00:00:00.000It's the KinsellaCast, starring Warren Kinsella.
00:00:21.500Hey, it's Warren. Welcome to the KinsellaCast.
00:00:25.240And so, Father's Day. Generally, I hate Father's Day.
00:00:32.840I've long suspected it was a concoction of the greeting card industry.
00:00:38.560And for me, at least, for 21 years, it's been one of the worst days.
00:00:43.94021 years ago, my dad, Thomas Douglas Kinsella, died.
00:00:49.680It was this beautiful June day in Kingston, Ontario, at the hospital where he had saved and improved so many lives for so many years.
00:01:00.200And when I stepped into the tiny room where he had died, I remember wondering why the little sailboats bouncing on the waves on Lake Ontario didn't stop moving to show that they were in mourning.
00:01:12.740And I wanted great writers like Andrew Coyne or Paul Wells to write about my father.
00:01:58.920One of them has dropped me from his life completely, and I couldn't tell you why.
00:02:05.160He hasn't communicated with me in years.
00:02:07.800He doesn't answer any of my attempts to elicit a response.
00:02:11.540Like, even a curse would be better than this.
00:02:15.400But my three other kids are amazing and different and extraordinary and complex, and I'm so proud of them.
00:02:23.080And I wish my dad had known them for longer.
00:02:25.740That's one of the things he said to me on his deathbed.
00:02:29.820When I was at the site of the Nova Music Festival last month, I was with an extraordinary young man who survived that terrible day, October 7th.
00:02:42.900At one point, he talked about phoning his brothers, who were also at Nova that day, to say goodbye, because he thought they were all going to die.
00:31:01.680A religious prophecy and that he is anointed by God to secure Israel.
00:31:07.620The Ayatollah in Iran is also a guy who believes he has a direct phone line to God, right?
00:31:14.760Shia over there, believing they are the descendants of Muhammad and that the Ayatollah, the closest descendant there to ruling Iran.
00:31:22.780So you've got two delusional folk who believe that God informs their policy.
00:31:29.520Now, obviously, Israel could not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
00:31:34.400And there have been, and I looked it up, 14 ultimatums by the United States to Iran from the rest of the world in the United States, I should say, over the last 10 years alone.
00:31:45.420They haven't complied with the atomic energy oversight that they were asked to.
00:31:50.420And they were very clearly trying to develop a nuclear weapon because they believe, at the very least, it would bring them security, if not an opportunity to wipe Israel off the map because they don't seem to mind killing their own people.
00:32:05.420Right now, in Tehran, in the last two hours, and this is good news, I want to bring some good news in, tons of elites from the Ayatollah and the IRGC regime are leaving through the closed airports.
00:32:18.220Private jets are flying out of Iran willy-nilly as we speak.
00:32:22.800Israel owns the skies over Iran, and then here's the challenge.
00:32:27.340Putin has refused to intervene and broker a peace.
00:32:55.320Is it a mistake insofar as it is dividing that entire region, Pakistan, backing Iran, India now sort of being on our side?
00:33:04.740People taking sides, foreign air bases now getting involved, Syrian army now securing the border with Iraq because the Iranians are theoretically maybe going to try and roll through to Israel.
00:33:16.520We might have a global war on our hands, and if so, then this launch was a mistake.
00:33:23.180Mark Carney made a very interesting tweet yesterday.
00:33:27.940It lacked the ambivalence and the sucking and blowing that we so often see coming out of the Pearson building and coming out of foreign affairs.
00:33:38.280It pretty clearly articulated support for Israel and Israel's ability to defend itself.
00:33:45.280It surprised quite a few people, me included.
00:33:48.580What's, as Canada gets ready to chair the G7 in Canaanaskis and Alberta this weekend, what is the position you think this country should adopt?
00:33:57.700Not that anybody regards this as a geopolitical major player, of course, but what do you think Canadians should be thinking about all of this?
00:34:07.220Well, first of all, Canadians should realize that we are functioning in a large hotel and that we're the receptionist organizing this event,
00:36:23.500It is, of course, illegal and wrong that Mr. Modi did that, and he was caught, you know, red-faced and with his hand there, you know, in his pants when he did it.
00:36:33.080But, having said that, we allowed thousands of Khalistani radicals.
00:36:38.080And I remember when Bob Ray, whom I worked for, was working on the Air India project, he told me he knew there were guys in those rooms who knew who had actually perpetrated Air India.
00:36:47.740He knew he was sitting across the table from them, and there was nothing he could fucking do.
00:36:53.600So, we let a whole bunch of Khalistani radicals that Modi was eliminating in his own country, we let them in here, and then we're surprised when they continue to organize from abroad to destabilize India.
00:37:05.840And most Sikhs, by the way, are not Khalistani supporters.
00:37:39.000I don't think we actually have been able to find it.
00:37:40.440We might be the only people who don't.
00:37:41.860Yeah, I don't think we can finance a hit squad.
00:37:45.220But the final thing I wanted to ask you about.
00:37:48.240But one of the dangers when you have an eruption and a conflict blowing up in one place of the world is people start forgetting about conflicts that are ongoing in other places.
00:37:59.360And so, I'm thinking most notably about Ukraine.
00:38:01.660And things have been getting exceedingly hot there.
00:39:18.120They might actually have a table because they don't really have any skin in the game.
00:39:21.700We should also add that Iran, now that it's under attack from Israel, will be hard-pressed to continue to supply Russia with weapons or buy Russian oil or sell their own oil to Russia, which puts Russia at a greater economic disadvantage.