John Bolton - February 18, 2026


Another Floor Crosser - Can Alberta Just Leave Already？


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991

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86

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Matt Jenneru crossed the aisle to join the Liberals and the rest of the Tories are losing their minds. It's another embarrassment for Tory leader Pierre Polyev and the party. The whole world is coming to an end and the speculation will go once again about his leadership.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 924 AM Wednesday, February the 18th. I hope you're
00:00:08.940 having a great Wednesday. And I was just sitting here minding my own business, having a peaceful
00:00:13.900 day. It's minus 24 degrees in Calgary today. I'm not going anywhere. I thought I'd stay inside
00:00:19.800 today, maybe catch up on some reading and whatnot. And I started getting some text messages in. Did
00:00:25.500 you see what happened, John? Did you see what happened? No. Haven't been watching the news.
00:00:30.700 Don't spend my day watching the news. It drives me crazy. But apparently we've got another floor
00:00:35.580 crosser, folks. Conservative MP Matt Jenneru crosses the floor to the Liberals and everybody's losing
00:00:43.800 their absolute minds over this. Listen, I understand. If you're a conservative in this
00:00:49.500 country, you've got to be pretty discouraged. I understand. You know, we just came through
00:00:54.640 the convention with Pierre Polyev and there were all sorts of questions about what was going to
00:01:00.200 happen. I thought we might have a floor crosser prior to the convention to embarrass him. But 1.00
00:01:05.500 anybody that walks across the aisle from the Conservatives over to the Liberals at this point
00:01:10.880 is an embarrassment for Pierre Polyev. And for people who are on the Conservative side,
00:01:15.200 the whole world is coming to an end. Somebody sent me a text message, John. He should just quit.
00:01:19.740 You know, he just came through this convention where they had a leadership review of him and
00:01:26.480 he came through with flying colors. Everybody was so high on Polyev. What was it? 87.5%. He did very
00:01:32.820 well. But what did I say after the vote came in? Here's exactly what I said. My question is this,
00:01:43.580 who are the 13%? Any of them MPs that might walk across the aisle to join the Liberals? Just asking,
00:01:49.640 don't mean to rain on your parade, but that's what I was thinking when I saw 87% support.
00:01:55.520 Now you can call me prescient or pessimistic, or maybe even a little bit of both, but I'll bet you
00:02:01.320 dollars to donuts. What, less than three weeks ago, this guy, Matt Jenneru, former Conservative,
00:02:07.080 now Liberal, who crossed the floor today, I'll bet you he was part of that 12.5% that voted against
00:02:12.080 pure Polyev. And my question is, any others that were MPs waiting across the aisle? We're a little
00:02:18.260 farther away right now from a majority than about a month ago. We've had a Christia Freeland, Bill
00:02:24.520 Blair walk away, and we had this ruling the other day in Quebec, but the Liberals desperately want a
00:02:29.040 majority. And they only need a few more people to walk across the aisle to do this. And people like
00:02:34.660 Matt Jenneru, they must see safety over there like Michael Ma did before him. And it was at Chris
00:02:40.500 Dautremont. So there's been three of them so far. They must have felt there's some safety over there,
00:02:44.420 like more people were coming. So they could be part of a majority and don't have to go back in
00:02:49.960 front of their constituents during an election and get voted out. They must feel safe over there.
00:02:54.760 And I'm thinking there might be a couple of more coming. I'm just guessing. I mean, even if they went
00:02:59.740 to an election, this is the riding that Jenneru's in. This is an Edmonton Riverbend. He didn't win by
00:03:04.420 much in the election in 2025, 3,000 votes. He runs as a Liberal. He wins this easy.
00:03:10.920 And everybody's down on the Conservatives right now because this kind of stuff happens. It is
00:03:15.120 embarrassing for Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party. And now the speculation will go once again
00:03:20.640 about his leadership, even though he won the 87.5% at the recent convention. But things are going so
00:03:27.120 well in the country right now that people are down on Pierre Polyev. I mean, right now, housing is just
00:03:32.460 booming in the country, you know, and infrastructure projects are popping up everywhere. Crime is down.
00:03:38.020 You know, car theft is down as well. Cost of living is just wonderful. Grocery prices are going down
00:03:43.580 at an incredible rate right now. We've got trade deals breaking out all over the place, including the
00:03:48.460 ones with the United States of America. And we even have a new trading partner, a new trading person.
00:03:53.440 Her name is Janice Charette. Here she is right here. What controversies has Janice Charette been involved 1.00
00:03:57.960 in. Key controversy. Recommendation to invoke the Emergencies Act. What a great person to choose
00:04:02.760 by Mark Carney to help make a deal with the United States of America. So things are going just
00:04:08.200 swimmingly here in the country. That's why Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives need to be concerned.
00:04:17.200 The country is a mess. Alberta should just declare a universal declaration of independence.
00:04:23.740 Get on the horn with the White House and say, will you recognize us as a country and we leave?
00:04:29.260 Because here's the point, folks. The Liberals are the natural ruling party of the country.
00:04:34.780 Just look at the history. The Conservatives get to take the seat in Ottawa every once in a while.
00:04:40.200 As far as I'm concerned, things would be a little bit better with Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives,
00:04:45.100 but not a hell of a lot. Yesterday, he was asked about the independence movement in Alberta,
00:04:49.260 and I've said it here. Polyev and the Conservatives will be the first people to fight against us
00:04:53.840 to get our independence. They will be one of our mortal enemies because they'll have so many seats
00:04:58.900 out here and they all want to keep their jobs. Canada is a mess. Thanks for watching. If you like
00:05:05.020 the video, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you
00:05:09.680 in the next one. And that stuff about everything being great in the country, I was being sarcastic.
00:05:14.600 Thank you.