00:05:19.520shouldn't be going to the United States,
00:05:21.200We shouldn't travel. An ex-user, Riot and Gerritsen, pointed this out and he showed how basically the entire legacy media were working hand in glove to promote this narrative that Canadians shouldn't travel to the United States.
00:05:37.320Here you can just see news story after news story after news story with the headline encouraging Canadians to cancel the trips, not go to the United States, not give any money.
00:05:48.380I think that this is part of a concerted effort by the legacy media to basically cover for Justin
00:05:53.960Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has seen, under Justin Trudeau's rule, we have seen patriotism and love
00:05:59.680of country in Canada absolutely plummet. And I think for good reason, right? You love your country
00:06:05.060on its good days and on its bad days, but at a certain point when your country doesn't recognize
00:06:10.600the basic freedoms of Canadians like we experienced during COVID, you see your prime minister able to
00:06:15.600just make an absolute mockery of the political system, manipulate it, use every trick in the
00:06:21.120book, even what we're living through right now. He prorogued Parliament so that there wouldn't be
00:06:25.880an election, so that he could remain in power, so that his Liberal Party could rebuild, so that they
00:06:30.560can install Mark Carney as the Prime Minister. And all of this is happening. Canadians don't have
00:06:35.540any kind of say. So I think there's pretty good reason why there's not a lot of love for Canada.
00:06:40.320and the media is just working in overtime to try to boost this idea of Canadian patriotism.
00:06:46.260So a recent poll showed, this is from Agnes Reid, True North is covering it, saying Canadian
00:06:51.920pride rebounds following Trump's tariff threat and the brief reprieve. So a survey conducted by the
00:06:58.740Agnes Reid Institute found the percentage of Canadians who said that they were very proud
00:07:03.340to be Canadian, has risen from 34% in December up to 44% now. So just in the past 35, 40 days,
00:07:12.760we've seen a 10% jump in patriotism for Canadians. The portion of those who express a deep emotional
00:07:19.360attachment to Canada has also climbed by 10%. So how is it that, you know, a trade dispute with
00:07:28.220our closest friend and ally has evoked this kind of patriotism. Well, it's partially because the
00:07:33.540media is working very, very hard to promote this narrative, this idea that we have to turn on our
00:07:38.640neighbor, turn on our friend, oppose the Americans, don't buy their stuff, don't visit their country.
00:07:44.420It's all, of course, folks, a distraction to distract you from the very real fact that it is
00:07:49.720Justin Trudeau and the liberals who have imposed this harm onto Canadians. And if you look at the
00:07:56.380data going back. So we've got Canadian patriotism stats going back. In 1985, 78% of Canadians said
00:08:03.020that they were very proud to be Canadian. By 2003, it had dropped down to 68%, but still pretty high,
00:08:08.980right? More than two out of three Canadians said that they were very proud to be Canadian. By the
00:08:14.440time Justin Trudeau took office, it was down to 52% in 2016. And after just eight years in office,
00:08:22.700National Pride hit a record low in 2024 of just 34% of people saying that they are proud to be
00:08:31.100Canadian. Isn't that sad? I mean, the reality, of course, is that it is because of the media
00:08:36.360narrative, right? They're the ones who have been telling us that our country was founded on
00:08:40.120genocide. They're the ones that said that early Canadians set up schools to impose genocide and
00:08:46.160murder children. They're the ones that insisted on tearing down our statues, erasing our history,
00:08:51.980removing Sir John A. Macdonald's name from streets and schools and everything else.
00:08:58.740So we've had a decade-long campaign to make Canada this post-national state
00:09:03.500that Justin Trudeau so thoughtfully imagined.
00:09:07.540And then here we are with national pride at a record low.
00:09:11.640The media are trying to cover for Justin Trudeau now,
00:09:13.940pushing this idea by Canadian that if you're on the political left,
00:16:19.940with Chinese organized crime casino money launders.
00:16:23.160Those are figures that if you extrapolate the amount of fentanyl pills they can produce, that can kill everyone in North America a few times over.
00:16:33.720And no one in law enforcement, indeed, not many reporters have deep law enforcement sources, but no one in Canada and the United States at a high level is disputing that British Columbia especially is a global node for fentanyl production.
00:21:38.900Why are the Chinese allowed to operate like this in Canada?
00:21:43.280I've been talking to off-the-record police sources on that Falkland lab case for a while, so let's draw the mind map.
00:21:52.760This massive industrial-scale lab is tucked up into a mountainous town not too far from the Alberta border in British Columbia that has two police officers.
00:22:04.180So it's up there in the woods. There's a fairly, I'm told, sizable motorcycle outlaw gang population in the area.
00:22:11.840But my sources are very firm in saying this is Mexican cartel run, Chinese triad run.
00:22:20.180And there are even, as I am told, Iranian state-sponsored crime indications in this operation at the highest levels.
00:22:30.380And so it could be, you know, the very well-entrenched biker gangs and the street gangs in B.C. that are running the product around.
00:22:38.140But when it comes to shipping the precursors into Vancouver's port, remember those thousand kilogram seizures I told you about, there's a lot that's not being seized.
00:22:48.160It's being moved into Vancouver's port, which is controlled by organized crime pretty extensively.
00:22:55.560Those precursors are sent up to an area of British Columbia with not many police.
00:23:01.000And then the product, the RCMP confirmed this, is exported out of British Columbia.
00:23:06.460So it goes, as I know, to Australia, it goes to Japan, it goes to the United States, and that's by shipping.
00:23:34.460Are people just allowed to pack their own trailers and put them in without inspection?
00:23:39.880I'm just trying to wrap my head around how so many drugs, so much drugs are passing through our Canadian cities without being stopped and detected.
00:23:49.600And again, this is why the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community and politicians like Trump now very openly are concerned.
00:23:57.980In the 1990s, we had federal port police in Vancouver.
00:24:02.520As I've written in Willful Blindness, my book and for the Bureau very recently, documents say that Canadian police were up, were afraid, were outraged when the Christian government pulled the federal port police out of Vancouver and in Canada's other ports and privatized those ports.
00:24:21.480So what occurred is that foreign organized crime entities were able to apply for docking facilities in Vancouver.
00:24:32.660The Hells Angels infiltrated the union.
00:24:38.580And as one of my police expert sources, Gary Clement, says, who's investigated this for years and warned about it for years with no result,
00:24:49.080the fox is running the hen house for the ports. There's maybe the latest figures I hear are one
00:24:55.500to at top 5% of containers coming in to Vancouver port are searched. And some of this is open source
00:25:03.740information. Some of it I'm telling you is historical intelligence documents. And some of
00:25:11.440it is off the record, very fresh and current intelligence from Canadian police sources that
00:25:17.240say they don't like hearing what Donald Trump's saying more than anyone else, but Donald Trump
00:25:22.640unfortunately is right. We can't defend ourselves. Well, I mean, thankfully Trump is pointing it out
00:25:28.840because I mean, what you describe is kind of like a United Nations of bad guys in Canada operating
00:25:34.600these drug communities, you know, Iranians, Mexicans, Chinese. I wonder if that's what
00:25:40.020Justin Trudeau envisioned when he called Canada the first post-national state. I know Pierre
00:25:44.040Poliev has been hammering Trudeau on this. I want to play a clip. This was from back in December.
00:25:49.780And Pierre Poliev explains how it's Justin Trudeau's agenda that has led to this crisis. Let's play this
00:25:57.160clip. The results are in on the prime minister's radical liberalization of hard drugs. He teamed
00:26:02.360up with the BCNDP to decriminalize fentanyl crack and heroin. He lowered jail sentences for mass
00:26:10.340producers of deadly fentanyl. And 80% of the fentanyl made in Canada is done so using
00:26:18.440ingredients that are not even regulated, but come right into our country where they're cooked
00:26:24.380into that poison. Now threatening our trade relationship with the U.S., will he reverse
00:26:29.920his radical liberal drug agenda to save lives and jobs? So this was back in December 2024.
00:26:37.880Pierre pointing out that it's also to do
00:28:18.720It's been called harm reduction, which is, you know, a medical idea that we can lessen the harms of, you know, some very, very impoverished and often mentally sort of ill people that are abusing drugs.
00:28:33.780But what Safer Supply does is it gives out, you know, medical Health Canada opioids.
00:28:48.120You know, this is a type of pharmaceutical that BC pharmacies are legislated to give out to addicts to get them off so-called toxic heroin, toxic heroin and fentanyl.
00:29:02.840And what's happening is that organized crime dealers just swoop in and take the Dillys or the Canadian regulated pharmaceuticals that are given to addicts and they up and sell them, you know, across Canada.
00:29:20.520Internationally, it has come out. So organized crime is taking this government substitute heroin or opioids and is using the proceeds to deal more fentanyl.
00:29:33.520And I think that's what Mr. Polyev is getting towards. There is, you know, within what could have started as a good idea, sort of let's treat the, you know, the epidemic in our streets with a medical sort of approach.
00:29:49.540it hasn't turned out. And then so you get radical populations of pharmacists and harm reductionists
00:29:57.320that will post a picture of beautiful, what you and I know is life destroying fentanyl. And it's
00:30:03.820just, I mean, it's an example of an ideology that's run, there's no common sense to it. It
00:30:12.520just leads to, makes a bad problem worse in a nutshell. It's so unbelievable to me that they
00:30:17.920would be like celebrating a drug that kills thousands and thousands of Canadians per year.
00:30:22.600Like I didn't even know that fentanyl was a drug that people took. I thought it was something that
00:30:25.940was like accidentally put in other drugs. So I didn't know that myself, but unbelievable the
00:30:31.600fact that the Trudeau government is involved with giving sick people like deadly street drugs.
00:30:37.860Sam, I really want to ask you a final question unrelated. Since I have you on the show, I know
00:30:42.720that this is right up your wheelhouse. So we had that parliamentary report that came out
00:30:46.740last week saying that really there was no foreign interference after all that after two years of
00:30:52.400headlines nobody acted in bad faith so I'm just wondering I know we only have a few minutes but
00:30:59.780what what was your takeaway from that report well I I didn't hold back very much when I went on a
00:31:07.380podcast with three former CSIS officers and we we all are of the opinion that the the report of
00:31:14.920Justice Hoag is, there's no other way to put it but a whitewash, or you could call it David
00:31:21.820Johnston 2.0. A number of people have pointed out, unfortunately, that I say I wanted to give
00:31:28.900the justice a chance to see what she would do with the evidence. And with her whitewash report,
00:31:33.920I think it's important to point out that others have noted, historically, she and her former law
00:31:41.460firm had close connections to two liberal prime ministers, one of them related to Justin Trudeau,
00:31:46.800his father, Pierre Trudeau. So it looks like a situation where I think the good of the Hogue
00:31:54.300Commission is that thousands of documents came out. And so reporters, diligent, curious Canadians
00:32:02.540can go in and read the evidence for themselves. There's no denying that China has deeply interfered
00:32:08.660in uh our recent elections but there's also no denying that the commission was given a very
00:32:14.980narrow mandate which justice hogan admitted a small time frame to look into these concerns
00:32:21.540and at the end of the day uh came to a completely different conclusion than as you know the nsi cup
00:32:28.0202024 report from bipartisan uh panel of parliamentarians that reviewed something like
00:32:35.220thousands of the same documents that the Hogue Commission did, and they came to the finding that
00:32:41.660there are Canadian parliamentarians wittingly working with foreign governments. So I just
00:32:47.560can't reconcile those two different findings and looking at the evidence without any bias,
00:32:54.960I think the evidence, and also my private knowledge of more evidence that didn't come out,
00:32:59.700supports the conclusion that indeed there are politicians wittingly working with foreign
00:33:06.280governments, benefiting knowingly from foreign government support. And I'll add one quote that
00:33:12.180never made it into a story with my former employer. My colleague Stuart Bell talked to one of his
00:33:18.940RCMP sources for one of our stories and the source said, the amount of politicians entangled
00:33:25.800in foreign interference is is large and the honest ones had better wake up and understand
00:33:32.520what they're getting involved with it's unbelievable you know there's so much huffing
00:33:36.520and puffing over donald trump's comments and jests about canada becoming the 51st state and canadians
00:33:42.120jumping up and down demanding um that we maintain our sovereignty and maintain our independence
00:33:46.840meanwhile we have our parliament that is at risk of foreign interference and our elections at risk
00:33:53.240of foreign interference and we have drug pins a kingpins from all over the world operating in
00:33:58.280canada doesn't really paint a very optimistic uh picture of the sovereignty of canada i think we
00:34:03.720really have our work cut out for you uh cut out for us uh sam what do you think i believe so and
00:34:10.120you know i'll add this my information and i'm conversant with u.s intelligence uh officials
00:34:17.320and politicians versed in u.s intelligence is that the u.s government at a bipartisan level has
00:34:23.960a deep concern with uh canada's incapacity to uh counter foreign interference most specifically
00:34:32.680from china but also iranian state-sponsored crime and terror networks and uh individuals
00:34:39.640that want to use canada's borders to hurt the united states that's the concern and that's why
00:34:44.840mr president trump is saying some very hurtful but uh a lot of it truthful things towards canada
00:34:52.440and my last observation is i just i find a level of denial from what what a lot of people call the
00:34:59.000laurentian elite that has kind of run this country for 40 years and has run it in a bad direction i
00:35:05.080think and we're we're seeing what the end result of that is right now well sam thank you so much
00:35:10.840for joining the show and keep up the incredible work that you do you're one of the best if not
00:35:15.160the best investigative journalist independent journalist in the country so uh thanks for all
00:35:19.640your all your work and thanks for your time today thanks so much and really everybody should go check
00:35:26.040out sam cooper's uh sub stack it's called the bureau subscribe over there to help support his
00:35:31.400work because from best i can tell he is one of the only ones who not only has this information
00:35:35.720at his fingertips, has the expertise and the knowledge to find the information, but also has
00:35:40.460the courage and the bravery to expose it. Because believe me, when you're exposing this kind of
00:35:45.960information about the worst people, the absolute worst people in Canada, it definitely comes with
00:35:52.140some risks. So we want to do everything we can to support a fellow independent journalist over
00:35:57.100there. Okay. I do want to get to Mark Carney, because I think this was quite the gaffe. It
00:36:01.340really shows us what Carney is really thinking.
00:36:04.620You know, there's so much made about how Mark Carney
00:36:07.020is sort of like a new and improved Justin Trudeau,
00:36:09.160that he has the same beliefs as Justin Trudeau,
00:45:12.860Like the left, my definition of left is you're on the side of workers and normal people have jobs.
00:45:21.240And that's what you should be focused on.
00:45:23.240And, you know, on this issue, right, what do most normal, regular people have jobs think of it? That is left wing position. There is another position, and it's the kind of like, 50 people live around the University of Toronto and are unemployed and have nothing to do but to tweet.
00:45:42.520those people have their own position I think they brand themselves as left but you know you know if
00:45:49.900you want to get the 50 votes go for it but you know if you want to get real Canadians whether
00:45:56.100you're Mark Carney or Jagmeet Singh you know you should be talking about things they care about
00:46:00.940okay well let's talk about the Canadian political situation right now because we're sort of in this
00:46:06.720weird situation where we're dealing with a national crisis but we don't have parliament
00:46:10.640Parliament's not in session because Justin Trudeau prorogued it. You have Pierre Polyev calling for
00:46:16.160Parliament to get back in session so that we can possibly pass a bunch of bills and measures to
00:46:20.940beef up the border security, possibly provide aid to workers if there is a trade war. But then at
00:46:26.900the same time, Jagmeet Singh had said that if Parliament is recalled, he'll immediately call
00:46:30.760an election. So there's kind of a contradiction where it's like, we want to get Parliament back,
00:46:34.800but as soon as Parliament's back, we're going to have a non-confidence vote to pull the plug
00:46:40.000government to force elections so we wouldn't be able to pass any of these kind of spending bills
00:46:43.600anyways and then you had jagmeet singh kind of hinting at the fact that maybe he won't pull the
00:46:48.720plug on the government so this is a clip from last week tuesday january 28th right uh you know before
00:46:55.040the tariffs were imposed and before trump reversed the tariffs um so he was speaking at a press
00:46:59.760conference where he says maybe we just won't uh let's play that clip uh if trump follows through
00:47:07.120on this plan with tariffs, would you keep the Liberals in power and allow for the passage of
00:47:12.000a work relief program before supporting a non-confidence motion? I'll just start off by
00:47:18.080the fact that I've spoken with a lot of workers who are deeply worried about what the Trump
00:47:22.880tariffs might mean. We do need to have a plan in place to support those that are impacted,
00:47:27.680those businesses, those workers, most importantly. If there is any desire to move forward, the
00:47:31.840the government should call us together like we did during COVID and discuss a plan that supports
00:47:36.920workers. So he's talking about discussing a plan, having everybody together. That doesn't really
00:47:42.480sound like I'm going to pull the plug and force an election the second we get back, which is what
00:47:47.180you applied before. What do you make of all this? Yeah, well, I'll start by saying Jagmeet has no
00:47:52.880plan to trigger an election. And we've actually been doing, our group has been doing quite
00:47:58.940substantive uh investigations into what's going on on on the ground i've been working with several
00:48:05.740news outlets to try to get them to write a piece on this um so i can get back to that but um you
00:48:13.420know on the broader situation i think it's you know much worse than what you described like our
00:48:19.340prime ministers quit right we have our parliament who are the only people that that canadians vote
00:48:25.660for in the canadian you know political system they've been dissolved there's no parliament
00:48:32.220um the the ministers they're like jockeying to like keep their job in the next you know with
00:48:38.700whoever becomes the the uh prime minister and then like the opposition leaders right and this includes
00:48:47.260includes the conservatives and the ndp and the bloc everybody their incentive is not to look out
00:48:54.860for canada's interests it's to do electioneering so that they win the next election or don't get
00:48:59.660wiped out in the case of the ndp um like what canada needs is a real functional government
00:49:08.220what canada needs is an election so that people can get into a normal situation and they can have
00:49:15.500the incentive which is a right incentive just to look out for canada because right now nobody wants
00:49:21.660to do that because it's counterproductive for them to be on the side of canada they're incentivized
00:49:27.420to be on the side of themselves well you certainly saw that i think that so much of the posturing
00:49:32.540around the trump tariff war was really designed to boost justin trudeau's uh public approval rating
00:49:39.820uh which doesn't make sense to your point that he supposedly quit i mean he told us that he was
00:49:44.860resigning and then he didn't actually resign so he said he he was intending to resign eventually
00:49:50.620And now we're stuck with him in this complete, ridiculous, lame duck scenario.
00:49:55.160And meanwhile, we have Mark Carney, who's basically being selected and put in as prime minister.
00:50:03.100And he's saying that he's regularly in communication with cabinet and making comments to Trump about the trade war.
00:50:09.720Hello, he's not even the liberal leader yet.
00:50:11.660I do think he'll win and I do presume that he will be our next prime minister, but he's not at this point.
00:50:17.000So he has no business telling cabinet ministers what to do or being in communication with them.
00:50:22.680I don't even know if he has security clearance.
00:50:26.160It's totally making a mockery of our system.
00:50:29.680And, you know, it's no wonder, I talked about it off the top of the show, how pride in Canada has plummeted.
00:50:37.080Back in the 80s, pride in Canada was like almost universal.
00:50:41.180It was like 80%, 85% of Canadians loved being Canadian and felt very, very proud.
00:50:46.120And under this government, under what has happened with Justin Trudeau, it's down to 34 percent. Now the media are doing their best to try to boost him back up. And he's gotten a little boost with this Trump back and forth, which, again, makes me a little bit cynical about whether it wasn't all just an act to try to boost his public opinion and what Canadians think of him. What do you think?
00:51:08.060i think justin trudeau is fixated on two things one sabotaging christopher freeland who he now
00:51:16.940hates uh and two um pandering to whoever would give him a job or maybe even has already committed
00:51:27.680to giving him a job uh after he leaves i mean and that's not like that is what you would expect
00:51:34.920from a normal human being like in a month from now he'll be unemployed or maybe he'll have some
00:51:41.460big job somewhere right and um christopher freeland just screwed him over uh i don't blame them to for
00:51:49.060for doing that right like that's that's what anybody would do it's probably what i would do
00:51:53.980that's why we need a proper real government and a proper real prime minister and that's why we need
00:51:59.900an election to be called you know in december um and that's why we need an election be called
00:52:05.340you know in april i guess um and unfortunately it doesn't seem like we're on track for having
00:52:12.380an election called anytime soon and we're going to be stuck in this complete shitshow in a very
00:52:18.480dangerous situation uh and you know you know the liberals are to blame but the ndp too okay so
00:52:26.060Jagmeet. Jagmeet. Okay. So I want to ask you this because there's been these sort of videos and
00:52:31.440rumors circulating online that we might not actually have an election, right? So many
00:52:35.000Canadians were saying, phew, Justin Trudeau's resigned. That's got to mean that we're going
00:52:39.100to have an election. We do have an Elections Canada Act that says that every four years,
00:52:43.500there must be an election. So that would bring us to October. Then you had Jagmeet Singh saying
00:52:47.500he was going to pull the plug so we could have an election. Presumably that would happen at the
00:52:51.360end of March, when the Liberal leader is installed as Prime Minister, giving us a May election.
00:52:56.880But then there's been this constitutional theory that the Elections Canada Act can actually be
00:53:03.040rewritten by the legislature, and that our constitution only says that every five years
00:53:08.860is when an election must happen, meaning that we wouldn't have one until October of 2026,
00:53:14.220meaning another, what, 18 months of this Liberal NDP coalition government. So in order for that to
00:53:20.580happen. Presumably, again, Mark Carney is going to be the prime minister. He's going to be installed.
00:53:26.260And all he would have to do is negotiate a deal with Jagmeet, maybe say, hey, you can come and
00:53:31.760be in my cabinet. You can be part of my inner circle of decision makers. All you have to do
00:53:36.880is sign this piece of paper, sign away your soul. You've already done it. So you might as well make
00:53:40.560another deal with the devil here. And Canadians could have to live through 18 months of an
00:53:46.660unelected Mark Carney prime ministership. What do you think of that? So I'd say one,
00:53:52.640nobody on the ground in the NDP is preparing for an election in a month and a half or two months.
00:53:58.980They're just not. So they don't think, or the NDP as an institution doesn't think there's going to
00:54:06.260be an election in April, or at least they're not acting as if they think that. So that's one thing.
00:54:13.340The second thing is, as you say, this sort of fixed election date law that was set up, that's not how Canada's system works. Canada's system isn't that. There is no fixed election date in a parliamentary system.
00:54:31.120And, you know, there's no reason why they can't prolong it further out.
00:54:41.560You know, it's not like we've been doing this.
00:54:43.120It's not this like set thing that we've been doing for hundreds of years.
00:54:46.240Like it's happened like once or whatever.
00:54:48.960And, you know, they can say, well, there's this big crisis, blah, blah, blah.