In 2009, after the Fifth Estate exposed the behaviour modification program operated by the AARC sect, the Alberta Government failed to undertake an investigation of AARC. No one from Alberta Justice or the Ministry of Children's Services attempted to investigate any aspect, from the illegal thought reform techniques to the role of the unregulated, unlicensed foster homes used by AARC to isolate the subjects while they are being broken, to the problem of sexual exploitation and assault inherent in the "Lord of the Flies" system common to all the Seed/Straight/Kids operations, to the confinement of people who do not suffer from the medical condition that AARC claims to treat. No analaysis of the significant number of deaths among male "graduates".
Instead, the Calgary Police opened an investigation into people who were pushing for an investigation of AARC. Five months passed after the airing of the show and AARC finally sued Christine Lunn. She was given an affidavit to sign, stating that she had lied in her Fifth Estate interviews, and an offer was made to drop the suit in exchange for signing. She refused, and the suit has been ongoing to for almost nine years. Scott Fowkes, who also appeared on the show, signed his affadavit, and then apparently entered the adolescent therapeutic community (for "reconditioning"?), although he was almost thirty years old.
After the airing of the program, a contract IT worker at AARC obtained AARC computer files in an effort to aid an investigation into the unlicensed, unregulated behaviour modification program. In 2011 AARC sued her, and later her lawyer. In 2014 AARC sect leader Dean Vause made a complaint to the Law Society about the lawyer, demanding his disbarment and asking for a report to the Justice Minister with the aim of having the lawyer criminally charged.
In the event, the Law society reprimanded the lawyer, made no Notice to the Profession, no Notice to the Ministry, levied no fine, and declined the offer to pay costs, imposing instead only half the costs associated with the complaint.
AARC also sued Rachael O'Neill, Bodana Dye, Simi Bates, the CBC, and three individuals from CBC.
To date, the Alberta Government refuses to have the Ministry of Children's Services conduct an investigation into AARC. No AARC survivors who have defected from the sect have been interviewed by any government officials, and the current Premier, who claimed in 2009 that she would demand an investigation, now plays the same game her predecessors in government did, refusing to take any action.