00:00:00.000Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. Today is Wednesday, March 18th,
00:00:09.8402026. We have a great show for you today. We're going to be joined by Sam Cooper, investigative
00:00:14.820journalist and head of the Bureau in just a minute. And to let you know, this episode is
00:00:18.820brought to you by Berna. More on them a little bit later. I want to read one of my favorite
00:00:23.240comments from the show the other day where we covered the al-Qud state rallies in Toronto,
00:00:30.200just open Islamist extremists on the march, openly praising Iran's evil dictatorship and government.
00:00:37.960And this is all allowed to happen out in the open in Canada. So here is a comment from my YouTube
00:00:42.680page said, Dear Candace, we, the Iranian diaspora, left our country to come to Canada to feel safe
00:00:48.200for these terrorists. And now they're freely walking on the streets and marching with their
00:00:52.440their hateful slogans. This is not the Canada we came to three decades ago. This Canada is really
00:00:57.220scary. And many of us are thinking about leaving just a few days ago, the report on the SFU prof
00:01:02.680who was vocal against his terror regime came out and he was killed by two people who live in our
00:01:07.840city. Canadians are going to be where we were in 1979. And it will be too late to turn this around.
00:01:14.400Really interesting to hear that comment. I completely agree. Obviously, my husband was
00:01:18.940one of those Iranians that fled Iran some 20 years ago with his family. He was a child at the time.
00:01:25.040And, you know, his parents love Canada. Like Canada is like their, you know, it's their safe
00:01:30.900place. And they say the same thing to me. I hear this a lot from my husband's family and members
00:01:36.160of the wider Iranian community that I know, that the Canada they came to in the 90s and 2000s is
00:01:42.340not that way anymore. And this story of the Iranian math professor and dissident who went
00:01:50.080missing in February, and it has been confirmed that he was killed. I want to get into the story
00:01:55.200a little more. And that is why I'm pleased to introduce our guest today, Sam Cooper. He's a
00:01:58.860frequent guest on the Candace Malcolm show, though we haven't had him on as much lately. So I'm really
00:02:02.580pleased to have him back and to help us unpack this story. So Sam, welcome to the show. Thanks
00:02:06.720for joining us glad to be with you candace okay so help us understand this story because it was
00:02:12.360your reporting that really made me aware of this story in the first place back in february the bc
00:02:17.820rcmp launched an investigation after this dissident this vocal critic of the iranian regime went
00:02:23.540missing in can obviously a brilliant guy he's a professor a mathematician um february 5th the rcmp
00:02:29.760released a photo of him and then on march 6th they said that his body was found his remains
00:02:34.800were found in Mission BC after search. So this March 13th, 48-year-old Mehdi Ravazian, 45-year-old
00:02:43.360Arazu Saluti are arrested in connection with the murder. Really unbelievable. So explain like
00:02:50.160your reporting and what we know so far. It's an incredible, incredibly scary story, especially as
00:02:57.080you said, for the diaspora that live in fear of this type of event. So I caught onto this story
00:03:03.240when i first saw reports that uh i hit the the homicide investigators were looking into the case
00:03:09.000because i recognized quickly that uh this man had shared one of my uh 2024 reports from the bureau
00:03:17.540when i wrote about a beast a vancouver hell's angel who had allegedly worked for iranian
00:03:24.840intelligence and iranian drug traffickers to target iranian dissidents in the united states
00:03:30.900So, Candace, you know, this is the type of threat network that I'm an expert on, and that is how the Iranian regime works with Mexican cartels, Hells Angels, all manner of the worst organized crime around the world to target dissidents.
00:03:46.940And this man had shared my post and said, we in the community need to be working with Canadian experts to educate the public about this threat of the Iranian regime.
00:03:58.280So when I saw that he might have been murdered under suspicious geopolitical circumstances, of course, my mind turned to, could it be someone that has, you know, a concern with this man's very vocal calls for regime change this year?
00:04:15.140And it turns out that we don't know the motivations of those two individuals charged in the case.
00:04:21.880There are some reports that they may have been supporters of the exiled prince.
00:04:27.440Other people, other experts say, well, they easily could be sort of false fronts that are also working for the regime.
00:04:35.540It all points to the fact that the diaspora clearly wants a deeper investigation into this case.
00:04:41.660And as you know, Candice, none other than Erwin Kotler is among the luminaries in Canada targeted by these threat networks.
00:04:49.140So it's a it could be a deep it looks to me like a deep, dark case, probably pointing to some sort of external influence from Canada.
00:04:58.280It's honestly terrifying. I'll just tell you a little personal story, Sam.
00:05:01.700When I first was getting to know my mother-in-law, I was working for the Ontario, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
00:05:08.440I was the Ontario director. My job was to be critical of that government.
00:05:11.360and I would go and do press conferences. I testified in front of a committee in Ontario
00:05:16.520once. I remember my mother-in-law was like terrified that this is what I did for a living
00:05:20.280because in mind, you know, you shouldn't criticize the government. You really shouldn't do it on
00:05:23.920television and very publicly. And I remember like kind of like almost thinking it was like
00:05:27.620cute that like someone, you know, would think that Canada would, you know, in Canada, we have
00:05:32.360these free speeches. We can criticize the government as part of our God-given right.
00:05:36.040And it's upheld. You know, this is like 15 years ago now, right? And here we are, like, it's crazy
00:05:40.940to think how much the country and the government has changed that like her fears you know from 15
00:05:46.780years ago are actually very real today to the point where you know we do cover dissidents to
00:05:51.980get harassed and you know the jewish community in toronto getting harassed but it's it's beyond that
00:05:56.380it's actually you know people going missing and being murdered and being targeted for criticizing
00:06:02.300a government in canada it's just it's just it's so unbelievable that i i have a hard time even
00:06:06.700grappling with what Canada has become in 2026. That resonates so deeply with me, Candice,
00:06:11.640because as you know, I work with the Iranian diaspora, the Chinese diaspora. We know for a
00:06:16.240fact that there are allegedly hundreds of regime officials living in Canada. As I say,
00:06:23.340through intelligence, working with Mexican cartels and the Hells Angels to target the community,
00:06:28.360the Jewish community is living in deep fear. And to your point about it's not the same Canada
00:06:33.220anymore. Candice, I've told others that I testified on Chinese threats to Canadian politicians in
00:06:40.2602023. Two days later, the RCMP came to my door and said they had learned of a credible threat
00:06:46.060against myself for reporting on China. So it's everyone in Canada that's living under this
00:06:51.600threat of what can we say publicly anymore? And, you know, I try to educate the public as much as
00:06:57.960possible that if they're not paying attention to to that and what needs to change in in canada
00:07:03.560they probably don't really know or love their country it's it's so true and it's so scary how
00:07:08.680things have come you mentioned that uh there's known 700 uh irgc officials that was from a global
00:07:14.360news report that came out a couple years ago juno news did follow-up reporting on that and spoke to
00:07:18.920canadian border services agency that told us that top members of the islamic regime were banned from
00:07:24.840entering canada in 2022 so they were trying which lets me know that you know some of them probably
00:07:29.880did get in a senior spokesperson for the cbsa told juno news that they reviewed 17 800 applications
00:07:36.760that they deemed potentially inadmissible this was uh in june 2025 of those the cbsa told us
00:07:43.880that 20 senior officials were found inadmissible 19 of those were already in canada one has been
00:07:49.560deported one one one person and they're protecting that person's privacy because they don't want us
00:07:54.600to know uh to your point erwin kotler the former liberal justice minister uh raised the alarm about
00:08:00.760him about these rgc sleeper cells in canada he himself was the target of an assassination attempt
00:08:06.840we've seen assassination attempts we've actually seen assassinations in the united states um but
00:08:10.760attempts that have been reportedly presumably possibly connected to iran i'm talking about
00:08:16.360the butler pennsylvania um attempted assassination of president trump or that time candidate trump
00:08:23.480There was one thing I wanted to raise with you, Sam, and this was former Ontario MPP and
00:14:12.180I don't know if that's a regime cleric.
00:14:14.060But what I do know is that CBSA really lacks credibility.
00:14:21.180We know this is a major, we just talked about a person murdered in Burnaby that could have ties to geopolitics.
00:14:28.780We know that the diaspora lives in deep fear now.
00:14:32.160We know that, as you know, the conservative opposition has told the government, you need to start sending these maybe 700 regime figures or their family members out of this country, and it's not happening because we have essentially weak and open borders.
00:14:49.060I could get into new reports about how, you know, due to a refugee backlog, there was a great report from C.D. Howe recently that said that refugees from countries, including Iran, are let into the country without even an in-person interview as Immigration and Citizen Canada tries to sort of deal with the backlog.
00:15:09.380So my point here is that the diaspora knows that the borders are open. They know that they're in the gun sites, as it were, for potential assassinations. This is not in doubt.
00:15:21.680So it's beyond tone deaf. I'll add to this. I've reported very credibly that the CBSA has corruption concerns. This is well known. Even further, to get back to your last point, there's reporting now from a former U.S. intelligence official that says Justin Trudeau let Mexican cartel operatives into the country by lifting visa requirements in 2016.
00:15:47.020we just talked about how the iranian regime may be working with cartel operatives so the young
00:15:53.100the uh the woman who posted that concern is completely uh fair to do so and the cbsa and
00:16:01.060canada's government are the ones that are not protecting people so i could go on and on but
00:16:06.360that that that social media interaction did blow my mind it does right and it also sort of makes
00:16:13.000you wonder to your point about like corruption issues or just competency, right? Like this is
00:16:16.880how you're spending your time. This is how you're spending your resources. The whole backlog thing
00:16:21.280with refugee immigration really drives me crazy, right? The government is more concerned with
00:16:25.380bureaucracy and processing times and having like deliverables to foreigners who are not Canadian
00:16:31.540than they do actually about the safety and security of our own country. Their priorities
00:16:35.420are all wrong. I'll just share a quick clip. This is the individual in question, Baha Bahari,
00:16:40.520the Iranian who posted the photos this is a reacting and this is exactly how I would react
00:16:45.940if I knew that the government was trolling me on social media and scolding me it's not illegal to
00:16:50.880take pictures okay it can is a free country it is not illegal to do this and then threatening
00:16:55.520a lawsuit's insane but anyway we'll just play a bit a bit of this clip here can you believe this
00:17:00.220CBSA threatened me just to defend mullahs it's been 24 hours honestly I'm still in shock that
00:17:06.860Canada Border Services, instead of answering my question, choose to threaten me while they
00:17:13.400are defending mullahs. I simply ask Mr. Carney and IRCC on what basis and with what visas
00:17:21.740were these regimes' talks allowed into Canada. Okay, guys, let's be real. Crime is up. Repeat
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00:19:24.740only example sam i have to show this was a little different but still basically we now have the meme
00:19:29.540police in canada if you post unacceptable things on social media the police are going to show up
00:19:34.080to your house this video is all over social media yesterday that basically here i'll just show you
00:19:40.160the video a toronto police officer shows up at this woman's house to scold her and to investigate
00:19:44.480her for things that she wrote on social media. Let's roll that clip.
00:20:14.480Do I seriously look like a threat to you?
00:20:29.340On Sunday, they showed up at Bathurst and Lawrence, a very Jewish neighborhood with like just ugly anti-Semitic posters dehumanizing Jewish Canadians and trying to intimidate them.
00:20:43.600They don't they don't they can't figure out who shot up the Canadian, the U.S. consulate in Toronto.
00:20:48.120We don't know yet. They're investigating that. They don't have time to figure out these crimes.
00:20:52.080What they do have time is to harass Canadians.
00:20:54.960I could tell you that there's nothing dangerous about that woman. Right.
00:20:58.040She's clearly an elderly white lady who is just whatever, writing things that are unacceptable.
00:21:03.220I'm not defending what she put. We pulled some of the things that she wrote.
00:21:07.080She's active on Instagram. So she writes F. Carney and F. His New World Order.
00:21:11.500when the revolution begins. I want to be up front to help lead the charge against these Zionist
00:21:16.580efforts. Revolution is the only solution. I don't agree with that. I don't condone that kind of
00:21:21.100thing. Folks, probably not a good idea to write this kind of stuff online. Here's another one.
00:21:25.760She writes, Mark Kearney, you effing traitor. F you, F you, F you. I'm coming for you. You suck.
00:21:31.740Twisted F. You will get yours. So that could be seen as a threat. Another one here. Revolution
00:21:37.340is the only solution time to storm the house of commons and take our country back not not good
00:21:42.300not good to write this stuff however we have free speech in canada this woman is not a threat there
00:21:48.080are actual dangerous bad guys and terrorists in our city and in our country that seem to get a
00:21:53.240you know get a pass and you're going to come and intimidate and threaten grandma over here
00:21:58.440for her r-rated tweets i mean it's to me it's unbelievable sam what do you make of it
00:22:03.700Yeah, I mean, it's hard to know where to start. It kind of reminds me of after the Globe and Mail did a story that the U.S. government, you know, is such a threat that the Canadian military is preparing, you know, counter war plans.
00:22:18.300There was a meme about a grandma saying, down at the curling rink, they're prepared to defend the border against the American invaders.
00:22:25.080It's like, yeah, elderly people are very confused in this country.
00:22:29.640And clearly that woman that the post you showed is saying very wrong things.
00:22:33.840There's a way to handle that for the state.
00:22:36.340But to your point, these police visits to doors is a waste of resources, obviously.
00:22:44.340And we have real, we've talked about real concerns of a synagogue shot up, the American consulate shot up,
00:22:51.480a man in burnaby potentially murdered because he's calling for regime change
00:22:56.280people journalists like myself getting rcmp knocks on the door that they're reporting their
00:23:01.640testimony in parliament is followed by serious credible threats this is a state that is totally
00:23:08.440misdirected i would say incompetent and at some level corruptly turned away from the
00:23:15.400real threats in this country that's what this i don't know what to call it you know it's it's
00:23:22.360absurd it's uh it's funny in a way it's sad what this what what this grandma said it's ron but
00:23:29.640what does this is what i'm saying my bottom line is the state is misdirected and the country is
00:23:35.800unraveling and people you know uh my my last comment would be well people like you and i
00:23:42.280are sort of i think trying to tell the people of canada where the real threats are but people that
00:23:47.800are listening to cbc radio will still be believing that donald trump and his forces are ready to march
00:23:54.440north of the border so we have a totally confused country right now well and just like i mean i'm
00:23:59.880sorry i could i could have i looked at that woman's instagram today i went through it and you can tell
00:24:04.440that she's harmless right she's just an angry keyboard warrior basically probably a little
00:24:08.680bored spending a bit too much time online that's her right that is her right you probably not a
00:24:13.320good idea to say that we're coming to the house of commons and all this kind of stuff but still
00:24:18.040mild in comparison to what we're actually talking about actual criminal networks it seems to me that
00:24:22.840the government and their priorities are just totally focused on the wrong people if you're
00:24:28.120a white person with the wrong views you will be targeted and another perfect example of this
00:24:32.520sam is that we learned yesterday that mark carney's government is going to challenge the federal
00:24:37.560Court of Appeals on the Emergencies Act ruling. So we've had two courts now that have ruled that
00:24:42.760the Emergencies Act use of force against peaceful protesters in Ottawa was unconstitutional. Justin
00:24:48.600Trudeau should have never done it. He didn't have the grounds to do it. Two courts have found that,
00:24:53.000and the Kearney government is going to go for another appeal and try to get that overturned.
00:24:58.920Why? You know, they want to target people who they can write off as right-wing, people who are
00:25:03.560hard-working blue-collar Canadians and yet they're not actually going after the real bad guys like
00:25:08.920the ones who are out in the open um over the weekend in Toronto it's just it's so frustrating
00:25:13.320what do you think? Yeah Candace I have a little something substantial to add to that my focus has
00:25:18.040never been on social issues around the convoy or was it a real threat but what I can tell you is
00:25:22.760during that event I had a very strong source in the RCMP informed me directly that the Trudeau
00:25:30.200government was pressuring the RCMP to adjust their timeline to put in sort of, as it was explained to
00:25:38.480me, events that would essentially justify a strong response from the government. So I never reported
00:25:45.020that in detail. One source, but I've done this with you before, when I have a very strong source
00:25:50.180that points to what looks like something that should verge on illegality, pressuring the RCMP
00:25:56.880be to adjust their investigative timeline. I think there's even report that's come out since that
00:26:02.140kind of support that what my source said was correct. And it points to what I think you and
00:26:07.180I agree on the government. If you come from a certain ideology, they're very concerned about
00:26:12.520you, they will target you. And I do think the convoy that that case could speak to it. And
00:26:17.600let's not forget, we know that Prime Minister Mark Carney back in those days was a very strong
00:26:23.280advocate of of uh of cracking down on the convoy right he wrote in the globe and mail we talked
00:26:27.760about this on the show yesterday called sedition and called for them to follow the money and lock
00:26:31.920down the bank account so they can lock down the bank accounts of you know the people who donated
00:26:36.000five dollars to the truckers but they can't figure out who's shooting up toronto synagogues and the
00:26:40.560u.s consulate like it's it's totally wild and to you and we know we know that the government was
00:26:46.240relying on mainstream media legacy media reports and going against ceases his reports they were
00:26:52.080ignoring their own internal government reports, choosing instead to go with what the CBC and their
00:26:57.680stenographer government journalists like Justin Ling, who was drumming up fear by exaggerating
00:27:03.640these stories. And I had a debate with him a couple of weeks ago, and I mentioned this to him,
00:27:07.240that he was drumming up fear and Justin Trudeau was choosing to read his media reports rather
00:27:11.900than the actual intelligence that they had about the trucker convoy. Our priorities in this country
00:27:46.340Look, to the people that want to come to the Bureau, I'm bringing sort of an intelligence analyst's skills to reporting on news straight down the middle.
00:27:55.700The facts, there are threats across the board.
00:27:58.800And as I say, Canada, it's incontestable to me that Canada needs to make some deep legal reforms or this nation.
00:28:07.720It's going, it's spiraling down the drain pretty quickly.