Rebel News Podcast - March 05, 2026


EZRA LEVANT | Line by line, Carney’s Iran rhetoric unravels fast

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EZRA LEVANT | Donald Trump goes to war against Iran ... and Canada’s Liberals take three different positions on it Five stories that explain Canada in 2026

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A 90-second excerpt from a speech by Canadian PM Mark Carney in which he manages to flip-flop on Iran three times in 90 seconds, and it s sort of incredible. I ll take you through it line by line. I don t think this guy is speaking for Canada. I think he's speaking for his new world order around China, and worried about ticking off his anti-Semitic base.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to focus on a 90-second excerpt of a speech by Mark Carney in which he
00:00:07.500 manages to flip-flop on Iran three times in 90 seconds. And it's sort of incredible. I'll take 0.98
00:00:13.840 you through it line by line. I don't think this guy is speaking for Canada. I think he's speaking,
00:00:19.440 number one, for his new world order around China. And number two, he's really worried about ticking
00:00:24.980 off his anti-Semitic voter base. I'll make the case to you and you tell me. But first, I want to
00:00:30.200 invite you to get the video version of this podcast. I want you to see Mark Carney when he says these
00:00:34.220 things. I have other visual images I want to show you, including the astounding torpedoing of an
00:00:40.480 Iranian warship by the U.S. today. First time a ship has been sunk by a torpedo since the Second
00:00:46.440 World War. Anyhow, just go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You get
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00:01:11.680 Tonight, Mark Carney takes three different positions on Iran in two minutes. I've got the
00:01:17.020 video. It's March 4th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:21.820 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:34.940 Hey, can I show you a quick video? It's not even two minutes long. Here, take a look.
00:01:39.860 We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from 1.00
00:01:45.520 further threatening international peace and security, because Canada is taking the world 0.99
00:01:52.840 as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be.
00:01:59.140 We do, however, take this position with regret, because the current conflict is another example
00:02:05.420 of the failure of the international order.
00:02:07.920 Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy
00:02:15.380 Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat 0.59
00:02:21.620 remains. And now, the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations
00:02:27.620 or consulting allies, including Canada. So where to from here? With a rapidly spreading conflict
00:02:36.000 and growing threats to civilian life. Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerence.
00:02:43.860 We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East.
00:02:50.400 And we implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international
00:02:56.420 engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving
00:03:03.000 this goal. Now, let's look at that line by line, because it's just so amazing how it's crafted.
00:03:08.040 He starts off by saying this. We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to 0.97
00:03:14.360 prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.
00:03:19.080 Because Canada is taking the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be.
00:03:28.000 So if I understand what he's saying, it means Carney is a realist, a pragmatist, not an idealist
00:03:34.520 dreamer. And Iran is a tough problem. Okay, that seems to be true. According to Trump's emissary to
00:03:42.380 Iran, who was trying to negotiate with Iran until the last minute, Steve Witkoff, Iran was positively 0.89
00:03:47.600 boasting about its ability to make nukes. They said they could produce 11 nuclear bombs. Let me read
00:03:55.560 this sub-headline here. U.S. envoy says, Tehran rejected zero enrichment offer before launch of
00:04:00.680 joint strike. The guys were saying they were going to make nuclear bombs. So you might think that Carney
00:04:07.280 was supporting Trump and Israel by saying he was a hard-nosed realist. I mean, the world is a dangerous
00:04:14.900 place. Iran has shouted death to America for 47 years. They told America they could make 11 nuclear 0.98
00:04:21.860 bombs. We see what they can do with conventional weapons. I mean, what's left to say? Well, here's
00:04:27.620 what Carney had left to say. We do, however, take this position with regret because the current
00:04:33.580 conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of UN Security
00:04:41.280 Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the
00:04:47.000 succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains. All right, fair enough. 1.00
00:04:53.680 You wish those things would do the trick, international law, and you wish that getting UN votes meant
00:05:00.940 something and that bureaucrats could stop war. But for some weird reason, the theocratic dictators who
00:05:06.840 murder their own people in Iran and countless people around the world, for some weird reason, they don't 0.99
00:05:12.840 seem to obey the United Nations. It's sort of like the proponents of gun control wondering why murderers
00:05:18.260 don't listen to the anti-gun laws. I mean, it's so sad to realize this, but it's a sign of being a grown-up,
00:05:24.220 I guess, that not everything works out well. Sometimes might is needed to enforce your right.
00:05:32.000 Here's where it gets weird, though. Take a look.
00:05:34.100 And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting
00:05:39.280 allies, including Canada.
00:05:41.200 Could you imagine Trump consulting Canada first? And could you believe the audacity
00:05:46.800 of Mark Carney calling himself an ally? I mean, he just told the world he wants to embrace China as
00:05:53.920 a strategic partner. That's the words he used. And to replace America in Canada's world, replace it with 0.80
00:06:00.660 China and have a new world order. You saw him say that. And he's talking about leading a permanent 0.98
00:06:07.180 rupture with America and assembling a global alliance against America. And for some reason,
00:06:14.080 he's just astonished that Donald Trump didn't call him up with the secret details of the attack before
00:06:18.520 it happened. It's a real head scratcher, that one, eh? But actually, I think Carney said that for
00:06:24.260 another reason. He's signaling to his massive voter base of third world immigrants, many of whom hate
00:06:30.300 the West and hate Israel, that no, don't worry. Carney and the liberals weren't part of this attack on
00:06:35.300 Iran. No, sir, nothing to do with us. That's exactly what Keir Starmer said in the United
00:06:40.160 Kingdom, and for the exact same reason, to appease Muslim migrants in Muslim ridings where they elect 0.67
00:06:46.580 radical MPs. The language is ambiguous, though. So he can say to Americans, oh, no, no, no, I was just
00:06:54.280 outlining reality. But he can say to the terror mosques, oh, you see, I don't have anything to do with 0.84
00:06:59.680 great Satan or with the Zionist regime. Here, watch some more. So where to from here? With a 0.94
00:07:05.780 rapidly spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life, Canada reaffirms that international
00:07:12.520 law binds all belligerence. Hang on, you just said that it doesn't, it hasn't, and you're living in
00:07:19.540 real life, not fantasy world. You're not naive anymore. So which is it? And what does he mean?
00:07:25.440 Did America need someone's permission before attacking? Iran has been attacking America 1.00
00:07:30.000 for 47 years straight. In fact, you might recall Iran taking 66 U.S. diplomats hostage way back in
00:07:38.320 1979. An act of war, a violation of diplomatic norms, and that was just the beginning of it. By the
00:07:46.300 way, they were held for 444 days. It's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan won the election after
00:07:52.360 Jimmy Carter. But since then, for nearly half a century, Iran has attacked America and Americans 1.00
00:07:58.380 directly and through its proxies. The attack on the American barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed 307
00:08:05.360 people, including 241 Americans. Most of the IEDs used to kill Americans in Iraq were made in Iran.
00:08:13.800 Iran has been at war with America for half a century. This is just from a decade ago when Barack Obama
00:08:20.520 was president and Iran seized a U.S. naval vessel and humiliated the U.S. servicemen and violated their
00:08:28.060 rights under the Geneva Accords. And Obama did nothing. Iran did similar things to the United
00:08:33.980 Kingdom. And today, apropos of nothing, the United States has sunk every ship in the Iranian Navy,
00:08:43.320 including the first sinking of a ship by a torpedo since the Second World War. I mean, take a look at this.
00:08:49.280 Yeah, don't mess with America, or more accurately, don't mess with America when Donald Trump is
00:08:55.560 president. Can you imagine if Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama had responded the way Trump did? You wouldn't
00:09:02.280 have had a 50-year war against the West. You can do anything you like, though. When Democrats are in
00:09:07.960 office, they'll play dumb and play dead. Okay, so back to Mark Carney, the irrelevant banker who says, 1.00
00:09:14.260 Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. Okay, what law? And which part of the
00:09:22.020 law? And where can I read this law? And who are the police who are going to enforce this law? And
00:09:27.240 are they going to arrest somebody? And who's going to be the prosecutor? And who's the judge? And
00:09:31.760 isn't this a little bit like arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, like Mark Carney promised to do? Is it that
00:09:37.920 thing again? By the way, is unilaterally agreeing to create a new country called Palestine by carving
00:09:45.520 it out of present-day Israel, without Israel's agreement, of course, is that following international
00:09:51.380 law or not so much? Or is international law really just whatever you say it is in the moment? I mean,
00:09:56.980 I'm just asking. But look at that part again. The law binds all belligerents. So he's putting Israel 0.84
00:10:03.100 in America on the same level as the dictatorship of Iran that spent 47 years torturing its own people, 0.82
00:10:09.780 including tens of thousands of its own peaceful protesters in recent weeks. Is that Mark Carney
00:10:15.920 talking? Or is that the new Canadian spokesman for China doing the talking? We condemn the strikes
00:10:22.080 carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East. And we 0.55
00:10:28.360 implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international
00:10:33.380 engagement. What does that mean? What are the rules of engagement that he thinks the U.S. and Israel are
00:10:39.040 not respecting? I'd like to know. I know what Iran is doing, by the way. They're deliberately shooting 1.00
00:10:43.900 at soft civilian targets. Hotels, including in Dubai, airports, including Dubai, apartments, including in
00:10:51.580 Israel. America and Israel are not doing this. So why is Mark Carney lumping both sides in this
00:10:58.160 together as if they're both on the same moral plane? Why can't he say one side is right and one side is
00:11:04.480 wrong? Why can't Mark Carney distinguish between friends and enemies here, between allies and
00:11:09.820 enemies? Well, like I say, there are millions of new anti-American, anti-Semitic migrants we brought 1.00
00:11:14.280 into Canada in the past decade or two. And that's his voter base now. And that's, frankly, half his
00:11:20.100 cabinet and caucus, to be honest. But back to the flip-floppery, which is it? He started his
00:11:27.100 little speech by saying, we support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
00:11:31.240 and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.
00:11:35.900 Okay, me too. But then he implied those efforts are illegal? Okay, so which is it? And then he ends
00:11:43.280 with a whimper. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving
00:11:49.400 this goal. Hang on. I thought he said he supported the effort to destroy the regime's hostile power,
00:11:55.280 nukes, ballistic missiles, drones. So that's not done yet. It's going pretty well. I mean,
00:12:00.820 they've hit almost 2,000 targets so far, but it's not done. Why would you want a rapid de-escalation of
00:12:09.380 hostilities before the nukes are gone, the ballistic missiles are gone, the drones are gone,
00:12:14.020 the regime is gone? Why would he want America and Israel to stop now? That's what he's saying.
00:12:19.860 Are there some missiles or drones or nuclear works that Carney wants to preserve? Why does he want
00:12:25.460 the good guys to stop before the job is done? Why? He didn't explain it. But that last line is just
00:12:31.460 chef's kiss. Canada is prepared to assist you guys. Hey guys, hey, over here, we're ready to help
00:12:38.600 America and Israel to, you know, we're going to help you de-escalate because you don't know how, 0.97
00:12:45.280 but we have that secret knowledge. We're experts about that and we have a lot to teach the world.
00:12:51.480 You see, hey, Mark Carney, don't ignore me. Look, at least it wasn't what his defense minister said
00:12:57.800 the day before, calling for a ceasefire. We've been following the situation in Iran for quite a while,
00:13:03.640 carefully. We're getting just-in-time updates on the situation in the Middle East now.
00:13:11.080 And the Prime Minister and the government decided from the beginning of this that we would support
00:13:17.380 this incursion. But we're also calling for a diplomatic end to it. We very much would prefer
00:13:25.100 to see peace at a ceasefire. That's what my colleague Minister Anand is driving forward now
00:13:32.100 with her colleagues around the world. And so we'll see where this takes us. Canadians know this
00:13:37.200 is a difficult, complicated, and unfortunate situation. We would all rather see peaceful
00:13:45.220 dialogue. But we have a situation now where two countries, two sovereign countries, have decided
00:13:50.960 to prosecute a war. Canada's not involved in that war at this time. Okay, so you're basically saying
00:13:55.720 America and Israel have to stop fighting one of the world's worst dictatorships. Got it. So that's
00:14:00.700 Canada. Okay, let's be honest. No one serious is asking, what does Canada think anymore? They just
00:14:06.760 don't think that way anymore. They thought that 15, 20 years ago, actually, when we went to help
00:14:11.540 America in Afghanistan. We wouldn't have the equipment or the manpower to do that again today. And 0.83
00:14:17.700 more importantly, we wouldn't have the moral clarity to do that because, well, we're on the side of the
00:14:22.920 jihadist now. We're on the side of Hamas now. And we just don't actually have the ability to do 0.97
00:14:28.860 anything militarily useful here. Israel is using F-15s and F-16s and F-35s. And the Americans are
00:14:37.220 using even more amazing aircraft than that. What would Canada do even if we had a supportive prime
00:14:43.660 minister? How many F-18s could we even send that are working? Do we even have like four that are
00:14:51.360 electronically up to date and serviceable? Do you really think we even have four? Of course,
00:14:58.120 Mark Carney wouldn't, even if he could, because this is all about ethnic voter blocs for him now.
00:15:03.460 Even the French that everyone mocks for surrendering in the Second World War, even they are sending an 1.00
00:15:09.140 aircraft carrier to help shoot down Iranian drones in the region. Of course, that's miles ahead of what 0.97
00:15:14.280 we could do. So to sum up, Mark Carney is very wise and nuanced and pragmatic. And he totally agrees
00:15:21.620 with doing what it takes to stop Iran. But only if that complies with the United Nations or whatever 0.68
00:15:26.760 he thinks international law means. And he thinks both Iran and the U.S. and Israel should knock it
00:15:32.120 off and stop fighting before the regime has changed, even though he said he's for regime change.
00:15:38.580 But mainly, guys, he's really willing to help, even though no one has even told him this was gonna
00:15:45.020 happen. But they'll surely ask for something. I would be deeply embarrassed that this guy is speaking
00:15:50.460 for Canada, except for the fact that no one is actually listening to him, other than maybe his
00:15:56.840 bosses in China. Stay with us for more. 0.94
00:16:00.140 Well, there's some dates that I just know by the name of them. St. Patrick's Day is March 17th. I love
00:16:16.400 that day, even though I'm not Irish. I sort of wish I were Irish half the time. April Fool's Day is another 0.99
00:16:22.800 day, and I try to think of myself as not being a fool. But odds are, that day, I'm gonna believe some fake
00:16:29.540 news on Twitter, and then later on realize, oh, shucks, that's a false joke. That's a jokey tweet on
00:16:36.280 April Fool's. But I think it is more than a coincidence that the government of Canada, the
00:16:41.680 Parliament of Canada, every year schedules its automatic self-pay raise, where they all give
00:16:51.240 themselves more money, regardless of their performance, regardless of the performance of
00:16:56.000 economy. Would it surprise you a jot to learn that they chose April Fool's, April 1st, as that day?
00:17:05.000 How fitting. And you know there's only one person to talk to about this outrage. It's our dear friend
00:17:09.420 Franco Teresano, the big boss at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Franco, April Fool's Day is,
00:17:16.740 you know, it's symbolic. I wonder if they chose it on purpose. But even if they didn't, it's very fitting,
00:17:23.820 isn't it? Oh, yeah. I mean, welcome to Ottawa, where taxpayers are always the punchline. Yeah. And
00:17:29.300 April 1, right? Real insulting joke at taxpayers' expense is the day that politicians take more
00:17:36.000 money out of your wallet, and then stuff extra cash into their own, right? It's been going on
00:17:41.520 every single year for a number of years now, where every April 1, MPs give themselves another big fat pay
00:17:47.840 raise the same day that they hike taxes. And it looks like this April 1 is going to be no different
00:17:53.060 because, Ezra, as of tape time, as of right now, there is only one member of parliament who has the
00:17:59.600 spine, the courage to publicly oppose the upcoming pay raise. The rest of them all seem to be lining up for
00:18:06.180 the taxpayer trough to collect another helping of taxpayer cash.
00:18:09.840 Well, it behooves us to say the name of the one conscientious objector. Do you know who it is offhand?
00:18:15.120 Mike Dawson, a courageous conservative MP from New Brunswick. Mike Dawson, what a hero. Thank you
00:18:22.460 for doing the right thing, sticking up for your constituents, and publicly opposing the race.
00:18:28.100 Finally. You know, if memory serves, Franco, and correct me if I'm wrong, when he announced that
00:18:33.140 he would not take the pay raise, I understand he was chided by his colleagues because he sort of
00:18:39.780 made them look bad by comparison since he was taking that stand. Is that, did you hear that
00:18:45.860 rumor as well?
00:18:47.120 I heard the rumor. I saw, I saw the press in Ottawa reporting it. I mean, obviously, I don't know what
00:18:52.700 was going on in the back rooms, but you know what? I can tell you right now, it wasn't Mike Dawson making
00:18:57.480 them look bad. It's themselves who are making themselves look bad. Okay. And you know what?
00:19:02.180 Let's just do something a little fun. Let's call out each major national party one by one. Okay. Let's
00:19:08.820 start with the liberals. First of all, the liberal government could stop the pay raises tomorrow,
00:19:13.420 right? The Harper government did it. The liberal government could too as well. Not to mention only
00:19:18.280 a couple months ago, Carney told Canadians to brace for sacrifices. Well, why isn't Carney telling his
00:19:24.240 own liberal MPs to brace for a little bit of sacrifice and not take a pay raise? But let's also talk
00:19:30.260 about the conservatives, right? The conservatives under Pierre Polyev have rightly bashed the
00:19:35.560 government when they waste money and hike taxes. Well, why isn't the, why aren't the conservatives
00:19:39.940 standing with their own MP, Mike Dawson and taxpayers and opposing this race, right? The silence from the 0.99
00:19:47.000 conservatives and the liberals have both been deafening. The NDP, by the way, always talk about
00:19:52.440 sticking up for the little guy. Well, why aren't they opposing the pay raise going to politicians who all
00:19:58.700 make about three times more than the average Canadian worker? Yeah. Yeah. And of course,
00:20:04.000 there's the Bloc Québécois who want nothing to do with Canada, except for when it comes to paycheck
00:20:09.180 time. Now I have in front of me, your latest press release on the subject. It's called tax and MP pay
00:20:15.420 hikes one month away. And we'll get to the tax part in a second, but I had forgotten how much money
00:20:22.220 MPs make. And let me just quote from your study. A backbench MP salary is currently $209,800. And
00:20:34.360 Franco, that doesn't even include all the free flights, the offices, all the perks, so many perks.
00:20:42.640 I mean, that's just for a backbencher. Cabinet ministers collect $309,000. And of course,
00:20:51.420 Mark Carney, who I think is a billionaire, he has not disclosed the value of his 600 stocks,
00:20:58.460 gets paid $419,000. But actually, each MP costs a multiplier of that because of all their expenses,
00:21:06.140 right? Yeah. I mean, expenses are a huge cost to taxpayers, but it's even more than the expensive.
00:21:13.020 Expenses, right? You talked about the perks. Well, you know, get this folks, all they have to do is
00:21:17.260 work for six years, and then they get a taxpayer funded pension for life, right? Tens of thousands
00:21:23.520 of dollars a year. Obviously, that depends on how long they're in office, the rules at the time
00:21:28.600 they're in office, but they get a taxpayer funded pension for life if they're only in office for six
00:21:33.200 years. Well, if they're not in for six years, don't feel too bad for them, because they'll walk away
00:21:37.920 with a six-figure severance check. Then on top of that, they also get a $15,000 transition allowance
00:21:44.640 once they get booted from the Hill, okay? So, I mean, like, the salaries are really just a tip of
00:21:50.180 the iceberg. And, you know, let me just say something. Like, before anyone says, oh, but
00:21:54.520 Franco, come on, it's just a drop in the bucket of the total budget. No, no, no. That is the wrong way
00:22:00.340 to look at this. Look, the biggest cost to taxpayers on, like, a day-to-day spending is
00:22:06.140 the bloated federal bureaucracy. Well, good luck cutting the bloated federal bureaucracy
00:22:10.780 if you, as a member of parliament, aren't even willing to say no to another helping of taxpayer
00:22:16.000 cash. Don't believe me? Look at the government unions. We got our hands on government union demands,
00:22:21.340 and it specifically pointed to the yearly salary increases that members of parliament give themselves
00:22:26.540 as a reason why bureaucrats should take more money from taxpayers. You know, it's a powerful argument,
00:22:31.740 really. I mean, if the government, if the MPs are saying we have to hold the line, but they
00:22:37.320 themselves don't, it's like the animal farm book by George Orwell. All animals are equal. Some are
00:22:43.060 more equal than others. Now, there is, traditionally, the carbon tax goes up on April 1st, but Mark Carney
00:22:51.020 has at least temporarily reduced the rate of that to zero. He has not scrapped it. He has simply
00:22:56.400 put the rate for now to zero. But there are other taxes, including on alcohol, am I right, that are
00:23:01.100 going up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All this conversation could drive you to drink. Well, too bad, folks.
00:23:06.780 The government is making your life more expensive if you just want to get a cold one, right? So,
00:23:11.560 federal alcohol taxes going up again, April 1, making your beer, wine, your whiskey, your vodka
00:23:17.460 more expensive. Now, look, number one, it's going to make life more expensive. Number two,
00:23:23.700 the government doesn't deserve a single cent more from any Canadian. Like, even if you don't drink,
00:23:27.940 the government shouldn't be raising taxes, okay? They shouldn't be doing that. Number three,
00:23:32.120 there's a lot of workers who could be impacted here, right? Because, like, there is a huge Canadian
00:23:37.780 industry when, like, you think of the restaurants, the pubs, the distilleries, the breweries, the
00:23:42.600 wineries, who are going to be impacted. That will also hurt workers as well. You actually had this
00:23:48.140 letter from unionized brewery workers to the federal government warning that there could be
00:23:53.000 job losses from this tax hike. And the last point I'll mention about this is that this alcohol tax
00:23:59.160 hike has been going up every single year since 2017 without a vote in parliament. Now, here's my
00:24:05.980 message to politicians. That's undemocratic. And if you as a politician think that Canadians aren't
00:24:11.440 paying enough tax, you should at least have the spine to vote on the tax increase.
00:24:17.140 Yeah. Hey, I appreciate you joining us. Thanks for reminding us of the one good guy in this story,
00:24:22.560 Mike Dawson, who declined his pay raise. And it's sort of incredible that out of 300 plus MPs,
00:24:29.680 only one did that. And I would have hoped for more from the conservatives. But like you say,
00:24:35.360 they're all in on it. Franco, great to catch up with you. Thank you.
00:24:37.840 Thanks, Ezra. There's our friend Franco Teresano. And as you can see,
00:24:42.200 the Taxpayers Federation is nonpartisan. And that's why we can trust them. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:24:57.400 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me, Dog of Heg, I think I'm saying that right, 1.00
00:25:03.680 talks about Keir Starmer's Iran remarks and says, I had respect for Carney for about 10 minutes.
00:25:10.040 Then he copied and pasted Keir Starmer. You're right. And they're really trying to walk this
00:25:14.540 line. And for the exact same reason, by the way, the UK actually could send a few ships and some
00:25:19.440 jets, even though their Navy is a shrivel of a fraction of what it was even a few decades ago.
00:25:25.380 By the way, if Argentina were to seize the Fulton Islands now, I don't think the UK would have the
00:25:31.880 ability to take them back. And I don't want Argentina to seize them. I'm just saying the UK
00:25:35.940 is so weak. But besides being militarily weak, there's no way Keir Starmer would do anything to
00:25:42.460 upset the Islamic vote in the UK. That's, I think, becoming the norm in much of Western Europe. 1.00
00:25:49.960 Cold Spring 624 says, end all British efforts to control the US. No allegiance to the British
00:25:55.400 whatsoever. We are not Canada. Okay, I think you're speaking as an American. America as an
00:26:01.860 inherited so much of the British tradition and kept so many of the best parts, including
00:26:06.200 freedom of speech, individualism, military strength. And remember, the British Empire ruled
00:26:11.440 the seas for so long. And it was a great source of prosperity and peace to the world. Unfortunately,
00:26:17.980 the UK really isn't a player anymore, because they're afraid of upsetting their fifth column.
00:26:23.340 On my chat with Minister Dale Nellie about reducing red tape, Vintage Guy says,
00:26:29.520 turns out the nicotine is good for you. That's why the libs don't want you to have it. Well, 0.71
00:26:33.800 it's interesting that you say that because most of the bad things in smoking came from the smoke
00:26:39.300 part of it, the burning it and the tar and the ash and the different chemicals that were released.
00:26:45.360 It wasn't the nicotine that was the real problem with smoking. It was the other stuff,
00:26:52.100 which is why things like those pouches or gums or other nicotine replacement are so much better.
00:26:58.980 And smokers often use it to sort of climb down the ladder. You're still getting the nicotine hit,
00:27:04.720 which is what people crave in cigarettes, but you're not getting the smoke. Now, you have to
00:27:09.460 change your other habits, too. A lot of people, smoking is a habit. They just like something to
00:27:13.880 do with their hands. So it's a complex thing. I mean, habits are complex things, but I really,
00:27:19.200 and I'm not a smoker and I don't use those pouches either, but it's sort of obvious to me,
00:27:23.640 if it's a better alternative than cigarettes, why the heck are you hiding it behind a pharmacist
00:27:28.900 rather than putting it in the same convenience stores that smokes? Anyways, we'll see what
00:27:32.840 happens there. I was sort of interested with that story. Well, it's our show for the day.
00:27:38.480 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to
00:27:41.580 you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:27:44.580 We'll see you next time.