TORY MP REVEALS TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRAP BY THE CBC
CBC-linked sting tried to lure MP Gunn by posing as Sir John A. defenders
A fake production company hired by CBC tried to trap Conservative MP Aaron Gunn in an interview with the promise of “reclaiming the legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald.”
| Clayton DeMaineMay 13∙Paid |
The fake production company acting on behalf of CBC, involved in setting up conservative critics, including Lindsay Shepherd and Frances Widdowson, in bogus interviews, attempted to also lure Conservative MP Aaron Gunn with the promise of “reclaiming the legacy of Sir John A Macdonald.”
Internal correspondence from Gunn’s office shows staff were told the project was being prepared for CBC, which was allegedly “under pressure to provide a balanced view surrounding John A. Macdonald.”
Two producers, using the aliases “Olivia Goldman” of “Nova Frame Productions” and “Pam Gibson” of “Forge Media,” repeatedly portrayed the project as an effort to “reclaim” Macdonald’s legacy, defend Canadian heritage and provide a national platform for conservatives who felt censored or demonized for challenging prevailing reconciliation narratives. Pam Gibson was later identified as Molly Gore, an American producer who has worked on left-wing ecosocialist documentaries.
The newly uncovered email chain shows the operation spent months cultivating trust with conservative organizers, video producers and eventually Gunn’s parliamentary office by carefully mirroring conservative concerns about free speech, Indigenous land disputes and attacks on Canada’s founder.
Contact with the CBC-backed production company and various conservative figures dates back to January of this year. The emails were provided to Juno News by Gunn, and show those behind the ruse contacted a conservative-leaning video production group and discussed a $2,000 fee to help arrange interviews with subjects critical of “certain Indigenous developments” in B.C. as part of the clandestine smear campaign for CBC Entertainment.
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“We’re looking for people who are rightly critical of certain Indigenous developments, whose point of view deserves more airtime, and looking at what the lack of oversight and democratic debate around these projects means for the future of Canada and the cultural amnesia that activists are pushing for,” wrote Goldman on January 16, 2026.
Several conservative-leaning critics of the misleading media narrative surrounding the Kamloops Residential School “mass graves” claim and open defenders of Canada’s first Prime Minister’s legacy were targeted by the fake media company “Forge Media,” which was actually a front for the CBC-backed project meant to entrap unwitting critics.
Eventually, the email chain transitioned into a bid to get Gunn on board. The conservative contact offered several names, but the fake media production team “Forge Media and Nova Frame Productions” pressed for more controversial and “censored” figures.
“The project brings together a range of perspectives across the political spectrum, and what we’re missing most right now are speakers who’ve taken outspoken, principled positions on Indigenous land issues, treaty interpretation, development, and jurisdiction from a conservative position, specifically those taking a strong constitutional, rule-of-law perspective, those who are openly critical of prevailing reconciliation narratives, dissenting from ideological orthodoxy,” the January 28, 2026 email from “Goldman” requesting more censored individuals reads. “We’ve reserved space to feature more ‘unpopular’ positions, especially those enduring censorship or a good deal of public pushback, in order to treat the issues with the full complexity they deserve.”
“Goldman” specifically asked a contact of Gunn for help booking the Conservative MP.
“We’re now booking an episode focused on reclaiming the legacy of John A., and we would love some help booking Aaron Gunn if he is available for an interview at the end of April in Vancouver,” an email to a conservative-leaning strategist dated March 31st reads. “Is this something you would be able to help with?” The strategist has requested that their name be kept out of publication.
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So far, it’s been revealed that an unnamed RCMP officer, Gunn, authors Lindsay Shepherd and Jerry Amernic, OneBC leader Dallas Brodie, Toronto Metropolitan University professor Patrice Dutil, political commentator Jonathan Kay, and Daniel Tate from IntegrityTO were among those “Forge Media” attempted to interview as part of the sham docuseries.
The project name “Counting Coup” is a reference to a Plains indigenous war tactic involving humiliating and persuading an enemy on the battlefield to admit defeat after being tapped by a “coup stick.”
Shepherd, author of “A Day with Sir John A,” revealed that she received similar communications from “Forge Media” presenting themselves as supporters of her advocacy and posing the episode explicitly on “reclaiming the legacy of John A. Macdonald.”
The group also asked if they could film in Shepherd’s home and spoke about her newborn child.(Juno News, May 13, 2026)