Juno News - April 02, 2025


Direct evidence of Liberal MP BREAKING THE LAW?


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On today's show, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the latest scandal involving Canadian politician Paul Cheung and a Chinese government bounty on his head. Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, has come under fire for his handling of the matter.

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00:00:00.000 Mark Carney. Trudeau's money man. Globalist. China's pal. Weeks in, he jets to Beijing.
00:00:09.660 Scores a $250 million loan from their state bank. 11 MPs tied to Beijing. Carney's crew
00:00:19.880 says nothing. Selling us out. Foreign cash. Secret deals. Carney's Canada.
00:00:30.000 Yesterday we learned that Paul Cheung, the controversial liberal MP, had decided to bow
00:00:39.500 out of the race. Now this was after Mark Carney originally said that he had accepted his apology
00:00:44.360 and that we're all just going to move on. I think this was one of the biggest mistakes that Mark
00:00:47.920 Carney has made so far because it allowed this to be a story for an entire weekend. You know it's
00:00:54.540 been five or six days now since news came out. Well you did some digging Mario and you shared
00:00:59.920 the recently uncovered video of Paul Cheung saying the thing that we knew that he said. So here he is
00:01:06.560 encouraging his supporters to find conservative candidate Joe Tay and turn him over basically
00:01:13.580 to the Chinese gulags in order to receive a $1 million reward. Let's play that clip.
00:01:19.240 Most probably is you know the Chinese community knows Joe Tay. Right now he's wanted by the Chinese
00:01:25.580 government and there's a $1 million reward on his head. So they want, if you guys want to pick him
00:01:32.220 up and take him to the Chinese consulate, you make him a million dollars. I'm just joking. But there is a
00:01:38.220 arrest warrant out for him from the government of China and there is a reward for him.
00:01:43.660 So I guess it's funny, at least it was to the liberals in attendance there. Mario, what do you,
00:01:48.940 what do you make of this controversy?
00:01:50.860 I was shocked that it was on video. I thought it was maybe a conversation that was had. He was being interviewed
00:01:56.700 by some sort of a magazine. It was in an Asian print. I totally misunderstood the whole thing until I saw that video.
00:02:03.340 At that point, you just have direct evidence. There's a criminal code, uh, four, six, four.
00:02:08.860 And I can't remember it verbatim, obviously, but it basically talks about, um, you, um,
00:02:15.100 counseling someone to commit an offense, even though they didn't commit the offense, you could still be liable
00:02:21.180 as though they committed it. And so it's important for Canadians to understand that concept. I cannot say,
00:02:27.020 Hey guys, um, let's kidnap Candace. Let's kidnap her. And whether bounty or not, me saying that and
00:02:36.060 stating that it would violate section four, six, four of the criminal code. And I think that is just,
00:02:41.420 just fundamentally at its base. Let's just look at it at the most basic form. You're breaking the law.
00:02:47.740 And, you know, I've had several, uh, former RCMP officers. I've had several police officers comment
00:02:54.140 on it. And because people are saying, Oh no, you know, this is BS. This is BS. You don't know what
00:02:57.420 you're talking about. No, like this is it. Like he is right. Like it's literally right. It's right there.
00:03:04.700 And, and, and it's, it's one of those things you just simply kind of argue. Now, what blew my mind
00:03:10.060 about the whole thing more than anything is the person he was talking about, Joe Tay,
00:03:13.660 he's wanted for criticizing the Hong Kong government in his YouTube channel in Canada.
00:03:23.580 Right.
00:03:24.060 In Canada. And so you have these two choices you can choose from as a liberal.
00:03:29.820 Do I speak out against this? Do I use my diplomatic ties? Do I speak to Hong Kong
00:03:36.220 and say, Hey, are you guys able to reconsider this? Can we make these charges go away? Like
00:03:41.580 we need to, we have diplomatic relationships with you guys. We want to maintain them with,
00:03:45.660 with you guy. This is someone who's, you know, uh, not only like a radio host and in the media,
00:03:50.380 but he's also looking to be a political activist. Can we have this conversation? And instead he says,
00:03:55.500 there's a bounty and go turn them in, kidnap him. Like, how is that even? And then Carney to make
00:04:02.140 things worse says it was a mistake and he apologized for it. He doubled down on this. He doubled down on
00:04:10.380 it. And I think that was the most, well, I think probably one of the biggest mistakes he has done
00:04:16.140 since being named leader, uh, of the liberal party.
00:04:19.180 Well, it's interesting. Sorry, go ahead.
00:04:22.380 No, I was just saying like, to me that that's something that is unforgivable. Like you're
00:04:26.300 supporting someone who, um, encouraged the crime and ultimately may end up being a criminal as a
00:04:32.700 result of it. It is unbelievable. I mean, like you said, this is, this is evidence, evidence of him
00:04:37.980 breaking the law. The fact that it even took three months for the media to find that clip. Like, it's not
00:04:42.860 like I, I, I agree. I assumed that he was speaking in Cantonese and that the reason that took so long is
00:04:47.820 because these things circulate like in signal groups and, you know, in Chinese ethnic media.
00:04:53.260 But the fact that he said it in English that someone recorded, it's been floating around online.
00:04:57.420 Really, really remarkable. I did a radio interview the other day on iHeartRadio with, uh, Richard
00:05:02.700 Surratt. And he said, you know, what do you think that this, uh, points to about Mark Carney himself?
00:05:09.580 Like there's a lot of speculation online. I'll just leave it that speculation that maybe he himself
00:05:15.820 has some untowards ties towards China. Like, why wouldn't he just come out and say, this guy has
00:05:20.220 to go. He broke a law. It appears, um, you know, we have free speech in Canada. And when you leave
00:05:26.460 a communist country and you come to Canada, you get all of the same rights and protections of Canadians.
00:05:32.220 You have this adversarial regime in China saying that they can just put people on a wanted list and
00:05:38.380 collect a bounty and that you can send them to the consulate and the Chinese will deal with them. 1.00
00:05:42.300 I mean, this is in light of four Canadians recently getting executed in China on trumped-up charges.
00:05:47.500 So to me, you're absolutely right. And then even just the arrogance of Mark Carney, um, I'm going to
00:05:53.180 play this clip. Here he is in Winnipeg, basically just telling reporters that it's a teachable moment.
00:05:59.500 Remember Justin Trudeau used to always say this. Anytime he'd get busted with the scandal, he would
00:06:03.260 turn it around back on Canadians. Like, we didn't know that blackface was wrong. This is a learnable, 0.99
00:06:08.060 teachable moment for all of us. Right. Or like, yes, um, I groped that woman, but she experienced
00:06:13.660 it differently. And this is a learnable moment about consent that we're all learning together.
00:06:17.260 It's like, this doesn't fly guys. But anyway, here's Mark Carney, um, telling the press to just
00:06:23.020 move on. It's over now. And let's all learn from the moment.
00:06:25.580 It appears the involvement of the RCMP forced candidate Paul Chang to bow out of the race.
00:06:32.140 Meanwhile, the conservatives just removed their problematic candidate in Windsor
00:06:36.220 within an hour of learning of issues of this individual. Why didn't you do the same with
00:06:40.940 Chang? And was this a teachable moment for you? Uh, Mr. Chang, uh, made his resignation,
00:06:48.780 uh, offered his resignation last night. I accepted it. Um, uh, as I said yesterday, his, uh,
00:06:54.700 comments were, uh, deeply, uh, deeply troubling, uh, and, uh, and, and regrettable. Um,
00:07:02.940 we will move on with, uh, looking for a new candidate, uh, for Markham. Um,
00:07:09.260 and I'll leave it at that. Okay. Just, just to pick up on something she mentioned,
00:07:13.100 she talked about how a conservative candidate got ousted an hour, uh, after the scandal broke.
00:07:18.460 Interesting. I wanted to show the CTV headline conservative candidate boosted, uh, booted after
00:07:22.940 CTV news uncovered audio of joke about Justin Trudeau and the death penalty. So CTV is just kind of like
00:07:29.740 openly going after conservative candidates. And it's like, you know, they're boasting about it.
00:07:33.500 Like, look, we got this guy. Um, you know, the candidate himself, I think he was on a comedy
00:07:39.100 podcast and he was joking about, as, as you can see, they're obviously totally unacceptable in
00:07:45.180 political, in the political world and probably not suitable to be a candidate. We're talking about
00:07:49.580 Mark McKenzie, who was the conservative candidate for Windsor to come say Lakeshore.
00:07:55.100 But the context is that it was a comedy show and he was making an untowards joke. Compare that to
00:08:01.340 the liberal MP who was actually telling people, I mean, maybe he was kind of joking, but the topic
00:08:07.100 itself is really serious because the Chinese government actually does have a bounty on this
00:08:11.820 conservative candidate's head. And I wanted to mention another candidate. This is some reporting
00:08:16.780 from Juneau News, my colleague, Kian Bextie, Thomas Keeper, who was the liberal candidate
00:08:22.460 for Calgary Confederation. He has also stepped down and is no longer running after an explosive
00:08:28.940 Juneau News investigation where Kian exposed all kinds of insane allegations, like just totally
00:08:34.460 disturbing things about this individual and his personal life. Juneau News broke the news, exposed him,
00:08:42.140 and within about, I would say about 48 hours later, he was no longer the candidate. So,
00:08:47.820 I think that's three candidates that have been removed. Interestingly, for both the liberals,
00:08:52.700 it took a couple of days for them to eventually do the right thing, whereas the conservatives,
00:08:56.620 to their credit, cut ties with this candidate almost immediately. What do you think? I mean,
00:09:01.740 to me, I thought that we had kind of moved away from cancel culture and that it wasn't going to be the 0.98
00:09:05.580 main story of this election. And yet every single topic that we've discussed on the show so far today,
00:09:10.860 Mario has been about cancel culture. So do you think this is just sort of accountability in the modern
00:09:16.140 age and we're never going to get away from it? Or is this sort of like an example of cancel culture
00:09:21.500 run amok? I think there is hypersensitivity in some regards and in others there aren't. So, you know,
00:09:29.580 if we look at Paul Chiang, he was doing, it looked to be some sort of oppressor. It looked very official.
00:09:36.220 It doesn't look like he's on a comedy stage telling jokes to people. His scenario is not a hypothetical.
00:09:42.860 It is real. Like this bounty exists. You know, we're going to basically, you could turn this person in,
00:09:48.220 ha, ha, ha, ha. But seriously, there's a reward for him. You could turn them in. And it's kind of like,
00:09:54.060 wait a second. That's not very funny yet. The conservatives, as you said, I didn't know he was
00:10:00.540 on a comedy like podcast and he had made that joke as distasteful as it is, as I personally don't like
00:10:07.260 it myself within the hour. And that to me just shows the differences in leadership. And even just the way
00:10:12.860 in that clip where he showed how Mark Carney answered the question deflected, he simply deflected and he's
00:10:19.340 just telling you what he said. He's not really answering or taking ownership at all. And this
00:10:25.420 is typical. This is media training. And what I'll say is liberal training 101. Um, yes, as you recall
00:10:32.780 yesterday, I said, those comments were deplorable and you know, we're going to seek a new candidate.
00:10:40.060 Like, okay. But like, we literally like, why didn't you let him go immediately? Why did it take you so
00:10:45.260 lot? Why did you back him? Like did he, he broke a crime? Like this is a serious issue. He didn't
00:10:50.620 answer any of that. There's no apologies. There's no, and this is exactly the difference in leadership
00:10:56.620 where I think one is, and here, here's, here's, I think the difference, I actually had this
00:11:00.700 conversation with someone this morning that with, uh, Justin Trudeau, he lies to you in such a nice,
00:11:09.820 likable manner. He will smile. Hey guys, you know, he will put on this show
00:11:14.220 as his drama teacher and he gets very animated and he talks to you, but we know he's lying,
00:11:19.740 but he's a likable liar. Like he just comes across so friendly. Pierre Polyev is a straight shooter.
00:11:28.220 And it's almost as though there's certain Canadians that would prefer to be lied to with a smile.
00:11:35.100 And you know, this is such a teachable moment and we're going to find someone where Pierre Polyev
00:11:40.220 will say we let him go. And it was despicable and it's disgraceful. He's no longer with us.
00:11:45.500 And you know, he probably would have been like, I made a mistake yesterday and you move on.
00:11:49.500 That's a huge difference in leadership because I, I truly believe Canadians and myself,
00:11:56.300 I like what you see is what you get. And I would prefer to have it given it to me straight without
00:12:03.180 any sort of like, you know, don't try to make it pretty. Don't try to just tell it to me like a
00:12:07.340 straight shooter. And that's how I, I approach myself as well on social media. How I talk to you
00:12:14.220 is no different. How I would talk to the King of England or how I would talk to anyone else in Canada.
00:12:20.220 Like no one gets any sort of special privileges. And I think that is very important from a leader
00:12:25.260 where I think with Mark Carney, can you trust what he's telling you? And to me, the answer that I keep
00:12:31.020 going back to is no, because if you, in a perfect example, and you brought up China and I want to go 0.98
00:12:35.580 back to this real quickly. If you look at his ex post account, do a search for China, not one tweet,
00:12:42.860 not one word, not one criticism, not nothing about the Canadians that were killed in China
00:12:51.500 with their death penalties, whatever the charges are, whatever they were, whatever they were, it doesn't
00:12:55.180 matter. They were killed. No comment. The a hundred percent tariff comes in on canola oil,
00:12:59.580 no comment. Like there's just no comment, no comment, no comment about anything related to
00:13:03.900 China. And you start looking in deeper and he's talking about, you know, in the past,
00:13:07.980 he's actually talked about, you know, moving away from the U S dollar and, you know, maybe having some
00:13:12.780 sort of a hybrid system where the Chinese, uh, you are, UN or Yuan is basically the main currency that we
00:13:19.260 should probably be looking towards. And so economically speaking, he is already looking at that and he wants
00:13:25.660 to do as little as possible to not sever those ties. And he clearly wants to make a very, very close
00:13:30.620 connection with China. If he hasn't already, if you look at the Chinese election interference that
00:13:35.580 has happened and even the report, the, the, you know, the, the reports that came out, the majority
00:13:41.580 of the names in there, if not all are liberal people, and it's all coming from the same state.
00:13:46.140 Um, you look at the, the donations that Justin Trudeau, even when he won his riding in 2015,
00:13:51.340 I think it was, people were bust into his riding. There's all these max donations. It's all Chinese, 1.00
00:13:58.140 uh, descendants or Chinese, uh, um, uh, based, um, or Chinese descendants that are now living in
00:14:05.100 Canada. And so there's, there's just a lot of really unusual red flags there. And so I really,
00:14:11.020 I really, yeah, I I'm just, I'm really not a fan, uh, when I connect all these little dots.
00:14:17.180 Well, it's so interesting because the main question of this election seems to be like,
00:14:20.700 who's going to stand up for Canada in the, the wake of Donald Trump, President Trump and the
00:14:25.500 threats. And it's like, what about China? Like it, you know, in, in, in what world is our closest 0.98
00:14:31.260 friend and ally, the country that shares the most in terms of values out of any country in the world
00:14:36.460 that we've had this historic relationship with, in what world are they a bigger threat than the actual
00:14:41.820 nefarious aggressive regime that allegedly runs secret police stations in Canada?
00:14:49.420 I played that clip of you last week, talking about how Mark Carney wants the Yuan to be the
00:14:54.460 global reserve currency. I mean, that's terrifying to me. Um, there was footage that emerged of Mark
00:15:00.460 Carney saying that, actually trying to sell investors on China saying that they have done an amazing job
00:15:06.140 basically with their green transition. And, you know, Mark Carney really is a zealot. He's an ideologue
00:15:13.260 when it comes to net zero and the climate. I mean, the big news story today is that they've gotten
00:15:18.380 rid of the carbon tax, but they haven't really. And then whoops, Mark Carney let it slip that he
00:15:22.540 wouldn't overturn Bill C-69, the new pipelines deal. So really like what, what, what's the difference
00:15:28.620 between him and Trudeau? Not much. And I think that these ties and these connections to China are just so
00:15:33.740 worrying and so concerning. I worry that Canadians don't really understand the issue or don't really care. 0.91
00:15:38.380 Like when, when it comes to anything with China, they just don't really engage and they don't see
00:15:42.460 it in the same way as you know, Donald Trump is like the perfect villain. He's, he's this animated
00:15:48.060 character that the media has spent a decade demonizing. And I think to so many Canadians, they
00:15:52.700 just, he lives rent free in their, in their minds and they're constantly worried that he's going to
00:15:57.020 destroy our country. And here we actually have evidence of him saying these kinds of things and
00:16:01.740 he wants Canada to become the 51st state. It was like the perfect storm and we've allowed it to
00:16:07.020 overtake our election. You know, you were talking about how Canadians would prefer to be lied to by
00:16:11.500 someone with a smile. One of the things about Mark Carney is that he's almost like straight from
00:16:17.100 central casting. He looks like a prime minister. He sounds like a prime minister. Polls show that
00:16:21.580 Canadians say he is their preferred prime minister. And it's almost like he's a Manchurian candidate.
00:16:26.140 Like where did he come from? Who, you know, where, where is his money? Where did he make his money?
00:16:30.220 Where are his investments? He's not telling us anything. He does have these weird ties to China,
00:16:34.140 the fact that he refused to fire this candidate shows that he has some kind of a commitment or
00:16:40.620 loyalty or something. And you know, maybe the media allows him to get away with it. I'm glad that there's
00:16:47.260 citizen reporters out there like you, Mario, that is really connecting the dots out there,
00:16:52.060 putting it all together. I'll leave the last word to you.
00:16:54.940 Yeah. I mean, I, I completely agree. And I think that there's definitely something else going on.
00:17:01.580 And I think Canadians really need to start asking themselves that question. Like what could it
00:17:05.980 possibly be? Um, I, I don't have all the answers, but I do know what I know. And there, there are a
00:17:14.060 lot of things that are very unusual, especially from a prime minister, especially given the events that
00:17:18.860 have happened. You, you can only come to some sort of a conclusion that there is some sort of a tie
00:17:24.860 that he is actually not disclosing. And, and I think disclosure has always been a major problem
00:17:29.980 with Mark Carney because people have to keep in mind, he was never an elected official. Like he is
00:17:35.180 not, um, he doesn't, he's not a member of parliament. And when you're not a member of parliament, you do not
00:17:40.620 have the same disclosure requirements. And that's why he was able to get away with some of the non-disclosures
00:17:47.020 that he did not do that Pierre Polyev wants to close that loop because it makes absolutely zero
00:17:53.340 sense. And I just actually, um, released a video this morning that talked about how, um, you know,
00:17:58.780 Mark Carney promised to build half a million homes a year and the government's getting in the business
00:18:03.340 of building homes, but I've never heard of a G7 country getting into that business, uh, or a government.
00:18:09.740 I mean, it's, it's, it's flat up, like straight up, like in what world do we believe a bureaucracy
00:18:14.540 and government workers are going to be able to build homes in this country? It's, it's so offensive.
00:18:18.220 The fact that Canadians might fall for it is outrageous. Sorry to interrupt you.
00:18:22.060 No, no, no. And you're absolutely right. And the thing is, is like, and so I started thinking,
00:18:26.140 and I was like, how, like Canada can't do this. They just can't. So how would it work? And I started
00:18:31.900 looking into it and it'd be Brookfield and Brookfield would make the most sense to do it because they are
00:18:37.980 actually in multi-unit res and if you dig in deeper, um, there are, you know, conflicts that
00:18:44.700 exist. And the fact that Mark Carney did not disclose exactly what went into the blind trust
00:18:48.940 before he put in the blind trust is the biggest red flag to me because he very well knows he probably
00:18:53.340 has $6 million plus in stock options alone in Brookfield. Like, how do I know, uh, he didn't
00:18:59.180 have stocks or stock in Telsat or Telesat before they got the $2.4 billion from the liberal government.
00:19:05.820 The CEO of Telesat is one of his best friends. It's one of his close friends. His kids used to
00:19:10.220 play soccer together. They're pictured there together. The week he gets announced as the, uh,
00:19:15.820 lead economic advisor to baby, basically babysit Chrystia Freeland, um, uh, and oversee the economic
00:19:22.060 tax, they get the $2.4 billion. And you know, their stock, um, at that point had been up almost a
00:19:28.940 hundred, it went up almost a hundred percent for, I think the year 2024, it doubled in price. You're telling me
00:19:35.980 that this guy that you're close friends with, that you definitely have some sort of inside knowledge
00:19:40.860 because you're now the economic advisor of this task force that you don't have oversight to the
00:19:45.740 budget that is going to, or to the government, that's basically going to give 2 point something
00:19:50.220 billion dollars to your buddy. Like it's, but it's, but here's the thing, he's a private citizen.
00:19:57.020 So he doesn't have to disclose that conflicts of interest does not affect them. So in his case,
00:20:02.140 and he, he, he will make the case of I've done nothing wrong. I don't have to disclose anything.
00:20:07.100 And he never did. And so what he did now is he pro so he doesn't have to disclose his assets.
00:20:12.940 He preemptively put it into a blind trust. That way he never has to tell you what he had in the
00:20:19.180 first place. So when he makes these decisions and truthfully, like, and I think people should
00:20:24.460 understand, like I have a very, very strong business background, like I mean, international,
00:20:29.660 international management, corporate strategy, like you name it. Like I know how to set up,
00:20:34.060 you know, basically if I wanted to, I wouldn't touch it because it's not worth it for me.
00:20:37.900 But yeah, setting up a tax haven is not hard setting up transfer pricing the way Brookfield does.
00:20:42.620 It is not, I know how to do these things. And you know, when you understand international and corporate
00:20:47.900 finance at the level that I do, you know, how he's going to do it. And you know, how he's able to get
00:20:53.820 away with it. And you know, how the tax evasion system can legally work. But when the average person
00:20:59.980 does it, you get the cuffs when a large corporation and someone like Mark Carney does it at best,
00:21:05.740 you will get a slap in the wrist, but on average, you just, you turn the other way.
00:21:09.980 And I think that that's probably the biggest issue that I think also exists with him is the lack of
00:21:17.820 transparency. So I just really don't understand how he can get past the point to get Canadians trust
00:21:24.780 when he's been so opaque about his holdings, his dealings with China, and frankly, a lot of other
00:21:30.940 things. I think he's very, very conflicted. Wow. There's just so much there to unpack. And it's so
00:21:36.220 terrifying the fact that someone could be stepping in as prime minister, totally unelected, selected
00:21:41.580 by maybe 100,000 liberal insiders, so we're told. And the entire ruse of being prime minister could
00:21:48.300 just be like a money making opportunity for him personally. Like all of the policies he's introducing,
00:21:53.340 for all we know, could just be to line the coffers of his, you know, the companies that he owns shares
00:22:00.060 in that are in a blind trust that he set up without our knowledge. I don't think we've ever faced a
00:22:04.540 situation like this. And it really is terrifying. Well, Mario, we got to leave it at that. Thank you
00:22:09.580 so much for joining us, everyone. I encourage you to head on over and follow Mario. He's connecting
00:22:13.660 the dots. He's a really good account to follow, very knowledgeable, as you could just tell from
00:22:17.580 this interview. So Mario, thanks so much for your time. Appreciate you joining the show.
00:22:20.460 Thanks, Candice. I appreciate it.
00:22:22.220 All right, folks. That's all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. We'll be back
00:22:25.260 again tomorrow with all the news. I'm Candice Malcolm. This is The Candice Malcolm Show. Thank you and God bless.
00:22:34.540 Thank you.