John Bolton - March 13, 2025


An Unholy Alliance - Mark and Doug


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7 minutes

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1,285

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101


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What do you think of the picture of Premier Doug Ford shaking the hand of Mark Carney when you see it? Is it a good or bad thing? What are your thoughts on it? Ezra Levant and Dave Rubin weigh in on it.

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00:00:00.120 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Hope you're having a great day today. 5.47 a.m. on Thursday, March the 13th, with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee.
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00:00:15.020 So right off the bat, what do you think of first thought when you see this picture right here?
00:00:22.500 That is Premier Doug Ford of Ontario shaking the hand of Mark Carney.
00:00:26.900 What did you think of first thing when you thought this?
00:00:30.240 Now, I thought about a whole bunch of things. I'm going to get to them in just a moment.
00:00:33.500 The last one is the most important one. I'm going to hold off on that. I'm not going to make this video very long.
00:00:40.520 But I actually commented on this story when I saw it yesterday.
00:00:43.860 So let's click on the conversation here and we'll go down to the comments and I'll show you what I wrote when I saw this picture.
00:00:50.060 And there is my comment right there.
00:00:52.040 This country is severely damaged. Seeing Doug Ford shaking that world destroyer's hand sickens me.
00:00:59.780 I don't think anybody else has called Mark Carney a world destroyer, but that's what I think of this man.
00:01:05.340 And this is the story right here. Doug Ford talks to Carney. Premier is ahead of Thursday's trade meeting in Washington.
00:01:10.620 So Doug Ford is going to Washington to talk to Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary for Donald Trump, about this tariff war that's going on right now.
00:01:18.400 So I jotted down a few things that I thought of when I saw this. So that was the first thing I thought of. Why is he shaking his hand?
00:01:25.920 The other thing I thought of was that Mark Carney has no mandate. And maybe you're thinking the same thing as well.
00:01:30.000 Do you think of that man as your prime minister? He'll be sworn in tomorrow. I don't think of him as that. He's never been elected.
00:01:36.120 My question would be, will Donald Trump even talk to him? He's never been elected.
00:01:40.300 Trump might just say, come back and talk to me after the election.
00:01:42.940 The other thing I thought of was Hurricane Sandy. Now you might think, why would I think of that?
00:01:47.420 Now I think it was a tropical storm, but Sandy rolled through New York and New Jersey just prior to the second election of Barack Obama.
00:01:57.180 And meeting Barack Obama in Jersey was Governor Chris Christie who shook his hand and it seemed like best buddies meeting up.
00:02:05.700 And people blamed Christie for turning the tide in that election because Obama looked like a statesman.
00:02:11.040 And that's what I thought of when I saw this picture.
00:02:13.240 The other thing I thought of was Danielle Smith is right.
00:02:16.900 It will be diplomacy that will end this tariff war.
00:02:20.500 Not all of this back and forth, not threatening the United States, not all this screaming and yelling about Donald Trump.
00:02:28.220 It will be diplomacy.
00:02:30.340 Danielle Smith has been on the diplomacy side since the very beginning.
00:02:34.100 So that's what I thought of as well.
00:02:35.960 Diplomacy will end the trade war.
00:02:37.420 And I also thought, I don't think Mark Carney wants Doug Ford to be successful going down to Washington.
00:02:45.040 They don't want this issue to be resolved by Doug Ford.
00:02:48.780 This is the best thing that's happened to the Liberal Party going into an election, which may be called next week.
00:02:55.060 I've said it here.
00:02:56.020 I've been way ahead of the curve on this one.
00:02:58.260 And I'm not trying to do a victory lap, but I said, and I look back, it was on February 24th the first time, and on March 4th, when I said the Liberals are more concerned about getting re-elected in power than they are about you.
00:03:11.000 And here are those two clips.
00:03:12.380 So the question I asked you, do you think the Liberals would sacrifice you as a Canadian taxpayer and the Canadian economy to maintain power?
00:03:19.160 Because I think that's their plan.
00:03:21.160 I think it's been their plan ever since we started hearing about terrorists from down south.
00:03:26.240 I woke up with a couple of questions today.
00:03:29.940 First question was, what has Justin Trudeau and our government, our government, we don't have a government right now, the most dire situation in Canada in decades, we haven't got a government right now.
00:03:42.460 What has Trudeau been doing since February the first?
00:03:47.500 And is this exactly what the Liberal Party wants to happen?
00:03:51.160 And I'm going to say it again, the Liberal Party cares more about power than they care about you.
00:03:56.340 So not trying to toot my own horn or anything, but that's what I've been believing for a very long time.
00:04:00.700 And more people are coming around to this.
00:04:02.540 Here's Ezra Levant, this is from Rebel News, but he was talking with Dave Rubin.
00:04:07.100 This is what Ezra had to say yesterday.
00:04:09.240 But to Trudeau and Trudeau 2.0, who just took over yesterday, it was the opposite.
00:04:15.980 It's in their personal and political interest to not get a deal with Trump.
00:04:21.440 And as crazy as it sounds, the more punishing Trump's tariffs are on Canada, the better it suits them to say we're the anti-Trump defenders.
00:04:30.000 So looking at that picture, I also thought, why is a provincial leader negotiating for Canada right now?
00:04:37.240 This is unheard of.
00:04:38.180 This does not happen.
00:04:39.500 And the reason why Doug Ford is negotiating with Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary for Donald Trump,
00:04:45.560 is because of negligence of the Liberal Party, who, going back to the last thing, have wanted this to happen all along.
00:04:53.040 And this is ridiculous.
00:04:54.180 This should not be happening.
00:04:55.600 I don't want Doug Ford speaking for me.
00:04:57.820 He has not got Alberta's best interest in mind.
00:05:01.240 He wants us to put our tax on our oil going south.
00:05:03.600 Daniel Smith says no.
00:05:04.580 But the final thing is this.
00:05:08.440 Nobody else...
00:05:09.540 I want this answered, okay?
00:05:11.540 What has Doug Ford got against Pierre Polyev?
00:05:16.700 Hmm?
00:05:19.060 Doug Ford has endorsed Mark Carney as the Prime Minister.
00:05:23.600 He has.
00:05:24.120 He's come out on the side of Mark Carney.
00:05:26.680 Is there something in the background that I don't know about between Polyev and Doug Ford?
00:05:32.140 Because Doug Ford is endorsing Mark Carney prior to an election, which could come as soon as the next week.
00:05:41.500 We could hear about this next week.
00:05:42.640 Because here's from that story.
00:05:45.160 From the Calgary Sun.
00:05:46.460 The Premier met Wednesday morning with Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney to discuss tariffs and free trade.
00:05:52.900 The two had a productive discussion, agreeing on the need to stand firm in the face of Trump's tariffs, Ford said.
00:05:59.820 Having Carney as Prime Minister could help turn a page in the Canada-US relationship Ford predicted.
00:06:05.740 It's going to be a better relationship than with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
00:06:11.800 And no disrespect to Prime Minister Trudeau, I can tell you one thing, Mark Carney has an extremely astute business mind.
00:06:20.080 He said he understands numbers and so does President Trump and Secretary Lutnik.
00:06:26.160 I think they're going to get along very well.
00:06:28.940 They both come from the same financial sectors.
00:06:34.000 Doug Ford has endorsed Mark Carney as Prime Minister.
00:06:39.100 That's what I read into that.
00:06:40.800 What has he got against Pierre Polyev?
00:06:43.220 And isn't Doug Ford supposed to be a Conservative?
00:06:47.860 What do you think?
00:06:49.720 Let me know in the comments below.
00:06:51.360 I do appreciate it.
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