{"podcast":{"title":"The Bureau Podcast","slug":"the-bureau-podcast-6621098","podcast_index_feed_id":6621098,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1444443.rss","website_url":"https://www.thebureau.news/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1444443/af362ce518384109799fdd03117a63b4.jpg","author":"Sam Cooper","episode_count":93,"summary":"Investigative Journalism. Anti-Corruption. Whistleblowers. Sunlight.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T00:18:15.334161+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bureau-podcast-6621098"},"episode":{"title":"Carney’s Surveillance Push Targets Canadians, Not Politically Connected Narco Kingpins — and Hands Beijing a Gift","slug":"carney-s-surveillance-push-targets-canadians-not-politically-connected-narco-kingpins-and-hands-beijing-a-gift","published_at":"2026-06-17T11:30:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bureau-podcast-6621098/carney-s-surveillance-push-targets-canadians-not-politically-connected-narco-kingpins-and-hands-beijing-a-gift","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bureau-podcast-6621098","url":"https://www.thebureau.news/p/carneys-surveillance-push-targets","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202415200/d252822f50a7db98b304b874b8694194.mp3","summary":"OTTAWA — In this episode with Jason James, I break down my criticisms of the raft of public-safety and surveillance laws Mark Carney’s manufactured-majority government is attempting to push through Canada’s Parliament before the summer break — a legislative push now drawing serious concern from privacy experts, media lawyers, civil-liberties advocates, and technology leaders including Shopify founder Tobi Lütke. I also reiterate my analysis that Canada’s failed trade dealings with the Trump Administration are now foreseeably snagged on Carney’s Chinese EV import deal. The Liberal government, I argue, is trying to have its cake and eat it too: securing the deeper trade flows with China that the party’s Beijing trade lobby has pushed for since Pierre Trudeau, while also trying to secure a favorable deal with Washington. I tell Jason, as I have before, that this is a non-starter for Washington. The United States will not be gaslit into accepting Chinese spy platforms and forced-labour trade goods dumped into North American trade — goods and platforms that undermine North American workers and security, among many other threats. But Carney persists in attempting to assuage his business backers, as Trudeau did before him, I tell Jason. Focusing on Bill C-22, the so-called Lawful Access Act, I start with an unavoidable observation: Ottawa is again confusing mass expansion of state power over ordinary Canadians with the targeted legal tools actually needed to confront Canada’s most serious threat actors. As a subject-matter reporter on Chinese Triad networks, Mexican cartel platforms, hostile-state proxies, fentanyl supply chains, underground banking, and foreign-interference structures in Canada, I argue that the problem is not that law enforcement lacks ways to collect more…","meta_description":"OTTAWA — In this episode with Jason James, I break down my criticisms of the raft of public-safety and surveillance laws Mark Carney’s manufactured-majori…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3788,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-bureau-podcast-6621098/episodes/carney-s-surveillance-push-targets-canadians-not-politically-connected-narco-kingpins-and-hands-beijing-a-gift/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-bureau-podcast-6621098/carney-s-surveillance-push-targets-canadians-not-politically-connected-narco-kingpins-and-hands-beijing-a-gift.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}