Juno News - Jyoti Gondek's home raided by police amid corruption allegations

The former mayor of Calgary, Jody Gonduk, has her home raided by police amid corruption allegations. She said she's cooperating with investigators but described the search as highly intrusive. Ezra Levant, founder of The Rebel, joins us to discuss the story.

00:00:00.000 just want to talk about this breaking news story that's developing. And that is that the former

00:00:04.740 mayor of Calgary, Jody Gonduk, had her home raided by police amid corruption allegations. Gonduk

00:00:11.520 confirmed that officers attended her residence with a warrant and seized her cell phone. So this

00:00:16.540 is from Juno News. RCMP executed warrants and seized evidence from the homes of former mayor

00:00:21.760 of Calgary, Jody Gonduk, and two other Calgary political figures as part of an ongoing corruption

00:00:27.100 investigation. The searches targeted Gonduk, former city councillor Sean Chu, and sitting

00:00:32.400 Ward 10 councillor Andre Chabot. All three have said that they are cooperating with the authorities.

00:00:38.720 Gonduk confirmed that officers attended her residence with a warrant and seized her cell

00:00:43.760 phone. I have been fully cooperative with respect and respect the legal process, said Gonduk.

00:00:48.820 At the same time, this has been very invasive and my lawyer and I will be reviewing it closely to

00:00:54.960 ensure it was justified. Calgary Police Services confirmed that it initially received a complaint

00:00:59.680 in October 2025 and referred the matter to the RCMP. She said she's cooperating with investigators

00:01:05.340 but described the search as highly intrusive, really crazy, wild story. So I'm going to introduce

00:01:11.980 our guest, Ezra Levant. You know him well. He is the founder of The Rebel. Ezra, welcome to the show

00:01:17.380 and maybe you can comment on this wild story out of Calgary. Yeah, I mean, to have a raid on a

00:01:22.840 former politicians home is very dramatic. They would have needed to most likely go before a

00:01:27.860 court on an ex parte basis, which means the element of surprise. So courts are very reluctant

00:01:33.480 to make a dramatic ruling where the other party is not there. One of the fundamentals of our law

00:01:39.760 is here the other side. But what if the element of surprise is necessary? So they would have had

00:01:44.960 to have quite compelling documents, typically affidavits sworn by police called an information

00:01:50.440 to obtain an ITO. So I haven't seen those, obviously. They've been kept secret while the

00:01:56.740 raid happened. They will later be released. It'll be fascinating to see what was so shocking

00:02:02.800 that a court allowed a sneak attack raid on really the most prestigious office in the city,

00:02:10.160 the mayor. So, you know, we obviously can't judge yet. Everyone's innocent until proven guilty.

00:02:14.980 but boy this looks bad. Well especially because of the sort of corruption angle of it right like

00:02:21.260 we do have so much trust in our public officials in this country and when you hear about corruption

00:02:26.340 allegations I'll just be perfectly frank as I think about the third world I think about the 1.00

00:02:30.440 developing world and you know the fact that when you're in Mexico like people bribe the police and

00:02:35.120 if you're you're traveling in Asia people bribe you know border guards and things like that like

00:02:39.720 like that kind of activity is third role activity so it is quite shocking for it to be happening in

00:02:44.360 one of Canada's major cities to a person who was not too long ago the mayor and someone who is

00:02:49.340 very broadly respected, presumably.

Juno News - March 25, 2026

Jyoti Gondek's home raided by police amid corruption allegations

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