EZRA LEVANT ｜ Radical transgenders get preferential treatment—at the expense of taxpayers
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Just when you thought the craziness couldn t get any crazier, well, it just got crazier. Just when you d thought that transanity couldn't get crazier than it already is, it gets crazier! The other day, I was in the men's washroom at an airport, and here's what I found: Tampons and sanitary pads.
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Tonight, just when you thought that Transanity couldn't get any crazier, well, it just got
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crazier. It's Friday, April 25th, 2025. I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
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The other day, I flew from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal to Billy Bishop
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Toronto City Airport. By the way, talk about an epic contrast patriotism-wise when it comes to those two
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Canadians who have had airports named after them, eh? Billy Bishop was a fighter pilot who went on to
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become a decorated war hero in World War I, putting his life on the line numerous times over.
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Trudeau, meanwhile, declined to fight for Canada in World War II, and even allegedly wore a German
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soldier's helmet as he puttered around Montreal on his motorcycle. Class.
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Anyway, upon deplaning, I had to see a man about a horse, so I made a beeline to the restroom.
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After washing my hands, I noticed a silver box with the word
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complimentary written upon it. Oh, that's interesting, I thought. What sort of stuff is this
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airport providing me on the house? Breath mints? Mouthwash, maybe? Well, I popped open the lid of the
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box, and I kind of wish I hadn't, folks, because here are the freebies that awaited. Tampons and sanitary
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pads. To be crystal clear, folks, I was indeed in the men's washroom, incredibly in federally regulated
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workplaces in Canada, and that would include airports. Menstrual hygiene products must be
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provided. It doesn't matter if the washroom is the men's room, the ladies' room, or the gender neutral
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room. This mandate went into effect on December 15th, 2023. Yep, yet again, more trans sanity, and this time
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at taxpayer expense, no less. Keep this sort of outrageous spending in mind, by the way, when you
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wonder why it is that our dominion is now saddled with a $62 billion deficit. Then again, if men are
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pretending to be women, I guess part of the psychosis means that they must also pretend to experience
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menstrual cycles as well. Oh, sure, Betty, who used to go by the name Bob, is sporting a beard and a
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boner, but never mind. He's a she, and the he-she has female needs every month, you see. And if you say
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otherwise, then you are obviously a bigot, a hater, and a transphobe. Incidentally, folks, whatever
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happened to that off-repeated chestnut during the COVID days? You know, follow the science? Because
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it looks like weird science has now eradicated biology 101. And so it is we have to go along with
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accommodating mental illness as opposed to getting psychiatric help for transgenders. This includes
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perpetuating the gross farce that men can have periods. Remember that kook Jonathan Yaniv, or whatever
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he calls himself these days, posted on social media how he wanted to go swimming, but that he
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couldn't because boo-hoo, it was that type time of the month? Yikes. How did society devolve in such a
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disturbing fashion? So much so that the ideological mantra today is that if it's trans, it's good,
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and if it's good, it's trans. Still, given that this story is not new, why do I bring it up? Well,
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really, for three reasons. Firstly, all of my female friends tell me that it was ever thus
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that they had to purchase their own menstrual products. These are real women who do or did
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actually experience that time of the month, as in for real, not as some sort of bizarre cosplay act.
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So what gives? Are so-called trans women so disproportionately economically disadvantaged
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that they need handouts? Then again, we do pay for their cosmetic surgery procedures, after all,
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whereas non-trans people, they have to pay for their own boob jobs and facelifts. Tough.
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Oh, I do not exaggerate. Check out this decision rendered yesterday by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
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The court ruled that the province must cover the cost of a penile sparing vaginoplasty for a
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transgender who is only identified by the initials KS. KS, quote, does not identify as exclusively female
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or male and wishes to have both genitalia, end quote. That's right. This dude wants both a penis and a
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vagina. I mean, come on, pick a lane already. It's like the crying game on steroids, isn't it?
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And Ontario's top court agrees. That's the really scary part of Transanity, wouldn't you say?
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The role of powerful enablers like the courts. And so it is that KS, shouldn't it be KY?
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Anyway, so it is that this circus sideshow attraction will undergo a surgical procedure
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at a Texas clinic that would make Dr. Frankenstein blush. The surgeon will construct a vagina while
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sparing his penis. It is a procedure that is not available anywhere else in Canada.
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Wow, you mean to say there's not a lineup of people clamoring to get both sets of genitalia?
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Well, knock me down with a feather. By the way, it should be noted that KS uses female pronouns,
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but does not identify as either fully female or fully male. Oh, nothing weird about that, eh?
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You know, it reminds me of that classic piece of TV a few years ago when former Liberal Party of Canada
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President Stephen LaDrew was interviewed by Tucker Carlson.
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Well, two-spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you know, fish or fowl.
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They don't know whether they're frick or frack. So they're clearly confused. And, you know, again,
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if you're confused, what better place to go than to be at school?
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Oh, poor LaDrew. That quip got him fired from Bell Media. You see, you're not allowed to call
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confused people confused people in Canada these days. And talk about perverse irony. LaDrew was on
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Tucker's show to argue that Canada is a bastion of free speech. But whether it's taxpayer-funded
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surgery for the confused or providing free sanitary products for men pretending to be women,
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is this perhaps more proof in the pudding that transgenders are a protected class worthy not of
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equal rights, but rather of special rights? And who cares if they are destroying female safe spaces
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ranging from shelters and sports to prisons? It's all about unreasonable accommodation, you see.
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My second point, does anyone truly believe that trans sanity in our dominion will get any better
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should the Mark Carney Liberals be elected on April 28th? Last week, the United Kingdom Supreme Court
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ruled that trans women are not legally women. In the U.S., similar policy measures have been adopted
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via presidential executive orders. In so many parts of the world, the pendulum vis-a-vis trans sanity
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is swinging back to normalcy. As for Carney, we know he's hopelessly woke and is adamant on pursuing
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a globalist agenda. And we all know what that means. Finally, I go back to the person that Toronto's
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Island Airport is named after Billy Bishop. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, Bishop was born in 1894
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in Owen Sound, Ontario. He would go on to become Canada's top flying ace of the First World War,
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being officially credited with 72 victories. 72! Later in life, during the Second World War, Bishop played an
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important role in recruiting for the Royal Canadian Air Force and in promoting the British Commonwealth Air
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Training Plan. This patriot would pass away in 1956. You know, I wonder if the kids at school even learn
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about Billy Bishop anymore. I mean, there's only so much time devoted to teaching real, actual history these
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days. And woke school boards prioritize leftist ideology bordering on Marxism. Oh sure, little Johnny
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and little Janie can't spell cat, even if you were to spot them the C and the T, but they are well aware
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of all the genders that comprise the L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-Q-Q-A-A-P-P-L-C-B-C-O-C-I-B-C-B-M-O-L-C-B-O
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community. And they can tell you all about International Transgender Day of Visibility,
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and Trans Awareness Month, and Transparent Month, and International Day Against Transphobia.
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Put another way, who's got time to dwell on something so trite as Remembrance Day Classic
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these days, when the emphasis, well at least in the eyes of the educrats, should be on Transgender
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Day of Remembrance, whatever the hell that is. Do you get the feeling that Billy Bishop is doing
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loop-the-loops in his grave right now? At least the good news is that Billy Bishop's name still graces
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Toronto's Little Island Airport. After all, Billy Bishop was a flying ace. He went to war, he shot guns,
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he put his life on the line protecting our rights and freedoms, and he didn't pretend to have
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non-existent menstrual cycles. And you know, surely for the rank and file who comprise
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team-team-cancel culture, that's a whole lot of toxic masculinity that must be shot down in the years ahead.
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Well, folks, did you hear that Prime Minister Mark Carney uses the Isle of Man basically for
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tax evasion purposes? So who cares about that? Well, I'll tell you, we care about it. That's why the big
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boss man himself. He flew over to the Isle of Man with Lincoln Jay to file a report. Check it out.
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Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. We flew all night from Toronto to Dublin, waited at the Dublin airport,
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then got on a smaller aircraft and flew just under an hour into a small island between Ireland and the
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United Kingdom. It's a small place. Maybe you've heard of it. It's called the Isle of Man. And that's
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where we're standing today. There's less than 90,000 people on the Isle of Man. And it's a lovely place,
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centuries old. The Vikings used to rule the place, then the Celts. Now it has its own culture. The Isle
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of Man, someone from the Isle of Man is called a Manx, which is interesting.
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The key thing about this place from a global perspective is not its beauty, but its tax status.
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This is a place people come to when they don't want to pay tax. There's no capital gains tax. There's
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no wealth tax. There's no inheritance tax. In fact, tax is capped at 200,000 pounds per person,
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no matter how much you make. You will never pay more than that in tax. I understand it. The income
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tax is just 22%. But like I say, there is a cap. This is where you come if you want to hide millions
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or even billions. The thing is, it's a lovely place to retire, but it's not quite as warm as,
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let's say, the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean and other tax avoidance hotspot.
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So what happens is millionaires and billionaires come here to set up a fake office, like a mailbox or a
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P.O. box and say that their company is headquartered here because there's another wrinkle in Isle of Man
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taxation. You can pay all your global taxes for all your activities around the world.
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You can pay them here in the Isle of Man. So you can be doing business in the United States, in Canada,
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in the European Union, but you can come here to pay your tax as a kind of tax minimization,
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tax evasion, tax avoidance strategy. And maybe you can guess where I'm going with this.
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Canada's new prime minister, who's seeking a new term, Mark Carney, he was the chairman of Brookfield
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Asset Management for years. It's not a household name like BlackRock Asset Management, but it's a kind
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of mini BlackRock. It has about a trillion dollars in assets under management. And BlackRock is famous,
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but Brookfield, I think should be because through tricky corporate structures, they have made it so
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their assets and their profits are as tax free as possible. There was a report that Brookfield managed to
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hide 25 billion dollars by operating a shell company out of Bermuda. In fact, an independent study suggests
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that Brookfield, under Mark Carney's leadership, was the number one largest tax dodger in the country.
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They have all sorts of corporate structures, but obviously they're not living here. They're not working
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here. Brookfield doesn't operate here. We're here because I want to go to a house on Belgravia Road.
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It's a house. I know that even though I haven't been there yet. I looked it up on Google Maps
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because Brookfield IOM, Brookfield Isle of Man is headquartered in what looks like on Google Maps to be
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someone's house. And I did some more corporate searches. And the director of Brookfield IOM is an 88
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year old man, Leslie Commons. An 88 year old man is running an organization with billions or tens of
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billions of dollars. Is that for real? Well, I've learned that a lot of people in the Isle of Man
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have a kind of job or a series of jobs where they act as the pretend officers or directors of these
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foreign companies. They're just regular people who for a certain sum of money said, sure, I'll be your
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director. Sure. You can put my name down on the corporate records. I'm an 88 year old man. You can
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pay me X amount of dollars a month and I'll be the name on the piece of paper hiding the true power behind
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the throne. You know, we've only been in the Isle of Man for about an hour and we haven't talked to a
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lot of people other than our cab driver who's been giving us a bit of a tour. There's lovely people
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here and it sounds like a close knit community. Sounds like a wonderful place to grow up. It's so
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beautiful, first of all. But when you have the kind of tax dodges that this place does, you attract some
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shady characters. Believe it or not, one of the largest industries in the Isle of Man is online
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gambling. The Isle of Man has not complied with other countries rules about money laundering. And
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so it's well known that there is a lot of money laundering here, not just from the international
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drug trade, the international weapons trade, but also regimes like the Russian Federation when
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where politicians and oligarchs try and squirrel their money out of Russia and hide it from the tax
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men. The Russian tax men and the tax men in London or New York also. We are in a city that's called
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Douglas, the capital, where there are many wonderful people. But there are also shadow people, people who
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come here to hide money from tax collectors. Now, each of us would love to do that. Wouldn't you like to
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have a mailbox on Belgravia Road and have someone say, yeah, I'm the head officer of a barber shop,
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a restaurant, a farm, and we're only going to pay 22% tax capped at 200,000 pounds a year? Wouldn't you
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like to do that? Because as Mark Carney says, it's all legal. He was asked about his Bermuda tax dodge.
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Remember what he said? You were at the helm of a company that quite clearly registered much of its business
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in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes, including as CTV News reported, registered to an address of a bike
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shop in Bermuda. You have said that this is the way the world works and that in the case of pension
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funds that leaves more money for pensioners. But in this case, it looks like just plain tax avoidance.
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This may be a legal practice and as you say, as the world works, but is it ethical, Mr. Carney?
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The first off, I'm no longer at Brookfield. Secondly, this follows their arrangements,
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follow the rules, including the tax rules of this country, other countries. And thirdly,
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as you mentioned in your question, that the structure is organized so that Canadian pension
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funds can get the most benefit for those pensioners, which are teachers, retired first responders,
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and public service. Thank you. He said he followed the rules and he said his clients got a good deal
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of it out of it. Well, sure they did. And he got a huge deal out of it. But what about everyone else?
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What about everyone else back in Canada who has to live under Canadian rules, pay Canadian taxes?
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You know, Mark Carney hasn't actually answered the question about where he personally filed his taxes.
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Did he file them in Canada? Remember, he's got three passports, including a British passport
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and an Irish passport. The Isle of Man is actually a crown protectorate of the United Kingdom.
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Did Mark Carney use his other passport so he could file his personal taxes here in the Isle of Man?
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I don't know. But we're now going to make our way down to Belgravia Road and we're going to ring the
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doorbell of Mr. Commons. And I'm sure if he's home that he's a lovely 88 year old man who probably won't
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even know what I'm talking about, because my guess is he does this like a lot of people, a lot of Manx
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people do. They just make a few extra bucks being an on paper director for foreign oligarchs. Let's go see
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what happens when we ring the doorbell. All right. Well, we're on our way now to find the director
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of Brookfield Isle of Man. And I want to tell you, we found his name by going on the corporate search
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in the UK. It's called Companies House. That's the official UK government registry where all companies
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have to post some public information. As you can see, Brookfield IOM registered as an overseas entity
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in December of 2022. That's when Mark Carney was the chairman. It's updated its information
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in December 2023 and December 2024, just weeks before Mark Carney became the Canadian prime minister.
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There's not a lot of information here. And I think it's that way on purpose. It's sort of like a
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mafia organization. They have cutouts, they have deceptions. The whole point of it is to confuse.
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But if you look at the filing history, this is where it gets really interesting in my mind.
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I'm just going to click on the latest. When this was set up by Mark Carney a couple of years ago,
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they have a page called individual beneficial owner details. So beneficial owner is someone who
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is like the word says, he's the true owner, the guy who benefits from it. And his name is Leslie
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Commons. I've never heard of that before. And a Google search doesn't turn up much at all. But I see
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on here that he is 88 years old. And I say, mazel tov, hopefully he lives to be 120. But that suggests
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to me that he's just a placeholder, a straw man. And that they're actually using him to try to hide the
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true identity of who's behind Brookfield IOM. So his address is in here. It looks like a residential
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address. And that's a tip off right there. Brookfield has some of the most majestic imperial skyscrapers
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in the Western world. The fact that this looks like Mr. Commons is in a residential home tells me
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that he's just a straw man. But look at what is sworn to in this document. That Mr. Commons holds,
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directly or indirectly, more than 25 percent of the shares. That he holds, directly or indirectly,
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more than 25 percent of the voting rights. That he has the right, directly or indirectly,
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to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors. And that he has the right to exercise,
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or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the entity. Is it true that 88-year-old
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Leslie Commons of Belgravia Road and the Isle of Man, a fellow whose home we're going to right now,
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is it true that he is the boss of Brookfield IOM? Can that really be true? Or is this just a legal
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fiction set up by Mark Carney and his tricky lawyers to avoid paying taxes in Canada? You'll remember this
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was around the time that Mark Carney voted to move the headquarters of Brookfield out of Canada to the
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United States again for tax reasons. Let's find out. And by the way, I'm going to be super friendly to
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Mr. Commons because my guess is he's just a fella who earned some pocket money by being a straw man
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placeholder in Mark Carney's filings. It's Mark Carney and the lawyers who crafted all this. They just
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needed some guy and they found 88-year-old Mr. Commons. Let's see if we can find him.
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Well, we found it. Planes, trains and automobiles half a continent away. We found the head office for
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Brookfield IOM, Brookfield Isle of Man. It's a foreign shell company set up by Mark Carney two and a half
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years ago when he was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management. It was renewed in 2023 and again in
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I have no idea. Can I ask what you're doing though?
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I came here from Canada to, to, because the Canadian Prime Minister
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has an office here and I, and it's registered to Mr. Commons.
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Are you, do you know who he is, Leslie Commons?
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Do you know, he is upstairs, I don't know if he's in or not.
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Oh, okay. So I push the button and, so he's the landlord.
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Yeah, I push the button there because, because there's a political story. I just wanted to
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ask him some questions about it, but you don't know if he's in.
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I, I've just come back and I'm going on holiday this afternoon, so if he hasn't
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answered his bell, then I presume either he's not in or not.
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Yeah, I push the button three times and, uh, yeah.
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So he's the landlord, but does he also live here?
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Right. Do you know where he goes when he's not here? Like, is he in town now?
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I saw him last week, but I don't know if he's around now.
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Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks very much. And, uh, we're, I just talk, I'm not talking about
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you and, and don't worry about it. We're just talking about the Prime Minister.
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Obviously, it's just because you're shooting a camera at the building, honestly.
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Thank you. Isn't that very, very interesting? As I was talking about how
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Leslie Commons was not in and didn't answer his doorbell, someone else came to the window,
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saw us filming. And I walked over and I, and she didn't want to appear on camera.
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And I said we would blur her face. She confirmed for me that Leslie Commons does live
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in the apartment above her and that he's the landlord and she saw him just the other day.
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And he does indeed live here. So, uh, I guess he is a bit of a businessman himself, but the Brookfield
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IOM office, it, it's marked on his buzzer. I rang it three times.
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Um, that friendly lady doesn't think he's in today either.
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Um, but here's what's going on. This is not where Brookfield does its business.
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This is a beautiful residential street on the beautiful island of the Isle of Man.
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Just up there is, uh, Anken Park. There's tennis courts. There's a little boating pond.
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This is a wonderful place to live. It's on the ocean. It's a little chilly. It's not like being
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in the Caribbean, except in one way. Here's the way it's like being in the Caribbean. Well,
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350 years ago, there was a wildness to a lot of the Caribbean and there were little
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ports where pirates can go and they weren't hunted down. Tortuga, for example, even Nassau in the
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Bahamas. There was a period of time when pirates could sail around the Caribbean,
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attacking ships, stealing, and they could go to these safe free ports and do their pirate business.
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It wasn't too long before the great navies of the world crushed the pirates and stopped that illicit
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trade. Um, I'm not saying that the Isle of Man is like Tortuga, but it is home to people like Mark
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Carney who want to squirrel away billions or even tens of billions of dollars to keep them out of the hands
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of the tax man back in Canada. And I simply don't believe that that lovely residential building
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is the headquarters of Brookfield IOM. In fact, I know it's not. And I simply don't believe that a
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kindly 88 year old landlord, um, who lives in a building and handles the rent from a couple of
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families below. I simply don't believe that he is the beneficial owner and director of Brookfield IOM.
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Like I say, he does what a lot of people in the Isle of Man do to make a few extra bucks on the side.
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He's a straw man and I'm not saying there's anything illegal with it. In fact, that's sort of the whole
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point here in the Isle of Man. This is perfectly legal. And as Mark Carney keeps on saying, Hey,
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he followed all the rules. Wouldn't it be nice though, if your company could have an office in
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the Isle of Man that you had a maximum 22% income tax rate that was capped at 200,000 pounds a year,
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no inheritance tax, no wealth tax, no capital gains tax. Wouldn't it be great
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if you could live by those rules? Alas, the common people, the peasants are not allowed to,
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just the masters of the universe, like Mark Carney. What I really want to know
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is did he file his own taxes here in the Isle of Man? In fact, that's one of the questions I put to
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the Liberal Party today. When I was coming out here, I sent an email to them. I'd like to read those
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questions to you now. I think the odds of them answering me are about the same of the odds of
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us getting into the Debates Commission and for the same reason. Let me read to you the eight questions
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I put to Mark Carney via the Liberal Party today. Number one, what is the purpose of Brookfield IOM?
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That stands for Isle of Man. When was it created? Did Brookfield set up Brookfield IOM to avoid Canadian
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taxes? I think we know the answer to that one. How much tax does Brookfield pay in the Isle of Man?
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Does Brookfield actually have any business activity in the Isle of Man? Did Mr. Carney himself pay his
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taxes in the Isle of Man? I wouldn't be surprised if he did. The Isle of Man is considered a haven for
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money laundering, tax avoidance, and tax evasion. Did Mr. Carney have any ethical qualms with that?
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We know the answer to that one already, don't we? Does Mr. Carney still have his Irish and British
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passports? And finally, are there any other facts about Brookfield IOM, Isle of Man, that Mr. Carney
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would like to disclose? Oh, I don't think so. But then again, I don't think any journalist is actually
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going to put those questions to him. They're a little too prickly, a little bit too accountability
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oriented. It's too much like vetting, Mark Carney. You know, this is a lovely place to live. This is
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a residential neighborhood. Normally we wouldn't even come into a place like this to do journalism.
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We would go to a corporate head office. Brookfield owns some of the most spectacular buildings in the
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world. For example, in London, they own Canary Wharf, one of the most prestigious, basically financial
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centers in the West. That's where they do their business activity. The only reason Brookfield
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IOM has a little button and a mailbox here is to get around paying the taxes that you and I have to
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pay. And the fact that Mark Carney was supervising this Brookfield Isle of Man as recently as December
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2024 shows the kind of prime minister that he is and that he will be.
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If you think this journalism was worthwhile, help me out. In the end, we didn't find Mr. Commons,
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but I think what we would have found was an 88 year old kindly man. We had a bit of a chat with one of
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his tenants. But we came here to do a kind of investigative journalism that the CBC only reserves
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for the Pierre Polyevs of the world. No one is really vetting Mark Carney, just like no one really vetted
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Justin Trudeau. If you think this was worth it, go to thecarneyfiles.com and chip in a few dollars.
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My colleague Lincoln Jay and I flew to Dublin this morning and then flew to the Isle of Man and we're
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doing the whole thing in reverse now because we thought this was an important story. And I wanted
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to see what the Brookfield HQ looked like. You know what it looks like? It looks like a tax avoidance