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Amy Hamm: CBC's latest propaganda — pranking Kamloops graves skeptics

Public broadcaster is spending tax dollars to try and shame those who point out the narrative is unverified

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been involved, the extent of which is currently unknown, in creating deceptive prank videos that target some of the country’s loudest political dissidents.  

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There are two words to describe the involvement of a public broadcaster in such a project: blatant propaganda.  

Amy Hamm: CBC's latest propaganda — pranking Kamloops graves skeptics Back to video

All of the targeted persons, thus far, have one thing in common: they’ve been outspoken critics of the unverified claims that 215 children’s bodies were found in a mass grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. This includes commentator and former Conservative Party of B.C. staffer, Lindsay Shepherd, and fired Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson. Shepherd was additionally targeted because she published a children’s book about John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister. (A man whose legacy is contested and whose statues have been desecrated and sometimes toppled across the country.) Conservative MP and documentary filmmaker, Aaron Gunn, announced that he was an attempted target. As has independent B.C. MLA, Dallas Brodie. 

Both Shepherd and Widdowson realized the deception during hoax interviews, when the production teams outed themselves.  

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