Former media baron Conrad Black is resolute that he has been tarnished by "false charges" and defended his huffy TV interview with the BBC, after having served three years behind bars in the U.S. for fraud and obstruction of justice.

In an interview with CBC's Susan Ormiston, Black also mused about whether he would be stripped of his Order of Canada and defended accusations that he has shown little remorse for the crimes he was convicted of.

"I have no obligation to you or any of your viewers to share humility, I was falsely charged," he told Ormiston. "I'm a law-abiding person, I'm a conscientious person, I believe in the confession and repentance of wrongdoing and I believe in the punishment of crime, and I do not have to go around in sackcloth and ashes to satisfy a bunch of CBC viewers."