Juno News - August 06, 2026


Carney’s friend lands MULTI-BILLION dollar contract


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00:00:00.000 An immigration judge in the United States has ordered a Canadian woman booted out of the country
00:00:10.640 after she pleaded guilty to assault. A video of 33-year-old Caitlin Tracy was widely circulated.
00:00:18.480 It shows her confronting a group of teenagers in New Jersey, including one wearing a Trump-branded
00:00:25.180 tank top. Tracy is seen slapping the teenager before walking away. She was in the United
00:00:31.660 States illegally, having overstayed her visa. While Prime Minister Carney is being accused
00:00:37.660 of lining the pockets of liberal friends and insiders, again following a decision to hand
00:00:44.000 a military satellite contract to Telsat, the contract is worth $2.3 billion. That follows
00:00:51.560 a previous $2.14 billion loan to the company.
00:00:56.540 Critics point to Carney's long-time friendship with CEO Dan Goldberg.
00:01:01.320 As further proof, the PM has a conflict of interest.
00:01:05.000 The deal announced this week will provide the Canadian Armed Forces
00:01:08.340 with security satellite communications across the Arctic.
00:01:11.680 It is the largest contract in Telsat's 60-year history.
00:01:16.920 Well, Doug Ford's campaign boss, Corey Tanaik, has taken another shot at conservative leader
00:01:23.500 Pierre Polyev.
00:01:25.420 This after video emerged of Polyev in the boxing ring, working out with a trainer.
00:01:46.920 While appearing on a podcast, Tanike said Polyev debased himself with the boxing ring video.
00:01:54.240 How much do you debase yourself, right? We're getting to Andrew Tate levels of lunacy here.
00:02:00.820 How insecure is your masculinity is the first question, and that is your answer.
00:02:06.280 Andrew Tate, by the way, is a controversial online influencer currently facing criminal charges in the UK.
00:02:12.480 Okay. Our guest today is commentator Mario Zilea. Welcome once again, Mario.
00:02:19.560 Thanks a lot for having me on, Mark.
00:02:20.960 All right. So we've got a contract here, courtesy of Mark Carney's liberal government, worth $2.3 billion awarded to Telsat.
00:02:29.500 And we know that the prime minister has very close friendship with the CEO of that company.
00:02:35.200 It's designed to provide military satellite services, but you are suspicious about this contract, as many other Canadians are.
00:02:45.200 What do you make of it?
00:02:46.200 Well, here's what happened with Telesat.
00:02:49.200 When Mark Carney, a week with him being named the economic advisor of the Liberal Party, one week afterwards, they were approved to get $1.9 billion in federal funding.
00:03:01.200 funding they currently have zero low earth orbit satellites that's called leo star uh spacex or
00:03:10.480 starlink they have over 10 000 of them currently this company has zero so we're funding it to the
00:03:17.760 tune of now four billion dollars to compete with elon musk and you have to keep in mind that elon
00:03:23.600 musk and starlink ukraine is using that right now like that that's what was being used very early on
00:03:29.840 when the telecommunications went down for the country so how can it be the case that canada
00:03:35.360 cannot use the exact same technology instead we're deciding to build it from scratch using public
00:03:42.000 funded dollars and you got to keep in mind the canadian government is consistently the worst
00:03:47.120 investor ever they they will never beat the market and they should not try being the market so we
00:03:53.040 fund them 1.9 billion dollars then they get a contract from the government for 2.3 billion
00:03:58.960 dollars their stock yesterday went up nearly 50 percent dan goldberg who's the ceo of telesat
00:04:05.360 is not just a acquaintance of mark carney he's a documented close friend of mark carney there's so
00:04:13.120 many conflicts of interest that exist here and i honestly believe that mark carney is the most
00:04:18.720 conflicted prime minister we've ever had in our history i have no idea how this is not trudeau
00:04:25.280 level of you know scandal and corruption i think this needs to be investigated and i think there's
00:04:31.360 just so many red flags that are going off i mean he might make the case that well this is a canadian
00:04:38.160 company we want to build a canadian company we don't want to have to rely on outsiders this is
00:04:43.100 our way to you know have our elbows up and you know that's what it's that's what it takes i mean
00:04:49.940 Do you buy that argument?
00:04:52.440 Did the government invest in Shopify?
00:04:55.040 Like we're talking about the biggest, uh, if based on today, it might be the
00:05:00.380 biggest company in Canada based on market cap, their market cap just today
00:05:03.800 alone went up over $40 billion.
00:05:06.580 That's in one day because the private sector did it.
00:05:10.020 Toby and the show and the folks at Shopify did it themselves.
00:05:13.440 They didn't need government help.
00:05:14.780 They didn't need government intervention.
00:05:16.260 They didn't need government investments.
00:05:17.840 So if this is what they want to do, and they want to get into the business of competing against Elon Musk and Starlink, even though Telsat has to use SpaceX in order to get their satellites in space, the whole concept is just absolutely crazy.
00:05:35.380 It makes absolutely no sense to me. 0.99
00:05:37.360 Yeah, we're back to battery plant level stupidity. 1.00
00:05:41.920 Somehow government thinks it needs to be right in the thick of it. 1.00
00:05:45.800 And it seems to blow up in the face of taxpayers time and time again.
00:05:50.200 And this might very well be the case.
00:05:51.800 It's like, what do we need TelSav for when we could be dealing directly with Starlink?
00:05:55.740 But then what did we see earlier with the ripping up of this contract with Starlink that Doug Ford did because, well, because of Elon Musk's parent relationship with the president of the United States?
00:06:11.160 I mean, this stuff just stinks to high heaven.
00:06:14.580 And yet here we are.
00:06:15.980 I think much of the media seems to be ignoring this story,
00:06:19.260 but this is just too close for comfort in terms of the relationship.
00:06:23.880 And it's not the first time.
00:06:25.160 We've seen a repeated instance here of conflicts of interest
00:06:29.880 where there seems to be a blurred line between what's good for the country
00:06:35.460 and what's good for Mark Carney's bottom line.
00:06:38.060 And, of course, if you help line the pockets of your friends,
00:06:41.160 then eventually down the road, you're going to get rewarded for it.
00:06:44.780 That's the way it works, and it appears that we're going down that same direction again.
00:06:50.040 But I want to ask you as well about a couple of other stories that we have brought up today,
00:06:55.760 including, I guess, the deportation of a Canadian woman.
00:07:00.960 This is Caitlin Tracy, 33-year-old, who videotaped herself slapping a Trump-supporting woman.
00:07:10.020 This would have happened on the July 4th weekend in New Jersey on the boardwalk.
00:07:15.160 And that video was widely circulated.
00:07:17.700 She ended up being charged.
00:07:19.040 And now a judge, an immigration judge out of Texas, has said, you're leaving.
00:07:24.200 You're going home.
00:07:25.340 We don't want you here anymore.
00:07:26.440 And by the way, now you're also a convict because you've been, well, she's pleaded guilty to assault, I guess.
00:07:35.200 So this is not a good look for Canada, is it?
00:07:40.020 It's just a new level of embarrassment. I mean, we care more about American politics than we care about our own. And that's the sad reality of it. Canadians seem to follow American politics more than they follow Canadian politics.
00:07:55.440 And what people don't realize is there's no amount of tariff damage that Donald Trump can do that our government hasn't done significantly worse to us.
00:08:05.920 From over taxation, to over immigration, to red tape, to holding back our potential of what we can do as a country.
00:08:14.580 People have it embedded within themselves that we should just be blaming every single little problem that we have today on Donald Trump. 0.95
00:08:21.180 And this woman who slapped an American on American soil when she was there, when she overstayed her welcome, well, she got to basically F around and she found out.
00:08:33.240 The hard way.
00:08:35.200 But it was interesting.
00:08:37.420 I think I can recall the headline in the New York Post suggesting that, you know, this is not a good look for Canada.
00:08:45.080 of it. We have this reputation as being the world's nice guy and polite and, you know, all
00:08:50.660 these things. And then you have one of our people behave in this way. It doesn't look good for the
00:08:55.980 country. I've got to ask you as well, Doug Ford's campaign boss, Corey Tanaik, you've spoken about
00:09:02.900 this in some of your videos in the past. He's taken a shot at conservative party leaders,
00:09:07.660 certainly not his first and probably won't be his last. But this came after Paliyev's video,
00:09:14.020 which you probably saw uh he was in a boxing ring and he was working out with a trainer
00:09:18.860 and this is what uh corey had to say on a podcast let's listen to that embarrassing like how much
00:09:25.960 do you debase yourself right like we're getting to andrew tate levels of uh lunacy here insecure
00:09:32.120 is your masculinity is this question and that is your answer wow um what do you make of that
00:09:40.860 Well, I think people have to keep in mind that they always refer to Corey
00:09:45.060 as Harper's former communications director.
00:09:48.500 Well, he was there for one year, and then he had to resign.
00:09:52.660 At least that's what the official story is.
00:09:55.400 And the other thing that you have to keep in mind is Corey's a lobbyist.
00:09:59.240 He's someone who literally profits off of relationships that he has.
00:10:04.520 Currently, right now, he has no relationship with Pierre.
00:10:07.840 And so what do you think will happen if Pierre ever becomes prime minister?
00:10:12.360 His whole company is fully reliant on having a relationship with different levels of government.
00:10:17.720 He knows Ford is out the door and he had his opportunity to try, quote unquote, being a kingmaker out in BC and he failed at that.
00:10:26.520 And that was a candidate that I wholeheartedly like as a person.
00:10:31.100 And I think they're a phenomenal human being and I will always consider Caroline a really good person.
00:10:37.080 But in Corey's own words, was it him that committed campaign malpractice?
00:10:43.160 Because that's what he accused the Conservatives of.
00:10:45.700 They were able to raise record levels of funding for that campaign to the tune of, I think,
00:10:53.240 five or six or seven X more than KLF in the grassroots one.
00:10:57.980 They did not want his style of politics in BC.
00:11:01.000 and that was more to be said against um cory tonight and himself than it was about the
00:11:08.460 candidate and this is a candidate that again that i fully endorse that i fully like and i don't think
00:11:13.800 you'll find a single conservative that will literally say we don't like her policies i've
00:11:18.400 seen people who are very very hardcore conservative saying we like her as a person her policy is fully
00:11:23.660 lined up with us cory was in the picture and the problem is is cory keeps digging himself into a
00:11:29.180 much bigger hole, you know, to accuse, and he's constantly attacking Pierre. It's one thing after
00:11:33.840 the next, after the next. I don't know what his end goal is, and I don't know what he thinks is
00:11:39.580 going to happen. But for people who don't know, Corey registered a third party years ago to
00:11:46.380 literally out Andrew Scheer as the Conservative leader party. I think he believes he's in the
00:11:52.380 same position that he was, you know, that many years ago, but the world has changed. He no longer
00:11:58.320 is the dominant form of media before he used to be able to be able to go on ctv say whatever he
00:12:03.840 says and then that ends up being the story that ends up being the truth but the reality is now
00:12:08.680 you have so many independent voices that carry enough of a weight with the base and get more
00:12:15.420 views than mainstream media does with the base that matters that his words no longer hold the
00:12:20.620 same weight this is all internal fighting where i don't know if he's trying to impress a few key
00:12:25.960 people that he's maybe trying to replace Pierre with, but I can tell you it's simply not going
00:12:31.940 to happen. But what does it say about the current state of unity within the Conservative Party?
00:12:38.340 Well, here's the reality of it. 99.99% of the population doesn't care about it,
00:12:45.900 nor do they care about what really Corey is saying. And what they do is when Corey gets
00:12:50.340 called out on it. And I use the example of, you know, if you and I, you know, you tell me we're
00:12:56.300 friends, and I turn around, and then you stab me in the back, I call you a fake friend. And I've
00:13:01.080 been very adamant that my belief is that I think Corey is a fake conservative as a result of it.
00:13:06.880 Because someone who's a conservative, you're allowed to disagree, you want to talk about
00:13:11.120 policy, sure, you can give those policies. But when you're making unnecessary attacks and calling
00:13:16.020 him uh the andrew tate or whatever you know other crazy words that he's been uh uh calling pierre
00:13:23.060 paulia over the last year or so he's he's now losing his own credibility he stepped the bounds
00:13:29.940 of what is ultimately credible and i think people see right through it and the reality is the the
00:13:36.180 state of the conservatives across the country most of them right now are literally against cory so
00:13:42.660 anyone that he backs in the future he will only do harm to and that that's honestly what i believe
00:13:49.060 that he has done so much damage for himself for his brand and people talk about building this
00:13:54.340 large tent how can you build a large tent with someone who's consistently kicking it down and
00:13:59.220 stabbing the leader in the back all right mary azalea thank you so much for coming on the show
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