In this episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, host Candice talks about Justin Trudeau's latest censorship of Canadian news outlets and how he is using the power of the internet to manipulate the minds of Canadian voters. She is joined by journalist Sam Cooper to talk about fentanyl and foreign influence in our election.
00:02:09.700which was designed to bribe Canadians with our own money in order to boost Justin Trudeau's public
00:02:15.840image. But wait a minute, back in July of 2023, Justin Trudeau himself pledged not to give any
00:02:23.520money to meta that no government advertising would be spent on meta because meta had decided to pull
00:02:30.440Canadian news from its platforms. So why would meta pull Canadian news from its platforms? Well,
00:02:37.300because one component of Justin Trudeau's censorious online news act was an attempt to shake down the
00:02:44.040tech giant to force them to give a bailout to failing Canadian news companies. At the time,
00:02:51.100meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said no to that request. And in turn, Justin Trudeau pulled Canada's
00:02:57.860measly government ad spend. Well, now that Trudeau needs to use Zuckerberg's platforms to promote his own
00:03:05.080vote buying scheme for the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau is walking that back. But meta's news ban
00:03:12.340still applies, making it so that Canadians cannot view or share news stories on its platforms. So
00:03:20.040thanks to Justin Trudeau's meddling in the market of Canadian news, independent organizations like True
00:03:26.620North have lost a huge part of our audience, including the millions of Canadians who used to interact
00:03:32.000with our stories on Facebook and Instagram. So did you get that? Trudeau is saying it's okay for him
00:03:38.620and his government to be back on Facebook and Instagram, but it's not okay for journalists and
00:03:44.160organizations like True North. Very fitting, very rich. Now you probably saw last month, Mark Zuckerberg
00:03:50.580announced that there were welcomed changes to meta's policies, which recognize the public shift that we've had
00:03:57.120towards free speech. Zuckerberg said that he would do away with politically biased third party fact
00:04:03.460checkers and move towards X, the X model of community notes and having more, more say from the people,
00:04:11.120more free speech. He also said that meta was returning to its roots of free expression and allowing
00:04:17.120more sharing of news and political opinions in algorithms and on the platform. But yet again,
00:04:24.080thanks to Justin Trudeau and the liberals, Canadians will still be banned from seeing news.
00:04:30.080Now the cherry on top of all of this is that Trudeau spent the last week telling Canadians to buy Canada.
00:04:37.080He said to boycott American goods and he went so far as even to say that we should cancel upcoming trips and
00:04:43.080vacations to the United States. And meanwhile, we learned that he is now using our tax dollar to pay for ads
00:04:51.080to one of the largest American corporations in the world, all just to promote his electioneering tax gimmicks.
00:04:59.080What a joke. What an absolute joke, because it's Justin Trudeau. He's a hypocrite. And we all knew that.
00:05:06.080And I want to go a little bit deeper into this idea of this story that the media have been just so,
00:05:15.080so too happy to promote this idea that Canada, Canadians shouldn't be going to the United States.
00:05:21.080We shouldn't travel. An ex-user, Riot and Gerritsen pointed this out and he showed how basically the entire legacy media
00:05:31.080were working hand in glove to promote this narrative that Canadians shouldn't travel to the United States.
00:05:37.080Here you can just see news story after news story after news story with the headline encouraging Canadians to cancel the trips,
00:05:45.080not go to the United States, not give any money. I think that this is part of a concerted effort by the legacy media
00:05:52.080to basically cover for Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has seen, under Justin Trudeau's rule,
00:05:57.080we have seen patriotism and love of country in Canada absolutely plummet. And I think for good reason, right?
00:06:03.080You love your country on its good days and on its bad days, but at a certain point when your country doesn't recognize
00:06:10.080the basic freedoms of Canadians like we experienced during COVID, you see your prime minister able to just make
00:06:15.080an absolute mockery of the political system, manipulate it, use every trick in the book,
00:06:21.080even what we're living through right now. He prorogued parliament so that there wouldn't be an election,
00:06:26.080so that he could remain in power, so that his liberal party could rebuild, so that they can install Mark Carney
00:06:31.080as the prime minister. And all of this is happening. Canadians don't have any kind of say.
00:06:36.080So I think there's pretty good reason why there's not a lot of love for Canada.
00:06:40.080And the media is just working in overtime to try to boost this idea of Canadian patriotism.
00:06:46.080So a recent poll showed, this is from Agnes Reid, True North is covering it, saying,
00:06:51.080Canadian pride rebounds following Trump's tariff threat and the brief reprieve.
00:06:57.080So a survey conducted by the Agnes Reid Institute found the percentage of Canadians who said that they were
00:07:02.080very proud to be Canadian has risen from 34% in December up to 44% now.
00:07:09.080So just in the past 35, 40 days, we've seen a 10% jump in patriotism for Canadians.
00:07:16.080The portion of those who express a deep emotional attachment to Canada has also climbed by 10%.
00:07:23.080So how is it that, you know, a trade dispute with our closest friend and ally has evoked this kind of patriotism?
00:07:30.080Well, it's partially because the media is working very, very hard to promote this narrative,
00:07:36.080this idea that we have to turn on our neighbor, turn on our friend, oppose the Americans, don't buy their stuff,
00:07:42.080don't visit their country. It's all, of course, folks, a distraction to distract you from the very real fact
00:07:48.080that it is Justin Trudeau and the Liberals who have imposed this harm onto Canadians.
00:07:55.080And if you look at the data going back, so we've got Canadian patriotism stats going back.
00:08:00.080In 1985, 78% of Canadians said that they were very proud to be Canadian.
00:08:05.080By 2003, it had dropped down to 68%, but still pretty high, right?
00:08:09.080More than two out of three Canadians said that they were very proud to be Canadian.
00:08:14.080By the time Justin Trudeau took office, it was down to 52% in 2016.
00:08:20.080And after just eight years in office, National Pride hit a record low in 2024 of just 34% of people saying that they are proud to be Canadian.
00:08:32.080Isn't that sad? I mean, the reality, of course, is that it is because of the media narrative, right?
00:08:37.080They're the ones who have been telling us that our country was founded on genocide.
00:08:41.080They're the ones that said that early Canadians set up schools to impose genocide and murder children.
00:08:47.080They're the ones that insisted on tearing down our statues, erasing our history, removing Sir John A. MacDonald's name from streets and schools and everything else.
00:08:58.080So we've had a decade long campaign to make Canada this post national state that Justin Trudeau so, you know, thoughtfully imagined.
00:09:07.080And then here we are with National Pride at a record low.
00:09:11.080The media are trying to cover for Justin Trudeau now, pushing this idea by Canadian that if you're on the political left, it's OK to wave the flag again.
00:09:18.080It's OK to be Canadian and to love Canadian.
00:09:21.080And it's all just to cover up for the fact that Justin Trudeau really has destroyed the country.
00:09:26.080Now, one of the areas I think that stands out the most when it comes to ways that Justin Trudeau has destroyed the country.
00:09:32.080And I know there's so many. You can talk about economics. You can talk about spending and borrowing government growth.
00:09:37.080You can talk about immigration. To me, one of the major things that just completely shocks me about what's happened in Canada is the crime,
00:09:46.080is the number of home invasions, the carjackings, the incredible violence that we see pouring out onto our streets.
00:09:53.080And in part, it's fueled by drug wars and drug money and the fact that we have even foreign nationals, but Canadians alike,
00:10:01.080involved in this dark world of transnational gangs producing and transporting drugs all over the world.
00:10:08.080That's why I thought it was a welcomed announcement yesterday that we saw from Conservative leader Pierre Polyev,
00:10:13.080who announced that if Prime Minister, he would impose life sentences for these thugs, for these fentanyl kingpins.
00:10:22.080Fentanyl is killing tens of thousands of Canadians. It's killing tens of thousands of Americans too.
00:10:27.080It's why President Trump is rightfully concerned and rightfully wants Canada to crack down on this absolute scourge.
00:10:35.080So again, yesterday, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev announced as Prime Minister he would impose mandatory life sentences
00:10:43.080on anyone involved in the trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 milligrams of fentanyl and 15 years for traffickers caught with between 20 and 40 milligrams.
00:10:58.080And our guest on today's program has been reporting and writing about these issues for years and years and years.
00:11:08.080I feel like he's finally getting vindicated because so many of the things that he's been telling us about are finally being recognized by the political class.
00:11:14.080I'm talking about Sam Cooper. Sam is an award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author.
00:11:20.080You can find Sam's work on Substack. It is called The Bureau and I recommend you head on over there and check it out.
00:11:26.080So Sam, thank you so much for joining the podcast today.
00:13:24.080And even the Biden administration was saying the same thing.
00:13:29.080And so we're facing a very serious problem.
00:13:32.080I mean, it's frustrating that it takes a foreign entity like the Americans, like Donald Trump, to force Canada to recognize this.
00:13:39.080And I still see some pushback, Sam, in the media.
00:13:42.080Like there's a media narrative that Trump is just being irrational and that the the border problem really is solely in Mexico and that the Canada thing is just sort of made up so that Trump can impose his economic tariff agenda.
00:13:55.080You can see here CNN writes that Canada makes up just point two percent of US border fentanyl seizures.
00:14:01.080And here this is a stat that's repeated often, Sam, that there's only been 43 pounds seized at the Canadian border, 43 pounds of fentanyl compared with 21000 pounds of fentanyl on the Mexican border.
00:14:14.080So, you know, they sort of downplay it.
00:14:17.080They make it seem like it's not really a big deal.
00:14:19.080I would I would I would argue is probably because they're not inspecting vehicles in the same way across the Canada border.
00:14:25.080We did see some Canadian quote unquote Canadian truck drivers.
00:14:28.080Some of them were Indians on student visas to Canada driving around with transport trucks full of drugs down in Indiana and other states.
00:14:37.080And so can you help us sort of understand, like, why is it so few at the Canada border compared to the Mexico border?
00:14:43.080And is there truth to this media narrative that it's so much more of a problem for Mexico and smaller problem for Canada?
00:14:51.080Well, I've looked into this for 10 years.
00:14:53.080So I saw you pulled up a name of a big former Toronto Star reporter there.
00:14:57.080People are repeating at a surface level a data point 40 pounds, you know, at the land border.
00:15:04.080And you're right, the United States certainly has addressed the Mexican border in a much different way than the Canadian border.
00:15:13.080But people are missing the facts that I've laid out that British Columbia for decades has been the Western hub in North America for Chinese organized crime.
00:15:23.080The the individuals that have penetrated Vancouver real estate and port are the very same Chinese Communist Party sponsored tycoons that the US military is concerned with in Panama.
00:15:39.080And by the way, Panama has reacted very quickly to threats that America won't put up with their port being under such, you know, covert influence from China.
00:15:49.080So people are missing really the fact that we have a decentralized offshore node of China's fentanyl production in British Columbia.
00:16:00.080And let me reiterate those points, 1000 kilograms of fentanyl precursors in 2022 into Vancouver port, 85 tons of fentanyl and methamphetamine precursors seized from a Vancouver area businessman that I reported was working with Chinese organized crime casino money launders.
00:16:23.080Those are figures that if you extrapolate the amount of fentanyl pills that can kill everyone in North America a few times over and 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 and it stems from China.
00:16:51.200And the last point here is that, look, the last point here is that, look, I republished an interview that I did with a Vancouver area mayor, Brad West, in 2023, he disclosed that Biden administration, Biden admin Secretary of State Antony Blinken came up to British Columbia and reached out directly to the only politician taking fentanyl seriously, Brad West.
00:17:15.400And Mr. West disclosed his discussion, the Biden administration was deeply concerned with Canada's legal loopholes and inability to prosecute fentanyl production and transnational organized crime, gaping holes in money laundering regulation.
00:17:36.400And what I just said there indicates this is a Democratic Secretary of State saying, Canada, you need to work on something so we can have joint investigations.
00:17:46.400Now, of course, an honest person will recognize that's exactly what has come out of this phone call with President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:17:55.400The U.S. needs joint investigations and some sort of workaround with Canadian law.
00:18:01.400Well, help us understand those gaping holes that exist in Canadian law and the extent to which we have these Chinese criminal entities operating in Canada.
00:18:10.240I think that like that might come as a surprise to many viewers, the fact that that these Chinese criminal gangs are able to operate in Canada.
00:18:17.940I know that Pierre Polyev released a video yesterday talking about how he wants to bring in life sentences for people who are involved in like the kingpins of this fentanyl trade.
00:18:28.980And that one of the laws that he mentioned was Bill C-5 the Liberals had brought in, which basically did away with mandatory minimums and Polyev would bring it back.
00:18:38.980But help us understand the laws that are needed, the holes and how it is that China has been able to get such a foothold in Canada.
00:18:46.980What we have in Canada is essentially a completely neutered RCMP that doesn't have the laws to investigate and prosecute money laundering.
00:18:59.980So that without getting into too many legal weeds, as my prosecutor expert sources, veterans tell me, there's no such thing as a money laundering defense or an organized defense crime, organized crime defense in Canada from from from some very serious criminals without a charter of rights defense.
00:19:22.100And what that means is Canada has a huge difficulty in not only prosecuting massive money laundering offenses, but they can't even get police can't get wiretaps on known Mexican cartel operatives or Chinese triad operatives that have set up in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
00:19:42.840And if you're saying, you know, where's the proof of this gaping weakness, the Toronto Dominion Bank case, where this Canadian bank is prosecuted in a deferred prosecution agreement, something like a $4 billion Canadian fine.
00:19:57.960And my American law enforcement sources said, look, the US government had to step up and point to the massive fentanyl money laundering running through that Canadian bank.
00:20:08.180And furthermore, their investigation showed that the what they call the command and control of the Chinese organized crime behind that money laundering operation is in Toronto and Vancouver.
00:20:22.680And they're laundering, they're setting up the whole money laundering system for the Mexican cartels that are, you know, the ones pushing the fentanyl in American cities and streets.
00:20:33.620It's it's Chinese support Chinese government supported criminals that are based in Toronto and Vancouver because of our weak laws that are running the Western hemisphere money laundering.
00:20:45.840They're the masterminds of this. And as my DEA sources say, not many people know that Chinese organized crime is at the top of the food chain for international organized crime in the Western hemisphere.
00:20:58.620It's not even the cartels. It's a whole economic system that's based on, you know, money moving around the world in so-called underground banks that are connected to Chinese diaspora communities and organized crime that's shocking to believe is supported by Beijing.
00:21:17.180One of the things that Pierre was talking about in his video yesterday was how there are these super labs that exist in Canada.
00:21:24.380You mentioned Falkland, British Columbia. I think there was a raid and they found just incredibly sophisticated drug super labs that, you know, are straight out of a Hollywood movie or Breaking Bad.
00:21:35.180Like how, who set them up? Like, where are they coming from? Why are the Chinese allowed to operate like this in Canada?
00:21:41.780I've been talking to, uh, uh, uh, off the records, uh, police sources on that Falkland lab case for a while.
00:21:50.580So let's draw the mind map. This, uh, 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.
00:22:04.280So it's up there in the woods. There's a fairly, I'm told sizable motorcycle outlaw gang population in the area, but my sources, uh, are, are very firm in saying, uh, this is Mexican cartel run Chinese triad run.
00:22:20.040And there are even, as I am told, uh, Iranian state sponsored crime, uh, indications in this operation at the highest levels.
00:22:30.040And so it could be, you know, uh, the very well entrenched biker gangs and the street gangs in BC that are running the product around.
00:22:38.040But 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.
00:22:48.040It's being moved into Vancouver's port, which is controlled by organized crime.
00:22:52.040Uh, pretty, uh, pretty extensively. Those precursors are set, sent up to an area of British Columbia with not many police.
00:23:00.040And then the product, the RCMP confirmed this is exported out of British Columbia.
00:23:06.040So, uh, it goes, as I know, to Australia, it goes to Japan, it goes to the United States and that's by shipping.
00:23:14.040Uh, and it gets very complex. I come back to your question.
00:23:18.040You know, why is so little comparatively caught at a land border?
00:23:22.040Well, it's being shipped back out of Vancouver port and moved around the world in sophisticated ways.
00:23:27.040And can you help us understand, like, why, why don't they find it in the ports?
00:23:34.040Like, are people just allowed to pack their own trailers and put them in without inspection?
00:23:39.040I'm just trying to wrap my head around how so much, so many drugs, so much drugs are passing through our Canadian cities without being stopped and detected.
00:23:58.040Uh, in the 1990s, we had federal port police in Vancouver.
00:24:03.040As 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
00:24:13.040when the Christian government pulled the federal port police out of Vancouver and in Canada's other ports and privatized those ports.
00:24:22.040So what, what occurred is that, uh, foreign organized crime entities were able to apply for docking facilities, uh, in Vancouver.
00:24:32.040The hell's angels, uh, infiltrated the union.
00:24:37.040And, uh, as one of my police, uh, expert sources, Gary Clement says, who's, uh, investigated this for years and warned about it for years with no, uh, result.
00:24:49.040Well, the Fox is running the hen house for the ports.
00:24:52.040There's maybe I, the, the, the latest figures I hear are one to at top 5% of containers coming in to Vancouver port are searched.
00:25:01.040And, uh, some of this is open source, uh, information.
00:25:05.040Some of it I'm telling you is, uh, historical intelligence documents.
00:25:09.040And, uh, some of it is off the record, uh, very fresh and current intelligence from Canadian police sources that say they don't like hearing what Donald Trump's saying then more than anyone else.
00:25:21.040But Donald Trump, unfortunately is right.
00:25:25.040Well, I mean, thank, thankfully Trump is pointing it out because I mean, what you describe is kind of like a United Nations of bad guys in Canada operating these drug communities, you know, Iranians, Mexicans, Chinese.
00:25:38.040Uh, I wonder if that's what Justin Trudeau envisioned when he called Canada, the first post national state.
00:25:43.040I know Pierre Polyev has been hammering, uh, Trudeau on this.
00:25:47.040I want to play a clip. This was from back in December.
00:25:49.040And Pierre Polyev explains how it's Justin Trudeau's agenda that has led to this crisis.
00:26:56.040Uh, Sean, if we can show this image here.
00:26:58.040Um, this is a post on Instagram of a company.
00:27:03.040So, so, so Pierre Polyev is sharing this as a tweet, but the picture that you can see is of the, the, the caption says a beautiful chunk of fentanyl.
00:27:13.040And so this is, as Pierre points out, one of Justin Trudeau's drug dents wants you, wants to share with you a beautiful chunk of fentanyl, a dangerous hard drug that destroys the lives of tens of thousands of people.
00:27:24.040Shut down these wacko drug dens, ban hard drugs, fund treatment and recovery, and bring our loved ones home drug free.
00:27:35.040So, so the, the original post was from a group called the Kensington market overdose prevention site.
00:27:40.040Um, this is one of the government funded, uh, you know, they call it an anti-harm site or prevention site, but, but they're, they're actually celebrating and calling it a beautiful chunk of fentanyl.
00:27:52.040I mean, I just don't understand how anyone can look at fentanyl and think that I need to share this on social media.
00:28:19.040It's been called harm reduction, which is, you know, uh, uh, uh, a medical idea that we can lessen the harms of, uh, you know, some very, very impoverished and often mentally sort of, uh, uh, uh, ill people that are abusing drugs.
00:28:34.040But it, what Safer Supply does is it gives out, uh, you know, medical health Canada opioids.
00:28:42.040Uh, you know, they, they're called Dilialu.
00:28:45.040I'm not, I'm going to get the name Ron.
00:28:48.040You know, this is a type of pharmaceutical that BC pharmacies are, uh, legislated to give out to addicts to get them off so-called toxic heroin, sorry, toxic heroin and fentanyl.
00:29:03.040And, uh, what's happening is that organized crime dealers just swoop in and take, uh, the, the, the dillies or the Canadian regulated pharmaceuticals that are given to addicts.
00:29:16.040And they up and sell them, uh, you know, across Canada internationally, it has come out.
00:29:22.040So organized crime is taking this government substitute heroin or opioids and is, uh, using the proceeds to deal more fentanyl.
00:29:33.040And I think that's what Mr. Polyev is getting towards.
00:29:36.040There is, you know, within what could have started as a good idea, sort of, uh, let's treat, uh, the, you know, the, the, the, the epidemic in our streets with a medical sort of, uh, approach.
00:29:51.040And then, so you get radical populations of, uh, pharmacists and harm reductionists that will post a picture of beautiful, what you and I know is life destroying fentanyl.
00:30:03.040And it's just, I mean, it's, it's an example of, uh, an ideology that that's run.
00:30:12.040It just leads to makes a bad problem worse in a nutshell.
00:30:16.040It's so unbelievable to me that they would be like celebrating a drug that kills thousands and thousands of Canadians per year.
00:30:22.040Like I didn't even know that fentanyl was a drug that people took.
00:30:25.040I thought it was something that was like accidentally put in other drugs.
00:30:27.040Um, so I, I, I didn't know that myself, but, uh, unbelievable.
00:30:31.040The fact that the Trudeau government is involved with giving sick people, um, like deadly street drugs.
00:30:37.040Uh, Sam, I, I, I really want to ask you final question unrelated.
00:30:41.040Uh, since I have you on the show, I know that this is right up your wheelhouse.
00:30:44.040So we had that parliamentary report that came out, uh, last week saying that, uh, really there was no foreign interference.
00:30:50.040After all that, after two years of headlines, uh, nobody acted in bad faith.
00:30:56.040So I'm just wondering, uh, I know we only have a few minutes, but, um, what, uh, what was your takeaway from that report?
00:31:03.040Well, I, I, I didn't hold back very much when I went on a podcast with three former CSIS officers.
00:31:10.040And we, we all are of the opinion that, uh, the, the report of justice Hogue is there's no way, no other way to put it, but a whitewash, or you could call it David Johnston 2.0.
00:31:23.040A number of people have pointed out, unfortunately, that I say I would, I, I wanted to give the justice a chance to see what she would do with the evidence.
00:31:32.040And with her whitewash report, yeah, I think it's important to point out that, uh, others have noted, uh, historically she and her, uh, former law firm had close connections to two liberal prime ministers.
00:31:45.040One of them related to Justin Trudeau, his father, Pierre Trudeau.
00:31:48.040So it looks like a situation where, uh, I, I think the good of the Hogue commission is that tremendous thousands of documents came out.
00:31:59.040So reporters, uh, diligent, curious Canadians can go in and read the evidence for themselves.
00:32:05.040There's no denying that China has deeply interfered in, uh, our recent elections, but there's also no denying that, uh, the commission was given a very narrow mandate, which justice Hogue admitted, uh, a small timeframe to look into these concerns.
00:32:21.040And at the end of the day, uh, came to a completely different conclusion than, as you know, the NSI Cup 2024 report from bipartisan, uh, panel of parliamentarians that reviewed something like thousands of the same documents that the Hogue commission did.
00:32:39.040And they came to the finding that, uh, there are Canadian parliamentarians wittingly working with foreign governments.
00:32:46.040So I just can't reconcile, uh, those two different findings and looking at the evidence without any bias.
00:32:54.040I think the evidence, and also my private knowledge of more evidence that didn't come out supports the conclusion that indeed there are politicians wittingly working with foreign governments, benefiting knowingly from foreign government support.
00:33:10.040And I'll add one quote that never made it into a story with my former employer, uh, my colleague, Stuart Bell, uh, talked to one of his RCMP sources for one of our stories.
00:33:22.040And the source said the amount of politicians, uh, entangled in foreign interference is, is large.
00:33:29.040And, uh, the honest ones had better wake up and, and understand what they're getting involved with.
00:33:34.040It's unbelievable. You know, there's so much huffing and puffing over Donald Trump's comments and jests about Canada becoming the 51st state and Canadians jumping up and down demanding, um, that we maintain our sovereignty and maintain our independence.
00:33:46.040Meanwhile, we have our parliament that is at risk of foreign interference and our elections at risk of foreign interference.
00:33:54.040And we have drug pins, a king pins from all over the world operating in Canada.
00:33:58.040It doesn't really paint a very optimistic picture of the sovereignty of Canada.
00:34:03.040I think we really have our work cut out for you, uh, cut out for us.
00:34:09.040And, you know, I'll, I'll add this, my information and I'm conversant with U S intelligence, uh, uh, officials and politicians versed in U S intelligence is that the U S government at a bipartisan level has a deep concern with, uh, Canada's incapacity to, uh, uh, counter foreign interference.
00:34:31.040Most specifically from China, but also Iranian state sponsored crime and terror networks and, uh, individuals that want to use Canada's borders to hurt the United States.
00:34:45.040President Trump is saying some very hurtful, but, uh, a lot of it truthful things towards Canada.
00:34:52.040And my last observation is I just, I find a level of denial from what, what a lot of people call the Laurentian elite that has kind of run this country for 40 years.
00:35:02.040And has run it in a bad direction, I think.
00:35:05.040And we're, we're seeing what the end result of that is right now.
00:35:09.040Well, Sam, thank you so much for joining the show and keep up the incredible work that you do.
00:35:13.040You're one of the best, if not the best investigative journalists, independent journalists in the country.
00:35:18.040So, uh, thanks for all your, all your work and thanks for your time today.
00:35:22.040And really everybody should go check out Sam Cooper's, uh, sub stack.
00:35:28.040It's called the Bureau subscribe over there to help support his work because from best I can tell, he is one of the only ones who not only has this information as fingertips, has the expertise and the knowledge to find the information.
00:35:39.040Um, but also has the courage and the bravery to expose it because, uh, believe me, when you're exposing this kind of information about the worst people, the absolute worst people in Canada.
00:35:50.040Uh, it definitely comes with some risks.
00:35:52.040So we want to do everything we can to support a fellow, uh, independent journalist over there.
00:35:57.040Okay. I do want to get to Mark Carney cause I think this was quite the gap.
00:36:01.040It really shows us what Carney is really thinking.
00:36:04.040You know, so there's so much made about how Mark Carney is sort of like a new and improved Justin Trudeau, that he has the same beliefs as Justin Trudeau, but somehow he's better put together and he looks more like a prime minister and he has this banking background and this very fancy, uh, education.
00:36:19.040And I don't think he's a very good politician.
00:36:21.040Um, and it's clips like this, uh, that make me think that, but first I'm going to, uh, introduce our next guest on the show who is Julian Newman.
00:36:28.040He is an entrepreneur and the former head organizer for the NDP under Tom Mulcair.
00:36:34.040And he ran Quebec operations for that party under Jack Layton.
00:36:38.040Um, someone we've had on the show before, so I will welcome Julian now.
00:50:37.040Back in the eighties, uh, pride in Canada was like almost universal.
00:50:41.040It was like 80%, 85% of Canadians love being Canadian and felt very, very proud.
00:50:46.040And under this, uh, government under, under what has happened with Justin Trudeau, it's down to 34%.
00:50:50.040Now the media are doing their best to try to boost him up back up.
00:50:53.040And he's gotten a little boost with this, uh, Trump back and forth, which again, makes me a little bit cynical about whether it wasn't all just an act, um, to try to boost his, uh, public opinion.
00:51:05.040And, um, what, what Canadians think about, what do you think?
00:51:10.040I think Justin Trudeau is fixated on two things.
00:51:14.040One, sabotaging Christopher Freeland, who he now hates.
00:51:18.040Uh, and two, um, pandering to whoever would give him a job or maybe even has already committed to giving him a job, uh, after he leaves.
00:51:31.040I mean, and that's not like, that is what you would expect from a normal human being.
00:51:37.040Like in a month from now, he'll be unemployed or maybe he'll have some big jobs somewhere.
00:52:29.040So I, I want to ask you this because there's been these sort of videos and rumors circulating online that we might not actually have an election, right?
00:52:35.040Many Canadians were saying, phew, Justin Trudeau has resigned.
00:52:38.040That's gotta mean that we're going to have an election.
00:52:40.040Um, we do have an elections Canada act that says that every four years, there must be an election.
00:52:49.040Um, presumably that would happen at the end of March when the liberal leader, uh, is installed as prime minister, giving us a May election.
00:52:57.040But then there's been this constitutional theory that the elections Canada act can actually be rewritten by the legislature.
00:53:05.040And that our constitution only says that every five years, uh, is when an election must happen, meaning that we wouldn't have one until October of 2026.
00:53:14.040Meaning another, what, 18 months of this liberal NDP coalition government.
00:53:19.040So in order for that to happen, presumably again, uh, Mark Carney is going to be the prime minister.