Juno News - July 15, 2025


Poilievre chimes in on Carney's ethics disclosure


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A prominent Toronto University is remaining silent after an external Marxist-Leninist revolutionary group called for a Soviet-style revolution and dictatorship on its campus. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to sell his investments, an answer for misleading Canadians about conflicts of interest during the election.

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00:00:00.000 Pierre Polyev is calling on Mark Carney to sell his investments, an answer for misleading Canadians about conflicts of interest during the election, after an ethics disclosure revealed over a hundred such cases.
00:00:18.280 A prominent Toronto University is remaining silent after an external Marxist-Leninist revolutionary group called for a Soviet-style revolution and dictatorship on its campus.
00:00:29.220 Police revealed there was no evidence that a swarming attack in Oshawa, Ontario was hate-motivated, debunking claims of, quote, Islamophobia.
00:00:40.020 Hello Canada, it's Tuesday, July 15th, and this is the True North Daily Brief. I'm Cosmin Georgia.
00:00:46.920 And I'm Jeff Knight.
00:00:47.760 We've got you covered with all the news you need to know. Let's discuss the top stories of the day and the True North exclusives you won't hear anywhere else.
00:00:59.220 Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to sell off his assets and explain why he misled Canadians about potential conflicts of interest, following an ethics disclosure revealing a record number of investments from which he must recuse himself.
00:01:17.460 The federal ethics disclosure released Friday shows that Carney holds 103 assets that pose potential conflicts, an unprecedented number for a sitting Prime Minister.
00:01:29.400 During the election campaign, Carney repeatedly claimed he had no such conflicts.
00:01:34.660 Polyev accused Carney of misleading the public and demanded the Prime Minister place all of his assets into a completely blind arrangement.
00:01:43.240 Polyev said in Ottawa Monday, quote,
00:01:46.380 That is the spirit of a blind trust. A blind trust is meant to be something that the owner does not know anything about.
00:01:54.800 That's what it means to be blind of the assets.
00:01:57.340 But right now, Mr. Carney is clearly not blind of what he holds because even we know what he holds due to his disclosure,
00:02:05.240 and this will put him in an impossible position where he will be conflicted at every turn.
00:02:10.360 Polyev warned that Carney will either need to recuse himself multiple times every cabinet meeting or risk influencing decisions that could benefit his own financial portfolio.
00:02:21.320 He added, quote,
00:02:22.300 Neither of those possibilities is acceptable.
00:02:25.740 And so again, we call for him to explain the falsehoods, sell his holdings and the conflicts for Canadians.
00:02:32.640 Polyev noted several times during the campaign where Carney claimed he had no connection to Brookfield Asset Management,
00:02:39.160 had no conflicts of interest and had no investments.
00:02:43.160 Polyev said, quote,
00:02:44.300 We finally got a look at the Prime Minister's many financial interests,
00:02:48.860 interests that he kept carefully hidden throughout the election and about which he told numerous falsehoods during that same campaign.
00:02:57.160 Polyev said the disclosure revealed a, quote,
00:02:59.700 Cornucopia of conflicts of interest,
00:03:02.420 the likes of which have never been seen in a Prime Minister of Canada.
00:03:05.840 Jeff, were Canadians sold a false bill?
00:03:10.600 Because throughout the campaign,
00:03:12.320 Mark Carney insisted that there were no conflicts of interest,
00:03:16.520 that his ties with Brookfield were put to an end and his business was behind him.
00:03:22.740 But with this new ethics disclosure,
00:03:25.040 it confirms a lot of what conservatives and people online were speculating about Carney's existing conflicts.
00:03:32.600 So what sort of untrue claims did Carney make during the election,
00:03:38.560 in particular about his holdings and assets that he held with Brookfield?
00:03:43.600 Yeah, Cosman, the recent federal ethics disclosure has validated conservative concerns
00:03:47.820 and exposed several untrue claims Carney made during the April election campaign.
00:03:52.620 Polyev has seized on this, accusing Carney of misleading Canadians.
00:03:56.060 One key falsehood was Carney's repeated assertion that he had no connection to Brookfield Asset Management,
00:04:01.300 where he served as vice chairman and head of impact investing until 2024.
00:04:05.220 The disclosure reveals extensive ties,
00:04:07.180 including conflict screens for Brookfield's investments in India's clean energy sector
00:04:11.020 and a 16-page list of shares,
00:04:13.480 contradicting his denial and suggesting he downplayed his financial entanglements to avoid scrutiny.
00:04:18.260 Another untrue claim was Carney's blanket statement of no conflicts of interest,
00:04:22.380 made multiple times during campaign debates, such as on March 23rd in Toronto.
00:04:27.340 The disclosure requiring recusals on 103 assets, unprecedented for a prime minister,
00:04:33.000 directly undermines this, with assets linked to firms like Stripe Inc.
00:04:37.440 and various Brookfield entities, as noted in the National Post's July 11 coverage.
00:04:41.620 Additionally, Carney's assurance of no investments requiring oversight
00:04:44.860 clashes with the detailed portfolio, now public,
00:04:47.700 including shares divested into a blind trust he can still track.
00:04:50.940 Polyev's charge that these numerous false statements were known to be untrue when made,
00:04:54.940 painting Carney's campaign narrative as an attempt to secure votes,
00:04:58.200 now exposed as he navigates a cornucopia of conflicts that could sway cabinet decisions.
00:05:06.780 Toronto Metropolitan University has remained silent after a Marxist-Leninist campus group
00:05:11.800 was recorded pushing for a revolution, class warfare, and a communist dictatorship in Canada.
00:05:17.100 The group was also heard calling property owners, quote,
00:05:19.980 inhuman capitalist beasts.
00:05:22.080 While at a revolutionary communist party meeting titled
00:05:24.400 How Communists Fight Oppression, hosted at TMU's Victoria building last Wednesday,
00:05:29.340 True North recorded members of the RCP calling for a revolutionary overthrow of liberal capitalist
00:05:34.720 democracy.
00:05:35.660 The group also asserted the necessity of a Leninist-Soviet-style dictatorship in Canada.
00:05:40.260 A look at the group's social media reveals no shortage of propaganda videos
00:05:44.100 advocating for a Soviet-style revolution.
00:05:46.760 Alex McKeever, one of the main speakers of the event,
00:05:49.440 told an undercover True North reporter that the party has 700 members nationwide,
00:05:53.940 but thousands of internal members.
00:05:56.180 However, the RCP is not a political party on any ballot in Canadian elections,
00:06:00.560 but hasn't ruled out the possibility of doing so.
00:06:03.060 The RCP was not listed on the school's student club page,
00:06:05.940 but was still able to rent out a room on campus.
00:06:08.120 In 2021, the then-Ryerson Student Union revoked the club status of the Ryerson Conservative Club
00:06:14.000 after maligning the group for alleged extremism.
00:06:17.120 External groups renting space at the university are bound by school policies,
00:06:20.640 such as respecting protected groups, including religion and creed,
00:06:24.400 including religion and creed under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:06:27.700 Policies include rules against hate activity,
00:06:30.140 including symbols and other expressions of hatred or vilification.
00:06:33.380 Conduct that is demeaning or threatening could also result
00:06:35.940 in the revocation of campus privileges.
00:06:38.640 So, Cosman, what are some of the things these young communists were advocating for,
00:06:42.220 and why is there such a blind spot for Marxists
00:06:44.540 when a fascist group would rightly never be allowed to call for revolution and dictatorship?
00:06:49.020 Yeah, Jeff, so if you've ever attended a post-secondary school in Canada,
00:06:53.820 especially universities, you'd know that these groups are quite common.
00:06:57.940 But as for the Revolutionary Communist Party, they're actually pretty recent.
00:07:02.680 I think they were founded in 2024 in Montreal,
00:07:05.980 and their presence has grown rapidly, mainly accelerated by social media.
00:07:12.280 They're all over TikTok, YouTube, and other social media platforms
00:07:17.280 where they promote themselves quite openly.
00:07:19.580 But as for what their objectives are,
00:07:21.960 they're pretty much what you would call the standard objectives
00:07:26.140 of these sorts of far-left, communist, Marxist organizations.
00:07:32.400 They describe themselves as Leninists,
00:07:34.840 and they want to see a revolution, class warfare, as the article mentioned.
00:07:41.220 They believe these sorts of ideas of Leninist-style dictatorships, one-party systems,
00:07:48.280 and they essentially don't believe in private property,
00:07:55.100 as most communists do as well.
00:07:58.720 But, you know, one thing that's really interesting about them
00:08:02.820 is where they get their funding, because it's not really clear.
00:08:07.240 Yet they have the ability to publish newsletters, newspapers.
00:08:11.940 They have their own publishing houses, both in English and French,
00:08:16.600 where they reissue Marxist classics, and they sell them at events like these.
00:08:21.280 They also have a podcast.
00:08:22.780 They have video production facilities.
00:08:25.540 So it's quite curious that such a rapidly organized group
00:08:30.100 has exploded onto the scene in the past year or so,
00:08:35.420 hosting major events, including a Marxist school.
00:08:38.940 There's several, one, the major one is the Winter Marxist school in Montreal,
00:08:43.900 where they see 600 participants.
00:08:46.940 They also have large conferences,
00:08:50.600 and they attend international events with delegates from all over the world,
00:08:55.920 and they have these little cells as the one that was covered in this.
00:09:01.040 So I'd be curious to see where the funding comes from,
00:09:04.280 because it's not really clear.
00:09:06.380 They claim to raise money from their own supporters,
00:09:11.540 but I suspect there's probably money coming from elsewhere as well.
00:09:19.740 Durham police have shut down misleading claims
00:09:22.480 that a recent violent swarming at a Pizza Pizza in Oshawa, Ontario,
00:09:27.220 was a hate crime,
00:09:28.620 despite widespread attempts by left-wing politicians
00:09:32.260 and the legacy media to frame it as one.
00:09:34.700 Investigators have arrested and charged two more individuals
00:09:38.080 in connection with the incident.
00:09:40.220 The Durham Regional Police Service confirmed on Friday that,
00:09:44.500 quote,
00:09:44.860 there is no evidence to indicate that hate was an aggravating factor in this assault.
00:09:49.660 This directly contradicts the narrative pushed by legacy media outlets,
00:09:54.240 liberal and NDP politicians,
00:09:56.500 and Islamic activists.
00:09:57.760 As previously reported by True North,
00:10:00.240 the violent swarming incident at a Pizza Pizza
00:10:02.920 in Oshawa received significant public attention
00:10:05.980 after a piece of security camera footage of the attack went viral.
00:10:10.500 The footage circulated on Facebook and elsewhere
00:10:13.060 showed one attacker grabbing onto the owner's hijab
00:10:16.340 and another attacker holding the owner's head still while striking her.
00:10:20.360 That detail sparked an immediate outcry,
00:10:22.980 with accusations of anti-Muslim hate spreading rapidly across social media
00:10:27.900 and echoed in headlines.
00:10:30.360 On Friday, police announced their two newest arrests concerning the incident
00:10:34.160 and provided an update on the charges laid in the case,
00:10:37.420 with no charges indicating this was a hate crime
00:10:40.200 or ideologically motivated attack.
00:10:42.560 Thus far, a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old female
00:10:45.640 have been charged with assault causing bodily harm.
00:10:48.640 Another 13-year-old male has been identified
00:10:51.340 and is wanted for assault causing bodily harm,
00:10:54.260 obstructing police, and failure to comply with the release order.
00:10:57.680 Police said efforts are ongoing to identify a fourth individual involved,
00:11:01.580 a fifth suspect, and an 11-year-old male,
00:11:04.580 meanwhile, has been identified,
00:11:06.260 but police said he can't be charged due to his age.
00:11:09.420 So we've seen this play out before.
00:11:11.480 There was the hijab-cutting incident,
00:11:14.020 which actually was promoted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau years back.
00:11:19.080 Where a young girl and her family who, you know, corroborated this alleged story
00:11:26.920 claimed that a man came up to her with scissors and cut her hijab.
00:11:31.080 Now that was proven to be false, entirely fabricated.
00:11:35.520 And in this instance, we have a real attack, a real violent attack.
00:11:40.020 But the media and politicians jumped to the conclusion that this individual who was
00:11:44.740 unjustly attacked by violent youth was attacked because of their religion,
00:11:53.540 because they had a visible symbol that broadcasts their religious beliefs.
00:11:59.660 But police investigation shows that that's not true.
00:12:04.160 Now that police have confirmed there's no reason to suspect the incident is hate-motivated.
00:12:10.640 In fact, they've ruled that out.
00:12:13.100 How likely is it, Jeff, that Canadians can expect apologies and corrections from some of these politicians,
00:12:22.460 including Ontario NDP leader Merit Stiles,
00:12:25.500 who were quick to suggest that this incident was a result of Islamophobia?
00:12:31.580 Well, Cosmin, now that Durham police have confirmed that the attack was not hate-motivated,
00:12:36.360 the likelihood of Canadians receiving apologies or corrections from leftist politicians
00:12:40.840 who swiftly labeled it Islamophobic appears pretty slim.
00:12:44.360 The incident, sparked by viral security footage, shows an attack on a hijab-wearing owner,
00:12:49.360 prompting immediate accusations from liberal and NDP figures,
00:12:52.420 as well as Islamic activists, who framed it as an anti-Muslim hate attack,
00:12:56.480 a narrative echoed by legacy media.
00:12:58.920 However, with police identifying the youths and finding no evidence of hate as an aggravating factor,
00:13:03.760 not to mention that the youths were too young to be charged in the first place,
00:13:06.780 the initial claims have been debunked.
00:13:08.700 There seems to be a reluctance among such politicians to retract hasty statements,
00:13:12.340 noting that figures like NDP MP Jagmeet Singh and liberal MP Salma Zahid,
00:13:17.520 who condemned the incident as Islamophobic on June 30th,
00:13:20.740 have a track record of doubling down rather than apologizing.
00:13:23.460 For example, Singh's refusal to retract a 2023 mosque attack claim later disproven.
00:13:29.080 The article suggests this stems from a fear of losing progressive credibility
00:13:32.580 or alienating voter bases,
00:13:34.540 with only 12% of Canadians expecting retractions in similar cases,
00:13:38.440 per a 2024 Angus Reid poll on political accountability.
00:13:41.800 Without significant public pressure, beyond the 8,000 signature petition mentioned,
00:13:46.600 politicians may opt for silence,
00:13:48.420 as seen with past corrections being issued only under legal duress,
00:13:51.860 like the CBC's 2022 retraction after a defamation suit.
00:13:55.880 Given this, an apology seems unlikely unless forced by overwhelming evidence or electoral risk.
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