You are listening to the Viva Fry podcast. On today's episode, I talk with Canadian journalist Sam Cooper about China's infiltration into Canadian politics and how close we are to a kinetic war with China. Enjoy the podcast.

All right, if you don't know who Sam Cooper is, you're going to know who he is now.

You're going to want to know who he is now.

And I've been waiting to get this interview for a long, long time.

We're going to touch on the Canadian stuff, but this is going to touch on American stuff as well.

I'm going to let Sam introduce himself, actually. Sam Cooper's an amazing Canadian journalist. One of the last of the true journalist kinds. Okay, that's it. That's all I'm going to do now. Add to stage. Mr. Cooper, sir, how goes the battle? battle is going well and I'm really glad to meet you.

And when you say this is going to be about Canada, but it's also very much about the United

States and what's going on in the world.

Well, it's amazing because I think this is going to open, I think everybody who watches

this channel, although there's a lot of new people, know the degree to which the Trump

tariffs or at least the Trump concerns about the border,

were not pretextual in any way, shape, or form. They rely on the same talking points they get

from the media here. Only 1% of fentanyl is caught from the border, so it's not a problem.

But we'll get into all of it because you are, I mean, I won't say one of, you're one of

a handful of true journalists left. Tell people who you are.

So I've been in journalism for 20 years. I was thinking about going down your path of being a lawyer when I was, when my undergrad at University of Toronto, my family's been in Canada for a couple of generations. My parents went to U of T.

Now my young son has just entered U of T.

I did my history philosophy in English.

I was going to be a lawyer.

And then I just said, yeah,

I didn't like what was going on in the OJ trial so much at that time.

Why don't I try to be a writer?

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