After the film was first aired we received representations from a lot of people, not just the Gardiner family, that the portrayal of James Gardiner in Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story was unfair. This was not really an issue of legal liability; it was really to your point that there was a question of fairness at root. If you identify a person by name then I think you have an obligation to be true to the nature of their character, particularly if they're dead and they can't defend themselves.
When these representations were made to us we asked an historian at a western university who was an expert in the period to look at the film and tell us whether he thought it was fair. This was somebody who was unconnected to the Douglas or Gardiner family. He came back to us and made many of the points that were similar to the points you've just made. He said he thought the characterization of Jimmy Gardiner was unfair in the sense that he had been pro-immigrant, he had actually struggled against racism and the Ku Klux Klan, and so on and so forth.
That being the case, we thought we had an obligation then to deal with the matter. We decided we would not broadcast it again, not just in June, but we will not broadcast it again period. We put a freeze on the distribution of the DVDs and we advised those people who had already bought the DVDs that we had some concerns with respect to how Jimmy Gardiner had been portrayed in the film.