EZRA LEVANT ｜ Another Carney candidate, another China link — does anyone care, though？
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Mark Carney chooses another Chinese spy as his new candidate to replace the last Chinese spy. We have video proof of some very strange things about this man, including his business connections with China and his financial dealings with the Chinese government.
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Hello, my friends. Today's show, very interesting, if I may say so myself. It's about Mark Carney
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and his conflicts of interest with business and with China. We're going to show some videos,
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including the new Carney candidate, who's a former Toronto police officer who was,
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I'm going to call him a Chinese spy. We'll have video proof of some very strange things.
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Tonight, Mark Carney chooses another Chinese spy as a candidate
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to replace the last Chinese spy. Does anyone care, though? It's April 10th,
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Well, hi, everybody. I was at a Brampton rally yesterday featuring Pierre Polyev and his Brampton
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area candidates. It's very interesting. I'm glad I went there, but I'll be honest with you,
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I was a little bit worried. I went more than two hours early because I had seen
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Sheila Gunn-Reid's report from Edmonton a couple of days ago, where more than 10,000 people came.
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Lineup started three hours in advance. It was kilometers long.
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So I set out for Brampton, which isn't that long a drive from Toronto. I got there super early. And
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you know what? The parking lot was almost, you know, I won't say empty, but I got a great parking
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spot. There was maybe 100 people in line. And when the event began, they actually closed some of the
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sections in the big ballroom to make the room seem smaller because it was not full. And I'll be honest
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with you. I was a little bit worried. Brampton is its own city, but it's half an hour away from
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Toronto. It's really in the dense greater Toronto area of which there are, what, 7 million residents
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these days. I won't lie. I'm a little bit worried about the turnout. And I see the new David Coletto
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poll showing that the Conservatives have lost three points and the Liberals have gained three points.
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So instead of it being tied at 39-39, it's now Liberals at 42, Conservatives at 36. And there's
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still time to turn it around, but only 18 days left. A big factor is Jagmeet Singh absolutely
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collapsing. Here's his latest foolish TikTok video. I think that he's going to lose his own seat. The
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party may lose most of their seats and he'll just become a TikTok influencer. Here's his video today.
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We're all going to jump together. Get ready, everybody. We're going to show them that we're
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ready. We're ready to fight. We're ready to win. Here we go. Get ready. Get ready. Get warmed
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up. Get warmed up. Here we go. Here we go. Let's go. Ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?
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Here we go. Here we go. One, two, three. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much. The floor is actually shaking.
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Yeah. An unserious man in serious times. I think one of the ways that the Conservatives could boost
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their fortunes is to focus on Mark Carney, the person. I think Carney has effectively neutralized
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the carbon tax issue. And I don't know if Pierre Polyev will be able to win on the who can handle
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Trump issue. I just don't know if he can credibly take ownership of that issue. But I think Mark Carney
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himself can be much more of an issue as opposed to issue issues. Who is Mark Carney? Could you
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honestly answer that question? He hasn't answered that question. Where did he pay his personal taxes?
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Where does he declare his residence as being? Does he have a Canadian health care card or does he still
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use the British NHS? I say again, he told the U.S. Congress just last year that he's a resident of the
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UK. How long has he even been here? Some of his answers suggest he hasn't even really been
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following politics in Canada until just a few weeks ago. One of the things that's most interesting to
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me is his Chinese connections. He's deeply conflicted. He's a businessman who has met with
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Xi Jinping and has praised China publicly. That's a political statement more than a business statement.
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And what's so weird is he will not disclose his financial holdings and he will not sell his
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financial holdings. I don't need to know how Mark Carney made his money to date if he sells all
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his stuff. But why won't he sell it? Isn't that weird? Is it some sort of insurance policy if he
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doesn't win? Is he just holding on to his assets to try and get richer? Like isn't becoming prime
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minister the top job for him? Or is he always looking for a better chance? Like when he left
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Canada's bank of National Bank to go to run the Bank of England? Like is he still looking around
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for a better deal? Why would you still hold on to your stocks and your other holdings once you're PM?
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Don't you see that would horrendously conflict everything you're doing, including this? Here's
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an example. A couple days ago, Mark Carney announced that the Canadian government was going to get into the
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housing businesses and to actually build houses. That's an astonishingly bad idea. You know, it's
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just $25 billion. Sure, $25 billion. Throw another $25 billion on the fire. But it doesn't take long to
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Google and see that the company, which he ran until a few weeks ago, Brookfield, which is like a mini
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BlackRock if you're trying to think about it. It's got about $900 billion in assets under management.
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They invested $5 billion into a modular homes company. Here's their press release from three
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and a half years ago. They today announced an agreement to acquire Modulair Group for approximately
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$5 billion. What's the Modulair Group? Well, their website shows they build little modular homes,
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tiny homes, like I saw in Lahaina, Maui, like prefab tiny homes. That is Mark Carney's plan for housing in
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Canada. I don't know if it'll look like the FEMA camps that we saw in Lahaina or if it'll look like
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the dilapidated government housing on Indian reserves. But I am aware of no place in the world where
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government housing is of quality or of affordability. Like what are we doing allowing government-run
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housing? That's an insane socialist idea. But at his core, that's what Mark Carney is. Anyhow, I say that
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to you because it's relevant to our interview in a few minutes with Sam Cooper, the investigative
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reporter who digs into Chinese connections. And that's actually the feature of today's show. I
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talked to Sam for about half an hour, and I hope you enjoy it. By the way, a little programming note.
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I will be doing the show tomorrow from the United Kingdom. I'm hopping on a plane tonight, flying
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overnight, and I'm landing in London to cover Tommy Robinson's appeal of his sentence for contempt of
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court. As you know, he's in prison for 18 months. He'll serve nine of those months, and he's serving
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in solitary confinement. We already had a judicial review over the way he's being held. Unfortunately,
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he lost that. Tomorrow is an appeal of the sentence itself. There's going to be one or two other things
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we do continue to cover outside of Canada, even during the Canadian election. Obviously, being on the
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ground in Canada is by far our most important priority. But there are still some things like Tommy
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Robinson that I know are important to our viewers, and there may be one or two other things.
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But as you can see every day, our people are on the ground. My friend David Menzies, right as we speak,
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is at a Carney event in Hamilton. And I think our billboard truck is there too. So that'll be fun
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to see how that goes. The For Canada third-party campaign group is going absolutely full tilt.
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I'll have a report for you next week on how many millions of views those ads have had online,
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in person, and on the radio. So that's my report for today. Stay with us. I had a deep interview
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with Sam Cooper on Chinese influence in Canada. Take a look.
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Well, I criticize the mainstream media in Canada for turning a blind eye or even covering up actively
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Chinese Communist Party interference in our democracy. I note their total lack of curiosity,
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for example, in possible Chinese involvement in the online vote that selected Mark Carney to be prime
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minister. An astonishing thing I mentioned twice in the last few days was the almost uniform or
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unanimous phraseology by the regime media when it was revealed that the Chinese Communist Party was
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using the Chinese social media app WeChat to push Mark Carney is that all the media said,
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no, no, no, China was targeting Mark Carney, implying that they were against him, when in fact the exact
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opposite was true. The fact that so many media outlets use that same word targeting was so astonishing
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to me. But I have to give credit where it's due. There are some journalists out there who do an
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excellent job and even sometimes I would say a lonely job revealing this foreign interference in
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our country. I often make fun of the Globe and Mail because they are the granddaddy of regime media.
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They're owned by Canada's richest oligarch, David Thompson. I mean, the fact that they even take
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government subsidies boggles my mind. But all that feels forgiven when I see stories like theirs today.
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liberal candidate Peter Yuan chosen to replace Paul Chiang linked to pro-Beijing groups and events.
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And it's a very in-depth report on the man who succeeded Paul Chiang. You'll remember Paul Chiang.
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He made these comments to the Chinese media about having someone literally kidnap a conservative pro-democracy
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Chinese-Canadian and take them to the Chinese consulate for a million-dollar bounty. Remember this clip?
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The other person that's running most probably is, you know, the Chinese community, Joe Tei.
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He is looking for the nomination. The Chinese media knows him.
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He was in the media business in Hong Kong. And here in Canada, he's a radio host or, I don't know,
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for Sinktown media or, so their child, he was a media person. So that's all he did, all he's like.
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But also right now, he is wanted by the Chinese government. And there's a one-million-dollar reward
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on his head. So they want, if you guys want to pick him up and take him to the Chinese consulate,
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you make him a million dollars. I'm just joking. But there is a rest warrant out for him from the
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government of China. And there is a reward for him. But apart from that, I can't say more than that.
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Well, after white knighting for Paul Chiang for almost a week, Chiang quit. Mark Carney said almost
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nothing. And handpicked the replacement, Peter Yuan, who is deeply involved in pro-China activity
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in Canada. He's a former policeman like Paul Chiang was. But here he is wearing a Canadian police uniform,
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singing a Communist Party song in Chinese in his full police regalia. Take a look at this.
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Who are all those cops? Like that's not just one or two. That's at least half a dozen police wearing
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Toronto or other Canadian police uniforms while singing a patriotic song to the Communist Party
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of China. You know, if you remember a year or two ago, we sent David Menzies out to try and get the
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facts about these Chinese police stations in Canada. You know, there's a few of these police stations
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that are not affiliated with the Canadian government. They are the Chinese government's way of policing
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and spying on and regulating the diaspora community here. Why bother having a ghost police station
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that operates for China when you literally have people of a very senior rank? I would remind you
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that Peter Yuan was very high. I think he was the deputy chief of police in Toronto. And he's not doing
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this secretly. He's not hiding any of this. He's leaning into it. Unbelievable. Well, I mentioned
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the reporters at the Globe and Mail, in particular Steve Chase and Robert Fyfe, who would be an excellent
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on this. But I think if I had to name the one Canadian journalist who has made a mark on this
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campaign and over the last few years in documenting and investigating the Chinese Communist Party's
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interference in our democracy, it would be our guest today. You probably can guess who I'm talking about.
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His name is Sam Cooper. He runs thebureau.news. And boy, are we ever grateful for his work and for him
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taking the time occasionally to pop by. Welcome back, Sam. It's great to see you again.
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Good to be with you, Ezra. You know, Sam, that video, we only showed about 10 seconds of it.
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That was an in Chinese language, Chinese political event. You know, I don't think police are allowed
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to be political in Canada. I know they're not. You couldn't, you wouldn't see police in uniform
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at a Liberal Party function, a Conservative Party function, because the police uniform must remain
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nonpartisan. So everyone trusts it. It's astonishing to me to see half a dozen Toronto cops in a partisan
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political action for a political party. It just happens to be the Chinese Communist Party. I find that
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It's an astonishing scene, Ezra. And I broke that story followed up well today by the Globe and
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Mail. I broke it on Sunday. And I broke it because I have good contacts with Chinese language journalists
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in Canada who have such deep knowledge of Beijing's repressive interference networks. And so, Ezra,
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as you know, I reported on leaked intelligence documents, but my reporting was started by
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looking at broad daylight evidence such as that video. And look, if you talk about the CCP police
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stations, Ezra, I noted that Mr. Yuan was standing beside a Markham community leader who the RCMP has
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investigated in Chinese police stations in Toronto and Vancouver. That's a fact. That meeting there,
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many of the politicians alleged to be involved in the Greater Toronto-Beijing United Front election
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interference networks were at that very same event. Ezra, the Consul General of Toronto, spoke to
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everyone, including the police officers and the politicians at that event. I can go on and on,
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but suffice to say, anyone with intellectual curiosity can look at academic documents and
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videotaped events like this and say it raises deep concerns that this is Beijing's United Front
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interfacing with Canadian police and politicians. And Ezra, I do want to stress good work by the Globe and
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Mail in digging into some of the open source findings that many Canadian researchers posted to my story
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after I broke it on Sunday. Anyone can find this stuff. They can also find pictures. I call them
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concerning pictures of Mr. Yuan and other Canadian police officers sitting down with known RCMP
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investigation suspects in the realm of organized crime. Deeply concerning.
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Wow. Well, first of all, Sam, I didn't realize that you broke this story before the Globe.
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I do still give them a tip of the hat for following it, but I didn't mean to take away
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the gravity of your scoop, and I'm glad you corrected me on that. I am a subscriber to,
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you know, in fact, literally right now, your latest email popped up on my phone, so I'm sorry I didn't
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give you proper credit for that. I will say that Bob Fife and Steve Chase are interested in this file,
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and I find that very heartening because they're very rare. So I won't give them the kudos for
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breaking the story, but I do think it's worth acknowledging that they followed your lead because
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I wish more reporters would. Here's what's so interesting about this for me, Sam. Paul Chang was
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a shocking case. He tried to pass it off as a joke, but when you say three times, hey, turn in my opponent
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for a million dollars at the consulate, and when you're a former police officer and when that kind
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of stuff actually happens, it is not a laughing matter. And Mark Carney couldn't bring himself to
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fire this guy for over a week, for almost a week. So they had this crisis. They lost a candidate over
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it. So they went back to square one with this crisis in mind, and they chose this guy? I understand
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choosing a Chinese-Canadian. That's the demographics of the riding. I get it. But to choose someone who's
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deeply, deeply connected with the Chinese Communist Party after they just had a scandal, that's what's
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so crazy to me. I mean, once might be carelessness, but twice? And I've got to ask questions about the
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Toronto Police Service itself now. I mean, that first guy, Paul Chang, was a cop for 25 years. Did he treat
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people on the ground differently if they were a Chinese democracy activist versus a Chinese CCP
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activist? Because I would be afraid to be a Chinese-Canadian who is either neutral or pro-democracy
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if a pro-CCP cop pulls me over? And you're saying he's hanging out with people who were working
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on these ghost police stations? I mean, I don't have evidence that this guy was a spy,
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but it doesn't seem like he's hiding his affiliations at all. I think this is nuts, Sam. How could they
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have... The fact that they chose basically an identical guy to the guy they sacked is astonishing.
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Ezra, I've got two points. First of all, your observation, as usual, is very prescient.
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Look, for this individual to be constantly meeting with consul officials and community leaders that I'm
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asserting to you, provably in court, community leaders that the RCMP is investigating in Chinese
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police station networks, it points to a concern I'm already aware of in other cities such as Vancouver,
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that very elite Chinese former police or military officials with direct connections, unfortunately,
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to Chinese organized crime, make donations to police foundations in Canada. And it appears to me that
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they attempt to advertise their linkages to Canadian police services in sending, I believe,
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a message to the Chinese community that they have some influence within Chinese police. So that is one thing.
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I'm saying you're right. But let's wind it back. In my story broken Sunday, on Mr. Yuan, there's an even more,
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I would say, mind-blowing connection. Mr. Yuan joined the board of a Markham-based Chinese
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international school called NOIC. He joined it within the past few years. And Ezra, this is the very same
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school that came up in Hogue Commission testimony in which Chinese visa-holding students were allegedly
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bussed into a riding to support a certain candidate under threat, allegedly from the consul general.
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So let's look at that in the picture of this individual standing at a gala beside a community leader
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where they were, you know, received the oratory of the consul general, the very same consul general unit
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that's alleged to be involved in threats to students. Look at that triangulation, Ezra. I could go on and on.
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It's very interesting because if that were in another political setting, I think it would be stopped.
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I think there would be discipline. But the fact that the political party happens to be foreign,
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that's just incredible. I think, again, my biggest concern with what Paul Chang, the candidate who was
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fired a week ago, is that it's not so much that people would actually kidnap the pro-democracy
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activists and turn them in. I mean, that was always a possibility. It was the message that was being sent.
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If you pop your head up and say anti-communist things, if you pop your head up and say freedom
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or democracy things, we're watching you, you know, be afraid, you know, as they say in French,
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pour encourager les autres. To set an example, don't you talk democracy talk or we'll make public threats.
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To me, it was less the risk that the kidnapping would happen and more the fact that a man of authority
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who was a cop for 25 years, who's in the bosom of the Liberal Party of Canada is saying,
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if any of you have big ideas about talking about democracy, just to let you know, that's off.
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Hey, I want to show you something literally in my ear as we were talking, Sam.
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Our producer, Efron, says that Mark Carney just made a response to the latest investigation that
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you published on Sunday and that the Globe and Mail followed up with. So here, let's take a look at
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Mark Carney's response. I have not seen this yet. Let's watch it together and then I'd love your
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reaction. Mark Carney on your scoop. Let's take a look. My colleagues have a story today about a
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Liberal candidate's relations with China-friendly groups and a meeting that you also held with a
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pro-Beijing group. So my question is, why did you meet with this pro-Beijing group, Jiangsu
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Commerce Council of Canada? And is the party okay with the fact that Liberal candidate Peter Yan
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has been so close with the Chinese consulate and China-friendly groups, given the public
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inquiry into foreign interference, says that this is a tactic China uses to exert influence?
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Okay. Well, I'm sorry, but you can't believe everything you read in the Globe and Mail.
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So in your question, and I guess in the article in question, you said I had a meeting with
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whatever your term was, Beijing group. I've never heard of this group, okay? Never
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heard of this group, certainly didn't have a set up meeting with this group. Full stop. So check
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your sources before you write things like that, okay? Or your colleagues do. I'm a politician.
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I go to events where there are hundreds and thousands, you know, thousands over the course
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of a day of different people there. That is not a meeting. If somebody happens to be in the room,
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takes a picture with me, that's not a meeting, okay? First point. Secondly, with respect to Mr.
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Young, this is a person who has served his community for decades. The person who's deputy
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commissioner of the police, okay? A person in discharge of those responsibilities
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meets with a variety of community groups in the community because that's his job.
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That's his responsibility. We're proud to have him as a candidate. And I honor his service,
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including on today. Wow. There's a lot in there. Sam, you take a first crack at it,
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because there's something I want to point out that might be a little different than your ankle.
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You go ahead. What do you think of that? Sure. Sure. I'm happy to, Ezra. As no journalist in
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Canada knows more about the entity, Jiangsu Commerce. Many of my, I call them open source research
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colleagues, have posted pictures over the past years building upon my reports for global news.
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That entity in Markham is an entity of business leaders in the Markham community. And so it has,
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for legal reasons, I'll just say a couple, a number of individuals investigated by CSIS at the highest
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levels in their Toronto election interference story. The group includes an individual that travels to
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China and meets with the United Front Work Department at a high level.
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So my comment to Mr. Carney, in his incuriousness or ignorance or deflection, he could have been
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meeting with individuals already that he knew were investigated by CSIS. They might not have had Jiangsu
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Commerce Group on their name tag. But if a number of them were in the room with him, and they say they were
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meeting with him under that hat, he as a Canadian leader should be aware of that. I would add this,
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this. My work has shown that that particular entity is deeply tied with liberal election,
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local election riding associations in the Markham area. I could go on and on, but the people involved
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there are Chinese community leaders who have a very high level of influence, I'm asserting,
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in staff placement in the Liberal government. And I'm really getting a chance to unpack the knowledge
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I've built for the past, you know, 10 years, I'd say three years in Toronto. But I do think that in
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Mr. Carney's dismissive remarks to the Globe and Mail reporter, it shows a level of arrogance and
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in curiousness that is not becoming of a Canadian leader. And Ezra, if I had two hours to speak to
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you today, I could point to any number, a lot of Liberal candidates in Vancouver and Toronto that have
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so many levels of meetings with these individuals in Chinese community associations that the RCMP and CSIS
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repeatedly have told Mr. Carney's predecessor, Justin Trudeau and his party are there to surround
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and influence Canadian politicians. So if Mr. Carney doesn't know this, I think he does know this.
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Yeah, I think he does know this. Boy, is that interesting. You know, last night, by the way, Sam,
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I went to a conservative political rally in Brampton. And obviously, the demographics of Brampton
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are majority minority. So I spoke with a number of people from different backgrounds.
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And one of the conversations I had that was the most surprising, and frankly, it really changed
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some of my thinking, was I talked to someone who said he's an anti-Hamas Muslim. He's a proud Muslim,
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and he doesn't want people to think that conservatives are anti-Muslim. But he says,
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that doesn't mean you have to be pro-Hamas. And he said he's been kicked out of a number of
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community Facebook groups when he criticized Hamas. And I just listened to this guy and he's standing
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right in front of me. And I felt his pain and his loneliness, Sam, because he wants to be a Canadian
00:28:26.340
who's Muslim and has, you know, he's an immigrant here. He wants to be Canadian. He doesn't want the
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long arm of Iran or other foreign countries or, God forbid, terrorist groups manipulating the
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community. And I was very touched by what he said to me. And I can imagine it's even stronger in the
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Chinese community. You have people who've came here. I mean, the difference in personal freedom
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and choices and political freedom is so different. And yet the Chinese Communist Party has managed to
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follow them here. And when they see someone like Paul Yuan, they think, oh my God, China's followed
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me here. But then when they see Mark Carney, someone like you say, who should know better, basically say,
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there's nothing wrong here. And he used the same line he used with Paul Chang. If you remember,
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he said, Paul Chang has 25 years of policing. I respect that. Well, first of all, I want to know
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a lot more about that police. I mean, you can't just say he served his community. He was good enough for
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the Toronto police. He's good enough for me. I don't know. He, sorry, go ahead, Sam. Looks like you want
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to make a point. Then I'll make my, there's one more thing in my mind that really a light bulb went on
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when Mark Carney answered, but go ahead. I can see you have something to say.
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A light bulb went on for me too, because you're right. For a second time,
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Mr. Carney refers to the police background of his candidate. And Ezra, I'm sorry,
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if a Canadian police officer were sitting down with a hell's angel repeatedly,
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people would have a problem with it. But what has happened in Canada is because of some sort of
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parallel society where the Chinese Communist Party is able to secure deep influence,
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unfortunately, in our institutions and fear over our communities, people like Mr. Yuen and Mr.
00:30:10.740
Chang, whether through their duty or not, whether because they're in positions of diversity and
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inclusion and community outreach, it just happens that they end up sitting down, as my photo evidence
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will show with individuals in groups called the Hanmen Society. This is a society that I won't
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ramble on. The U.S. government has sanctioned a high-level individual at the highest levels of
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organized crime. And I believe that high-level Canadian police officers, whether Chinese, Canadian,
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or any other ethnic group, know that very unfortunately community leaders of the Hanmen and other
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groups are involved in organized crime. So Mr. Yuen, I'm happy to hear from him if he has any concerns
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of sitting down with those individuals and if he would look at people from other backgrounds in Canada
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in policing roles, meeting with people in organized crime and ask them any questions.
00:31:10.100
Yeah. You know, by the way, if someone comes from an authoritarian regime like China,
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joining the police has a different meaning than we have here. Here in Canada, Dad, I want to grow up
00:31:21.700
and be a policeman and stop bank robbers. You know, there's a difference. What does a policeman mean
00:31:27.140
in Canada versus what does a policeman mean in communist China? In communist China, you're serving
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the authoritarian government. You're sort of at odds with the people. In Canada, at least it used to be,
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you grow up and you say, the police is on my side. Call the police if you're in trouble. In many
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authoritarian regimes, the police are a source of terror. So for Mark Carney to say, oh, he's been
00:31:50.180
a cop for 25 years, that says it all. But hey, let me tell you the one thing that immediately clicked
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on. It was the very first thing Mark Carney said. In fact, Efron, can you play the first 10 seconds
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of his answer? I want you to show his first, very first reaction before he talks about the substance,
00:32:10.180
before he tries to defend polio. And what was the first thing Mark Carney says? Let's play the clip,
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just for a few seconds. Well, I'm sorry, but you can't believe everything you read in the Globe and
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Mail. So in your question, and I guess in the article in question, you said I had a meeting with
00:32:25.700
whatever your term was, Beijing Group. I've never heard of this group, okay? Never heard of this
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group. Certainly didn't have a set up meeting with this group. Full stop. So check your sources before
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you write things like that, okay? Or your colleagues do. Sam, when Mark Carney said you can't believe
00:32:44.980
everything you read in the Globe and Mail, that made me think back a few years to a bombshell by these same
00:32:52.260
two reporters, Bob Fyfe and Stephen Chase. And again, I acknowledge that you broke this big scoop
00:32:57.860
on Peter Yuan. But a few years ago, do you remember when this same Liberal crew, Gerald Butts, that sort of
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team, faced a front page story by the Globe and Mail saying that Jody Wilson-Raybould had been pressured
00:33:16.340
by Gerald Butts to let SNC-Lavalin off the hook for prosecution for corruption. And Chase and Fyfe did
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this huge report, meticulously documented. But they really didn't have a lot of people going on the
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record, especially Jody Wilson-Raybould herself. Here's a clip of Justin Trudeau's reaction to that
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blockbuster story that turned out to be 100% true. But Trudeau just brazened it out. He just
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said, I'm not going to blink first. Here's a flashback to Trudeau. Same newspaper, same
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scoop kind of bombshell, same response. Take a look at Trudeau.
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Did you or anyone in your office pressure the former attorney general to abandon the prosecution
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of SNC-Lavalin? The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false. Neither the current nor the
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previous attorney general was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office to take a decision in this
00:34:22.260
matter. I don't think, Sam, that that's a coincidence. Because remember, Gerald Butts is,
00:34:28.100
that's where Mark Carney's spouse works. And Butts is now touring with Mark Carney. It's quite
00:34:33.380
something. Gerald Butts, you know, that that guy's got nine lives. And and it would not surprise me
00:34:39.380
one bit that that phrase, don't trust everything you read. You know, the story in the Globe and Mail
00:34:45.380
is false. I don't think it's a coincidence that that phrase was used. But here's what I predict, Sam.
00:34:50.820
And again, we know that you are dogged and determined. But the Globe and Mail is so big.
00:34:59.220
I would say it's the newspaper record for Canada, even though I have an affection for the National
00:35:03.060
Post. We have to admit the establishment newspaper is the Globe and Mail. It is the big old paper.
00:35:08.900
And when you say don't believe everything you read in the Globe and Mail, I think that's going to prick
00:35:13.140
Steve Chase and Bob Fyfe and the editor over there, David Wamsley. And I think Mark Carney made a mistake.
00:35:19.780
Because I know you would never give up on this. But I think this is now going to turn into a bit of a
00:35:24.180
showdown between the Globe and Mail and the Liberal Party. I think, like you say, so much of this
00:35:28.820
information is open source. These guys weren't hiding it. You didn't have a secret, you know,
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inside source. You just looked at what's all out there, what the rest of the media is ignored.
00:35:38.740
And the Chinese media who's been following it, I predict in the days ahead that you and the Globe and
00:35:45.220
Mail, who have now had their pride challenged, will do more on this story. And I predict that more facts
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will come out. I don't know. I just, that's a dangerous game to play when you're fibbing. And
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I think that Mark Carney is fibbing. I think he's more deeply connected with the Chinese influence
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than he lets on. I don't know. Sorry, maybe I'm getting too revved up just on a few words here. But
00:36:08.820
boy, when he said, don't trust the Globe and Mail. Really? Because the facts here, as you say,
00:36:14.100
are in the public domain. It's not guesswork. Ezra, I agree totally. And the thoughts in my mind are,
00:36:20.100
I've been reporting on various candidates who have provable United Front links. I'll give you an
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example. There's a candidate in Vancouver, a real estate agent who travels to China to sell
00:36:31.940
higher priced properties to a foreign market. He's running against the NDP's Jenny Kwan. And look,
00:36:38.180
my colleague Bob Mackin, who you know out in Vancouver, has posted evidence that this Liberal
00:36:43.220
Party candidate speaks at banquets of the highest level United Front Work Department entities in
00:36:50.580
Vancouver, the very same leaders that can be connected to that individual I'm saying is standing
00:36:57.380
beside Peter Yuan during that patriotic anthem. Look, the connections are undeniable. They're in video,
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they're in state level documents. And so when the Globe and Mail follows some of my work or others,
00:37:12.340
I'm hardened because Canadian reporters that wouldn't have the boldness to ask questions of
00:37:17.140
Mark Carney will have to follow the grand old lady of Canadian news. And I'll keep doing my digging and
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hopefully the Globe keeps on following me. Well, and Sam, I want to encourage our viewers to go to
00:37:28.420
thebureau.news, N-E-W-S, thebureau.news. And by the way, you get emails from, like literally, it was funny
00:37:36.260
because obviously it was on a timer or something. When you sat down, I just got another email from
00:37:40.420
thebureau.news, so I'm looking forward to reading it. I know that candidate you're talking about in
00:37:45.780
BC, he's a white guy who speaks Chinese and he goes to China to sell Vancouver property. Here's a little
00:37:51.780
clip of him and you can see because he's selling real estate in Vancouver to overseas buyers,
00:37:57.460
they pay a large premium and that's pushing the cost of living up, which is a bit of an issue in
00:38:01.780
Vancouver and Toronto. Here's a quick clip. You mentioned Bob Mack and I think this is from
00:38:05.620
his Twitter feed. Take a look. By taking properties to China,
00:38:08.820
are we getting our clients a higher price, therefore raising the price overall?
00:38:13.220
I'd say yes. So you are part of the problem as far as unaffordability goes?
00:38:17.460
Again, you'd have to define what an unaffordable problem is. And so I don't think that I'm
00:38:22.260
creating a problem at all. I think I'm creating solutions. You're looking at about 35% who have
00:38:26.580
said they are strongly interested in buying real estate in Vancouver.
00:38:30.660
Well, this is very interesting. And I say again, I have an admiration. I have a deep admiration
00:38:35.940
for Chinese Canadians. I think they're a very successful immigrant group. They've been here
00:38:40.420
for more than a century. They helped build the railway. I'm from Western Canada.
00:38:43.620
Every single rural town along the railway had a Chinese laundry and restaurant, and it was part
00:38:49.860
of the fabric of the community. And obviously, a very successful community, economically, prosperity,
00:38:56.660
integration. And I believe there's a battle on within that community between Canadian-oriented,
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freedom-oriented, democracy-oriented folks and newcomers versus they're sort of being colonized,
00:39:10.420
if I can use that word, by the Chinese Communist Party. And they know to go for the places of power,
00:39:16.180
like the police force. So whereas Mark Carney is thrilled that a CCP cop is his candidate,
00:39:23.460
I see danger there. And I'm a white guy. I mean, I don't feel pressured by this Peter
00:39:29.140
Yuan or Paul Chang. But if I was a Chinese Canadian, I would be. Last word to you, Sam.
00:39:34.180
What kind of... Do you think this will grow as an issue? Because Carney's answers
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don't satisfy me. But do you think they'll satisfy most people?
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I, like you, am heartened. And I respect the force that a Globe and Mail editorial or front page story
00:39:49.220
has. I need to be honest. You know, I can break these stories. But if the Globe and Mail does similar work,
00:39:55.220
then some of the, I could call them a little bit more liberal-friendly media in Ottawa,
00:40:01.060
we'll have to ask those questions. So Ezra, again, I have more stories that I'm working on. I have more
00:40:06.660
powerful scoops coming up because it's so important. Look, Mark Carney, as you started your monologue with,
00:40:15.860
intelligence from Canada says China is supporting them. Everything flows from that. And I'll have more
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stories on that. That's great. I want to make one last call. Folks, we talk about citizen journalists.
00:40:26.900
We're fairly political at Rebel News, no doubt about it. We don't hide it. Sam is a deep subject
00:40:32.660
matter expert. But can you see how important it is? Do you see sort of the conveyor belt of the news?
00:40:38.020
It starts at Sam's shop. He publishes it. And then other journalists who follow Sam's stuff
00:40:44.340
popularize it and push it out there. So he is a very important part of the news ecosystem. And the fact
00:40:50.580
that he's independent gives him great freedom. So I would encourage you just to take a moment,
00:40:54.820
go right now on your computer to the bureau, B-U-R-E-A-U dot news, the bureau dot news,
00:41:02.580
and sign up not only to support him, but so you get the news first. Sam, great to see you. I can
00:41:08.420
hardly wait to see what you come up with next. Thanks, Ezra. All right, there he is, Sam Cooper.
00:41:28.100
Hey, welcome back. A couple of letters today on Randy Hillier's surprising victory. I,
00:41:33.460
at least I was surprised by it at the Court of Appeal in Ontario. Akasha of the Nile says,
00:41:39.620
it's really pathetic that even though it was deemed illegal, the court still convicts people.
00:41:43.940
We need to elect our judges. I don't know if electing judges is the solution, but we certainly need,
00:41:50.100
I think, more vetting of judges in a public confirmation process. It's one of the ways I
00:41:54.020
think the U.S. system is better than ours. I think judges are political. They just are. In the states,
00:42:01.300
they're a little bit more politically accountable. That's the difference. Next letter,
00:42:05.540
GTDR says, of course he got off. After all, he's a former MPP. He would never have been convicted.
00:42:12.580
It's only Russia that does that. No, I disagree with you. Randy Hillier is not liked by the
00:42:19.540
establishment. And remember, he was convicted at the trial level. It's only the Court of Appeal that
00:42:25.700
overturned his conviction in a three to two ruling. So if you know Randy Hillier, and I know him a little
00:42:30.900
bit, he's so prickly, he's such a rebel, he's such a dissident, that there's no way he would
00:42:35.780
have been given favors by the establishment, either in politics or in the law. He won that
00:42:42.020
Court of Appeal ruling on the merits. And I think we should accept the victory because they're so rare.
00:42:49.060
That's our show for today. Until tomorrow when I'm coming to you from London. From all of us here in
00:42:54.660
Toronto and around the world, goodnight, and keep fighting for freedom.