Rebel News Podcast - March 03, 2026


Iranians rally for freedom as Ayatollah toppled in US-Israeli strike

Topics
pro-Iranian freedom protests Reza Pahlavi and Iranian democracy transition
Mentioned
Uncle John Trump Ezra Levant Medicine Hat Reza Pahlavi Khomeini Corey Morgan Tamara Leach Efron X. Absolutely Daniel Taylor William J. Kelly Jason Kenney Anita Anand Mark Carney Don Herr Ayatollah Scarlett Antifa Ratawa Smith
Alberta independence is coming — and Eastern Canada has no idea EZRA LEVANT ｜ The one tweet that snapped a dozen government bureaucrats to attention

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12

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In Medicine Hat, Alberta, Ezra Levant had a chance to speak to a room full of Albertans who are tired of being told to sit down, shut up, and just be grateful for everything. And here s what happened.

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00:00:00.000 We've got it for freedom! 0.99
00:00:03.040 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.98
00:00:16.680 She's already there, stealing Canadian land. 1.00
00:00:19.800 Where he just handed it over to the intimate stuff.
00:00:22.780 Oh wow! Are we too!
00:00:25.140 Oh, thank you.
00:00:26.100 Free speech prevailed in Medicine Hat.
00:00:31.200 It's March 2nd, 2026.
00:00:33.820 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:41.280 It was Friday night in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
00:00:44.400 It was blowing snow and bitterly cold.
00:00:47.260 Not exactly the place the chattering classes in Ottawa imagine 1.00
00:00:52.220 when they picture radical separatists plotting the end of Confederation.
00:00:57.320 It was really just a rented hall in Medicine Hat College.
00:01:00.320 A stack of my notes, a microphone, and a room full of Albertans
00:01:04.820 who are tired of being told to sit down, shut up, and just be grateful for everything.
00:01:09.840 You see, that's the thing about this independence tour
00:01:13.060 with my friends Corey Morgan of the Western Standard
00:01:15.220 and Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Leach.
00:01:18.820 It's a systems conversation.
00:01:21.700 It's actually not all that exciting.
00:01:24.960 It's a let's actually walk through the hard mechanics of independence conversation.
00:01:30.620 Pensions, debt, trade corridors, energy exports, equalization,
00:01:35.980 indigenous jurisdiction, currency, courts, borders, the nuts and bolts.
00:01:41.040 The stuff that either makes a country work or doesn't.
00:01:45.120 And on Friday night, we brought that conversation to Southern Alberta.
00:01:50.920 The venue itself deserves a lot of credit.
00:01:54.500 Let's start there.
00:01:55.420 Because it takes real backbone these days for a public institution,
00:01:59.440 especially a post-secondary one, to host a controversial event
00:02:04.300 and not cave the second someone sends an angry email.
00:02:08.080 And boy, did they get angry emails.
00:02:10.940 And we've seen it happen.
00:02:12.580 A handful of complaints, if that, a social media thread, a media story,
00:02:18.700 someone invokes safety, safety, and suddenly, poof, your booking just disappears.
00:02:24.320 Now, that didn't happen to us.
00:02:27.140 Medicine Hat honored the contract to host us.
00:02:31.140 They didn't buckle to pressure.
00:02:33.540 They didn't invent some sort of technical glitch
00:02:35.820 or a line in a contract that didn't exist.
00:02:40.780 They respected free expression,
00:02:42.700 even for ideas that make some people deeply uncomfortable.
00:02:47.220 And that matters to me.
00:02:48.880 As you know, I have a strong commitment to free speech.
00:02:51.320 Not the trendy kind where you defend speech only if it aligns with your politics.
00:02:56.660 The real kind.
00:02:57.920 The inconvenient kind.
00:02:59.380 The kind where you let both sides speak
00:03:01.540 and then trust the adults in the room to sort it out peacefully.
00:03:05.760 And both sides did show up.
00:03:07.420 Inside, we packed a room.
00:03:10.420 Ranchers, oil field workers, retirees, students, families, small business owners,
00:03:15.760 parents who brought their adult kids because they said,
00:03:18.860 you need to hear this.
00:03:20.760 Some, most, were already sold on independence.
00:03:24.200 Others were cautious.
00:03:25.760 Some were skeptical but curious.
00:03:27.560 That's exactly who I want in the room.
00:03:29.860 Because this independence tour isn't about whipping up rage.
00:03:33.200 It's about answering objections.
00:03:35.460 It's about pressure testing the idea.
00:03:37.780 It's about learning from places like Quebec,
00:03:41.220 which in 1995 ran 18 different traveling commissions.
00:03:45.660 They held 435 public hearings.
00:03:48.240 They heard from more than 55,000 citizens
00:03:50.820 and submitted over 3,000 written briefs
00:03:53.640 before asking a single referendum question.
00:03:56.760 Quebec did the homework.
00:03:58.460 And if Alberta ever takes this seriously,
00:04:00.580 we have to do the homework too
00:04:02.220 because we only get one shot at this.
00:04:05.280 And then there were the protesters.
00:04:06.620 A solid turnout, actually.
00:04:09.380 Wasn't a handful.
00:04:11.120 It wasn't a token presence.
00:04:12.960 They came prepared.
00:04:14.560 Signs, slogans, and, I guess,
00:04:18.960 energetic determination, I'll call it.
00:04:22.120 No, I'll be honest.
00:04:23.980 Many of them were prickly.
00:04:25.860 Especially with me.
00:04:27.160 Apparently my existence, my face,
00:04:29.120 and my wardrobe choices were deeply provocative.
00:04:32.520 Who knew my belt could be so controversial?
00:04:36.560 Cultural appropriation, even, they told me.
00:04:39.700 And with Ezra, it was the same adversarial energy,
00:04:44.460 let's call it.
00:04:45.460 But here's what didn't happen.
00:04:47.520 No violence.
00:04:48.720 No shoving.
00:04:49.740 No screaming in people's faces.
00:04:52.960 No attempts to block the doors.
00:04:54.820 No fire alarms were pulled.
00:04:56.360 No vandalism.
00:04:58.000 No theatrical black block nonsense.
00:05:00.820 There were no Palestinian flags.
00:05:02.860 No pride flags.
00:05:03.860 No Antifa cosplay.
00:05:05.600 No outside agitator aesthetic.
00:05:08.440 Some of the crowd, let's be honest,
00:05:11.260 looked like they were manufactured in a lab
00:05:13.180 to meet every one of my angry, white, liberal,
00:05:19.040 middle-aged lady stereotypes. 1.00
00:05:21.280 The haircut, the glasses, the disapproving stare
00:05:23.860 that says, I've already decided you're wrong
00:05:26.440 and I'm very, very tired of you.
00:05:28.920 But they were, by and large, well-behaved.
00:05:31.800 And that matters.
00:05:32.920 Because what we're building has to be better
00:05:34.800 than what we're criticizing.
00:05:36.540 We're constantly told Alberta independence
00:05:38.840 is driven by extremists, by angry radicals,
00:05:42.260 by people who can't handle disagreement
00:05:44.420 so they're taking their ball and going home.
00:05:47.160 Yet on Friday night, you had a group of Albertans
00:05:49.880 who fundamentally opposed the idea,
00:05:52.500 standing outside peacefully exercising their rights,
00:05:55.260 and you had a group inside doing the exact same thing.
00:05:58.720 That's democracy.
00:06:00.440 Not the sanitized, curated, liberal version.
00:06:03.840 A real one.
00:06:05.000 It's a little messy.
00:06:06.480 But this way, everyone's rights matter.
00:06:09.480 And we even extended an invitation.
00:06:11.340 We said, come inside.
00:06:14.440 Ask your questions.
00:06:15.920 Challenge us directly.
00:06:17.440 You've got concerns?
00:06:18.680 Bring them to the microphone.
00:06:20.360 Let's talk about the CPP.
00:06:21.980 Let's talk about equalization.
00:06:24.040 Let's talk about what happens to federal employees.
00:06:27.100 Let's talk about trade.
00:06:28.500 Let's talk about risk.
00:06:30.180 But you know what?
00:06:31.840 They declined.
00:06:32.980 Which is unfortunate because we genuinely
00:06:35.220 wanted to hear from them.
00:06:36.720 We're not afraid of hard questions.
00:06:38.780 In fact, I insist on them.
00:06:41.300 If Alberta is ever going to contemplate something
00:06:43.360 as significant as sovereignty,
00:06:45.820 the objections are the most important part of the conversation.
00:06:50.200 They're the things the mushy middle needs to overcome.
00:06:54.020 And while the protesters wanted to be heard,
00:06:57.780 they weren't necessarily interested in hearing.
00:07:01.080 Still, I'll take that over chaos any day.
00:07:04.740 If more protests in this country look like medicine had on Friday night,
00:07:08.820 we'd be a far less divided place.
00:07:11.880 Inside the hall, the questions were serious.
00:07:14.460 What about my pension?
00:07:15.640 What about the treaties?
00:07:16.920 What about investment leaving?
00:07:18.380 What about the dollar?
00:07:19.360 What about federal retaliation?
00:07:21.560 What about being landlocked?
00:07:23.160 These are normal, rational adult questions.
00:07:26.360 And we answered them like adults.
00:07:28.760 On pensions, we talked about Alberta's demographic advantage
00:07:32.200 and net contributions.
00:07:33.560 On debt, we discussed negotiated asset and liability splits.
00:07:38.140 On trade, we talked about energy corridors
00:07:40.500 and our existing export relationships.
00:07:43.340 On indigenous issues, we acknowledge treaty relationships
00:07:47.080 don't disappear with a change in jurisdiction,
00:07:49.320 that the treaties have to be honored and even strengthened.
00:07:53.620 Boring old mechanics of self-governance.
00:07:57.120 And here's what struck me most.
00:07:59.100 The mood in the room wasn't rage.
00:08:01.520 It was resolve.
00:08:03.160 People weren't there to burn anything down.
00:08:06.520 They were there because they feel ignored.
00:08:08.920 Because they feel overruled.
00:08:10.460 Because they feel like decisions that affect their livelihoods
00:08:13.620 and their families are made thousands of kilometers away
00:08:16.400 by people who don't understand or don't care
00:08:19.520 how this province actually works.
00:08:22.380 The people in that room wanted leverage.
00:08:24.760 They want respect.
00:08:26.300 And they want options.
00:08:27.600 Whether independence ultimately becomes the path
00:08:31.140 or a way to simply strengthen Alberta's negotiation position,
00:08:35.380 the conversation itself is powerful and necessary.
00:08:39.960 That's why Friday Night Mattered.
00:08:41.380 It showed that we can still gather peacefully.
00:08:44.800 That institutions can still stand firm.
00:08:47.940 That opponents can still protest without trying to shut things down.
00:08:52.080 That ideas can clash without fists flying.
00:08:55.960 That's not a small thing.
00:08:57.600 In 2026, we live in a country where certain viewpoints
00:09:01.380 are treated as inherently illegitimate.
00:09:03.940 Where dissent is often pathologized or even criminalized.
00:09:08.360 Where economic grievances are dismissed as regional arrogance.
00:09:12.640 Yet, in Medicine Hat, we had something healthier.
00:09:16.100 Disagreement without dehumanization, mostly. 0.98
00:09:19.480 Except for the sign depicting Premier Smith as a pig. 0.96
00:09:23.220 Now, was it perfect? 0.97
00:09:24.120 No.
00:09:24.800 The protesters weren't exactly warm and fuzzy.
00:09:27.720 I won't be getting any Christmas cards from that crowd.
00:09:30.380 But they weren't violent.
00:09:31.820 They weren't destructive.
00:09:33.120 And they didn't try to cancel the event.
00:09:35.620 And I respect them for that.
00:09:37.040 Because if we're going to ask for the right to self-determination,
00:09:40.340 we have to model the kind of civic culture we want in a future Alberta,
00:09:45.880 whatever its constitutional status might be.
00:09:47.960 I want an Alberta where you can protest.
00:09:50.480 I want an Alberta where you can even argue.
00:09:53.020 An Alberta where you can say,
00:09:55.340 I think this is a terrible idea, without being silenced.
00:10:00.040 Friday night showed that's still possible.
00:10:03.460 Our independence tour isn't about isolating ourselves.
00:10:06.440 It's about strengthening ourselves.
00:10:08.540 It's about asking whether the current arrangement serves Alberta's long-term prosperity and autonomy.
00:10:15.300 And if not, what the alternative looks like.
00:10:18.500 We are builders in this province.
00:10:20.860 Pioneers.
00:10:21.860 Problem solvers.
00:10:22.560 We built industries from nothing.
00:10:25.320 We turned the prairie into productivity.
00:10:28.000 And we didn't do that by being timid.
00:10:30.120 And we're not being timid now.
00:10:31.900 We're being careful.
00:10:33.640 This, before us, is a generational decision.
00:10:36.620 And we owe it to the next generation to get it right.
00:10:40.400 So Friday night in Medicine Hat wasn't just another stop on a tour.
00:10:44.340 For me, it was a reminder.
00:10:46.640 A reminder that free speech still has defenders.
00:10:49.040 A reminder that civil protest still exists.
00:10:53.300 A reminder that serious conversations can happen in public without the sky falling.
00:10:58.760 You don't have to like my face.
00:11:00.600 You can send me an email telling me you hate it.
00:11:03.860 You can not like my clothes.
00:11:05.840 You don't have to like the idea of Alberta standing on its own two feet.
00:11:10.180 But in that hall, and even outside of it,
00:11:12.600 I think we proved something important.
00:11:14.780 We can still disagree without tearing each other apart.
00:11:17.300 And in this country right now, that's no small victory.
00:11:22.240 Stay with us.
00:11:23.100 Rebel News' Scarlet Grace joins us after the break to discuss
00:11:25.940 the pro-Iranian freedom protests in Toronto
00:11:29.260 in the wake of the death of the Ayatollah.
00:11:33.020 So joining me now is our very own Scarlet Grace.
00:11:41.460 Scarlet has done incredible work documenting the cries of the Iranian community
00:11:47.480 in Canada for freedom from the Ayatollahs and the oppressive Iranian regime. 0.82
00:11:56.220 Scarlet, thanks so much for coming on the show.
00:11:58.700 Scarlet, you were out this weekend as Iranians, Persians took to the streets in Toronto
00:12:04.920 to celebrate the death of Khomeini at the hands of the Americans.
00:12:11.220 Tell me, first of all, what was it like?
00:12:13.780 Was it just pure jubilation?
00:12:15.360 That's what I was picking up when I saw your clips on X.
00:12:19.380 Absolutely.
00:12:19.880 So this rally had been planned for some time.
00:12:23.140 These sort of massive demonstrations have been a biweekly occurrence
00:12:27.040 for the last month and a half, two months or so.
00:12:30.140 So the atmosphere at them is generally, there's a sense of desperation in the air.
00:12:36.620 There's a fight happening.
00:12:38.260 There's a lot of sorrow too.
00:12:41.180 But when I arrived at the rally on Saturday,
00:12:44.960 this was the morning after the strikes had begun.
00:12:47.760 The mood was completely different.
00:12:50.020 It was celebratory.
00:12:51.680 As soon as I got to the parking lot, instead of tears, it was cheers.
00:12:56.340 And that was before we actually found out the news of Khomeini's death.
00:13:00.880 That wasn't until kind of the end of the rally.
00:13:04.180 But it really was incredible that everyone was already together for that,
00:13:07.460 the whole Iranian community in Toronto.
00:13:09.780 It was historic.
00:13:11.000 It was crazy.
00:13:13.360 I guess for you, I mean, you've been documenting the anti-regime protests
00:13:20.240 in the Iranian community in Toronto for months, years even.
00:13:25.680 It's a movement that's near and dear to your heart.
00:13:28.400 What was it like for you to be there with them as they found out the news that the potential
00:13:34.160 for their people to take back their own country was breaking?
00:13:41.220 It was kind of hard to keep it together because at the same time, I was still working and reporting.
00:13:48.440 I had our colleague Efron with me filming.
00:13:51.400 And, I mean, when the news itself came out, it wasn't kind of one moment where everybody just started celebrating
00:13:59.460 because when you're in a group that big, it's like the Freedom Convoy.
00:14:03.060 You can't connect to the internet because there's so many people there at once.
00:14:06.960 So the news was coming in very, like, patchy.
00:14:09.980 There'd be, like, pockets of people erupting in cheers.
00:14:13.300 Another one over here.
00:14:14.620 I kept trying to check my phone.
00:14:16.080 Like, people were messaging me saying, Hominy's dead.
00:14:19.160 And I'm like, I need proof.
00:14:20.200 Someone send me a link.
00:14:21.300 Nothing would load.
00:14:22.660 So I got to the stage at the end and ran into my security friend who has direct contact with Israel.
00:14:30.080 And I was with him when the news came in from Israel.
00:14:33.640 And he ran to the stage to tell the speakers so the speakers could announce it officially.
00:14:37.860 And that's when everybody started crying.
00:14:40.120 And it was kind of one just emotional mess.
00:14:43.540 I was getting weepy, too, interviewing people.
00:14:46.900 It was very hard to keep it together.
00:14:48.580 But, yeah, a very emotional moment, for sure.
00:14:51.700 You know, it's been nearly 50 years of that oppressive, murderous, I mean, terrorist regime in Iran. 0.98
00:15:01.520 And, you know, I just want to get your opinion on Trump's speech to the people.
00:15:07.000 It was an eight-minute speech.
00:15:08.300 I think it was one of the most important of both of his terms.
00:15:13.740 Telling the Iranian people that, you know, not that it was that the Americans would be taking over their country.
00:15:22.320 But he was making it possible for them to take back their own country.
00:15:26.000 I just wanted to get your take on Trump's speech directly to the Iranian people, which I understand the Americans then hacked Iranian TV and then broadcast that speech on Iranian TV to the people.
00:15:40.000 Yeah.
00:15:41.200 I mean, Iranians love Trump.
00:15:43.340 I think it's exactly what they wanted to hear.
00:15:46.060 He said something along the lines of, we're with you, and I'm willing to do what no president before has been willing to do.
00:15:54.700 And it's just, I think, the person they've been waiting for.
00:16:00.380 He released another speech yesterday, I believe, with an update on what he calls, I believe, Operation Epic Fury.
00:16:09.320 Yeah, great name.
00:16:10.520 Great name.
00:16:10.920 Yeah, he's always got great names for things.
00:16:13.200 And I was with my Iranian friends in Toronto at dinner when that one came out, and they all just, the reaction was, oh my God, I love this guy.
00:16:25.380 So he's really kind of the answer to their prayers, and they're calling him Uncle Trump.
00:16:31.540 It's nothing but Uncle Trump in Iran.
00:16:34.840 There's people calling him that.
00:16:37.480 So he's just, yeah, he's the answer to their prayers.
00:16:40.260 What I love seeing is the Persian community doing the Trump dance, you know, his little YMCA. 1.00
00:16:48.060 You know, there's, I think, a great admiration for him.
00:16:52.440 And I think it's wonderful to see the American flags at these protests, Canadian flags, Israeli flags, and then the proper Iranian flag at these protests.
00:17:06.880 It's, it's a movement for unity, and yet, and yet, you still see people like those deeply embedded in the NDP, their enablers in the media, the Antifa types, the pro-Hamas types, who are willing to plan their own protests to protest the death of Khomeini at the hands of the Americans.
00:17:34.640 And how, in your experience, how does the Iranian slash Persian community feel about that sort of stuff?
00:17:42.480 That was one of my questions for them yesterday.
00:17:44.780 I asked a lot of people, what do you think of the no war with Iran types?
00:17:51.700 And their answer overwhelmingly was, A, I don't think they really care because they're so happy right now.
00:17:57.680 It's kind of irrelevant to them.
00:17:58.960 Yeah, it's something, and it's something that they're used to.
00:18:03.600 I mean, they, they're used to the left, and their kind of narrative and everything. 0.93
00:18:09.260 But it's, they, the consensus is these people are either overwhelmingly ignorant, and they don't know what they're talking about, or they're siding with the regime. 0.95
00:18:21.200 There's kind of no in-between. 0.97
00:18:22.740 They don't know what they're talking about, or they're adamantly against them.
00:18:27.800 For me, I think it's a lot of just Western young people who, they hear the word war, so automatically bad.
00:18:37.160 But Iranians are not calling this a war, they're calling it a rescue mission.
00:18:40.720 And if it is a war, it's not a war with Iran.
00:18:43.860 It's a war for Iran. 0.80
00:18:45.780 It's a war against the Islamic Republic occupying Iran. 0.50
00:18:48.480 Yeah, I think there's a healthy dose of your standard elbows-up liberal type, trained by the CBC, to just be reflexively anti-Trump.
00:19:01.680 Even if Uncle Trump is saving the world from this world's largest state sponsor of terror, which includes sponsoring terror in Muslim countries. 1.00
00:19:14.040 Like, you saw the Iranian regime over the weekend lash out against their fellow Muslim countries, like the UAE and Jordan.
00:19:25.380 They were firing missiles into those countries.
00:19:28.560 But some of these people, Trump could cure cancer, and they would, they would be mad about it.
00:19:35.840 And I think there's some of that, too, that they just, no matter what Trump does, it has to be bad, even if it is making the world a safer place for all of us.
00:19:45.260 It's just overwhelming TDS, no matter what.
00:19:50.080 It's the same with, it's very similar to what happened with Venezuela.
00:19:54.960 You know, you see Venezuelans rejoicing, crying, screaming in the streets, thank you, Trump.
00:20:00.300 And it's what the people want.
00:20:03.160 It's the exact same thing with the Iranians. 1.00
00:20:05.440 But because it was Trump who did it, bad, bad, bad. 0.96
00:20:09.940 It's insane.
00:20:11.720 Well, and we saw the, you know, the Trump is bad crowd being very upset about the civilian deaths.
00:20:21.720 Although there have been very few, because the American military is so targeted and powerful.
00:20:27.400 So, likewise, the Israeli military, who is helping in this operation, they, precision strikes, but there has been some civilian loss of life.
00:20:40.080 And the anti-Trump left is really up in arms about this.
00:20:43.540 But where were they when 30,000 plus Iranians were slaughtered really since December at the hands of the regime?
00:20:52.320 It's, I mean, there's also been a lot of misinformation, of course, pushed by the left and pushed by regime bots.
00:21:01.600 There was a story going around yesterday.
00:21:04.020 Oh, America and Israel, they slaughtered 50 school children in Iran in the bombings.
00:21:10.040 When it turned out that that was actually a regime bomb that did that, that misfired, and they took responsibility for that.
00:21:16.240 They'll take any little thing and twist it to make America and Israel look bad. 0.97
00:21:23.540 And, yes, I mean, it's been tens of thousands of innocent, unarmed civilians that have been slaughtered by this regime in the last two months.
00:21:33.180 It's like it's unlike any massacre we've seen.
00:21:36.800 And, I mean, even if the numbers coming out of Gaza, coming from Hamas, the Ministry of Health, were correct, which they've been proven not to be, and Hamas has even admitted to inflating those numbers,
00:21:50.580 they wouldn't even come close to comparison to the loss of lives at the hands of this regime.
00:21:57.260 And it's been crickets from that crowd that has been having a meltdown if a child stubs their toe in Gaza.
00:22:03.460 So, what are you hearing from the people on the streets, from the Iranian expat community?
00:22:10.800 What do they want to happen to their country?
00:22:13.560 Who do they want to be in charge? 0.96
00:22:17.240 You know, power abhors a vacuum.
00:22:21.620 It'll suck right in to fill it back up. 0.94
00:22:23.680 And I think if Trump kills enough of the bad guys at the top, they'll stop stepping in to lead. 0.98
00:22:30.360 But what do the people want?
00:22:32.720 What sort of governance structure would they like to see in Iran?
00:22:39.060 So, this is an important question because this is something that the mainstream media loves to omit for whatever reason, for whatever side they're taking.
00:22:48.180 And Iranians have really caught on to this, too.
00:22:50.940 They want the message that the world hears from them and knows from them is that they have a chosen leader.
00:22:58.100 And they are more united than they've ever been.
00:23:00.960 And this is not just the Iranian diaspora.
00:23:02.920 This is within Iran, too.
00:23:04.280 You will hear calls from protesters.
00:23:06.180 You'll see signs.
00:23:07.060 I personally have connections in Iran as well.
00:23:10.400 And it's the same thing from them.
00:23:12.200 They all are calling on the return of Reza Pallavi, the crown prince and the son of the last Shah.
00:23:20.340 And Reza Pallavi himself has said he has no desire for a crown.
00:23:27.280 He has no desire for power.
00:23:29.640 He has a plan to transition Iran to democracy after the fall of the regime.
00:23:37.720 And this is who Iranians overwhelmingly trust to do this. 0.75
00:23:41.800 They have a long history with him, of course, and he's been fighting for this since he was exiled.
00:23:47.960 And the mainstream never wants to include that.
00:23:51.540 Iranians have caught on to this.
00:23:52.700 They will bring signs and make sure every other person in the crowd has either a picture or a sign with Reza Pallavi's face or name on it.
00:24:00.400 So that they can't do a shot of the crowd and miss it.
00:24:05.640 And that's the most important thing that Iranians want people to know.
00:24:09.180 We know who we want to help us at this transitional time.
00:24:12.980 And it's Reza Pallavi.
00:24:15.500 Now, before we close, I just want to ask you about the Canadian reaction to this.
00:24:22.460 I see Anita Anand, our foreign affairs minister.
00:24:25.540 She came out and said, Canada wasn't involved.
00:24:31.740 We weren't notified.
00:24:33.500 And we don't have an intention to be involved in any military strikes or operation.
00:24:38.220 And Canada believes in a diplomatic and peaceful solution.
00:24:42.340 So I guess my takeaway from that is the Americans and the Israelis couldn't trust us to be involved.
00:24:49.300 And also, we're not equipped to be involved.
00:24:53.280 Like, what are we going to do?
00:24:55.540 But also that the Canadian government is crazy enough to think that there was ever a diplomatic solution with the world's largest state sponsor of terror.
00:25:06.420 I mean, even Trump was supposedly in negotiations with them before this, which everybody knew was futile.
00:25:14.460 Well, I think from what I understand, I'm sorry to interrupt.
00:25:17.680 No.
00:25:18.000 I think it was a distraction tactic.
00:25:20.660 I think so, too.
00:25:21.960 Yeah.
00:25:22.200 I mean, you never know with him what his strategy is.
00:25:25.580 But, I mean, it worked out in the end.
00:25:27.520 Yeah.
00:25:28.460 But you can't negotiate with terrorists.
00:25:31.120 You can't negotiate with people who want your destruction, who, you know, since birth have been trying to indoctrinate their people by chanting death to America, death to Israel.
00:25:40.960 You can't negotiate with those people.
00:25:42.400 So, I don't know what's her name thought could be done in that aspect.
00:25:48.740 But there was a statement that was put out by Mark Carney, I believe, yesterday, saying that they support what America is doing.
00:25:55.720 I think he's just jumping on the bandwagon because it's happening anyways.
00:25:59.780 But Iranians, when I asked them about that yesterday, too, they were shocked.
00:26:03.300 But they were happy with the statement.
00:26:05.320 Yeah, no, I think it's time to throw the IRGC operatives out of this country, send them back to Iran to face the consequences of what they have been part of doing to their own people for so many years.
00:26:23.280 And, Scarlett, thank you so much for the work that you do to give a voice to the Iranians in Toronto.
00:26:30.300 They know, as well as we know, that you just can't trust the mainstream media.
00:26:35.620 But I know that they trust you.
00:26:37.660 Awesome.
00:26:38.120 Thank you so much for having me.
00:26:44.000 As always, the last portion of Ezra's show, but also my show, belongs to our viewers at home because without you, there's no rebel news.
00:26:52.100 So, today's viewer emails, feedback, comments comes to us by way of your responses to last Friday's episode of the Ezra Levant show where we played speeches from the Western Standards' Corey Morgan, Tamara Leach, my friend and colleague here at Rebel News, but also you know her, you love her as the leader of the Freedom Convoy, my boss, Ezra Levant, who normally hosts this show.
00:27:21.140 And, of course, my own speech from the Independence tour.
00:27:25.640 So, Daniel Taylor writes and says,
00:27:28.140 If Alberta separates, the number of conservative seats in Ottawa is reduced by 30 plus, and this would guarantee a liberal majority in the House of Commons of the new Canada forever.
00:27:39.040 So, the Libs just might want Alberta to leave Canada, but we'll never admit it.
00:27:44.600 There's some truth to that.
00:27:45.680 However, I don't think the liberals want their gravy train with biscuit wheels rolling out of the station, either.
00:27:54.680 They, I think, believe the current structure works perfectly for them.
00:28:01.400 They get to milk the cash cow without the cash cow ever getting a say in any of this because of the electoral math, which you rightly point out.
00:28:12.060 So, we don't have enough seats to overcome the central Canadian and eastern Canadian liberal voting boomer bloc, which guarantees the liberals a majority, I think, in the next election. 0.72
00:28:29.300 We, we can't vote our way out of that.
00:28:33.000 So, the structural inequities currently work for the liberals.
00:28:37.260 So, I don't necessarily think they want us to leave.
00:28:40.980 They love how things are right now.
00:28:43.300 Because we pay the bills, we just have to shut up about it.
00:28:46.000 However, your electoral math exposes something else.
00:28:52.000 Some of the most vicious opponents to Western independence are going to be the federal conservatives.
00:29:03.080 And so, we should get ourselves ready for our friends to become our enemies real fast.
00:29:07.780 Because they never win again without us.
00:29:12.620 You know, and I'm not just talking about Alberta, because if Alberta leaves, and I think we're closer now than ever before, Saskatchewan will leave shortly thereafter.
00:29:24.780 And then you never have a conservative in the prime minister's office ever again, or at least for a very, very long time.
00:29:31.600 And we're already seeing that with the likes of Jason Kenney, being trotted out as a federalist to call people names, to accuse them of bootlicking.
00:29:47.400 If I were the federal conservative party, worried about alienating Albertans, if we don't leave, you might want to shut that guy up.
00:29:55.460 And fast.
00:29:58.400 Lillian Kelly writes,
00:29:59.540 I love Canada.
00:30:00.320 I don't live in Alberta.
00:30:01.120 I live in BC.
00:30:02.120 What happens to BC if Alberta leaves Canada?
00:30:04.600 I don't want to see Canada split up, although I can understand the concerns.
00:30:09.140 Why not change Canada?
00:30:10.240 I know it's a big job.
00:30:11.480 We've tried to change Canada.
00:30:17.000 The bar for constitutional reform requires seven of ten provinces to agree to open up the constitution.
00:30:25.660 Do you think they're going to do that to us?
00:30:27.040 If it were able for us to fix, we would have done that already.
00:30:34.040 I think most, no, I don't want to say most, but there is a good portion of separatist minded Albertans who are reluctant.
00:30:44.300 Who, they love Canada just like you, or at least they love what Canada used to be, but they just don't see another way.
00:30:52.600 Because they've tried to fix it.
00:30:57.080 I mean, Alberta has tried lawsuits and the Sovereignty Act and, you know, we've tried appointing our own senators, but the prime minister, or at least the liberal prime ministers, have decided they're not going to appoint to those ones selected by the province of Alberta.
00:31:20.000 You know, we've tried so many things and we don't, we don't want to crack the country apart either, but this is a matter of self-preservation.
00:31:32.900 And I guess to answer your question about what happens to BC, that ultimately will be on the people of BC to decide.
00:31:40.640 But I think you are dealing with some of the same things that we are, as in, in British Columbia, I think right up until Chilliwack, you're pretty darn conservative, but you're governed by a cluster of radical progressives out of Victorian Vancouver, right?
00:32:01.960 I think you are, I think you are as, you know, as Western as the rest of us in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
00:32:12.460 And if Alberta left, would BC break in half?
00:32:16.140 I think there's some potential for that.
00:32:19.180 And I think maybe those conversations will start happening after Alberta has its vote.
00:32:24.920 Don Herr, no, Don, oh no, no, Efron, did you really pick this name?
00:32:34.980 What are you thinking?
00:32:39.680 Rare her check.
00:32:41.300 Don rare her check.
00:32:44.120 Hopefully I'm saying that right.
00:32:46.560 He writes, separate Alberta or at least vote to separate.
00:32:50.260 Then follow the necessary steps.
00:32:52.060 Do not believe anything that Ratawa says that is smoke and mirrors.
00:32:56.200 Sorry, but in my opinion, this is the only way to leave the liberal corrupt government.
00:33:03.640 At the very least, it gives us leverage.
00:33:08.100 Leverage that Quebec already has.
00:33:10.600 And separatist sentiment is pulling higher in Alberta than it does in Quebec.
00:33:14.920 Why?
00:33:15.280 Because we actually want to leave and we're just not doing this for emotional and financial blackmail.
00:33:22.060 I think that's it.
00:33:24.860 Yeah, there's, for many Albertans, they just don't think that they can fix what's broken.
00:33:30.020 And we don't think the liberals are good faith partners in confederation with us.
00:33:39.220 And we just want to be able to live in a place that is reflective of our culture and our values.
00:33:50.220 And it's, you know, it's sad for some.
00:33:53.080 It's not really all that sad for me.
00:33:55.040 Kind of eager.
00:33:56.260 But it is sad for some.
00:33:59.020 But as my son said to me over the weekend, he was promised to Canada that he and his friends never got.
00:34:08.260 So he's going to take it for himself by voting in that referendum.
00:34:12.120 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.
00:34:15.760 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:34:17.380 I think Ezra's back in the chair tomorrow.
00:34:20.120 And as I say on my show, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.
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