Juno News - 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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00:00:00.000 Well, Abbie Lewis, the leader of the NDP, wants Prime Minister Carney to put his Dabo speech into practice.

00:00:06.400 This speech has gathered a lot of steam.

00:00:09.600 Apparently, according to Carney's wife, it has now required raiding at some universities.

00:00:16.840 And so, Lewis wants Carney to gather other middle powers to exert pressure on the United States to end the conflict against Iran,

00:00:27.080 including, of course, this action involving a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:00:33.600 What do you think of that?

00:00:35.740 Yeah, well, I think it's kind of wishful thinking, and it's a pie-in-the-sky sort of view of the world. 0.93

00:00:44.480 The fact of the matter is the Iranians aren't backing down on their control of the Strait of Hormuz, 1.00

00:00:51.000 and they've threatened the ports of their neighbors now. 0.99

00:00:53.580 The United States is not backing down.

00:00:56.120 They've now moved into an active naval blockade of Iranian ports. 0.95

00:01:03.240 The cost of the Iranians is going to be about $13 billion a month.

00:01:07.760 So it's an economic method of strangulation that the Trump administration is now putting on the Iranian regime.

00:01:17.520 And I don't think anyone's going to move away from that at this point.

Juno News - April 14, 2026

NDP pressures Carney to deliver on ＂New World Order＂ vision as Iran crisis escalates

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