Ezra Levant’s May 8 Bermuda investigation exposes Mark Carney’s alleged $25B tax evasion via Brookfield Asset Management, with two funds he chaired ($10B and $15B) registered in the tax haven despite no local economic ties. The company’s "executive headquarters"—a small office above a bike shop—was dismissed as a sham, while Carney retains $6.8M in stock options and faces CRA lawsuits. Viewers’ letters accuse him of globalism over Canadian loyalty, linking his offshore schemes to policies like carbon taxes and pipeline vetoes. Levant concludes Carney’s hypocrisy—taxing Canadians while dodging taxes—may fuel a backlash, with crowdfunded scrutiny at thecarneyfiles.com. [Automatically generated summary]
I went down to Bermuda, the island in the Atlantic that's known as a tax haven.
It's known for two things, I guess.
The Bermuda Triangle, where ships and planes go missing, but also the financial Bermuda Triangle, where people like Mark Carney and Brookfield Asset Management hide from the tax man.
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Tonight, I went to Bermuda and back in one day, not for a vacation, but to track down Mark Carney's hidden billions.
It's May 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
shame on you you sensorious bug oh hi there i I don't know if you knew, but I zipped down to the island of Bermuda yesterday.
Left very early in the morning.
There's a direct flight we took to get down there, and then we came back through Atlanta.
We did that in part because we only had a specific project and because it's extremely expensive.
Bermuda's Financial Haven00:15:01
I don't know if you know what Bermuda is.
It's sort of a banking and insurance and financial haven.
It's on an island.
It's not in the Caribbean.
It's sort of in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
So it's sort of chilly there, even though they've got some palm trees.
It's a small place, 65,000 people.
It was discovered more than 500 years ago.
It's been populated for 400 years.
They've even got their own sort of accent and ethnicity.
I mean, the mixture of Indigenous people and Brits and black people and Portuguese.
Like it's just a very lovely place.
And I say that based on the fact that I was there for, I don't know, about two full hours yesterday.
But we put together a little investigation, I guess.
I went to Bermuda for the same reason that I went to the Isle of Man a couple of weeks ago, because it's a tax haven that Mark Carney used to avoid his company, Brookfield, from paying huge amounts of tax.
Now, I talked to Brookfield and I'll read to you their letter to me.
They claim they're following the law.
They're not breaking the law.
Of course, they would say that.
It would be weird for them to say anything else.
Not sure if that's true.
They're being sued right now by the Canada Revenue Agency over tax avoidance.
And even if it is true, even if they are following the law, what about the spirit of the law of pushing as many assets into tax havens as possible to avoid paying Canadian taxes?
And it's the Canadian prime minister who taxes the rest of us who set that scheme up.
Well, without further ado, I present to you my one-day documentary, my journey to Bermuda, to find where's the money.
Here, take a look.
73 Front Street is the address of one of his companies.
And it's obviously not this bike shop.
Yeah.
Has any other reporter come by asking about that?
No.
The flow through of the funds go to the go to Canadian entities who then pay the taxes appropriately as opposed to taxes being paid multiple times.
So I'm glad to know that there are some Brookfield people here in Bermuda.
Not just a P.O. box, but is it really the principal executive office for the various funds?
I find that hard to believe.
I have no comment and I can't help you.
Can you tell me what you do here?
Hi, everybody.
Ezra here.
We just landed in Bermuda.
It is 12.31 local time, which means we have exactly two hours to do our investigations because boarding for our flight home is actually at 2.50.
So we should be at the airport by 2.30.
We got to get cracking.
Just a little FYI.
Bermuda, even though there's some lovely palm trees and it's just beautiful beaches, it's not actually in the tropics.
It's sort of the mid-Atlantic.
It's actually the same temperature as Toronto, but I'm wearing shorts because why not?
This is a lovely island with its own history going back centuries, actually.
It even has its kind of own accent.
It's got its own culture here.
Of course, hundreds of years ago, the economy was much different.
Today, Bermuda makes its living in financial services, insurance companies, for example.
But the reason we're here is to track down why Mark Carney loves it.
He loves the tax evasion.
You probably heard of the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, a place that would swallow up boats, even swallow up planes.
I don't know much about that, but I do know that Bermuda helps oligarchs like Mark Carney and his Brookfield asset management make billions or even tens of billions of dollars disappear before the tax man could go after him.
Brookfield Asset Management that Mark Carney ran until just a few weeks ago, stashed tens of billions of dollars here in Bermuda, including two funds that Mark Carney himself was personally responsible for.
One of $10 billion and one was $15 billion.
But hey, a billion here, a billion there, it all adds up, doesn't it?
It's just incredible.
I don't know if you remember, but the CBC asked a single critical question of Mark Carney during the entire campaign, and it was, why don't you disclose and divulge your assets?
And oh, he got prickly.
Remember that?
He told the CBC to look within herself, remember?
I'm complying with the rules in advance.
Are you saying you are not open to any conflict of interest?
Yes.
Look inside yourself, Rosemary.
I mean, you start from a prior of conflict and ill will.
I have served in the private sector.
I have stood up for Canada.
I have left my roles in the private sector at a time of crisis for our country.
I'm complying with all the rules.
Your line of questioning is trying to invent new rules.
I'm complying with the rules that Parliament has laid out and the responsibilities.
That's it, Commissioner.
And I will continue to comply with those rules.
I want to read to you his exact words when he was asked to explain why he was hiding his corporate taxes in Bermuda and normal Canadians had to pay it.
Let me just read this and tell me if you can make any sense of this.
He said the taxes are in fact paid in Canada because, quote, the flow through of the funds go to Canadian entities who pay the taxes appropriately as opposed to taxes being paid multiple times before they get there.
So he's saying, well, listen, the people who are getting rich ultimately live in Canada, so they're ultimately paying the taxes.
Well, if that's true, why weren't these multi-billion dollar businesses registered in Canada?
I mean, Mark Carney moved Brookfield's head office to the United States, but these funds go back several years.
If it's all about making Canadians wealthier, why didn't he locate them in Canada?
I think he's got a trouble with telling the truth.
And I say again, he still owns $6.8 million worth of stock options.
Everyone knows he owns it.
For example, the firms that are located here in Bermuda are solar panel firms and wind turbine firms.
They're not operating in Bermuda.
They just have a mailbox here, a shell company, a straw man officer.
They're not actually operating here.
He chose this place for secrecy and for lack of taxes.
He's avoiding Canadian taxes.
I was looking through some of the filings of one of his companies.
And, you know, normally you have a board of directors that are actually human people.
In Bermudian law, you can have a managing partner instead of a board of directors.
But the managing partner can be another company.
So you have a company that's the director of another company that's a director.
It's a shell game that they are, it's so tricky the way he hides from taxes.
And I'm not saying it's a crime, although I remind you that the Canada Revenue Agency is after him.
But if he's now the one who is collecting taxes from you and me, if they're hiring more tax collectors to go after average people in Canada, you'd think the least the prime minister would do is pay his damn taxes in our own country.
All right, let's go down to 73 Front Street to see this global office of the $25 billion solar power company.
What a liar Mark Carney is.
Let's go take a look.
I'm wearing my Bermuda shorts.
I'm in Bermuda.
I'm tracking down Mark Carney's global address for Brookfield Asset Management.
73 Front Street.
Hang on.
Is that really the principal executive offices of Brookfield Asset Management's environmental funds?
$25 billion worth of assets.
The bike shop on the main floor.
And it looks like, I don't know if those are offices upstairs, but Brookfield swore a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States, and they published it to their investors that that was the principal executive office for not just the $25 billion in environmental funds that I mentioned, but for tens of billions of other funds.
Why would you do that?
By the way, this looks like an amazing street.
There's Flanagan's Irish pub.
There's pubs all the way down here.
It's a bit of a party street.
Look at that.
There's Gringo Mayo.
That looks pretty fun.
Of course, we're right down at the waterfront.
Absolutely gorgeous here.
About 65,000 people here in Bermuda.
But I do not believe that Brookfield Asset Management is actually here in any real sense other than a mailbox and someone who is in the filings, the principal boss, Jane Scheer, is the boss at the address of the principal executives.
Do you think Jane is here?
Do you think she runs Brookfield Asset Management's $25 billion environmental funds?
Let's go in and find out.
All right, it's 1.24.
I tell you that, because we've only got about one hour left before we've got to fly.
I just went into 73 Front Street.
I went into the Winner's Edge bike shop and I talked to the friendliest fella.
You know, there's actually a Bermudian accent and I think it's lovely.
This is an amazing island that has an interesting ethnic mix as well.
I think there's almost a Bermudian ethnicity.
Part African American, part white, part Portuguese, part indigenous.
Anyways, don't get me started on these lovely Bermudians.
I went in there and the friendly fella said he's got nothing to do with Brookfield Asset Management.
He just runs a bike shop, but he heard for the first time about Brookfield when CTV published a picture of their front edifice.
He said that was the first time he heard about it.
I asked him, had any journalist ever popped by?
He said, no, of course not.
Yeah, I got a question for you.
It's not really about bikes.
I'm from Canada.
And I don't know if you heard, but we got a new prime minister.
And 73 Front Street is the address of one of his companies.
And it's obviously not this bike shop.
Yeah.
Has any other reporter come by asking about that?
No.
Not a single reporter.
Have you ever heard this before?
Yeah, we saw an article about it in the CTV.
Oh, really?
What did you think of that article?
Yeah.
Not much about it.
I don't purchase a bike shop in their building.
Yeah.
So there is something else going on?
Like there's offices upstairs?
Yeah.
How would I get there?
like is there a is there a stairs or you would have to go yeah so you got the door then you go there's a little alleyway on the left on the left side yeah Yeah.
And then there's a door there.
I'm not sure if it's key card.
It might be a key card.
Okay.
Have you ever met anyone from Brookfield Asset Management?
No.
No.
Have you ever heard of it other than that CTV article?
Like here, I mean, the building, they're building over that's getting built, yeah.
Oh, they're building a building?
Yeah.
Okay.
That building that's going up right there, that's Brookfield's building.
All right.
Well, thanks very much for telling me.
You're welcome.
Okay, cheers.
I'm very restricted, sir.
You too.
Good luck with your reporting.
Thank you.
Why would anyone seek to investigate Mark Carney's $25 billion tax evasion?
That's not in the public interest.
So he said he hadn't heard about any of that.
He didn't even know Mark Carney.
But he did say that above is a Brookfield asset management address.
And he told me to go around the corner where it says 73 and see if I can buzz my way in.
So I'll do that.
He said one more thing on my way out.
He said that this construction over there is a Brookfield asset management construction.
And I looked that up, and indeed it is.
And Brookfield is being sued by shareholders in a company called Argo who claim that Brookfield did not properly disclose important information in the shareholders battle.
I'm not going to get too deep into it, but the point is Brookfield is building an asset here, but it's not their environmental sustainable project.
That's not a $25 billion building.
That's just an office building because I guess they're tired of being above the bicycle shop.
So there is a presence of Brookfield Asset Management, or at least there will be when that's done.
For now, 73 Front Street is just a bike shop and some offices above.
I say again, here's the scam.
If you're wondering why we're here and what the problem is, it's this.
Mark Carney was the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management.
He personally chaired two progressive environmentalist funds that were all about solar panels and wind turbines.
Fair enough.
I really don't care about that.
What I care about is that he lied.
He said this is the principal executive offices of those $25 billion in managed asset funds so that he could avoid paying taxes in Canada.
He lied when he said that's the principal executive offices.
Do you think that you've got $25 billion worth of managers and builders and executives for wind turbines and solar panels up there?
I can promise you they don't.
And that's the problem.
It's bad enough if Mark Carney was hiding his company's assets and income from Canadian taxes.
But to lie about it, to lie about it, and to keep holding on to $6.8 million worth of stock options, pretending he doesn't still have a stake in it, and then make you pay all of his taxes.
What a hypocrite we've got as a prime minister.
All right, it's 128.
I'm going to go around to see if we can ring the doorbell and find this corporate headquarters.
little laugh.
All right, so far I don't see it.
I see Bismont, Hamilton Legal, Harney's.
I see Chrissen and Company.
I don't know what these things are, but I don't see Brookfield.
Let's go in and see what we can find.
Exploring Brookfield Offices00:14:58
73 Front Street.
It's a very lovely building.
So it's not just the bike shop.
Let's see what we can find.
There's some floors there.
All right.
Brookfield, Bermuda.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Renewable Partners, Property Partners, Business Partners.
That's on the fifth floor.
So they really are here.
It's not just the bike shop.
And that's the one that's got the 25 billion.
Let's see what they have to say.
All right.
Hi, how are you?
Is Jane Scheer in, please?
No.
No.
What's your name?
I'm Anzra Levant from Canada.
Ezra.
Hi.
Is Jane available?
No, I'm afraid not.
I have a question maybe you could help me with.
Sorry, I can't know.
No?
Is there anyone I can talk to who can?
No, I can get you some of our PR people.
Would they really talk to me, though?
I don't think they talk.
I don't know.
That's all I'm allowed to do, I'm afraid.
I'm glad to know that there are some Brookfield people here in Bermuda.
It's not just a P.O. box.
But is it really the principal executive office for the various funds?
I find that hard to believe.
I have no comment on that.
I can't help you.
Can you tell me what you do here?
No.
What's your name?
No.
Sorry.
Okay.
Well, you'd be polite to talk to me at all.
That's more than Mark Carney himself has done.
So I won't impose upon you.
But I would, perhaps I can take you up on your offer of those corporate spokesmen.
All right, if you could wait for one minute, I will.
I'll see if I can find the information.
Thank you.
It took so long.
It wasn't what I thought.
No, well, you're so helpful.
Suzanne Fleming.
Suzanne Fleming, 21241.
Okay, well, thanks for your help.
You know, you were very courteous, and I know we sort of surprised you here.
It is a bit of a surprise.
Yeah.
But good luck.
Thank you.
It's a lovely place.
Just have you been here for a long time?
Yeah, I've been here for a while.
If you get a chance to get out to the beaches before you leave, please do.
Thank you.
Thanks for being friendly.
Cheers.
See you.
Well, our friend here was very helpful.
He gave us Susan Fleming's phone number in New York, looks like.
I'll give Susan Fleming a call.
I am a little bit skeptical that she'll answer our questions, but you never know.
We'll give her a try.
We'll let this fellow go.
Well, I think things go pretty easy-peasy here in Bermuda.
It's not part of the Caribbean.
It's further north.
It's in the Atlantic, but they have that friendly, easygoing style to them.
So we did go up to Brookfield on the fifth floor and they opened the door and had a very brief chat with us, but they were certainly friendly.
In fact, they gave us some recommendations to go to hit the beaches afterwards.
Brookfield indeed does have a handful of people up there.
They do have one floor in this very small building.
But I can tell you just from peering around the corner, this is not the executive offices.
It's full of a handful of probably clerks or form filler outers just to keep the technical formalities legal.
Brookfield Renewable Partners and these other companies do business around the world.
The reason why they have this office here in the tourist section of Bermuda is so they can avoid paying taxes in Canada.
That's what's so crazy.
Mark Carney made the decision as the chairman of Brookfield that he would rather hide money here in Bermuda than pay taxes back home.
And he's still doing it with his own stock options.
Let's go and see what people on the street have to say.
Did you know that Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, set up offices in this building?
What do you think of that?
Did you know that?
I had no idea.
What?
No, I didn't know that.
I bet it's not surprising, though.
A lot of foreigners stash millions here in Bermuda.
What do you think?
Well, sadly, I'm the one of them, but you and me both.
News to us.
All right, it's 1.47.
The reason I keep telling you that is we have got to get back to the airport in about 45 minutes.
That is how brief our stay here is.
It's just a place for really the locals or the elite.
Hotels here start at just under a thousand bucks a night, so we've got a short amount of time.
I went in there and I did find some Brookfield employees, but I didn't find an executive suite.
I didn't find the people, the principal executives of the company, which is the wording in their SEC declaration.
I did get from a friendly guy in there, and he was friendly enough, a phone number for a Brookfield spokesperson in New York City.
I'll give her a call in a moment.
I also tried doing some streeters, some man on the street interviews here, and it wasn't that fruitful because I think people who are here working in the financial services industry, they don't want to badmouth it.
They don't want to talk down about oligarchs stashing money here in a tax-free way.
That's sort of what Bermuda does.
I mean, it's most famous for the Bermuda Triangle, which disappears ships.
But I think the real Bermuda Triangle is disappearing cash, so the revenue tax collector can't get their hands on it.
It's just when you ask people in Bermuda how they feel about tax havens, they're going to say, yeah, that's how we live and have a beautiful life here.
And they absolutely certainly do.
I wish that in some way I would be liberated from my taxes.
Alas, I'm just a mere Canadian.
Having a tax dodge like this is a benefit that only the elites get, including Bizarle, our prime minister.
All right, it's 1.49.
We're going to get in the vehicle and start heading back to the airport.
And I'm going to get some questions ready for the Brookfield spokesperson if she even answers her phone.
Talk to you soon.
All right, well, it's 2.04 p.m.
And we're actually making our way back to the airport now.
Our flight boards, they say, at 2.50.
But that's when you have to get on the plane.
There's security and all that beforehand.
We have no luggage, but we better get there because I wouldn't want to be stranded here.
But as you saw, the friendly fella who answered the door, didn't let us in, of course, didn't say his name, didn't really answer any questions substantively.
He did take the time to look up the name of a spokesperson in New York City for Brookfield, Suzanne Fleming, and gave me her phone number.
I'm guessing that by now he's also emailed or called Suzanne to let her know of our appearance.
So I'm going to call Suzanne right now on my phone.
And I don't have scripted questions, but they're the kind of questions I've been asking in this video so far.
Why was Bermuda chosen?
Is it true that that's the principal executive office?
And we'll just see what she says from there.
So I'm going to dial her right now.
It's ringing.
Oh, hi, Suzanne.
It's Anzra Levant calling from Rebel News.
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
Great.
I was just in your Bermuda office and I spoke to the gentleman there and he gave me your phone number.
Is this a good time to call right now?
It's actually, I'm just actually heading into a meeting.
Is there any case you could send me an email?
Sure.
But I only have a couple quick questions, and that really is, I just really have one, actually, which is, we just visited the offices in Bermuda and they're small offices, and yet your SEC filing says that that is actually the principal executive office for various Brookfield asset management companies with $50 billion in assets.
So is it true?
So for this, you're going to need to send me an email for this.
Okay.
So it's first name.lastname at okay, and I just want to make sure I got your spelling right.
Okay, and so it's perfect.
Okay.
At coming so much.
Okay, bye.
Correct.
Thank you.
It's already hearing from me.
Thanks.
Bye-bye.
You know, that's fair enough.
It sounds like she wasn't given the heads up by her colleague here.
And it is a question that if you weren't prepared for it, you need a little bit of time to answer.
Fair enough.
And I'm not looking to gotcha.
I think the facts are the powerful thing here.
I don't need to surprise anybody.
So I will send that email to her.
I'm not going to type it in the car.
I'll get car sick.
But when we're at the airport, which should be in about 20 minutes, I will send her that question and a few others that come to mind.
And I'm saying this now at 2:07 p.m. on Wednesday.
And we're not going to put this video out until Thursday.
So she will have time to give an answer, even if it's just an answer to blow me off, which I think will happen.
I don't think Brookfield is in the habit of answering prickly questions, certainly not from independent journalists like Rebel News.
But the facts are the facts.
Their Bermuda office, it's not just a P.O. box like the Isle of Man office for Brookfield, which was literally someone's home apartment.
I think I'll ask her about that too.
But here there were a handful of people.
There's no lie to it.
But is it really the principal executive offices of Brookfield?
And is that really enough to shield $50 billion from income and other taxes in Canada, including the $25 billion that were personally directed by Mark Carney?
I'll see what she says.
I'll put those questions to her.
I'll show you my questions too.
All right.
We'll be at the airport pretty soon.
I'll have more for you later.
Hi, guys.
We're back at the airport.
It is 2:26 p.m.
I tell you that because we got to get on a plane in 24 minutes.
And I just didn't want to risk it.
So mission accomplished.
I'm now going to type out my questions and send them to Suzanne Fleming.
And fair play to her to have them in writing, give her a chance to inquire.
There's no way that a spokesperson for something as massive as Brookfield would know it all.
I mean, really, they have a trillion dollars under management.
It's like a slightly smaller version of BlackRock itself.
So I'll send that email to Suzanne and I'll give her some time to answer.
I don't know what kind of answer she's going to give.
I know that when I put questions to the Liberal Party of Canada, they just completely ignore us.
They hate us, frankly.
I mean, fair enough.
We ask some critical questions.
We'll see how Brookfield handles it.
Anyways, it's time for us to go in, get through security.
We might have one more video before we take off.
Hi, everybody.
It's 3.13 p.m.
Our plane is literally boarding right now, so I've only got a minute to tell you that I wrote a series of eight questions that I emailed to Suzanne Fleming of Brookfield.
And it was important that I got that done before I left Bermuda because I wanted to give her maximum time to answer them.
There's eight questions I wrote to her.
I'd like to read them to you now, and then I'm going to get on the plane.
I called it Urgent Media Inquiry.
Dear Suzanne, thank you for taking my call briefly today.
As I mentioned, I'm with Rebel News Network Limited in Canada.
We're doing a story about Brookfield's various tax havens and how they relate to your immediate past chairman, Mark Carney, now the Canadian Prime Minister.
Here are my questions.
I'd be grateful for an answer by tomorrow morning if possible.
All right, here's the eight questions.
One, in various Bermuda filings for Brookfield, you claim that your 73 Front Street office is the, quote, address of principal executive offices.
Is that true?
The various Brookfield entities are worth tens of billions of dollars, and yet your office there is very small, and from what we could see, not an executive office, but more likely compliance clerks.
Is Brookfield accurately describing its Bermuda operations, or is it just giving the formal statement required to avail itself of preferential taxes as compared to the taxes it would pay if it were taxed where it does business?
Question two, what business, if any, does Brookfield do in Bermuda?
Are there any wind turbines, solar panels, or other projects covered in the environmental funds led by Mark Carney?
Remember, those are worth $25 billion.
Three, we were recently in the Isle of Man, and there, Brookfield's office was even smaller.
It was literally an apartment in a small residential apartment building.
Does Brookfield claim that any substantial business is done in the Isle of Man, or is it again simply to minimize taxes?
Question four.
In both the Isle of Man and Bermuda, Brookfield appears to be using straw men.
In the Isle of Man, the straw man appears to be Leslie Commons.
In Bermuda, it's Jane Scheer.
In both cases, Brookfield filings claim that those are indeed the executives or decision makers.
But in fact, Mr. Commons appears to be an 88-year-old small landlord.
And Ms. Shearer appears to be a straw man for a great number of shell companies.
Question five.
We understand that Mark Carney has $6.8 million in stock options that he has not exercised or sold.
Is that accurate?
Does Mr. Carney have any other stake in Brookfield or any of its related entities?
Question six.
How does Brookfield propose to continue doing business with the Canadian government, including bidding for contracts, when the prime minister still has a major interest in the company?
Have you put any ethical limits on how you will interact with the Canadian government?
I think that's a good one.
Question seven, I'm almost done.
When was the last time Mr. Carney or his agents or staff have communicated in any way with Brookfield?
And finally, is there any other information that you think we should tell our viewers?
Thanks again for your help.
Yours truly, Ezra Levant Rebel News.
So those are my eight questions.
I don't know if I'm going to get any answers.
I think if Brookfield is like Mark Carney, they'll look down their noses at us and say, we don't have to talk to you peasants.
But we'll see if I get an answer.
Anyways, they're literally boarding our flight right now.
We're going to be airborne in about 15 minutes.
We're actually flying home via Atlanta.
It was the only way we could stretch out our time here on the island as long as possible.
I really can't believe it.
We landed, we got out of the airport, we went to Front Street, and we pretty much headed home right away.
That's how brief our visit was, but I think it was useful to do.
And I'm not sure how much more we would have got had we spent more time on the ground.
Obviously, the Brookfield people don't want to talk to us.
Brookfield's Silence00:05:44
And fair enough, the guy who just showed up to work in Bermuda today, he doesn't need to answer questions from a reporter.
But Suzanne Fleming, their communications officer, hopefully she will.
I said to her, she can answer me tomorrow morning if she needs more time, but I think it's going to be mind your own business all the way down.
We'll see.
I hope she proves me wrong.
Okay, we got to get on the plane.
Hi, everybody.
We're in the Atlanta airport slowly making our way home.
I want to tell you, it's 6.57 p.m.
We have not heard back from Suzanne Fleming.
She's probably doing some research.
Hopefully, we'll hear back from her tomorrow morning.
If not, we're going to publish this report anyways.
We need to hear her side of the story, but I really don't know what explanation we'll do.
I want to thank you for your support.
Go to thecarneyfiles.com.
I want to let you know, this isn't about being opposed to wealth or wealth creation.
We support that.
We're capitalist.
This is about tax evasion.
This is about lying on SEC forms.
And this is about the new Prime Minister of Canada imposing taxes on the citizens that he himself evades in tax havens like the Isle of Man and Bermuda.
That's what this is about.
And it's no surprise to me, even though it is rather shocking that not a single other journalist came down to Bermuda or the Isle of Man to chase this story.
That's the regime media versus citizen journalist, thecarneyfiles.com.
Well, I'm back in Toronto now at our head office.
We landed at Pearson International Airport at about 10.30 p.m. last night in and out in the same day.
And this morning, we received a reply to my series of questions to Brookfield.
It truly was a global response to my little visit.
It shouldn't surprise you when you realize that Brookfield manages a trillion dollars around the world.
We were in Bermuda.
We were told to contact their PR woman in New York.
And this morning we received a written reply from London.
They truly are masters of the universe, aren't they?
The response was from Simon Main, and he wrote this to me.
He said, Ezra, that's me, responding on behalf of Brookfield, we don't have a statement on the record for you.
To help clarify our use of international legal entities, I provided some information below, which we would like to be treated as on background, not for direct quotation, please.
Many thanks.
Simon.
Well, I guess at least he got back to me.
And then he did have a series of points, which I don't know why he didn't want me to quote them exactly for some reason.
So I won't quote them exactly.
But there really wasn't much there that he said, other than he claims Brookfield follows all the rules and all the laws.
And one of the reasons why things are squirreled away in Bermuda and the Isle of Man, he said, and other places known for tax dodging, is to avoid double taxation, he says.
He says that no tax is avoided, although the Canada Revenue Agency seems to disagree.
They're battling Brookfield in court right now, claiming that Brookfield has illegally evaded millions of dollars in taxes.
Now that Mark Carney is the boss of the Canada Revenue Agency, it'll be interesting to see if they drop that litigation against Brookfield.
It goes without saying that Simon Main did not answer my specific questions about why their corporate filings claim that a little office above a bike rental shop is the true executive offices of Brookfield, when that's obviously a sham.
He didn't answer my questions about the straw man and women that Brookfield claims are the decision makers when they're clearly just placeholders obscuring Brookfield's real activities.
And he didn't answer my questions about Mark Carney, including whether he's still in touch with Brookfield or has more interests in Brookfield than the $6.8 million in stock options that Carney bizarrely insists on keeping.
Here's what I wrote back to Simon this morning.
I said, Hi, Simon, thanks for running back.
I will reflect your response in our story, but I would encourage you to consider answering the specifics of my questions, which I believe are relevant and in the public interest.
I don't believe your answers here even touch on several of them.
To be candid, non-answers to legitimate questions in the public interest only magnify the perception that Brookfield considers itself above accountability and that it bends or even breaks the rules that apply to the little people.
That's what I wrote back to him.
So that's the story.
It's now just afternoon on Thursday.
Our investigation comes to a close.
Boy, it's been a busy day in a bit.
Brookfield claims it's following the law.
They say they're paying all the taxes they have to and not a penny more.
They're deliberately trying to minimize it.
Well, the CRA seems to disagree and is finding them in court.
But even if Brookfield is right, even if they found a way to game the system to hide tens of billions of dollars in assets outside the reach of the CRA, even if that's legal.
Put aside the letter of the law just for a minute.
What about the spirit of the law?
And what about a prime minister, Mark Carney, who was personally responsible for moving at least $25 billion of these funds to Bermuda, out of reach of Canadian taxes?
The same Canadian taxes that he imposes on the rest of us.
That's your prime minister, an oligarch with passports from three different countries, who has participated in what has been called the largest tax dodge in Canadian history.
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The only thing more gross than that is how easily he's been able to pay off the regime media, including a $150 million campaign bribe to the CBC state broadcaster.
That's why I was the first reporter to go into that bike shop, according to the kid who works there.
The rest of the media, they don't care.
But I can promise you this: at Rebel News, we'll do the work the mainstream media won't.
If you think that's valuable work, please help me cover the cost of our trip by joining the crowdfund at thecarneyfiles.com.
Thanks very much.
What do you think of that little journey?
I really enjoyed it, even though I admit I'm a little bit tired today.
That's a lot of traveling for a short time on the ground, but I think we did our job.
Let me read to you some letters to the editor that have come in.
First one is from Tom C., who says, Trump bashed the former prime minister in Freeland and said he doesn't want our products from Canada.
And Carney sat there like a whipped dog and said nothing.
His extended elbows melted like wax.
Oh, not just that, but I don't know if you, I mean, Donald Trump put out a little video of Mark Carney's visit to the White House, but so did Carney.
Let me show you this video produced by the Prime Minister's office.
This is Mark Carney's liberal team.
Here's how they portrayed the visit with Trump.
Take a look.
I conveyed to the President today what our countries have long proven to be true.
That Canada and the United States are stronger when we work together.
We can get a better deal for our workers.
We can create more opportunities for our businesses.
We can build stronger economies across North America when we work together.
The question is how we will cooperate in the future.
How we can build an economic and security relationship built on mutual respect.
We agreed to have further conversations in the coming weeks, and we are looking forward to meeting in person at the G7 summit in Kananascus in Alberta.
Yeah, where did all the Elbows Up business go?
Where did all the we hate Trump, we hate America go?
I mean, they're best buddies.
It wouldn't surprise me if Mark Carney said, hey, I'm a billion-dollar real estate tycoon just like you.
We're buddies.
Who knows?
Maybe they connected in that way.
Or maybe Mark Carney's anti-Trump thing was just a, you know, whatever he had to tell the liberal sheeple, he told them.
Next letter.
Dustin Levans said, Carney has been learning more and more, been leaning more and more conservative, especially when using Polyb's ideas during the campaign.
I've seen a theory that Mark Carney is less crazy, less radical than Trudeau.
I'm not sure if I buy it.
I mean, Mark Carney looks less crazy and radical.
He wears a suit.
He's not always speaking like a drama teacher.
He does have the CV of being a former central banker.
But if you look at what he's stood for, I mean, he's fully woke and said so in the campaign.
His life's work has been net zero, carbon taxes, shutting in fossil fuels.
So he's just as radical as Trudeau on the climate, but smarter.
He's pledged a huge amount of money to the UN Relief Works Agency, which is a front group for Hamas.
He says he'll allow Quebec to veto pipelines.
So he said if he, even on immigration, he says he's going to permit 5% of our population worth of temporary foreign workers.
What's that?
2 million?
Yeah, that's not, I don't know if it's conservative.
Maybe he feels conservative, but I don't think he is.
Last letter from Div Squared.
I've never seen Mark wear a Canadian flag on his lapel.
I don't care if the one he wears is some Order of Canada pin.
He is the Canadian PM and can't even wear a Canadian flag.
That should tell us something about him.
Well, the man has three passports.
The man hides billions of dollars outside the reach of Canada.
One of his last acts as the chairman of Brookfield was to move their corporate headquarters from Toronto to New York.
He's not loyal to any country because he doesn't really believe in countries.
He believes in globalism.
He was a board member of the World Economic Forum.
By definition, he doesn't believe in local sovereignty or local democracy.
I'm a little bit worried that he will revive Trudeau's online harms act.
In fact, he alluded to it during the campaign.
I think, in answer to the previous letter, I think he's just as bad as Trudeau, perhaps less irritating because he's less sort of a dramatic emo guy like Trudeau.
I think in a way, Mark Carney has a thinner skin, though, because he's not used to being peppered with questions.
He's being cloistered.
I mean, the Bank of Canada governor, the Bank of England governor, the chairman of Brookfield, they're not used to taking questions from the peasants.
And I don't think that he'll do well being peppered with questions, especially ones that challenge him.
I don't know if you remember, but even when Rosemary Barton and the CBC asked him about his ethics, he bristled and said, look inside yourself.
Like, how dare you question me, the great Mark Carney.
So I think we're in for a bumpy ride.
That's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rubber World Headquarters, see you at home.