THE PIPELINE： War： What is it good for？ Alberta’s budget
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In this episode of The Pipeline, the usual suspects are back to talk about the latest in the war between Israel and Iran, and the implications for Canada and the rest of the West, including Canada's response to it.
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Good day and welcome, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.
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Today is March 4th, 2026, and you're watching The Pipeline.
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I've got the usual crew here, former Western Standard Opinion Editor, Nigel Aniford.
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Thanks for sticking me with the guy who's got pickled sausage gurgling around his stomach.
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Yeah, lucky I left my pickled herring at home, but that's my jam.
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that's probably much worse than just the pickled sausage you're eating yeah well i went to seven
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persons and they got a beautiful uh a big sausage shop actually down there i had to buy something
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so i bought a big jar of pickled sausages and ate them while i drove for a few hours that's what's
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on sale that you couldn't well it was a sausage place you know what i mean these are good road
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snacks uh either way i'm everybody including jane is paying the price for my indulgence okay all
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not tabling her budget, just a few days later as oil goes to wartime levels.
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But we're going to start first with a curious decision of the federal government.
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It wasn't even a court decision, just a decision of the federal government
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to give Vancouver away, sort of, maybe opening the door to having to give it away.
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Musqueam First Nation, I guess, had laid claim to Metro Vancouver and quite an area around it.
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uh fishing rights and whatnot and ottawa just said yeah sure have it and this is uh started
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squabbles now with some other uh indigenous groups in the area i think um it was it was
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the one that was fighting this now in court is it the cowichan i don't know there's squamish
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i think it's squamish i was on the island yeah no it's worshiped yeah uh no the cowichan got a
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different strip of land that people live on right uh so cory uh the musculium now uh it's not fair
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to say they uh they own it they can just walk in any office tower and kick everyone out and this
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is their land now but uh ottawa has granted some significant rights to them that seem to further
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erode the quicksand below the feet of british columbians very basic property rights yeah people
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are rightly concerned because of the Richmond one, everybody was told not to worry about that
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either. And suddenly they found that they can't get their mortgages renewed and businesses pulling
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the heck out of there because they can't finance things. Because I mean, they might not have taken
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the land, but they put such a question mark on it that it's virtually valueless unless something is
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resolved. This isn't the same with Musqueam, but what people are seeing is
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a step in the same direction. So yeah, it's talking about just giving increased
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control for fisheries and emergency management, marine things,
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which are kind of odd considering they just had dug out canoes to begin with but it's another one
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of those just endless agreements and as it covers a lot of land but it's again these question marks
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let's make sure we got an image up on the screen there of this thing this is a this is some of the
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most expensive real estate in north america oh yeah in the world and the musquehams if you might
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remember you might not but in the 90s there was a big stink with that because they had a lot of
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expensive housing leased on what was musqueham land and they turned over the leasing ability
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to the ban because it used to be run by the federal government and they hit people with
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like retroactive 4,000% increases in their lease rates. Oh yeah, look it up. People walked away from
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their homes. This happened in the 90s. Though to be fair, it was a gross like $100 a year lease
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rate they'd been getting for a long, long time. Either way, it's an active ban in some very
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valuable land down there. It's the question marks again are part of the problem. So the chief,
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Wayne Sparrow, I'm looking at this, he's saying, you know, because there's discussions, it's only
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negotiations. Again, he's already talking about land
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claims are a mess because they're, for the most
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part, not covered by treaties the way, say, Alberta
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to be fair to these bands it's a bit more ambiguous there are probably some legitimate
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claims but you know as we saw the cowichan decision with richmond uh you know they say hey
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uh you know my great great great great grandfather uh was fishing there once so therefore it's mine
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um these things are flimsy um but ottawa just made the decision on its own and now you've got
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the cowichan uh putting up its hand it's like no no not so fast uh it's our land or at least
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big portions of that are ours yeah it's it's very very weird uh the biggest idiot in all this is
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david eby um he's excuse me he's running around claiming guy he doesn't know anything and doing
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a sergeant schultz impersonation i know nothing but the federal officials say he attended the
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briefings and he was there at the signing so somebody's not telling the truth and it might
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You'd be David Eby. I think if I was a Vancouver owner, one of the questions I would be asking is the BC government promised to, I don't know if the right word is insure, insure the homeowners in Richmond, 120 of them or so that were affected, they would back their mortgages.
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If I'm living in Vancouver now, hey, is somebody going to back my $4 million mortgage?
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You know, it's, as Derek said, it's some of the priciest real estate in the world and a lot of money involved here.
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Nigel, I can't imagine how the federal government could backstop every mortgage in Vancouver.
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Also, that'll open up, we're not talking, that'd be a gargantuan enterprise to undertake.
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Like, I mean, you'd end up having taxpayers backing some mortgages that probably should not be backed, even if you didn't have a land claims issue.
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Huge amounts of Vancouver are owned by, like, Hong Kong and China anyway.
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So we'd be backing foreign mortgages just to try and back our domestic mortgages at the same time.
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But there's a dark part of me that's kind of chuckling.
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it's a part of me that shouldn't exist but I can't help
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return the land because they assume the land
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and everything will be great before the European came.
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But it turns out what they voted was downtown Vancouver,
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So I don't know, maybe you're a better person than me,
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but there is a dark part of me that's kind of like,
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No, I mean, the reason that I stayed with you three years, Derek,
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Look, some of these people really deserve what they're getting, and now most don't.
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But I was informed anecdotally just yesterday that there are people in the affected areas
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putting signs on their lawn saying, proud to live on native land.
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Corey might say something like that, trying to piss people off.
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That could mean two very different things.
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They are the kind of people who probably thought exactly what you thought.
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but it would be very good if somebody else gave land back.
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So they put these stupid signs on their driveways and on their front lawns.
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So there's a certain part of me that says,
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You know, if you keep giving land acknowledges and say we're very proud to be here on unceded territory or very proud to be on the traditional territory of the such and such tribe, one of these days somebody's going to come calling and say, yes, you're right, you are on our land, get off it or pay for it or something like that.
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and that's what we are now starting to see but what is a puzzle to me and i think probably a
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puzzle to all of us is why our senior politicians go along with it so easily and that's where the
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dark part of nigel hanaford starts to bubble up and froth because i actually think that our
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senior politicians would rather do this and face up to it and deal with it in the interest of
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reconciliation but they would rather do this because they feel that if they take a hard line
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they will have protests terrorism perhaps more repeats of what you saw on the northern pipeline
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out to kitamat a few years ago and that it would be a situation that they can't control
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it's cowardly and i could be wrong but that's what it looks like to me i don't know this looks
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like a big opening for uh you know the bc conservatives and uh the federal conservatives
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to vancouver voters really everyone in bc to say you know we'll put a an end to this madness we
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will repeal undrip um i think uh what's her name she's kind of the leading she's leading some of
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the polls christine elliott christine elliott i think she's talked about uh is she am i correct
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she's talking about repealing under i'm going to say that okay i don't want to put words in her
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in our mouth but i know some of the candidates are talking about that uh or what oh no maybe i'm
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confusing with one bc what bc's talked about it but you know they might have finally pushed things
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too far though i mean people have been to vancouver north van nice houses and there's a reserve right
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there down by the water side right there i mean it's big quarters but there's those champagne
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socialists loads of them and and it's kind of like we've all been saying you put it's great when
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you're giving away somebody else's stuff but it's amazing how quickly their tune changes when it's
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their own so maybe that's what the maybe that's what canada needs let's lose some houses so that
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people of bloody will wake up on the ridiculousness of where are you going cory we can't be too smug
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on this here in alberto we've all our land is treaty land i've actually looked it up before i
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came to came to work total 100 treaty land however we have a judicial system that rewrites the rules
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on the fly. Nobody could have predicted this Cowichan decision last year. If you go through
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the thing carefully, you find that the judge was quite creative in her interpretations and indeed
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used a lot of native language as a politeness to the other side, suggesting some people have
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suggested she might be a little sympathetic to them. So you get a judge with a very different
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idea about whether the treaties were ever fairly negotiated in the first place and just says that
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doesn't count anymore guess what calvary edmonton are you listening well i'm aware of it i'm going
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before a judge on june 30th on a uh indigenous uh uh canada canadians are just they're just
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sheep it's frustrating why isn't there marches in vancouver of all these homeowners saying
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hands off our land, right? I mean, you know, I would think maybe at some point, yeah, at some
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point it's got to happen, but it could happen quicker than people think. Well, stop that from
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happening because people will, you know, look at all the, you know, the elbows up types, you know,
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they're defending, you know, they've got these big home values, they're voting kind of status quo
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political parties, you know, their vote for Carney and stuff. People do not mess around when it comes
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overwhelming number of people. It's the biggest
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okay, the feds come in and they start backstopping
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So what you're going to see is this is going to get socialized.
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Because I think these people, you know, West Van, they're beside a reserve.
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And, you know, say that their land comes into question.
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I don't think they're going to flip and say, F off.
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They're going to plead, and Ottawa's going to come in,
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Yeah, but the whole thing is we've got to stop sucking up to First Nations.
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We've got to stop these ridiculous land acknowledgements.
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sitting listening to a UCP cabinet minister, Mike Ellis,
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Other ministers have been doing it in Alberta, too.
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That's just the first time somebody popped it up to us with a video.
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It's done in the legislature every Monday to kick off the week,
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I mean, every single press conference in eastern Canada
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When I go to a gym and lap and dairy club general meeting once a month,
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Well, in Calgary itself, we changed the name Fort Calgary to the Confluence,
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which just sounds like, I don't know, a hotel or some kind of posh bar or something.
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Fort Calgary, the very heart that built Calgary.
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unfortunately you know we've questioned the current mayor when he was running uh if he would
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change that uh jeremy parkas he says no uh you know yeah that's a frustrating thing there's no
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there's no action on a we've got a whole new revamp council and not one of them wants to touch
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and they're doing land acknowledgements before the meetings yeah everybody's afraid
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disgraceful why are we still afraid of this shit this is chicken i mean you go to city hall as well
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look at that garbage dump of a memorial they have from way back when the uh the canloops buried
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children hoax began and there was a fenced area with a bunch of teddy bears and shoes to represent
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the children buried in the campers even though it's become almost clear as day that this was a
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hoax and that thing's been vandalized multiple times there's some of the irony it turned out
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when they chased the vandal it wasn't a white nationalist it was almost first nations person
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who burned it but it's still there it's still there it looks awful it's a mess but nobody's
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got the courage ever whether it's an in an official or real just say you know what it's
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done it's time it's time to raise the flag from half mass canada you know we we've been in
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figurative half mass for too long okay let's feel something more cheerful war
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uh or gang up on derrick time is this gang up on derrick time
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um a supreme leader of the office um all right so
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which according to Netanyahu they have been weeks away
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And the other one is regime change, which, I mean, who knows if that happens?
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It's not going to just happen through a peaceful color revolution.
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Best case scenario, it'll be a big civil war.
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God knows how many people die and we get flooded with refugees again.
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That's probably the best case scenario for regime change.
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More likely, the regime just clamps down, gases and shoots a bunch of people and nothing changes.
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Those are the two big excuses given for the war.
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Or, I'm being unchartable, justifications given for the war.
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I mean, I admit that with the second Gulf War, when they were looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
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and they turned out not to be there, it speaks a lot to the limits on intelligence or the justification they'll put out.
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But it's undeniable that Iran was not just a benign wart hanging out in the Middle East all by itself.
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It was funding terrorism all over the place.
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And they were, it's the most cowardly way I think of these dictators, at least, you know, Saddam wore it on his sleeve.
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Iran funds others to take care of their ugliness, whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, you name it, as well, you know, against their own people.
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I mean, we talked 30,000 demonstrators slaughtered in five days for trying to stand up to him.
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As you said, a civil war would be bloody over there.
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The question, I guess, is whether or not it's the place of America to play police and go in and do that.
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But Israel has very directly been hit and threatened and rocketed and...
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October 7th never would have happened without loads of Iranian help going into Gaza for years
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to get them armed up and trained up and able to hit as they are.
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There's a very direct connection between Iran and Hezbollah
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They're involved, but they're not the main backer of Hamas.
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Hamas is radical Sunni, kind of mixed with local parochial nationalism,
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The Shiite-Sunni thing gets set aside because one thing they can agree on is they all hate the Jews.
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And so there's no difficulty with Iranian money coming into Hamas,
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even if they weren't as tightly a bed as Hezbollah is.
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But I mean, the bottom line is, and how many times has the Ayatollah had to say,
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we need to wipe Israel off the map, I think it's a pretty good direct threat for Israel to respond to.
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Iran has been killing Americans for decades, right?
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One of the first things that happened when the Ayatollah came back from exile
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Americans have been killed all over the world by Iran-funded terrorists.
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No, it's to prevent Americans being killed in the future.
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When's the last time Iran killed an American soldier?
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I'm not talking soldier, I'm talking terrorism.
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or civilian when's the last time iran targeted someone on american soil like it's it just hasn't
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really happened well what about the the austin texas uh uh shooting this week was was uh inspired
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by uh inspired maybe who knows and you know isis there's isis inspired people look the iranians
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are uh they're about as bad as you get but they're not a direct security threat to the united states
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they're a security threat to israel no doubt they're not not a threat to the iron stakes so
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we'll see if the proof ever shows up as i said i i have some skepticism after the last 12 war
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but it's not beyond belief that they were having a nuclear program getting close to and if there's
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any state in the world that is ideologically crazy enough to actually use a nuke might be
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the option but then that would put lie to the 12 days war where they said they set their nuclear
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program back by years if not decades that wasn't even a full year ago was it so either they were
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lying then or they're lying now or lying both times but they can't be telling the truth both
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sending it back by years isn't enough when you want to completely eliminate it yeah now he says
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weeks away and he is on the record saying we are mere weeks away since 1995 i was 10 years old
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well is is at least the uh as far back as ago saying literally he had been done to it over
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all these years they probably would have had one by now well gents i got a rather different take
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on this and i don't think any of you are i don't think you're actually wrong it's just that you
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haven't perhaps explored whether this isn't really about iran but is about china china is
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basically has colonized iran in the sense that it has created a forward operating base in the
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middle east sitting right on top of 80 of the world's oil supplies you might recall that very
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recently the yanks pulled maduro out of venezuela what did he do wrong well he was a bad dude but
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the significance of venezuela wasn't one more bad dude being pulled from the game it was the fact
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that the chinese who were buying 90 of what venezuela produced suddenly had to find a place
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for oil and they have been working on iran for decades to to develop iran as that source
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so actually we think about american imperialism and we think about the old british empire and we
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have our sort of our forces distributed all over the world to seek our best advantage but that is
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what china was doing and they were doing it in iran they were doing it in venezuela so this
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really is about kicking China out of the Middle East. So let me just consult a couple of notes.
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The relationship between China and Iran has extended far beyond the oil that I'm talking
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about. They have got into a military industrial entanglement. Iran was on the verge of acquiring
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things that evade the defenses on American ships,
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It is to diminish American power in the area
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that this is about dismantling and disrupting this emerging Chinese power projection before
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it becomes permanent, rather than solely about the Israel-Iran conflict. And I admit that it is
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partly to do with that for very obvious reasons, but that's not all that's going on here. It is
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China trying to be the new British Empire, the new American imperialism,
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but this time it's us who were supposed to be at the disadvantage so trump whatever he may say in
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his news conference it's because of this it's because of that this this is where he's got to
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look for the real reason i've seen the argument made around china i actually think that is probably
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at least from a reason for america to be involved i mean israel's got its own reasons for america
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don't want to play Jake and Little and say this is definitely
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going to spiral into something big and goes on for
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So the pushing back a potential Chinese outpost, okay, that one I could see is in America's interest, but this would seem to be not the normal, correct American way to do it.
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Like, in the Cold War, you know, someone flirted with, you know, with the Soviet Union.
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You funded their neighbor to push back against them or something.
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You know, a bit more finesse, a little less death, a little less blood, a little less treasure.
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This would just seem to be, if that's the case, if it is pushing back a Chinese forward operating base, maybe,
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this would just not seem to be the smartest way to go about it.
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One is that it's good for the Americans that the Israelis are involved
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because Israeli intelligence in that area is vastly superior to American resources.
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but it would be highly surprising if I were to learn that that operation
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in which on the first day the leadership was totally eliminated
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is a consequence of Israeli intelligence, not American.
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that was my assumption because they run through the window that's my assumption because the
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facade's legendary but uh a lot of what i've seen it actually is to the contrary it was the united
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states actually watching a lot of this so it's probably a combination i i i've heard the opposite
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the second day when all the clerics were together uh they dropped a bomb on them brilliant intelligence
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nobody does it better than the massad and apparently they had control or viewing control
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of every traffic station every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor when the supreme
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leader left his mosque and when and when all these 80 people gathered they're watching it on the on
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tv and i just gotta note the the irony and the beautiful part of that though because it is a
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totalitarian state and they put those cameras in i'm certain with a lot of intent to oppress their
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own people yeah it is that irony massage great at like the pagers hey we actually sold you the device
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that blow your nuts off and uh and here you are you put that in to oppress your own people but
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we've hacked it so that we can track your own leadership around the streets it's brilliant
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if i may is that we talk about iran's government what we really have is a muslim of the equivalent
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of the hell's angels running a country this is not a normal government well this is like
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this is we all agree the iranian government's bad i don't think that's really a point of
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Well, no, they're bad. It's just that it is a criminal organization.
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It is. And my skepticism, I mean, part of my enthusiasm in a way, I wouldn't call it enthusiasm,
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but optimism or whatever, I think it's almost time for the world to start having out with radical
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Islam, which I know is a broader thing to define and so on. But at the same time, well, how well
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has regime change ended up working on Afghanistan or Syria or Iraq or anytime they try it? That's
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part of the problem is that if you still have a core of radical islam in the country the next
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regime typically isn't any better than the one you just got rid of they've just changed names so
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so you're going live memes though why it's not us but i guess us is the west but why is america
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and the west still trying to fight radical islam over there when we're not really doing it here
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oh you don't hear me disagreeing with you there like it's a radical islam is a much bigger threat
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here than it is over there over there it's it's still a problem it's a pro i wish it wasn't over
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there either but i i have an infinitely bigger problem with it right here yet we don't do
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shit about it here there was a memorial for uh in the art of the van brampton held and as i treat
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it which got a fair response back i would say what a perfect place to choose candidates for
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deportation here's the ones here's self-identification i've had a canadian ice van
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out of here. And I fully agree there. Clean up our
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ran for president three times no new wars and no war with iran in particular because iran
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was the neocon wet dream they've always wanted iran and he said no war with iran and they get
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iran and americans are not getting mass deportations the ice thing it's a thing but it's
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not nearly as big as everyone's promised in fact obama's deport deported more people as president
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So we're, in America itself, where you've got Trump,
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they're not dealing with radical foreign elements
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the way Republican and mega voters were promised.
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You know, I oppose the war for different reasons
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These guys do not see a problem with radicalism.
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i do but i see it as a problem here we should fight it here but we have to take the speck out
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of our own eye before we take the log out of our out of our neighbors we have to do both let's
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let's at least start here before we launch these gigantic wars overseas that are going to kill
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thousands of people disrupt the region and potentially at least spiral out of control
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into something we can't control and then we've got fifth columns here let's deal with that first
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before we go do it this might expose those fifth columns actually and what are we going to do about
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how many deportation fans were sitting in brampton waiting for the ayatollah we do things right on
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october 19th we can deport them at least out of elbert well hard for me to argue with that one
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there's your headline for tomorrow dave well speaking of bringing this conversation back
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to alberta can we just have a quick i'll comment on this the other thing that nobody talks about
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is that if you actually separate china from a consistent oil supply china is going to come
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looking for it they've got a reserve that's supposed to keep them going for about a hundred
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days but this whole situation of starving amount of oil reminds me of the 1930s when
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Are you mentioning that turned out to be a very bad idea, resulted in war.
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The Japanese came looking for oil because they needed it for their economy.
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So this could work if this is actually the plan.
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So if it does work, then that is where the greater danger of a wider war may come in.
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Okay, I just want to make sure I'm understanding.
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but if you're making the analogy there that the United States froze their assets,
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cut them off from oil, and it left the Japanese with two choices,
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which was essentially surrender and fall down the empire without a fight
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I don't want to push China into a position
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where they've got to roll the dice on a Pearl Harbor.
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I'm just saying that this is where this could go.
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you just scared the hell out of me because i think that history doesn't repeat itself but
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sometimes there are these echoes that come by and it's a similar circumstances so that is
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okay well a great segue to how this affects oil you read it here first you're gonna have to tease
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this one out a bit nigel because i do that okay i don't like that that's scary i like beating up
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Um, and I'm not too sympathetic to the Alberta government's excuses on this one.
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It's lower than they had projected, but $60, people are still making money.
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Some of it's because, yeah, we've been swallowed by migrants, but a lot of it is we just haven't
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We wake up Saturday morning to find, you know, war is broken out and oil is going to certainly spike when markets open Monday morning.
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If you're Daniel Smith, how much do you regret not waiting a week to table your budget?
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Well, the deficit certainly would have been billions of dollars less.
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Every dollar above that $60 budgeted mark is worth about $700 million to the Alberta Treasury.
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so it's now trading about 74 dollars today which is 14 above so it's a good chunk of money i failed
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math but it's several billions several billions of dollars and it's not just the alberta go it's
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all there's a lot of people in canada that are going to make money off this war the energy
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minister tim hudson was in toronto today saying and the quote was we see money right which is
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The potential is there for, if this war goes on for a month or so,
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we could wipe out that deficit completely and actually run a budget surplus,
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which had to be the greatest budget turnaround in budget history, I would think.
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Yeah, I mean, if it's a short, if it's like the 14 days war goes back,
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you know then the price probably reached somewhat more of an equilibrium again but
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i i think uh nagel u.s and israel i don't think they thought that the iranians were going to be
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able to shut down the strait of hormuz as effectively as they did because they wiped
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they wiped out their navy the navy was no contest they destroyed it so i think they were thinking
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more conventionally that well the iranian navy doesn't stand a chance of blocking it but what
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the iranians did is they go and they sunk one of they scuttled one of their own oil tankers
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and that got every insurance company on the planet to say we're not covering oil tankers going through
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the strait right now so everyone voluntarily shut their tankers down so uh without really
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a military action the iranians managed still to shut it um the uh anti-air defenses against these
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uh the iranians are now deploying hypersonic missiles not a lot of them are regular ballistics
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the Iranians are now hitting all these Gulf countries
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to try and get them to put pressure on the Americans
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even if this war is over in 14 days or something and it's not looking like it will be right now
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but who knows even if if serious damage is done to the infrastructure over there as much as i
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might think this is not a good war and we might come out ahead because oil infrastructure over
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there being seriously damaged that will have knock-on effects for some time yeah i think
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It's a reasonable expectation that Alberta can only do well out of this.
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Alberta secretly started this war to save the budget.
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What was Danielle Smith doing that weekend anyway?
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there are people better qualified than me to pass an opinion.
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but to your point about the hypersonic missiles i was not aware that they the iranians had received
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hypersonic missiles they got everything else that's a very particular title weapon that you
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wouldn't waste on an oil tanker you'd be looking for aircraft carriers without one but they can
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actually do the damage they want to do with drones that cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars a
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copy and you know the most sophisticated anti-aircraft defense system that you can build
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sort of can handle a number at a time but a swarm of a couple of hundred no that's that's what that's
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the leverage they have so obviously what we're seeing now is strikes on iranian territory along
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they cost about a quarter million dollars a pop
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Yeah, and most of these interceptors cost $2 million a pot.
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And you'd only have to fire several interceptors to have a pretty good chance of taking out a missile.
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Now, the American economy is infinitely larger than the Iranian economy.
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But the Iranians have figured out how to build this stuff cheaply and fast.
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So they might be able to keep this up for a while, and then you run out of interceptors.
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again, I'm making an argument just for purely crass
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So that oil infrastructure, if the Iranians can keep this up, could do a lot of damage to refineries, to shipping facilities.
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This could shut down major oil production or retard oil production in the Middle East for quite a while to come.
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And I didn't even use it offensively in this way.
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One of the big winners that may or may not come out of this is the Ukraine.
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They were getting pounded by Iranian-made drones given to Russia.
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They're not getting, Russia's not getting any more Iranian drones.
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And yeah, it's, you know, I was talking to a friend in government yesterday.
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And, you know, $100 oil is not out of the question if this all goes to hell.
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I mean, yeah, there's so many ways we can follow this now.
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But the Ukraine war had like three very distinctive phases.
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You had an initial kind of blitzkrieg phase where the Russians were going to rush it with tanks and aircraft.
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Then you went backwards, the World War I style trench warfare.
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But it's been pioneered in Ukraine, and now we could see it.
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But you want to bet that the Iranians have certainly built kind of anti-personnel drones.
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So that, you know, say if the Kurds start coming over, maybe they want to fight a typical kind of asymmetrical insurgency against the Iranian regime.
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I'm betting the Iranians have probably learned from the Ukrainians now because the Iranian drone technology is cheap and effective and they're watching what's happening in Ukraine.
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This would be drone warfare again, second drone war going on.
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If it's still available. It may have been bombed out of existence by the Americans.
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all right all right all right and we can talk this shit all day but i don't know if yeah if
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there's any silver lining it's that maybe this fixes the alberta deficit but temporarily because
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we'll never we never seem to get spending under control okay uh put a pin in that there and have
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our parting shots uh nagel yeah well to your last point there derrick about the never getting
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spending under control. So last year we had the teachers on strike, you had the doctors,
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the nurses asking for more money. It's the same all the time I mentioned last year,
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but it goes on and on and on. And always the advice from the general postulations,
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they deserve it, give them what they want. Well, that's mostly where the deficit comes from.
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80% of the provincial budget is wages, and 80% of that goes to those two professions,
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the medical profession and the teaching profession so all of a sudden we have a you know oil prices
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are down or we're down at the time and people's and they present a deficit budget well that's
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terrible they got to get spending under control it's the same people who are saying give the
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doctors more money give the nurses more money give the teachers more money but so what are you got
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to get spending under control what do albertans want well what that's why every politician promises
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We're going to get rid of the unnecessary duplication in bureaucrats.
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No matter what party's in power, you're always going to have that.
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So anytime the politicians come out and they don't give you very specific big line items what they're going to cut, it's the same bullshit.
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Back to the bumper sticker, which is a brilliant one that comes out about every eight years.
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It says, oh God, let there be another oil boom.
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I wrote a column that'll come out in the standards soon where I said the best time for Daniel Smith to cut spending is now when the oil prices are high.
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It's never when they do it, but he hasn't got a nickel.
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And unfortunately, every single ship in the formerly mighty British Navy was in port at the time.
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So Prime Minister Keir Starmer has dispatched a destroyer, but it will take a week to get there.
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So the RAF is under the protection of other people, I guess.
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It's really personal. My nephew is in that very base at Akroteri at the moment.
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Well, I can say all I want, but he is professionally cautious about what he says to me.
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And the week sort of ended yesterday with President Trump correctly noting that Keir Starmer, quote, is no Churchill.
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This guy is, he's trans and so thinks he's a woman.
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and he brutally stabbed and attempted to murder his own children.
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One child had, I think, three-quarters of her esophagus cut,
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This guy was, I guess, brought up on some kind of aggravated assault or something,
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And the Crown only asked for five years for a psychopath
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who brutally attempted to murder his own children this guy is clearly nuttier than a fruitcake
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and should be locked up in a mental facility for a long time but you notice what it's a trans person
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they don't they don't go like the route of crazy they're just going to keep them in traditional
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corrections this guy is clearly crazy and uh there was a very heavy publication ban banning us from
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covering this dave you and i talked about this god knows how many times we broke the publication
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media, we're like, well, he's broken it so we can
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five years for attempting to murder his own
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of charge in a lot of it yep yeah if he would have blown up a bouncy castle you'd be facing
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a lot more and it's worth pointing out grand prairie it's only what two hours away from
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tumblr ridge it's a it's the low uh if you consider grand prairie a big place it's the
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only big place near tumblr ridge it's it's kind of the metro uh center of gravity for a place
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like tumblr ridge and peace uh peace country okay so lots of break topics to end on today
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