00:00:00.000This CBC scandal just keeps getting worse and worse by the day.
00:00:04.460So if you're not familiar with the story, the CBC and APTN used fake media companies to trick conservative political commentators, sitting opposition MPs, and even RCMP veterans into interviews where they were eventually ambushed by indigenous activists who were vilifying them for either their beliefs or in the case of the RCMP veterans for the crime of serving Canadians.
00:00:30.000for decades in the federal police force. So the project was called Counting Coup Northland
00:00:37.280Tales which is named after a Plains Indigenous term referring to humiliating an enemy on the
00:00:43.840battlefield to the point that they accept defeat without having to kill them. So this political
00:00:50.560stunt received part of a 6.3 million dollar taxpayer grant from the heritage department
00:00:57.280though the recipient of the fund and Canadian Heritage won't reveal how much of the fund
00:01:02.900was actually used for this project. One of the groups employed in the project is the Yes Men,
00:01:09.860an American group which purports to use Borat-style prank comedy, but the group attacked
00:01:16.660those who question the Kamloops narrative and defend the founder of Canada, Sir John A. McDonald.
00:01:23.260In the case of the RCMP veterans, they were lured with the promise that they would be honored by dignitaries for their service to Canada, only to face attacks for their service and be berated for alleged wrongdoings of the RCMP, which they weren't even a part of.
00:01:41.940this thing just keeps getting bigger and if you want to learn more about this wild use of tax
00:01:48.000dollars check out junonews.com we've reported extensively on this and will continue to do so