True Patriot Love - May 06, 2026


Sam Cooper on Organized Crime Networks in Canada [TPL Excerpt]


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00:00:00.000 jumping into the the ryan wedding iranian piece yeah my assessment and i'm working more and more
00:00:06.400 on writing about ryan wedding and what his case means to canada my strong assessment is that
00:00:15.280 you know he was in his athletic career in his snowboarding uh he very likely sort of got into
00:00:21.680 the marijuana culture in british columbia in his high school days you know he was uh obviously an
00:00:28.640 amazingly talented athlete but he was also a bc boy and and you know it's not not not a big stretch
00:00:36.640 for snowboarders to be involved in the marijuana culture and as he sort of started to phase out of
00:00:43.440 his athletic career uh you know after appearing in the olympics maybe even before he did get into
00:00:52.320 marijuana dealing he went to jail and when he was in jail uh at that point he had dabbled i believe
00:01:00.080 in cocaine he got you know he got done down in the united states which is the worst thing for
00:01:05.200 a canadian drug deal to happen because it's pretty difficult for them to get caught in canada while
00:01:11.120 in jail somehow someone hooked him up with an iranian canadian woman in toronto and there's
00:01:18.880 all kinds of court reporting on this woman's involvement in a case that had a brutal sort of
00:01:28.080 extortion uh you know major underground banking related to iranian uh transborder
00:01:38.320 money laundering systems which are very similar to the chinese underground banking systems that
00:01:43.920 i've detailed this is the way that money can move across borders without going through a bank you
00:01:50.160 know drug cash can be scattered all over the world and you just need people at a high level in in
00:01:56.480 sort of an iranian or chinese network to make arrangements for different people to sort of
00:02:02.320 adjust uh debits and credits and what that means is you know if i've uh dealt some drugs from
00:02:08.880 vancouver down to los angeles i can very easily through underground iranian networks make my
00:02:15.440 money collected you know wherever the drugs are sold and move it back to where i want it and then 0.98
00:02:21.760 get it laundered into a bank so this woman uh involved in a case the the one case that i know 0.96
00:02:31.120 it's very it doesn't even mention ryan wedding but the people involved in the violence in that case 0.99
00:02:37.680 would would just look like your standard you know wannabe up-and-coming biker gang members
00:02:46.080 or in the in in british columbia the gangs are called the united nations or the red scorpions
00:02:52.640 or the independent soldiers these are sort of uh you know the street gangs of they will look
00:02:59.440 like young canadian hockey players they and some of them are uh they're the ones that are moving
00:03:05.920 a lot of drugs in canada there's something like 700 gangs across the country now this is what this
00:03:11.920 is the type of social networks that ryan wedding came up in but until he makes that connection with
00:03:18.400 that iranian canadian woman uh you know in jail he doesn't get up into those upper echelons of being
00:03:26.720 a cartel operator and that speaks to you know what i know that it's the mexican cartels working hand
00:03:34.880 in hand with actors from hezbollah actors from the irgc the iranian guards and uh above them
00:03:44.160 sometimes even at an insulated distance the ccp members so that's what i say why you know 0.52
00:03:52.160 ryan wedding is obviously a hell of a smart guy a hell of a tough guy apparently brutal you know and 0.73
00:03:59.440 and unafraid to use violence, lethal, but he wouldn't be where he was without making those 0.70
00:04:05.300 connections with the Iranian and Mexican people that take him up to that level. And I'll go a 0.72
00:04:10.080 little further. There's some people that, you know, from policing and intelligence that I talk to
00:04:16.380 that at the end of the day say people like Ryan Wedding, they're a dime a dozen. And, you know,
00:04:23.080 being a hulking sort of uh you know caucasian guy from uh british colombia with an athletic
00:04:30.120 background sure looks like a pretty good front for a mexican cartel with iranian state actors
00:04:36.280 aligned to it so there's a lot of bikers in canada that are tough guys and wealthy guys now 0.80
00:04:42.600 but they they wouldn't they're not transnational actors without those mexican iranian chinese
00:04:48.360 connections wow um there's a there's a lot to unpack there but that's that's way deeper than
00:04:57.320 anything i've seen in the canadian media by any legacy or other or other news source so that's
00:05:02.920 that's pretty wild and it's gonna keep it's gonna keep us entertained for a while on unpacking all
00:05:07.640 that as this thing rolls on um sort of just pivoting briefly here off off topic like have
00:05:13.480 you ever considered writing a script or a movie or this this might be the most interesting story
00:05:20.200 in canadian sort of recent history like this is absolutely almost to the point of being
00:05:24.360 unbelievable the connections that are being made here and then this so this lady is his or it was
00:05:29.240 his ex-wife that he was connected to via connections in uh during serving time he was
00:05:34.680 serving time in canada in a canadian jail when this happened he was in a texas jail uh and uh
00:05:41.880 it was valentine's day and again i i give credit where credit's due i say i'm the leader on this
00:05:47.480 file but the cbc has done a few good reports i think they picked up on you know how i strongly
00:05:55.320 asserted that ryan was connected to hezbollah at the end of the day and that's what made him
00:05:59.960 important uh you know as i reported he was running drugs through margarita island which is part of
00:06:07.400 the the maduro narco state operation you know which is part of the sinaloa operation which is
00:06:13.960 part of the government of sinaloa operation as we now know the recent indictment so what i'm saying
00:06:19.800 is there's no ryan wedding without corruption at the highest levels of latin american governments
00:06:26.520 and for all we know probably a few people corrupted in in canada too we already know
00:06:32.200 Ryan Wedding's case involves, as I say, running cocaine through Margarita Island, which is just
00:06:38.040 off the coast of Venezuela, along with Hezbollah actors in that area for the Sinaloa cartel and 0.78
00:06:45.080 running it up into the port of Halifax, where his network corrupted individuals connected to the 0.88
00:06:51.480 Canadian Navy. So yeah, there's corruption in Canada. But, you know, your question, have I
00:07:00.100 thought about writing more about this. I'll tell you, I'm
00:07:04.840 strongly thinking and I probably okay, I'll spill the beans. I'm
00:07:10.060 working on a book that's a natural evolution from willful
00:07:13.280 blindness of 2021. And it's looking at Ryan Wedding. And
00:07:19.360 it won't be a surprise for people when they actually read
00:07:22.100 it that as I say, I mean, the preconditions for for a Ryan
00:07:27.640 wedding yeah he may be one in a million but he doesn't exist unless for example
00:07:36.840 Justin Trudeau takes away the Mexican visa requirement and creates a loophole
00:07:42.360 back in 2016. You know something that one of my U.S. former government colleagues David Luna has
00:07:49.400 pointed to in a major report you know speaking to the Ryan wedding networks and how the bikers have
00:07:55.400 become, you know, the functional operational arm of the Mexican cartels along with sophisticated
00:08:01.640 Iranian actors and the CCP upstream. So yeah, I mean, sometimes I scramble around in my brain 0.97
00:08:09.120 to answer your question, and I gotta admit, I'm probably delving into those files that I'm
00:08:14.640 already working on and writing as we speak. I don't know the title of this book, or even if
00:08:20.060 I've lined up, maybe I'll publish it myself through the Bureau because I've got enough of a
00:08:27.360 platform now. And so I'll put that writing together between two physical covers and
00:08:32.820 it'll be the story of how Canada has created the conditions for Ryan Wedding and more.
00:08:41.480 More Ryan Weddings are out there. Thank you for bringing up the Trudeau piece. I was probably
00:08:48.460 going to get there eventually but that um the visa requirement being dropped by trudeau all these uh
00:08:53.800 the corruption of senior officials like you said the canadian navy the halifax piece uh the pnp
00:08:59.740 scandal and pei just this list just goes on and on and on of almost endless people being bought
00:09:06.680 off policy changes being greased by who knows like how much of this can be it can any of it be a
00:09:13.680 coincidence or like i'm not saying that justin trudeau did this to enable organized crime in
00:09:17.900 Canada, but like, there's pieces in this puzzle that all seem to point to everybody being on the
00:09:23.140 same page. It's hard to imagine 37 coincidences in a row eventually becomes a pattern of
00:09:29.320 intelligence. Yeah, that's what I'm that's where I am in my mind. I mean, I'm glad you mentioned
00:09:34.620 that the Prince Edward Island's immigrant investor program, because the people involved in that,
00:09:41.760 you know, to fill in the blanks for people that don't know the story, you know, my book,
00:09:47.380 Willful Blindness was how about partly how Jean Chrétien in his era, you know, opened up a whole
00:09:55.080 stream for people that turned out to be, you know, Chinese organized crime or government adjacent
00:10:04.060 people, super wealthy people from Asia that would, you know, drop a lot of investment in the
00:10:11.300 Schwinnigan riding of Jean Chrétien, or, you know, his, I guess we could call his successor,
00:10:19.040 Francois Champagne. These people and related law firms in Quebec were a big part of the Quebec
00:10:29.480 Immigrant Investor Program, and that was shut down as a fraud. Untold number of gangsters from
00:10:37.420 China, Hong Kong, Taiwan got in and set up. And a lot of them ended up in Vancouver and Toronto,
00:10:44.460 some in Quebec. And when Quebec's program was shut down and Canada's was revealed to be a
00:10:51.260 fraud and winnowed down, PEI was picked up in the very same sort of flood of high level Chinese 0.81
00:10:59.020 tycoons. Some of them may not be criminal. Some of them very likely are. But they were run through 0.97
00:11:07.100 the story is like a little motel there was dozens of people that you know set up their
00:11:13.900 their business address or some sort of residential id for their landing as an immigrant through a
00:11:21.020 a little motel.