(Ratf****r) Chapter One: The Klondike Papers
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Canadaland
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Meet David Wallace, political fixer and dirty tricks operative.
After a career in the shadows, he’s turned whistleblower, leaking his files and sparking a conspiracy theory.
But why? And can he be trusted?
Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan
Audio editing and sound design by Tristan Capacchione
Original music by Nathan Burley
Additional music by Audio Network
Editorial Assistance by Sarah Lawrynuik
Executive Producer, Jesse Brown
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| 0:00.0 | My name is David Wallace, and I guess I fix problems for people. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, I would do a lot of things. |
| 0:12.2 | I would pass messages. |
| 0:13.2 | I would arrange meetings between people. |
| 0:16.5 | There were instances where careers were destroyed. |
| 0:21.1 | I don't believe anybody was ever killed as a result of any information, because I was |
| 0:25.1 | very careful on what jobs that I would take. |
| 0:27.9 | As you make mistakes, and part of what I'm trying to do now is rectify those mistakes. |
| 0:32.5 | I can never fix them, but I can try to bring them to light and try to say, hey, look, these |
| 0:37.7 | things happen in this world. |
| 0:39.5 | And maybe somebody takes a look, a deeper look at these stories, and tries to fair it out |
| 0:46.2 | people like me who are involved in them. |
| 0:53.9 | This June, a new conspiracy theory popped up and spread online. |
| 0:58.3 | Millions of people suddenly heard about a document dump. |
| 1:01.8 | It was supposedly an expose of the powerful. |
| 1:06.2 | People were calling it the Klondike Papers. |
| 1:08.8 | Holy shit. |
| 1:09.8 | Have you guys looked into the Klondike Papers at all? |
| 1:12.4 | This is f**k. |
| 1:13.4 | We really outdid ourselves with the Klondike Papers, didn't we? |
| 1:17.3 | Some crazy allegations among the conservative party and conservative individuals in Canada. |
| 1:23.7 | Some of those allegations include the organization and facilitation of the trucking convoy and |
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