Ezra Levant interviews investigative journalist Sam Cooper, exposing the CCP’s influence in Canada through proxies like the United Front Work Department—underground police stations, casinos, and WeChat disinformation targeting politicians such as Richmond MP Kenny Chu and Chrystia Freeland during the 2021 election. Despite Hoag Commission evidence, Canada hasn’t prosecuted these networks, leaving open leadership contests vulnerable to foreign interference, like Mark Carney’s suspicious ties to CCP-aligned groups. Cooper warns of Chinese tech (DJI drones) aiding surveillance and espionage, with U.S. intel confirming hacking into critical infrastructure. Levant highlights independent journalism’s role in uncovering these threats amid rising geopolitical instability. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight is the liberal leadership contest being hacked by the Chinese government.
We'll talk to Sam Cooper, an investigative journalist on the subject.
It's February 12th.
This is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Vancouver Real Estate Secrets00:15:48
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And not that there aren't excellent reporters in the mainstream media, but by nature, if you work for a news agency that is a mass market news agency, either funded by the government, as the CBC is, or funded by a larger corporate conglomerate like CTV is, for example, it's owned by Bell Canada or the Globe and Mail, which is part of the Thomson Empire.
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That's what being a citizen journalist provides.
On the other hand, a lot of quality journalism, as is said, is done by the mainstream media.
Those people simply have not gravitated to citizen journalism.
We'd have to make our name ourselves.
Well, one guy who is bringing deep quality investigative journalism to the world of citizen journalism, who's making it on his own, is our guest today.
His name is Sam Cooper, and he is doing world-class investigative journalism, the type that you used to expect from a CBC or CTV, but now you can find increasingly through citizen journalists on the internet.
His website is thebureau.news.
And Sam Cooper joins us now from Ottawa Sam.
Great to meet you.
It's nice to see you.
Good to be here, Ezra.
I mean, I know that may have sounded like flattery, but I mean it in the past, you know, citizen journalism was a lot of YouTube pundits or even some on-the-street journalism like we do.
But to have a subject matter expert going really deep, investigating Chinese interference in our democracy, investigating Iran's long hand in democracy, that really wasn't the domain of citizen journalism.
But in the last couple of years, you start to see real experts.
I think of Barry Weiss and the free press, and I think of what you're doing.
So congratulations.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about your beat and how you came to it?
Thanks.
Well, Ezra, I agree with pretty much everything you said.
It's an exciting time where people that have been trained like myself for about 20 years now as an investigative journalist in corporate media that works with lawyers on all the big stories, works with the top editors in Canada, people with capacity learn from those skills and now are able to use those tools of citizen journalists.
So as soon as I started the Bureau.news, I bought the highest end MacBook I could get.
I have now streaming capacity to compete with my former employers.
So where do I come from?
I grew up as a cub reporter in Vancouver, and my story, I've told it a lot.
Look, I had wanted to be a lawyer.
I went to the University of Toronto.
I then decided journalism would have some of those same qualities and would also fit my sort of character, intellect, and what I wanted to discover.
And as a young reporter, I really got my teeth into the Vancouver real estate story.
This was just after the U.S. subprime crisis.
I love following finance and economies.
I knew from learning the great U.S. investigative reporters that there was something deeply wrong with the U.S. economy where fraud had taken over their real estate markets.
It had wrecked the American dream for a few years at least because homes were out of reach of good, hardworking people from everywhere.
And I found in Vancouver, for a young reporter like myself, a whole generation was being priced out.
And to jump to the chase, I discovered what is known as the Vancouver model of international money laundering.
That's how money, mostly from China and Hong Kong, massive amounts, was coming in underground and having incredible influence on the real estate market, prices, and as I found over the years, organized crime, political corruption.
So those are my chops.
And I'll, you know, to your point about reporters that have those chops getting into citizen journalist avenues.
A great reporter named David Baines at the Vancouver Sun was legendary.
A lot of us young reporters looked up to him.
He's the one that discovered that the Vancouver stock market essentially was very intertwined with organized crime, what can only be called organized crime corporate networks on the West Coast.
I learned that, you know, his stories were unimpeachable, yet he was sued 20 times.
And eventually, I think the news media industry and the West Coast, they loved his work.
It was top-notch, but they couldn't support it anymore.
So that brings me to where, you know, my career has taken me down that path that you speak of of a reporter that, you know, has those, I call myself sometimes a wannabe lawyer.
I could have gone down that path, I believe.
I believe you're a lawyer as well.
I also was, you know, just a lifelong reader and writer.
So I found putting those worlds together, sometimes I think I use the skills of a hedge fund analyst, connecting the dots.
And I can do that in my reporting.
And I'll end my answer here.
You know, one of my frustrations, a lot of great editors I've worked with, but I was just hearing over the past few years that, you know, readers don't like to read law inform, you know, keep it short.
They're only reading, you know, two sentences on their iPhone now.
I said, hold on, that's not true.
I wrote a book called Willful Blindness of about 400 pages that launched at number one on Amazon in Canada and by now is read in capitals around the world.
So I've got a model and I'm going to do it.
And that's what I'm doing.
Well, congratulations.
And you said a lot of things there.
One that stuck in my mind is talking about sort of Vancouver real estate being a kind of money laundering, especially for money that's trying to get out of China.
And there's other parts of the world like Cyprus.
Money's trying to get out of Russia.
And the oligarchs want to, like, it's one thing to earn your money in Russia or China, but where do you keep it?
You want to get it out of the hands of the police and the state.
So where do you put it?
Well, real estate in Vancouver is an obvious one.
Talking about that story, though, I mean, think about the connections between real estate and the stock market you mentioned with the media.
Who are the big advertisers?
Real estate.
Who are, you know, or even personal connections at the Rotary Club or whatever.
To take on a major target like real estate, you're going to be goring a lot of people's oxes.
And that's what I mean about it's tough for a mainstream media outlet to challenge sacred cows like that.
And you mentioned David Baines sued 20 times.
You know, that's a risk too.
I mean, you want to get your facts straight, but someone can sue you in a slap suit, strategic litigation against public participation, just to silence you.
And a lot of bad guys, they would throw money at a lawsuit, even knowing that they're going to lose, just to silence you.
How do you balance that?
I mean, obviously, you know, getting your facts straight is the number one way to avoid pain.
But even then, you can be harassed by someone with deep pockets who doesn't want a story to get out.
You're so correct there.
And I should add that David Baines was sued 20 times.
I believe he never lost.
So he always had it right.
That doesn't mean that people with really endless pools of illicit wealth could use Canadian courts and speech laws, essentially, unfortunately, in ways that can't really be done in the United States to silence a powerful journalist.
And you mentioned, you know, work on the Vancouver real estate market.
I'll tell you this story, Ezra.
I was told directly multiple times that the so-called condo kings of Vancouver called up top editors at multiple papers and complained about myself, tried to get me fired.
Look, I'll leave it pretty much at that, just to say that you're right.
If you're reporting on something that has become deeply important to an economy, and as I'm saying, I wasn't even reporting that it was all organized crime back then.
I was just reporting that it was too influenced by foreign countries.
That caused the most powerful people who, by the way, also are supporters of Justin Trudeau, as we've read about in, I believe, Jody Wilson-Raybold, not to get off topic, talks about a meeting in the penthouse of a Vancouver hotel with Justin Trudeau and a bad conversation that happened.
Look, that's the very same person that tried to get me fired, the owner of that hotel.
So, yeah, you have to get your facts right.
I've been through the fire so many times by now, Ezra, that I won't report anything that's wrong.
I'll only report something of significant public interest.
And, you know, if I do make a mistake, it has to be corrected.
And I have good lawyers behind me that are ready to stand up if that happens.
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
And we're in the same pickle too sometimes.
And British Columbia, as one jurisdiction, has an anti-slap provision, and Ontario does too.
Hopefully, those will help defend you against the bad guys.
Let's talk about the bad guys because for the longest time, you weren't allowed to question the influence that the People's Republic of China has in Canada.
I mean, you were called racist if you did.
You were said to be challenging the loyalty of Chinese Canadians.
Ironically, a lot of the victims of the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party are Chinese Canadians as well, those who are maybe more freedom-oriented, more democracy-oriented, or simply that don't want to be under control of the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party.
Tell me a little bit about your work on Chinese government shenanigans, and that's a very light-hearted word because it's actually deadly serious.
Tell us a little bit of the state of the art of Chinese interference in Canadian democracy.
Well, really, if you talk to people on the inside that know, so that would be some people well-placed in police, some people well-placed in intelligence, both in Canada and the United States.
The influence of China in Canada really knows no bounds.
It is the image in my mind is if we're looking at Canada as a jungle, the jungle grass covers the whole nation, and China sort of has these influence networks.
Speaking to your point, very unfortunately, they have the capacity to control whole communities, and they do it by essentially gaining influence with the wealthier members of the communities, many of them that unfortunately have gotten wealthy in illicit means.
And that leaves the vast majority of the community, the great, honest, amazing people that have fled a thuggish regime, fearing that they're under attack essentially from very wealthy and dangerous people with very, really pretty much overt connections to China, what it calls its United Front Work Department.
And that brings me to the nub here.
That's the story of the whole election interference scandal that I broke.
It's the story of the Chinese Communist Party police station investigations that supposedly Supposedly, the RCMP continues.
We don't have any results in court.
It's the story of underground casino networks, which I've reported on at the Bureau.news and how these connect to the very same people that allegedly fund election interference for China,
the same people that are tasked to corrupt Canadian political candidates, the same people that are used as what's called in China white gloves or insulation to be stood up in the community and run these Chinese police stations where they're taking directions from essentially a high-level Chinese police officer in their home province in China,
and they on the ground in Canada are tasked, whether they be a business person that owns grocery stores across Canada and launders money under the table.
They're being tasked to monitor the community.
Make no mistake.
That is the story of China's interference in Canada.
That's incredible.
I understand that in the United States, there were a handful of these Chinese police stations and police have taken action.
I understand there's been some prosecutions, but you're saying nothing has formally happened in Canada.
Is that what you're saying?
Nothing has formally happened.
I'll break down the answer into two parts.
We heard in the Hoag Commission that one of these, you know, purportedly diaspora community service stations in the Montreal area was really being used as one of these surveillance posts by the Chinese state, which uses proxies in the community to, you know, they were even getting funding from Canada to offer services.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
Ezra, it's on the record.
They're getting funding from Canada to offer services to immigrants, purportedly to help them integrate into Canada, where the RCM, the Mounties, even in evidence, said what's really happening is by giving those services, that's an operation.
They're using that to monitor the community, and much of the community knows it.
So, what happened here is that, you know, it came out in the Hoag Commission, a diaspora group said, hey, look, Mounties, why are you not treating this like the organized crime that it is?
If this was the Hells Angels running a station for some corrupt politician, you'd charge them.
It's the same thing, but in the Chinese community, and all the RCMP is doing was sort of publicly disrupting.
And at that, they get criticized by people like Trudeau appointed Senator Yuan Pao Wu for supposedly intervening in legit community services.
It's just absurd what is happening in Canada.
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But to your point, yes, in the United States, where they have real functioning law, where they have real motivated counterintelligence that's there to protect diaspora citizens wherever they're from, because they're more exposed to these networks you speak of, whether they're from Russia, Iran, China.
In the U.S., they have a number of prosecutions.
People have been convicted.
And look, China is so brazen.
And as I say, what they do is try to flood the zone of the country that they're trying to influence.
So even with those prosecutions in the United States, they now have none other than the New York Times reported on a pop-up service station in New York City run by a local gangster.
So China won't stop.
At least in the U.S., they're hitting that whack-a-mole with a few hammers.
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Wow.
Now, social media is so powerful.
It is how we communicate outwards, but more importantly, it's how we are briefed on the world.
We look at the world through the prism of our social media.
I love Twitter because it's where a lot of political discussions are.
TikTok is, there's a politics to TikTok too, and I really think it's affecting the collective mind of young Americans.
But talk for a minute about WeChat, because I think most Canadians who are not Chinese don't know what WeChat is.
They probably never heard of it.
Tell me about WeChat and its importance to Chinese control of how Chinese Canadians get their news, get their opinions, get their politics.
Right.
WeChat is like one of these apps that we all use no matter what culture we're in now.
We text each other.
We use the app to make purchases in a store.
You know, we use the app for everything.
We essentially let it sort of be our map and help us find our way in the world virtually and in real life.
WeChat in China is that everything app that everyone uses to, you know, text to family members, you know, dating sites, social media, make payments at the grocery store.
So it's fully integrated into the life of mainland China citizens.
And when they migrate to other countries, they take that app with them and it becomes the same thing.
Now, this is important because what it's used for, as my reporting exposed, and open source researchers did as well, prior to the 2021 election, they found that this WeChat app was being used to target Richmond MP Kenny Chu with smears saying that, you know, he was against Chinese people.
And of course, he is an Asian man from Hong Kong.
Just ridiculous, and yet it had a powerful impact.
As you know, days ago, it was revealed that WeChat again was being used against Christia Freeland, who's running against the apparent pick or front runner for a liberal leader or prime minister, I suppose, Mark Carney.
So that's very interesting.
WeChat, again, let me put it this way.
What we found again in the Hoag Commission is Canada's government knew WeChat was being used against Kenny Chu.
It was being used against Erno Toole.
It was being used against the whole Conservative Party.
But Canada's government did nothing to warn the public.
And yet at the very least, out of the Hoag Commission, we have an election monitor saying, look, Christia Freeland was attacked with disinformation.
So I could go on and on, but your points about TikTok, WeChat, essentially what high-level Western intelligence believes is there's no other way to put it.
These are tools of mind control in China.
They're tools of monitoring and they're weaponized against communities in China.
And by extension, as I say, the diasporas in North America, WeChat, TikTok, they're used against people as a Chinese state tool.
We had a staff member who was Chinese Canadian who worked with us, and she got most of her news about the world from WeChat.
And I don't think she thought of it as political.
That's just sort of home for her.
It would be like so many Canadians just go to Facebook and they do things on Facebook.
Maybe they buy something on Facebook.
They just, that's just her turf.
And in her mind, I don't even think she realized that it was a propaganda site.
And occasionally she saw rebel news promoted on WeChat, and she was very excited about it.
And I don't know, it gave me the willies a little bit.
I mean, listen, obviously, a lot of most of what goes on that site is, as you say, just the stuff of ordinary life, just day-to-day things.
But everything's being tracked.
It's a huge data, big data, as they say, on individual people.
And I think it's like that old word, the panopticon.
It's just spying on everyone all the time.
And I think Chinese intelligence about what's happening in Canada is probably superior to Canadian government intelligence on what's happening in Canada.
I'm nervous about certain things that I don't even dare to think about, like drones.
I have a DJI brand drone.
Well, that's a Chinese company.
And I know everything it films goes through their company servers.
I mean, I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but if I, and I'm just, you know, using it as a fun hobby, but is everything that looks through the DJI, is that going into some massive database?
I don't want to sound like a kook, but I think it would be nuts if China wasn't doing that.
Am I right?
You're 100% right.
One, you're correct.
Whether it's WeChat or TikTok, at the highest levels, the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda entities have full control and full visibility on all content.
Can they see every text message you see to your mom or that you bought eggs in the morning?
No, they don't care about that, but it's an ecosystem that you live in.
And it can be, when it's important, it can be weaponized.
So to your point, I'll get to it.
But look, TikTok, TikTok, the French government had to shut that down in a Micronesian island where they still have some influence because TikTok was used to foment a rebellion, right?
So this is why the U.S. government is concerned.
It can be used, again, I believe you're right, to condition the minds of young people that as a good example, let's say the nightmare happens, Beijing invades Taiwan.
Your child will be getting a flood of stories telling them why China, in fact, historically owns Taiwan.
And, you know, it's some CIA operation that the Taiwanese people don't want to be attacked.
But, you know, to your point about Chinese technology in your life, look, it's not a fever dream anymore.
Again, the U.S. government has taken a stance over the past few months of releasing more intelligence.
They have revealed that Chinese hackers have set up in the U.S. critical infrastructure.
They had full visibility essentially into phone networks across the U.S.
I believe they tapped the incoming president's phone call.
They have visibility on U.S. government investigations into Chinese espionage.
We learned that they are believed to have control in U.S. ports if, again, something like a war or an attack on Taiwan occurs.
So to bring that back to your point of do we want the average Canadian to know this or feel like they're living in a paranoid world, we're at the point where if you buy a Chinese vehicle, it's not controversial to say that that will be used to track you, right?
There's nothing controversial about this anymore.
And I guess my end point, I could go on for a long time, is with everything that's going on in Trumpland, Canada, Panama, Greenland, over in Russia and Ukraine, I don't think the average citizen quite understands, you know, that the powers of the world, so the United States, Japan, China, Russia, I do believe we're getting, you know, very close to growing sort of kinetic war threats.
And that is what I feel like many of us would have to think that as average people, we're feeling roiled in our daily existence.
And I think that sort of China and Russia are driving that and that people should understand that.
Wow.
And I mean, that's sort of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge.
Do you wish you were blissfully ignorant or do you want to embrace the world with its chaos and its risk?
It can be exhausting.
And maybe that's part of it, to demoralize us.
We're talking with Sam Cooper.
He's the boss behind the Bureau.news, an independent investigative journalist.
Sam, I'm grateful for your time.
I don't want to keep you too much longer, but let me ask you about something that I'm a little worried about.
You mentioned that a disinformation operation against Christia Freeland was flagged by Canadian security committee tasked with monitoring elections.
My understanding is that the liberal leadership contest is open to people as young as 14.
And now you have to be a permanent resident.
Before it was anyone, even foreign nationals, I understand.
But still, you don't have to be a Canadian citizen and you don't have to be an adult.
And given how fast it's happening and how online it is, it seems to me that it is at great risk of being gamed or even hacked.
And I would say that Chinese hackers are amongst the best in the world.
I put them up there with Israel, United States, Russia, and China.
Those are probably your top four computer-savvy countries.
I simply don't believe that the $30 an hour computer programmers at the Liberal Party of Canada can build something resistant to top Chinese hackers.
And maybe there's no way around it, but I mean, I guess in our elections, we use paper and pencil ballots.
Are you worried that the liberal leadership contest will be abused, distorted, interfered with, taken over, infiltrated by the Chinese government or another government?
Maybe it's Iran, who says we will be able to choose literally the next Canadian prime minister for what could be the next six months, because whoever wins that liberal leadership is probably going to be able to do a deal with Jagmeet Singh and is probably going to be the prime minister until October.
That's a pretty big prize to win.
What do you think?
I'm hugely worried.
And I'll try to break it down into about three or four points.
One, it came out again in the Hoag Commission.
MP Michael Chan testified.
His evidence was that he has grave concerns that the next or a prime minister or a premier under Canada's system can be choosed by leadership nomination contests that are open to abuse.
Another major point from the Hoag Commission was it's not as much the general election as nominations and leadership contests that are most open to abuse.
And, you know, with regards to the attack on Christia Freeland, again, using the very same network, that is WeChat, vectors, connections to Chinese state media, and disinformation, it resembled exactly the attack on Kenny Chu.
So I think a lot of smart people were wondering why Christia Freeland.
Well, one, she is the one that in Justin Trudeau's party took some regulatory action against, I'll just call it a financial startup, which according to the reports from the Globe and Mail had concerns around Chinese state activity, concerns around illicit alleged money laundering.
There's ongoing lawsuits there.
So I'll leave that at that.
How convenient would it be for if Beijing is trying to control a major financial entity with insight into the lives of Chinese Canadians to attack the person that regulated it and perhaps to favor a Mark Carney?
Because as remember, I know you follow the better politics reporters closely.
There's no denial that Carney appears to be the choice of the Trudeau Prime Minister's office.
It's sort of like a, if you want to call it a baton pass to a new leader.
And it looks like the Liberal Party is doing pretty well with that, you know, if you want to call it scheme right now.
And I have already seen on the ground indications to your point, you know, will the next prime minister be chosen by a foreign state?
Look, I reported this morning for the Bureau in a podcast that open source records show Mark Carney appearing in the Richmond riding, remember, where Kenny Chu was attacked with the Liberal Party MP who benefited from the attack on Kenny Chu.
And in the crowd, astute observers noticed a designated Beijing United Front Work Department community leader.
So what does that mean?
It's someone in the community in British Columbia that Beijing has chosen as a leader to essentially interfere in Canadian politics.
And it looks like those forces are lining up behind Mr. Carney.
It looks like what I would call related cyber forces are attacking Christia Freeland.
So I think already I'm confident saying there's interference in the liberal leadership campaign.
Wow, that's absolutely incredible.
Give me 30 more seconds on Mark Carney in China.
I mean, Mark Carney was sort of a master of the universe.
He was the head of the Bank of Canada, then the head of the Bank of England, and he was on the board of the World Economic Forum.
And he's the chairman of a massive asset management company.
I think I saw a photo of him last year with Xi Jinping.
I want to make sure that that wasn't on the eye.
I want to make sure that's for real.
He is one of these fellows for whom borders really are meaningless.
He's got three passports.
I'm not calling him disloyal, but boy, he sure has a lot of friends who maybe have different agendas than Canada.
What do you know about Kearney and China?
Yeah, in a very brief answer, I would agree with the way that you framed this with facts.
So just like Michael Bloomberg, who is in those very same sort of rarefied global sort of business person circles and supported verbally, I believe in a written post, has supported Mark Carney, although Mr. Bloomberg's not a Canadian.
These are the very type of business people that are on the record sort of promoting those deep and borderless trade ties between North America and China.
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Both, I would say, with some confidence, their businesses or business models would have direct investments with Chinese entities.
And look, you mentioned Mr. Carney's sort of global banking heritage.
I just saw a data point the other day that as Bank of England governor, he increased dealings with the Bank of China, which would be supportive of sort of what are called multilateral development deals around the world.
And as we saw, I'll end my answer here.
We saw a very noted Canadian business person drop out of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank because he believed that that was a Chinese Communist Party influence op.
Mark Carney appears to be the type of person that would want to be involved in those multilateral China-connected global trade initiatives.
Wow.
Sam, I've enjoyed our past half hour together so much.
I've learned so much.
I'm very excited about what you're doing.
And I want to encourage all Rebel News viewers to make Sam part of your journalistic diet, if I can use that phrase.
The website is thebureau.news.
I think you're going to get a lot of primary factual reporting by Sam.
And I don't know.
I'm just very grateful that you're here because I will give some credit to the Globe and Mail.
They've done some good work on this file.
But I feel that by being an independent operator yourself, you have more freedom to do so.
And we're certainly going to follow your work.
Again, it's thebureau.news.
Sam Cooper, thanks for joining us today.
It's been a pleasure.
Thanks, Ezra.
All right.
Wow.
There's a lot to think about there.
Well, that's our show for today.
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