Jerry Amernic: I was set up by CBC and mocked for the crime of not hating Canada

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In short, he saved thousands of Indigenous lives, but one must do some research to learn this and not rely on social-media feeds.

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However, not everyone wanted to hear positive things about Macdonald. Not the folks at the national broadcaster nor the actor dressed up as John A who said something to the effect that if the “Indians” as he called them are hungry we might as well starve them.

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Huh?

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It wasn’t until two days after returning home that I discovered, through a professional acquaintance, that it had been a set-up. Yes I’d been  scammed, along with academic Frances Widdowson and former B.C. Conservative staffer Lindsay Shepherd.

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Widdowson was a tenured professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary who was fired after denying that the residential schools were genocidal. In my book I call her “public enemy no. 1” for the woke community.

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I’ve read her books — Disrobing the aboriginal industry: the deception behind indigenous cultural preservation, which was co-authored with Albert Howard and short-listed for the Donner Prize awarded to books “considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy,” and Separate but unequal: How parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous dependency. Widdowson has a PhD and is no slouch with the Indigenous file, but she got cancelled from the academic community.

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Shepherd got cancelled, too, when a graduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University after not going along with the gender-neutral insanity that permeates the lunatic left. She also wrote a children’s book about Macdonald that doesn’t follow the “woke” narrative.

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We’ve since learned Pam Gibson is Molly Gore, an American producer for “left-wing ecosocialist documentaries,” as Juno News put it. Becky is an Indigenous comedienne named Dakota Ray Hebert.

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And Mike Smith is Igor Vamoose — sorry, Vamos — an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the U.S.

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He also goes by Mike Bonanno, but his name should be a.k.a. He’s with The Yes Men and who are they?

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“The performance-activist duo that impersonates captains of industry and surprises unsuspecting business audiences with satirical, poignant actions that comment upon pressing social and environmental issues.”

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Whatever. The point is these people weren’t who they said they are. Their production company is phony. They misrepresent what they do. And at the end of this dark tunnel I could see potential for me being depicted not as I would like. And by the way, they paid me in cash. Crisp $100 bills. In an envelope.

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Other targets who didn’t take the bait include politicians, journalists, and those who question the story about the graves of missing and murdered children in Kamloops.

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On the day of my shoot they interviewed Shepherd, who we now know has been in their crosshairs since February, and Widdowson, who realized something unsavoury was taking place when two Aboriginal men dumped a bag of children’s shoes in front of her. She then whipped out her phone and started shooting the crew.

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Earlier this year the same group lured retired RCMP officers to the national broadcaster’s Vancouver studio. Like me, the retired Mounties were flown in. All expenses paid. What was supposed to be an event honouring them turned out to be a public humiliation about perceived injustices perpetrated by the RCMP. All caught on camera.

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The sorry scheme involved the comedy series Northland Tales, and was being co-produced by our national broadcaster and the network that promotes Indigenous people. It’s been described as an “unscripted, half-hour comedy series where an Indigenous activist trio uses pranks as a form of social action in the vein of Borat.”