Rebel News Podcast - What do Liberals, including Doug Ford, really think about Iran？

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00:01:27.400 Now, let's get into it.

00:01:28.640 what do liberals including doug ford really think about iran it's march 13th this is the

00:01:49.220 Ezra Levant show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. If you ask me what I think about Iran, I guess 0.84

00:02:07.820 I have two completely different answers. One of them is Iranian people, or most of them are Persian

00:02:13.320 by ethnicity. There's a lot of Persians in Toronto and a lot of in Vancouver, and many of them

00:02:18.860 fled Iran when the Ayatollahs came in in the late 70s and brought in a strict fascist theocracy.

00:02:27.320 You might recall that that's the basis for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which was 0.83

00:02:32.280 about a misogynist regime where women are in bags and are basically sex slaves. It was, if you ask

00:02:39.780 Margaret Atwood, she will tell you. The idea came about watching the revolution in Iran. She,

00:02:45.560 however, lacked the courage to make Islam the context. She set it up as a Christian theocracy. 1.00

00:02:51.660 We don't have Christian theocracies in the world. In fact, Christianity has been a force for 1.00

00:02:56.500 equality and protection of women, not their subjugation. So many of the Persians who live

00:03:03.820 in the West were those who cared for freedom and were repelled or escaped the regime.

00:03:11.700 Iran is a very educated country, not at all comparable, say, to Afghanistan.

00:03:18.180 It was fairly modern.

00:03:20.240 It was a Western ally under the Shah.

00:03:23.080 In fact, it was a friend of Israel.

00:03:25.440 Iran even flew American F-14 fighter jets.

00:03:29.140 It still has a few of those left over from the 70s.

00:03:31.860 That's where Iran was, but it's been through 47 years of tyranny.

00:03:37.960 and so i know persians because i see them in canada and most of them pine for their country

00:03:45.740 wanted to be free again and they dream of a renewed i don't know if democracy necessarily

00:03:52.660 but a liberalism and most persians most iranians i know are secular they probably were to begin

00:03:59.500 with but they're even more turned off by 47 years of the handmaid's tale so that's half my answer

00:04:06.060 if you asked me about Iran, talking about Iranian people.

00:04:09.900 But if you would ask me about Iran, the country,

00:04:12.080 I would talk about its government, like I said, the theocracy.

00:04:15.120 I would talk about how it's sort of a millennialist cult

00:04:18.480 where they believe, and I don't want to get too deeply

00:04:20.940 in the theology lest I misstate it,

00:04:23.020 but what I do know is they believe in a kind of apocalypse

00:04:26.500 that they want to hasten.

00:04:28.140 If you ask the Ayatollahs to concentrate

00:04:31.260 or distill their ideology, it's anti-Americanism

00:04:34.440 and anti-Israelism because they want to snuff out any voices of democracy and liberalism that they

00:04:40.280 think are contrary to the law of Sharia, Allah's law. They want to end the rule of man and bring 1.00

00:04:46.700 in a theocracy around the world. And obviously America is the great bulwark against them.

00:04:52.300 So they have military proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, and they engage in terrorism. And of course

00:04:59.660 they want a nuclear weapon, but unlike, say, Russia or China, they're not governed by secular 0.74

00:05:05.360 rationale like mutually assured destruction. The reason we didn't have war, thermonuclear war with

00:05:11.740 the Soviets during the Cold War, is precisely because they were rational enough to know that 0.81

00:05:16.140 if they were to shoot missiles at America, America would shoot back and both sides would be

00:05:20.200 obliterated. That is not a concern for the kind of people who believe in suicide bombing and people

00:05:25.920 who believe in their cataclysm to bring about their religious outcome that they desire.

00:05:32.040 So Iran is a very different kind of foe than a rational opponent, even, say, Kim Jong-un in North 0.92

00:05:39.000 Korea. And I tell you that because Iran is very much on everyone's mind, given the Israeli-U.S.

00:05:44.900 war against Iran, to degrade its ballistic missiles, its nukes, its navy, things like that.

00:05:49.560 But there have been a series of asymmetrical responses by Iran, not just in the region, lobbing drones at civilian targets in Bahrain and Oman and Qatar and UAE.

00:06:01.920 Like they're literally sending drones into hotels in these countries.

00:06:05.940 That's how Iran fights. 1.00

00:06:07.680 Israel would accidentally hit a civilian site in Gaza and it would be a week worth of news in the West.

00:06:14.120 Iran deliberately sends drones at civilian targets and the UN shrugs and the pundits in the West say, well, Iran is right. 1.00

00:06:22.660 When are we stopping this war? But I think here in Canada and just very recently in the United States, we've seen that this asymmetrical strategy is not limited just to the Middle East.

00:06:34.500 In the past few days, you've seen attacks on Jewish synagogues in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam in particular.

00:06:42.840 and there was a number of others. There's too many for me to list. I think one of them was in Norway

00:06:47.900 of all places. We saw an attack on a Jewish school in Michigan. I think there were several attacks

00:06:53.740 and of course in our own country. Three different synagogues attacked by gunfire in five days and

00:06:59.540 then the attack on the U.S. consulate. I think there's reason to assume that those are part of

00:07:04.400 the asymmetrical warfare, the terrorism that Iran favors and we know that there's 700 Iranian agents

00:07:10.540 in canada working unmolested we have their names the government obviously knows who they are

00:07:16.000 they simply won't deport them which i find bizarre so that's what my answer would be if you said

00:07:20.840 why don't you talk for a minute about iran i split it between the people who i think are quite liberal

00:07:25.620 and western and they love america actually when they have massive iranian protests in toronto

00:07:31.180 and vancouver they're not just flying the lion and the sun flag they're flying the canadian flag

00:07:36.440 and the u.s flag there and the israeli flag um whereas the regime is the handmaid's tale come

00:07:42.280 to life but that's just me i want to show you how mark carney thinks about iran and about islamism

00:07:50.480 in general let me play you a clip from yesterday you'll probably recognize this because it's been

00:07:54.800 making the rounds on social media here's mark carney talking about a very strange thing that

00:08:00.140 happened almost exactly two weeks ago that he has kept secret until now take a listen

00:08:05.800 if you can confirm in english if the if there was this if this attack happened and why did you

00:08:12.480 you didn't end for in canadian before well uh i mean i'm not the only spokesperson for

00:08:19.220 the government uh but i'll just confirm that canadian forces are the members of the canadian

00:08:24.980 forces are all safe and sound. I reinforce, as I said in French, what you know, which is that we

00:08:36.460 are not engaged in these actions of the U.S. and Israel. We're not engaged in offensive actions,

00:08:43.740 and we will not be engaged in those actions. There's a lot in there. First of all, he sure

00:08:49.160 says um a lot uh he reminds me of justin trudeau when he didn't have a teleprompter um i think it's

00:08:55.580 absolutely outrageous the canadians were attacked by iran camp canada i didn't know he had that

00:09:01.280 was attacked by iran and he kept it secret there was a deliberate targeting of canada by iran

00:09:10.600 and thankfully no canadians were hurt but he kept that a secret and when he's asked about it

00:09:19.140 He says he's not going to engage in offensive actions like what Israel and the United States are doing.

00:09:27.740 Offensive.

00:09:28.660 Canada was just attacked.

00:09:30.640 Our Canadian base, I didn't know we had one there, was attacked.

00:09:34.820 It's not offensive to retaliate in any way.

00:09:38.140 He literally has done nothing, not even used a hard word, not even a stern letter of apology to the Iranians. 1.00

00:09:46.180 He's literally done nothing.

00:09:47.640 Actually, that's not quite true.

00:09:49.140 He has done them the favor of keeping that a secret.

00:09:54.960 And then when he's asked about it, he says, well, yeah, I'm not the only spokesman in Ottawa.

00:09:59.460 Why are you looking to me?

00:10:00.380 Well, because we're not looking for a spokesman.

00:10:02.480 We're looking for the leader of our country, the person who makes these decisions on war

00:10:06.800 and peace, the guy who unilaterally declared his support for Palestinian sovereignty, that

00:10:11.840 guy, maybe he has something to say about the fact that we're being attacked by a proxy.

00:10:16.540 And in this case, it wasn't even a proxy.

00:10:18.640 Palestine, Hamas was a proxy of Iran.

00:10:20.900 This is Iran itself. 0.96

00:10:22.000 He's got nothing to say, and he's a little bit miffed that you dare expect him to say something about it.

00:10:26.980 And bye-bye, he's about to head off on a foreign vacation.

00:10:29.860 Just outrageous.

00:10:31.180 But if you think that's outrageous, look at this insanity from Gregor Robertson,

00:10:35.800 the mayor of Vancouver, who's presided over the worst housing price increase in Canadian history.

00:10:40.740 It's even worse than Toronto, actually.

00:10:43.100 It's been going on for 10 years, and it's primarily driven by mass immigration.

00:10:47.160 I mean, it's supply and demand. If you dump in one million migrants a year, even if they're staying six to an apartment or 10 to a house, you're going to have a shortage and supply and demand tells you the price is going to go up. 0.99

00:10:59.800 But look at Gregor Robertson. This is how he uses Iran. This is what he thinks the main story is with Iran. Take a look.

00:11:07.620 Well, it's no surprise that Canadians are challenged with buying homes right now when there's a war in the Middle East.

00:11:15.220 There's no surprise, Mr. Speaker.

00:11:23.920 The member may continue.

00:11:27.180 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:11:28.420 Mr. Speaker, in the first hundred days of Build Canada Homes, we've secured agreements with Nova Scotia, with B.C., with Nunavut.

00:11:38.900 We're delivering thousands. We're up to 9,000 homes that are being delivered through Build Canada Homes for Canadians.

00:11:44.500 And we're just getting started, Mr. Speaker.

00:11:46.840 If we pass the Build Canada Homes Act in this House in the days ahead, we can supercharge the construction of affordable housing.

00:11:53.780 And that's what Canadians need.

00:11:55.340 The Honourable Member for York Durham.

00:11:56.840 Well, Mr. Speaker, an excuse for every problem. But this is a new one. The war in Iran is the 0.84

00:12:03.240 cause of our housing crisis. Wow. I mean, I don't know how you figure that. Square that circle,

00:12:07.580 Mr. Speaker. Imagine looking at Iran and thinking, I'm not going to condemn their terrorism. I'm not 0.99

00:12:13.620 going to condemn their attack on Canadians. I'm not going to talk about their instability in the

00:12:18.440 world. I'm going to use them as an excuse for housing prices. How does that even work? Even

00:12:24.420 if you say okay the price of energy is a little bit higher briefly what's that got to do with an

00:12:29.880 existing house that's that's first it's just it doesn't make any sense other than it trivializes

00:12:35.740 what iran is iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism iran causes terrorism abroad and here

00:12:42.680 even in canada iran just attacked our troops and this is what mark carney's cabinet minister for

00:12:49.620 Housing SSA. It's just absolutely crazy. And oh, here's Evan Solomon, another Liberal MP.

00:12:56.400 Take a listen to him for a second. Speaker, as the Honourable Opposition knows,

00:13:01.060 there's a war raging that's affecting prices everywhere. In this chaos, Canada's in a strong

00:13:07.620 position. Why? Because we prepared. We invested in jobs and industries like auto, steel and

00:13:14.080 aluminum we made sure to keep life affordable for all canadians with our food groceries and

00:13:19.740 essentials benefit for 12 million canadians we're cutting taxes you know why mr speaker we have a

00:13:25.820 plan preparing before a crisis is our way complaining after a crisis is theirs get on board

00:13:32.940 what on earth is he even saying so he's he's somehow blaming iran by the way the iran war

00:13:38.740 is what two weeks old it wouldn't even be measured in the latest job statistics that were about

00:13:43.100 February. The liberals have decided that all they have to say about Iran is not to condemn them or

00:13:48.640 their terrorism or their terror in this country, but to use them as a talking point. It's just so

00:13:54.700 gross. But I got to tell you, Doug Ford, the allegedly conservative premier of Ontario, 0.51

00:14:00.020 is no better. Here's a tweet that he published back in 2018 saying he would not abide a fake

00:14:07.680 Iranian Ayatollah-created holiday called Al-Quds Day, which is basically the holiday where they

00:14:15.440 swear they're going to destroy Israel. So this is where all the Iranian agents in Canada 1.00

00:14:19.700 have a hate march for one day in Toronto. And it's typically right there on the lawn of the

00:14:24.880 provincial legislature, the kind of place where they would kick off a trucker. But they have

00:14:29.260 abided these Iranian agents. It's not a real holiday. It's called Al-Quds Day. It's basically

00:14:33.440 hate the jews day it was invented by the ayatollah it's not a Muslim holiday it's a terror holiday 0.96

00:14:38.360 and eight years ago Doug Ford said he wouldn't allow it well for the last eight years he's

00:14:44.580 allowed it and then finally today like just a few hours ago he said oh I'm going to send my

00:14:50.840 attorney general to court to get an injunction against it it's tomorrow I could stay the hate

00:14:57.540 day is tomorrow I mean I suppose it's theoretically possible that a judge could be mustered in time

00:15:03.940 But a judge would say, well, where's the other side?

00:15:06.320 In Canada, we typically don't do things ex parte with only one side of the story there.

00:15:11.040 Maybe it's possible to have like a 10 a.m. hearing tomorrow.

00:15:14.240 But this is a guy who has known about the annual Al-Quds days for eight years.

00:15:20.720 And 20 hours before it starts, he puts up a video.

00:15:24.440 Here, take a look.

00:15:25.080 I don't recognize our country, the Canada we know and love.

00:15:30.080 a Canada embraces differences,

00:15:34.020 a Canada that celebrates diversity,

00:15:37.120 that Canada is slipping away.

00:15:40.380 If we don't stand up against the open hatred

00:15:43.020 we see in our country today,

00:15:45.340 more violence and hate will follow

00:15:48.160 against every race, every religion,

00:15:52.420 and every community with deadly consequences.

00:15:56.600 That brings me to tomorrow's Al-Quds Day. 0.99

00:16:00.080 demonstration in Toronto. This demonstration is nothing more than a breeding ground for hate

00:16:07.520 and antisemitism. It glorifies violence. It celebrates terrorism. It has no place in Ontario.

00:16:16.400 It has no place in Canada. That's why today I've instructed my Attorney General Doug Downey

00:16:23.040 to pursue an injunction that would stop this hateful demonstration.

00:16:28.160 If we don't act now, if we don't act decisively, the hatred won't stop.

00:16:35.280 Yeah, completely unserious.

00:16:37.260 Every single one of our leaders is completely unserious.

00:16:40.360 The police, who said they will permit this Al-Quds march to move from the legislature

00:16:45.160 right outside the consulate that was shot up, most likely, by Iranian agents just a week ago.

00:16:51.580 The police are unserious.

00:16:53.160 The government of Ontario is unserious.

00:16:55.280 The federal government is unserious.

00:16:56.540 And Olivia Chow, the mayor, is probably going to be cheering it on. 0.93

00:16:59.540 She literally has Iranian sympathizers, like regime sympathizers, on her campaign team.

00:17:06.160 I'm worried that Canada's in a deep trouble over this.

00:17:09.140 And I just saw this last clip.

00:17:11.720 This is an Iranian regime cleric who is flying into Canada.

00:17:18.040 He will surely claim asylum.

00:17:20.260 He is part of the regime.

00:17:22.200 how many terrorists are fleeing iran now thinking that the u.s is going to finish flattening the

00:17:29.620 country want to get out there and know that if you are a supporter of the ayatollahs you are

00:17:35.120 welcome in canada take a look at this video filmed at pearson airport yeah i think we're in

00:17:40.580 an extremely unserious we have extremely unserious leaders in an extremely serious time i'm very

00:17:48.200 worried about it. Hey, stay with us. An interview with Garnett Genuys, the conservative MP, is next.

00:18:02.100 I think Canada has been in a de facto recession for years. Recession is typically defined as two

00:18:08.500 economic quarters, two three-month periods, in a row of net economic decline. But Canada has

00:18:15.860 been engaging in a kind of trick to hide that by massive in-migration. My point is if you bring in 0.64

00:18:25.400 a half a million or a million people a year, just their activity, rent and food and getting a cell

00:18:32.180 phone and just the basics of everyday life, that will juice the gross GDP number so that the total

00:18:40.000 GDP of the country is not declining. That will hide a recession on a per capita basis. In other

00:18:46.720 words, we're each getting poorer, but the fact that there's a million more of us every year

00:18:51.580 hides that fact. Well, today's a statistic coming from Statistics Canada that is sort of impossible

00:18:58.740 to hide. It's not just a loss on a proportionate basis. Canada as a whole, in terms of absolute

00:19:06.280 numbers, had a loss of 84,000 jobs. Unemployment has ticked up to 6.7%. Double that, more than

00:19:17.280 double that for youth. Joining us now to talk about this is Garnett Genuas, the Member of

00:19:22.480 Parliament for the Conservative Party from Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, and the Shadow

00:19:26.380 Minister for Employment. Garnett, great to see you again. Thanks for having me on, Ezra. Good to see

00:19:31.120 Thank you. We meet to talk about bad news. I mean, to have an 84,000 job loss in February, that's troubling. And it really is across every sector, isn't it? Mainly the private sector, hitting young men in particular. What do you have to say about that?

00:19:50.600 Yeah, so the jobs that I think are most important to highlight here, the numbers within that are over 100,000, 108,000 in particular, full time jobs lost. So the number you quoted is slightly lower, that's total number of jobs lost. But if you kind of sync out the full time and part time, over 100,000 full time jobs lost, and then approaching 50,000 youth jobs lost.

00:20:18.540 That's between 15 and 24. So that's a lot of job losses, in particular for young people. Those first jobs are critical. They're not just about income. They're about getting your start on the ladder of learning and experience, and youth who miss those initial milestones have a lot of problems.

00:20:39.080 So we're highlighting the overall challenges for the economy, job losses overall, and in particular, the pronounced problem of very high youth unemployment.

00:20:49.460 The youth unemployment rate is over 14 percent for this country, which is out of.

00:20:53.360 You know, it drives me crazy that we're bringing in temporary foreign workers, not for the traditional reason. 0.99

00:20:59.380 I remember when temporary foreign workers was an idea 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago, and it was exactly what it sounded like.

00:21:06.580 For example, I knew a man in south of Calgary who had a Saskatoon berry farm, and there was a short period of time where they needed to pick a gazillion Saskatoon berries.

00:21:17.760 And so he would bring in the same crew from Mexico every year for like a two month period.

00:21:22.940 They would do that work that he couldn't get help with for that one specific project.

00:21:27.080 And then they go back home. And I thought, well, OK, I mean, I guess it might be hard to get people to pick Saskatoon berries for a month.

00:21:33.400 that i can understand even if someone might say you know there are locals who would do it but

00:21:38.860 having temporary foreign workers who do entry-level jobs in a tim hortons drive-through

00:21:44.500 or a 7-eleven that i can't understand because those jobs are supposed to be the the first rung

00:21:51.940 on the ladder type jobs so we're seeing the unemployment amongst those entry-level youth

00:21:56.680 jobs and we're still bringing in countless temporary foreign workers what do you have to

00:22:01.160 say about that so we did a study at the human resources committee on youth unemployment in

00:22:06.320 the fall and had a lot of really good analysis of the situation in terms of youth jobs and

00:22:11.440 we brought in witnesses to speak about these dynamics around immigration i think they're

00:22:15.440 really important immigration policy has to be finely tuned to meet the needs of the country

00:22:21.760 in terms of overall numbers but also identification of and recognition of skills and my view is that

00:22:28.660 under the Liberals, it's been way out of whack and confirmed by the economists we heard from

00:22:33.020 at this committee that the way in which the immigration system has been structured under

00:22:38.420 the Liberals has really exacerbated competition for those entry-level positions. So as you know,

00:22:46.300 Conservatives have proposed getting rid of the temporary foreign worker program, but I think

00:22:50.440 there are a number of other issues in terms of how the program has been structured. I mean,

00:22:56.360 credential recognition is an important part of it too. If you have people coming who aren't having

00:23:01.420 their credentials recognized, then they're more likely to be competing for entry-level positions.

00:23:07.560 We should be assisting youth here in Canada accessing those entry-level positions,

00:23:16.380 and we should be looking at how specific skill gaps as an interim measure can be filled in

00:23:23.320 other ways. But yeah, even for higher skilled positions, the goal should be to provide training

00:23:28.160 to Canadians to be able to fill those jobs where they exist. You know, I have a friend who's a

00:23:32.920 Tim Hortons franchisee, and he always debates me and challenges my points. One of the things he

00:23:39.340 said that I accept is that a lot of the people working in those entry-level jobs are not temporary

00:23:45.200 foreign workers. They're foreign students, they're international students. And often they get into

00:23:50.720 Canada with some sketchy career college that's actually just an immigration laundromat where 1.00

00:23:56.980 they where the tuition is really a payment to get them into the country as students and then they

00:24:04.000 work. What's your opinion about the ability of one million international students? I think that's

00:24:11.440 the number. There's about a million international students. So they're not even here as foreign

00:24:17.460 workers they're here to learn but my my friend who's the tim hortons franchisee and others

00:24:24.500 the cfib admit they're the bulk of these workers that we see in in fast food drive-thrus do you

00:24:34.020 think that international students should have the right to just go get a job when they're here as 1.00

00:24:40.540 students? Well, I think that there's issues of policy and also issues of enforcement around some

00:24:48.200 of that. There are supposed to be limitations, but I think there has been a lot of abuse as well.

00:24:54.760 There have been a lot of instances of students who are taken advantage of. I recall a case that

00:25:01.780 I did some advocacy around where basically students were given fake college acceptance

00:25:07.740 letters and um and and the immigration department didn't even check with the institution like it

00:25:16.040 would have been the most simple scam to um to verify or to to disprove all you would have had

00:25:21.880 to do is is check with the institution they're supposed to be studying at um and uh and the

00:25:27.780 immigration department didn't even didn't even do that so i think there are look there are a lot of

00:25:32.380 problems in our immigration system. And obviously, I think you've spoken recently to our shadow

00:25:38.840 minister who's leading on the particulars of that. But are there effects on the job market? Yes,

00:25:44.420 I think there are. And I think there are a lot of different failures when it comes to immigration,

00:25:51.260 the abuses in the international student program. We have very high level of asylum claimants,

00:25:58.400 and it takes far far too long for those claims to be assessed and adjudicated and we also have

00:26:07.080 people who come here with specific skills that they could be putting to work at a kind of higher

00:26:11.580 level and maybe catalyzing job growth for the economy and yet they're not recognized in those

00:26:17.320 skills so they're competing for entry-level positions our youth jobs plan that we put out

00:26:21.800 in the fall, highlighted four areas, unleashing the economy, fixing immigration, fixing job

00:26:28.600 training, and then also building homes where the jobs are. So immigration isn't the whole 0.55

00:26:33.580 picture, but it's certainly part of the picture. You know, I keep looking at that demographic of

00:26:39.620 young men. And those are people who want to move out of their parents' house, get their own house.

00:26:44.960 They want to get that first job and then get that second job. They want to work hard. They're ready

00:26:48.420 to work hard and they're having the toughest COVID even according to these latest numbers

00:26:54.080 and I see that in the polls they are the least likely demographic to vote for or to support

00:27:01.140 Mark Carney's liberals and then add in if you want a geography to it like a single young man

00:27:08.340 in Saskatchewan I don't know there's like maybe a 10% chance he's going to vote liberal and it's

00:27:13.580 not necessarily a cultural thing it's that every single thing mark carney supports hurts that guy

00:27:21.120 with his chances immigration exacerbates it all that from the house you know housing prices going

00:27:27.240 up to wages going down to all these things and my theory is the reason why mark carney does so well

00:27:35.040 amongst boomers is that they don't actually experience any of the pain that a young man

00:27:42.900 looking for work does their house is paid off in fact it's their nest egg now they're going to make

00:27:47.240 millions in capital gains their pension is fine or good enough they're probably in a safe

00:27:53.560 neighborhood they don't have to worry about crime although crime will find them like i just think 0.61

00:27:57.760 that a boomer who watches mark carney look very prime ministerial looks like a banker he's flitting

00:28:04.240 around the world announcing you know ethereal job promises the boomers love him because he sounds

00:28:10.980 good, but young men have literally had no help at all. And I think they realize that Mark Carney

00:28:16.760 is a fibber, or he's just a man with an empty suit. I think one other way of maybe saying

00:28:25.020 something similar to what you just said, Ezra, is that voters are going to think about what they're

00:28:31.080 seeing on their television, and they're going to think about what they're seeing in the refrigerator.

00:28:36.120 You know, these two appliances in everyone's home, right? The television and the refrigerator.

00:28:39.780 And on the television, you might be hearing these messages about Mark Carney and the image that he's trying to create for himself and so forth.

00:28:49.860 But then if you look at the refrigerator, how you're doing economically, how much food and other basic essentials are costing you, that's going to tell a different story.

00:29:00.340 So I think if people are thinking about the concrete impact on their life, how they're actually doing, and how liberal policies are impacting them, that will point them to see the significant problems.

00:29:13.680 Now, are there different demographics in terms of, well, one, how younger people are consuming news or not, and also maybe different people's economic positions and how those play out?

00:29:25.620 But, I mean, I do want to say I think there are a lot of older folks that are struggling right now as well, and it depends a lot on other aspects of their circumstances.

00:29:34.760 What the job numbers show is that there is a dropping presence in the labor market for young people as well as for people in core age, that middle age group.

00:29:45.640 I think a lot of older people are actually working longer because of the cost of living crisis, that as they see food and other expenses go up.

00:29:55.340 They feel the need to work more, work longer than they had expected to.

00:29:59.620 So there's challenges across the board.

00:30:01.520 And I think what's important for us to do is point people to what are the practical realities?

00:30:09.700 What are the real impacts of government policy on your life?

00:30:12.660 And who is putting forward a real plan that's going to make your life better?

00:30:16.760 Yeah, I mean, of course, not all boomers are liberals.

00:30:18.780 I've just, if you look at the age breakdown, the older in Canada, the more liberal.

00:30:23.840 And by the way, it never used to be that way.

00:30:26.120 I remember 30 years ago when the Reform Party had real trouble getting young people.

00:30:31.440 Now the conservative parties have the youth.

00:30:33.740 It's the liberal parties that do well with the seniors.

00:30:37.440 One more question for you.

00:30:38.580 I know we've got to let you go.

00:30:41.800 I am troubled by Mark Carney's secret deals luring MPs to cross the floor.

00:30:48.660 Just yesterday, or the day before, we had a New Democrat from the far north that defected,

00:30:55.120 and we've had a couple of conservatives.

00:30:57.260 And I'll tell you, the media framed these defections as, you know, amazing for Mark Carney.

00:31:05.660 He's so strategic and clever, and look what he's done.

00:31:09.840 Like, they've turned a secret smoky backroom deal that we don't know about,

00:31:16.260 whether it's a bribe or a pressure we have no idea all we know is that they've undermined

00:31:22.620 the democratic will of their district not this is we're not in the dying era of this parliament

00:31:29.680 the election was just a year ago so there's no legitimate grievance there's no genuine difference

00:31:36.380 now than a year ago the only difference is whatever coercion or bribe is being offered to

00:31:43.200 them and the media delights in this because of course they want Mark Carney to have a majority

00:31:47.920 and their implication is Pierre Polyev is not a leader. I keep hearing that from the regime media

00:31:53.580 because Mark Carney is able to pick off the morally weakest MPs with some bribe or another.

00:32:00.520 I find it atrocious. Can you speak for a minute about these defections and can you talk for a

00:32:06.840 minute about this media narrative that this somehow reflects poorly on Pierre Polyev rather

00:32:12.080 than poorly on mark carney yeah sure happy to happy to comment on that so floor crossing has

00:32:21.100 in the past generally been a kind of individual phenomenon and uh people would look at the

00:32:26.260 arguments the individual would make and they'd look at the individual circumstances but it was

00:32:30.040 but it was it was about an individual uh individual circumstance often what we're

00:32:35.340 seeing now is something quite different which is the carney government trying to get from

00:32:40.760 a minority to a majority a majority that they were not given by the voters and to do it uh through

00:32:48.220 uh whatever backroom conversations i mean i don't i don't want to be too definitive there's lots of

00:32:54.340 things we don't know of course about the conversations that uh that took place uh i think

00:32:59.680 um i think there are obviously some things that are being looked at in terms of uh of one of the

00:33:05.520 MPs, I think, being a contractor to the government at the same time as being a member of Parliament,

00:33:12.820 which is unusual, to say the least. But I think the big story here is that Mark Carney did not

00:33:21.080 secure a majority in the election. Canadian voters did not have the confidence in him to give him

00:33:27.980 that majority. And now liberals are trying to, through shady backroom deals, get to a point

00:33:36.400 where they were not given by the voters. And I don't think that's right. I don't think that's

00:33:41.480 appropriate. And I think it's correct to say as well that the narrative being pushed around this

00:33:51.680 really doesn't reflect a kind of principled democratic concern

00:33:58.260 for what the will of the voters is.

00:34:00.560 Just to make one other point, though, look, I think in the last few weeks

00:34:06.000 we've seen that this Mark Carney super genius narrative is on the way out

00:34:12.320 and we're seeing the chaos and the inconsistency that really is evident in his premiership.

00:34:20.900 I mean, most evident on the Iran file, I think, a different position for every day of the week, and then Mark Carney hiding from a debate that his party had asked for.

00:34:31.120 I think as the realities fall so far behind the promises, we're going to start seeing the decline of this Mark Carney super genius narrative to be replaced with a sobering assessment of the realities.

00:34:47.660 I hope so.

00:34:48.100 You know, Edmonton, they had Matt Jenner who crossed the floor and there's an MP there's a lot of questions about anyways. But I got to say that, I mean, I'm very sympathetic to Alberta independence. And I got to imagine that if an Albertan thinks, well, look, we elected a conservative MP fair and square just a year ago. And that's the rules of the game. You win an election, you win the seat.

00:35:12.540 but through some sneaky process we know nothing about even when we win we lose the system is

00:35:20.260 rigged always has been always will be this so-called mou to get pipelines built hasn't got

00:35:26.680 any pipelines built and we see the rest of the world oil coming on stream from venezuela and

00:35:31.720 who knows maybe even iran and and i feel like mark carney's bad behavior on everything from

00:35:40.280 immigration to foreign policy to this undemocratic majority he's seeking would make an Alberta

00:35:48.700 independence movement so you see what they're offering by alternative isn't even the status quo

00:35:56.380 it's it's getting worse and even when we play by the rules and win we still lose and i know that

00:36:04.040 you are part of a federalist party the conservative party of canada and your leader has made that

00:36:08.560 clear it. And I'm sure you're sitting in the Canadian parliament as a federalist.

00:36:12.180 But what would you say to Alberta independent supporters who would say, look,

00:36:16.940 everything we've been talking about here for the last 15 minutes

00:36:19.700 points to the fact that Canada is not serving the interests of Alberta or Saskatchewan for that

00:36:26.580 matter. And how could Alberta be worse on its own? What would you say to a good faith Alberta

00:36:33.540 conservative who is fed up with this, who wanted Pierre Paliyev to win, and surprise,

00:36:41.080 another liberal term. What would you say to such a person? Maybe even me.

00:36:45.880 Yeah. So I guess a few thoughts on that. First of all, I would characterize my position as that of

00:36:50.680 a Canadian nationalist. I love this country, and I want to restore this country. I think in the last

00:36:57.820 few years we've seen how liberals and their fellow travelers on the left have attacked this country

00:37:05.560 attacked its history uh tried to undermine its its sense of pride in itself um i think there

00:37:12.560 are certainly things about how federalism has worked under the liberals that are not fair or

00:37:18.960 not just and are not right and i want to restore my country the country i love a country that um

00:37:27.400 that embodies so much virtue and goodness uh and i think alberta can it should be a part of that 0.97

00:37:33.720 look i believe in uh respectful polite civil conversation with uh with people who disagree

00:37:39.880 on on the side of separatism um but i'm very much a canadian nationalist because i don't want to

00:37:45.560 allow um the far left or people on the separatist side to take away the country that i love i think

00:37:50.760 think there are things we we can do to restore it um and uh and that's the work that we we try

00:37:57.340 to do every day it's not easy but uh but we had 10 years of very good government under stephen

00:38:02.600 harper um previous previous governments uh of of all stripes were were generally speaking not

00:38:09.920 nearly as bad or as radical as the last 10 years of liberals have been uh and it's that historic

00:38:15.520 greatness of this country that i want to restore well thanks for asking that question and it's a

00:38:20.020 whole other conversation that we don't have time for today, but I appreciate your answer. Thanks

00:38:24.560 for coming on the show and talking about the economy. I know you are the shadow minister for

00:38:28.660 employment. So that was a great to have you on the show. Appreciate your time. Thank you for

00:38:33.000 having me. Our pleasure. There you have it, Garnet Genuous. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.

00:38:38.200 oh hi welcome back here's a couple of letters from you my viewers on musqueam and the concept

00:38:53.940 of aboriginal title trudy edgecombe says could this be the way the world economic forum agenda

00:38:58.640 2030 accomplishes their goal you will own nothing and be happy give the natives all the land rights

00:39:04.320 from the majority, and then it's much easier to take it from the minority. You know, land is the

00:39:08.580 essential asset, isn't it? Real estate. As they say, they're not making any more of it. And so

00:39:14.840 many things, if you look at them through that prism, make a lot more sense. I remember back to

00:39:20.260 when the Amish in Ontario had a lien put on their farms by the government of Ontario because they

00:39:26.800 didn't pay their COVID fines. Well, imagine seizing their farm, seizing their property over

00:39:33.660 a covid dispute so yeah it's a fair question to ask to destabilize the west by casting doubt

00:39:40.180 on your property rights uh you know i don't know if it's connected to the world economic forum but

00:39:44.680 it would certainly suit their agenda tracy ralph says this is a u.n mandate the u.n is evil the

00:39:51.600 indigenous are making deals with china to sell the land to them i'm tired of these grifters 1.00

00:39:55.160 yeah you know what i believe in honoring the treaties and if you watch my show regularly you

00:40:00.700 would have seen me go through treaty six and it's a document of surrender but there were certain

00:40:05.080 things that the crown promised to give indians in return farm equipment seeds school medicine

00:40:12.460 things like that and i think we should honor those treaties like any contract but they in no way

00:40:17.460 contemplated this massive land grab on a racial basis just no way at all and i think that aboriginal 0.94

00:40:26.660 people risk starting a new era of resentment by doing by by overreaching it's sort of like

00:40:35.120 when gay marriage became adopted okay do the victory lap but no instead going on to transgenderism 1.00

00:40:42.500 adding the t to lgbt you're going too far you're going to lose the support of ordinary people

00:40:49.000 i think there was a lot of tolerance for gay people but if you add that t to it and say men

00:40:54.960 and women's change, you've lost people. 1.00

00:40:57.000 I think there's a lot of tolerance

00:40:58.100 for helping Indigenous people.

00:40:59.380 I think we all see in our urban centers

00:41:02.060 Indigenous people who are having a tough time,

00:41:04.900 maybe are addicted to drugs or alcohol,

00:41:06.960 and they genuinely need help.

00:41:08.440 And I don't know a single Canadian

00:41:09.480 who doesn't feel a sympathy.

00:41:12.100 But if you're going to move from that

00:41:14.260 to we're going to seize the land under your house,

00:41:16.780 I fear that they will overplay their hand

00:41:19.540 and engender a new era of enmity towards...

00:41:23.940 I sure hope that doesn't happen.

00:41:26.060 Well, that's our show for the day.

00:41:27.900 I will be in Toronto at the Al-Quds rally tomorrow.

00:41:31.680 Whether or not it's banned by this Ontario government, I doubt it will be.

00:41:35.920 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:41:39.280 to you at home, good night.

00:41:40.900 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:41:53.940 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - March 13, 2026

What do Liberals, including Doug Ford, really think about Iran？

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