True Patriot Love - Iran Conflict Drags On： Why Canada Could Pay the Price

00:00:00.000 is it a war is it not a war is it a ceasefire is not a ceasefire all we know is canadians

00:00:10.180 are getting hosed at the gas pump because of the ongoing conflict in iran it started way back in

00:00:16.060 february 28th and here we are at the end of may and we have no idea when it ever will truly end

00:00:20.680 to talk about it talking about paul brian gentlemen this is something i didn't think we'd

00:00:25.260 still be talking about this many months later but here we are and it's still going on it is Jim you

00:00:31.800 know and uh prior to the show I was uh mentioning to both of you that I had watched a podcast and

00:00:38.640 if you know we're we're loving doing the podcast thing here at true PDA uh true Patriot love but

00:00:44.820 you know I was watching diary of a CEO oh he's fantastic right and Professor Yang was on and

00:00:51.120 I don't agree with everything he says, but quite frankly, he had a whole theory on what was

00:00:57.280 happening in Iran. We tied that the other day to a show we did on Kuzma. Stay with me for a minute

00:01:06.300 because it's very interesting. You watch what's happening with oil and gas prices, what's

00:01:11.100 happening now with Kuzma. Now with Kuzma, we did another show where Jameson Greer comes out

00:01:17.900 just as we're editing the show and he says I'm going to Mexico I'm not bringing the Canadians 0.99

00:01:24.240 I'm going to have a negotiation with the Mexicans and you know what I'm going to come back July 1 0.97

00:01:30.360 and I'm going to tell you if I want to continue our 16 year 16 year deal on Kuzma or if I want to 1.00

00:01:36.740 say goodbye to it and just go year to year or if I want to terminate it and everyone's like

00:01:43.340 big gulp then on the heels of that he comes out and he he made basically uh four statements that

00:01:52.220 i thought were really compelling the first one he said the u.s are going to be talking about

00:01:57.420 rules of origin in a way that enhances u.s content in all goods in the western hemisphere

00:02:05.260 so think about that for a minute because that comes that's fresh out of the national defense

00:02:10.620 paper national defense strategy that we read out in december and when we read it i was like wow

00:02:17.260 i thought it was uh earth shattering when we read it out in december no one really looked

00:02:22.940 at it it actually got put on a shelf but you know for those of you who have time this weekend when

00:02:28.140 you're when you're bored and you're sitting around reading or doing or by the pool read it because

00:02:33.580 it is a very interesting document which a part of it talks about how economy is the essential

00:02:40.460 fundamental to national strategy to national security so i can't see anyone arguing with that

00:02:46.380 one economic security yeah two negotiations and this is this is greer again negotiations

00:02:53.500 are also going to focus on external tariffs coordination with the goal of reducing the

00:02:58.460 amount of chinese products entering the u.s supply chains through canada and mexico which is again

00:03:06.140 again fresh out of this national security paper three u.s terrorists on mexico and canada aren't

00:03:12.620 going away the u.s government is going to have tariffs as long as we have giant deficits in

00:03:19.580 other words he doesn't we are always going to have tariffs but regardless of what we negotiate in

00:03:24.620 kuzma or uzma or whatever we want to call it we're going to have tariffs and then number four if the

00:03:29.420 u.s can come to good terms with mexico and others in the region on external tariffs it makes it

00:03:36.380 easier for us to give preferential treatment to people in the region so in other words

00:03:41.660 if you uh abide by or you actually work with us on how we're going to tariff the rest of the world

00:03:48.860 we're going to be good to you in the western hemisphere correct however our prime minister

00:03:54.380 mark carney has already fired a shot across their bow this week with some pretty big defense

00:03:59.340 contracts uh both by bypassing boeing and america for their next generation of awac planes canada's

00:04:06.380 never had an awac plane we've always sent air crew to join the awac planes of famous e3 and that has

00:04:13.020 always been in the nato base in brussels now here we just bought six saab bombardier canadian made

00:04:19.180 canadian produced awa queens bypassing boeing and they signed other deals bypassing american

00:04:24.940 manufacturers to buy their own equipment and i think that has really put a bee in the bonnet

00:04:30.060 of the pentagon and the u.s government because they're telling canada there was a leaked memo

00:04:35.020 that yeah we this is your things you have to buy this this and this and here's the supplier and

00:04:39.420 canada's giving them the big metal finger saying no we're going to buy from somebody else well i

00:04:43.340 think that's a foolish move by canada to be quite honest with you i think that's i think that's 1.00

00:04:47.260 absolute stupidity how are you how are we going to compete with the united states they have 1.00

00:04:53.980 historically been our greatest ally historically they've been willing to defend us if something 1.00

00:04:58.700 horrible were to happen historically we've amalgamated ourselves into their sports into

00:05:04.700 their culture they're they're not this this giant monster that they're being made out to be if you

00:05:10.700 turn back the clock and you go back to the 50s 60s 70s we had tariffs we had tariffs all the way

00:05:17.740 along for a very very long time and then free trade was introduced and everyone complained

00:05:22.940 about free trade it was going to be a horrible thing it was going to decimate the nation until

00:05:26.780 it wasn't until it wasn't and now it's not looking so great in the global economy and tariffs may be

00:05:35.420 the necessary evil required to bring the western hemisphere back to prominence on the world stage

00:05:42.940 the western hemisphere was unbeatable through the 60s and 70s and even the early 80s so i don't know

00:05:51.900 why we would push against the united states with such force and try and embarrass them i think that

00:05:57.980 what we should be doing is maybe there's an old saying seek to understand not to be understood

00:06:03.500 and right now i have a sneaking suspicion that prime minister carney small in stature loud in

00:06:10.460 voice is walking around saying look at me i'm going to thump my chest and by the way thumb in

00:06:15.340 your eye and that sort of and i'm not disagreeing with you brian but he did paint himself in the

00:06:19.900 corner a couple months ago when he said he proclaimed that 70 percent of our future military

00:06:24.780 purchases would be canadian ties or canadian manufacturing so these global eye awack planes

00:06:31.820 they're buying are swedish slash sap technology built the bombardier plan in montreal and they're

00:06:38.300 they're trying to sign every deal he's trying to sign now that seven out of ten dollars is spent

00:06:43.740 in canada with ties to canadian jobs so i mean that's that's his mandate as prime minister now

00:06:49.900 no no and i get it you know and jameson greer you know we're gonna throw the clip on on the screen

00:06:55.180 uh now and the reality is we've spent the past year and a half going to countries telling them

00:07:01.100 we have to have some level of tariffs on the globe to deal with this giant death that we're

00:07:06.380 dealing with to try to reshore etc and and most countries have you know grudgingly but they've

00:07:13.660 said we understand your policy uh we understand so we're going to negotiate with you we're going

00:07:18.860 to remove some of these tariffs and non-tariff barriers etc you know canada's approach has been

00:07:25.580 different they like china retaliated against the united states two countries in the world

00:07:31.420 retaliate against us people's republic of china and canada so they're just they're just in a

00:07:36.620 different spot he's still criticizing it so we're still getting criticism over kind of our pushback

00:07:44.060 and he's saying, you know, China and Canada are the only two at pushback on the terror front. So

00:07:50.820 I think we have to walk that line very finely. But, you know, I want to get into, because this

00:07:57.060 is a really interesting thing. I want to get into not only the national security strategy,

00:08:04.920 but I also want to talk about Iran for a minute. Because, you know, we're kind of walking a funny

00:08:11.740 line right now because as canadians we're waiting to see the outcome of what's going to happen in

00:08:17.180 iran and for most people you know when i talk to now they're like is that still going on you know

00:08:22.540 today you know we saw they're trying to get a 60-day ceasefire in place you mentioned it on the

00:08:27.820 intro gym and when we all you know when we all woke up and we saw best uh maduro being uh you

00:08:37.100 know hauled out of venezuela and then we saw the u.s entering into iran we all thought okay this

00:08:43.420 is going to be short you know this is going to be quick this is going to be short well it turns out

00:08:48.460 it's not and jim i got to give you credit because when that happened you said this is not going to

00:08:52.940 be short you said the top topography of iran is much different than iraq and quite frankly

00:08:59.900 you know one being uh desert and flat and the other being mountainous and hard to conquer because

00:09:05.020 all their stuff's hidden in the rock they can't find it exactly but you know the u.s was in a

00:09:10.380 funny spot so you know we don't talk about it a lot and i know you know uh professor professor

00:09:16.460 is young on the show with uh steven on diary of a ceo he mentioned it it was a really interesting

00:09:22.540 point he basically said that the u.s was in such a precarious position because when uh

00:09:29.260 uh Russia and the Ukraine basically went to war the Russians the uh the Iranians and the Chinese

00:09:40.060 started to form a faction and looking at the petrodollar and looking at gold as a standard

00:09:46.780 and it put the U.S. in a very uncomfortable situation so you know I started the show when

00:09:52.060 you did your intro with you know economic uh stability right is the key to national stability

00:09:58.240 And so the U.S. was looking.

True Patriot Love - June 01, 2026

Iran Conflict Drags On： Why Canada Could Pay the Price

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