Juno News - Liberals mock crime wave sweeping Canada

00:00:00.000 Welcome back, Juno News. I'm Alexander Brown, host here of Not Sorry. I'm the director of the

00:00:10.960 National Citizens Coalition. I'm a writer, a campaigner, thrilled to be with you, thrilled

00:00:15.980 to be able to talk to you coming out of Labor Day, coming out of a Wild West weekend where I'm as

00:00:23.480 frustrated as you are. I hope that you were on the dock. I hope that you were walking in nature

00:00:29.960 I trust you were spending time with your loved ones and being grateful for all that we have,

00:00:35.700 even in our often frustrating country. But going into the weekend, Sean Frazier sniped back at Pierre

00:00:42.620 Polyev saying, you know, this is not the Wild West in relation to the Lindsay self-defense case.

00:00:48.440 That tweet has gone viral the world over. That is going to hang around his neck like a millstone for

00:00:53.800 the rest of his career. And it should. And it should hang there along with whatever millstone

00:00:59.460 has been created, you know, thanks to his time in immigration and housing, because

00:01:04.140 generationally incompetent, one of the worst of the worst, there's no way around it.

00:01:08.920 But quite unfortunately, and this has been reported on here at Juno News and all across,

00:01:15.260 you know, media streams, it was a rough weekend for this country on the public safety file.

00:01:21.360 There was a, it seems like an execution of a father in front of his family. There was a

00:01:30.320 horrible instance in Welland, Ontario, where it is believed to have occurred that

00:01:37.260 a former offender, they're always former offenders, we know why, broke into a family's home overnight and

00:01:47.300 sexually assaulted a five-year-old. You know, that's, I don't know when these things became

00:01:57.900 acceptable in our country. There's been great reporting recently here at Juno News as well

00:02:03.260 from Clayton Domain on this Jewish woman who was attacked in a supermarket. And it was for being 1.00

00:02:13.440 a Jewish woman at a supermarket. We have stunning video from Mario Zelaya that's gone all kinds of

00:02:22.980 viral and is now prompting an OPP investigation where, you know, there's this all but militia of guys

00:02:31.080 just letting loose rounds into the, into McTeer and Muskoka. And I, I used to work summer jobs in

00:02:38.540 Muskoka. That is a populated area. Like outside of that park, outside of that bridge, there are

00:02:44.720 working class homes. It's not just the affluent cottages. There are people walking those trails

00:02:50.880 and those are live rounds dropping among them from, we know these guys don't have, you know,

00:02:56.440 they're, they're shooting licenses. We know they don't have their PAL or their RPAL. We do know

00:03:01.060 that they're likely on temporary visas of some sort. And apparently this had been going on for months.

00:03:07.540 And finally, because it goes viral that we decided to give a darn, this is the Wild West in comparison

00:03:15.480 to 10 years ago without the advantages of the Wild West, such as you could stake a claim for yourself.

00:03:23.940 You could afford a home. If you were, you know, a hardworking young person, you could defend yourself

00:03:29.780 without, you know, being thrown into this bureaucratic legal nightmare, having to defend the

00:03:36.880 fact that you defended your family. This is more insulting gaslighting. This is more performative

00:03:43.320 nonsense from the same group of people who put us in this situation of decline to begin with.

00:03:50.620 You can tell I'm tired of it. It's upsetting. It's upsetting to all of us.

00:03:55.820 We're going into a September where vital change needs to happen. And we're looking at the same

00:04:04.220 damn gaslight. I don't think that's acceptable. I imagine you don't think that's acceptable too. 0.99

00:04:10.060 And I'm thankful to have you here to watch this episode because we're going to talk to Alex Zoltan,

00:04:15.920 the crime reporter here at Juneau News and the True North Wire service, which is going to be

00:04:21.120 of a big help because this is infuriating. This is a time to push on all these key files,

00:04:26.780 whether it's immigration, whether it's crime, housing, employment, because if we don't get this

00:04:32.720 fixed now, it gets worse. And I want to draw your attention to something because maybe you saw it

00:04:38.740 today. Doug Ford, Ontario's premier, just pulled a cheap stunt over this crown royal situation where

00:04:50.420 a bottling plant, not the operation in Gimli, Manitoba, a bottling plant, believed to have been

00:04:58.840 planning this move to leave for the U.S. and shut down operations in Ontario for years because whiskey

00:05:06.620 sales globally are changing. People are drinking less. Doug turned it into this cheap performative

00:05:13.080 stunt when most of these crimes occurred that we just talked about in Ontario. He pours the 40 out

00:05:21.160 and thinks he's spiking the football, thinks it's some wonderful moment. It is cheap nonsense at a

00:05:30.620 moment when people are being executed in their homes, when families feel less and less safe,

00:05:37.040 when young people do not recognize the towns they are trying to start families in and lay down roots.

00:05:44.960 We are pouring out booze. We are doing the let them eat cake thing. Everything with him is

00:05:50.000 let them drink booze. It's retail politician nonsense. It is dreamed up by consultants

00:05:57.400 and transactional consultants. And you can tell because they do not have your interests at heart.

00:06:04.780 He is, this is a phantom protecting of jobs here. This, this place was already shutting down.

00:06:11.100 This is a parlor trick and a parlor trick at a time when Ford, who does comment on this issue

00:06:18.260 of crime during this, this presser should be talking to his new buddy, Mark Carney about all they can do to

00:06:24.900 fix crime. He should be more critical about that than all this cheap nonsense.

00:06:32.100 Thank you for sticking around for this interview. Can you tell I'm angry?

00:06:36.500 Juno news.com slash not sorry for 20% off.

00:06:40.380 We now welcome on Alex Zoltan, true north wire service crime reporter does great work

00:06:46.720 through Juno news. We are of course talking about the wild west coming out of labor day. We're talking

00:06:54.120 about the flippancy of, of Sean Frazier's tweet, dismissing these very real concerns is, is not

00:07:01.160 happening. We, we look around, we, you know, you leave your house. We've can very much tell that it's

00:07:05.680 happening. No one's been on this beat quite like, you know, the man on the call with me right now,

00:07:10.480 as a, as a crime reporter, he has recently put out stories on that 18 year old who, who stabbed up the

00:07:19.260 Calgary stampede on that just unconscionable sort of targeting home invasion, allegedly ensure sounds

00:07:28.900 like an execution in Vaughn. Alex Zoltan, thank you for joining the show. Thank you. Are we, are we in

00:07:36.700 the wild west right now? I would say that yes, we are. One of the things that bothers me so much

00:07:43.080 right now in crime reporting is when police departments suggest that the crime rate has gone

00:07:48.480 down. Um, there's a certain level of speaking to people that is required in journalism. And if you

00:07:54.780 speak to people, they will tell you that crime is so high and that we've hit a critical mass and people

00:07:59.540 just aren't even reporting it anymore. So yeah, it's absolutely the wild west for sure.

00:08:05.720 Yeah. I was, uh, I just left the house this morning running some errands before, you know,

00:08:09.700 we, we got to record this and I, I'm not even kidding. Like I witnessed like two or three felonies,

00:08:14.880 but it's now this baseline. We've lowered the standard where, you know, you, you see rampant

00:08:21.440 drug use, you see the 10 cities, you see degradation, you see, you know, petty nonsense.

00:08:27.380 And we know that people aren't calling the police anymore when they see it, because you're going,

00:08:33.060 we all stand up against the big stuff when we have to, but you're going like, is this worth my time

00:08:37.860 right now when I got stuff to do? And the cops might just shrug their shoulders.

00:08:44.160 Heck, you get your car stolen in a place like Toronto right now. They just tell you to call

00:08:47.680 the insurance company. They don't even try to find it. You can bring them the GPS responder

00:08:52.260 saying it's here. It's in this illegal trucking yard in Caledon, let's say, because they're

00:08:57.620 increasingly in Caledon. It's destroying that wonderful town. And they go, call your insurance

00:09:02.200 company, not our problem. Going into this story that you've reported on where York police said

00:09:09.920 officers were called to a residence shortly before 1am on Sunday, where they found a 46 year old man

00:09:16.480 suffering from trauma to his body. We have since seen online chatter and learned reports that this

00:09:25.880 could have been, you know, as bad as it gets, that this was a kind of potential sort of gangland

00:09:31.060 execution in front of a family. You've been covering crime, you know, for a number of years

00:09:37.020 now, and you're great on Twitter. You do an excellent job sort of communicating with the

00:09:41.140 Juno News audience. Have you ever seen anything like this?

00:09:45.280 Oh, gangland executions, well, I'm from Surrey, so yes. Famously, we had the 36 case, and that

00:09:52.220 was a case of mistaken identity. I think that there's an element to this story that people

00:09:58.080 should be cognizant of in terms of reporting, because in this story and the Welland story,

00:10:02.840 which both happened over the Labor Day weekend, that was the one involving the horrific assault

00:10:06.500 of a child. In both cases, the police said that they were targeted. Well, targeted is a very broad

00:10:13.320 term, right? So targeted could mean that they were targeted because they were in a case of mistaken

00:10:19.580 identity, right? So yeah, this is not entirely new gangland executions, but it is horrific,

00:10:27.680 and it's terribly inconvenient for Sean Fraser to have said, this is not the Wild West, just before

00:10:35.140 this horrific long weekend of serial crime across the province of Ontario specifically, which of

00:10:41.880 course we know is the liberal stronghold. And a liberal light stronghold now, if one could make

00:10:48.460 the case with Ontario's premier, it strikes me as another instance of this kind of disconnect between

00:10:56.700 reality and communications, which reminds so many, I think, of the Trudeau years, where

00:11:01.240 you leave your house, everything is really, is looking not as great as it used to, and then you're

00:11:08.360 being told through official channels that everything is hunky-dory, you know, don't be offensive, take your

00:11:14.000 medicine, you know, we don't have a crime problem, we don't have an immigration problem, housing's

00:11:18.320 not so bad, you know, forget the drugs, it's in the best interest of society. And you're going,

00:11:24.100 no, it's not. Like, we can tell it's not. We see the impacts it has in our communities, we see the

00:11:30.200 impacts it's having on our youth, on employment, on public safety, on the conversations we all have

00:11:37.160 in private, and we all have them. You know, you go to even some stuffy liberal cocktail party now,

00:11:43.140 not that I really get invited to those. And people are talking about, like, the degradation

00:11:47.120 at their doorstep. And then after a Labor Day weekend of the gun, Sean Frazier, you know,

00:11:55.660 leading into it, tells everybody, like, Baghdad, Bob, nothing to worry about, folks.

00:12:02.300 Well, yeah, I mean, I think we just both found out. We're both from BC and maybe from BC. We're

00:12:07.420 living in BC and fairly close to the downtown core of Vancouver. And that has always been the

00:12:13.740 epicenter of Canadian chaos. What I find really crazy about these police statistics, them saying

00:12:20.960 that crime has gone down, you know, there's that old saying, I think Benjamin Franklin said,

00:12:24.340 there's three types of lies, small lies, big lies, and statistics. And in this case, if you have eyes

00:12:30.840 and ears, and you've lived in the lower mainland for a long time, you can tell that things are much

00:12:36.500 worse, because there are now multiple downtown east sides, there are what I like to call satellite

00:12:43.180 downtown east sides. And it doesn't just go across Vancouver, it also goes all the way into the

00:12:48.320 interior. Kelowna, I think, has one of the largest 10 cities anywhere in North America.

00:12:54.860 So my eyes and ears do not lie. I think that many Canadians feel the same way. We're at a real

00:13:01.460 crisis point. And it is a form of gaslighting for the Minister of Justice of all people to say that

00:13:07.620 this is not the wild west. When we see rampant crime and homelessness everywhere, we turn.

00:13:14.280 Yeah, and I think like the concern amongst other concerns with this is, this is the same Justice

00:13:21.740 Minister who just beat the ever loving heck, I'll say heck, out of immigration and housing. Like we've

00:13:31.780 seen like historical ineptitude, like he will go down, he's on the Mount Rushmore with Justin Trudeau

00:13:38.840 for most damaging politicians to this country. Yeah, he was following some orders. But you know,

00:13:44.780 at some point, you can say, I don't know, maybe a few million less, or maybe this should keep up with

00:13:50.100 the housing supply. And now we're handing him a sort of crime and chaos file. And he's giving us

00:13:57.320 the kind of answer that they gave us on immigration and housing, not years ago, which they now admit

00:14:03.360 and say, Oh, we got to solve this crisis, that crisis, who's been in charge? Who's been in charge

00:14:09.540 this whole time? We frequently hear Ontario's Premier Doug Ford, a three term conservative majority

00:14:17.280 friend of Mark Carney's saying, Oh, you know, we got to fix this, folks.

00:14:23.400 You're the Premier. It boggles the mind, it drives people crazy that these these changes in

00:14:31.880 population growth, we're finally witnessing. It's not just like sending temporary scammers home. It's

00:14:39.520 it's people giving up because they're so frustrated with this. I know so many talented Canadian

00:14:45.020 professionals far more talented than I, I have one of these sort of communications, imaginary laptop

00:14:51.300 jobs, like people with people with crazy skill sets are looking around for other visas, because

00:14:56.760 they're going, I don't feel safe. I don't feel like they have immigration under control. I can't afford 1.00

00:15:01.240 a house. These, these, these terrible stories this, this weekend that just serve to remind those even

00:15:09.840 on even on, you know, Labor Day, it's supposed to be this nice, like, moment of self reflection and

00:15:15.840 like quiet moments on the dock. Well, across from the dock, we now have temporary foreign worker 0.97

00:15:21.860 militias firing off illegal rounds. And in McTeer and in Muskoka, like, there are family homes just

00:15:30.000 along that tree line. There are there are kids working summer jobs. I used to work summer jobs

00:15:34.680 there. I worked at a marina and I pumped gas, I detailed boats, I did a terrible job at it. But I,

00:15:40.000 I, I don't remember there being a bunch of guys who just got here just letting loose with assault

00:15:46.780 rifles. Like, could you've done a good job pointing out this story? I mean, we've all seen the videos

00:15:52.300 from Mario Zalaya as well. Like, what can you tell us, you know, more about this, this group of guys?

00:15:59.560 Which group of guys specifically are you referring to? Like the, the bridge in Muskoka, let's say the,

00:16:05.060 the, what the heck happened there? Yeah. And we're looking at the video now.

00:16:10.120 Yeah. So I did a very, so I covered a very similar, Muskoka is very far away. Canada is a very large

00:16:15.820 country, as you know. So, but we had a similar group of guys in DC that I followed with the help

00:16:22.600 of my editor, Cosmo Georgia. Big shout out to him because he helped with the story immensely.

00:16:26.520 Big shout out. Cosmo is amazing. And, and so what we did is we found a video via X, you know,

00:16:33.940 via third party, of course, that showed a bunch of guys doing a similar thing in, in the outskirts

00:16:39.620 of the greater Vancouver area. And we were able to locate probably, I would say within, you know,

00:16:46.660 a degree of separation of two or three people, exactly who it was in a matter of minutes.

00:16:52.000 It really wasn't that difficult. We just zoomed in on the license plate and we looked at the

00:16:56.000 license plate cover and we figured out the dealership. We contacted the Surrey police and the RCMP

00:17:01.800 about this. And like, you know, I get it. It's kids shooting guns. On the one hand, it's kind of

00:17:07.600 innocent, but on the other hand, it's the brazenness of doing it and showing your license plate and

00:17:14.560 filming it on the internet that I find offensive as just like a reasonable human being, right? Like

00:17:19.560 it's, there's something I find really genuinely upsetting about that just in terms of people maybe

00:17:28.060 thinking that they're above the law, uh, or at best being too ignorant to know that there is a law.

00:17:36.960 Or that the law doesn't matter. Like that's the concern, right? Like it's, it's, if we care so

00:17:41.660 little about this stuff that we can, you know, uh, do the, uh, ISIS Kalashnikov into the air routine in, in

00:17:51.160 borderline residential areas and post our, our cars in our, in our, you know, they're practically holding

00:17:59.280 up their, their driver's licenses and, uh, you know, that months could go by and no one could know or give a

00:18:06.100 darn. And thank goodness for you guys being on the beat there and, and doing the job that the police

00:18:10.960 are supposed to do, because I see this too. Like I, I've covered immigration extensively more than

00:18:16.780 I'd like to. It's just such a big problem. I see the problems it's causing for young people. It's

00:18:21.060 like, I want to talk about other stuff, but if I can interject your very briefly, I think the police

00:18:27.160 are doing that within the resources that they have and the laws that they're constrained by are,

00:18:32.600 are doing what they can. So this is a crazy statistic. So statistics, Canada last year

00:18:39.100 reported when they were last year on record that 40% of people who actually go to trial are convicted.

00:18:45.260 And that includes, um, both conditional and absolute discharges. So when you think like the prisons are,

00:18:52.400 they're, they're not full, at least the federal prisons, you would think that they would be full.

00:18:57.120 The, the provincial prisons are full of people waiting for bail. And when they finally go to trial,

00:19:00.980 many of them are not convicted. I don't know. I'm very curious as to why that is.

00:19:05.380 I don't think that that's the police's, um, jurisdiction. I think that that's either

00:19:09.080 judges being too lenient or perhaps prosecutors being incompetent, uh, or even more unlikely that

00:19:16.820 our criminal defense lawyers are just exceptional. That, that could be the case, but I, I, my mind,

00:19:23.360 I think the laugh, I think the laughter, the, the natural inclination there is what figured out.

00:19:27.900 Yeah. The, yeah, because it's, it, it must then be, and, and there's been great coverage and opinion

00:19:35.540 and thought about this. And, and Candace does a good job talking about this here as well at the Juneau 0.99

00:19:39.760 is that this evidently this problem with these kinds of liberal appointee, uh, judges of the last 10

00:19:46.100 years where you now have this kind of what their version of like a post judicial approach to law

00:19:53.520 and order, which increasingly we're seeing Cosman's reported on this as well. Um, you know, more lenient

00:19:59.940 sentences for, for those on visas because the judge doesn't want it to get in the way of their

00:20:05.060 immigration status. That's exactly what should get in the way of an immigration status. That's,

00:20:09.940 that's the point. This is supposed to be, this isn't a given. This is a supposed to be a privilege

00:20:15.600 to come here and to qualify and to contribute. Instead, we're seeing these massive fraud networks.

00:20:20.680 We're seeing it in our trucking industry, which I, I hit on last week with Gordon McGill going,

00:20:25.460 going deep into the rot there. And just like the, the, the obvious and clear criminality that like

00:20:31.060 you, you spent three minutes on that file and you go, holy moly, like a lot of people chose to let

00:20:37.220 this go through. I think even just, I'll open up Instagram some days, like the, the depth of the

00:20:43.380 rot here. And I will openly see immigration scammers on Instagram reels and Tik TOK, just

00:20:49.600 saying, use my service. I'll smuggle you into the United States. And you're going, that's 1.00

00:20:54.360 just right on front street. That's right on front street. Like what, what is going on here?

00:20:59.380 And so it's, it's, it's really unfortunate to see the level of, of lack of care of lack

00:21:05.880 of duty to care. And now after a weekend like this, after all these stories that you've reported

00:21:11.260 on so excellently, we're, we're, we're kind of seeing things come to a head. Like the house

00:21:15.620 is resuming and people are getting really upset and they're going, you know, you've had a few

00:21:20.100 months here. Let's, you know, maybe start thinking about some criminal reform, not just reform

00:21:25.240 to the other files because surely they can't get away with gaslighting any longer because it does

00:21:31.400 feel like the wild west with the unfortunate caveat that you're not even getting some of the benefits

00:21:35.980 of the wild west. Like, you know, you can truly opportunity, abundance, settling your claim, you

00:21:45.120 know, go west young man. Like I I'm in a dog crate condo. I, uh, you know, if, if someone tried to

00:21:51.300 attack my, my little dog crate condo right now, like I might get charged for, for standing my ground

00:21:57.320 or having to go through a legal rigmarole. And so, uh, thankfully there's guys like you who are

00:22:03.500 going to keep exposing this stuff. And, um, we really appreciate your time today. If I may, I think

00:22:10.020 that when it comes to debating these issues, uh, cause they are issues that will be debated amongst

00:22:17.740 legislatures or legislators, I should say. And so when you're making laws, uh, in a political

00:22:24.240 environment, there has to be some level of compromise and understanding. And so where I think

00:22:30.360 that Sean Fraser, I think what he was trying to say is that the likelihood of someone like you or

00:22:36.800 myself having a random home and trade intruder just burst through your window with a crossbow

00:22:43.140 is extraordinarily unlikely. That is true. It is extremely unlikely, but I think that what

00:22:50.720 Canadians don't understand about the flimsiness of the self-defense laws. And I learned this

00:22:55.800 covering the Coots case, uh, with Gordon McGill, your previous guest, Canadians do not even have a 0.91

00:23:03.160 right to preemptive self-defense. This is how crazy the self-defense laws are in Canada. If you were to go

00:23:10.660 to your kitchen and pull out a kitchen knife and say, this would make a great weapon against a home

00:23:15.140 intruder, which is what most of us do. Like when we're keyboard worrying about the subject all the

00:23:20.340 time, you are in possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. And you can go to jail.

00:23:27.460 You are not even allowed to talk about defending yourself in Canada, much less actually defending

00:23:33.140 yourself in the extremely unlikely event that somebody would jump through your window and attack you

00:23:37.540 with a crossbow. I've got a kitchen knife to put back in the kitchen right now. That's right. If

00:23:42.180 you have a kitchen knife, it's only for cooking folks, put them back now. And then you can take

00:23:47.460 them out later. We won't, if you have a baseball bat, um, it's, it's for going to, to play baseball.

00:23:52.820 No, this, this is actually how the laws are oriented in Canada. Um, if you have a gun and you say,

00:23:58.100 I have it for the purpose of self-defense, you were in contravention of the self-defense laws in Canada.

00:24:02.660 Yeah. Young women can't carry like mace or bear spray on the subway, even though, you know, 1.00

00:24:08.340 that can be the wild west, especially if you go to Toronto.

00:24:10.900 Correct. So what I, the reason that I bring this up is because I'm seeing a lot of things on the

00:24:14.740 left where they're, they're saying that this situation with the man and Lindsay is analogous

00:24:19.140 to, for instance, a young black boy, I understand who was shot recently because he was Nicky,

00:24:22.740 Nicky nine door. Those two things are not analogous. Like they're, they're just not the same. If

00:24:28.740 somebody comes into your window with a crossbow, obviously that's not the same thing as somebody

00:24:33.060 knocking on your door. Um, but in order to understand where the left is coming from,

00:24:37.380 you have to put your feet into their shoes for a moment and recognize that it is very unlikely

00:24:43.620 that any individual is going to be the victim of random home intruder coming into their home.

00:24:48.820 There, there is that, that is the baseline of their logic. And I think that there is some truth

00:24:52.900 to that. I've looked through most of the, the self-defense cases in the recent months in the

00:24:57.140 court of Ontario, Ontario court of justice. And in almost all cases, the individuals knew,

00:25:01.940 they were familiar with each other. So is it the wild west compared to 10 years ago? Absolutely.

00:25:10.340 Compared to 150 years ago, I guess. Fraser has a point like if we're going back to like the red

00:25:17.380 dead redemption days. Yes. One of my favorite games, Alex, thank you for that perspective. You know,

00:25:25.380 it's obviously helpful to, to flesh that out and not just, you know, just not just

00:25:31.220 whip people into a fervor. I think concerns will remain, but you know, to know that maybe,

00:25:38.020 maybe give him a slight benefit of the doubt it's, he, I don't know how much, you know, rope he deserves

00:25:44.820 given his, his track record, but it is encouraging to know that it is not malicious. It might just be

00:25:50.900 ineptitude, which would be kind of appreciated, but you know, evidently the audience, like our

00:25:56.340 audience here, you know, beleaguered common sense folk, you know, they're, they're running out of

00:26:01.940 time to, to accept some of these, you know, potential excuses to accept this tone policing

00:26:07.620 when, you know, objectively speaking, as you were saying, like, it's definitely worse than the last 10

00:26:12.580 years, like, or it's gotten worse over the last, you know, that period. And so I know you're going

00:26:17.220 to be a busy guy in your crime reporting. We're, you know, great, greatly thankful for you hopping

00:26:22.180 on and we'll keep an eye out for more of your stories. Thank you, Alex. My pleasure. Thank you.

Juno News - September 02, 2025

Liberals mock crime wave sweeping Canada

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