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

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

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