Juno News - May 21, 2025


Sam Cooper on explosive FBI warning + NEVER reported details of Danforth Shooter’s ISIS connection


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On Sunday we saw an explosive interview given by FBI Director Shakil Patel on Fox News in which he said that Canada is being used as a transit point for Iranian, Chinese, and Mexican drug traffickers to smuggle fentanyl into the United States from Vancouver, Canada. In this episode, Candice talks to Sam Cooper, the creator of the Bureau and one of Canada's top investigative journalists, about what he's been reporting on for months.

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00:00:00.000 hi I'm Candace Malcolm and this is the Candace Malcolm show so on Sunday we saw this explosive
00:00:08.280 interview given by FBI director cash Patel and he talks about Canada he's on Fox News and all
00:00:14.520 of a sudden the conversation goes to Canada and I wanted to save this topic to talk to with this
00:00:21.660 guest today Sam Cooper because Sam he is the creator of the Bureau and Canada's top investigative
00:00:27.120 journalists I think cash Patel may be reading your articles and reading your reports because
00:00:32.520 when I heard him say this and I saw these videos circulating I thought this is what Sam has been
00:00:37.140 ringing the alarm about for months if not longer so I guess we'll play the clip in a second Sam but
00:00:44.040 just tell me what was your reaction when you saw cash Patel the FBI director making these claims
00:00:48.780 well my reaction was I as I've been talking to senior US intelligence experts in the recent months
00:00:56.700 I don't know if it's by their design I don't think so I think that they've reached out to me because
00:01:02.520 they say I'm the North American subject expert on these threats that are endangering the United
00:01:08.640 States and Canada they've been telling me that there was an Iranian state connection a Chinese
00:01:14.880 sanctioned precursor supplier entity and Mexican cartels connected to that Falkland super lab
00:01:22.620 I've also been reporting in the past year as you know about Canada Border Services Agency's
00:01:28.560 whistleblower saying that Canada is being exploited by people that are using the Vancouver ports and
00:01:35.640 this is again Iranian Mexican and Chinese apparently state actors that may have penetrated Canada's
00:01:44.640 systems and that you know this would be a concern to the US government so yes when I saw cash Patel
00:01:50.640 say this is what the US government is concerned about and the US has been working with Mexican
00:01:58.260 authorities to crack down on the southern border and this will not only send an impetus or rather
00:02:04.260 this will cause the Mexican cartels to set up more strongly in Canada and that Canada has not been
00:02:10.620 cooperating look that's what cash Patel said and that's what I've been reporting for the past few
00:02:15.840 months so I don't know if it's him reading my reports or that we are talking to people with
00:02:21.180 the same intelligence I think that probably the latter well it tells me that you are hitting the
00:02:26.700 nail on the head that you have you know you're over the target and here is your report on the bureau
00:02:31.620 breaking explosive FBI warning CCP Iran and Mex cartels partnering in Canada to move fentanyl and 0.72
00:02:38.520 the United States and then you write that cash Patel's warning echoes the bureau's exclusive
00:02:43.500 reporting on criminal convergence linking Chinese backed chemical suppliers Iranian proxies and Mexican
00:02:48.960 cartels operating through Vancouver's super labs really it sounds like the plot of a Hollywood film
00:02:55.020 it's just like unbelievable that this is happening under our nose and it's not like we have no idea
00:02:59.820 that it's happening obviously you've been reporting on it and so it's just like I don't know if the
00:03:03.900 authorities are asleep at the switch or somehow they're in on it or if they would just rather
00:03:08.340 ignore it but I do want to play first we'll play this clip of FBI director cash Patel so he's speaking
00:03:14.460 on Fox News's evening report with Maria Bartramo apologies if I pronounced saying correctly and he is
00:03:22.560 specifically talking about how they've sealed the southern border the southern border is secure but that
00:03:27.360 the fentanyl is still flowing from Canada let's play that clip in the first two three months that we've
00:03:32.640 been in the seat under Donald Trump's administration he has sealed the border he has stopped border
00:03:36.600 crossings so where's all the fentanyl coming from still where's the trafficking coming from still
00:03:40.440 where is all where are all the narco traffickers going to keep bringing this stuff into the country 1.00
00:03:46.800 the northern border our adversaries have partnered up with the CCP and others Russia Iran on a variety
00:03:54.660 of different criminal enterprises and they're going and they're sailing around to Vancouver and coming in
00:03:59.600 by air now Sam I've had you on my show many times I think that you've said that verbatim on my show
00:04:06.140 maybe two months ago about those Vancouver ports and so I mean walk us through that absolutely uh that
00:04:13.580 that's what I got from uh director Patel's statement I had reported previously again a CBSA whistleblower
00:04:20.540 said that uh there was a massive amount of stolen passports I believe it was connected to Russia's
00:04:28.040 invasion of Ukraine years ago and it looked and and Canada's government knew that many of those
00:04:35.000 stolen passports were used by threat actors to enter Vancouver's port I had also told you that
00:04:41.060 Vancouver's port uh is wide open to fentanyl precursors coming in something like only one
00:04:48.500 percent of the containers that come into Vancouver's port this is the fourth busiest in North America
00:04:54.440 are searched and on top of that I had reported the the documented concern it's been known for years
00:05:01.640 that Chinese organized crime actors with connections to Chinese military entities of the same type that
00:05:09.740 are operative in Panama have significant activity in Vancouver's port along with Iranian threat actors
00:05:17.180 and of course the local Hells Angels are in the mix there too so it's almost a surreal feeling uh or or
00:05:26.120 sense that we now have the director of the top counterintelligence agency coming out overtly and
00:05:32.300 saying the exact same things I'm reporting and Candace I would add another major story I broke was uh you'll
00:05:39.320 remember the Danforth shooting of 2018 there were indications that there could be terror links but the
00:05:46.280 Toronto Police and Ralph Goodale Trudeau's public safety minister said those uh indications were were
00:05:52.580 false not supported hold on a second I reported based on a senior former DEA investigator that told me
00:05:59.720 the American government did not buy that conclusion they found concerning links between the shooter in
00:06:06.980 Toronto and a major car fentanyl seizure in a nearby suburb brother right I remember the story it's a deep
00:06:14.780 story his brother uh went into a coma from handling car fentanyl 40 kilograms were seized in a Toronto
00:06:21.980 suburb largest seizure of car fentanyl ever American authorities wanted just a couple of grams to search
00:06:29.420 it to see you know they were concerned could this be a weapon of mass destruction could there be a terror
00:06:34.940 link they found a linkage to Pakistan that concerned them the RCMP completely shut them down would not
00:06:41.180 share a single gram of that that seizure and so what does that point to it I'm told that the US government
00:06:48.380 said of course there was a Chinese supplier involved and there could be a Pakistani threat network and the
00:06:55.180 Canadian government would not cooperate with the US government so this in my view when I was hearing Kash Patel I
00:07:01.980 almost heard that case resonating without being said well if we could just take a minute to double click on that because I was
00:07:09.180 writing and reporting with the Toronto Sun at that time Sam and I recall I mean it's been several years
00:07:15.100 now since I refreshed my memory on the case but I do remember a police report where they went in and they
00:07:19.820 interviewed the parents and the two parents of this young man who they claim was mentally ill even though
00:07:26.540 he was working a job at a local supermarket so he wasn't like severely mentally ill like the legacy media
00:07:33.180 pretended that he was but basically his parents were both interviewed and they were interviewed
00:07:40.780 separately and their answers contradicted each other they were asked whether he had spent time
00:07:45.820 in Pakistan and I believe his father said yes and his mother said no he's never been to Pakistan
00:07:50.780 and then it turned out that he you know he attended a radical mosque in Toronto he had gone to Pakistan
00:07:56.620 he had there was a lot of very disturbing things that the police just refused to look into the legacy media
00:08:03.660 decided um that they were the victims of the Danforth shooting the family and that we had to rally around
00:08:08.540 the family of the terrorist and that we couldn't call him a terrorist and I remember the point I've never
00:08:13.020 disclosed this before but the Toronto Star the Toronto Sun my employer at the time would not let me report on it anymore
00:08:18.060 because they didn't want me to go down this rabbit hole they were worried about getting sued
00:08:21.100 and basically they just said Joe Warrington's covering the story no one else can write about it
00:08:24.940 and I was banned from writing about the story um even though I think it was a huge public interest
00:08:29.100 I think that the police were misleading the public and the legacy media were absolutely complicit in it all
00:08:34.940 I'm happy to dive into this with you Candace because I didn't cover it at the time but it did strike me that
00:08:42.140 there were some very concerning indications people were not even focused on the fentanyl issue at the time
00:08:47.900 but come on 33 uh restricted weapons 40 kilograms of car fentanyl 100 times more powerful powerful than
00:08:56.220 fentanyl and you're right the media it seemed came up with the idea that the families were the victims
00:09:03.500 there and so this is what struck me when a DEA source we're talking a person that's uh investigated
00:09:10.300 everyone from terrorists to uh El Chapo reached out and said Sam at the bureau you've been hitting the
00:09:17.420 nail on the head in ways that we cannot speak of because this is classified information the dots
00:09:24.060 you're connecting on the chinese communist party and uh international threat works are exactly true 1.00
00:09:31.100 and he told me he was very bothered he pushed uh through the pentagon and u.s intelligence agencies
00:09:37.580 to get more cooperation from the rcmp on that case and as he told me multiple times the u.s government was
00:09:45.420 shut down by high level bureaucrats in ottawa other shocking findings they said they found food dye
00:09:52.060 that is the local police at least shared some photos of that seizure and this led the DEA to believe
00:09:58.940 this product could have been you know parceled out for mass trafficking to young people and yet we never
00:10:04.780 read that in the canadian media another major point i pressed my source donald m people can look him up
00:10:11.980 he's an extremely high level investigator with the DEA he's worked u.s military intelligence he said sam
00:10:19.260 we found links in pakistan that are extremely concerning i said link to terror he said i won't
00:10:26.300 tell you any more than it was extremely concerning indirect links to terror i'm not sure if anyone is
00:10:33.900 happy that i've reported this but look uh after i broke that story candace i can share this with you as
00:10:41.020 a little bit of news nugget a canadian intelligence source reached out to me and said you are right
00:10:46.780 there was an isis link to that whole case and it was covered up the prosecutors didn't want to go
00:10:53.420 after it i'm not sure if that's a headline i haven't reported it yet but since you have background
00:10:58.620 on the story i think it's uh fair and the the right time for me to share it with you there's a lot more
00:11:04.620 to this story and i was told that of course we don't know what was brought up in the white house with
00:11:10.220 mark carney melanie joly and dominic leblanc and uh our public's then public safety minister
00:11:17.820 uh mr mcginty and jd vance and president trump but i was told that car fentanyl case
00:11:23.740 may have come up i don't know if it did but i'm told certainly it's of concern well it's very
00:11:29.420 interesting and just in case the audience uh doesn't quite remember this was a horrific shooting
00:11:34.620 that happened back in 2018 on the danforth which is a popular street in basically adjacent to
00:11:39.980 downtown toronto it's known as greek town and a mentally deranged person came and shot and it
00:11:44.940 seemed like he was aiming at girls i think there were two young girls that ended up dying from this
00:11:49.500 and it came out like a day or two later that the shooter uh the a family spokesperson came out first
00:11:56.700 of all this family spokesperson was a known like ndp operative and he came out and said that the shooter
00:12:02.060 was mentally ill he was deceased that he was mentally ill and that it wasn't terrorism it 0.89
00:12:07.340 was just mental illness and the legacy media just bought that like hook line and sinker and then
00:12:11.500 after that it was like no one can talk about this or you are a racist bigot who's islamophobic and 0.73
00:12:17.100 again at the time i was with toronto sun look joe warmington is one of the best reporters in canada
00:12:21.020 and he did a great job covering this uh but the fact that my newspaper didn't want me to be talking
00:12:25.980 about this issue at all they basically banned me from writing about it and the more that i was digging i
00:12:30.380 was also in communication uh with people in the scene people who uh were even relatives of these
00:12:36.060 poor young girls that lost their lives um and people weren't buying what was being sold but it
00:12:41.740 was you know all working together the police chief um said none of this islamophobic stuff like anyone
00:12:46.140 even asking questions about the ties to radical islam that was you know that we're talking about
00:12:51.100 near the height um of isis in the syrian refugee crisis and all that kind of stuff happening
00:12:57.100 um and we were just told to stop talking about it and move on and it was shocking to see legacy
00:13:01.660 media just go along with that i'm so pleased that you kept digging on it because i i did for a while
00:13:07.020 and then i stopped but i agree that there is a lot more to that story um and i'm glad you brought up
00:13:12.380 the oval office exchange as well because i found this quite interesting right during the election
00:13:17.500 campaign mark carney didn't really talk about fentanyl he didn't really talk about the border he kind
00:13:22.380 of ignored donald trump's prodding on this issue actually we have a clip first i'll show this one this is
00:13:26.220 from february 12th 2025 when mark carney is sort of new to the scene and he says that canada does
00:13:31.820 not have a fentanyl crisis let's play this clip fentanyl is an absolute crisis in the united states
00:13:38.380 it's a challenge here but it's a crisis there so totally different uh tone from mark carney after
00:13:44.460 he wins the election this is him in that oval office meeting that you just mentioned with president
00:13:48.940 trump and jd vance and others on may 6th and here prime minister carney is thanking donald trump for
00:13:55.340 his leadership and saying that canada is also focused on cleaning up our border and cleaning
00:13:59.260 up our fentanyl issue let's play that clip thank you for your hospitality and above all for for your
00:14:04.940 leadership you're a you're a transformational president uh focus on the economy with a relentless
00:14:10.620 focus on the american worker uh securing your borders um providing ending the scourge of fentanyl
00:14:17.180 uh and other opioids and uh and securing the world and i've been elected uh with uh with my colleagues
00:14:24.460 here with the help of my colleagues here i'm going to spread spread the uh the credit uh to transform
00:14:31.100 canada um with a similar focus on the economy securing our borders uh again on fentanyl uh much greater focus
00:14:38.780 on defense and security securing the arctic and developing the arctic um and you know the history of
00:14:44.540 canada and the us is we're stronger when we work together and there's many opportunities to work
00:14:48.700 together and i look forward to you know addressing some of those issues that we have but also uh
00:14:53.660 finding those areas of mutual cooperation so we can so sam what did you make of mark carney's sort
00:14:59.420 of reversal all of a sudden he's praising trump and saying that fentanyl is a big issue after denying it
00:15:03.900 and i i really didn't hear him talk about that much on the campaign trail at all it's really a stunning
00:15:09.020 clip because the pretty much every word that mark carney said would be something that the bureau would
00:15:15.500 have written about and uh in in many podcasts i would have advocated this is the stance canada needs
00:15:22.140 to take or else our sovereignty is in deep danger we need to acknowledge to the united states that canada
00:15:29.660 is a big part of the solution here and you know we we uh we need to step up to the plate so essentially
00:15:37.660 you know uh if that was mark carney's real intention i'd be very happy in fact i would have thought
00:15:45.500 that pierre polyev and the conservatives that was more their campaign message which mark carney just
00:15:51.900 reflected and as i'm you know uh i have a long career in the canadian media i i would call myself a
00:15:58.780 good analyst of their coverage i found that mark carney his prime minister's office operatives and the media
00:16:06.460 that are very friendly with them had the exact opposite of the narrative that he had just
00:16:11.740 said to donald trump in that meeting and that was to deny that canada is a big problem on fentanyl
00:16:17.820 to say that the u.s is unfairly targeting us and essentially you know uh to use the vernacular big
00:16:25.020 orange man bad canada good why why is he picking on us so i just think you know really my thoughts are that
00:16:32.300 that that that raises the theme that what we're hearing from mark carney uh what what comes out
00:16:38.220 about his private phone call to president trump beforehand telling him you're a transformative
00:16:44.300 president i'm going to be hitting you during the campaign but don't worry that's just kind of a
00:16:49.180 that's just for the public look i think that's what's happening and that's what that's what's
00:16:53.260 reflected in that those white house comments okay but i i am curious about the action on this right
00:16:59.340 so you have carney in the white house sort of saying to trump what trump wants to hear
00:17:04.220 and then two weeks later you have president trump's fbi director cash patel that trump
00:17:09.500 individually selected um coming out and saying it's happening it's happening in your country
00:17:14.380 all of our adversaries are working together through this port of vancouver like do you think that mark
00:17:19.580 carney will take action and it's an interesting thing that's happening right like under the trudeau
00:17:24.700 government the last decade the uh bureaucracy has grown significantly right it's not like they
00:17:29.580 have reservations about hiring new government agents right why don't they have more people
00:17:35.180 monitoring these ports of vancouver why is it just one percent i mean even after sort of publicly getting
00:17:41.180 humiliated in some ways like the fbi director calling us out saying we know what's happening it's
00:17:45.740 happening right here guys like get your act together um do you think that mark carney will actually
00:17:49.660 take some action here and start cracking down on this i think it will take tremendous and increased
00:17:56.940 pressure from the united states uh it's a very complex subject but if i am extremely brutally honest
00:18:05.340 i don't think the canadian government will take action unless forced even harder by washington why do
00:18:13.020 i say that i've been told by senior u.s government sources that for years in private meetings with
00:18:19.340 elite canadian officials of the type that you know could include bill blair you know dominic leblanc
00:18:26.780 senior rcmp you know commissioner level uh the u.s government brings up concerns that mexican
00:18:33.500 cartels have been growing in canada since the trudeau government removed visa requirements
00:18:39.340 and uh the u.s government was met with denials and met with sort of polite canadian handshaking
00:18:45.500 we'll get on it and nothing happens and so when you saw the tariff threats and you see something
00:18:51.420 like a billion dollars the figure was raised in terms of beefing up canada's border patrol
00:18:56.780 uh buying some helicopters again i just think this is press releases uh and sort of you know
00:19:04.380 indications of action that doesn't really lead to results why do i say that in order to really crack
00:19:10.860 down on chinese communist party uh operatives which my sources indicate use canada as command and
00:19:18.700 control for the western hemisphere uh in many ways and the mexican cartels and iranian threat networks
00:19:25.980 that i'm saying are strongly set up in canadian cities canada would have to reform its criminal act
00:19:32.780 and get a sort of an anti-racketeering law we need to beef up our foreign interference laws we need to
00:19:39.340 as i've written port police were taken out of the vancouver port jean christian's government was
00:19:44.940 warned 20 years ago by an association of police chiefs saying we've got a major vulnerability
00:19:50.620 chinese organized crime and intelligence is taking over in the vancouver port and nothing was changed
00:19:56.060 so those are i would say three action items that if mark carney was really serious he could come out
00:20:02.460 on uh you know in a big press conference next week and say we're doing this this and this he could do one
00:20:08.380 of his uh sort of fake executive orders finding executive orders and saying we're getting a
00:20:14.780 racketeering law he'd really have to put it through parliament but i would applaud that theater if he
00:20:20.060 did it because it would show he's really gonna act right now i'm sorry to say i just see the the usual
00:20:25.420 liberal sort of nicety pleasant words and kicking the can i don't think that they want to they will
00:20:31.260 crack down on this unless extreme pressure continues to be brought on them well 100 and they have their
00:20:37.900 cheerleaders in the legacy media covering it up i've talked to you about this before but i just want
00:20:42.140 to remind viewers of this one so the globe and mail was out there among many other publications this is
00:20:47.740 just one that we took um after president trump said that he was concerned about fentanyl coming in from
00:20:52.140 canada here's a global mail headline the u.s is the real source of fentanyl the fentanyl crisis not canada
00:20:58.700 and then basically in the article this is written by journalist marcus g he writes that the rcmp sees no
00:21:05.900 evidence of this the claim that the united states is being flooded with fentanyl from canada says the
00:21:10.220 rcmp sees no evidence of it nor do other experts in drug trafficking alberta says if there is a flood
00:21:16.460 it is flowing in the opposite direction and so then this narrative came up this was from march
00:21:21.740 2025 and basically the idea was that no no canada is not a problem at all um and the global mail and
00:21:28.060 others perpetuating this idea to sort of cover for the liberals saying no no they didn't create the
00:21:31.900 problem the americans are lying and the americans are the problem well sam i don't know if you saw
00:21:36.540 our report we did an analysis of every single story during the election and uh sense if there
00:21:41.420 was a bias one way or another and we found that the globe and mail was the worst perpetrator of the pro
00:21:46.860 carny anti-polio bias even worse than the cbc and so um stories like this from the global mail
00:21:52.060 don't really surprise me at this point but what do you make of that yeah i'm glad that you've kind
00:21:56.220 of systematically documented that i i in an anecdotal way of course i read the big stories i follow their
00:22:03.180 big columnists and you know i was in that coverage i was reminded of you know in 2015 when i was breaking
00:22:10.780 the news at at the vancouver province that chinese based buyers were essentially becoming a major force
00:22:19.900 in the city's real estate the global mail came out with a story called the myth of the chinese
00:22:24.620 buyer a big headline and so it just fit into that narrative no not happening here you know uh why
00:22:32.220 do they do it i don't know if it's kind of uh progressive leaning reporters i don't know if they
00:22:37.180 get pressure from editors uh but i do know that you know the people writing these columns that canada
00:22:45.100 doesn't have a big fentanyl problem are not subject matter experts as i am they're not sourced
00:22:51.340 in policing military and intelligence north america they're political reporters so it just makes sense
00:22:58.700 that they buy sort of in my experience and analysis when the prime minister's office wants to get a
00:23:04.860 narrative out you know it'll send someone out to have a coffee or a wine with a big reporter at the cbc
00:23:11.180 and the globe and mail and then that'll lead to i've become cynical now you'll see a front page
00:23:16.380 global mail story you know what what i call pmo talking notes not to say that the global mail
00:23:22.780 won't do some stories critical of prime ministers there's sort of a frenemy relationship there at
00:23:28.860 times but i've become very jaded in terms of believing at this point you know some of our major
00:23:35.100 journalists in ottawa well good we all should be and i think that's why judo news and the bureau exist
00:23:39.980 because we're filling a need i want to play one more clip of cash patel for you here sam this one
00:23:45.420 is talking about terrorists known and suspected terrorists crossing into the united states
00:23:51.020 illegally from canada let's play this clip over 300 known or suspected terrorists crossed into this
00:23:56.140 country last year illegally known or suspected terrorists not illegals not just illegals known
00:24:01.100 or suspected terrorists 85 of them came in through the northern border this year a hundred known or
00:24:09.100 suspected terrorists have crossed into this country illegally 64 or south and north so this is
00:24:15.100 something that i've reported on uh for a long time so just back in november 2024 i was actually still
00:24:20.540 maternity leave but i got these statistics and so i published in true north let me just read what i
00:24:24.860 wrote back in november i write that five times more terrorists are coming from canada canada is
00:24:30.300 legitimately more of a threat to the united states national security than mexico according to data from
00:24:35.100 u.s customs and border protection since 2022 1 155 individuals on terror watch lists were caught
00:24:41.980 trying to enter the united states through its northern border compared to just 199 from the south
00:24:47.180 yes you read that correctly five times as many terrorists entered the united states through canada
00:24:51.340 than through mexico since 2022 and what were those 1 155 terrorists doing in canada in the first place
00:24:58.220 how did they get here and how many more remain and i asked a question of true die so this is one of
00:25:03.180 the uh things that he must answer for with his colossal failure of national security and immigration and then
00:25:09.340 sam just this week we heard another story of an isis man in canada this is a man pleads guilty after
00:25:15.260 raising funds for isis under the guise of gaza donations a toronto man is pleaded guilty to terrorism
00:25:21.580 charges after again just you know pretending to raise money for victims for aid victims in gaza but
00:25:27.660 actually funneling the money to isis like how on earth this is happening in canada still right we were just
00:25:34.060 talking about the danforth shooter and at that time there were a lot of concerns of isis fighters uh
00:25:39.660 fleeing syria likely like people who had gone over to fight over there and then just kind of snuck back
00:25:44.460 into canada and try to pretend that nothing ever happened and the canadian authorities were aware of
00:25:49.180 these individuals uh but many cases just allowed them to like return back to their previous lives without
00:25:56.060 any punishment and it seems like it's still happening it's so unbelievable um what do you make of all this
00:26:01.500 yeah you're exactly right for the bureau i've been reporting uh for two years now partly one of my
00:26:07.820 big files was uh there was a major uh compromise of passports in hong kong in the 1990s what was
00:26:16.460 revealed according to a whistleblower brian mccadam was that chinese organized crime and intelligence
00:26:22.060 had penetrated canada's high commission there were concerns that officials canadian officials corrupted
00:26:29.100 passports stolen files of very serious uh people from organized crime altered to allow them to enter
00:26:37.180 canada and so this has been going on for decades uh mr mccadam's uh warnings were ignored uh it it all
00:26:45.900 leads to circling back to cash patel's comments uh i've reported that this convergence of chinese
00:26:52.780 organized crime which is very close and sponsored by the chinese communist party intelligence arms
00:26:59.180 works together with latin american organized crime on smuggling across borders on uh on getting stolen
00:27:06.860 passports to route people uh let's just say the highest bidders from criminal networks terror networks
00:27:15.420 human smugglers know where to go to get passports to enter canada because we're a weak spot and beyond
00:27:22.940 that as my cbsa whistleblower alleged there have been compromises within canada's border services
00:27:30.620 agency and other agencies of these very same transnational organized crime groups so why is cash
00:27:38.460 patel saying canada's northern border is a bigger threat for terrorists coming across
00:27:43.100 exactly what i've been reporting on these stunning hard to believe believe criminal convergences that
00:27:48.940 have infiltrated canada's systems well it's a long a long-standing problem right like this dates back to
00:27:55.980 pre-9-11 uh there's a woman named yasmin muhammad and she's an incredible story um she's a podcaster and
00:28:02.220 journalist based on british columbia and she was the wife of a mastermind in the 9-11 attacks and
00:28:10.780 she moved to canada in the 90s unbeknownst to her that her husband was this crazy terrorist that was
00:28:15.820 planning this awful attack and basically she found out who he was um by like us cia officials coming
00:28:24.700 to her house um and she got out of a very bad situation she turned her life around now and helps
00:28:30.380 other people that are stuck in sort of like crazy radicalized families and communities um come out but
00:28:37.180 you know even even the story of omar qatar right like his father also came to canada and he was
00:28:42.860 also you know high up in al-qaeda friends with osama bin laden like it's unbelievable that canada has
00:28:49.980 long been this like playing ground for radical islamist terrorists and others and it's still
00:28:56.060 happening and we haven't figured out a way to stop it or crack down on it i mean i i i i'm sorry that it
00:29:01.820 takes the americans coming in and saying you have a major problem but like it's just unbelievable that
00:29:06.940 canada um continues to allow this stuff to happen largely i think a cultural issue and i believe
00:29:14.460 also a political corruption issue at the end of the day interesting well sam cooper thank you so much for
00:29:19.740 your time your insights everyone go check out the bureau on sub stack you should subscribe to support
00:29:24.300 sam's work sam we always appreciate uh your time and insights on the program likewise glad to join you
00:29:29.020 candace all right folks that's all the time we have for today thank you so much for tuning in i'm
00:29:32.220 candace malcolm's candace malcolm show we'll be back again tomorrow thank you and god bless