EZRA LEVANT ｜ Line by line, Carney’s Iran rhetoric unravels fast
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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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Hello, my friends. I want to focus on a 90-second excerpt of a speech by Mark Carney in which he
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manages to flip-flop on Iran three times in 90 seconds. And it's sort of incredible. I'll take
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you through it line by line. I don't think this guy is speaking for Canada. I think he's speaking,
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number one, for his new world order around China. And number two, he's really worried about ticking
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off his anti-Semitic voter base. I'll make the case to you and you tell me. But first, I want to
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Iranian warship by the U.S. today. First time a ship has been sunk by a torpedo since the Second
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Tonight, Mark Carney takes three different positions on Iran in two minutes. I've got the
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video. It's March 4th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, can I show you a quick video? It's not even two minutes long. Here, take a look.
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We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from
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further threatening international peace and security, because Canada is taking the world
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as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be.
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We do, however, take this position with regret, because the current conflict is another example
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Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy
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Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat
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remains. And now, the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations
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or consulting allies, including Canada. So where to from here? With a rapidly spreading conflict
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and growing threats to civilian life. Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerence.
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We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East.
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And we implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international
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engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving
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this goal. Now, let's look at that line by line, because it's just so amazing how it's crafted.
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He starts off by saying this. We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to
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prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.
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Because Canada is taking the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be.
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So if I understand what he's saying, it means Carney is a realist, a pragmatist, not an idealist
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dreamer. And Iran is a tough problem. Okay, that seems to be true. According to Trump's emissary to
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Iran, who was trying to negotiate with Iran until the last minute, Steve Witkoff, Iran was positively
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boasting about its ability to make nukes. They said they could produce 11 nuclear bombs. Let me read
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this sub-headline here. U.S. envoy says, Tehran rejected zero enrichment offer before launch of
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joint strike. The guys were saying they were going to make nuclear bombs. So you might think that Carney
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was supporting Trump and Israel by saying he was a hard-nosed realist. I mean, the world is a dangerous
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place. Iran has shouted death to America for 47 years. They told America they could make 11 nuclear
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bombs. We see what they can do with conventional weapons. I mean, what's left to say? Well, here's
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what Carney had left to say. We do, however, take this position with regret because the current
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conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of UN Security
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Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the
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succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains. All right, fair enough.
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You wish those things would do the trick, international law, and you wish that getting UN votes meant
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something and that bureaucrats could stop war. But for some weird reason, the theocratic dictators who
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murder their own people in Iran and countless people around the world, for some weird reason, they don't
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seem to obey the United Nations. It's sort of like the proponents of gun control wondering why murderers
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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,
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I guess, that not everything works out well. Sometimes might is needed to enforce your right.
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Here's where it gets weird, though. Take a look.
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And now the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting
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Could you imagine Trump consulting Canada first? And could you believe the audacity
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of Mark Carney calling himself an ally? I mean, he just told the world he wants to embrace China as
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a strategic partner. That's the words he used. And to replace America in Canada's world, replace it with
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China and have a new world order. You saw him say that. And he's talking about leading a permanent
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rupture with America and assembling a global alliance against America. And for some reason,
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he's just astonished that Donald Trump didn't call him up with the secret details of the attack before
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it happened. It's a real head scratcher, that one, eh? But actually, I think Carney said that for
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another reason. He's signaling to his massive voter base of third world immigrants, many of whom hate
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the West and hate Israel, that no, don't worry. Carney and the liberals weren't part of this attack on
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Iran. No, sir, nothing to do with us. That's exactly what Keir Starmer said in the United
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Kingdom, and for the exact same reason, to appease Muslim migrants in Muslim ridings where they elect
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radical MPs. The language is ambiguous, though. So he can say to Americans, oh, no, no, no, I was just
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outlining reality. But he can say to the terror mosques, oh, you see, I don't have anything to do with
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great Satan or with the Zionist regime. Here, watch some more. So where to from here? With a
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rapidly spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life, Canada reaffirms that international
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law binds all belligerence. Hang on, you just said that it doesn't, it hasn't, and you're living in
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real life, not fantasy world. You're not naive anymore. So which is it? And what does he mean?
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Did America need someone's permission before attacking? Iran has been attacking America
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for 47 years straight. In fact, you might recall Iran taking 66 U.S. diplomats hostage way back in
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1979. An act of war, a violation of diplomatic norms, and that was just the beginning of it. By the
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way, they were held for 444 days. It's one of the reasons why Ronald Reagan won the election after
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Jimmy Carter. But since then, for nearly half a century, Iran has attacked America and Americans
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directly and through its proxies. The attack on the American barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed 307
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people, including 241 Americans. Most of the IEDs used to kill Americans in Iraq were made in Iran.
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Iran has been at war with America for half a century. This is just from a decade ago when Barack Obama
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was president and Iran seized a U.S. naval vessel and humiliated the U.S. servicemen and violated their
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rights under the Geneva Accords. And Obama did nothing. Iran did similar things to the United
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Kingdom. And today, apropos of nothing, the United States has sunk every ship in the Iranian Navy,
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including the first sinking of a ship by a torpedo since the Second World War. I mean, take a look at this.
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Yeah, don't mess with America, or more accurately, don't mess with America when Donald Trump is
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president. Can you imagine if Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama had responded the way Trump did? You wouldn't
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have had a 50-year war against the West. You can do anything you like, though. When Democrats are in
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office, they'll play dumb and play dead. Okay, so back to Mark Carney, the irrelevant banker who says,
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Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. Okay, what law? And which part of the
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law? And where can I read this law? And who are the police who are going to enforce this law? And
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are they going to arrest somebody? And who's going to be the prosecutor? And who's the judge? And
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isn't this a little bit like arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, like Mark Carney promised to do? Is it that
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thing again? By the way, is unilaterally agreeing to create a new country called Palestine by carving
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it out of present-day Israel, without Israel's agreement, of course, is that following international
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law or not so much? Or is international law really just whatever you say it is in the moment? I mean,
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I'm just asking. But look at that part again. The law binds all belligerents. So he's putting Israel
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in America on the same level as the dictatorship of Iran that spent 47 years torturing its own people,
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including tens of thousands of its own peaceful protesters in recent weeks. Is that Mark Carney
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talking? Or is that the new Canadian spokesman for China doing the talking? We condemn the strikes
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carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East. And we
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implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international
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engagement. What does that mean? What are the rules of engagement that he thinks the U.S. and Israel are
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not respecting? I'd like to know. I know what Iran is doing, by the way. They're deliberately shooting
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at soft civilian targets. Hotels, including in Dubai, airports, including Dubai, apartments, including in
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Israel. America and Israel are not doing this. So why is Mark Carney lumping both sides in this
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together as if they're both on the same moral plane? Why can't he say one side is right and one side is
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wrong? Why can't Mark Carney distinguish between friends and enemies here, between allies and
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enemies? Well, like I say, there are millions of new anti-American, anti-Semitic migrants we brought
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into Canada in the past decade or two. And that's his voter base now. And that's, frankly, half his
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cabinet and caucus, to be honest. But back to the flip-floppery, which is it? He started his
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little speech by saying, we support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon
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and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.
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Okay, me too. But then he implied those efforts are illegal? Okay, so which is it? And then he ends
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with a whimper. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving
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this goal. Hang on. I thought he said he supported the effort to destroy the regime's hostile power,
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nukes, ballistic missiles, drones. So that's not done yet. It's going pretty well. I mean,
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they've hit almost 2,000 targets so far, but it's not done. Why would you want a rapid de-escalation of
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hostilities before the nukes are gone, the ballistic missiles are gone, the drones are gone,
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the regime is gone? Why would he want America and Israel to stop now? That's what he's saying.
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Are there some missiles or drones or nuclear works that Carney wants to preserve? Why does he want
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the good guys to stop before the job is done? Why? He didn't explain it. But that last line is just
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chef's kiss. Canada is prepared to assist you guys. Hey guys, hey, over here, we're ready to help
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America and Israel to, you know, we're going to help you de-escalate because you don't know how,
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but we have that secret knowledge. We're experts about that and we have a lot to teach the world.
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You see, hey, Mark Carney, don't ignore me. Look, at least it wasn't what his defense minister said
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the day before, calling for a ceasefire. We've been following the situation in Iran for quite a while,
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carefully. We're getting just-in-time updates on the situation in the Middle East now.
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And the Prime Minister and the government decided from the beginning of this that we would support
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this incursion. But we're also calling for a diplomatic end to it. We very much would prefer
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to see peace at a ceasefire. That's what my colleague Minister Anand is driving forward now
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with her colleagues around the world. And so we'll see where this takes us. Canadians know this
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is a difficult, complicated, and unfortunate situation. We would all rather see peaceful
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dialogue. But we have a situation now where two countries, two sovereign countries, have decided
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to prosecute a war. Canada's not involved in that war at this time. Okay, so you're basically saying
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America and Israel have to stop fighting one of the world's worst dictatorships. Got it. So that's
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Canada. Okay, let's be honest. No one serious is asking, what does Canada think anymore? They just
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don't think that way anymore. They thought that 15, 20 years ago, actually, when we went to help
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America in Afghanistan. We wouldn't have the equipment or the manpower to do that again today. And
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more importantly, we wouldn't have the moral clarity to do that because, well, we're on the side of the
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jihadist now. We're on the side of Hamas now. And we just don't actually have the ability to do
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anything militarily useful here. Israel is using F-15s and F-16s and F-35s. And the Americans are
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using even more amazing aircraft than that. What would Canada do even if we had a supportive prime
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minister? How many F-18s could we even send that are working? Do we even have like four that are
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electronically up to date and serviceable? Do you really think we even have four? Of course,
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Mark Carney wouldn't, even if he could, because this is all about ethnic voter blocs for him now.
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Even the French that everyone mocks for surrendering in the Second World War, even they are sending an
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aircraft carrier to help shoot down Iranian drones in the region. Of course, that's miles ahead of what
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we could do. So to sum up, Mark Carney is very wise and nuanced and pragmatic. And he totally agrees
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with doing what it takes to stop Iran. But only if that complies with the United Nations or whatever
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he thinks international law means. And he thinks both Iran and the U.S. and Israel should knock it
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off and stop fighting before the regime has changed, even though he said he's for regime change.
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But mainly, guys, he's really willing to help, even though no one has even told him this was gonna
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happen. But they'll surely ask for something. I would be deeply embarrassed that this guy is speaking
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for Canada, except for the fact that no one is actually listening to him, other than maybe his
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Well, there's some dates that I just know by the name of them. St. Patrick's Day is March 17th. I love
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that day, even though I'm not Irish. I sort of wish I were Irish half the time. April Fool's Day is another
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day, and I try to think of myself as not being a fool. But odds are, that day, I'm gonna believe some fake
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news on Twitter, and then later on realize, oh, shucks, that's a false joke. That's a jokey tweet on
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April Fool's. But I think it is more than a coincidence that the government of Canada, the
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Parliament of Canada, every year schedules its automatic self-pay raise, where they all give
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themselves more money, regardless of their performance, regardless of the performance of
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economy. Would it surprise you a jot to learn that they chose April Fool's, April 1st, as that day?
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How fitting. And you know there's only one person to talk to about this outrage. It's our dear friend
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Franco Teresano, the big boss at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Franco, April Fool's Day is,
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you know, it's symbolic. I wonder if they chose it on purpose. But even if they didn't, it's very fitting,
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isn't it? Oh, yeah. I mean, welcome to Ottawa, where taxpayers are always the punchline. Yeah. And
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April 1, right? Real insulting joke at taxpayers' expense is the day that politicians take more
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money out of your wallet, and then stuff extra cash into their own, right? It's been going on
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every single year for a number of years now, where every April 1, MPs give themselves another big fat pay
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raise the same day that they hike taxes. And it looks like this April 1 is going to be no different
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because, Ezra, as of tape time, as of right now, there is only one member of parliament who has the
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spine, the courage to publicly oppose the upcoming pay raise. The rest of them all seem to be lining up for
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the taxpayer trough to collect another helping of taxpayer cash.
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Well, it behooves us to say the name of the one conscientious objector. Do you know who it is offhand?
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Mike Dawson, a courageous conservative MP from New Brunswick. Mike Dawson, what a hero. Thank you
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for doing the right thing, sticking up for your constituents, and publicly opposing the race.
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Finally. You know, if memory serves, Franco, and correct me if I'm wrong, when he announced that
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he would not take the pay raise, I understand he was chided by his colleagues because he sort of
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made them look bad by comparison since he was taking that stand. Is that, did you hear that
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I heard the rumor. I saw, I saw the press in Ottawa reporting it. I mean, obviously, I don't know what
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was going on in the back rooms, but you know what? I can tell you right now, it wasn't Mike Dawson making
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them look bad. It's themselves who are making themselves look bad. Okay. And you know what?
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Let's just do something a little fun. Let's call out each major national party one by one. Okay. Let's
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start with the liberals. First of all, the liberal government could stop the pay raises tomorrow,
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right? The Harper government did it. The liberal government could too as well. Not to mention only
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a couple months ago, Carney told Canadians to brace for sacrifices. Well, why isn't Carney telling his
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own liberal MPs to brace for a little bit of sacrifice and not take a pay raise? But let's also talk
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about the conservatives, right? The conservatives under Pierre Polyev have rightly bashed the
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government when they waste money and hike taxes. Well, why isn't the, why aren't the conservatives
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standing with their own MP, Mike Dawson and taxpayers and opposing this race, right? The silence from the
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conservatives and the liberals have both been deafening. The NDP, by the way, always talk about
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sticking up for the little guy. Well, why aren't they opposing the pay raise going to politicians who all
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make about three times more than the average Canadian worker? Yeah. Yeah. And of course,
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there's the Bloc Québécois who want nothing to do with Canada, except for when it comes to paycheck
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time. Now I have in front of me, your latest press release on the subject. It's called tax and MP pay
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hikes one month away. And we'll get to the tax part in a second, but I had forgotten how much money
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MPs make. And let me just quote from your study. A backbench MP salary is currently $209,800. And
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Franco, that doesn't even include all the free flights, the offices, all the perks, so many perks.
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I mean, that's just for a backbencher. Cabinet ministers collect $309,000. And of course,
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Mark Carney, who I think is a billionaire, he has not disclosed the value of his 600 stocks,
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gets paid $419,000. But actually, each MP costs a multiplier of that because of all their expenses,
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right? Yeah. I mean, expenses are a huge cost to taxpayers, but it's even more than the expensive.
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Expenses, right? You talked about the perks. Well, you know, get this folks, all they have to do is
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work for six years, and then they get a taxpayer funded pension for life, right? Tens of thousands
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of dollars a year. Obviously, that depends on how long they're in office, the rules at the time
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they're in office, but they get a taxpayer funded pension for life if they're only in office for six
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years. Well, if they're not in for six years, don't feel too bad for them, because they'll walk away
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with a six-figure severance check. Then on top of that, they also get a $15,000 transition allowance
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once they get booted from the Hill, okay? So, I mean, like, the salaries are really just a tip of
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the iceberg. And, you know, let me just say something. Like, before anyone says, oh, but
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Franco, come on, it's just a drop in the bucket of the total budget. No, no, no. That is the wrong way
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to look at this. Look, the biggest cost to taxpayers on, like, a day-to-day spending is
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the bloated federal bureaucracy. Well, good luck cutting the bloated federal bureaucracy
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if you, as a member of parliament, aren't even willing to say no to another helping of taxpayer
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cash. Don't believe me? Look at the government unions. We got our hands on government union demands,
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and it specifically pointed to the yearly salary increases that members of parliament give themselves
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as a reason why bureaucrats should take more money from taxpayers. You know, it's a powerful argument,
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really. I mean, if the government, if the MPs are saying we have to hold the line, but they
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themselves don't, it's like the animal farm book by George Orwell. All animals are equal. Some are
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more equal than others. Now, there is, traditionally, the carbon tax goes up on April 1st, but Mark Carney
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has at least temporarily reduced the rate of that to zero. He has not scrapped it. He has simply
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put the rate for now to zero. But there are other taxes, including on alcohol, am I right, that are
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going up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All this conversation could drive you to drink. Well, too bad, folks.
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The government is making your life more expensive if you just want to get a cold one, right? So,
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federal alcohol taxes going up again, April 1, making your beer, wine, your whiskey, your vodka
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more expensive. Now, look, number one, it's going to make life more expensive. Number two,
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the government doesn't deserve a single cent more from any Canadian. Like, even if you don't drink,
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the government shouldn't be raising taxes, okay? They shouldn't be doing that. Number three,
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there's a lot of workers who could be impacted here, right? Because, like, there is a huge Canadian
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industry when, like, you think of the restaurants, the pubs, the distilleries, the breweries, the
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wineries, who are going to be impacted. That will also hurt workers as well. You actually had this
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letter from unionized brewery workers to the federal government warning that there could be
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job losses from this tax hike. And the last point I'll mention about this is that this alcohol tax
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hike has been going up every single year since 2017 without a vote in parliament. Now, here's my
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message to politicians. That's undemocratic. And if you as a politician think that Canadians aren't
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paying enough tax, you should at least have the spine to vote on the tax increase.
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Yeah. Hey, I appreciate you joining us. Thanks for reminding us of the one good guy in this story,
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Mike Dawson, who declined his pay raise. And it's sort of incredible that out of 300 plus MPs,
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only one did that. And I would have hoped for more from the conservatives. But like you say,
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they're all in on it. Franco, great to catch up with you. Thank you.
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Thanks, Ezra. There's our friend Franco Teresano. And as you can see,
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the Taxpayers Federation is nonpartisan. And that's why we can trust them. Stay with us. More ahead.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me, Dog of Heg, I think I'm saying that right,
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talks about Keir Starmer's Iran remarks and says, I had respect for Carney for about 10 minutes.
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Then he copied and pasted Keir Starmer. You're right. And they're really trying to walk this
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line. And for the exact same reason, by the way, the UK actually could send a few ships and some
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jets, even though their Navy is a shrivel of a fraction of what it was even a few decades ago.
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By the way, if Argentina were to seize the Fulton Islands now, I don't think the UK would have the
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ability to take them back. And I don't want Argentina to seize them. I'm just saying the UK
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is so weak. But besides being militarily weak, there's no way Keir Starmer would do anything to
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upset the Islamic vote in the UK. That's, I think, becoming the norm in much of Western Europe.
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Cold Spring 624 says, end all British efforts to control the US. No allegiance to the British
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whatsoever. We are not Canada. Okay, I think you're speaking as an American. America as an
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inherited so much of the British tradition and kept so many of the best parts, including
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freedom of speech, individualism, military strength. And remember, the British Empire ruled
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the seas for so long. And it was a great source of prosperity and peace to the world. Unfortunately,
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the UK really isn't a player anymore, because they're afraid of upsetting their fifth column.
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On my chat with Minister Dale Nellie about reducing red tape, Vintage Guy says,
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turns out the nicotine is good for you. That's why the libs don't want you to have it. Well,
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it's interesting that you say that because most of the bad things in smoking came from the smoke
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part of it, the burning it and the tar and the ash and the different chemicals that were released.
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It wasn't the nicotine that was the real problem with smoking. It was the other stuff,
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which is why things like those pouches or gums or other nicotine replacement are so much better.
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And smokers often use it to sort of climb down the ladder. You're still getting the nicotine hit,
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which is what people crave in cigarettes, but you're not getting the smoke. Now, you have to
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change your other habits, too. A lot of people, smoking is a habit. They just like something to
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do with their hands. So it's a complex thing. I mean, habits are complex things, but I really,
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and I'm not a smoker and I don't use those pouches either, but it's sort of obvious to me,
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if it's a better alternative than cigarettes, why the heck are you hiding it behind a pharmacist
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rather than putting it in the same convenience stores that smokes? Anyways, we'll see what
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happens there. I was sort of interested with that story. Well, it's our show for the day.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to
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you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.