True Patriot Love - Toronto Police Corruption Update： Ryan Wedding & Iranian Links ft. Sam Cooper

00:00:00.000 He said there was a lot of corruption in the RCMP and throughout Canadian police.

00:00:06.620 He said he knew that Iranian actors, I believe, had what he called exquisite visibility into the Toronto police radio room.

00:00:20.440 Thanks very much for joining us again, Sam. It's great to have you here.

00:00:24.280 Great to be back. Enjoyed the last time.

00:00:26.600 Me too, me too. So I think what a lot of people are wondering, especially myself, selfishly, is any kind of update on the Toronto police corruption? There's been nothing on it in the media, many arrests, I think 11 or 12 arrests across a couple of different agencies there, Peel and Toronto. Can you update the audience on what's gone on there and the connections with the cartel and how that unraveled?

00:00:49.800 Yeah, my last reporting from the Bureau picked up on, there actually was some decent reporting from Toronto media. I believe the CDC picked up on one of the court hearings that I can't attend as I'm not in Toronto.

00:01:05.220 And there was a no contact list for, I believe, the main accused in this case, someone named DaCosta, who allegedly all that they would say in the press conference, if you remember that, memorable that top police officials were wearing bulletproof vests, you know, they came out and said that this DaCosta has significant international connections.

00:01:32.220 connections. And even from that first press conference, I took that to mean Mexican cartels

00:01:39.300 and Ryan Wedding because my reporting at the Bureau, based mostly from U.S. government sources

00:01:46.620 that were very disappointed in Canadian police cooperation on all the cartel operations coming

00:01:53.760 into Canada, that is, using Indo-Canadian trucking companies to bring up massive loads

00:02:01.780 of meth and coke from the cartels up through the states, California, Texas, you know, into

00:02:07.780 Ontario mostly, that that case, or my knowledge was that Ryan Wedding was said to be, and

00:02:16.360 his networks were said to have control or rather facilitation or brokerage relationships with

00:02:24.240 every piece of cartel product coming up into Canada. And I'm not sure if that's exactly true,

00:02:32.400 but it's largely true. I think that he was the guy that has the connections to

00:02:38.440 uh the domestic uh gangs across canada and i so i saw the the indications that his networks i

00:02:48.380 believed had to be involved in that toronto case because there it's his it's his networks that

00:02:55.380 were behind all these failed cases in ontario that i've detailed from something called project brisa

00:03:01.840 uh all all cocaine coming up on uh indo-canadian lawn haul trucks into toronto there was a massive

00:03:09.440 press conference in 2023 and that case just fell apart as i've been reporting you know

00:03:15.680 canada can't prosecute them there was another one called project pelican in the peel regional police

00:03:23.360 and so in a roundabout way i'm saying i knew that ryan wedding his networks

00:03:28.320 were part of the you know the funnel feeding the drugs into this toronto network that had corrupted

00:03:35.840 a number of toronto officers we don't know how many and especially you know the key point was

00:03:41.760 that that some of these toronto officers use databases to target a canadian jail official

00:03:48.160 in the a major toronto uh jail that was you know this jail official was doing his job by blocking

00:03:55.520 drugs coming into the facility and for that he was targeted for homicide so cut to the chase here

00:04:02.560 this no contact list for da costa included i believe dozens of names and one of them

00:04:10.720 was someone that was on the ryan wedding indictment one of these indo-canadian truckers

00:04:15.360 so and i believe potentially from what i read and reported uh involved in the schemes in that

00:04:23.920 Ontario jailhouse sort of operations. And I don't have updates beyond that. There were some officers

00:04:33.280 named, I believe from Peel as well, that have come up in the corruption probe. And not much

00:04:39.200 has developed in court except that I believe the Indo-Canadian lawyer who was named in the

00:04:46.240 Ryan Wedding indictment, who we know from the US government filings, allegedly was the one that

00:04:53.440 hooked ryan wedding up with indo-canadian mafia trucking networks and helped in the counseling

00:04:59.760 of you know a u.s government witness for murder so connecting those dots you know not much has

00:05:06.800 come out in court but i'm seeing the indications of ryan wedding the indications of lethality

00:05:13.440 towards government witnesses a government official in ontario and that to me spells cartel violence

00:05:20.640 and Ryan Wedding. That's pretty wild. I don't think that's a leap in logic at all to get to

00:05:28.900 where you, to put those pieces together. And it sounds quite literally like there's a trail of

00:05:33.100 evidence with these names appearing on these court documents. So just to clarify for anybody who's

00:05:37.820 not sort of read in on this or up to date, the Toronto police were potentially, allegedly,

00:05:43.560 he will say passing information to cartel members in order to target the uh a corrections officer

00:05:51.640 who was trying to enforce sort of quote-unquote law and order within the penitentiary of reducing

00:05:57.980 the drug trafficking in or whatever you know i mean the currency that that moves prison sort of

00:06:02.440 underground and that's that's the connection here between the cartel and the alleged assassination

00:06:08.260 attempt on this corrections officer yeah like i'll add a little more context so there's something

00:06:14.500 like eight to ten toronto police officers named in this conspiracy that the york regional police

00:06:21.220 as an external agency were brought in to investigate some of them were alleged to be

00:06:27.140 hands-on involved in uh cocaine trafficking fentanyl trafficking some of the officers uh

00:06:35.140 And it looked like, you know, I believe a 50-year-old TPS, Toronto Police Services member, was alleged to be the one that accessed the identity and home address of this jailhouse official who later came out in reporting was targeted by, let's just call it the cartel proxies in Toronto.

00:07:01.720 So this man, DaCosta, Brian DaCosta, and others in his network would be the ones that we were allegedly targeting an Ontario official for doing their job and stopping cartel drugs from coming into the jail facility.

00:07:16.320 So there's a lot of allegations, a lot of them stem off illegally, you know, accessing police databases and sharing information out to very violent, let's just call them, if they're not, you know, bikers, cartel proxies, Ryan Wedding type associates, Indo-Canadian trucking networks.

00:07:37.500 there's a whole potpourri of bad people involved you know allegedly if we're talking about the

00:07:42.960 Toronto Police Services corruption case another big deal was uh you know they found this main

00:07:49.260 accused with a lot of fentanyl in his possession which was said to be bound for Europe uh as you

00:07:57.300 know there's been a lot of sort of denialism I say in Ottawa that slowly Canada has recognized

00:08:04.020 it has a lab problem of producing fentanyl a lot of people are dying and i say since the mark carney

00:08:10.820 government has come in there's been a line i believe coming down from his office that

00:08:15.700 okay we'll now admit that canada is producing uh you know fentanyl but it's none of it's going

00:08:20.980 to the united states so in this case yeah a lot of it was said to be going to europe

00:08:27.220 which probably you know i'll leave it at that i wouldn't doubt it if the same networks are

00:08:32.900 are sending it across the border to Buffalo or you know through the Mohawk lands you know into

00:08:38.660 New York state because that's what they do. But another interesting point in the case was that

00:08:45.140 these Toronto police officers were allegedly providing protection to an illegal marijuana

00:08:53.380 dispensary service run you know or shops run by the main accused in this case. And so again that's

00:09:01.860 a point that i like to stress a lot of people think marijuana is legal now and it is in canada

00:09:08.820 but i say that you know uh the ryan weddings of the worlds the hell's angels you know these gangs 0.98

00:09:17.860 that are working uh and embedded on indigenous reserves all of them are sort of below the chinese

00:09:24.900 triads and the mexican cartels who have taken advantage and taken over you know canada's soft

00:09:31.620 marijuana business all the legal licenses and you know i think again this this toronto police

00:09:38.180 corruption case shows it this this man was bringing in coke and meth from offshore they

00:09:44.580 didn't say mexico but of course it's from mexico he was uh it looks like producing fentanyl in

00:09:50.740 ontario sending it abroad but also running marijuana shops so that just shows how i i say

00:09:57.540 marijuana was basically used to roll out the architecture uh for the synthetic narcotics

00:10:03.780 that are now exploding out of canada so people need to understand you know it's not just uh

00:10:10.660 love love tunes and marijuana that uh that make canada great it's it's it's the the worst of

00:10:18.580 the world's organized crime have taken advantage of the way we've been sort of um soft you could

00:10:24.740 say on on marijuana so just just a quick recap to keep up with all that there so the toronto police

00:10:34.180 uh at least possibly if not likely are connected to ryan wedding indirectly or directly through

00:10:40.820 the cartels that are now more or less running at least part of the drug trade underneath the ccp

00:10:47.300 the triads and and that whole thing um and then there's the iranian connection via ryan ryan's

00:10:54.020 wife is iranian and then potential links of of her or her family to this in the background can you

00:11:00.420 can you shed some light on that yeah okay i'll jump over to ryan wedding's former wife and her

00:11:06.420 connections let me just touch on ontario again because there's an even more concrete sort of uh

00:11:12.980 data point that illuminates what we've just been talking about but i covered the cameron

00:11:17.220 or this trial in depth in in ottawa and he was convicted on some of the charges some of the

00:11:27.860 stuff he was accused of couldn't even be heard in court because it endangered national interests or

00:11:33.860 or security or secrets but what that case revealed was a wedding was allegedly selling

00:11:41.540 uh u.s government targeting and intelligence uh to hezbollah to iranian actors in toronto

00:11:50.980 to uh the sinaloa cartel who uh including you know people working for chapo to run encryption

00:11:57.940 technology companies in vancouver and on the iranian piece that you're looking for something

00:12:05.220 very interesting in the ordus case that came out was you know he was denying everything that he

00:12:11.540 was accused of he's been convicted of sort of trying to sell uh canadian and u.s police plans

00:12:18.740 to the worst of iranian state actors in toronto responsible for massive money laundering but he

00:12:25.380 you know uh acknowledged in his own defense uh when he was on the stand he said

00:12:32.100 look, I'm accused of certain things. I've got a story that I was actually running like a secret

00:12:40.020 operation to try to target these people that I was working with. That's his sort of dog ate my

00:12:45.700 homework excuse that no one buys. But he said there was a lot of corruption in the RCMP and

00:12:54.560 throughout Canadian police. He said he knew that Iranian actors, I believe, had what he called

00:13:02.140 exquisite visibility into the Toronto police radio room. So this was years ago, and he was already

00:13:09.340 pointing to deep penetration of Middle Eastern networks into police in Ontario. And so when this

00:13:17.900 Toronto Police Services case has come up, I think it was just confirming what he was, this senior

00:13:24.040 Canadian police official was already pointing to. So that was an interesting trial where a lot,

00:13:29.960 you know, just sitting there every day, I could see that Canadian justice was very carefully

00:13:37.240 trying to prosecute this man while sort of hiving off a lot of the secrets around him

00:13:43.880 that pointed to other vulnerabilities within Canadian police and beyond.

00:13:50.600 so jumping into the the ryan wedding iranian piece yeah my assessment and i'm working more

00:13:56.840 and more on writing about ryan wedding and what his case means to canada my strong assessment is

00:14:04.200 that you know he was in his athletic career in his snowboarding uh he very likely sort of got

00:14:12.360 into the marijuana culture in british columbia in his high school days you know he was uh

00:14:18.760 obviously an amazingly talented athlete but he was also a bc boy and and you know it's not

00:14:26.200 not not a big stretch for snowboarders to be involved in the marijuana culture

00:14:30.920 and as he sort of started to phase out of his athletic career uh you know after appearing in

00:14:38.840 the olympics maybe even before he did get into marijuana dealing he went to jail and when he was

00:14:46.760 in jail uh at that point he had dabbled i believe in cocaine he got you know he got done down in

00:14:53.800 the united states which is the worst thing for a canadian drug deal to happen because

00:14:58.680 it's pretty difficult for them to get caught in canada while in jail somehow someone hooked him

00:15:05.640 up with an iranian canadian woman in toronto and there's all kinds of court reporting on this

00:15:12.280 woman's involvement in a case that had a brutal sort of extortion, you know, major underground

00:15:23.800 banking related to Iranian transborder money laundering systems, which are very similar to

00:15:32.560 the Chinese underground banking systems that I've detailed. This is the way that money can move

00:15:37.660 across borders without going through a bank, you know, drug cash can be scattered all over the

00:15:44.420 world. And you just need people at a high level in sort of an Iranian or Chinese network to make 0.94

00:15:50.280 arrangements for different people to sort of adjust debits and credits. And what that means is,

00:15:57.000 you know, if I've dealt some drugs from Vancouver down to Los Angeles, I can very easily through 0.71

00:16:03.560 underground Iranian networks, make my money collected, you know, 0.81

00:16:08.260 wherever the drugs are sold and move it back to where I want it

00:16:12.300 and then get it laundered into a bank. 1.00

00:16:14.500 So this woman involved in a case,

00:16:19.620 the one case that I know it's very it doesn't even mention Ryan Wedding,

00:16:25.220 but the people involved in the violence in that case

00:16:28.520 would would just look like your standard, you know,

00:16:33.560 want to be up and coming biker gang members or in the in in british columbia the gangs are called

00:16:40.200 the united nations or the red scorpions or the independent soldiers these are sort of uh you

00:16:47.240 know the street gangs of they look like young canadian hockey players they and some of them

00:16:53.880 are uh they're the ones that are moving a lot of drugs in canada there's something like 700 gangs 0.65

00:17:00.360 across the country now this is what this is the type of social networks that ryan wedding came up

00:17:06.360 in but until he makes that connection with that iranian canadian woman uh you know in jail he

00:17:14.920 doesn't get up into those upper echelons of being a cartel operator and that speaks to you know what

00:17:21.880 i know that it's the mexican cartels working hand in hand with actors from hezbollah actors from the 0.73

00:17:30.360 irgc the iranian guards and uh above them sometimes even at an insulated distance the ccp 0.72

00:17:39.000 members so that's what i say why you know ryan wedding is obviously a hell of a smart guy a hell 0.66

00:17:45.800 of a tough guy apparently brutal you know and and unafraid to use violence lethal but he wouldn't 0.89

00:17:54.280 be where he was without making those connections with the iranian and mexican people that take him

00:17:59.240 up to that level and i'll go a little further there's some people that you know from policing

00:18:05.560 and intelligence that i talk to that at the end of the day say people like ryan wedding

00:18:11.960 they're a dime a dozen and you know being a hulking sort of uh you know caucasian guy from 0.68

00:18:18.680 uh british colombia with an athletic background sure looks like a pretty good front for a mexican

00:18:24.680 cartel with Iranian state actors aligned to it so there's a lot of bikers in Canada that are tough

00:18:31.640 guys and wealthy guys now but they wouldn't they're not transnational actors without those

00:18:37.720 Mexican Iranian and Chinese connections

00:18:42.280 wow there's a there's a lot to unpack there but that's that's way deeper than anything I've seen

00:18:49.320 in the canadian media by any legacy or other or other news source so that's that's pretty wild

00:18:54.760 and it's going to keep it's going to keep us entertained for a while unpacking all that as

00:18:58.840 this thing rolls on um sort of just pivoting briefly here off off topic like have you ever

00:19:04.680 considered writing a script or a movie or is this this might be the most interesting story

00:19:11.160 in canadian sort of recent history like this is absolutely almost to the point of being

00:19:15.240 unbelievable the connections that are being made here and then this so this lady is his or it was

00:19:20.120 his ex-wife that he was connected to via connections in uh during serving time he was serving time in

00:19:26.200 canada in a canadian jail when this happened he was in a texas jail uh and uh it was valentine's

00:19:33.880 day and again i i give credit where credit's due i say i'm the leader on this file but

00:19:39.320 the cbc has done a few good reports i think they picked up on you know how i strongly asserted that

00:19:46.920 ryan was connected to hezbollah at the end of the day and that's what made him important uh you know

00:19:53.640 as i reported he was running drugs through margarita island which is part of the the maduro

00:19:59.960 narco state operation you know which is part of the sinaloa operation which is part of the

00:20:05.320 government of Sinaloa operation as we now know the recent indictment so what I'm saying is there's no

00:20:11.960 Ryan Wedding without corruption at the highest levels of Latin American governments and for all

00:20:17.960 we know probably a few people corrupted in in Canada too we already know Ryan Wedding's case

00:20:24.120 involves as I say running cocaine through Margarita Island which is just off the coast of Venezuela 0.89

00:20:30.600 along with Hezbollah actors in that area for the Sinaloa cartel and running it up into the port 0.91

00:20:37.360 of Halifax where his network corrupted individuals connected to the Canadian Navy. So yeah, there's 0.92

00:20:44.380 corruption in Canada. But, you know, your question, have I thought about writing more about this?

00:20:53.160 i'll tell you i i'm strongly thinking and i i probably okay i'll i'll spill the beans i'm

00:21:00.980 working on a book that's a natural evolution from willful blindness of 2021 and it's looking at ryan

00:21:07.560 wedding and uh it won't be a surprise for people when they actually read it that as i say i mean

00:21:15.240 The preconditions for a Ryan wedding, yeah, he may be one in a million, but he doesn't exist unless, for example, Justin Trudeau takes away the Mexican visa requirement and creates a loophole back in 2016.

00:21:34.780 You know, something that one of my U.S. former government colleagues, David Luna, has pointed to in a major report, you know, speaking to the Ryan Wedding Networks and how the bikers have become, you know, the functional operational arm of the Mexican cartels, along with sophisticated Iranian actors and the CCP upstream.

00:21:54.720 So yeah, I mean, sometimes I scramble around in my brain to answer your question, and I

00:22:02.000 got to admit, I'm probably delving into those files that I'm already working on and writing

00:22:06.900 as we speak.

00:22:08.380 I don't know the title of this book, or even if I've lined up, maybe I'll publish it myself

00:22:13.600 through the Bureau, because I've got enough of a platform now.

00:22:19.200 And so I'll put that writing together between two physical covers and it'll be the story of how Canada has created the conditions for Ryan Wedding and more.

00:22:32.400 More Ryan Weddings are out there.

00:22:35.820 Thank you for bringing up the Trudeau piece.

00:22:38.600 I was probably going to get there eventually, but the visa requirement being dropped by Trudeau, all the corruption of senior officials, like you said, the Canadian Navy, the Halifax piece.

00:22:49.840 the PNP scandal and PEI just this list just goes on and on and on of almost endless people being

00:22:57.200 bought off policy changes being greased by who knows like how much of this can be it can any of

00:23:04.080 it be a coincidence or like I'm not saying that Justin Trudeau did this to enable organized crime

00:23:08.560 in Canada but like are there there's pieces in this puzzle that all seem to point to everybody

00:23:13.440 being on the same page it's hard to imagine 37 coincidences in a row eventually becomes a pattern

00:23:20.000 of intelligence yeah that's what i'm that's where i am in my mind i mean i'm glad you mentioned the

00:23:25.760 the the prince edward island's uh immigrant investor program because the people involved in

00:23:32.240 that you know to to fill in the blanks for people that don't know the story you know my book willful

00:23:38.560 blindness was how about partly how Jean Crescent in his era, you know, opened up a whole stream

00:23:46.560 for people that turned out to be, you know, Chinese organized crime or government adjacent

00:23:54.980 people, super wealthy people from Asia that would, you know, drop a lot of investment in the

00:24:02.200 Schwinnigan writing of Jean Crescent, or, you know, his, I guess we could call his successor,

00:24:09.940 Francois Champagne. These people and related law firms in Quebec were a big part of the Quebec

00:24:20.240 Immigrant Investor Program, and that was shut down as a fraud. Untold number of gangsters from

00:24:28.340 China, Hong Kong, Taiwan got in and set up. And a lot of them ended up in Vancouver and Toronto,

00:24:35.380 some in Quebec. And when Quebec's program was shut down and Canada's was revealed to be a fraud

00:24:42.580 and winnowed down, PEI was picked up in the very same sort of flood of high level Chinese tycoons. 0.87

00:24:50.900 Some of them may not be criminal. Some of them very likely are. But they were run through the 0.96

00:24:58.260 story is like a little motel there was dozens of people that you know set up their their business

00:25:05.540 address or or some sort of residential id for their landing as an immigrant through a little

00:25:12.100 motel so it was very clear that uh chinese organized crime with connectivity to senior

00:25:20.660 politicians in Ottawa, Montreal, senior industrialists, senior law firms. These people

00:25:28.620 with massive amounts of money have been flooding into Canada for decades, you know, very strongly

00:25:35.160 since the 1990s. And I assess that it's the upstream Chinese investment into financial

00:25:46.960 entities, real estate, technology, connections to law firms that sets up the money laundering

00:25:55.680 infrastructure at the highest level that facilitates all of the cartel, you know, and the

00:26:03.100 Ryan Wedding activity down the chain. And this is not speculation at all. You know, the U.S.

00:26:09.200 government, the U.S. Treasury has sort of done the same reporting that I've done now saying that

00:26:15.620 Chinese underground banking has taken over the architecture of money laundering for

00:26:22.500 all gangs, but most especially the Latin cartels, which are of most concern in fentanyl methamphetamine

00:26:29.380 labs in Mexico and Canada, and dealing that product into the United States.

00:26:36.480 And so I'm talking about underground banking from China being sort of the architecture of this all, but it's worked its way into legal or licit looking finance.

00:26:52.440 So we're talking about real estate developers, law firms, just say supercar dealerships, which is not a big stretch to believe, you know, all manner of Canada's economy.

00:27:05.940 And we can say the big six banks have been involved in sort of mixing that underground banking, pure black, dirty money, much of it drug money, human trafficking money, prostitution money, extortion money, mixing it into the legal businesses, including Canada's big banks.

00:27:25.720 And that is both what is making Canada sort of a major weak point in Western Hemisphere money laundering. And it's the point that I think is at the top of Washington's, let's call it, concern list with, you know, with their concerns with Canada's sitting government.

00:27:46.420 And that gets to your point. Is there sort of a grander strategy or play behind Canada turning a blind eye? That's a tough one. It's hard to prove. But I would assert with a thousand percent confidence, because I've heard it from senior, former military intelligence, current and former, you know, American intelligence, that it is grand strategy on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to flood

00:28:15.880 foreign nations with dirty money, corruption money, even to weaponize migration into another 0.93

00:28:23.280 democratic system in a way to take over that other nation silently. So this is what the US 0.78

00:28:31.340 government says. It's grand strategy from the CCP. And there's no divide between Chinese

00:28:38.040 organized crime and the CCP. They're one in the same thing. Yeah. And for the audience that may 0.69

00:28:44.200 not sort of be tracking this U.S. recognition of the Canadian threat. This is coming from the

00:28:50.140 highest three-letter agencies and the directors of those agencies that Canada, as a porous

00:28:56.640 security deficient, how many security deficiencies that we have, is now a direct threat to American

00:29:04.660 national security because of the amount of money and drugs and people and everything that's flowing

00:29:09.420 in and um just to backtrack a little bit like the pnp scandal for instance like i think it was 400

00:29:14.860 million dollars sort of evaporated into the ether that couldn't be accounted for and then they do an

00:29:19.980 inquiry into figure trying to look for it and then no one's arrested the the td the td bank largest

00:29:26.860 money laundering fraud in in the entire world that they were i guess deemed guilty of participating

00:29:32.540 in yeah no no nobody's arrested like like there's they had to pay i think the largest fine td for

00:29:39.260 for doing all this money laundering but but nobody's guilty of anything i don't know like

00:29:44.780 it it's almost it seems comically dumb how well like sorry go ahead no yeah not to cut you off

00:29:53.900 but the td bank is a is remains a major irritant for the u.s government and so you're right that

00:30:00.540 was at the last count 3.3 billion and it's gone up us dollars so whatever that is 5 billion canadian

00:30:08.860 dollars levied against td in a deferred prosecution in which they acknowledged they were complicit

00:30:17.100 directly in money laundering for mexican cartels through the chinese underground bankers this was

00:30:24.300 the story and it was proven by the dea that chinese international students so part of you

00:30:31.020 know china's united front work department system were were the ones that were picking up the drug

00:30:37.500 cash from the underground brokers that is these chinese business persons in you know new york

00:30:44.380 flushing or new jersey that the system is they bid on mexican cartel fentanyl cash you know

00:30:53.020 proceeds of the fentanyl sold to new yorkers the the brokers bid on those contracts

00:31:00.940 chinese international student comes in walks it into a bank the money is laundered you know

00:31:06.220 all kinds of shell companies it'll go back to some factory in uh you know guandan which will

00:31:14.860 you know pay for something like 10 million dollars worth of washing machines to be

00:31:19.500 shipped over to sinaloa and that's how the cartel gets their money back purely laundered and the

00:31:25.660 criminals on all sides own you know washing machine factories and dispensaries to use that example

00:31:31.820 so yeah and you're right canada did nothing uh fintrac knew had exquisite intelligence that this

00:31:40.700 was happening in canada you know i did a story in 2024 about a fin track study of 50 000 chinese

00:31:50.380 diaspora banking transactions so this is exquisite data population-wide intelligence and they were

00:31:58.220 showing how this underground banking they were warning canadian banks this is happening to you

00:32:03.420 so these are the typologies to look for you know a student that opens a bank account and starts

00:32:09.420 starts jamming money in, or a law firm is starting to jam money in, a real estate developer

00:32:14.920 is taking massive cash transactions.

00:32:18.740 And so that led to me reporting on a major case happening with HSBC because I had a whistleblower.

00:32:26.480 And this totally matched my HSBC story in Canada, Toronto area, matched the kind of

00:32:33.860 mortgage money laundering and you know cash i believe that the td bank case exposed but nothing

00:32:41.220 happened in canada a journalist exposed that fintrac knew about it so that's the ministry of

00:32:46.580 finance but the rcmp ministry of finance prime minister's office they're not doing anything

00:32:55.060 right no not only does no one go to jail at the end of the day after td was fined the largest

00:33:02.260 amount ever by the u.s government they they then faced something like an eight million dollar

00:33:08.180 administrative fine in canada which the u.s government just saw as a slap in the face it's

00:33:13.380 like eight million compared to whatever it is five billion canadian is what they were they faced in

00:33:20.580 the u.s for admitting their guilt and you you brought up an important point there too towards

00:33:25.540 the end like fin track who i know some folks who have worked there for a long time and these are

00:33:29.780 savvy intelligent people doing some important work and they do and they have um every once in a while

00:33:36.180 that you know what i mean there's a pretty big a lot of this stuff doesn't make the media some of

00:33:39.540 the things that i know that are going on in the background i don't have privileged information

00:33:42.740 but i get kind of 35 000 foot view just from friends who are there these folks and all include

00:33:48.340 thesis and um sort of rarely maybe the rcmp even in this group but there's folks that are doing

00:33:54.180 really good work there and there's really good intelligence and they're really good at tracking

00:33:57.780 down this money and they're really good at like you said sending those warnings to these banks

00:34:01.220 saying hey we flagged all this nefarious activity and it just it just ends up going nowhere like

00:34:07.060 one one more kind of redundant example here the the super lab bust of the fentanyl lab in bc where

00:34:12.980 they uh like hundreds of kilograms are seized hundreds of thousands of dollars many weapons

00:34:18.340 and then in a in what's deemed to be probably a sister uh or um facility or manufacturing facility

00:34:25.620 of some sort this 39 000 kilograms is what i read of precursors they seized in this fentanyl super

00:34:32.180 lab bust one person got arrested like there's it's it's it seems like the to the average

00:34:40.980 canadian that might be watching this or person who maybe is just finding out about it now

00:34:45.300 how is this going there's no way that this isn't kind of there's strings being pulled here

00:34:51.060 from very high level people who are not just turning a blind eye to it, but probably enabling

00:34:56.580 it. And the reporting that you've done in the conversations I've had with Gary Clement and

00:35:01.540 Scott McGregor's book and all the, I'm leaving out names here, but there's so much evidence.

00:35:07.440 And to the best of my knowledge, sorry, I'm getting into this end of the ramble here.

00:35:11.500 Like you do not work directly, correct me if I'm wrong, for any, as a liaison or

00:35:18.800 feeding information or strategy to any Canadian law enforcement or intelligence group? Like,

00:35:24.820 they're not bringing you in, but you do have done stuff in the US. Is that a correct assessment?

00:35:30.880 Well, not exactly. I did recently present information to the Washington State

00:35:39.360 Counter-Narcotics Association. So I stood up for a keynote in front of hundreds of

00:35:45.100 of Washington State investigators.

00:35:47.960 And, you know, it looks exactly how you'd expect.

00:35:51.040 You know, these are people that can do some heavy work

00:35:53.340 if they have to go hands on in the street.

00:35:55.260 And then you got the intelligence people in there

00:35:57.460 and just amazing people that want to get after it

00:36:01.440 in Washington State.

00:36:02.620 So I was telling them about the lab networks

00:36:06.780 that you just pointed to.

00:36:08.520 I was at a resort in Idaho and, you know,

00:36:10.660 about 500 kilometers north was the Falcon Super Lab,

00:36:14.060 which was, as I've reported, the largest fentanyl lab ever discovered in history, according to the

00:36:20.060 USDA, who was the one behind that whole investigation and gave all the information on

00:36:28.760 what they could to Canada and wanted to partner. And the RCMP, I think probably for political

00:36:36.280 reasons, said no thanks. And at the end of the day, as you say, they went ahead, surprised

00:36:43.120 their American colleagues who they didn't partner with and busted that operation but

00:36:50.380 as far as we know did nothing to the networks involved and there's a low level

00:36:55.360 I think a probably a little pretty low level Indo-Canadian guy is the only guy charged

00:37:01.160 whereas I've reported that the people associated with that lab which is associated with a group

00:37:08.000 called the wolf pack alliance uh one of these canadian domestic hybrid gangs that brings

00:37:14.320 together hell's angels networks people that know ryan wedding with iranian actors middle eastern

00:37:23.200 organized crime you know italian organized crime appears to be in there so a majorly bad operation

00:37:30.240 but as i say at the end of the day mexico iran and ultimately china above all and i can make

00:37:35.920 those connections that you know china was supplying that lab the u.s government knew this

00:37:42.000 and you don't see any information about that coming out of you know mark carney controlled rcmp

00:37:48.800 so i wouldn't like to be too cynical hopefully the rcp goes farther in that case

00:37:53.360 you know you know how law enforcement works if this was the americans they'd be flipping the

00:37:57.840 lower level guy giving him witness protection like sending him off to nunavut and finding out

00:38:04.320 who he really who was above them but you know cynically speaking as you say maybe that will

00:38:11.600 go up into the levels of kind of uh what we see in the sinaloa cartel has has uh infiltrated the

00:38:18.960 sinaloa government to allow them to do their business so freely how does western canada

00:38:24.480 become so populated with massive synthetic narcotics labs which are essentially like

00:38:33.040 Chinese offshore drug production factories, all of the raw materials, so chemicals, all of the lab

00:38:40.000 equipment, the pill presses is being shipped in from China. You know, some of it goes to Mexico,

00:38:45.040 where they set up some of it comes to Canada's, well, it's across Canada now. And as I say,

00:38:50.960 it sort of was built off all these, you know, marijuana grows across the country.

00:38:56.720 I think, you know, back to your point, how is it happening? At the end of the day,

00:39:05.680 we know there's corruption because we know that Vancouver's port, you know, there's a lot of great

00:39:12.000 police officers. I believe Neil DeBoard, former Delta police chief, has come out very publicly

00:39:18.800 and testified recently about his knowledge and concerns at the Vancouver port being,

00:39:24.800 you know a lot of organized crime infiltration and the port workers are only only a small

00:39:32.080 degree are vetted so there's a whole bunch of people that are i believe vetted by the hell's

00:39:37.360 angels essentially um so yeah a long way to say i i told a lot to the washington state investigators

00:39:45.600 i gave them some names and some properties if canada doesn't do its work i have the feeling

00:39:51.920 back to something earlier you said the u.s government will not put up with what they see

00:39:57.600 as a potential inbound threat of synthetic narcotics that are killing americans coming

00:40:02.480 from canada they'll start to they'll start to think about i think they want to be diplomatic

00:40:09.120 they i bet you they would love to work with jtf2 or you know uh trustable units of canadian police

00:40:17.520 like an alert from Alberta or some OPP units, some Quebec units, some great RCMP officers.

00:40:25.920 But I think they've got a concern that they have to get around a political will problem in Ottawa.

00:40:31.760 And I'll end by saying, yeah, it does look like I will be presenting some of my findings to

00:40:38.720 a Canadian police agency in the near future. So I want to hammer on that point. There's a lot of

00:40:44.400 great officers you know up and down from intelligence to operators on the ground

00:40:50.720 you know i'm friends with some of them and there's some great leaders but they're not

00:40:55.040 all great leaders in canada i don't think i'm i'm not trying to hurt feelings i'm just saying that

00:41:00.880 at the end of the day i think it's a political will problem as i said

00:41:05.040 yeah you you hit it on the head and i've i've been fortunate enough to work with some of the

00:41:09.040 folks that you just mentioned that are absolutely world-class and i learned a lot from them um 0.96

00:41:14.400 i'm super proud to have worked alongside them i i was always kind of happy to be the dumbest person

00:41:19.760 in the room every time i went somewhere just because there's always something to take away

00:41:23.280 there's always something to learn and it's it's pretty it's good to hear finally that you're being

00:41:27.680 taken seriously by canadian law enforcement and those that should be receiving consult and

00:41:31.840 briefings from you it's just kind of crazy that it's taken this long um but at least at least

00:41:37.440 it's finally come full circle and i know this is a bit of a a bit of a hot and touchy subject here

00:41:43.040 but just for those who are listening who don't understand how accurate and how realistic these

00:41:48.000 threats are the rcmp paid you a visit many months ago to let you know what you were doing was so

00:41:55.360 close to home for some of the the organizations and names being mentioned that you were you were

00:42:00.240 essentially your life was potentially at risk do you mind kind of explaining how that went it's not

00:42:05.520 if it's not too sharp of a point there.

00:42:08.720 I can share.

00:42:09.920 I mean, I'm I'm at a milestone.

00:42:12.000 So the Bureau, my my home of investigative journalism,

00:42:17.200 which was built off the success of my book, Willful Blindness, which kind of like

00:42:21.560 allowed me to do my own thing and graduate from mainstream media and do it my way,

00:42:26.280 which is nimble, deep and and rigorous.

00:42:31.240 I've been at it for three years now, but my start was a little

00:42:35.320 bumpy within, I believe, a month of operations. So it should be June or July 2023. I'll never

00:42:45.860 forget it, of course, because I was asked to testify in Canada's Parliament based on

00:42:51.060 my reporting at my former media employer about my knowledge of Chinese hostile state threats

00:42:58.140 to Canadian politicians. I went up into Parliament Hill in my suit and testified. My first

00:43:04.940 indication that all was not right was that members uh of the ndp wouldn't even ask me questions

00:43:12.940 so that was indicating something to me the conservatives you know the main opposition

00:43:18.780 the opposition party were very interested in my knowledge of course one of their members mp

00:43:24.780 michael chon you know a very you know honorable conservative member from ontario halton hills

00:43:31.020 had been essentially his family and him targeted by Chinese intelligence.

00:43:37.500 And so they were interested in what I knew, but some liberal members weren't interested. They

00:43:43.260 were more interested in trying to attack my reporting, which had pointed to probably mostly

00:43:49.660 their party and various individuals that allegedly were part of China's operations.

00:43:56.380 so i came out from that with a little bit of a mixed feeling i had done my duty as a canadian

00:44:02.460 i was called to testify and i did i believe my information you know maybe could help an official

00:44:08.300 report that would come out and lead to a foreign agent registry or a racketeering law that canada

00:44:15.260 uh lacks um we're still waiting for those things that i advocate for but you know two days that

00:44:24.220 two days after my testimony yes uh inset which is rcmp's national security unit knocked on the door

00:44:32.700 uh the fellow that talked to me was actually a lawyer with the rcmp uh showed their badge and

00:44:41.260 said you know good we have something important to tell you and then you know turned on a tape

00:44:46.860 recorder and and read what's called a judicially authorized warning that somehow they had gathered

00:44:53.740 intelligence that was a credible threat related to my reporting on China. So a lot has happened

00:45:00.400 in three years. I went in and gave a statement. So there's a report or reports floating around

00:45:08.500 somewhere. I got the impression the RCMP had a, you know, I don't have details on what this,

00:45:15.900 you know, threat meant to me. I have a certain amount of information. And I, as I say, I went

00:45:22.700 and talk to them. And I just have the sense that they know very well, you know, what type of people

00:45:30.380 or person could be involved, quite possibly could be someone referred to in redacted sections of

00:45:37.360 the NSI COP 2024 report, which spoke of, I'll ramble a bit here, I'm unpacking my mind on what

00:45:45.860 I think I may have been alerted to, you know, this report, NSICOP, there's 12 redacted paragraphs

00:45:54.360 that refer to CSIS's knowledge of their most egregious case of Chinese national interference

00:46:02.440 through a proxy that they called, this is a quote, a high harm proxy. So what I take that to mean is

00:46:10.980 high harm the type of individual that could be involved in either tasking or you know directly

00:46:18.660 involved in harming the lives safety of probably chinese diaspora members so i don't know what

00:46:27.860 that means exactly but i know that high harm means what it means i know that people have been 0.59

00:46:33.540 hurt around the world by chinese proxies agents gangsters and so you know i think if this 12

00:46:42.020 paragraphs i'm referring to which quite likely also refers to election interference networks

00:46:48.900 transfers clandestine money from the toronto consulate student voters canadian politicians

00:46:56.020 in the toronto area as well as high harm activities i have the feeling that you know

00:47:04.420 the warning that came to me would relate to something like that you know information buried

00:47:10.980 in a in a canadian parliamentarian report that we'll never we'll never know it unless it's leaked

00:47:16.980 apparently but of the type of information i believe is probably being prosecuted as we

00:47:22.420 speak in the new york state with very similar networks meaning organized crime a lot of it

00:47:29.140 from Fujian province triads working together with covert ministry of state security officers that

00:47:36.180 are working out of consulates i'm speaking of a case i know in new york and people gangsters

00:47:42.900 involved in election interference through united front work department community groups running

00:47:48.260 ccp police stations corrupting politicians you know smuggling chinese agents into the united 0.73

00:47:54.900 states through united front community leaders so all along way to say i'm still here as i told you

00:48:02.180 before um i'm a writer but no one should be confused i know how to take care of myself i

00:48:08.500 i train with a former military uh special operator i'm friends with people from that

00:48:15.300 world and um and keep doing what i'm doing but no uh no one is being charged with regards to

00:48:24.340 a threat to me and as far as i know making threats are is a is not lawful in canada

00:48:32.580 um wow it just it took me a second to kind of and i and i knew all this coming in but

00:48:39.220 hearing it come from you is is next level and i'm we have a few minutes left here uh

00:48:45.220 you brought up the nsi cop report which is really interesting because just this morning the supreme

00:48:49.380 court of canada ruled to all those heavily redacted sections that you just mentioned to

00:48:54.180 keep them redacted the canadian people are not allowed to know the names of the mps who

00:48:59.860 quote wittingly participated in election interference allegedly um we don't get to

00:49:04.980 know who these people are and that's a protect that's a specific protection enabled by the

00:49:09.300 supreme court that of the nsi cop that was brought in under trudeau which seems like if i'm going to

00:49:14.020 put my tinfoil hat on seems like it was done to protect the pmo and the pm and it has nothing to

00:49:20.180 do with getting to the bottom of anything that's going on and this elaborate web of uh pictures

00:49:26.340 on a board with a lot of red lines linking all these people together like it's just it's like

00:49:30.900 just this morning they said that no no you don't get to know who these mps are who participated in

00:49:35.220 this that's that's parliamentary privilege and you'll go to jail for 14 years if you if you

00:49:39.220 you release this name so more and more i i hope that um not that you not not a told you so kind

00:49:46.300 of moment but like more and more everything you're saying seems to be coming vindicated in real time

00:49:50.780 and it's it must i i know i don't think you're that type of person i really don't think you're

00:49:55.280 that type of person but it must it must feel pretty good that the things that you've been

00:49:58.840 seeing are sort of all seeing daylight um in like right in front of us well you know i i try to be

00:50:06.780 somewhat biblical you know that's the way I was raised but sometimes I feel like I'm that type

00:50:12.280 of person that like would like to say I told you so or would like to get in the face of some people

00:50:17.580 in Canada look if my work ever leads to some people in Canada being extradited which is hard

00:50:24.220 to believe would ever happen but I believe probably should be because if the people that

00:50:28.800 are involved in these activities in Canada are essentially being protected elites or untouchable

00:50:35.480 And so I'm talking about MPs, senators, who I have been told by people on the inside that wanted to investigate them, you know, wanted to see Canadian politicians held accountable, but were told by, you know, the more senior and more politically connected people in their organizations, that person's untouchable.

00:50:55.140 that shouldn't happen. They're being protected. And we have people in the Iranian community,

00:51:02.120 the Indian community, the Chinese diaspora, Taiwanese Hong Kongers that are facing, as I

00:51:08.600 say, real threats of high harm from the people that are involved in corrupting these protected

00:51:14.900 canadian politicians it's an unacceptable situation so you know uh i'm gonna be going

00:51:24.820 down to washington dc in about a month and i'm sure i'll talk to people you know that know the

00:51:30.180 ccp select committee of congress uh and uh people involved in some of the think tanks that are

00:51:37.220 adjacent to u.s law enforcement intelligence and i'll be very happy to share with them all the

00:51:42.900 knowledge that i've gained you know uh gathered in in sort of my travels and most of my travels

00:51:49.300 are enjoyable some of them do involve hardship that i that i've come through and i look i'm doing

00:51:55.140 it because i love canada and i love the united states i love western democracy and our values

00:52:01.460 and i'm seeing them we know they're they're they're hanging on a knife edge you know in canada

00:52:08.260 but they're being deeply attacked in the us too new york state i'm learning is saturated i believe

00:52:14.660 in the same way from the chinese networks that are working across the ontario new york border

00:52:20.900 um so vindicated i don't know proven right sure trying to be righteous you can apply all those

00:52:29.540 words and i won't rub it in anyone's face uh when when they do face justice but i have to believe

00:52:36.500 that the people that are being protected in canada because they think being elected official makes

00:52:42.660 them untouchable in my system of beliefs and values that won't hold out forever man i have i

00:52:50.260 still have almost another full page of notes here to go through but we've already we've already hit

00:52:54.420 an hour we want to stretch it out a little bit we can we can stretch it out but as i said i've got

00:52:59.220 something legal to attend to yeah i'll i'll use that as a way to convince you to come back again

00:53:05.060 just because i i'm uh i've got more stuff to read and more questions and it's always a pleasure to

00:53:09.700 have you here man willful blindness is is the book folks check it out the bureau.news is the

00:53:15.700 the bureau.news is the the site that's how that's the right bureau.news just google the bureau.news

00:53:20.660 and you'll get taken to my site which is now 37 000 subscribers in three years so um i just feel

00:53:28.100 really uh rewarded and blessed that you know the work that i'm doing is getting international

00:53:33.780 traction thank you so much man this is always a pleasure i was uh a little bit nervous coming into

00:53:39.940 this one just because it was the first one we did on our own but it's it's always fun talking to you

00:53:43.460 man and i hope we can do it again soon oh for sure if you got a page of notes to cover we'll

00:53:48.740 we'll come back pretty quick. Sweet. Thanks, man. Take it easy.

True Patriot Love - May 02, 2026

Toronto Police Corruption Update： Ryan Wedding & Iranian Links ft. Sam Cooper

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