Jyoti Gondek's home raided by police amid corruption allegations
Episode Stats
Words per minute
184.71263
Harmful content
Hate speech
1
sentences flagged
Summary
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.
Transcript
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