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S8 Ep647: 4. Conrad Black notes that while Canadians support regime change in Iran, they view themselves as spectators regarding oil impacts. He emphasizes that closing the Strait of Hormuz constitutes a war on the world, though Canada lacks the naval resources to

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

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4. Conrad Black notes that while Canadians support regime change in Iran, they view themselves as spectators regarding oil impacts. He emphasizes that closing the Strait of Hormuz constitutes a war on the world, though Canada lacks the naval resources to assist in reopening it. (4)

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0:00.0

I'm John Batchler. I welcome Conrad Black, distinguished biographer, his column at the National Post,

0:22.5

underlining the obvious. Canada is not only a member of G7, it is part of NATO, and NATO is now

0:30.8

part of the story of what is not happening yet to secure the world from the depredations of the failing Islamic regime of Iran.

0:41.5

What happens in the Strait of Hormuz doesn't stay in the Strait of Hormuz.

0:45.8

It's in Canada, it's in the U.S., it's in Asia.

0:48.7

It's everywhere around the world.

0:50.0

This is the wider war.

0:52.1

Conrad, a very good evening to you.

0:53.6

First, the American effort to dislodge the regime is largely successful in the fact

0:59.1

that the regime that was there the day before the war, the 27th of February, no longer exists.

1:04.6

So we've regime changed, as the President Riley remarks.

1:08.5

What is the opinion in Canada as this war is going forward? The weight of

1:13.7

evidence shows that the regime is fractured and that by closing the Sturt of Formos, it's made

1:20.5

an enemy of everyone. Is that opinion in Canada? Good evening to you. Yeah, good evening to you,

1:25.7

John. Well, certainly, as we discussed a few weeks ago, I thought it was a proud moment for this country, for Canada,

1:34.9

when the largest anti-Iranian government demonstration in the world, somewhere between 350,000 and 500,000 people assembled here in Toronto.

1:47.0

It was bigger than the same-day parades in Los Angeles, which is of course a bigger city in Toronto,

1:56.0

and Munich, which is a smaller city.

1:59.0

But the two of them together didn't produce as many protesters

2:02.4

as we did.

2:03.1

And these are mainly Muslims.

2:05.1

So the general view in Canada, as in the U.S., is that the Iranian regime is a terrible

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