Juno News - Hong Kong activists ask RCMP to investigate Liberal MP who made bounty comments

00:00:00.000 a civil rights group urges the rcmp to investigate liberal candidate paul chang

00:00:10.400 after he suggested kidnapping conservative candidate joe tai for a chinese bounty

00:00:15.700 women's groups are pressuring liberal leader mark carney to restore the federal gender minister role

00:00:21.500 after its removal from the interim cabinet a left-wing u.s professor known for warning

00:00:26.620 of an impending quote fascist dictatorship is joining the university of toronto hello canada

00:00:33.040 it's tuesday april 1st and this is the true north daily brief i'm cosmon georgia and i'm jeff knight

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00:00:47.540 a civil rights advocacy group is calling on the rcmp to investigate liberal candidate paul chang

00:00:58.160 after he suggested the conservative candidate joe tai should be kidnapped and turned over to chinese

00:01:05.300 authorities for a bounty hong kong watch an advocacy group focused on protecting the hong kong diaspora

00:01:12.380 from oppression by the chinese communist government believes chang's comments are grounds for arrest

00:01:18.300 chang told the hong kong-based outlet ming pao that the audience could quote claim the one million

00:01:25.100 dollar bounty if they bring conservative candidate joe tai to toronto's chinese consulate ming pao is

00:01:31.580 funded directly by the chinese state interim director of hong kong watch ed simpson said quote

00:01:37.260 this call for a canadian citizen to be delivered to the people's republic of china consulate in toronto

00:01:43.340 in return for a bounty should be disqualifying for political office mr chang's comments cannot be

00:01:49.580 ignored we believe that mr chang's comments may cross into criminality and must be investigated by

00:01:55.420 canadian law enforcement authorities the group believes chang could be guilty of quote counseling to

00:02:01.340 commit the indictable offense of kidnapping and allegedly breaching section 20 of the new

00:02:06.940 foreign interference and security of information act the letter notes that chang has not denied the

00:02:13.420 allegations liberal leader mark carney has pledged to keep chang on as a candidate despite him suggesting

00:02:20.780 his rival be kidnapped and handed over to chinese officials so jeff this has set the tone for the week

00:02:29.180 carney's campaign is on defense and we saw the liberal leader address this particular story

00:02:36.620 in the morning but he was also addressing it over the weekend so what exactly has mark carney said

00:02:41.900 about chang's comments and why is he keeping him on as a liberal candidate yeah cosmon mark carney has

00:02:49.020 addressed paul chang's disturbing comments but he's sticking by his guy which says a lot about where his

00:02:53.980 priorities are right now on march 31st during a campaign stop in vaughn ontario carney called chang's

00:03:00.140 suggestion that joe tai be turned over to the chinese consulate for a bounty deeply offensive and a terrible

00:03:05.900 lapse of judgment he didn't mince words about how wrong it was chang's remarks in january were a

00:03:11.340 reckless call to action that could have endangered a fellow canadian but instead of cutting him loose

00:03:15.980 carney framed it as a teachable moment he said he'd spoken with chang over the weekend and after that

00:03:20.860 chat chang apologized to him to tai and to the public carney doubled down saying he's apologized for his

00:03:27.340 comments he's apologized directly to me he's apologized directly to the individual he has a long

00:03:32.460 record of service and he's going to continue his candidacy carney's leaning hard on chang's 28

00:03:37.580 years as a police officer painting him as a person of integrity with a solid track record in the

00:03:42.140 community he even mentioned chang's family ties to hong kong suggesting he's not really clueless about

00:03:47.420 the stakes here carney's betting that chang's past service and his apologies outweigh the gravity of

00:03:52.220 what he said plus with the election clock ticking swapping out a candidate in a key riding like

00:03:57.500 markham unionville might be a bigger headache than weathering the storm

00:04:03.340 a coalition of women's organizations are pressuring liberal leader mark carney

00:04:07.820 to reinstate a federal gender minister after the position was removed in the interim cabinet

00:04:12.540 the gender equality portfolio was absorbed by the ministry of canadian culture and identity

00:04:17.740 led by former environment minister stephen gilbeau previously the gender equality minister position

00:04:23.100 received an annual salary of nearly three hundred thousand dollars multiple feminist ngos signed 0.53

00:04:28.060 a letter claiming that the move undermines support for women's advocacy and social programs

00:04:32.780 since march 14th nearly 400 organizations including ywca nwt ywca agvic none of it the yukon

00:04:42.860 status of women council and the yukon women's transition home society have signed a letter

00:04:48.060 calling on the prime minister to restore the dedicated cabinet position the shift has sparked

00:04:52.780 concern among certain women's groups such as the yukon status of women council whose executive

00:04:58.140 director ray lamesh said it sent a shockwave throughout activist communities and warned that

00:05:03.100 it could stall ongoing initiatives lamesh said the move quote sends quite a message especially in

00:05:09.020 these uncertain times she pointed to the trump administration's slashing of dei initiatives

00:05:13.820 the women and gender equality portfolio previously a standalone ministry funded programs addressing

00:05:18.940 partner violence legal education and support for sex workers despite these concerns the liberals

00:05:24.380 insist the work of gender equality will continue cosmon what sort of projects did the gender ministry

00:05:29.260 fund while it was still active just to start i suspect that a lot of these organizations signing

00:05:34.940 this letter and requesting the ministry to come back online and be reactivated were the same groups that

00:05:41.740 were receiving funding through that position and there are a lot of activist-based organizations that

00:05:48.460 essentially rely on the government and these like woke programs where the government just subsidizes them

00:05:55.820 with taxpayer dollars for their survival and just pointing back we've covered some of the funding

00:06:03.820 announcements back in 2023 marcy yen who was the former minister of women and gender equality she gave an

00:06:13.820 867 000 government grant for an organization that hosted fetish and bdsm seminars now that is i think most

00:06:26.780 canadians when they hear something like that would be dumbfounded and they don't even know about this like

00:06:33.260 the government is dishing out money and and i honestly even doubt that the government itself the the ministry

00:06:40.380 was aware of what this group was up to uh because like you just go through their website their youtube channel

00:06:47.740 and it's all over the place explicit information uh for a group that is advertising itself as all ages nonetheless

00:06:55.820 now marcy yen has also uh gotten into several embarrassing scandals when she was a minister for 0.99

00:07:04.140 example in the same year her and anita anand who was the minister of defense at the time i believe

00:07:13.580 put out a tweet about menstrual hygiene day essentially saying that men can also menstruate

00:07:20.300 biological males who identify as trans women so it's just such a crazy amount of wasteful spending 1.00

00:07:28.700 to advocate propaganda ideological talking points and honestly good riddance that this department is gone

00:07:36.700 but i suspect that the liberals if they get re-elected will continue to fund this stuff

00:07:42.060 a left-wing american professor who has made a name for himself by claiming the us is on the verge of

00:07:50.460 a quote fascist dictatorship is headed to the university of toronto jason stanley an american

00:07:55.900 professor of philosophy at yale university has announced that he is leaving the united states to

00:08:01.260 take a position at the university of toronto stanley has been a regular pundit on democrat affiliated media

00:08:07.740 in the u.s where he frequently denounces what he calls quote rising fascism within the u.s political

00:08:13.500 climate stanley cited this as his primary reason to leave for canada believing that the u.s is destined

00:08:20.380 to become a quote fascist dictatorship for stanley the responses to student protests at columbia university

00:08:27.660 were the tipping point following a series of pro-palestinian protests on campuses across the u.s

00:08:33.980 columbia university implemented a series of measures including suspending or expelling students involved

00:08:40.060 in actions deemed illegal or against student code of conduct stanley told the daily news a philosophy

00:08:47.820 focused publication that his decision to leave yale and move to canada was quote entirely because of the

00:08:53.500 political climate in the united states while stanley's departure has garnered attention it also raises

00:08:59.340 concerns about free speech in canada stanley has had little to say on heavy-handed government actions

00:09:05.100 by canada's own government including the invocation of the emergencies act during the 2022 freedom convoy

00:09:11.500 protests in february 2022 the federal government invoked the emergencies act to quash peaceful protesters

00:09:18.780 in ottawa a move that was later ruled unconstitutional by the federal court the court found that the

00:09:25.180 invocation of the act did not meet the legal criteria necessary for such an unprecedented measure its first

00:09:31.660 use in modern canadian history the liberal government continued to appeal the court's decision as recently

00:09:37.500 as last month jeff i recall hearing that there are other people also moving to canada other high-profile

00:09:45.180 americans i think every election cycle we hear about this especially with the re-election of donald trump

00:09:51.660 there's always a wave of left-wing democrat affiliated people in the united states who are

00:09:56.380 saying i'm going to head to canada as if that will solve all their problems are there any other

00:10:02.060 prominent left-wing americans who have recently announced that they will be relocating yeah cosmon

00:10:07.900 jason stanley isn't the only prominent left-wing american figure who's packing up for canada lately

00:10:13.180 there's two other ivy league scholars that are also making the move driven by similar concerns about

00:10:18.140 the u.s political climate under the incoming trump administration so ruth simmons former president of

00:10:24.700 brown university and khalil gibran muhammad a harvard professor of history race and public policy have

00:10:31.260 both announced plans to take up positions at the university of toronto alongside stanley

00:10:35.900 simmons a vocal advocate for equity and education has cited the rollback of diversity initiatives and

00:10:41.180 the stifling of academic freedom as a key reason for her departure muhammad known for his work on 0.53

00:10:46.380 racial justice pointed to the u.s's handling of the campus protests like those at columbia

00:10:51.580 and the broader assault on higher education as reasons for pushing him north all three see canada

00:10:56.780 as a refuge from what they describe as the increasingly hostile environment for progressive

00:11:01.020 thought in the states it's a small but notable exodus though none of them have publicly weighed in

00:11:05.660 on canada's own political missteps like the emergencies act fiasco in 2022

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Juno News - April 01, 2025

Hong Kong activists ask RCMP to investigate Liberal MP who made bounty comments

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