🔴 China HALTS Gas Exports—Trump’s War is CHOKING Them Out!

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Obviously, elevated energy levels this morning.

People are asking, what is it?

Caffeine?

Okay, what does it be?

Well, guess what?

Nothing.

It's only the beautiful human spirit up in here,

and a little bit of H2O, keep it hydrated, baby.

That's the energy levels this morning,

and that's why things are going crazy.

These, everything's been happening.

We have a situation in Iran,

and how that's having the ripple effects throughout the region,

but as well as the world putting a bit of a, I don't know,

Jolt, maybe some derailing of Mark Karnie's new

world order plans, and it's getting interesting.

I'll tell you that much.

So we have the fact of breaking news this morning,

coming out of China, which we're going to be discussing here,

is that they're halting all gas exports,

or at least minimizing their gas exports right now,

and trying to focus on their needs at home,

because, well, they purchased a lot of their oil from Iran.

Iran moving, oil's not moving through Iran right now,

because there's something happening over there right now,

it's what I'm hearing.

So they're now in a mode of trying to be in protectionism,

protect themselves, and make sure they have enough fuel

to get through.

They have about 100 to 110 days worth of crude oil in reserve,

but they prefer not to have to touch that, you know what I'm saying.

So we're going to be discussing that,

but as well as we're going to be discussing,

we've, apparently we have a prime minister here in this country.

I'm hearing, I'm getting worried

that we have a prime minister in Canada.

I've been missing him.

I don't know where our leader's been,

but he's apparently we have one,

because I'm hearing one thing one day,

another another day than another thing this day,

and I don't know, the thing with Mark Carney

is he can't pull a Joe Biden.

He can't just say, well, you know,

I'm getting older, you know,

I'm having my cognitive faculties are depleting.

He doesn't have the Joe Biden excuse.

He's just being plain obtuse.

And that's what's happening with him.

People are getting really frustrated.

We're going to cover that.

And of course, last but not least,

we'll be discussing this new partnership,

this new strategic partnership, right with China.

And now we're starting to see the results of that.

We'll be covering some of the pieces coming out of that.

There's been doing this in so much more.

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All right, China tells top refiners

to halt diesel and gasoline exports.

China's government has told the country's top refiners

to suspend exports of diesel and gas

as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf

disrupts the arrival of crude

from one of the world's largest producing regions.

China known to purchase, I think it's upwards

of 80 to 90% of Iran's oil.

And now, well, Iran's not providing that.

And China's like, okay, I guess we got Russia now.

That was, our fuel is going to start coming from Russia.

That's about all we have at this point in time.

So there's some issues happening

with China at this present time.

And it's not just obviously everyone's feeling it,

not just China but other Asian countries

who are now struggling because they can't get the oil

from Iran or at least the Middle East at the moment

because, well, the harm is straight

is not being used at this present time.

So while the country's only a third largest supply

of oil products into the region,

it's vast refining sector,

primarily serves domestic demand, China's curbs.

Wow, China's curbs just six days

into a water fleck that's scrambled across Asia

to prioritize domestic needs

as the crisis in the Middle East deepens.

Officials from the National Development

and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner

called for a temporary suspension

and refined product shipments

that would begin immediately.

According to people familiar with the matter,

they ask not to be named as the discussions are not public.

So we have that breaks, right?

And then the other thing that broke yesterday

or that actually broke this morning,

China sets a lower economic growth target

of 4.5% to 5% for a 2026 as challenges loom.

Again, 4.5% GDP growth is what they're predicting

which is the lowest it's been since 1991.

We're all feeling the pinch these days,

aren't we?

China's feeling the pinch too.

Their projections are getting lower.

Their property crisis is starting to get worse

and it has been getting worse.

They're trying to hold it together right now.

And this is where things are getting spooky, of course,

because we have the situation happening in Iran

and this is the prediction that's happened across

known time.

You have a worldwide epidemic

that is typically shortly followed by World War.

That's where we're seeing it.

And I'm people would say I might be jumping the gun

on that right now.

We know we're only a week into this,

we're a less than a week into this at this present time.

Saying this was the start of World War III is presumptuous.

And you know, I understand that agreement.

I understand that argument.

I'm just seeing what's happening right now.

I'm seeing that U.S. is and Israel

are heavily engaged with Iran right now.

Iran is taking aim at all the countries around them,

which is now starting to pull these countries into it.

They shot a missile at Turkey, which is a NATO partner.

That got intercepted, was intercepted, intercepted.

However, Iran's doing everything they can

to drag everybody into this.

And in some ways, it could drag everybody into this

because when you have this conflict that's going on,

you have the almost straight that is being shut down

and closed off.

That is a lot of oil that goes through there.

That is just not moving now.

And now countries are struggling.

We have stories like these, we talk with us this morning.

Where now countries are making pivoting at this present time

of what do we do, what's going on?

So if it stays short, like was promised four to five weeks,

then hopefully it'll be all good.

However, we'll feel the remnants of it

because, as I said before,

China was getting their oil from Venezuela,

from Iran, from Russia.

Now two of those three gone.

China still also buys from Saudi Arabia too.

But they're big, big players.

Iran and Venezuela are gone.

And if the US wins this war, well, guess what?

It's game time.

Because China does this.

And this is the issue we have with the EV crisis, right?

Or the EV situation, why we slap tariffs on them

and why it was so controversial for China to take them off.

It's because they provide everything at,

ridiculously, ridiculously low prices

and undercuts our industry here.

And the way they do that is,

well, they have to purchase energy from somewhere

at low prices.

And Iran was providing that to them.

Iran was providing barrels of oil to them

at eight, nine, 10, 11, 12 dollars below market rate.

Sweetheart deal.

This allowed China to produce energy

at low prices for themselves

and continue to develop products at very low prices

so they can sell them back to the US and the West.

And then as well, this allows them to do these,

build these EVs at ridiculously low rates

and undercut our industries here.

It's all one big circle.

So say that Iran's situation gets sorted out.

And now we have a Western friendly ally in Iran.

So that's the outcome of all this.

So that's the best case scenario

where this gets solved US wins, whatever.

Best case scenario that happens.

Now, Iran is selling oil to China at market rate.

And the problem China has is 25% of their energy refineries,

or sorry, 25% of the oil refineries

are very small refineries.

They call them teapots.

And their profit margin is solely based, solely based

off of the deal that China gets on oil from Iran.

That goes away, those refineries go away overnight,

leading to an energy crisis in China.

They have to start making solutions

and figure out what they're going to do.

And now things start spiraling.

And this brings me back to Canada.

Canada's role in all this is this is the issue

I have with our liberal government is Canada

could be doing something really cool right now, really cool.

Because of, you know, unfortunate circumstances

with going on Iran and what's taking place,

it's skyrocketing oil prices around the world.

Canada exports oil.

In this case, Canada could be a lifeline to China

and could give be a lifeline to Asia.

Now tell you what I mean is we can mitigate

potential world war by providing energy and oil to China

because the minute you cut off a country's oil,

then boom, world war erupts, they're going to war.

It's got to happen.

However, you keep slow dripping them oil.

Well, they still are able to keep their lights on.

They are able to keep operating.

But you end up doing something long term for them.

You start selling oil to them at market prices

or maybe just slightly below market prices.

Either way, enough to allow them to stay afloat

and you start bleeding them dry economically.

And in the meantime, Canada gets that wealth transfer.

And when we start reclaiming our industry,

we start reclaiming our factories,

we start reclaiming our manufacturing,

taking them back and putting China on a fair footing

with the rest of the world so they can't undercut

the rest of our industries and take our jobs away.

That could be Canada's role in all this right now.

But alas, we have Brookfield Carnie in power.

And that's what is getting me going this morning.

That is what's getting me going.

These are the opportunities we potentially could have.

These are the potential options we have.

We could be supplying Asia with even more crude oil,

which we have one pipeline now that isn't at full capacity.

If I'm a prime minister that thinks about country first

and I'm not a globalist trying to just extract value

out of the individual,

I would be putting that pipeline full steam of head

and get rid of that tanker band

and let's get things going bebe.

But alas, we're not doing that.

We have the likes of Mark Carnie who doesn't know

where he stands on issues anymore.

That's what we're getting right now.

That's what we're getting right now.

So this is where that's the stage we're seeing at present time.

So there's three outcomes of all this.

We have a prolonged war that drags much of the countries into this

and we end up having World War and things

are going to have to get settled that way.

Two, it's a short and war.

It gets done in four to five weeks as Trump promised.

And we have a Western friendly nation in Iran.

Now the prices on oil go up to market prices,

choke China out.

Or third, Iran ends up fighting it off.

The regime stays in place.

And we'll see what ends up happening.

And China still gets access to their

below market value oil.

These are things to consider.

But right now, China has got time.

China's got time.

They have three months of oil in the reserves right now.

Plus, I believe they have tankers off the coast

of Asia.

I think it is to also continue supplying them.

But if this gets drawn out,

well, it starts getting ugly.

But again, it gets ugly for everybody.

Other for the US, Canada.

In terms of getting energy moving.

This is kind of where we stand right now.

And we're keeping a very close eye on all this.

Because it goes back to the geopolitical play.

A lot of people are focused on the reasons

that are given for needing to go into Iran.

I'm still very much in the perspective of,

yes, those are convenient reasons to go and take out Iran.

Especially if there's definitely truth

to them trying to build nuclear weapons you definitely don't want.

That regime to have the nuclear option.

And that's the very legitimate reason to go in

and take care of business.

However, this is all so a big play to choke out China.

And we're already starting to see the beginnings

of that right now.

The question is, does Canada want to be a good ally

and get on board and realize what China is doing?

Or are we going to continue keeping the Brookfield

Karni in charge in order to keep,

keep placating China?

We don't know.

Let's pull up some of the superchats right now.

We'll get right on into it.

I'm sure this is going to be fascinating to watch.

Mark Omblacko says,

Good morning from Naples, Florida.

Many Canadians have joined me down here for winter.

Our northern brothers and sisters sharing our lifestyle.

Freedom.

Freedom.

Way to be, Mark. Way to be.

Jessica says, Go check out Pierre on the Trigger Nomship pod.

Let's get it to one million views.

Yeah, I think it's over like what?

It's like close to 225,000 views now.

It's awesome.

Mike Stewart says it's always been about China.

China.

Yeah, 100%.

Couldn't agree more.

Kevin Stangowitz says,

President Trump should invoke the Defense Production Act

to keep the California oil fields and refineries open

and working to fuel Western, US, and Hawaii.

Yeah, I could see that for sure.

Kevin also follows that up with Alberta Premier Smith.

Should work with President Trump to buy oil and gas pipelines

from Alberta, US Pacific Coast,

for export to Pacific allies.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

That would be awesome.

That's what we'd like to see.

It is, that's the way that we can do things.

It is funny because the reason why Iran and China had

that relationship too, and I want to bring this to attention,

is because China was really Iran's only customer.

So China could dictate how much they'd buy the oil for.

Almost a similar relationship we had currently with Canada and the US.

US dictates how much they essentially get to pay our oil for,

and we have no way of getting it to other people,

essentially, with present time,

aside from one pipeline that refused to be used

because of these emission caps and all this, you know,

tanker-bambi-s.

So, it's funny, so Iran and China are in a very similar situation,

and that's why it was such a sweet deal for China,

and it was allowing them to keep funding these industries,

where it's severely subsidized,

and they could undercut the Western manufacturing.

And yeah, so that's where I'm standing on it.

Mark Gombonko says this,

Josh, great job doing your homework on how China buys resources.

China is very difficult to negotiate a fair deal with.

America has battled with them for decades, yes, yes.

It's been, ever since, I think they started, what was it?

The 70s, they were entertaining bringing China in the WTO,

and didn't officially bring China into a World Trade Organization

until late 90s or the 2000s,

took a look at that amount of time,

but eventually got there,

and now they've been officially part of it,

and look here, we are 25, 30 years later.

We'll go to happen now, it's crazy.

Mark follows that up with,

America is all in on changing power in the straight of hormones,

currently, bank on IT.

Yeah, it's the whole,

a lot of people are bringing up the AI stuff too, especially on tech.

We'll see how this goes, but you need energy.

You require energy.

JPL, Berda Furst says China has signal

that they are not going to support Iran with missiles or money.

They have literally left Iran to fight us by themselves,

and this means all the Middle East countries they have pissed off.

Yes.

Iran's moves were strange,

and I think I get where they're trying to do,

and it's not working,

where their goal was to go down guns ablaze.

So at this present time,

in the meantime,

they've attacked all the countries around them,

going after the American bases in those regions,

or in those countries,

thinking that, oh, shoot,

these countries now would get mad at the US

for Iran attacking them,

and it's had the exact opposite effect.

Now these countries are ticked off,

and some of which are going to start joining

the...

joining on the cause to get rid of this regime

and get things figured out.

So it's not working out well for them.

Not working out well for them.

Mike Stewart says,

accidentally confirmed by Chinese-born academic

and Western educated lawyer, Victor Gao,

corruption is rampant in China.

Victor Gao, August 24,

in front of a live international audience.

There you go.

There you go.

Because this is where we're out of here, folks.

It's the relationship of China.

It all comes together.

And China's in a tough spot.

Because if this all plays out the way

we describe and talked about today,

that puts them in a severe issue,

because they're hitting a downward spiral of themselves.

This all hits...

They are also having a huge property crisis,

where they have overcapacity

and don't know what to do with them,

and property prices are dropping, like crazy.

And you have, again, a communist nation

to control prices.

Well, they're going to see artificially

trying to control prices

and getting further trouble

and further in debt their nation.

And this is where the desperation

across the board is happening.

Every country in the world right now

is struggling financially,

some way shape the form.

And every country is at their own

point of desperation.

Thus it's just the perfect power keg

for things to pop off.

And now with the US and Israel

going after Iran

and all that that's going on,

China and Russia are staying out of it.

They're staying out of it.

They're staying out of it.

Because they don't want to get caught up in it.

Because they can't afford it.

Like Russia can't afford another war right now.

They're dealing with Ukraine.

China can't afford a war.

They can't afford a connect war with the US in period.

Let alone with the way they're struggling

with let alone with the way they're struggling

financially right now

and with their energies crisis.

And people are saying,

Josh, you're saying two things at once right now.

That's true.

What I'm saying is,

China's trying to avoid connect war at all costs.

They want to go about things in a different way.

However, if they are complete cut off of oil,

then there are less with no choice,

but to engage and connect war.

So it's that weird balance that's happening right now

that we're waiting to see how it all goes down.

However, it's all popped off

when it's Saturday our time.

It's now Thursday.

We're not even a week into this.

Lots have been said.

Lots have been talked about.

Lots of speculation.

We'll see what ends up happening.

We'll watch.

We'll read a couple more super chats

before we move into the next piece here.

Mike Stewart says,

remember for everyone,

the CCP is not a race.

It's a poor excuse for a government.

Yes.

It's, yeah.

I don't know.

It's a communist government for sure.

J.P. Alberta first says,

Josh, would be bad form to mention

a live interview scheduled for today.

What do you mean?

Which interview schedule for today?

I'm curious.

Yeah, hit me up with what,

which wouldn't you mean?

Let's see.

People are responding to it.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'll let you guys fill the blanks

and for that one,

I don't know if you know

which A.P. is getting out there.

But sure,

let's say that.

And Kevin Stankwitz says,

now Trump offers a deal to Putin.

If Russia agrees to peace deal in Ukraine,

sanctions on Russian oil and

and Russian profit from high oil prices,

dude, it's all coming together for sure.

And this is where I'm,

I get the, I get where everyone,

I get there's so many different sides

of this conflict, right?

And I get where everyone's coming from on it.

You have the America first crowd

that's saying,

this is bad.

This is regime change.

We don't want this.

This is betting.

This is not,

this is just killing our own people.

This is up the other.

However, China is growing in strength every day.

And this is clearly a move to undercut them once again.

And it's either you let China keep doing what they're doing.

Or this is,

that's where the debate is,

is the America first crowd typically

doesn't see this as an American interest situation.

But if you look into it deep enough,

it very much,

the argument can be made

that it's in America's interest to deal with this

and some Western interests to deal with this,

the way they have.

So it's,

it's first off,

the nuclear weapon situation is one thing.

And then as well as China's growing

in terms of growth,

they're growing in terms of strength

and growing their influence.

So you have to undercut them at some point.

So that's the debate.

That's the debate people are having.

Mausineus,

left nostril.

Wow, what a name.

It says,

never trust China.

We lie about everything.

You know,

we do,

do we have a Chinese dissident in here?

Let's go.

That's a change.

That's different.

Oh, man.

Here we go.

We move forward though,

because this is the story that people have been

to really talking about in Canada today.

And this all comes together

for what we discussed here with China.

Okay.

Let's go.

So Mark Carney keeps changing his tomb.

He keeps changing his tomb.

So we have the likes of the quotes.

Let's read some quotes

from literally since last Saturday.

February 28th.

Mark Carney says,

Canada supports the United States

acting to prevent Iran

from obtaining a nuclear weapon

and to prevent its regime

from further threatening

international peace and security.

Despite numerous diplomatic efforts,

Iran has neither fully dismantled

its nuclear program,

halted all in Richmond activities,

nor ended its support

for regional terrorist proxy groups.

So he said,

on February 28th,

that they support the US's action on this.

Then Tuesday,

March 3rd,

he says,

Prime Minister Mark Carney said,

Wednesday,

Canada supports the US

and Israeli strikes on Iran

with your threat.

Yeah, that was it.

So, yeah.

So on Tuesday,

into Wednesday,

Mark Carney said that he supported

the strikes on Iran

with regret.

And said it was another example

of failure of the international order.

And that they were not informed

in advance.

We were not asked to participate

in the international law,

but..

and,

and that,

really,

really,

coming in from Afghanistan.

It appears

that these actions are inconsistent

with international law.

So that's the standings

they are taking.

So supports it,

then says,

eh,

it's support with regret,

international law is being violated,

and then,

then,

falls that up with,

we call for de-escalation,

call for de-escalation.

Then today, or sorry, the yesterday, he then said that they're not ruling out Canadian

involvement in the war.

We'll support our allies where it makes sense.

So you have likes a Melissa Lansman here who wrote this post, says, we support it, we're

upset about it.

We think it's bad, but also we might join in.

He had a prime minister from our car in the last 72 hours, and it's that piece.

But there was this response to reporter in Australia that got published today, that what's

I actually sent this to Reg and I am like, did he say what I think he just said?

Let's see if you can break it down here with me.

This was rather confusing, I'm being quite honest with you, sorry, that's like his statement

from today.

Actually, let's read this, watch this first, and then get to the question here.

Question from Prime Minister Karni, you've sent the Canada will not participate in US

military action in Iran.

So can you definitively say that's going to remain the case, even if hostilities broaden

escalate or are prolonged?

The, you've asked a fundamental hypothetical in a conflict that can spread very broadly

at today's events, recent events, point to that.

So one can never categorically rule out participation.

We will stand by our allies, but it makes sense.

There's a distinction between the offensive actions that were taken and are being taken

by the United States and Israel, that were taken by them without consultation with Canada

with other allies.

So there's the answer from yesterday, yes, right?

Can't categorically rule out our joining in of this.

Can't categorically rule it out.

Can you get set with a question and listen to his answer this question?

I legitimately was so confused listening to this answer, but I think he said what I think

he said, listen to the question, listen to this answer.

The Prime Minister, how can you have it both ways?

How can you say you initially understand your first statement you said was made in hours,

but you also said there was some predictability, you knew this was going to widen, so how can

you have it both ways?

And in hindsight, should you have called for de-escalation in that first statement?

No.

In hindsight, to that point, in my judgment, secondly, in terms of war, there are likely

hoods, there are possibilities, you have to plan for the worst, but there are no certainties

in conflict.

And so now that the conflict has moved on, now that the conflict is involving a much

wider group, but even if I don't want to say even if, but moving into the Gulf, moving

into civilian infrastructure, we're seeing a few things.

One, it is not solely the decision of the principal belligerence to move to the de-escalation.

So he learned talks, he goes like, he says a lot of words just to not answer that thing

directly.

But you heard from him here right now.

He said he shouldn't have asked for de-escalation.

I understand that correctly.

He said he shouldn't have asked for de-escalation.

So he played just the first 20 seconds again, just to verify the question and the initial

answer to this.

Prime Minister, how can you have it both ways?

How can you say you initially, I understand your first statement you said was made in

hours, but you also said there was some predictability, you knew this was going to widen, so how

can you have it both ways?

And in hindsight, should you have called for de-escalation in that first statement?

No.

In hindsight, to that point, in my judgment, second...

So Mark Karne admitted and then continued into this word sad later to further verify that's

what he meant that he shouldn't have asked for de-escalation.

This man is all over the place.

And it's getting to the point of being very frustrating, not just as someone who didn't

vote for him, but in general, Canadians and people during severe conflict need true leadership.

They don't need a pragmatist.

They need someone giving them a solid answer, a clear answer of where they stand and what

can't as point of view on this is.

That's what they need.

And we're getting none of that here, none of it.

We get, oh, this over-explanation here, over-explanation here, I think that's what he said here.

You shouldn't have to try and decipher code when it comes to talking about severe conflict

in the world and how it may impact your country.

Sorry.

That's not the time to give a three-minute answer on these issues.

Giving three-minute answers to a simple yes or no question is not helpful for anybody.

And I can digest it.

I can let it go when you're talking about economic policy.

Sure.

But when it's coming to something like this, that's black and white.

What are we doing?

What's happening?

People need clarity.

You're not getting it.

And this is the issue with Mark Carney in this travel and this trip right now that he's on is like in general.

Being 15 years outside the country before running it for a prime minister.

He's out of touch with Canadians right now.

He's not here listening to the reaction to his press conferences.

Listening to what people are feeling.

He's going with the winds of change.

There's no spine to him.

There's no integrity.

There's no principle here.

It's just, what are my staffers telling me I should say and I'll say it.

That's what this reads to me as.

This is making no sense and it's producing zero confidence in our government.

And then you wonder why all the chaos is happening right now with confusion around India.

Issues around China, IRGC agents in our country.

Calistanis, fish, noi gang, all of it.

Just spiraling out of control.

So there's no leadership, there's no certainty.

Mark Karnin continues to shoot himself in the foot.

I talked about this when he first got elected.

This is a man who loves to play in the gray.

Loves to play in the gray.

He doesn't like being clear and he doesn't like being decisive.

Because well, then he can hold him to his words.

He does a lot of his wishy-washy things so that he has holes to maneuver out of

when things like this come up.

I'm seeing this from some of his hardcore followers right now.

You guys aren't listening.

Listen to the nuance of what he says.

He's not really what he said.

This is what he was actually saying.

And even then, they can do the gymnastics to try and reason their way out of whatever the heck this is.

This is hurting him.

It's hurting the party for a little party.

But most importantly, it's hurting Canada.

It's hurting us, making us look incredibly, incredibly weak on the world stage.

And he keeps bringing up the issue.

Well, we weren't.

No one brought us into it.

No one talked about this before these attacks happened.

Well, of course not.

You have proven to be an untrustworthy ally.

You are now bringing in an exchanging security analysis with the CCP.

You are getting a deal done, which the MOU, we still don't know.

We haven't seen yet.

MOU with China, where we've agreed to exchange intelligence with them.

RCMP, how in the world does that make sense?

So of course the US isn't going to trust you with anything.

You're leaky.

You're leaky.

How can anyone trust you?

And that's the frustration with all of it.

And this is where we currently stand at this present time.

We'll hit super chats here with some questions, people bringing up, some points that people

are bringing up.

JPL Bird at first says Harrison Falkner is hosting a live debate between Jason Canny

and Bruce Party and Albert Independence, 12 new and probably Ontario time on YouTube.

Cool.

Yeah, people should check it out.

That would be great.

I'd be interested to hear that.

That would be a very fascinating debate.

And yeah, JPL don't feel bad.

It wasn't bad for him at all.

I'm thinking about my channel.

Some like others.

For me, I will always 100% use my platform to promote any type of civil debate or any

other of these issues.

I 100% I think it's I think we should shine as much light on these things as possible

so that people keep talking.

I think it's important.

Dash one, dash two says, why is Canada always five years behind the rest of the world?

And now the liberals in it feels like we're 20 years behind elbows up.

Question mark.

Yeah.

Mark Canny will show up with cap guns, really?

Maybe.

He also falls that up with we have a we have a seat at the back of the bus, Mr. Canny.

Oh, jeep.

Dash one, dash two says Canny Bingo saying fundamentally, if I may to be clear, dangerous

divided world, oddly time smile, looking under the podium at the Canny Bingo for every

press conference he does.

That's funny.

I agree.

Mark says, sorry for trolling your channel, Josh, but Canny is not a world leader.

Your military is a bag of pretzels.

I think it has Trump and BG.

Our military is hurting.

Our military is hurting.

There's really not very much we can typically provide right now.

Aside from our words, when it comes to military support, there's very little we can provide

right now because we've just decimated our military.

Mousing Yes, left nostril says Uncle Canny is dumb dumb.

He can't got it.

That's good.

Mark Gumballko says again, 2026 global firepower index Iran ranks 16th globally while Canna ranks

28th global firepower is plus three.

Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it that that that that that tells you a big story tells

you a big story.

Lucky dies 78 says the fact our government knew nothing of Venezuela, Mexico or you or

Iran should have Canadians concerned, yes, couldn't agree more.

I don't feel like it gets enough coverage in the media.

That's been such a consistent consistent storyline throughout all this.

Venezuela, Mexico, Iran.

The first thing we hear from any of our officials says no one talked to us about it.

No one let us know.

No intelligence was shared with us.

That's code for we're being cut out.

That's your concern people, that's your concern people.

Shannon says left in the US says that left in the US says that America first is not for

this is truth is the opposite.

We don't want to hear about their by their sorry left in the US said, oh, the left in

US says that America first is not for this.

The truth is the opposite.

We don't want war by their terms fair enough.

Mark coming in hot again says I'll keep quiet for the rest of your program Josh, oh my

gosh.

Mark you're always welcome here, dude, almost what you're good, you're good.

Randy from the peg says I watched the USA press secretary answer 30 questions from all

types of reporters for 40 minutes weekly.

Why does Canada not have something like this?

We here's a thing is we have a variation of it, but it's broken right now.

And that's called question period is typically the prime minister is supposed to ask is supposed

to answer questions from the official opposition and the thing is he shows up maybe once or twice

a week, maybe for lucky, but then secondly is because of problem that you privilege, they

don't actually have to answer any questions.

So it's a lot of word salad and talking around issues.

So yes, it would be nice to have a situation where we do put the prime minister in front

of reporters or sorry, at least they represent it from the PMO in front of reporters consistently

to answer questions for what they're doing.

But obviously we're not going to be getting that because this PMO doesn't like transparency

so much so that they let the parliamentary budgetary officer contract expire so they

don't have any reports coming out about their budget.

So here we are.

Smody truth says anyone else watching peers interviews stay clear, stay focused, protect

their kids, good versus evil only yes, focus on hope, focus on what's happening and and

think about what could happen like we discussed today.

Even with the infrastructure we currently have ramp up our pipelines to 100% repeal the

tanker band or even if you want to use Bill C5, choose to not obey the tanker band for

now and start getting our crude oil to these Asian markets, baby.

This is a perfect time.

People are in energy shortage because things are not moving out of the Middle East.

So what's yours are is let's get it going like holy jumping oil prices of jumps Alberta

could be really benefiting right now can it could be benefiting right now.

But alas, let's let's not do all that.

Let's do it.

Why would you do that?

OP 2 says five eyes has failed because Canada is not trustworthy due to foreign interference

and lack of a registry.

My opinion.

Yes.

Couldn't agree more.

Couldn't agree more.

And I know I did a video about this, yeah, two days ago with when pow woo senator who

is promoting a website and forming people if they should apply for the foreign registry

for an agent registry, if that were ever to become a reality, coaching people and if

they should or should not, it's crazy.

Yes, of course, Canada can't be trusted, it's insane, absolutely insane.

We move forward here though.

We move forward because this was just a fun little, fun little situation that came up.

CTV will only play the first 45 seconds of this, but CTV called out Mark Carnaz Brookfield

about our dependence on great powers and sometimes even individual corporations.

What did you take away from that?

I think it's quite interesting that the latter, when he said, you know, it dependence on

great corporations, I thought, boy, wasn't he the chairman of Brookfield Assets?

And a lot of these deals do involve his former company, but at the same time that he also

happens to have shares in, but it was funny to kind of bring that up.

And the media never talks about his Brookfield dealings, never talks about his history, doesn't

talk about the shares he owns in these things and just ignores them.

And so it was like the first time we heard someone on like the mainstream channels talk

about it.

I was like, yeah, that's a nice little nod and wink to all that.

But Mark was talking about the Carnaz deal with China.

49,000 EVs coming in, we have intelligence, we'll be sharing intelligence with China.

We'll be bringing their media here.

We now have Visa free.

We have now Visa free access to go to China now as Canadians, all of this, we're starting

to see the remnants of us and starting the media integration starting to happen.

So CBC did a piece here, again, we'll play the only of the first little bit, is now sending

people to China to cover things that are happening in China, which the world's second largest

economy just kicked off its ceremonial legislature known as the Two Sessions.

It's one of the most important weeks on China's political calendar.

Thousands of delegates gathered to hear the Communist Party unveil its political and

economic roadmap.

And for the first time in years, CDC news has been permitted to enter China, that's where

Chris Brown is in Beijing this morning.

Chris, this was always going to be a big week on the Chinese political calendar, but it's

got a lot more complicated given what's happening in China.

It has indeed, David, thousands of delegates from all over this vast country are coming

here to Beijing.

They're part of the Two Sessions, as you say, the most important legislative gathering

and also the political advisory side of things as well.

So there it is.

So we have CBC reporters reporting directly from Beijing now.

And then CTV released this piece of tourism that just read as weird.

Just watch this for a little bit.

Chris Yvonne joins us today from the van, from Vancouver, and she is with us on behalf

of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, and we're talking about Hong Kong.

So thank you for joining us this morning.

Thank you.

Here to fuel your wanderlust.

Well, I love that because so many people are looking for new and different destinations

to head to, and obviously the first step in every journey starts with a first step.

And so let's talk about getting to Hong Kong.

What was that like for you?

The beauty was the adventure started right when you're on board that airplane.

I travel on Kathy Pacific.

They have incredible dining, and yes, I used the word dining, not airplane food.

It's elevated.

You arrive nourished, rested, and that's good news because once you get there, I stayed

to the Park Lane Hotel, right in Causeway Bay.

You experience the vibrant bustle of the city, but also near some great green spaces as

well to do.

You can press after the travel.

Now that's a surprise to the green spaces because it surprised me when I heard about the

mountain.

Because we take a look at that skyline.

We take a look at what we think we know about Hong Kong, and it's like, oh, green spaces.

So tell us a little bit about that.

That question.

Yeah, it really did surprise me.

I got my first little taste taking the peak tram.

It was established in 1888.

So you get this elevated view, and you see all that green space mixed in with the skyline.

But then we traveled to Saikun, which was a true just like watch of this.

I was like, it just now, I've had friends who are from Hong Kong, been to Hong Kong.

Great city.

Don't get me wrong.

Great time.

However, in relation to response to what we've had in terms of deals that have been

signed with China, and seeing this start getting posted now is like, huh?

This just felt contrived and fake.

It's just don't feel real.

She feels like she's putting on a performance.

Look how great Hong Kong is.

Green space.

And I guess she's the head of the tourism board over there, but like, this just feels like

it's forced, and it just feels like propaganda in a lot of ways like, come to Hong Kong.

Look at all the amazing things.

It starts as soon as you get on the airplane.

Wow.

Look out the window.

There's green faces.

Whoa.

That's how it feels weird.

And you know, it's released an hour ago with 41 views.

All right.

This tells you that people, it's just weird.

The timing of all this is, this is my guess and what sound I'm seeing.

This is the response to that deal done with China.

CBC sending reporters now to China to cover things that are happening there.

I think it was someone said as well.

TMN Square.

Yeah, we've gone from covering what happened in TMN Square in 1989 to glazing China.

CBC, which I thought was a funny comment, but yeah, it's weird.

It comes across super fake and forced.

And I am buying it, and I don't think anyone in the chat is buying it for not one second.

Mao says, friendly Westerners do not do business with the CCP.

It will cost you everything.

Yes, that's the warning we keep getting, folks.

The warning we keep getting.

Moving the world, 3862 says, as tech a TV did an investigation on how the Cuban regime

sells humanitarian donations to the people, I've seen it myself.

How much are we sending?

$8 million?

Ah.

Check it on that.

I haven't heard that.

Lazarus says, no effing way.

Hong Kong.

New.

New.

And then Darrell says, Kanye speaks with a forked tongue.

Yes.

I think that's a very generous way of putting it.

That tongue could be split in four different ways at this point.

He's giving so many different stories.

And so this is where we're at, folks.

I'll leave it there.

This all feels weird, doesn't it?

It all kind of feels odd and contrived at this present time.

But to summarize, China is facing trouble.

If this Iran situation continues, well, they're in trouble in terms of not getting the,

not being able to subsidize the oil they want to or even getting oil altogether.

It either goes from not getting oil if this, if this war continues, or USA wins Western,

Western family government gets installed and they, they don't get their sweetheart deal

with Iran anymore, which puts their refineries at significant risk of closing down at

least 25% of them.

All while they're dealing with a real estate collapse and their own GDP is starting, it's

not shrinking, but they're the threshold of the height of what they could hit is getting

lower and lower now, lowest since 1991.

They're getting choked out.

Trump has choked them out and between tariffs, between situation happening in Iran and

their real estate problems, China is in tough, China is in tough and it would be nice for

Canada to get on board and do their part to choke them out further.

That's how I feel about it and stop giving them lifelines like we have.

They may have choked us out, but maybe we'll see.

Oh, let's go.

We got some folks in the chat, we got the bots in the chat, they've came, they came

late today.

They came late.

The bots are in the chat though and tell me that I'm wrong.

This is fake news, China forever, CCP, fly the flag of the CCP.

Let's go.

That's how it goes.

But Mark on Blanco will finish off with what Mark has to say here, says, that was a fast

hour, Josh.

Thank you.

No problem, Mark.

It's always a pleasure having you, sir.

Always a pleasure being here with you amazing people.

So we will continue watching how this all goes.

Well, I'm sure at this point, because we keep getting news day by day, week by week,

and it will all depend on the status of this war and ones of taking place.

Does it go for longer or does it get down in the time Trump said it's going to get

done?

We'll see.

We will see.

But anyways, whatever it is you doing, whether you be at work or getting your homework

done or just enjoying your morning coffee, whatever

it is you doing, whatever you are.

I love you.

I'm out.

Peace.