00:00:00.000The other element that you'll want to know about is U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bassett has now said numerous times in their war against Iran, to finish their war against Iran, they're going to choke off the very same ability that I've just pointed to in the city of Edmonton of Iranian guard assets.
00:00:27.000living in the West, living in luxury, and using our financial systems to evade sanctions and to
00:00:34.960move money around the world. So that is what I focus on, how Iran uses both official and0.97
00:00:41.520unofficial operatives to use Canada's financial system to not only deal drugs, so I'm talking0.83
00:00:49.380about producing and dealing fentanyl. I know of stories, not all that I've reported, but to launder
00:00:54.700the money through our banks at the billion dollar scale multi-billions have been laundered through
00:01:00.140big canadian banks and canadian real estate so i do believe u.s treasury is probably looking not
00:01:07.180only at britain germany and the caribbean they're looking at canada and their eyes are getting
00:01:13.340wide with uh expectation of how they're going to crack down you know kind of compare this to uh
00:01:18.860prison time not that i've done any but in prison you make some connections you leave prison with
00:01:25.180a bunch of connections if you come to canada as a an international terror cell uh trying to operate
00:01:31.500infiltrate or even just you know uh i guess launder money uh and you're with another criminal element
00:01:40.380or several other international criminal elements really what you've done in canada is build out
00:01:45.420that network that can be used globally can be used in the us uh without hesitation if you can put a
00:01:50.780gun in a gangster's hand in toronto that is uh funded by and arranged by hezbollah this network
00:01:58.380is operating really slick the way you framed it is very prescient because i'm working on a book
00:02:04.940right now about the fallen canadian olympian ryan wedding right and how as i've reported at the bureau
00:02:11.740So he was working allegedly with the Sinaloa cartel at the highest levels and moving cocaine through Margarita Island, which is off the coast of Venezuela, which is a jurisdiction where Hezbollah, Iranian intelligence, Latin American cartels, Maduro's narco gangs, which are working hand in hand with Iran.
00:02:35.720and I believe China, Mexican high-level corrupt officials, Ryan Wedding was working with Hezbollah.
00:02:44.300And you know what? He went to jail when he was just a pot dealer from Vancouver area or the
00:02:51.780Chilliwack Valley, working with what's now known as the Wolfpack Cartel Alliance, which brings
00:02:57.060together Mexican cartels, Iranian state actors. This is a new Canadian cartel and Ryan Wedding
00:03:03.660was caught on wiretaps in prison when he first went down in, I believe, Los Angeles. He said,
00:03:08.540I'm making a lot of connections here and I'm learning a lot. That frames exactly what you
00:03:13.600speak about. And I think this is what's happening in Canada. Whether you are a failed ex-junior A
00:03:19.700player, a hockey player, which Ryan Wedding's colleague, a Mr. Chapman from Calgary is,
00:03:26.340or an Olympic snowboarder that almost got to the top, you can still reach the top of the global
00:03:32.840world of wealth and crime by helping China, Mexico and Iran use Canada. And that's what's happening0.81
00:03:38.560here. Yeah, that's a that framework around that is actually terrifying. So now we take a look at
00:03:44.240this, Sam, if you don't mind, I take one more. By the way, when it comes to journalism, I thought
00:03:49.840of this, I thought it was really clever today. I thought, you know, some people, some people
00:03:53.440extract a story. Sam Cooper, he does a full root canal. So I know that I'll get the I'll get the
00:04:01.740deepest uh info on this but really what occurred to me was what happens next i mean what does the
00:04:08.940u.s do next and how does canada react in your mind it seems like we're just letting it happen
00:04:14.460at the border willy-nilly we're not making you point out one story where we have a what sounds
00:04:21.420like a pretty high-ranking member of society in iran living in edmonton getting money not being
00:04:28.940deported we literally are aiding this process how do we turn that around will we yeah that is the
00:04:38.060question that will form the core of my lawn piece of writing on ryan wedding it i think about it
00:04:43.740literally probably every day and night in my work at the bureau look the the constant theme here
00:04:50.540whether we're talking about a high level iranian guard intelligence asset using edmonton and
00:04:56.460getting i can't get over it two million dollars from the canadian government including canadian
00:05:01.580armed forces while canada's intelligence agency which is very respected works hand in hand with
00:05:08.300the cia is reporting to the trudeau government from 2015. this man is using canada and yet you
00:05:15.980know we my colleague stuart bell reported uh cbsa can't deport him in 2025. the uh you know the
00:05:25.180reason or excuse and i would say reason is they say we can't furnish the information we need to
00:05:31.740what does that mean it means canadian intelligence knows very well we're being eaten alive by the most0.69
00:05:38.460dangerous and worst threat networks in the world from the ccp to iranian guards and beyond and yet0.89
00:05:45.580the rcmp and cbs say they can't use that intelligence that's the best case our courts can't
00:05:52.220process these cases against ryan wedding and his colleagues of course they can't process the case
00:05:57.900behind the people living in mexico city or the south of china or tehran that are behind ryan
00:06:04.460wedding but i think it may go further and we lack the political will and i do think there are cases
00:06:11.500of political corruption likely legal corruption at high levels that kind of put the pressure on
00:06:19.180our mostly great police agencies to uh back off on some of these what i'll just call sensitive cases
00:06:26.700so when it comes to um putting in jail let's say you know a former
00:06:34.780south asian diaspora mp that was involved in like gambling crimes uh you know probably
00:06:42.140all manner of cases surrounding this man living in brampton i'm reading stories to this day and
00:06:46.860And I won't use the name, but the man and his very closely politically connected friends, maybe even lawyers involved in the Ryan Wedding case, for all we know, don't face real justice.
00:07:00.360It's just low level people that that actually go to jail.
00:07:05.160And so where do we go from here? Look, I've said it a number of times.
00:07:09.080I think we're in the eighth or ninth inning of Canada's, let's call it holding on to its sovereignty.0.58
00:07:16.860The greatest national security crisis we face is how these transnational organized crime groups working together and directed, I say, by the CCP, Iran and others around the world are using Canada and using it easily.
00:07:32.440And I can point to any number of, you know, current or former U.S. and Canadian officials, Taiwanese government officials that know very well what I'm talking about.
00:07:41.880So we either change our security posture to use, you know, the vernacular right now and start cracking down on these networks and cleaning up our country, or it's the U.S. government that is hammering us with tariffs and trade measures, which on the surface of them are about making America great again.
00:08:02.500But I know deep down part of it is forcing Canada to take security steps.
00:08:08.080I have to agree with you on that. The more that I think about this, and that's why I actually reached out to you, because I thought to myself, this is an underscore for what the problem is that really America has with us.
00:08:20.420$20 billion worth of trade, with all due respect to the people that have been affected by it, is fairly minuscule compared to what transacts in this country in a year.
00:08:33.420And also, it's not even a drop in the bucket from a U.S. perspective.
00:08:39.360I really think they're trying to get us in line and illustrate to us in many ways that we're not prepared to be a sovereign state.
00:08:46.840And that is a terrifying moment as well, I think, for Canadians.
00:08:50.420But we're not seeing it through this lens enough that, you know, we are this perfect garden for terrorism, organized crime to flourish on a global level.
00:09:02.940You can fly anywhere you want internationally from Canada.
00:09:06.300You can get over the border easy enough.
00:09:08.920And we see that happening so much in the way.
00:09:12.140And you must be watching this going, uh-huh.
00:09:13.560So much in the way of drugs being captured at the border right now can only make you think the amount that is not being captured is so enormous that that's why we're seeing this number.
00:09:33.300The drug, if you want to call it, the drugs and the money laundering are not only devastating to the average citizen in the United States and Canada, our death totals are off the charts.
00:09:46.980Our cities, as I've reported, coming up as a young reporter in Vancouver, in sort of the heroin and fentanyl death, one of the death capitals of the world.
00:09:57.900I was just on East Hastings. It's a dumpster fire. It's absolutely stunning.
00:10:02.620It's stunning. And here's the key. Over the past 10 years, this has spread into northern Ontario communities. Small communities across the country, out to Newfoundland, et cetera, are seeing that same sort of devastation in minuscule at this point. So you don't have to live in British Columbia anymore to see that the drugs and the money laundering are a major, major national security threat.