Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is one step closer to going to federal prison for tax evasion. This isn t sensationalism. This is the real deal, right here. According to expert analysis, Brookfield has managed to avoid paying a staggering $6.5 billion in Canadian taxes through the use of offshore tax havens.
00:02:20.240You were at the helm of a company that quite clearly registered much of its business in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes,
00:02:27.700including, as CTV News reported, registered to an address of a bike shop in Bermuda.
00:02:33.280You have said that this is the way the world works, and that in the case of pension funds, that leaves more money for pensioners.
00:02:41.300But in this case, it looks like just plain tax avoidance.
00:02:44.860This may be a legal practice, and as you say, as the world works, but is it ethical, Mr. Carney?
00:02:51.540First off, I'm no longer at Brookfield.
00:02:56.240Secondly, their arrangements follow the rules, including the tax rules of this country, other countries.
00:03:03.600And thirdly, as you mentioned in your question, that the structure is organized so that Canadian pension funds can get the most benefit for the pensioners,
00:03:14.700which are teachers, retired first responders, and public servants.
00:03:19.020I did not really respond to the question as to your opinion as to if it was ethical, but let me follow up on that.
00:03:30.520The thesis of that book was that capitalism or markets left to their own devices don't help humanity.
00:03:36.900For years, your party, the Liberal Party, has promised to stop the practice of tax avoidance that Brookfield and other companies have engaged in.
00:03:50.420When are you going to release and tell Canadians what those tools are, and when will you implement them?
00:03:56.440In terms of having a fair tax system in Canada, including for corporate taxation, it's absolutely a priority of my government.
00:04:05.780If we are re-elected, it would be a priority of our government to ensure that our companies are paying their fair share of taxes,
00:04:15.560and that above all, that those taxes that are at the resources that are at the disposal of the government,
00:04:23.420that they're being put in place for the purposes that Canadians want.
00:04:27.980And today is about making sure that those scarce resources are used to reinforce our culture in an independent CBC Radio Canada
00:04:39.900that provides vital information in all of our communities, and that helps to build this vibrant culture.
00:04:49.600And we couldn't be in a better setting, I think, than in Montreal to point to that culture that lives and breathes and is so crucial to our national identity.
00:05:00.300Now this is an excellent example, a rare but excellent example, of the mainstream media actually doing their jobs, holding powerful people accountable.
00:05:09.200This brave woman, this brave journalist, she disobeyed her marching orders and actually asked Carney a real question.
00:05:17.260And a summary of what Carney was saying in the video, a translation, if you will, is that Carney wants the rules to apply to everyone, except for him.
00:08:03.700And then your decisions as a prime minister show you're not prioritizing people, but you're prioritizing big business and billionaires.
00:08:10.720So what have we done as a government directly?
00:08:14.480So we've gone directly to workers using all of our proceeds from the tariffs, committing all of them for workers, the workers most affected.
00:08:22.240But the employment insurance isn't high enough.
00:08:23.660Unlike others who plan to use them to cut taxes.
00:08:34.840Right now, there will be additional programs.
00:08:36.600I am fully confident that the next government, whatever government is formed, certainly if I'm in the next government, we will make additional programs.
00:08:44.520But you didn't do that so far, though.
00:08:47.040You couldn't, given that we're in an election.
00:08:50.000You could have increased the amount, though.
00:08:51.020May I make a core point here, if I may, which is that when you think about workers here today and people watching at home, particularly younger people, there is an enormous opportunity in the trades, in the skilled trades.
00:09:03.040We are going to build this country in a way that has not been seen before.
00:09:06.640We are literally talking about hundreds of thousands, not jobs, but careers in the trades.
00:09:11.160And that's why we're investing in apprenticeships and mid-careers.
00:09:14.140But I think people are worried, Mr. Carney, if New Democrats aren't there to force liberals to make sure they remember about people, they will forget.
00:09:19.060And obviously, Carney didn't like that question.
00:09:43.600He did whatever the heck he wanted, and he got away with it.
00:09:47.200And that's another reason why we need Polyev.
00:09:49.980If Polyev gets into office, and I have every reason to believe he will, he'll start holding these crooked elites, these crooked liberals, to account.
00:09:57.660Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have been involved jail time.
00:10:02.700I mean, Trudeau broke the criminal code when he took a free vacation from someone with whom he had government business.
00:10:08.720It's just like it's right there in the criminal code.
00:10:10.800If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged.
00:10:16.800And again, he probably violated the criminal code and the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
00:10:23.580These would normally have led to criminal charges.
00:10:26.280But, of course, the RCMP covered it all up.
00:10:28.820And the leadership of the RCMP is, frankly, just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the liberal government.
00:10:36.020But, yeah, I would fire them, and in cases like that, I would report them to the police.
00:10:43.700That's what should have happened, and it's going to happen.
00:10:46.600We're going to be at a higher standard.
00:10:48.680Well, hopefully it doesn't happen that nobody actually puts you in a position.
00:10:52.280It's not going to happen in our case because we're not going to hire people who are there to rip off the system.
00:10:57.180Once Polyev gets into office and he snags a majority, hopefully a supermajority, he can fire the police commissioner.
00:11:03.160He can appoint a trustworthy, loyal public safety commissioner.
00:11:07.980He can get rid of some of these liberal judges, and then he can get to work fixing the broken, corrupt system and putting some of these bigwigs into jail.
00:11:16.840And that includes Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.
00:11:19.900It's not unforeseeable that within the next few years, both Trudeau and Carney could be in federal prison.