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Tonight, five short stories about Canada in 2026. If you were in Alberton, would you stick around? It's March 6th and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. Hey, we've got a great discussion a little bit later in the show with Dr. Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum. We're going to talk about Iran and what it means for the whole world, including for China, which I think is a big part of it. But that's coming up. But first, let me show you five little news stories that have popped up in my Twitter feed, which is how I get most of my news. A couple of these are a few weeks old, but some of them are very, very new. I haven't talked about most of them before, so I just want to go through them fairly quickly. This is a tweet from Ontario Proud, which is sort of a pro conservative website or Twitter account. It's very simple. Breaking Justice Davin Garg of the Ontario Court of Justice has ruled that the sex offender registry for pedophiles, rapists and other sex criminals is unconstitutional. He's just, you know, one guy has said, no, we're not going to do that. And even though I would say 90, maybe 95% of Canadians support that registry, and obviously different parliaments and legislatures do, this judge knows better and thinks there's a human right not to be on the offender registry, even if you have committed those crimes. And what are you going to do about it? You know, there is something you can do about it in section 33 of the Constitution of the Charter of Rights. It's a notwithstanding clause. But we know that Doug Fort won't do that. That's just the new norm. That's just how it is now. Get used to it. Hey, here's another court story. This is from Josh dehass, who's a civil Liberties lawyer. He says the Supreme Court found eight to one that Quebec's decision to exclude asylum seekers from taxpayers subsidized daycare discriminates against mothers. Yeah, no, discriminates means to choose. Like you could say he has discriminating taste. Discrimination. When we say it, it usually means something negative, but it means to choose amongst things and to choose to give your social services to Canadians as opposed to foreigners, including asylum seekers, the vast majority of whom are fake. That's a choice made by the Quebec legislature. That again, what does that have 80, 90% support in the province, but no the Supreme Court. And 8 to 1, you can't just put it on the Liberal judges. There's some Tory judges, Harper appointed judges who are going along with this. I mean, why not? You're a judge. You're making what, 400 grand a year? You don't even have any kids anymore because you're in your 60s and 70s. So, you know, you don't care about these things. And yeah, if the little people have to pay more taxes to provide free daycare for foreign nationals who sneaked across the border from New York, what do you care? You're a judge. I mean, what are they going to do, fire you? Here's a story from the Toronto Star. It's just sort of incredible. The headline and how they phrase it is pretty neat. Canada launches new program. That's not Canada, it's the Liberals. Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residents. Immigration Minister reveals They left out a word. Those are temporary foreign workers. So they've realized that they can reduce the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada and thus say, hey, we're reducing the number of temporary foreign workers by just making them permanent so they don't have to go home anymore. They can stay here and compete against Canadians, especially young Canadians. Many of these temporary foreign workers are not specialists brought in because Canadians do it. They're just specialists in one thing only, undercutting Canadians, especially young Canadians looking for that first job. And what are you going to do about it? Here's another tweet. Aboriginal law expert Tom Isaac on the recent Musqueam First Nation agreements. Quote, it is from a process point of view. It's, and I'll say it again, absolutely unacceptable. The public democratic governments are entering into agreements acknowledging Aboriginal title in any form when it's an exclusive right to land according to the Supreme Court of Canada, without consulting in some way with their constituency, which is the public. Okay, there's a lot of words there, but basically, and we'll talk about this a little bit later. The federal government had a secret negotiation and a secret deal with an Indian band in B.C. that now gives them aboriginal title, a kind of right to the land over vast swaths of the province. And they did it in secret. The public were not. There was no advocate for the public, certainly not the British Columbia public. And that's just how it is now. What are you going to do about it? I keep asking. Here's another tweet. This one's a little bit older. We've talked about this one before. $750,000. That's the price for saying biological sex is real. Former Chilliwack trustee Barry Neufeld just got financially crushed for opposing gender ideology in schools. Disagree with the narrative. That'll cost you three quarters of a million dollars. And that' the BC Human Rights Tribunal, which is just an absolute madhouse. I mean, a $750,000 penalty like that, that's enough to destroy man. I have never heard of a fine that large, other than when it's to recoup some money that was stolen. I have never in my life in Canada heard of a fine of $750,000. I can't even think of a fine that large in the criminal code. The only reason you would say that is if some fraudster scooped that money and it was taken back. That's larger than a murderer would get. We don't really find murderers now, do we? Now there's. It's not that I selected these on purpose, but it just happens that every single one of these is not Albertan. And that doesn't mean to say Alberta is immune from this stuff. Alberta still has a Human Rights Commission, though it's a little less crazy than some of the others. Certainly less than British Columbia's. Alberta has crazy courts, often where the judges are appointed by Ottawa. It's true. But I think Alberta is tending to go in the other direction. For example, they're strengthening freedom of speech for the professions. So that case of Barry Neufeld, he's not really a professional, but he's an elected official. He had a political point of view about transgenderism. They fined him 750 grand in Alberta. Now they're calling it Peterson's Law, named after Jordan Peterson. You can have a spicy political opinion as a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or an engineer and not be kicked out of your profession. If it's just a political opinion, that's got nothing to do with your work. So Alberta actually is moving in the opposite direction. Alberta has Treaties covering all its land. So I don't think that that musqueam deal would be afoot in Alberta, but you never know. But these issues that the whole country sees, they're on the minds of Albertans, even though the stories I told you typically happen in Ontario or B.C. and if you're in Albertan, are you thinking of this as a reason to stay in Canada or a reason to separate from the rest of Canada, to separate from the madness? I've been visiting Alberta quite a lot. I was there recently in various cities, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, listening to people and their concerns. And the paradox is the people in these meeting rooms are actually the most pro Canadian people in the country. They're the ones who would fly a flag over the home. They're the ones who would lament stripping Sir James John A. MacDonald off the $10 bill or changing the lyrics to the national anthem, or saying that Canada are genocide, or they would object to tearing down statues. The people who are most pro independence in Alberta are the most patriotic. How can that be? Well, because they're seeing that the rest of Canada, in the five examples I just gave you, are tearing down anything Canadian about. They're denaturing the country. And so if you're in Albertan, considering independence, you know, there's traditional historical reasons and there's the acute reasons of, you know, Mark Carney and what he's doing to Alberta and blocking pipelines. You may not like the new pivot towards being a Chinese colony or as Carney calls it, a new world order, but you don't think looking at this madness every day is yet another reason for Albertans to say, how do we get out of that mess? And it could be that on October 19, they vote to get out of that mess. Stay with us. Dr. Daniel Pipes is next. You know, you read about battles, wars in the Bible, and sometimes they're just, you know, they strain credulity. That's where, I suppose the faith part comes in. Or maybe sometimes you think, well, this story was probably altered over the course of time and mythologized a little bit, because what is reported in the Bible surely meets the definition of a miracle. And I am thinking, of course, about the US And American attack on Iran that I think it's fair to say has gone miraculously. There has been some loss of life, and of course, even losing one person is a tragedy and certainly for the family. But in terms of the history of warfare, I don't think I can recall a battle so lopsided Other than perhaps Israel's dogfight with the Soviet made fighter jets over Lebanon's bekaa Valley some 40 odd years ago. I guess what I'm saying is we live in miraculous times. Even though it's 2026. But where do we go now? It's not done yet. The war is not yet over. Iran is still lobbing ballistic missiles and drones not just at Israel, but at, oh, I don't know, a dozen other Muslim nations, including the latest Azerbaijan. And what happens if the regime crumbles? What will fill its space? Will Iran break apart into different countries? Will Kurdistan or Balochistan be independent countries? Is this about Iran but also about China? What will China and Russia do if Iran falls? So many questions. I've got my guesses. But someone who has spent a lifetime studying this is our special guest today. His name is Dr. Daniel Pipes, he's the founder of the Middle East Forum and he joins us now. Dr. Pipes, I'm so glad to have your time because I think we're living in an age of miracles. Why don't you bring me down to earth a little bit and tell me what's really going on?