Pierre Poilievre

And Canada is actually part of the solution because we have the resources, the minerals, and the geography to help make the entire continent safer.

And that would be the better way to go.

There's no doubt that the United States does not want satellites of Beijing in Latin America in particular, as we saw with the decision to oust Maduro and with the aggressive economic approach against Cuba.

And as I think we're seeing with

Iran.

They've made the decision that they're not going to have these countries that are ultimately in the China sphere of power encroaching on America's security or sovereignty.

And I believe that that is one of the reasons for the approach that the US is taking.

So we have to decide as Canadians how we fit into that.

And my view is that we have the ability to make the North American continent a lot safer and more secure

and more prosperous for all the countries if we take advantage of the leverage that we have, resources, geography, etc.

If we massively rebuild up our military to protect the Arctic, then we will have a lot more leverage to get what we want, which again is unbridled, tariff-free access to the most lucrative market in the world, that being the U.S.

Look, it's easier to predict the past than the future, but I don't see how it could be a bad thing for the world to remove Khomeini and the theocratic dictatorship that dominated Iran.

Do you?

Well, the difference... There's a couple of differences.

One...

Iran has not been just sitting back and watching the world go by.

Iran was responsible for the attacks of October 7th.

It was funding and directing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Yemeni terrorists before the Assad regime fell.

It was responsible for that.

It was actively threatening not just Israel, but the Arab powers in the region.