{"id":5114,"date":"2026-05-14T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:00:36","slug":"tory-mp-reveals-taxpayer-funded-trap-by-the-cbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"TORY MP REVEALS TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRAP BY THE CBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TORY MP REVEALS TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRAP BY THE CBC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBC-linked sting tried to lure MP Gunn by posing as Sir John A. defenders<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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.”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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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 \u201creclaiming the legacy of Sir John A Macdonald.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internal correspondence from Gunn\u2019s office shows staff were told the project was being prepared for CBC, which was allegedly \u201cunder pressure to provide a balanced view surrounding John A. Macdonald.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Gunn@AaronGunnWait until people find out how this CBC show tried (unsuccessfully) to manipulate and deceive a sitting Member of Parliament on its crusade to further attack Canada’s history and smear the reputation of Canada’s first Prime Minister.Lindsay Shepherd@NewWorldHomininI found out recently that I was deceived by social activists in an elaborate scheme dating back to January. A production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A10:46 PM \u00b7 May 12, 2026 \u00b7 94K Views89 Replies \u00b7 544 Reposts \u00b7 2.21K Likes<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two producers, using the aliases \u201cOlivia Goldman\u201d of \u201cNova Frame Productions\u201d and \u201cPam Gibson\u201d of \u201cForge Media,\u201d repeatedly portrayed the project as an effort to \u201creclaim\u201d Macdonald\u2019s 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly uncovered email chain shows the operation spent months cultivating trust with conservative organizers, video producers and eventually Gunn\u2019s parliamentary office by carefully mirroring conservative concerns about free speech, Indigenous land disputes and attacks on Canada\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201ccertain Indigenous developments\u201d in B.C. as part of the clandestine smear campaign for CBC Entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re 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,\u201d wrote Goldman on January 16, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several conservative-leaning critics of the misleading media narrative surrounding the Kamloops Residential School \u201cmass graves\u201d claim and open defenders of Canada\u2019s first Prime Minister\u2019s legacy were targeted by the fake media company \u201cForge Media,\u201d which was actually a front for the CBC-backed project meant to entrap unwitting critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cForge Media and Nova Frame Productions\u201d pressed for more controversial and \u201ccensored\u201d figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe project brings together a range of perspectives across the political spectrum, and what we\u2019re missing most right now are speakers who\u2019ve 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,\u201d the January 28, 2026 email from \u201cGoldman\u201d requesting more censored individuals reads. \u201cWe\u2019ve reserved space to feature more \u2018unpopular\u2019 positions, especially those enduring censorship or a good deal of public pushback, in order to treat the issues with the full complexity they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoldman\u201d specifically asked a contact of Gunn for help booking the Conservative MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re 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,\u201d an email to a conservative-leaning strategist dated March 31st reads. \u201cIs this something you would be able to help with?\u201d The strategist has requested that their name be kept out of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"EXCLUSIVE:<\/a><\/td><\/td>EXCLUSIVE: CBC confirms they are behind media sting targeting residential school narrative critics<\/a>Clayton DeMaine<\/a>\u00b7May 12Read full story<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So far, it\u2019s 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 \u201cForge Media\u201d attempted to interview as part of the sham docuseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project name \u201cCounting Coup\u201d 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 \u201ccoup stick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shepherd, author of \u201cA Day with Sir John A,\u201d revealed that she received similar communications from \u201cForge Media\u201d presenting themselves as supporters of her advocacy and posing the episode explicitly on \u201creclaiming the legacy of John A. Macdonald.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group also asked if they could film in Shepherd\u2019s home and spoke about her newborn child.(Juno News, May 13, 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2219Paid   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3585,102,3186,3581,3583,3580,2215,2105,3582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}