McVety played a significant role in helping to elect Doug Ford as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
[1][2] On October 27, 2020, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed a motion to "condemn the extreme and hateful invective of Charles McVety and oppose any efforts to make Canada Christian College into an accredited university.
[5] McVety claims to have earned a Ph.D from Korea International Cultural University in 2017, calling his dissertation "The Betrayal of Conservative Values."
[7] In December 2010, Crossroads Television System (CTS) pulled McVety's Word TV off the air, following a decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) for statements made by McVety which were deemed to be in violation of the Council's standards and due to a lack of compliance with CTS's own code of ethics.
[8] The first violation pertained to the relationship between opinion and fact with the Council finding against Word TV "because of the false and misleading underpinnings" of a "barrage of seemingly trustworthy information" that was determined by the CBSC to be "neither full, fair nor proper."
Word TV was found in violation of the Council's broadcast codes for two errors of fact expressed by McVety in his discussion of gay people, one pertaining to erroneous statements that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and the Alberta Human Rights Commission [9] had a 100% "conviction rate" and the other pertaining to the criminalization of commentary by Bill C-250, an act to amend the Criminal Code with reference to hate propaganda, after the acceptance of which McVety stated erroneously that "it is now a crime to speak against homosexuality."
[16] A common theme of news coverage of McVety is the degree of his influence and that of his evangelical colleagues over Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government generally.
During the 2006 election, McVety registered several domains which bore the names of Liberal candidates, such as "josephvolpe.com" (a reference to Joe Volpe), and published pro-Conservative material there.
After the Conservative victory, McVety and evangelical colleagues were asked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office to help popularize his child-care plan.
He argued that "films promoting homosexuality, graphic sex or violence should not receive tax dollars", and indicated that many Conservative MPs, along with several homeless street preachers in downtown Edmonton, supported this goal.
In an article in The Globe and Mail that described him as having "the ear of the Conservatives", he was quoted as saying that "We have made our case and we have contacted the Members of Parliament and we hope they will reopen the debate and study the impact [of same-sex marriage] on society. ..."
[33][34] In 2011, McVety's Canada Christian College invited and hosted Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam politician[35] who has called for the banning of the Koran.
[35] Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations also expressed concern at the remarks made by McVety, and asked politicians to condemn Wilders' anti-Muslim views.
He declared his opposition to a carbon cap-and-trade system to avert anthropogenic climate change in his cover story for the August/September 2009 issue of Evangelical Christian Magazine: "I believe this taxing and trading of "air" will fund the one world government of the Anti-Christ.
"[37] Earlier, in the magazine's Feb/Mar 2009 issue, he praised conservative evangelical pastor James Dobson for leading the move to force Rev.