On Punjabi Narcotrafficking in Canada with Sam Cooper of The Bureau

Just wanted to let you guys know that today's guest, Mr. Sam Cooper, uh, and I recorded this on Canada Day, July 1st, which is three weeks ago now [laughs] and my life has been very, very busy, and I haven't had the chance to sit down and go over our talk and edit it and put this all together for you.

And my apologies.

And, uh, s- Sam's an investigative journalist.

He runs an operation back home called The Bureau.

Uh, they're, they're awesome muckrakers and, and reveal, uh, a great deal of valuable intelligence about what's going on with all kinds of garbage going on in Canada, you know, the corruption of the real estate market and banking by the Chinese Communist Party and affiliated entities.

And in this particular case, what we're talking about today is the intersection of the narco-trafficking that goes on amongst those entities with the trucking industry, uh, specifically our recently arrived friends from the Punjab, and all of the fun effects that their operations have on the wider industry.

And in the three weeks since we recorded this, Sam has released two more articles on that exact subject, one on a brokerage operation talking about how, you know, th- this one particular gentleman was orchestrating all of these shipments of drugs all across North America and his connection to Canada, and another on the, these very same guys, um, being involved with Canada Border Services Agency and coordinating shipments to make sure that they didn't get inspected.

Isn't that great? Likewise, there's been a bunch of other articles from other parts of the media, uh, also about these same guys in trucking, maybe less about narco-trafficking.

But The Globe and Mail did a follow-up to their great piece in 2019 about the safety concerns, uh, with a lot of these companies.

And then, uh, the guys at Rebel News did a little piece.

So I'll, I'll include all that stuff in the show notes.

I'm very glad to see the trucking industry finally start to get the attention it deserves.

Um, you know, I'm over here at the tip of the spear.

I'm happy to have people finally follow through.

Uh, we have a major problem on our hands out on the roads.

Many of my listeners, you guys all see it.

You live it.

You have to tolerate it.

You're putting your lives on the line every single day just to do your jobs, because our government lets a whole bunch of goombas get CDLs and Class As and Class 1s and do whatever the hell they want, and it's disgusting, and it needs to end.

So anyway, um, thanks for listening.

Uh, Sam's great.

You should check out his, his writing over at The Bureau.

Uh, check out his various podcast interviews with my friend Jason James of the Brave New Normal podcast.

I'll link to that in the show notes as well.

He's been on with Jason a couple of dozen times.