to me, my old video editor who still works with me today, production

00:06:09.500 team, and attempting to bribe them to try to land me as an interview guest. So they

00:06:17.400 were offering, basically said, name your price, again using taxpayer dollars presumably to

00:06:23.660 try to interview a sitting member of Parliament. They then reached out to our office directly.

00:06:30.840 And of course, our original response, they said they were doing a project. They wanted to bring

00:06:36.760 balance to the issue of Sir Johnny MacDonald and his legacy and try to elevate voices that have

00:06:42.700 been pushing back against the cancellation of Father of Confederation and Canada's first Prime

00:06:48.680 minister. So the instinct was, of course, every opportunity that I can take to talk about this

00:06:54.220 important issue, to talk about and talk up Canadian history and the incredible story that we have to

00:06:59.900 tell here in Canada of our founding, I was looking forward to taking. But then things just started

00:07:06.820 to not add up. It was a very elaborate scheme. They had fake companies, fake individuals, fake

00:07:14.760 websites. Of course, at the time, we didn't know they were fake. We just tried to look into some

00:07:19.460 of the stuff that they had done before because we hadn't heard of this company, and it led to a lot

00:07:24.000 of dead ends. So at the end of the day, we decided to not proceed with the interview. Fortunately,

00:07:29.460 other well-known Canadians were not so lucky and were all kind of induced individually using

00:07:36.480 different methods. So to think that this is the tactics being used by a taxpayer-funded state

00:07:44.220 broadcaster. I mean, I always thought the media's goal was the unvarnished pursuit of the truth

00:07:50.820 and holding power to account. Instead, they're targeting individual Canadian citizens and

00:07:58.320 opposition MPs through deception, through lies, through tricks as some sort of weird social action

00:08:05.040 or prank as they put in their funding application that I was just reviewing.

00:08:10.340 right and in the emails that your team and yourself had shared with juno news

00:08:16.220 with the with what we've been able to uncover was the giveaway for you when they said they

00:08:21.560 were doing this on behalf of the cbc and that they said the cbc was under pressure to defend

00:08:27.400 mcdonald or to give give mcdonald a balanced shake i mean to me that would have been the

00:08:31.600 first sign that i would think this person doesn't know the cbc and they don't really know who they're

00:08:36.040 talking to? Yeah, it definitely was a bit of a red flag. Of course, it's kind of just when you

00:08:42.220 thought, okay, well, hey, maybe the new liberal government, as they like to portray themselves,

00:08:47.920 was actually starting to do things differently. In fact, no, they're actually up to their same old

00:08:51.840 shenanigans and partisan gamesmanship. And in this case, really just using taxpayer resources to drag

00:08:59.100 our country through the mud and uh you know i think they they're trying to present this as some

00:09:06.180 sort of comedy that they were producing and uh i don't think there's anything so uh very funny

00:09:11.660 about uh wasting taxpayer money when we're running a 60 billion dollar deficit and we have all sorts

00:09:17.620 of issues right across this country what do you think this this will do for the cbc this story is

00:09:23.840 getting a lot of attention people are really upset about this it is almost i think frightening

00:09:29.800 for some people the lengths to which these fraudsters went to deceive canadians and

00:09:35.900 politicians like yourself what do you think this means for the cbc going forward and its perception

00:09:41.040 among canadians well what it means first of all is they've got some questions to answer i think

00:09:47.740 taxpayers want to know why someone presumably high up at the CBC thought this was an appropriate use

00:09:55.760 of their tax dollars. I think we want to know why they were partnering clearly with well-known

00:10:02.680 far-left American media personalities to tell the story of Canadian history. And one of the things

00:10:08.600 I think is just so ridiculous is the CBC would never spend the time to sit down with someone

00:10:16.660 I like me or Lindsay that has defended Canadian history and the legacy of our first Prime Minister for a genuine one-on-one conversation about why we should be celebrating Canadian history.

00:10:28.220 They would never open themselves out to actually have an open and honest conversation.

00:10:32.420 You know me, I'd be the first one to jump at that opportunity.

00:10:35.140 Instead, they resort to these deception tactics, these tricks, these kind of, this kind of gotcha, I don't even want to call it gotcha journalism.

00:10:42.640 um it's just so it's uh it's just very revealing i think about where their priorities are it's to

00:10:48.680 push it's not to cover the news it's not to tell canadian stories it's really to continue to push

00:10:55.780 this radical far far left ideology that wants us to basically pretend that canada before 1960

00:11:02.620 didn't exist and we have nothing to be proud of absolutely obviously as an mp you get you get

00:11:09.840 sort of an idea as to how institutions can be held accountable how these individuals can be

00:11:15.140 held accountable to some extent what can be done about this is there any recourse for people who

00:11:21.940 were trapped in this scheme and for Canadians who are looking at this and saying this is a this is

00:11:26.660 a disgrace is there any way to make sure that the CBC is actually accountable and someone will answer

00:11:32.600 for this well I tell you I wish parliament was sitting this week because I would have very much

00:11:38.680 enjoyed to be walking past the CBC journalists that are staked outside of the House of Commons

00:11:44.320 every day to ask them some questions about what they think of their organization and the

00:11:49.320 journalistic standards that they're engaging in. And just, I mean, another point is, you know,

00:11:53.100 I, as you know, produced many documentaries, interviewed more than 300 Canadians, didn't 0.98

00:11:58.840 receive any taxpayer money, and never engaged in garbage, deceptive garbage like this. What we can 0.96

00:12:05.800 do as parliamentarians, I'm bringing up in the House of Commons, we're going to be filing lots

00:12:10.900 of ATIPS and basically requests from the government, demands of the government for information to try

00:12:17.340 to find out how much money was actually spent or allocated towards this project. Of course,

00:12:22.980 the unfortunate news for your viewers is that we have a lot less power to demand transparency and

00:12:29.720 hold this government to account than we did just a couple of weeks ago since Mark Carney manufactured

00:12:34.320 this backdoor majority government and his first order of business was to retake control of

00:12:40.320 committees. But I can tell you that we're going to do everything we can, I'm sure, on the Heritage

00:12:44.680 Committee to attempt to hear from the CEO of the CBC and perhaps even the Heritage Minister to make

00:12:53.440 them answer for what I think is shameful behavior from the state broadcaster and

00:12:59.160 ways quite frankly an abuse of taxpayer dollars. Couldn't agree more. MP Aaron Gunn thank you so

00:13:07.280 much for joining me and for explaining this situation from your perspective. Thank you for

00:13:12.420 having me. Academic Dr. Francis Whittowson an outspoken critic of the Kamloops 215 claim

00:13:18.680 something you are all no doubt aware of was lured in by NLT1 Productions. She was flown to Vancouver

00:13:26.160 put up in a hotel, taken to a fake studio with operatives operating under fake names,

00:13:32.000 and was publicly humiliated by radical indigenous activists and a far-left American TV host

00:13:38.380 who claimed his name was Mike Smith. Take a look at this video.

00:13:42.880 uh this is a pile of shoes that uh i believe two aboriginal people uh came and dumped on the 0.81

00:14:02.320 the table this seems to be a setup of some outfit that's doing a reality television show 0.86

00:14:09.120 that wants to paint me, I guess, as some kind of a racist

00:14:14.700 or something that they're going to post on social media.

00:14:19.180 What's your name, sir?

00:14:21.500 Mike Smith.

00:14:22.320 Mike Smith?

00:14:23.120 Yeah, and I think, yeah, you got it exactly right.

00:14:26.940 You've defined it precise.

00:14:29.380 Well, I wouldn't say exactly right.

00:14:31.220 This is a social experiment.

00:14:36.720 Okay.

00:14:38.000 And it's on video, and I'm on video too, so we're on video together.

00:14:42.940 Yeah, we're on video together.

00:14:44.720 Yep, so I think that you've figured it out, and now we can wrap it up.

00:14:50.920 Okay, but am I the target?

00:14:53.360 Are you got other people, or are you just focusing on me?

00:14:56.380 No, you're not a target, no.

00:14:58.440 You're participating.

00:15:00.340 Okay, and what am I participating in?

00:15:02.900 This social experiment.

00:15:04.600 Actually, his real name is Igor Vamos, an American far-left activist who worked with an activist

00:15:10.580 comedy troupe called The Yes Men. Conservative author Lindsay Shepard was also lured in by this

00:15:16.620 fake CBC operation, this time from a fake company called Heritage Figures Canada. They went after

00:15:23.680 Lindsay Shepard because she authored a children's book, A Day with Sir John A., that teaches young

00:15:29.020 Canadians about Sir John A. Macdonald. Take a look at this social media post from Shepard.

00:15:35.100 I found out recently that I was deceived by social activists in an elaborate scheme

00:15:39.240 dating back to January. A production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities

00:15:43.820 gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A. and about Sir John A. Macdonald

00:15:48.640 back in February. They connected me with a fake company called Heritage Figures Canada with a

00:15:53.580 fake website and hired me to perform consulting work for them. We had what I now know were fake

00:15:58.720 meetings, fake documents, fake commercial shoot, fake prototype of a Sir John A. collectible.

00:16:04.100 Then in a second filmed interview last week, they turned on me, and it was revealed to have

00:16:08.020 all been a setup in order to demonize Sir John A. and smear me. It turns out this is a taxpayer

00:16:13.440 funded CBC and APTN project. As you can see here, this is an email from Catherine Wolfgang,

00:16:19.620 the director of PR for the CBC. She writes to Lindsay, we can confirm that this project is

00:16:24.900 an early production for CBC Entertainment and APTN. No details pertaining to exhibition are

00:16:30.160 confirmed at this time. The story gets even worse when you read the published emails between Lindsay

00:16:35.880 Shepard and Igor Vamos and Molly Gore, operating under the fake name of Pam Gibson. They lured

00:16:43.380 Lindsay Shepard along for months, dating back to January. They positioned themselves to enter her 0.62

00:16:50.080 home to humiliate her in her own home and even offer accommodations for her child for her baby 1.00

00:16:57.280 all while lying to her and operating under fake names from molly gore with the fake email and 0.98

00:17:04.660 name of pam gibson i think we'll only need a half day and our crew can come to victoria so hopefully 0.81

00:17:10.820 that makes it easy also let us know what accommodations you need with the baby we're

00:17:15.420 still sorting the location but just to clarify our options are you open to filming at home

00:17:20.020 It'll be quite a small crew, just one or two producers and a camera. Very simple.

00:17:25.180 They even went so far as to create fake Johnny MacDonald figurines to go along with this

00:17:30.080 elaborate fraud. That's exactly what it is. Complete fraud. You can see the entire group

00:17:36.160 here with Igor Vamos, Molly Gore, and the Johnny MacDonald impersonator with a top hat.

00:17:43.840 We also know that this entrapment scheme targeted a retired RCMP officer,

00:17:47.780 author Jonathan Kaye, author Jerry Amernick, IntegrityTO Executive Director Daniel Tate,

00:17:54.760 and one BC leader and MLA in the BC legislature, Dallas Brody. The CBC would never invite Lindsay

00:18:01.680 Shepard, Francis Whittowson, or Aaron Gunn, or any of the other targets of this deception

00:18:06.720 for an honest debate about John A. MacDonald or the Kamloops claim. They would never do that.

00:18:12.480 They had to lie, to deceive, to come up with a months-long elaborate scheme to lure in

00:18:19.660 conservative voices, dissidents of the state-approved narrative, in order to try and

00:18:24.940 humiliate them. Not to have a debate, but to humiliate them. This is not about whether private

00:18:30.960 companies or media organizations have a right to do these Borat-style gotcha interviews. No one is

00:18:37.660 arguing that they do have that right of course they do but it is about whether or not our money

00:18:43.740 our funds whether it be through heritage canada grants directly to nlt1 productions

00:18:49.820 or through the cbc to be used to do this this blatant anti-canadian activism these people

00:18:59.000 don't have legitimate political power they are targeting people who have already been censored

00:19:05.160 who have already been marginalized for daring to speak the truth. They're not going after the

00:19:10.220 government. They're not going after leaders of major corporations. They're going after authors,

00:19:15.900 censored academics, backbench opposition MPs. As I stated on social media, I expect to see

00:19:22.440 conservative MPs stand up for Canadians and the truth. To demand that the CBC president and the

00:19:29.180 APTN president appear before the Heritage Committee to answer for this. I want to know why my tax

00:19:35.600 money and your tax money has gone to this anti-Canadian scheme. Well, joining me now to

00:19:42.400 provide her side of the story and what happened between herself, Igor Vamos, and this fake

00:19:48.700 production company is Dr. Francis Whittowson. Well, joining me now is Francis Whittowson,

00:19:55.640 one of the commentators academics and politicians caught up in this entrapment scheme orchestrated

00:20:01.980 all the way up to the top with the cbc and aptn francis can you take us through

00:20:08.180 how this whole process started and how how they lured you in to this scheme

00:20:13.440 so i was uh contacted by a person by the name of pam gibson who i believe her name is molly

00:20:22.140 Gore, her actual name. She's connected to the States and this Vamos, this Igor Vamos, the Yes

00:20:28.620 Man character. She sent me an email saying she would like to interview me as part of a docu-series.

00:20:35.660 She said a whole bunch of things that I was interested in, such as free speech and universities

00:20:40.380 and trying to have a more objective understanding of history. And this resulted in them flying me

00:20:45.580 to vancouver and putting me up in a hotel i was taken in a car to the studio i didn't even know

00:20:53.340 where this was and uh i thought it was a bit strange when i arrived there because they were

00:21:00.380 all very overly friendly and uh there was a johnny mcdonald they told me there was going to be an

00:21:06.380 actor dressed up as johnny mcdonald because it was going to have a theatrical side to it

00:21:11.980 And then when I went in, there was a woman in a blonde wig who looked odd, very made up, and that was Dakota Ray Hebert, who's a Saskatchewan comedian, but I didn't know that at the time.

00:21:28.380 I thought this was a legit documentary.

00:21:31.160 They gave me a whole bunch of softball questions,

00:21:33.400 which I thought were not very knowledgeable about these subjects. 0.93

00:21:38.280 And then about half an hour in, two Aboriginal men walked in. 1.00

00:21:42.220 I thought they were sabotaging the interview. 0.99

00:21:45.200 Gitz, Crazy Boy, and Moccasin, Ryan Moccasin, I found out later.

00:21:52.500 I didn't know who they were.

00:21:53.340 And they dumped a pile of shoes, children's shoes, on the table in front of me.

00:21:59.620 And I thought they were sabotaging it. 1.00

00:22:01.820 But then Dakota Ray Hebert was glaring at me with absolute hatred in her eyes.

00:22:08.120 So I knew this was part of the whole thing.

00:22:11.040 There were many, many people in this studio.

00:22:12.920 It was a big setup, over 10 people.

00:22:16.180 And then I wanted to film this.

00:22:19.680 I didn't have my bag with me.

00:22:21.480 And so I said, I need to take my medications. Can you please bring me my bag? And they brought me my bag. And then I whipped out my smartphone and started to live stream what was going on and started to interrogate who turned out to be Igor Vamos, who's the head of the Yes Men. And he told me it was a social experiment and all these kinds of things.

00:22:43.460 so this was an elaborate scheme right they created fake companies under fake names

00:22:49.600 all to try to bring you in and essentially to try and humiliate you when did you realize and

00:22:55.720 when did you connect the dots that the cbc the state broadcaster was going to be involved in

00:23:00.880 all of this it gradually came started to come together because there is that's another part

00:23:07.320 of the story, a retired RCMP officer contacted me after he saw the video of VAMOS on YouTube.

00:23:16.700 He said that he and a number of other retired RCMP officers have been lured to the CBC studio

00:23:22.340 in Vancouver, put on a stage in front of what was supposed to be a live studio audience and

00:23:30.260 humiliated, absolutely humiliated in front of these people. And when they, he said that the

00:23:36.860 CBC studio was involved, I started to think that maybe CBC had something to do with it.

00:23:43.720 I thought maybe they were just funding it or something, or they had a, I didn't quite

00:23:49.120 know, but Lindsay Shepard got confirmation from the head of PR at CBC, Catherine Wolfgang,

00:23:57.700 I think her name is, that it's actually a CBC and APTN production called Counting Coup.

00:24:06.860 now explain to me what that title means why why why did they use that title and and is there

00:24:14.700 anything behind it yes it is kind of a shocking story in its own right for people don't know what

00:24:20.520 that is it's a native american plane saying where you go and you try to intimidate your enemy

00:24:27.680 humiliate them to stop that your enemy from attacking you so that's the other thing which

00:24:34.360 is kind of frightening is the meanness about it, like the nastiness and the hatred that 1.00

00:24:41.480 seems to be sort of driving a number of these members of this Aboriginal organization, which 1.00

00:24:47.560 I believe is called LNT1 Productions out of Saskatoon, which involves these three Aboriginal

00:24:55.280 people, A Bear, Moccasin, and Crazy Boy.

00:25:00.640 but there's a number of other aboriginal people that are involved as well and it's obviously an

00:25:06.780 attempt to try to get back at people who they think have done terrible things but the thing

00:25:12.320 that is is really kind of disturbing is that we're not people who are in positions of power

00:25:16.700 we are cancelled people who are trying to tell the truth about the Kamloops 215 claim the false

00:25:23.620 Kamloops 215 claim and we have encountered massive opposition and attempts to smear us

00:25:30.260 you know over the last five years and this is just an outrage for public funds to be used

00:25:36.500 against citizens who are just trying to open up discussion on a very important topic for canadian

00:25:42.900 society so how do you think this story will evolve do you feel like this is going to

00:25:52.180 significantly damage the narrative that these kinds of activists are trying to push i mean i

00:25:58.820 imagine that if canadians get to the bottom of this and understand the full story that they

00:26:03.620 lured you in to humiliate you they they humiliated former police officers at the cbc studios

00:26:10.880 i think this is going to really cause damage to overall an attempt at trying to advance

00:26:18.260 reconciliation how is this going to help reconciliation it won't and the whole

00:26:23.800 reconciliation industry, as the film, the documentary film Making a Killing talks about,

00:26:30.480 this is big money. This is not, you know, attempting to help oppressed Aboriginal people.

00:26:36.620 Like I understand completely, this is why people have been manipulated into going along with this

00:26:42.360 is because they understand the terrible conditions in Aboriginal communities and

00:26:46.320 they want to do something to address that. But this is not what this is about. This is about

00:26:52.180 using the legal system, spending billions of dollars to have legal disputes, to create

00:26:58.980 animosity and division amongst people, to siphon money away from Aboriginal communities. So we

00:27:06.440 really have to look deeply at what is going on here. We need to address the terrible conditions

00:27:12.260 that Aboriginal people are facing, but having all these legal disputes, paying all these non-Aboriginal 1.00

00:27:17.640 lawyers and consultants to foment grievances is just going to increase the suffering of 0.90

00:27:23.960 aboriginal people and cause conflict conflicts in canadian society what i find remarkable about

00:27:31.080 this story is that our tax dollars went to this company this company then hired foreign television 1.00

00:27:37.800 producers to go in and probably orchestrate and map out how they were going to pull off this

00:27:43.400 deception and this scheme i mean this seems like a classic case of foreign interference in our

00:27:50.120 politics i don't imagine we're going to get any criticism of it from our government but that's

00:27:54.680 what this this that's what this reeks of to me well the yes men are an american company um there's

00:28:02.680 also a united kingdom connection as well um her name is amy her first name is amy i'm forgetting

00:28:11.400 her last name anyway she's involved with these kinds of productions in in in in the uk so i'm

00:28:18.760 not quite sure about this myself i don't know how much american involvement is in this it seems to

00:28:24.840 me the more disturbing aspect is public a public funded institution going after people who really

00:28:36.120 are not in positions of power. I understand the pranking genre. I think it can be very,

00:28:41.960 very effective and quite amusing in certain contexts, but they're not going after Mark

00:28:48.360 Kearney. They're not going after David Eby. All the people are actually wielding power and also

00:28:56.040 very powerful Aboriginal groups, especially in British Columbia, groups like the British

00:29:01.240 Columbia Assembly, First Nations, and the Union of Indian Chiefs. These are people who are now

00:29:09.080 involved in co-governance kinds of entities in British Columbia and have tremendous amounts of

00:29:15.000 power. But they're not going after that situation. They're going after people who've been cancelled,

00:29:20.440 myself, who's been fighting for six years to be reinstated at Mount Royal University and has

00:29:25.400 suffered terrible consequences. That's the kind of person that they're trying to go

00:29:31.080 after with this kind of pranking genre yes they're using state funds to go after dissidents

00:29:37.100 essentially of the government narrative it sounds positively soviet when you put it that way

00:29:42.980 it's also about challenging sir sir john a mcdonald they're mocking sir john a mcdonald

00:29:49.680 with our money and undermining canadian history they are pushing a false narrative not just about

00:29:57.120 the 215 claim which i think many canadians have now woken up to but they're once again going after

00:30:03.900 johnny mcdonald and going after people who support mcdonald it's hard to believe it is and one of the

00:30:11.000 people who is set up as well who hasn't really been mentioned very much is i think his name is

00:30:15.580 jerry armanick i sometimes get his last name wrong i hope i didn't he wrote the book called sleep

00:30:20.340 woking which is you know trying to have a factual basis for understanding historical figures he had

00:30:26.640 have his book self-published because no mainstream publisher would take it on. He's just trying to

00:30:34.260 correct the false information about Johnny MacDonald. And that's the other scary thing for

00:30:38.760 him is that they had some things on the screen which were taking Johnny MacDonald's quotes out

00:30:44.500 of context. So this is all about not sort of trying to have a distorted version of Canadian

00:30:54.640 history not having an open and honest discussion about what actually happened with respect to

00:31:01.440 figures like john a mcdonald it's remarkable and we thank you for exposing this igor vamos and this

00:31:09.080 story and being the first one to publicize it francis widdowson as always thank you so much

00:31:13.160 for joining me thanks for having me on all right everyone that's gonna do it for us today on the

00:31:18.140 show a reminder that you can use my code juno news.com slash harrison return to get a discount

00:31:23.580 on a Juno News subscription. A further reminder, the common question for the episode is this. Does

00:31:29.300 somebody from the CBC need to be fired over this scandal? Let me know your answer in the comments

00:31:33.480 below. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.

Juno News - May 17, 2026

Inside the bombshell CBC anti-conservative entrapment scandal (ft. Aaron Gunn)

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