John Bolton - March 13, 2025


An Unholy Alliance - Mark and Doug


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

183.45786

Word Count

1,285

Sentence Count

101


Summary

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.


Transcript

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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