True Patriot Love - March 03, 2026


$2 Gas Coming to Canada？!


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00:00:00.560 one of our favorite people here at the channel as always is dan mctag the gas price wizard you
00:00:09.280 can follow him at gas price wizard gaswizard.ca affordableenergy.ca and on this tuesday as we
00:00:17.600 speak mike some shocking posts from dan letting us know the price of gas of most of canada going up
00:00:24.800 six cents a liter wednesday another six cents on thursday as everything's kicking off and iran dan
00:00:30.880 this is the start of what could be a lot of pain at the gas pumps for canadians
00:00:35.120 big time and of course thursday is not ditched in stone because we know the markets were very
00:00:40.320 uh dramatically lower this morning and energy prices were going to go that six cents it may
00:00:45.600 actually be a five set either way we're going to look at several days as long as this conflict
00:00:50.480 continues several days of increases energy prices and uh unlike anything in the past where we've
00:00:56.080 seen you know uh conflicts of that magnitude uh regardless of uh you know of the outcome the
00:01:03.440 canadian dollar has always behaved in a way that would serve as a bit of a hedge or you know if you
00:01:07.920 will a bit of a cushion we had the petrodollar because there was a belief theoretically that
00:01:13.200 canada had the oil capacity the ability to send to other parts of the world notably the united states
00:01:18.320 which is still the largest consumer of oil products in the world it's not china or india
00:01:22.880 uh the idea that uh you know we had the ability to ramp up if we had to therefore canadians got the
00:01:28.640 benefit you know the rest of the world got smacked with high oil prices and had to pay for it instantly
00:01:33.280 uh canadians not so much we were probably protected half to a third of those increases but no longer
00:01:38.960 because it takes 137 pennies to buy a us dollar that is 24 cents a liter of the price of gasoline
00:01:43.760 imagine what it's doing for every other commodity and yet you got people walking around saying
00:01:47.280 oh you know it's inflation it's created by climate or whatever baloney it's created by that policies
00:01:54.160 here in the uh in canada that uh in this time of crisis uh shows the depth to which we have traded
00:02:00.560 away security and uh prosperity in favor of uh you know narratives that are extremely damaging to
00:02:07.760 canadians uh particularly when it comes to the bottom line yeah the price of oil up from 65
00:02:14.560 dollars overnight to i think 71 was the last time i took a look and even over that i think now now
00:02:20.000 it seems to have uh even even gone up and uh you know it begs the question you know dan you point out
00:02:27.520 you know historically we've always kind of been uh insulated by our own uh the notion of fuel and oil in
00:02:34.480 our own country uh are we going to see that pass us by this time do you think uh it looks to me like
00:02:41.520 we're going to pay the price of the gas pump like americans that we won't be making a big supply
00:02:46.880 difference in this scenario kind of position that for us if you don't mind yeah look we're you're
00:02:52.880 right about the number is 65 at the beginning of the month of february was 62 end of january middle
00:02:58.400 of january is 58 um so this ramp up you've seen 270 71 72 dollars a barrel likely going to 80 at at least
00:03:07.040 i'm not sure about 100 that's way down the road um it's a reflection of the fact that we we're
00:03:12.560 not in a position where we can easily replace uh lost barrels as a result of uh uh interruptions
00:03:19.520 conflicts as a result of uh shut-ins uh in the uh in the in the persian gulf although it isn't as
00:03:25.120 important as it was 30 40 years ago it's about 20 percent uh one-fifth of the world's barrels of
00:03:30.800 oils doesn't mean that they'll stop producing just means that they can't get it to the market
00:03:34.800 in an efficient way and put it in context the world is now using 105 million barrel 105 million
00:03:40.320 barrels a day that's up from 100 million a few years ago it's going to 120 130 despite
00:03:45.920 the climate tears out there who believe that uh this was the end of uh peak oil and whatnot
00:03:50.720 nothing could be further from the truth the world's going to continue to use more hydrocarbons the
00:03:54.800 question canadians uh you know had to uh ask i had to answer was do you want to shut yourself in
00:04:01.600 do you want to play the woke game of dei and net zero or do you want to continue to prosper and
00:04:06.720 whether canadians realize or not they chose the wrong uh side they chose to continue down this road
00:04:13.280 of grifting and uh destroying our energy sector our number one most prosperous export that we could have
00:04:20.320 and would have certainly um shielded us in these kind of circumstances so you know i say to the folks
00:04:28.480 here today if uh you know 71 a barrel uh works out to 66 cents a liter imagine if uh 71 uh would work
00:04:38.480 out to maybe 50 cents a liter so it'd be 13 cents less than we're paying today the canadian dollar
00:04:45.040 matters and because all commodities whether they're made here or not are priced in us terms if you can't
00:04:51.360 make sure that you uh your your energy mark your energy gets to proper markets at one by the way
00:04:56.960 and it wasn't just the united states we had 12 countries some of our best trading partners come
00:05:00.960 to us including germany including greece lithuania saying hey listen can you give us some natural gas
00:05:06.320 and oil we said ah no no there's there's no there's no business case for it you know you can sort of see
00:05:10.560 them walking around with little placards not plastic of course um saying that we shouldn't be doing this
00:05:15.920 well if you take that position you've got to realize there's a cost cost most canadians can't afford
00:05:21.360 today as they line up food banks and uh you know become the next entrance to our growing uh the
00:05:27.440 industry in this country and cities dan with your in-depth knowledge of the petroleum industry in
00:05:33.040 this country i know you've talked about also the bryson price of diesel how soon will that be passed
00:05:38.480 on at grocery stores when we know food insecurity is such an issue in this country now well it has
00:05:44.560 because we learned on made carbon taxes and the same green policies have given you a weak canadian
00:05:49.760 dollar and as i mentioned earlier not just direct to imports in the united states in colder months
00:05:55.040 but also of course the commodities themselves again are benchmarked in u.s terms so a weak canadian
00:06:00.240 dollar hurts us and then we're starting to pay for that diesel prices which are going up 13 cents
00:06:04.960 tomorrow probably another 10 to 13 cents a liter on thursday will certainly make their way in their
00:06:10.080 presence felt in terms of what we used to know a few years ago as fuel surcharges that's coming
00:06:15.360 and i would expect that it's going to happen in a nanosecond it'll happen already and so next month
00:06:20.080 we will be seeing the inflationary pressures continue to roll heavily on on food prices now i'm
00:06:26.080 no expert as the food professor sylvain charlebois is but we've done work together uh making the first
00:06:32.160 point rather uh salient and true and that's the carbon taxes in fact have increased the price of food
00:06:38.320 but it's okay let's be trendy let's be green let's be cool let's worry about co2 the giver of life
00:06:43.360 uh let's tax the dealers out of it so that we can make money on thin air including uh dare i say
00:06:49.120 people like brookfield who've done extraordinarily well and mr carney's connection to that by selling
00:06:53.520 carbon credits basically making money out of thin air literally that's a that is something that i think
00:07:00.240 gets passed over the uh the carbon tax credit uh benefits um quite often uh a sector of business you
00:07:07.920 don't expect it to uh from a diplomatic perspective uh dan and and you've had this experience in the
00:07:14.400 energy field for sure uh we look at frightening moments right now ahead of us potentially in this
00:07:19.840 the strait of hermuz uh we're looking at tankers being uh attacked right now uh in this iran affair
00:07:29.040 what do you see some of the diplomatic uh pitfalls are going to be as this war unfolds
00:07:37.920 i don't see any resolution to this until uh iran is no longer in a position to retaliate or to
00:07:43.840 do harm to its neighbors as it has done to saudi arabia to kuwait as it has done to iraq as it has
00:07:49.520 done to bahrain i mean this is a dying regime's uh last gasp at uh you know striking out at anyone and
00:07:57.680 everyone uh after 47 years of terrorizing the world and funding its oil assets funding the proxy wars
00:08:06.240 whether it's hamas whether it's hezbollah whether it's the houthis whether it is all
00:08:10.080 sorts of other organizations uh single-handedly and death to america chants uh you know make many
00:08:15.760 friends doing that by the way but i suspect that the only way we're going to see an end to this is
00:08:20.720 that the uh you know irration or iranian revolutionary guard core and its uh its acolytes are going to have
00:08:27.360 to throw in the towel and new come a new government will have to uh emerge in that country saving if that
00:08:33.040 doesn't happen then this struggle will will go on i understand and appreciate the americans don't
00:08:37.920 want boots on the ground which is understandable but uh sooner or later uh one's gonna have to
00:08:43.920 fish or cut bait you can't go and have measuring to sort of leave it up to the people who have no
00:08:48.000 alternative don't have weapons can't fight even despite the depleted power of the regime um you
00:08:54.560 can't expect them to be able to take over without some kind of intervention i'm not sure how that's going
00:08:58.320 to happen what that means i'm certainly not advocating for it but i don't see any other
00:09:02.800 alternative uh you can't do something half measure here and i think that's so the trump
00:09:07.600 administration has to make a you know a decision on and it will cost lives uh the question is does it
00:09:12.720 bring us to the brink i don't know what's the extent of chinese involvement in this and providing
00:09:17.920 and supplying iran now we've made a statement our prime minister did that he supports the united states
00:09:23.920 and israel's attack on iran how is it that the same regime uh is now getting the benefits of
00:09:29.920 chinese intel and help to try to push back on the americans and israelis uh and when we're
00:09:35.680 prepared to do a deal as if to say that uh you know we have to have a new strategic partnership
00:09:40.960 with a bunch of thugs who uh want to become the world dominant power i'm very worried about this
00:09:45.840 geopolitically and from a not an energy point of view but from my old days when i was uh in foreign
00:09:50.880 affairs representing the country abroad and canadians abroad saving their lives abroad this does very much
00:09:55.600 concern me i've been to china i know how they behave and uh the idea that we could somehow
00:10:01.040 uh you know thumb our nose at donald trump and say we're going to jump in bed with the with china is
00:10:05.920 the worst of all possible decisions and it's going to have far-reaching geopolitical consequences for the
00:10:10.560 country as evidenced by what we're seeing here just in the past 24 hours and dan with your depth
00:10:15.520 of knowledge of how the world works but as you just mentioned and energy there was a story that came out
00:10:21.440 on this tuesday they're saying india has about three weeks supply of crude oil and oil stocks how
00:10:28.240 common is it for a lot of countries to have not a a fairly limited supply and they rely on deliveries
00:10:35.440 on a monthly basis to keep those supplies going yeah the country the world's uh economies especially
00:10:42.400 the big ones have uh relied on this idea that you could somehow create a strategic petroleum reserve or
00:10:47.920 have several months of reserves and this was a classic misread by people in the marketplace who
00:10:54.880 simply think oh there's too much oil out there everything's just fine they're not realizing just
00:10:58.960 how ridiculous that was the world is seeing a major draw on oil inventories and there is no substitute for
00:11:06.160 oil i don't care about them if you're building an evie it still takes oil and coal and other things to
00:11:10.480 refine it to process it your primary thing from your rear mineral to forestry to mining to agriculture all
00:11:17.360 requires diesel all requires hydrocarbons it's how you use of course it has to be more responsible
00:11:22.000 nations that are demonstrating that their uh that their reserves are depleting rather quickly
00:11:28.480 signals uh you know the the falsehood of the past 10 years in which we sort of danced around the
00:11:33.920 idea that doesn't world doesn't need any more we can bury it in the ground we heard that for the past 10
00:11:38.240 years and now it's put a number of countries in a very vulnerable vulnerable position including
00:11:43.520 canada and so i think india has very few choices too bad canada doesn't have an extra couple pipelines
00:11:48.720 it can continue to send uh tons of its oil to the rest of the world done in the highest fashion that's
00:11:54.240 available to the world i like the way that jim and i just like we were like yeah we pause and look at
00:11:59.760 each other like yeah a pipeline what an idea it's you know if you keep coming up with these novel ideas
00:12:05.520 i'll tell you yeah the order of canada is coming my way oh we put in the nomination yeah uh one of
00:12:14.880 the things that uh maybe and and this is just being an average canadian and a guy who doesn't have the
00:12:20.000 the background in defense or in in uh i've got media background which makes me qualified to know
00:12:25.680 basically nothing but it does frighten me a little bit that some of the major customers of iran are
00:12:34.080 some of our biggest threats china russia north korea are we a little afraid of pissing them off over
00:12:40.320 all of this and shorting them on fuel that might that might uh instigate further uh negative interaction
00:12:48.080 with these countries no well there's no doubt that uh there are there are real threats to these
00:12:54.240 countries in terms of their supply as they really like rely they used to rely on the venezuelas and the
00:12:59.280 iraqs and the russias rands and russias of this world but you know this is where canada can shine
00:13:04.720 it has uh an extraordinarily good track record in terms of its uh democracy in terms of its uh labor
00:13:11.520 standards in terms of its environmental standards by any measure we produce the best oil in the world
00:13:16.000 and yet we still have a coterie of people and i you know you can pretty much know where they are
00:13:21.120 those who voted liberal those who voted ndp those green voted bloc who believe that we're skunks we've done
00:13:26.720 terrible things we're doing terrible things we're not the solution of the world unless we
00:13:31.120 basically uh you know choke ourselves we uh as archie bunker would have said many many years ago we go
00:13:36.880 stifle ourselves there's some people who actually believe that canada should not be doing any of
00:13:42.240 these things that permits and gives power to the wrong people to exercise and wield enormous uh you know
00:13:48.160 uh impetus when it comes to uh geopolitical matters uh oil energy matters i didn't create energy uh
00:13:55.520 affordable energy for you know because i was trying to be cute means when you fool around with energy
00:13:59.360 the basis on which uh our society thrives there are a number of outcomes that uh that can't be uh that
00:14:05.040 can't always be calculated but there is today um iran has been able to use its uh energy prowess as has russia
00:14:11.280 to clobber and to uh push its very draconian anti-democratic anti-human agendas and so people
00:14:18.400 really need to wake up if not then uh maybe the tragically hips uh song the hundredth meridian
00:14:23.280 gored down and got it right a generation so much dumber that its parents came crashing through the
00:14:27.760 window a last one for me dan um president trump had indicated to the pentagon and to the media that
00:14:35.360 he believes this thing will last four or five weeks minimum maybe longer for canadians worried about
00:14:40.960 the price of the pump how high could a leader go 160 180 what are we looking at well look ontario
00:14:47.840 right now we started uh the weekend off 137 going to 143 tomorrow 144 going to 140 you know 46 48 49 50
00:14:58.240 uh likely by friday maybe a dollar 55 by sunday um sky's the limit uh 175 in ontario two near two dollars
00:15:07.280 in quebec maritimes 190 uh bc uh rather sorry uh uh manitoba saskatchewan alberta likely back to 165 170
00:15:18.880 uh interior bc 180 and vancouver yeah two bucks a liter so yeah it all depends on how long this goes but
00:15:26.080 i don't see a resolution here and yeah the uh it's the first time by the way i think a war has been tried
00:15:32.320 to it has been has been tried at least by uh by bombing alone i'm not sure how far that works uh
00:15:40.880 you know uh iran is not the gaza strip yeah you can you can pummel that but at the end of the day
00:15:47.040 there's a lot of targets and iran is not iraq it's three times stronger four times the population
00:15:53.360 so i think this is uh you know conservatively speaking several weeks before we get some kind
00:15:58.160 of resolution someone is going to have to yell uncle i don't think it's the fanatics that are going to do
00:16:01.920 that until every last one of them is contained that that is something that uh i think sits at
00:16:08.000 the surface of our fears that this is uh not an easily relented regime uh you know it's so funny
00:16:15.680 dan you put into into perspective something that i'm going to take away from today's discussion
00:16:20.240 and i hope that i'm right about it canada's out there we do a lot of virtue signaling we want to
00:16:24.800 get out there and help the world we seem to know what's best for the world with uh the environment and
00:16:30.320 you know human rights and everything but the truth is if you take a look at the center of power and the
00:16:36.080 center of conflict over power in this world it revolves almost exclusively around energy rights
00:16:43.360 and mineral rights canada is so rich allegedly in this regard that if we really wanted to make a
00:16:51.360 positive impact on the world it could be through our oil simply through our oil would put us into a
00:16:59.040 power position to have the kind of clout in these scenarios and to actually help countries and to
00:17:05.200 actually help countries and have a seat at the table of negotiation yeah uh until we do that we we
00:17:11.680 were really just out there with air burgers yeah i just it's frustrating dad well it's frustrating for
00:17:18.160 you it's been frustrating for me i mean i've had to try to convince people of the wrong of pursuing this
00:17:23.360 idea that we could somehow stop our energy when so many people around the world said what happened
00:17:28.400 again a great little country that snapped lost its way uh decided that it was going to you know shut
00:17:34.560 down the very things that makes it tick i mean well this is a very prosperous country by other standards
00:17:40.400 it didn't it wasn't always that way a generation ago we faced the great depression and before that
00:17:45.680 some of the most inhospitable uh conditions in which to uh in which to live and thrive but we've done so by
00:17:51.760 harnessing and managing our energy the fact that we could do it for ourselves or we could do it for
00:17:55.920 the rest of the world but at the last second decided to uh go woke and go stupid really means that we've
00:18:02.240 done no benefit for anyone else in the world we certainly harmed ourselves the next generation knows
00:18:07.680 full well they've been roped and it's the first time my generation has done something to damage the
00:18:13.920 future prosperity of our children our grandchildren we i personally believe we should be ashamed of what we've
00:18:20.320 done because it's very bad policy it's time to admit it get those damn elbows down and start dealing
00:18:25.600 with what the world wants and to restore our integrity internationally not just our ability to
00:18:31.920 you know punch above our weight militarily which we can't do but to actually give the world that which
00:18:36.560 it needs you know a very strong supply of energy that is virtually limitless for which the rest of the
00:18:43.520 world can prosper and canada can continue down this road of better promise for the next generations
00:18:48.720 he is dan mctag the gas price wizard follow him on social media affordableenergy.ca and gaswizard.ca
00:18:57.280 dan as always we appreciate your insight you are the best of the best of this and we appreciate
00:19:01.360 you coming on thank you so much my friend mike and jim thanks so much for this great to be here terrific
00:19:07.760 you know mike what dan said uh it was both informative and depth but it's sometimes a little scary as a
00:19:13.040 canadian and when he starts throwing out numbers a dollar 82 a liter no wind in sight uh it could be
00:19:19.440 very tough spring summer for canada you know but it's deeper than the price of gas i mean what dan is
00:19:25.040 always about and i think probably we often are as canadians is our pride in our energy and and we have
00:19:34.400 no means to provide that energy to the world and at a moment like this it could really be the difference
00:19:40.720 between you know uh helping a whole nation that needs fuel and even offsetting what it costs us as
00:19:50.000 a nation but we don't have the option and that's the deeper thing as a canadian that's disturbing
00:19:55.840 what's going on in iran is definitely disturbing yeah but what's happening here at home we have kind
00:20:01.040 of left ourselves with no hands here's the irony of all of this prime minister carney just capped
00:20:06.800 what he felt was a hugely successful trade mission to india yeah he's in australia now imagine getting
00:20:13.680 on the phone to indian officials saying we understand you're going to run out of oil in a few weeks we're
00:20:19.600 going to load up some tankers and send some to you but he can't do that it's not an option for us right
00:20:24.720 and then now we're hearing uh as we take a look at the strait of harmuz
00:20:29.120 the situation there has already begun and it's it's dire so for people don't understand the
00:20:35.280 straits of harmuz the strait of harmuz um which 20 of the world's oil goes in and out of it's 33
00:20:43.200 kilometers wide from but the ships here basically 12 kilometers going in or out of the strait from
00:20:52.320 the iranian coast insurance has gone up 150 000 to 200 000 per ship if you can get insurance a lot of
00:21:01.600 the insurers won't even insure these ships to get out of the gulf in the persian gulf and the problem
00:21:06.800 is 150 ships are already piled up yes trying to get into the uh trying to make its way through the
00:21:13.200 persian gulf and they're just waiting for insurance and clearance to go through meanwhile damage is
00:21:19.040 already happening so the insurance companies are are saying okay uh errant missiles uh targeted missiles
00:21:26.160 targeted attacks are already something that we have to take a look at we can't ignore it so i would
00:21:32.800 imagine a lot of those ships will just sit there with nobody prepared to insure them yeah i'm just
00:21:37.280 checking it right now the price of oil it's going up by the hour because of everything going on on a
00:21:43.520 barrel and as dan said it's the diesel it's for your delivery to your grocery store air travel
00:21:50.320 will be affected uh and it's it's gonna filter down to our everyday life it's at uh if it reaches
00:21:57.440 two dollars a liter in canada canadians become immobilized there is a point at which you cannot
00:22:04.320 use your car there is a point at which you can't afford the groceries that are coming in
00:22:09.760 that are now being transported what about travel forget it you're not you can't go on a getaway
00:22:15.360 no air travel i mean uh it's to that point imagine what is costing carny right now on uh canada what's
00:22:23.040 it called can force one can force one i don't think that's cheap on fuel well no and with every
00:22:28.880 kilometer and every hour passing it's becoming a more expensive trip to australia yeah then he's
00:22:33.360 going to go to japan then he's flying back home um it's it's we are in so he's using all the oil
00:22:41.920 mike we're in dangerous times and and as dan mentioned and all the experts and even the u.s
00:22:47.280 administration are begrudgingly admitting this is not a quick fix because of what they're dealing with
00:22:55.200 we've seen already the u.s embassy in saudi arabia was hit with a drone attack from iran
00:23:00.080 they're hitting refineries in the persian gulf a lot of the liquid natural gas and oil refineries
00:23:07.040 in parts of the gulf have shut down completely to prevent future damage this is just the beginning
00:23:12.800 we just started and we're already going oh we're feeling it uh yeah and i don't know if that's
00:23:19.120 sort of reactionary and i'm but just you know the price of gas went up already this morning
00:23:24.640 but it's oh and i meant to ask dan how does it happen so damn fast well but he answered the
00:23:29.360 question oil reserves are not what people think yeah there is only so much oil reserve in a country
00:23:34.560 at the price they bought it at that price per barrel the next price per barrel they try to average
00:23:39.120 it out as best they can over a period of time i would imagine but the next price per barrel is
00:23:44.880 what happens just weeks down the road at the pump you know as a canadian it frustrates me to think mike
00:23:50.320 if we just had one pipeline from alberta to the bc coast what a difference it could make for those
00:23:56.160 countries desperate for our oil and gas one pipeline what just one pipeline one refinery and what it could
00:24:04.720 mean for the canadian economy i have great news though jim yes we have all the ports that we need
00:24:10.480 and they'll be in great shape at the time that we get to that uh pipeline you i can understand like i
00:24:18.400 love the environment and i love nature and i i i get that they were trying to be hey we want everything
00:24:26.400 to be great and no carbon but the world doesn't work with your plans sometimes and sometimes it's good
00:24:33.280 to have the reason you have insurance is god forbid something happens to your car your house you're
00:24:39.120 covered the reason you build a pipeline from alberta to bc and maybe for a while it doesn't do much
00:24:45.440 business but at time like this it would be going 24 7. jim we're not on the magic school bus we're on
00:24:51.520 the highway to hell we need to wake up here and dance you know he's quite right that now we're we're in
00:24:59.120 a position as a country where we have this precious resource that so many countries around the world
00:25:06.000 are desperate for how do we get it to them it's a great question how do we there has to be a solution
00:25:11.920 this must be a wake-up call how is it not i don't know but i mean i think as canadians jim we have to
00:25:19.600 push as individuals we have to push at the constituent level and say i'm paying too much for gas i'm
00:25:24.960 worried that we're not going to have jobs we're paying too much for food we need our own oil again
00:25:29.520 we need our own resources again as a as an average canadian who has basic needs we're not talking
00:25:36.560 about traveling to dubai to shop you're not talking about a all-inclusive vacation somewhere or buying a
00:25:43.680 two hundred thousand dollar escalade you're talking about a minivan your kids in school food on the table
00:25:50.240 and being able to drive somewhere basic the most basic things as a canadian are now going to be very
00:25:55.440 difficult as a middle class shrinks and shrinks and shrinks it's things like this that are doing it
00:26:01.440 and you feel helpless yeah you feel helpless you can see that we have this massive reserve of oil
00:26:08.080 sitting in the ground and as a country we're not able we don't have the infrastructure the ability
00:26:15.120 even if we start building a pipeline now realistically how how many years is it going to take before it
00:26:20.240 hits the coast of bc you know what if we really got to work on it i mean if we really got to work
00:26:25.280 on it jim we would have it done in 12 to 17 years yeah yeah yeah so i mean the bottom line is here we
00:26:33.280 are in early march and even president trump in his most optimistic is saying this is going to take us
00:26:39.120 well into april yeah the best case scenario and that means the aftermath of this is going to be
00:26:46.240 felt by all canadians i mean think about a family in march break florida's out right um cuba's out a
00:26:54.240 lot of people mexico's out there's a lot of places you can't and then you're like i'm staring at all
00:27:00.240 this gas prices kids we're going to play in the backyard this march break uh but this is this is a
00:27:05.360 perfect time for us to remember and and this will give you some hope jim elbows up buddy elbows up
00:27:11.920 you know i mean that this is the moment where i look i look back and i think to myself okay this is
00:27:18.320 not this is not a product this war is not a product of our government but at this moment we realize how
00:27:25.360 much yapping we've done and how exposed we've made ourselves in that process now the here's the
00:27:32.000 interesting thing about all of this is we speak on this tuesday um for the last few days mark carney
00:27:36.960 was on a trade mission in india did not speak to reporters not a word even though there was a lot of
00:27:42.160 questions yeah from all reporters there who were there and then now they've been told now they're in
00:27:46.640 australia he's going to do a q a news conference on thursday which will be fascinating because think
00:27:52.960 about the questions right away he went all in with his chips and back his dancing back to usa back to
00:27:58.640 israel okay he's got some of his own mps are pushing back against that there are still problems
00:28:04.640 with india and the sick community in bc and that has to be answered and now there's questions about
00:28:12.800 what are we going to do as a country if oil hits or the price of gas is two bucks a liter
00:28:18.160 he might want to just stay on his world tour because but eventually he's got his touching down in
00:28:23.280 canada the canadian media and answer some questions because even the most pro-liberal pro-carney
00:28:30.000 reporter and journalists are like wait a second where are we on where are we in this we have
00:28:34.160 questions and you have a moral obligation as the prime minister to answer these questions because
00:28:39.360 canadians quite frankly are concerned and they would like some answers you know that's not too much to
00:28:44.000 ask uh one of the ones that made me uh chuckle and i you know it's it's hard to chuckle at the news
00:28:48.400 right now but i i noticed uh trump gave a really interesting sort of update on where things were
00:28:53.600 with the the war in his own very special way and and at the end he said okay i'll take a take a couple
00:28:58.800 questions and one of the uh one of the reporters went yeah nice story what about the epstein files
00:29:04.320 anyway i'm not talking to you i don't know who let you in next question it's so it's interesting but he uh
00:29:12.560 when it comes to speaking to the media you have to do it whether you like to or not it's just
00:29:17.840 it's it comes through the territory yeah there are certain jobs in certain roles in your life
00:29:23.520 you have to do interviews and speak to the media whether you like it or not that is part of the pay
00:29:29.120 package now in future shows mike we're going to get into how this all started um potential outcomes we
00:29:37.040 have future shows about what's going on in iran in the middle east right now but today we just want
00:29:41.840 to talk about right now how it's affecting canadians and we're as dan so eloquently mentioned and
00:29:48.800 explained we are going to get hit hard at the gas pumps and at the stores in the pocketbook in the
00:29:53.760 next few weeks until this is sorted out and we don't know when it's going to happen people are going
00:29:57.440 to wonder where we stand okay jim on all of this and so i will just say this to the lives being lost
00:30:04.400 in this scenario in the middle east right now um on any side uh you know our hearts go out this is
00:30:12.320 war is nothing anybody wants but in the analysis of it and of the in the discussion of it we may put
00:30:18.880 that aside on occasion we shouldn't uh everyday lives will be lost every day uh lives will be affected
00:30:25.840 not just in iran but you know uh wherever somebody has lost a family remains um and of course the the
00:30:34.320 regime of evil in my heart really did need to be uh need to be usurped in some way before more people
00:30:42.720 uh in that society like i killed and hurt i hosted an event monday evening that featured a lot of
00:30:48.640 iranian canadians proud iranian canadians and they were emotional just thinking about what's going on
00:30:54.240 they're talking 45 50 years of family members being stuck there wondering about them praying for
00:31:00.480 them this i mean if it brings peace and prosperity and democracy to iran and they're back to what it
00:31:07.680 was um before the oppression like for a lot of iranian canadians they're they've been praying this
00:31:14.560 for decades well uh you know that a new prosperous life is the result of this uh of course is our is
00:31:22.000 our desire to thank you thank you