NDP pressures Carney to deliver on ＂New World Order＂ vision as Iran crisis escalates
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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the impact of Prime Minister John Carney's speech on the Iran crisis, and whether or not Canada should join in on the effort to exert pressure on the United States to end its naval blockade of Iran.
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Well, Abbie Lewis, the leader of the NDP, wants Prime Minister Carney to put his Dabo speech into practice.
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Apparently, according to Carney's wife, it has now required raiding at some universities.
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And so, Lewis wants Carney to gather other middle powers to exert pressure on the United States to end the conflict against Iran,
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including, of course, this action involving a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Yeah, well, I think it's kind of wishful thinking, and it's a pie-in-the-sky sort of view of the world.
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The fact of the matter is the Iranians aren't backing down on their control of the Strait of Hormuz,
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and they've threatened the ports of their neighbors now.
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They've now moved into an active naval blockade of Iranian ports.
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The cost of the Iranians is going to be about $13 billion a month.
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So it's an economic method of strangulation that the Trump administration is now putting on the Iranian regime.
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And I don't think anyone's going to move away from that at this point.