Ezra Levant exposes Canada’s "transanity" policies, like federally mandated menstrual products in men’s bathrooms since December 15th, 2023, and taxpayer-funded surgeries like a $100K+ "penile sparing vaginoplasty" for KS. He ties this to election concerns, warning Mark Carney’s Liberals will worsen such measures, while contrasting with UK and U.S. rulings rejecting gender ideology. Levant also investigates Brookfield IOM’s Isle of Man tax haven—no capital gains or inheritance taxes—suggesting it’s a front for tax evasion by globalists like Carney, who avoids scrutiny despite three passports. The episode reveals systemic bias and elite tax loopholes, demanding accountability from leaders shielded by media silence. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tonight, just when you thought that Transanity couldn't get any crazier, well, it just got crazier.
It's Friday, April 25th, 2025.
I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious boobug.
The other day I flew from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
By the way, talk about an epic contrast, patriotism-wise, when it comes to those two Canadians who have had airports named after them, eh?
Billy Bishop was a fighter pilot who went on to become a decorated war hero in World War I, putting his life on the line numerous times over.
Trudeau, meanwhile, declined to fight for Canada in World War II and even allegedly wore a German soldier's helmet as he puttered around Montreal on his motorcycle.
Class.
Anyway, upon deplaining, I had to see a man about a horse, so I made a beeline to the restroom.
After washing my hands, I noticed a silver box with the word complimentary written upon it.
Oh, that's interesting, I thought.
What sort of stuff is this airport providing me on the house?
Breath mints, mouthwash, maybe?
Well, I popped open the lid of the box, and I kind of wish I hadn't, folks, because here are the freebies that awaited tampons and sanitary pads.
To be crystal clear, folks, I was indeed in the men's washroom.
Incredibly in federally regulated workplaces in Canada, and that would include airports.
Menstrual hygiene products must be provided.
It doesn't matter if the washroom is the men's room, the ladies' room, or the gender-neutral room.
This mandate went into effect on December 15th, 2023.
Yep, yet again, more trans sanity, and this time at taxpayer expense, no less.
Keep this sort of outrageous spending in mind, by the way, when you wonder why it is that our Dominion is now saddled with a $62 billion deficit.
Then again, if men are pretending to be women, I guess part of the psychosis means that they must also pretend to experience menstrual cycles as well.
Oh, sure, Betty, who used to go by the name Bob, is sporting a beard and a boner, but never mind, he's a she, and the he, she has female needs every month, you see.
And if you say otherwise, then you are obviously a bigot, a hater, and a transphobe.
Incidentally, folks, whatever happened to that oft-repeated chestnut during the COVID days, you know, follow the science.
Because it looks like weird science has now eradicated biology 101.
And so it is we have to go along with accommodating mental illness as opposed to getting psychiatric help for transgenders.
This includes perpetuating the gross farce that men can have periods.
Remember that kook Jonathan Yaniv or whatever he calls himself these days posted on social media how he wanted to go swimming, but that he couldn't because boo hoo, it was that type time of the month.
Yikes.
How did society devolve in such a disturbing fashion?
So much so that the ideological mantra today is that if it's trans, it's good.
And if it's good, it's trans.
Still, given that this story is not new, why do I bring it up?
Well, really, for three reasons.
Firstly, all of my female friends tell me that it was ever thus that they had to purchase their own menstrual products.
These are real women who do or did actually experience that time of the month, as in for real, not as some sort of bizarre cosplay act.
So what gives?
Are so-called trans women so disproportionately economically disadvantaged that they need handouts?
Then again, we do pay for their cosmetic surgery procedures after all, whereas non-trans people, they have to pay for their own boob jobs and facelifts.
Tough.
Oh, I do not exaggerate.
Check out this decision rendered yesterday by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The court ruled that the province must cover the cost of a penile sparing vaginoplasty for a transgender who is only identified by the initials KS.
KS, quote, does not identify as exclusively female or male and wishes to have both genitalia, end quote.
That's right, this dude wants both a penis and a vagina.
I mean, come on, pick a lane already.
It's like the crying game on steroids, isn't it?
And Ontario's top court agrees.
That's the really scary part of transanity, wouldn't you say?
The role of powerful enablers like the courts.
And so it is that KS, shouldn't it be KY?
Anyway, so it is that this circus sideshow attraction will undergo a surgical procedure at a Texas clinic that would make Dr. Frankenstein blush.
The surgeon will construct a vagina while sparing his penis.
It is a procedure that is not available anywhere else in Canada.
Wow, you mean to say there's not a lineup of people clamoring to get both sets of genitalia?
Well, knock me down with a feather.
By the way, it should be noted that KS uses female pronouns, but does not identify as either fully female or fully male.
Oh, nothing weird about that, eh?
You know, it reminds me of that classic piece of TV a few years ago when former Liberal Party of Canada President Stephen LaDrew was interviewed by Tucker Carlson.
What's Two Spirit?
Well, Two Spirit sounds like there's someone they don't know whether they're, you know, fish or foul.
They don't know whether they're frick or frag.
So they're clearly confused.
And, you know, again, if they're confused, what better place to go than to be at school?
Oh, poor Ledreux.
That quip got him fired from Bell Media.
You see, you're not allowed to call confused people confused people in Canada these days and talk about perverse irony.
Ledreux was on Tucker's show to argue that Canada is a bastion of free speech.
But whether it's taxpayer-funded surgery for the confused or providing free sanitary products for men pretending to be women, is this perhaps more proof in the pudding that transgenders are a protected class, worthy not of equal rights, but rather of special rights?
Woke Cancel Culture Crisis00:03:40
And who cares if they are destroying female safe spaces ranging from shelters and sports to prisons?
It's all about unreasonable accommodation, you see.
My second point: does anyone truly believe that trans sanity in our dominion will get any better should the Mark Carney Liberals be elected on April 28th?
Last week, the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruled that trans women are not legally woman.
In the U.S., similar policy measures have been adopted via presidential executive orders.
In so many parts of the world, the pendulum vis-a-vis trans sanity is swinging back to normalcy.
As for Kearney, we know he's hopelessly woke and is adamant on pursuing a globalist agenda.
And we all know what that means.
Finally, I go back to the person that Toronto's Island Airport is named after, Billy Bishop.
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, Bishop was born in 1894 in Owen Sound, Ontario.
He would go on to become Canada's top flying ace of the First World War, being officially credited with 72 victories.
72.
Later in life, during the Second World War, Bishop played an important role in recruiting for the Royal Canadian Air Force and in promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
This patriot would pass away in 1956.
You know, I wonder if the kids at school even learn about Billy Bishop anymore.
I mean, there's only so much time devoted to teaching real actual history these days.
And woke school boards prioritize leftist ideology bordering on Marxism.
Oh, sure, little Johnny and little Janie can't spell cat, even if you were to spot them the C and the T, but they are well aware of all the genders that comprise the LGGBDTIQQAAPPL CBCOCIBC BMO L C B O community.
And they can tell you all about International Transgender Day of Visibility and Trans Awareness Month and Transparent Month and International Day Against Transphobia.
Put another way, who's got time to dwell on something so trite as Remembrance Day classic these days when the emphasis, well, at least in the eyes of the Educrats, should be on transgender day of remembrance, whatever the hell that is.
Do you get the feeling that Billy Bishop is doing loop the loops in his grave right now?
At least the good news is that Billy Bishop's name still graces Toronto's Little Island Airport.
After all, Billy Bishop was a flying ace.
He went to war.
He shot guns.
He put his life on the line protecting our rights and freedoms.
And he didn't pretend to have non-existent menstrual cycles.
And you know, surely for the rank and file who comprise teen cancel culture, that's a whole lot of toxic masculinity that must be shot down in the years ahead.
Leslie's Isle of Man Mystery00:14:57
Well, folks, did you hear that Prime Minister Mark Carney uses the Isle of Man basically for tax evasion purposes?
So who cares about that?
Well, I'll tell you, we care about it.
That's why the big boss man himself, he flew over to the Isle of Man with Lincoln Jay to file a report.
Check it out.
Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
We flew all night from Toronto to Dublin, waited at the Dublin airport, then got on a smaller aircraft and flew just under an hour into a small island between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
It's a small place.
Maybe you've heard of it.
It's called the Isle of Man, and that's where we're standing today.
There's less than 90,000 people on the Isle of Man, and it's a lovely place, centuries old.
The Vikings used to rule the place, then the Celts.
Now it has its own culture.
The Isle of Man, someone from the Isle of Man is called a Minx, which is interesting.
The key thing about this place, from a global perspective, is not its beauty, but its tax status.
This is a place people come to when they don't want to pay tax.
There's no capital gains tax.
There's no wealth tax.
There's no inheritance tax.
In fact, tax is capped at 200,000 pounds per person.
No matter how much you make, you will never pay more than that in tax.
I understand it.
The income tax is just 22%.
But like I say, there is a cap.
This is where you come if you want to hide millions or even billions.
The thing is, it's a lovely place to retire, but it's not quite as warm as, let's say, the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean, another tax avoidance hotspot.
So what happens is millionaires and billionaires come here to set up a fake office, like a mailbox or a PO box, and say that their company is headquartered here, because there's another wrinkle in Isle of Man taxation.
You can pay all your global taxes for all your activities around the world.
You can pay them here in the Isle of Man.
So you can be doing business in the United States, in Canada, in the European Union, but you can come here to pay your tax as a kind of tax minimization, tax evasion, tax avoidance strategy.
And maybe you can guess where I'm going with this.
Canada's new prime minister who's seeking a new term, Mark Carney, he was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management for years.
It's not a household name like BlackRock Asset Management, but it's a kind of mini BlackRock.
It has about a trillion dollars in assets under management.
And BlackRock is famous, but Brookfield, I think, should be, because through tricky corporate structures, they have made it so their assets and their profits are as tax-free as possible.
There was a report that Brookfield managed to hide $25 billion by operating a shell company out of Bermuda.
In fact, an independent study suggests that Brookfield, under Mark Carney's leadership, was the number one largest tax dodger in the country.
They have all sorts of corporate structures, but obviously they're not living here.
They're not working here.
Brookfield doesn't operate here.
We're here because I want to go to a house on Belgravia Road.
It's a house.
I know that, even though I haven't been there yet, I looked it up on Google Maps because Brookfield IOM, Brookfield Isle of Man, is headquartered in what looks like on Google Maps to be someone's house.
And I did some more corporate searches, and the director of Brookfield IOM is an 88-year-old man, Leslie Cummins.
An 88-year-old man is running an organization with billions or tens of billions of dollars?
Is that for real?
Well, I've learned that a lot of people in the Isle of Man have a kind of job or a series of jobs where they act as the pretend officers or directors of these foreign companies.
They're just regular people who for a certain sum of money said, sure, I'll be your director.
Sure, you can put my name down on the corporate records.
I'm an 88-year-old man.
You can pay me X amount of dollars a month and I'll be the name on the piece of paper hiding the true power behind the throne.
You know, we've only been in the Isle of Man for about an hour and we haven't talked to a lot of people other than our cab driver who's been giving us a bit of a tour.
There's lovely people here and it sounds like a close-knit community.
Sounds like a wonderful place to grow up.
It's so beautiful, first of all.
But when you have the kind of tax dodges that this place does, you attract some shady characters.
Believe it or not, one of the largest industries in the Isle of Man is online gambling.
The Isle of Man has not complied with other countries' rules about money laundering.
And so it's well known that there is a lot of money laundering here, not just from the international drug trade, the international weapons trade, but also regimes like the Russian Federation, where politicians and oligarchs try and squirrel their money out of Russia and hide it from the taxmen, the Russian taxman, and the tax men in London or New York also.
We are in a city that's called Douglas, the capital, where there are many wonderful people, but there are also shadow people, people who come here to hide money from tax collectors.
Now, each of us would love to do that.
Wouldn't you like to have a mailbox on Belgravia Road and have someone say, yeah, I'm the head officer of a barbershop, a restaurant, a farm, and we're only going to pay 22% tax capped at 200,000 pounds a year.
Wouldn't you like to do that?
Because as Mark Carney says, it's all legal.
He was asked about his Bermuda tax dodge.
Remember what he said?
You were at the helm of a company that quite clearly registered much of its business in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes, including, as CTD News reported, registered to an address of a bike shop in Bermuda.
You have said that this is the way the world works, and that in the case of pension funds, that leaves more money for pensioners.
But in this case, it looks like just plain tax avoidance.
This may be a legal practice, and as you say, as the world works, but is it ethical, Mr. Carney?
First off, I'm no longer at Brookfield.
Secondly, this follows their arrangements, follow the rules, including the tax rules of this country, other countries.
And thirdly, as you mentioned in your question, that the structure is organized so that Canadian pension funds can get the most benefit for those pensioners, which are teachers, retired first responders, and public servants.
Thank you.
He said he followed the rules, and he said his clients got a good deal out of it.
Well, sure, they did, and he got a huge deal out of it.
But what about everyone else?
What about everyone else back in Canada who has to live under Canadian rules, pay Canadian taxes?
You know, Mark Carney hasn't actually answered the question about where he personally filed his taxes.
Did he file them in Canada?
Remember, he's got three passports, including a British passport and an Irish passport.
The Isle of Man is actually a crown protectorate of the United Kingdom.
Did Mark Carney use his other passports so he could file his personal taxes here in the Isle of Man?
I don't know, but we're now going to make our way down to Belgravia Road, and we're going to ring the doorbell of Mr. Commons.
And I'm sure if he's home, that he's a lovely 88-year-old man who probably won't even know what I'm talking about, because my guess is he does this like a lot of people, a lot of Manx people do.
They just make a few extra bucks being an on-paper director for foreign oligarchs.
Let's go see what happens when we ring the doorbell.
All right, well, we're on our way now to find the director of Brookfield Isle of Man.
And I want to tell you, we found his name by going on the corporate search in the UK.
It's called Companies House.
That's the official UK government registry where all companies have to post some public information.
As you can see, Brookfield IOM registered as an overseas entity in December of 2022.
That's when Mark Carney was the chairman.
It's updated its information in December 2023 and December 2024, just weeks before Mark Carney became the Canadian prime minister.
There's not a lot of information here, and I think it's that way on purpose.
It's sort of like a mafia organization.
They have cutouts, they have deceptions.
The whole point of it is to confuse.
But if you look at the filing history, this is where it gets really interesting in my mind.
I'm just going to click on the latest.
When this was set up by Mark Carney a couple years ago, they have a page called Individual Beneficial Owner Details.
So beneficial owner is someone who, like the word says, he's the true owner, the guy who benefits from it.
And his name is Leslie Commons.
I've never heard of that before, and a Google search doesn't turn up much at all.
But I see on here that he is 88 years old.
And I say, Mazeltov, hopefully he lives to be 120.
But that suggests to me that he's just a placeholder, a straw man, and that they're actually using him to try to hide the true identity of who's behind Brookfield IOM.
So his address is in here.
It looks like a residential address, and that's a tip-off right there.
Brookfield has some of the most majestic imperial skyscrapers in the Western world.
The fact that this looks like Mr. Commons is in a residential home tells me that he's just a straw man.
But look at what is sworn to in this document, that Mr. Commons holds directly or indirectly more than 25% of the chairs.
That he holds directly or indirectly more than 25% of the voting right.
That he has the right directly or indirectly to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors.
And that he has the right to exercise or actually exercises significant influence or control over the entity.
Is it true that 88-year-old Leslie Commons of Belgravia Road and the Isle of Man, fella whose home we're going to right now, is it true that he is the boss of Brookfield IOM?
Can that really be true?
Or is this just a legal fiction set up by Mark Carney and his tricky lawyers to avoid paying taxes in Canada?
You'll remember this was around the time that Mark Carney voted to move the headquarters of Brookfield out of Canada to the United States, again for tax reasons.
Let's find out.
And by the way, I'm going to be super friendly to Mr. Commons because my guess is he's just a fella who earns some pocket money by being a straw man placeholder in Mark Carney's filings.
It's Mark Carney and the lawyers who crafted all this.
They just needed some guy, and they found 88-year-old Mr. Commons.
Let's see if we can find him.
Well, we found it.
Planes, trains, and automobiles, half a continent away.
We found the head office for Brookfield IOM, Brookfield Isle of Man.
It's a foreign shell company set up by Mark Carney two and a half years ago when he was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management.
It was renewed in 2023 and again in December 2024.
That's it.
Hi.
I'm Ezra, are you, is Mr. Commons in?
I have no idea.
Can I ask what you're doing though?
I came here from Canada to, because the Canadian Prime Minister has an office here and it's registered to Mr. Commons.
Do you know who he is, Leslie Commons?
He's my landlord, yeah.
He's your landlord.
Yeah.
He was upstairs.
I don't know if he's in or not.
Oh, okay.
So I pushed the button and so he's the landlord.
Yeah, I pushed the button there because there's a political story.
I just wanted to ask him some questions about it, but you don't know if he's in.
I've just come back and I'm going on holiday this afternoon.
So if he hasn't answered his bell, then I presume either he's not in.
Yeah, I pushed the button three times and yeah.
So he's the landlord.
But does he also live here?
Sometimes.
Yeah.
Not all the year round.
Right.
Do you know where he goes when he's not here?
Like, is he in town now?
I saw him last week, but I don't know if he's around.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, thanks very much.
And I just talk, I'm not talking about you and don't worry about it.
We're just talking about the Prime Minister of Ken.
Yeah, well, I'm not in the film at all.
We'll blur your face.
Okay?
Okay, that's a good idea.
Thank you.
Isn't that very, very interesting?
as I was talking about how Leslie Commons was not in and didn't answer his doorbell, someone else came to the window, saw us filming, and I walked over and she didn't want to appear on camera and I said we would blur her face.
She confirmed for me that Leslie Commons does live in the apartment above her and that he's the landlord and she saw him just the other day and he does indeed live here.
Vetting Mark's Tenants00:06:00
So I guess he is a bit of a businessman himself.
But the Brookfield IOM office, it's marked on his buzzword.
I rang it three times.
That friendly lady doesn't think he's in today either.
But here's what's going on.
This is not where Brookfield does its business.
This is a beautiful residential street on the beautiful island of the Isle of Man.
Just up there is Onkin Park.
There's tennis courts.
There's a little boating pond.
This is a wonderful place to live.
It's on the ocean.
It's a little chilly.
It's not like being in the Caribbean, except in one way.
Here's the way it's like being in the Caribbean.
Well, 350 years ago, there was a wildness to a lot of the Caribbean, and there were little ports where pirates can go and they weren't hunted down.
Tortuga, for example, even Nassau in the Bahamas.
There was a period of time when pirates could sail around the Caribbean, attacking ships, stealing, and they could go to these safe, free ports and do their pirate business.
It wasn't too long before the great navies of the world crushed the pirates and stopped that illicit trade.
I'm not saying that the Isle of Man is like Tortuga, but it is home to people like Mark Carney who want to squirrel away billions or even tens of billions of dollars to keep them out of the hands of the taxman back in Canada.
And I simply don't believe that that lovely residential building is the headquarters of Brookfield IOM.
In fact, I know it's not.
And I simply don't believe that a kindly 88-year-old landlord who lives in a building and handles the rent from a couple of families below, I simply don't believe that he is the beneficial owner and director of Brookfield IOM.
Like I say, he does what a lot of people in the Isle of Man do to make a few extra bucks on the side.
He's a straw man.
And I'm not saying there's anything illegal with it.
In fact, that's sort of the whole point.
Here in the Isle of Man, this is perfectly legal.
And as Mark Carney keeps on saying, hey, he followed all the rules.
Wouldn't it be nice, though, if your company could have an office in the Isle of Man, that you had a maximum 22% income tax rate that was capped at 200,000 pounds a year, no inheritance tax, no wealth tax, no capital gains tax.
Wouldn't it be great if you could live by those rules?
Alas, the common people, the peasants are not allowed to, just the masters of the universe like Mark Carney.
What I really want to know is did he file his own taxes here in the Isle of Man?
In fact, that's one of the questions I put to the Liberal Party today when I was coming out here.
I sent an email to them.
I'd like to read those questions to you now.
I think the odds of them answering me are about the same as the odds of us getting into the debates commission and for the same reason.
Let me read to you the eight questions I put to Mark Carney via the Liberal Party today.
Number one, what is the purpose of Brookfield IOM?
That stands for Isle of Man.
When was it created?
Did Brookfield set up Brookfield IOM to avoid Canadian taxes?
I think we know the answer to that one.
How much tax does Brookfield pay in the Isle of Man?
Does Brookfield actually have any business activity in the Isle of Man?
Did Mr. Carney himself pay his taxes in the Isle of Man?
I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
The Isle of Man is considered a haven for money laundering, tax avoidance, and tax evasion.
Did Mr. Carney have any ethical qualms with that?
We know the answer to that one already, don't we?
Does Mr. Carney still have his Irish and British passports?
And finally, are there any other facts about Brookfield IOM, Isle of Man, that Mr. Carney would like to disclose?
Oh, I don't think so.
But then again, I don't think any journalist is actually going to put those questions to him.
They're a little too prickly, a little bit too accountability-oriented.
It's too much like vetting Mark Carney.
You know, this is a lovely place to live.
This is a residential neighborhood.
Normally, we wouldn't even come into a place like this to do journalism.
We would go to a corporate head office.
Brookfield owns some of the most spectacular buildings in the world.
For example, in London, they own Canary Wharf, one of the most prestigious, basically, financial centers in the West.
That's where they do their business activity.
The only reason Brookfield IOM has a little button in a mailbox here is to get around paying the taxes that you and I have to pay.
And the fact that Mark Carney was supervising this Brookfield Isle of Man as recently as December 2024 shows the kind of prime minister that he is and that he will be.
If you think this journalism was worthwhile, help me out.
In the end, we didn't find Mr. Commons, but I think what we would have found was an 88-year-old, kindly man.
We had a bit of a chat with one of his tenants.
But we came here to do a kind of investigative journalism that the CBC only reserves for the Pier Polyevs of the world.
No one is really vetting Mark Carney, just like no one really vetted Justin Trudeau.
If you think this was worth it, go to thecarneyfiles.com and chip in a few dollars.
My colleague Lincoln Jay and I flew to Dublin this morning and then flew to the Isle of Man, and we're doing the whole thing in reverse now because we thought this was an important story.
And I wanted to see what the Brookfield HQ looked like.