Charles McVety

Charles McVety's grandfather, Hugh John McVety (1900-1962), had been dean of Winnipeg Bible College.

Charles McVety's uncle was evangelist John Wesley White, an associate of Billy Graham.

McVety is married to Jennifer McVety, Registrar of Canada Christian College, and has two adult children, Ryan, CEO of Canada Christian College, and Shannon, Executive Assistant at Canada Christian College.

McVety is the son of Betty and Elmer S. McVety (1928-1993), who was a Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, television preacher, and the founder of Canada Christian College.

Charles H. McVety (born 1959) is a Canadian evangelical Christian leader and conservative political activist.

He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved with his family to Toronto in the mid-1960s.

Charles McVety claims he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 at Canada Christian College in Winnipeg and his Master of Arts at the same college in 1984.

He has been the president of Canada Christian College in Whitby, Ontario since 1993, taking over for his father, and was president of Canada Family Action until 2008.

He is perhaps best known for campaigning to repeal the law legalizing same-sex marriage in Canada.

McVety played a significant role in helping to elect Doug Ford as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

According to the CBC, McVety is "one of the most powerful leaders of the Christian Right in [Canada]".

Charles McVety has served as President of the Canada Christian College since 1993.

In 2000, McVety received an honorary degree of "Doctor of Literature Honoris Causa" from Saint Petersburg State University.

In an archived official biography of McVety from the Canada Christian College's website, McVety claims to have a Doctors of Ministry from California State Christian University, an unaccredited and unrelated private Christian college in the United States.

He was the host of a national television program, Word.ca (also known as Word TV) on CTS and the Miracle Channel until he was censured by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for referring to the Toronto Pride parade as a "sex parade".

His response to the censure was to claim that he was censored and that his freedom of speech was being violated.

He now hosts Canadian Times TV, a national news commentary program airing on Daystar TV, an American satellite channel.

He also was a regular guest on The Zelda Young Show on CHIN-FM.

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.

He also attempted to sway a number of Conservative nomination candidates in favour of evangelical candidates.

The offending episodes aired on CTS between July 19, 2009 and February 21, 2010, and was given a rating of "G" in the English Canadian ratings system.

The CBSC ordered CTS to announce the ruling at least twice on the air, and to take steps to ensure further breaches of the CBSC's codes do not occur.

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.

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 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."

As pertains to the Ontario Government's proposed revision of the Ontario school curriculum, the CBSC found McVety's "twisting of the purpose of the revisions is wrong-headed, unfair and improper."

McVety had stated that the curriculum intended to "teach homosexuality".

In his statements regarding the Gay Pride Parade, the panel found McVety's implications that homosexuals prey on children "mis-characterizations" which were "excessive, inappropriate, disparaging, and abusive" and in breach of the Human Rights Clauses of its Code of Ethics and its Equitable Portrayal Code as well as other sections of the Equitable Portrayal Code.

McVety also claimed Satanic worship was widespread and rampant in Haiti.

McVety said, "Unfortunately, Haitians are in trouble. When you practice such Satanism, you end up with a horrific government. They are the most corrupt government in the Western hemisphere. [...] Satan worship is flourishing.

McVety claims to have earned a Ph.D from Korea International Cultural University in 2017, calling his dissertation "The Betrayal of Conservative Values."

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."

In 2020, the Canada Christian College applied to the Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board to rename itself a university and be granted the authority to grant degrees in arts and sciences.

In October 2020, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed Bill 213 to expand the college's degree-granting powers and permit the name change, but the legislation was not proclaimed, pending the PEQAB's decision.

In a report on October 29, 2020 in the Toronto Star, McVety's lawyer confirmed he had received over half a million dollars in a personal loan for a housing and car allowance, and that his son, Ryan McVety, had received $400,000 in loans for the same purposes.

A spokesperson for Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano announced on May 21, 2021 that the “PEQAB has recommended that the institution not be granted expanded degree-granting authority or a name change at this time" and that "The minister has reviewed and accepts their recommendation.” Accordingly, Romano's spokesperson stated that “the government will not be proclaiming Schedule 2 of Bill 213 at this time.”

In response to the decision by Romano, McVety stated that it is the students at Canada Christian College who will suffer because of the "political corruptness" of the university proposal process.

He further stated that "PEQAB put forward to the ministry a fraudulent misrepresentation of the college. The government was informed of the misrepresentations but refused to investigate...Our students and campus community deserved better from their government."

He also intimated that Canada Christian College would be filing a lawsuit against PEQAB.

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.