Rebel News Podcast - March 03, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Donald Trump goes to war against Iran ... and Canada’s Liberals take three different positions on it


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00:00:00.000 You're fighting for freedom!
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00:00:13.600 I'm going to have a big show today.
00:00:15.780 I'll give you my thoughts on Israel and America attacking Iran
00:00:19.140 and then half a dozen other Arab countries joining the battle too.
00:00:23.720 I'll talk to you about, well, I have actually two interviews after that.
00:00:30.000 One is with an Alberta cabinet minister in charge of cutting red tape.
00:00:33.660 And I'm excited about the press release he sent out yesterday.
00:00:36.560 I'll take you through it.
00:00:37.780 And then finally, I encountered the Ontario Solicitor General
00:00:41.920 at a synagogue in Toronto that had been shot up by terrorists.
00:00:46.540 And I asked him some questions and I was not pleased with his answers.
00:00:49.420 Let's see what you think about it.
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00:01:13.120 Oh, hi, everybody.
00:01:14.060 It's great to be back in the chair here.
00:01:15.700 Thanks to my friend Sheila Gunn-Reed for covering yesterday.
00:01:18.220 I was actually in court.
00:01:19.600 I'll tell you that story another day.
00:01:21.040 But I have been riveted following things, monitoring the situation, as the phrase is,
00:01:27.040 as the whole world has, watching America and Israel and other countries get into a major battle with Iran.
00:01:35.080 Just incredible news.
00:01:37.140 I mean, it started when the U.S. and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran in the daytime.
00:01:43.300 Normally, those countries launch their attacks in the night for reasons of maximum surprise and confusion.
00:01:48.760 But they did it this time because they had intelligence about where the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, was.
00:01:57.620 And they blew him up.
00:02:00.040 And pretty much everyone of senior rank.
00:02:03.880 Hundreds of aircraft took off from two U.S. aircraft carriers in the region,
00:02:08.740 as well as a variety of on-the-ground U.S. military bases,
00:02:12.560 where U.S. jets have been moved to over the past few weeks.
00:02:16.000 They've been flying over from North America to Europe to the Middle East
00:02:20.940 with jet refueling tankers fueling those flights.
00:02:25.480 And they're making a very long flight.
00:02:26.860 Some of the bombers, like the B-1s and B-2 stealth bombers,
00:02:30.380 start and finish in the United States to this day.
00:02:33.800 There's a lot of U.S. bases in the Middle East,
00:02:36.260 including in Qatar, which I have always found odd,
00:02:39.680 given how supportive Qatar is to terrorist groups like Hamas.
00:02:42.800 But it was an overwhelming attack on Iran.
00:02:47.740 And it was informed by deep military intelligence about Iran's leadership.
00:02:52.020 I read in the Financial Times that Israel even hacked the traffic cameras in Tehran
00:02:57.800 so they could watch various vehicles, various people coming and going.
00:03:02.780 Ponder, just for a minute, I want to play you a short clip here by Trey Yings to Fox,
00:03:07.420 who's doing great reportage.
00:03:09.020 Just watch this for 40 seconds and think about it.
00:03:12.020 ...on the ground just outside of Tel Aviv.
00:03:13.940 Good morning, Trey.
00:03:16.540 Yeah, Bill, Dana, good morning.
00:03:18.020 I do want to just start with some breaking news here
00:03:20.000 before I show you the scene of one of these cluster munition impacts just outside of Tel Aviv.
00:03:25.500 But I'm told by a senior Israeli official
00:03:27.940 that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering
00:03:32.640 where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader.
00:03:36.500 This is a significant development and, again, speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war.
00:03:42.480 They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership
00:03:48.380 was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.
00:03:51.420 That's just incredible.
00:03:52.580 I mean, this is a story of technological superiority, but it's also a story of human intelligence.
00:03:59.000 I mean, knowing where the secret vote was going to be to choose the next supreme leader
00:04:04.120 and getting that information fast enough to bomb it in real time.
00:04:08.540 So it's technological superiority.
00:04:11.100 It's also informational superiority.
00:04:13.500 I understand there have been a few friendly fire incidents.
00:04:16.960 I saw an F-15 pilot get shot down over Kuwait,
00:04:21.240 and it was a woman pilot, and she was happily received by the Kuwaiti who found her.
00:04:27.040 I understand that as of now the total casualties on the U.S. side are six military servicemen,
00:04:33.320 and, of course, I very much regret that, but that is a miraculously light casualty rate
00:04:39.180 for such an enormous operation, thousands of sorties against a foe
00:04:44.740 that has been planning and preparing for this war for decades
00:04:48.580 with enormous help from Russia and China.
00:04:51.020 It's just amazing.
00:04:52.000 Now, there's no boots on the ground.
00:04:53.560 As Trump said on the first day when he explained his goals,
00:04:57.320 it's to destroy the regime.
00:04:58.820 It's to destroy the ballistic missiles, their nukes, their navy.
00:05:03.320 But after that, he said very clearly,
00:05:06.620 it's up for ordinary Iranians to seize the day,
00:05:09.880 to seize the government and make it theirs.
00:05:11.360 And he said, it was actually a beautiful speech.
00:05:14.260 Trump sometimes, you know, makes the speeches about himself,
00:05:17.600 but this speech was very much telling Iranians,
00:05:20.360 this is your one chance, and you may not have another one for generations.
00:05:24.120 And I think he's right.
00:05:25.740 When we are finished, take over your government.
00:05:28.160 It will be yours to take.
00:05:29.920 There have been no mass casualties on the American side
00:05:33.100 because it's not a ground invasion.
00:05:35.000 There is no world police effort like the Americans so foolishly did
00:05:39.280 in Afghanistan or Iraq.
00:05:41.040 It's a lot more like what Trump just did to Nicolas Maduro,
00:05:44.220 the tyrant in Venezuela.
00:05:45.200 They just snatched the top guy,
00:05:47.400 and they were out in two hours from beginning to end.
00:05:49.900 Now, what they did there is they forced the regime to follow a new path
00:05:55.000 in that Nicolas Maduro's number two was happy to save her life
00:06:00.220 and to become America's puppet and to go to work for America
00:06:03.080 because she didn't want to die.
00:06:04.940 And no one in Venezuela is part of a cult.
00:06:08.180 Not so in Iran, where the leadership are cult-like.
00:06:11.920 They're part of a suicidal Shia sect.
00:06:15.580 Shia sect.
00:06:16.600 Say that quickly three times.
00:06:18.880 And, you know, the idea, for example, of mutually assured destruction,
00:06:22.480 which kept the peace for two generations during the Cold War,
00:06:25.180 was neither America nor the Soviets would fire at each other
00:06:28.400 because they knew the retaliation would wipe each other out.
00:06:32.280 Iran doesn't have that limitation because they all want the jihad to come
00:06:36.060 and they want to go get their 72 virgins as a reward.
00:06:38.840 So no one in the Iranian regime could be trusted
00:06:42.260 to do what Maduro's number two did,
00:06:45.280 handing over the keys to the kingdom.
00:06:48.500 I mean, really, if you ask not just Iran but their leadership,
00:06:53.440 what is your primary mission,
00:06:55.380 they will tell you it's to destroy America,
00:06:58.780 to destroy the West, to destroy Israel,
00:07:00.820 which they regard as part of the West,
00:07:02.420 because those are fountains of liberal humanity
00:07:06.020 as opposed to a Sharia theocracy.
00:07:09.180 They hate America precisely because it is not submissive to Allah.
00:07:13.540 This is not my theory or my interpretation.
00:07:15.880 This is what they believe.
00:07:16.740 That's why they chant death to America,
00:07:18.940 because they see America as the counterweight
00:07:21.660 to what they want to have happen in the world.
00:07:23.520 So you can't just have the Ayatollah's deputy take over.
00:07:26.540 You need to get rid of the entire Islamic theocracy.
00:07:28.760 Luckily, 80% plus of Iran hates the theocracy
00:07:32.820 and love America's liberation war.
00:07:36.400 Iran responded in some strange ways, though.
00:07:40.380 I mentioned that there were some Arab states.
00:07:44.080 Those Arab states were typically keeping a low profile.
00:07:46.660 Some of them even said to the United States,
00:07:48.200 please don't use our bases or overfly our territory.
00:07:51.840 But Iran lashed out, firing missiles and drones
00:07:56.680 at a dozen fellow Muslim countries,
00:08:01.660 the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
00:08:04.780 And many of those countries immediately changed
00:08:08.160 from being somewhat neutral or deferential
00:08:10.020 to condemning Iran and some of them actually joining militarily.
00:08:14.800 Allegedly, Qatar and Saudi Arabia joined.
00:08:16.840 I'm not sure how useful they were or how effective they were,
00:08:22.080 but they certainly said they were going to return fire
00:08:25.160 in a maximum way.
00:08:27.160 That's going to pose a bit of a pickle for Tucker Carlson,
00:08:30.140 who has been so in love with Iran and so in love with Qatar,
00:08:33.000 he actually bought a house in Qatar,
00:08:35.560 and now his dear Qatari homeland is at war with Iran.
00:08:39.880 Sort of like when mom and dad are fighting with each other,
00:08:42.120 you just sort of hate it and you wish they would make up.
00:08:44.820 That's Tucker Carlson when Qatar and Iran are fighting.
00:08:47.880 Oman, also, Oman's a small country.
00:08:50.180 It actually was hosting the negotiations,
00:08:52.680 the peace talks between America and Iran,
00:08:54.400 and they were attacked too.
00:08:56.480 Now, all of them have basically turned against Iran.
00:09:00.100 I don't think Iran has any friends in the world
00:09:01.820 other than Russia and China,
00:09:03.180 and both of them have said,
00:09:04.360 yeah, we're not getting involved in this mess.
00:09:07.440 But Iran still has some capacity.
00:09:09.700 I mean, they are much wealthier, say, than Afghanistan.
00:09:14.660 They are much more high-tech.
00:09:16.160 So they had a missile program
00:09:17.620 and certainly a drone program,
00:09:19.700 and they lobbed missiles and drones at the region.
00:09:23.160 For example, you know that very fancy hotel in Dubai,
00:09:26.320 the one that looks like a giant sailboat,
00:09:28.100 that's called the Burj Arab?
00:09:29.420 It got hit by a drone.
00:09:30.680 A fancy hotel in Dubai,
00:09:33.440 the Palm Fairmont, Palm Hotel, very fancy,
00:09:38.020 got hit with an attack by Iran,
00:09:41.740 the Dubai Airport.
00:09:43.680 Cyprus, which is fairly far away.
00:09:45.900 That's a pretty long-range attack.
00:09:48.260 There has also been one apartment
00:09:49.760 that was hit in Israel,
00:09:51.140 and I understand the death toll from that alone was nine.
00:09:54.760 Now, there's a new weapon on the Israeli side as well.
00:09:57.320 It's called the Iron Beam.
00:09:59.120 You've heard of the Iron Dome,
00:10:00.980 where they shoot anti-missiles at rockets.
00:10:03.880 But the math there is those rockets on the Hamas side
00:10:07.360 cost maybe a few hundred bucks,
00:10:09.340 whereas the anti-rocket, the Iron Dome, is 100,000.
00:10:12.840 So just from sheer economics,
00:10:14.880 if you threw up 50 or 100, you know, low-tech rockets
00:10:19.560 and you made the Israelis spend 50 or 100 Iron Dome rockets,
00:10:24.460 I mean, it's just unsustainable on the Israeli side.
00:10:27.400 But Iron Beam is a laser.
00:10:31.140 And as you can see in this footage,
00:10:32.580 the rockets are coming from the left,
00:10:35.460 and they're going up quickly,
00:10:36.760 and then they're getting zapped by the laser.
00:10:39.840 It's the first operational deployment of Iron Beam ever.
00:10:44.020 And I understand that each shot costs less than a dollar,
00:10:46.920 which is sort of amazing.
00:10:48.160 It changes the math on that,
00:10:49.460 and it looks quite effective, doesn't it?
00:10:50.800 Now, one of the things that I think has become clear
00:10:54.200 is how interoperable the U.S. and Israeli militaries are.
00:10:59.060 Now, it's one important reason for that
00:11:01.480 is they have the same equipment.
00:11:03.400 Israel buys almost exclusively American weapons,
00:11:07.260 the F-15 and the F-16,
00:11:08.800 and now the F-35.
00:11:10.640 And those are all very modern weapons,
00:11:13.100 especially the F-35.
00:11:14.700 And they can work together
00:11:16.160 because that's the same aircraft that America uses.
00:11:18.500 America also has the F-22s,
00:11:20.480 which they don't let any other countries have.
00:11:23.080 But Israel and the U.S.
00:11:24.460 were coordinating at the highest levels.
00:11:25.980 In fact,
00:11:26.800 Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump themselves
00:11:28.780 were coordinating constantly over the last year.
00:11:31.200 And it made me wonder
00:11:33.340 if any other two countries in the world could do that.
00:11:37.160 The U.K. may be on their Air Force side,
00:11:40.360 but they weren't really allowed to.
00:11:41.860 I don't know if you watch Keir Starmer.
00:11:43.900 He's the Labour Prime Minister of the U.K.
00:11:45.460 He's just awful.
00:11:46.320 I really got to know him
00:11:47.100 by how awful he is towards freedom of speech
00:11:49.440 and Tommy Robinson and things like that.
00:11:51.520 But he's just done some shocking things.
00:11:55.400 And I should tell you,
00:11:56.080 just a week ago,
00:11:57.200 there was a by-election in a Labour stronghold.
00:12:00.400 And Labour lost to a party,
00:12:03.680 believe it or not,
00:12:04.180 the Green Party.
00:12:05.740 Labour came in third.
00:12:07.760 The Green Party came in first.
00:12:09.740 And it was a bizarre Green Party.
00:12:11.640 The leader is a Jewish leftist
00:12:13.440 who's secular and anti-Israel.
00:12:16.220 But the deputy leader
00:12:17.480 is a hardcore Islamic fundamentalist
00:12:20.920 who says things like,
00:12:22.300 lend gas to your vote.
00:12:23.780 So you've got a self-hating,
00:12:26.580 secular Jewish environmentalist
00:12:28.600 and a hardline theocrat Muslim.
00:12:33.160 That's the Green Party in the U.K.
00:12:35.000 and they won the by-election.
00:12:37.600 The Muslim vote is now large enough
00:12:39.400 in dozens of districts in the U.K.
00:12:41.760 that they don't need to vote for Labour anymore.
00:12:43.940 They don't need to vote for a Labour Party.
00:12:46.240 They can win on their own
00:12:47.800 as an independent
00:12:48.860 or with this new Muslim-Jewish-led
00:12:52.240 pro-Islam party, the Greens.
00:12:54.560 It's sort of incredible.
00:12:55.220 And I think that was on Keir Starmer's mind
00:12:57.780 when he made his first announcement
00:12:59.580 emphasising, we didn't do it.
00:13:02.480 We're not part of it.
00:13:03.760 Here, take a quick look.
00:13:05.420 We must not lose sight of them
00:13:07.600 and the need for peace, justice,
00:13:11.360 and security in Palestine and Israel.
00:13:15.240 But on Iran, I want to make clear
00:13:20.800 the U.K. was not involved
00:13:23.680 in the offensive strikes
00:13:25.540 of the U.S. and Israel.
00:13:28.840 And that remains the case.
00:13:30.840 As many of you will know,
00:13:36.600 I never supported the Iraq War
00:13:39.000 in 2003.
00:13:41.340 I'm determined that we learn
00:13:43.820 and follow the lessons today.
00:13:47.520 However, Iran has attacked countries like us
00:13:50.560 who played no role
00:13:52.100 of many countries across the Middle East.
00:13:54.440 They have made no distinction.
00:13:58.200 The attacks are indistinguishable.
00:14:01.400 And so what we're now doing
00:14:02.800 is allowing our bases to be used
00:14:04.400 for the defensive purposes
00:14:06.140 of preventing those attacks
00:14:08.380 and protecting innocent lives.
00:14:10.880 Because that is what we need to do
00:14:12.840 to support our Middle Eastern allies
00:14:15.140 who have asked us for the support.
00:14:18.440 And that is how we protect British civilians
00:14:20.440 caught in the crossroads.
00:14:22.220 So Starmer first started out by saying,
00:14:23.960 we have nothing to do with it.
00:14:25.780 And then he actually refused
00:14:27.300 to let America use the American bases
00:14:31.260 in the U.K., saying it was illegal.
00:14:33.980 And then they said,
00:14:34.820 OK, we're not going to attack Iran,
00:14:36.380 but we're going to defend
00:14:37.840 against Iranian missiles.
00:14:39.880 And then they banned the U.S. from using it.
00:14:41.760 It just went back and forth.
00:14:43.380 And he was a flipper, a flopper.
00:14:46.060 And I think Donald Trump had had it.
00:14:48.060 Here's Trump today talking about,
00:14:49.940 here's Starmer.
00:14:50.600 Take a look.
00:14:51.060 I'm not happy with the U.K. either.
00:14:55.240 That island that you read about,
00:14:57.020 the lease, OK, he made it,
00:14:58.560 for whatever reason,
00:14:59.380 he made a lease of the island.
00:15:01.500 Somebody came and took it away from him.
00:15:03.880 And it's taken three, four days
00:15:06.900 for us to work out where we can land.
00:15:09.580 It would have been much more convenient
00:15:10.820 landing there as opposed to flying
00:15:12.420 many extra hours.
00:15:13.980 So we are very surprised.
00:15:15.560 This is not Winston Churchill
00:15:17.940 that we're dealing with.
00:15:19.200 Oh, yeah, I think that's pretty rough.
00:15:23.760 Now, Qatar and other countries
00:15:28.680 who have benefited so much from the U.S.
00:15:31.840 originally said the same thing, too.
00:15:33.460 Said that Trump could not use their bases
00:15:35.340 or fly over them.
00:15:36.420 And what's the point of having
00:15:37.400 a big air base in Qatar
00:15:38.560 if some Qatari dictator
00:15:40.600 at the last minute can say,
00:15:41.480 oh, you can't actually use it.
00:15:43.160 Thanks for pouring billions of dollars
00:15:45.060 into our economy and protecting us.
00:15:46.960 But we're actually not going to let you
00:15:48.740 use your own equipment.
00:15:50.240 Israel obliged,
00:15:51.460 I think for the first time,
00:15:52.960 allowing a large number of jets
00:15:54.660 to operate from Israel.
00:15:57.340 I mean, what's the point of a Qatari airbase
00:15:59.180 if you can't use it?
00:16:00.040 But the same can be said of the U.K.,
00:16:03.040 including the United Kingdom
00:16:04.480 and the U.S.
00:16:05.580 share an island in the Pacific
00:16:07.720 called Diego Garcia.
00:16:09.060 And that's where a lot of the B-52s
00:16:10.560 and B-1s and B-2s operate out of.
00:16:13.180 It's a very strategic island.
00:16:15.920 And Keir Starmer first wanted to sell that island
00:16:18.460 to a Chinese-oriented African country.
00:16:22.020 And then he said,
00:16:23.420 no, America can't use it.
00:16:24.760 And I think it was just frustrating,
00:16:26.620 Donald Trump,
00:16:27.160 who sees Keir Starmer as an unserious man
00:16:29.200 who's not truly part of the Western alliance.
00:16:31.880 But if you think Keir Starmer's bad,
00:16:33.660 Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez,
00:16:35.500 literally banned America
00:16:38.320 from operating out of their base there.
00:16:41.560 Portugal, by the way, jumped in and said,
00:16:43.280 oh, we'll be America's friend.
00:16:45.360 Here's Trump on Pedro Sanchez and Spain.
00:16:50.080 Trump basically said,
00:16:51.420 all right, go it alone
00:16:53.820 because no market access to you.
00:16:55.580 Here's Trump on Spain.
00:16:57.360 Some of the European,
00:16:58.680 like Spain has been terrible.
00:16:59.920 In fact, I told Scott
00:17:02.480 to cut off all dealings with Spain.
00:17:06.500 Spain, first of all,
00:17:08.240 it started when every European nation,
00:17:10.760 at my request, paid 5%,
00:17:12.240 which they should be doing.
00:17:13.960 And everybody was enthusiastic about it.
00:17:16.200 Germany, everybody.
00:17:17.660 And Spain didn't do it.
00:17:19.400 And now Spain actually said
00:17:22.320 that we can't use their bases.
00:17:24.040 And that's all right.
00:17:24.600 We could use their bases if we want.
00:17:26.380 We could just fly in and use it.
00:17:28.380 Nobody's going to tell us not to use it.
00:17:30.360 But we don't have to.
00:17:31.520 But they were unfriendly.
00:17:34.120 And so I told him,
00:17:35.780 we don't want to...
00:17:36.420 Spain has absolutely nothing that we need
00:17:38.480 other than great people.
00:17:39.560 They have great people.
00:17:40.800 But they don't have great leadership.
00:17:43.080 And as you know,
00:17:43.940 they were the only country that in NATO
00:17:45.820 would not agree to go up to 5%.
00:17:48.520 I don't think they wouldn't agree
00:17:50.660 to go up to anything.
00:17:52.060 They wanted to keep it at 2%.
00:17:53.700 And they don't pay the 2%.
00:17:55.040 So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain.
00:17:58.080 We don't want anything to do with Spain.
00:17:59.780 You can agree or disagree with this war.
00:18:01.660 I find it hard to disagree with it.
00:18:03.820 It's almost cost-free to America.
00:18:06.620 It's very quick.
00:18:08.120 It's supported by the overwhelming number of Iranians.
00:18:11.000 Iran has killed over 1,000 Americans
00:18:13.800 over the last 47 years
00:18:15.360 since the Islamic Revolution.
00:18:17.460 By the way, they've killed 57 Canadians
00:18:19.560 just in the last few years
00:18:20.900 by shooting down a civilian airliner.
00:18:22.980 They funded Hezbollah and Hamas,
00:18:25.940 which between them have launched
00:18:27.240 so many terror attacks on the world.
00:18:29.240 To say that America and Israel
00:18:30.860 declaring war on Iran
00:18:32.280 is sort of accurate,
00:18:36.240 but it's probably more accurate to say
00:18:37.680 they are joining the war
00:18:40.280 that Iran declared against them 47 years ago.
00:18:43.400 I say again,
00:18:44.500 the whole mission of the theocratic state in Iran
00:18:47.060 is to destroy liberal democracy.
00:18:49.320 That's why they hate America
00:18:50.940 and anything American-ish.
00:18:53.000 Sort of interesting to see
00:18:54.440 who the friends and allies are.
00:18:56.820 And I've seen an excellent analysis online
00:18:58.880 that shows that removing Venezuela and Iran
00:19:02.540 from China's orbit
00:19:04.200 will very much affect those countries,
00:19:06.380 especially when it comes to oil reserves.
00:19:10.080 Tucker, as I mentioned,
00:19:11.560 is having a tough time,
00:19:12.700 and I really think he's disgraced himself.
00:19:14.620 And I think Donald Trump has made it clear
00:19:17.460 that he doesn't really pay attention
00:19:19.280 to Tucker Carlson.
00:19:20.580 How can you not support 90 million people
00:19:23.340 moving from Islamic theocracy
00:19:24.640 to something more secular, more free?
00:19:26.960 How is that not a win
00:19:28.280 just morally for the universe?
00:19:30.340 It's almost on the scale
00:19:31.580 of the Soviet Union
00:19:32.600 and the Berlin Wall falling.
00:19:34.080 I mean, they had almost 300 million people
00:19:36.660 all together, the Eastern Bloc,
00:19:38.240 but more than 90 million Iranians
00:19:40.960 about to be free.
00:19:42.300 I just think that's miraculous.
00:19:43.760 And most importantly,
00:19:45.100 removing the nukes and the ballistic missiles
00:19:46.780 that were propped up by China,
00:19:48.640 removing oil from China.
00:19:49.920 I just think the world is so much safer
00:19:53.040 and is about to become so much freer.
00:19:55.760 And I think Cuba's next.
00:19:57.100 I mean, Donald Trump,
00:19:57.980 he will have a legacy
00:19:59.160 that's a lot bigger
00:20:00.040 than the smears targeted against him.
00:20:01.760 So where's Canada?
00:20:03.080 I haven't mentioned Canada yet.
00:20:04.800 And I think it's because Canada
00:20:05.780 has nothing to do or say.
00:20:07.060 I mean, the UK has chosen to be irrelevant,
00:20:10.960 but Canada is irrelevant by,
00:20:14.000 we don't have a choice in it.
00:20:15.500 I mean, no one in the past week has said,
00:20:17.960 what does Canada think about this?
00:20:20.120 No one asked, no one cared,
00:20:21.820 no one briefed Canada.
00:20:23.780 I see the complaints that Mark Carney
00:20:25.560 and others are doing the Keir Starmer thing.
00:20:27.520 We weren't part of the attack.
00:20:28.620 We didn't even know about it.
00:20:29.940 Yeah, why would you?
00:20:31.040 It's like General Norman Schwarzkopf said
00:20:33.820 in the first Gulf War,
00:20:35.520 going to war without the French
00:20:37.020 is like going fishing without your accordion.
00:20:40.480 That was his joke.
00:20:41.760 I mean, the French actually aren't even that bad
00:20:43.640 and they were better than the Brits this time.
00:20:45.440 Our media are traveling with Mark Carney.
00:20:48.420 He's in Australia today, I think.
00:20:50.380 And he's refused to do a scrum
00:20:52.580 or an interview in a week.
00:20:54.680 Like the world is changing.
00:20:56.240 Everything's up in the air in Iran, around the world.
00:21:00.600 There's so many Canadian stories.
00:21:02.140 But Mark Carney has simply chosen
00:21:03.820 not to lower himself to talk to journalists.
00:21:06.680 And I love seeing them complain.
00:21:08.240 Now they know how Rebel News feels
00:21:10.100 when we're blacklisted by the PMO.
00:21:13.100 Carney said in his first statement
00:21:15.360 that he was for America.
00:21:17.380 And it was actually sort of a bold statement.
00:21:18.860 It was clearly written for him in Washington.
00:21:21.000 Canada's position on the developments
00:21:23.800 in the Middle East remains clear.
00:21:26.080 The Islamic Republic of Iran
00:21:27.820 is the principal source of instability
00:21:29.960 and terror throughout the Middle East.
00:21:32.040 It has one of the world's worst human rights records
00:21:35.040 and must never be allowed
00:21:36.980 to obtain or develop nuclear weapons.
00:21:40.340 Canada and our international partners
00:21:42.460 have called consistently upon the Iranian regime
00:21:45.800 to end its nuclear program,
00:21:48.040 including at the G7 summit in Kananaskis,
00:21:51.560 and with the United Nations'
00:21:54.060 re-imposition of sanctions this past September.
00:21:57.320 We've sanctioned over 250 Iranian entities.
00:22:01.320 We've listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:22:04.560 as a terrorist entity.
00:22:06.960 And despite numerous diplomatic efforts,
00:22:09.320 Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program,
00:22:12.840 halted all enrichment activities,
00:22:14.960 nor ended its support
00:22:16.560 for regional terrorist proxy groups.
00:22:21.000 Canada stands with the Iranian people
00:22:23.240 in their long and courageous struggle
00:22:24.880 against this oppressive regime.
00:22:27.760 And we reaffirm Israel's right to defend itself.
00:22:32.000 Canada supports the United States
00:22:33.900 acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
00:22:37.600 and to prevent its regime
00:22:39.640 from further threatening international peace and security.
00:22:42.440 And the Canadian government urges the protection
00:22:46.560 of all civilians in this conflict.
00:22:48.960 And then Anita Anand, our foreign minister,
00:22:55.020 added to that saying they wanted a diplomatic solution.
00:22:58.720 Diplomatic with whom?
00:23:01.380 Who are you negotiating with?
00:23:03.420 So should Donald Trump stop the war and stop...
00:23:07.540 Like, they're bombing the regime.
00:23:10.060 They don't want to negotiate it with.
00:23:11.240 They want to replace it.
00:23:12.180 Why would you negotiate with the regime now?
00:23:14.420 First and foremost, Canada wasn't involved.
00:23:16.780 We weren't notified.
00:23:17.740 And we do not have an intention to be involved
00:23:20.640 in any military strikes or operation.
00:23:28.160 We share the concern of the United States
00:23:31.980 and many other countries
00:23:34.180 relating to Iranian nuclear proliferation.
00:23:37.680 And in fact, we've called on Iran
00:23:40.460 for a number of years
00:23:43.220 to cease proliferating
00:23:46.240 in terms of its nuclear capacity.
00:23:49.300 That's why we have not had diplomatic relations
00:23:52.140 with Iran for 15 years.
00:23:56.060 At the same time,
00:23:58.020 we prefer a diplomatic solution.
00:24:01.400 This is why I have spent the last two days
00:24:04.240 speaking with my counterparts
00:24:06.840 across the Middle East
00:24:08.220 and in the Gulf states.
00:24:10.920 From Jordan to Qatar
00:24:13.800 to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
00:24:16.600 to UAE
00:24:18.180 and all of my G7 counterparts
00:24:20.240 stressing that Canada believes
00:24:23.560 in a diplomatic and peaceful solution.
00:24:27.740 And as soon as possible,
00:24:29.380 we would like parties to get to the table.
00:24:32.360 And then they rolled out this guy, David McGinty,
00:24:34.720 who used a new word.
00:24:37.340 He wanted a ceasefire.
00:24:39.020 Here, take a look at that.
00:24:40.360 We've been following the situation in Iran
00:24:42.300 for quite a while, carefully.
00:24:45.540 We're getting just-in-time updates
00:24:47.200 on the situation in the Middle East now.
00:24:50.580 And the prime minister and the government
00:24:52.520 decided from the beginning of this
00:24:55.560 that we would support this incursion.
00:24:58.040 But we're also calling for a diplomatic end to it.
00:25:03.400 We very much would prefer to see peace at a ceasefire.
00:25:07.900 That's what my colleague, Minister Anand,
00:25:10.080 is driving forward now
00:25:11.600 with her colleagues around the world.
00:25:13.640 And so we'll see where this takes us.
00:25:15.840 Canadians know this is a difficult,
00:25:18.460 complicated,
00:25:20.040 and unfortunate situation.
00:25:21.560 We would all rather see peaceful dialogue.
00:25:26.020 But we have a situation now
00:25:27.300 where two countries,
00:25:28.400 two sovereign countries,
00:25:29.860 have decided to prosecute a war.
00:25:32.260 Canada's not involved in that war at this time.
00:25:34.060 So Carney said he supports America.
00:25:36.480 Anand says they want diplomacy.
00:25:40.000 How?
00:25:40.760 With who?
00:25:42.620 You're going to just negotiate a little side deal?
00:25:45.340 And what can you give or get?
00:25:47.600 And then Dalton McGinty said ceasefire.
00:25:49.540 I was probably used to saying that
00:25:50.620 because that's what they kept saying to Israel
00:25:52.300 during the war against Hamas.
00:25:53.980 So yeah, Donald Trump is saving the world.
00:25:56.460 And Canada, we're just spectators.
00:26:00.700 Stay with us for more.
00:26:01.700 I've got two big things to show you.
00:26:03.820 And a fun interview out of Alberta.
00:26:06.500 And a crazy interaction I had
00:26:08.820 with an Ontario cabinet minister on the street.
00:26:11.100 That's next.
00:26:15.420 You know, you can tell how progressive
00:26:17.640 or how woke a government is.
00:26:19.280 And sometimes just by their names,
00:26:21.000 they give their cabinet ministers.
00:26:23.000 The climate change minister, for example.
00:26:25.640 You know there's got to be one or two or three
00:26:27.760 of those in a Liberal Party government.
00:26:30.080 But here's my favorite title for a cabinet minister.
00:26:33.360 I want to read it out correctly.
00:26:35.400 We're about to talk with the minister of Service Alberta
00:26:38.080 and red tape reduction.
00:26:41.040 How awesome is that to introduce yourself
00:26:43.940 as the guy in charge of red tape reduction?
00:26:46.260 First of all, everyone's going to invite you
00:26:47.980 to their parties because you're just the most refreshing.
00:26:50.580 You're the old saying,
00:26:52.160 I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
00:26:53.700 That's always a lie.
00:26:55.180 But when you're talking to the minister
00:26:56.320 of red tape reduction,
00:26:57.640 maybe there's a little bit of a twinkle of hope there.
00:26:59.860 And he joins us now.
00:27:00.720 His name is Dale Nally.
00:27:02.180 And he's the MLA from Warrenville, St. Albert.
00:27:04.180 Mr. Nally, thanks so much for joining us on our show.
00:27:07.440 It's nice to meet you.
00:27:08.660 Thanks, Ezra.
00:27:09.460 It's a pleasure to be here.
00:27:11.300 And you're right.
00:27:12.540 My title gets a lot of attention.
00:27:15.120 When I go on trade missions to Asia, to Texas,
00:27:18.580 they always comment on my title.
00:27:20.380 They absolutely love it.
00:27:21.460 The minister responsible for red tape reduction.
00:27:24.060 Well, that's what we're talking about today
00:27:25.600 because I got in my email box yesterday
00:27:27.740 a press release jointly signed by you
00:27:30.080 and Premier Danielle Smith.
00:27:32.240 And it's about something I've taken an interest in.
00:27:35.100 And I'm not a smoker or a tobacco user myself,
00:27:37.700 but a lot of people use those little pouches
00:27:40.660 that they just sort of stick in their mouth
00:27:42.260 and they don't make smoke.
00:27:43.480 And they don't, they have the nicotine,
00:27:45.180 but they don't have the stuff
00:27:46.520 that makes typically smoking so dangerous.
00:27:50.620 They don't have the additives.
00:27:52.380 They don't have the smoke and the tar.
00:27:53.820 They just have the pure nicotine.
00:27:55.240 And so a lot of people who are smokers
00:27:57.100 use this to get off of smoking.
00:27:59.380 But for some weird reason, a couple of years ago,
00:28:01.920 the federal liberals passed a rule
00:28:04.020 that unlike cigarettes, unlike other nicotine,
00:28:07.960 you've got to go into a pharmacy
00:28:10.060 and talk to a pharmacist
00:28:12.540 and you're only allowed one or two at a time or something.
00:28:16.180 Tell me about this weird rule
00:28:18.220 that the liberals brought in
00:28:19.920 and tell me about your letter in response.
00:28:22.380 And I love that it's under the banner
00:28:23.900 of red tape reduction.
00:28:24.880 Go ahead.
00:28:25.900 Yeah, we just heard from Albertans.
00:28:27.240 They think it's absolutely ridiculous
00:28:29.000 that it's easier to buy cigarettes
00:28:31.480 than it is nicotine pouches.
00:28:33.380 You know, with the tobacco and all the chemicals
00:28:36.020 and we know that cigarettes are carcinogenic.
00:28:38.540 With all of that, it's easier to buy cigarettes.
00:28:41.100 And so it's ridiculous.
00:28:42.260 Now, I'll tell you when this happened
00:28:43.260 was back in 2024.
00:28:44.800 The federal government decided in their wisdom
00:28:46.900 to take nicotine pouches
00:28:49.040 where they were being sold
00:28:49.820 in gas stations and convenience stores
00:28:51.440 and put them behind the counter in pharmacies.
00:28:55.020 And here's what has happened.
00:28:57.020 An unintended consequence
00:28:58.300 is by making it so difficult
00:29:00.280 to purchase them, Ezra.
00:29:02.020 We've seen that the illicit market
00:29:05.040 just respond.
00:29:08.000 If the legal market
00:29:09.100 is not going to offer you
00:29:10.400 an opportunity to fill this void,
00:29:12.420 then the illicit market will.
00:29:13.960 And so today, it's easier than ever
00:29:15.940 for young people
00:29:17.080 to buy nicotine pouches
00:29:18.680 because they just go online.
00:29:20.020 There's no age verification.
00:29:21.560 It's delivered right to their front door.
00:29:24.100 Yeah, you're right.
00:29:24.600 I know a lot of young guys
00:29:25.680 who just, when they drive to the States,
00:29:27.560 they load up
00:29:28.480 and bring them across the border
00:29:29.680 because everyone's got their own way
00:29:31.500 of fighting this weird rule.
00:29:33.300 I don't even get it
00:29:34.040 because one of the central ideas
00:29:35.800 of the Liberal Party of Canada
00:29:37.220 was legalizing marijuana.
00:29:40.300 I just don't understand
00:29:41.280 how the same liberal brain
00:29:42.780 can legalize marijuana
00:29:44.460 but ban smokeless tobacco pouches
00:29:47.960 that are designed
00:29:48.500 to get people off of smokes.
00:29:50.260 I just, I can only guess
00:29:52.000 what the behind-the-scenes lobbying was like,
00:29:54.780 but I'm not even interested in that.
00:29:56.100 I just want to get that gone.
00:29:58.620 You've written to the Prime Minister
00:30:00.600 along with the Premier,
00:30:01.980 is this something that falls
00:30:03.680 under provincial jurisdiction?
00:30:05.600 Because if I'm recalling,
00:30:07.040 health and hospitals
00:30:07.980 is a provincial jurisdiction.
00:30:09.900 Would this be something
00:30:10.580 that you guys could move on
00:30:12.060 on your own
00:30:12.660 or do you need the cooperation
00:30:14.620 of the feds?
00:30:16.240 So what the feds have done
00:30:17.620 is they've declared it
00:30:19.000 a smoking cessation product
00:30:21.400 and then written a ministerial order
00:30:23.220 that it has to be
00:30:24.120 behind-the-counter at pharmacies.
00:30:25.720 And so that has essentially
00:30:26.640 taken away the provinces from this.
00:30:31.180 Now, I would make the case
00:30:32.700 that if you want to be
00:30:34.100 in your own lane,
00:30:34.920 it's the federal government
00:30:35.800 that should determine
00:30:36.580 if it's legal,
00:30:37.400 but it's the provincial government
00:30:38.700 that should determine
00:30:39.480 where it's sold.
00:30:41.160 And let's remember, Ezra,
00:30:42.320 we have a system in place
00:30:43.760 that has worked for decades,
00:30:45.580 and that's the enforcement of tobacco.
00:30:47.360 We sell cigarettes
00:30:48.280 at convenience stores.
00:30:49.360 It's age-gated.
00:30:50.860 It's behind the counter.
00:30:51.980 It's behind a shelf.
00:30:53.600 You can't even see it.
00:30:54.880 And we even send in inspectors
00:30:56.820 to convenience stores
00:30:58.080 and gas stations,
00:30:59.400 young people,
00:31:01.120 to try to buy cigarettes
00:31:02.560 to see if they have to provide
00:31:04.660 age verification.
00:31:06.180 So we have a system that works.
00:31:08.340 And the fact that
00:31:09.080 the federal government
00:31:09.980 has decided to ignore that
00:31:11.620 and to try to come up
00:31:12.900 with a new sales channel,
00:31:15.100 it's not working.
00:31:16.420 You know, I like that way
00:31:18.540 of thinking.
00:31:19.040 The feds can determine
00:31:20.000 if it's legal at all.
00:31:22.300 But once it is,
00:31:24.160 let the provinces
00:31:25.100 have their own approach to it.
00:31:26.480 And I think that makes
00:31:27.420 a lot of sense.
00:31:28.220 I think it really is
00:31:29.120 in keeping with Alberta's
00:31:30.340 new spirit of,
00:31:31.880 if we have the
00:31:32.460 constitutional jurisdiction,
00:31:34.100 let's use it.
00:31:34.980 Why are we letting
00:31:35.740 Mark Carney and his liberals,
00:31:37.520 you know,
00:31:37.860 the benefit of the doubt,
00:31:39.240 why are we letting them
00:31:40.280 ooze into the province
00:31:41.900 just out of habit?
00:31:43.380 I think that,
00:31:44.400 you know,
00:31:44.940 I'm sensing a lot of things
00:31:46.200 from the Alberta government
00:31:47.220 that feel like,
00:31:48.400 whoa, that's refreshing
00:31:49.440 or that's a surprise.
00:31:50.620 But actually,
00:31:51.340 the surprise is
00:31:52.380 that we've let the feds
00:31:54.260 in, you know,
00:31:55.560 the fox into the chicken coop
00:31:57.340 for so long.
00:31:58.400 They shouldn't be regulating
00:32:00.680 these local
00:32:01.340 and provincial matters at all.
00:32:02.980 That's the weird thing.
00:32:04.480 No, it is.
00:32:04.980 And you're right.
00:32:05.520 And the liberal government
00:32:06.720 decisions are littered
00:32:09.000 with unintended consequences.
00:32:10.880 And that's what
00:32:11.400 we're seeing here.
00:32:11.980 I mean, only the federal liberals
00:32:14.180 could take a legal,
00:32:16.120 regulated product
00:32:17.060 and make it more difficult
00:32:19.280 for adults to purchase
00:32:20.380 and easier for kids to get.
00:32:22.460 I mean, it would be funny
00:32:23.580 if it wasn't so serious, Ezra.
00:32:25.540 And so for us,
00:32:26.600 this is about getting it
00:32:27.740 out of the hands
00:32:28.680 of young people
00:32:29.800 by reducing the illicit market.
00:32:31.660 And this illicit market,
00:32:32.820 there are no safeguards.
00:32:34.300 There are no quality control checks.
00:32:36.340 It's rampant.
00:32:37.300 And we want to stamp that out.
00:32:38.620 And we want to put
00:32:39.680 nicotine pouches
00:32:40.960 where they were sold previously
00:32:42.840 without any difficulty.
00:32:44.340 And that's in convenience stores
00:32:45.640 and gas stations.
00:32:46.880 That's where it belongs.
00:32:48.420 Yeah.
00:32:48.760 Well, I know you just sent
00:32:49.880 a letter yesterday,
00:32:50.680 so there's no chance
00:32:51.700 that you've got a reply
00:32:52.760 from the feds.
00:32:53.540 Hopefully you'll get one
00:32:54.280 sometime in 2026.
00:32:56.160 I have some experience
00:32:57.440 asking questions
00:32:58.320 of your federal health minister.
00:33:00.520 And she's not really quick
00:33:01.720 off the draw to answer.
00:33:03.100 Maybe she was just terrified
00:33:04.020 at Rebel News.
00:33:04.620 I don't know if you saw
00:33:05.300 the question I put to her
00:33:06.840 a few months ago in Calgary.
00:33:08.460 It was sort of fun.
00:33:10.200 But hopefully she'll give you
00:33:12.080 and the premier
00:33:12.680 a little bit more respect
00:33:13.960 than she gave us.
00:33:15.560 If they decline,
00:33:17.120 if they take a hard line,
00:33:18.940 and again,
00:33:19.400 I don't even understand
00:33:20.260 the thinking,
00:33:21.120 how some tobacco products
00:33:22.500 are fine at the corner stores
00:33:24.060 and others,
00:33:24.700 you need to fill out forms
00:33:26.320 at the farms.
00:33:27.020 I just don't even get it.
00:33:28.100 But if they are intransigent,
00:33:30.940 which I think they might be,
00:33:32.780 would you guys consider
00:33:34.200 a lawsuit challenging
00:33:36.340 the constitutionality?
00:33:37.640 I mean,
00:33:38.580 this isn't as big a deal
00:33:40.260 as, say,
00:33:40.640 a firearms registry
00:33:41.840 or a carbon tax.
00:33:43.540 But I think it's about
00:33:44.400 the underlying point.
00:33:45.860 Is this provincial sovereignty
00:33:47.200 or not?
00:33:48.380 And this is sort of
00:33:49.100 a dumb regulation.
00:33:50.140 I love your job title,
00:33:51.900 Minister of Red Tape Reduction.
00:33:53.420 Is this something,
00:33:54.360 or maybe you haven't
00:33:55.660 even plumbed this issue yet,
00:33:56.960 but would you consider
00:33:58.340 challenging their jurisdiction
00:34:00.240 if they disagree with you here?
00:34:02.000 So let me just say
00:34:03.240 that we're not there yet.
00:34:05.360 You know,
00:34:05.940 it's too early.
00:34:06.800 We're not taking anything
00:34:07.780 off the table,
00:34:08.860 but nor are we putting
00:34:09.820 anything on the table either.
00:34:11.100 We've taken the approach
00:34:12.120 that, listen,
00:34:12.500 let's try diplomacy first
00:34:13.780 and let's try that avenue.
00:34:16.360 And hopefully,
00:34:17.680 common sense will prevail
00:34:18.900 because if you care
00:34:20.840 about health and safety,
00:34:23.460 if you care about
00:34:24.460 getting nicotine products
00:34:25.580 out of the hands
00:34:26.280 of young people,
00:34:27.340 then common sense
00:34:28.560 has got to prevail.
00:34:29.920 And we're just hoping
00:34:30.800 that we can get that message
00:34:32.100 across to the feds.
00:34:33.480 And so that's why
00:34:34.560 we're going to try
00:34:35.100 the diplomatic approach first.
00:34:36.720 Our public servants
00:34:37.500 at the provincial
00:34:38.160 and the federal level
00:34:39.060 have been having conversations
00:34:40.520 from a political perspective.
00:34:42.500 We're just starting
00:34:43.240 those conversations now.
00:34:45.180 I'm cautiously optimistic
00:34:46.880 only because I can't believe,
00:34:49.340 Ezra,
00:34:49.780 that anyone would allow
00:34:51.580 young people
00:34:52.260 to have such ready access
00:34:53.940 to nicotine products.
00:34:55.780 And so,
00:34:56.100 but if it doesn't work,
00:34:57.280 if diplomacy fails,
00:34:58.280 then we'll have to take a look
00:34:59.720 and see what the next steps are.
00:35:00.880 All right.
00:35:01.980 Well,
00:35:02.300 I look forward to staying
00:35:03.260 on this issue.
00:35:04.120 I'm very interested in it.
00:35:05.460 And can you do me a favor?
00:35:06.760 I'll sign up
00:35:07.720 for your press release list
00:35:09.380 because anything
00:35:10.540 the Minister of Red Tape
00:35:12.040 Reduction does
00:35:12.940 is of interest to me
00:35:14.180 by definition.
00:35:15.080 You know,
00:35:15.300 finally,
00:35:16.160 some good news.
00:35:16.960 Every month or so,
00:35:18.060 I talk to my friend
00:35:19.000 Franco Terizzano
00:35:19.840 at the Canadian
00:35:20.760 Taxpayers Federation.
00:35:22.060 And Franco's such a good guy,
00:35:23.140 but it's always bad news.
00:35:24.880 He always leaves me depressed.
00:35:26.760 I'm hoping that if you do things,
00:35:28.720 we can share it
00:35:29.500 with our viewers,
00:35:30.080 give them a little bit
00:35:30.920 of hope out there
00:35:31.620 that it's possible
00:35:32.420 to actually trim the government,
00:35:35.100 not just to always have it grow.
00:35:37.360 Absolutely, Ezra.
00:35:38.280 We started this path in 2019.
00:35:40.820 We had a goal
00:35:41.340 of cutting tape by 33%.
00:35:42.900 We've actually exceeded our goal.
00:35:44.640 We've cut 35%
00:35:45.900 of the red tape
00:35:47.000 in this province.
00:35:47.820 We've saved job craters
00:35:48.960 $3 billion.
00:35:50.180 And Albertans
00:35:51.000 are routinely telling us
00:35:52.320 how we've made life
00:35:53.120 better for them
00:35:53.980 because we are getting rid
00:35:55.300 of that bureaucratic malaise,
00:35:57.180 that unnecessary
00:35:58.280 bureaucratic burden.
00:35:59.300 Albertans love it
00:36:00.320 and it attracts investment
00:36:01.960 and it creates jobs
00:36:02.980 and that's why we do it.
00:36:04.720 Well, it's pretty exciting to me.
00:36:06.360 You've got a tough job
00:36:07.420 when the regulations
00:36:08.500 are coming from Ottawa, though,
00:36:10.080 because they have
00:36:11.360 a different sense
00:36:11.980 of logic down there.
00:36:13.200 Dale, Nally,
00:36:14.220 great to talk with you.
00:36:15.320 Thanks very much.
00:36:16.040 Congratulations on this initiative.
00:36:17.580 Let's keep in touch.
00:36:18.660 Thanks, Ezra.
00:36:19.160 Last time about
00:36:24.280 your refusal
00:36:25.300 to prosecute
00:36:26.260 many of the hate crimes
00:36:27.480 and the other crimes,
00:36:28.720 the violence,
00:36:29.280 and you put it on
00:36:29.960 the federal government.
00:36:31.400 Will you be doing
00:36:32.180 anything this time
00:36:32.960 or is it just more
00:36:33.940 thoughts and prayers?
00:36:35.880 No, we're very, very clear.
00:36:37.880 The federal government
00:36:38.780 has brought forward
00:36:40.020 certain pieces of legislation
00:36:41.580 that I think
00:36:42.620 are very important.
00:36:43.680 We want to make sure.
00:36:45.040 We have all the laws already.
00:36:46.840 You're doing it again.
00:36:47.720 You're blaming the feds.
00:36:48.700 No, no, no.
00:36:49.280 Why don't you use
00:36:49.540 the laws you already have?
00:36:50.600 No, we're working
00:36:51.240 with the feds, actually.
00:36:52.740 And what we want to do,
00:36:53.840 and as a result
00:36:54.560 of the leadership
00:36:55.320 of Premier Ford
00:36:56.580 and our government,
00:36:57.380 the federal government,
00:36:58.320 moved forward
00:36:58.980 to toughen bail laws.
00:37:00.580 And they toughened
00:37:01.300 also the laws
00:37:02.580 to define
00:37:03.160 what a hate crime is.
00:37:04.280 We want to see it.
00:37:04.880 But you're not even
00:37:04.900 charging people.
00:37:05.720 When people go marching
00:37:06.600 through Jewish neighborhoods,
00:37:07.640 you don't lay charges.
00:37:08.680 Listen, firstly,
00:37:09.940 as a Solicitor General,
00:37:11.060 I have a certain responsibility.
00:37:13.080 I'm not the Attorney General.
00:37:14.920 But what I can tell you
00:37:15.900 is the safety
00:37:16.620 of the Jewish community
00:37:17.920 as a keeper-wearing Jew,
00:37:19.980 as somebody that's proud
00:37:20.900 to read for my face.
00:37:21.180 You keep saying that
00:37:21.880 as if I'm supposed
00:37:22.620 to pay attention
00:37:23.160 to your yarmulke
00:37:23.900 instead of what
00:37:24.980 you're not doing.
00:37:25.920 People go hunting
00:37:27.300 for Jews
00:37:27.860 in your neighborhoods
00:37:28.660 and you don't say
00:37:29.560 anything other than
00:37:30.220 I'm wearing a yarmulke.
00:37:31.160 You know what I've said
00:37:31.700 many times,
00:37:32.520 and it's very clear.
00:37:33.760 I take our public safety
00:37:35.320 very seriously.
00:37:36.400 But what are you
00:37:36.640 going to do about it?
00:37:37.500 What we're going to do
00:37:38.680 is to continue
00:37:39.500 to make the investments
00:37:40.540 in our police service
00:37:41.560 and to continue
00:37:42.380 to work collaboratively
00:37:44.080 with the federal government
00:37:45.380 You're talking to me
00:37:46.260 like I'm a child.
00:37:47.300 Why haven't you
00:37:48.480 laid charges?
00:37:49.560 Well, firstly,
00:37:50.480 as a Solicitor General,
00:37:51.680 that's not my
00:37:52.600 You set policy
00:37:53.540 and you have refused
00:37:54.600 to set policy
00:37:55.360 that you are allowing
00:37:57.040 people of marching
00:37:57.920 through Jewish neighborhoods,
00:37:59.240 threatening, harassing.
00:38:00.580 And that's completely
00:38:01.040 unacceptable.
00:38:01.940 Well, you've accepted it.
00:38:03.100 Well, I'm here today.
00:38:04.600 I'm here right at
00:38:05.460 To show off your yarmulke.
00:38:06.780 That's why you're here.
00:38:07.360 You haven't changed a thing.
00:38:08.660 Well, that's your opinion.
00:38:09.720 I have worked very hard
00:38:11.080 as a Solicitor General
00:38:12.520 to put more boots
00:38:13.780 on the ground,
00:38:14.760 to fight crime,
00:38:15.860 to send a message across
00:38:16.960 Not one arrest
00:38:17.500 when they walk
00:38:18.080 through the Jewish neighborhoods.
00:38:19.040 Not one arrest.
00:38:19.920 Then my suggestion
00:38:20.780 is you should direct
00:38:21.860 your concern,
00:38:23.160 because I have as well,
00:38:24.640 to the Federal Minister
00:38:25.640 of Public Safety.
00:38:26.040 You're in charge
00:38:26.600 of police in Ontario.
00:38:27.880 Which I don't direct
00:38:29.080 and you know it.
00:38:29.700 You haven't set the policy.
00:38:32.100 Your policy is to allow
00:38:33.960 people to walk
00:38:34.720 through Jewish residential
00:38:35.680 neighborhoods
00:38:36.140 screaming at them.
00:38:37.180 Absolutely not.
00:38:37.580 And now you want me
00:38:38.600 to talk to the Federal Liberals?
00:38:40.000 I can tell you this.
00:38:40.680 Tell me about your yarmulke again.
00:38:42.080 I can tell you this.
00:38:43.820 There has never been
00:38:44.780 a government
00:38:45.440 that has ran
00:38:46.840 on a platform,
00:38:47.880 which we were elected
00:38:48.720 for our third time last year,
00:38:50.300 to protect Ontario.
00:38:51.880 We're not going to stop.
00:38:52.640 You haven't done
00:38:52.940 a damn thing for the Jews.
00:38:54.280 You haven't done a damn thing
00:38:55.280 other than tell us
00:38:55.980 you're Jewish.
00:38:56.800 That's your opinion.
00:38:57.940 People still walk
00:38:58.680 through the neighborhoods
00:38:59.400 screaming at Jews
00:39:00.620 and you're fine with that.
00:39:01.760 I know.
00:39:02.880 Last question.
00:39:04.040 Thank you so much.
00:39:06.300 Well, it wasn't too long
00:39:07.180 before his police
00:39:07.960 shooed me away
00:39:08.680 and I said,
00:39:09.160 look, just pretend
00:39:09.700 I'm a Hamas protester
00:39:10.920 and bring me some coffee
00:39:12.260 and donuts.
00:39:13.080 Pretend I'm with Hamas.
00:39:14.480 Then you would bring me
00:39:15.120 donuts and coffee,
00:39:16.060 wouldn't you, big boy?
00:39:17.100 Can you bring me
00:39:17.640 some donuts and coffee
00:39:18.580 like you do
00:39:19.020 for the Hamas types?
00:39:23.860 Hey, welcome back.
00:39:24.860 Again, thanks to my friend
00:39:25.860 Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:39:26.500 for covering the show
00:39:27.200 yesterday when I was away.
00:39:28.500 Here are letters
00:39:29.080 that came in for her.
00:39:31.420 Gary Shudson said,
00:39:32.600 I get the impression
00:39:33.260 the Rebel News
00:39:33.880 wants Alberta to separate.
00:39:34.960 Gary, I think that Alberta
00:39:37.640 going on its own
00:39:39.120 would definitely be good
00:39:40.020 for Alberta.
00:39:41.280 I think it would actually
00:39:42.300 help shake up Canada too
00:39:43.660 because Alberta
00:39:44.800 is such a gusher
00:39:45.860 of money
00:39:46.980 that it subsidizes
00:39:48.780 the bad mistakes
00:39:49.940 of the rest of the country
00:39:51.180 because there's, what,
00:39:52.040 $20 billion a year
00:39:53.020 that goes from Alberta
00:39:53.860 to the feds.
00:39:55.160 So it really has enabled
00:39:57.140 so many bad things.
00:39:59.740 And then there's
00:40:00.620 the systemic problems.
00:40:01.660 I think that it would be
00:40:03.560 discombobulating
00:40:04.520 for Alberta to leave
00:40:05.920 but I think like Czech
00:40:08.000 and Slovakia
00:40:09.420 probably be better off apart.
00:40:12.140 I don't know.
00:40:12.780 I mean, I was at
00:40:14.100 an independence tour
00:40:15.100 that Rebel News
00:40:15.760 was putting on in Alberta
00:40:16.700 and I noted that people
00:40:19.960 who call themselves
00:40:20.920 for Alberta independence,
00:40:22.600 they're actually
00:40:23.220 the most patriotic Canadians.
00:40:25.120 They hate it
00:40:25.580 when John A. MacDonald
00:40:26.440 is stripped off
00:40:27.300 our $10 bill,
00:40:29.220 when statues
00:40:29.840 are pulled down,
00:40:30.780 when they call Canada
00:40:32.360 a genocidal state,
00:40:33.480 when they smear the country
00:40:35.020 for the mass graves hoax.
00:40:38.040 I think that people
00:40:39.760 on the right
00:40:40.420 typically are patriotic
00:40:41.620 like that
00:40:42.100 and every Alberta
00:40:43.560 independence person
00:40:44.680 I know
00:40:45.260 is that kind of thing.
00:40:47.360 They love patriotism
00:40:48.840 but they look at
00:40:49.780 the denigration
00:40:50.920 and the, I don't know,
00:40:53.660 the falling apart
00:40:54.520 of Canada
00:40:55.120 and they say
00:40:56.380 that's not who
00:40:57.620 we are anymore.
00:40:58.420 it's almost like
00:40:59.800 we didn't separate
00:41:00.760 from Canada,
00:41:01.480 Canada separated from us
00:41:02.740 but I think you're right.
00:41:04.120 I think you're right.
00:41:05.980 Susan Asperger says,
00:41:07.400 great show Sheila,
00:41:08.260 thank you.
00:41:09.200 Well, I'm so glad
00:41:09.820 Sheila filled in for me.
00:41:12.220 Anthony Salanti said,
00:41:13.140 confederation is dead.
00:41:14.620 Time for electoral reform now.
00:41:16.700 You know,
00:41:16.980 let me just touch on that
00:41:17.800 for one second.
00:41:18.960 The reform party
00:41:19.860 under Preston Manning
00:41:20.560 tried to get a,
00:41:21.860 what they call
00:41:22.540 the triple E senate,
00:41:24.160 elected, effective,
00:41:25.040 and equal.
00:41:25.960 I'm not sure
00:41:26.580 that that would
00:41:27.600 system,
00:41:28.900 importantly,
00:41:29.680 change Canada.
00:41:31.280 In any event,
00:41:32.040 it hasn't moved
00:41:32.580 a needle an inch
00:41:33.820 in 30 years of trying.
00:41:36.000 And then you look
00:41:36.880 at the system
00:41:37.620 we do have
00:41:38.440 when you have
00:41:39.680 an MP like
00:41:40.580 Matt Jenner
00:41:41.140 getting elected
00:41:41.840 in Edmonton
00:41:42.480 and then cutting
00:41:43.620 a secret deal
00:41:44.340 with the liberals
00:41:44.920 to switch sides
00:41:45.740 undoing the clear
00:41:47.260 intent of his voters.
00:41:48.920 Not explaining it,
00:41:49.940 not having a by-election,
00:41:51.240 having no personal reason,
00:41:52.460 just some,
00:41:53.340 I don't know,
00:41:53.900 bribe?
00:41:54.260 What did they offer him?
00:41:54.940 We don't know.
00:41:56.240 And the message
00:41:57.880 that sends to Alberta
00:41:58.840 is play by the rules.
00:42:00.780 And if you lose,
00:42:02.140 you lose.
00:42:02.720 But if you win,
00:42:04.380 we'll make it
00:42:04.840 so you lose also
00:42:05.600 by bringing out
00:42:06.240 some secret rules
00:42:06.980 you didn't even know about.
00:42:08.000 So I think that
00:42:09.140 every time
00:42:10.280 Mark Carney
00:42:11.320 does something
00:42:11.820 like that,
00:42:13.760 it strengthens
00:42:14.920 the appetite
00:42:15.880 for Western independence.
00:42:18.280 Well, that's our show
00:42:19.100 for the day.
00:42:20.600 Until tomorrow,
00:42:21.500 on behalf of all of us
00:42:22.340 here at Rebel World
00:42:23.060 Headquarters,
00:42:23.600 to you at home,
00:42:24.160 good night.
00:42:24.940 multiple freedom.
00:42:27.740 Shame on you,
00:42:29.040 you sensorialism bug.
00:42:30.920 We'll be right back.