John Bolton - Au Revoir Canada - French Might Be The Hill Your Country Dies On

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today, 6.40 a.m. Monday,

00:00:07.780 August the 24th. I hope you're having a great start to your Monday. And I know I'm getting

00:00:11.620 started way late today. I have been up reading a number of articles. I'm also using some new

00:00:18.380 software, which I had to install on my computer this morning. But I've been reading articles

00:00:23.400 this morning trying to get some idea why trade talks ended on Friday night, the reasons why

00:00:32.040 Carney backed out of this deal. And every time I look into this, it becomes more and more petty

00:00:37.780 and more and more pathetic. You know, I do not trust Mark Carney. I do not trust the Liberal 0.96

00:00:41.960 Party. I do not trust Ottawa to give us the real reasons why this is happening. But I think it

00:00:47.700 might come down to a couple of things, one of which I talked about yesterday, this one right

00:00:53.380 here. Did Carney sacrifice Canadian jobs to make deals with the communist Chinese? I still believe

00:00:58.480 this is true. I've got an article coming up in just a moment I'm going to read to you. They talked

00:01:03.100 to Canada's ambassador to the U.S. and he goes out of his way to say it had nothing to do with China,

00:01:08.620 which makes me believe even more that it had something to do with China. But it could come

00:01:13.560 down to something even more ridiculous than that. Now, let me ask you a question. 0.85

00:01:19.260 What region of Canada do the Conservatives and Liberals value more than any other in this country?

00:01:29.500 Think about that. What area do they value more than any other? They'll do anything for this area

00:01:35.360 because it's important for them to be in power. And power is the most important thing, particularly

00:01:40.660 to the Liberal Party of Canada. So think about that for just a moment. Now, I want to know what's

00:01:45.180 going on here. I've said that here on this channel. I agree with the Conservatives on this

00:01:50.700 in the National Post. Canadians deserve to know specifics of the trade deal Canada walked away

00:01:55.480 from. Conservative MP Chivaloy Majumdar says Prime Minister Mark Carney should release the

00:02:00.980 U.S. proposal so Canadians can debate and discuss the way forward as a country. And I agree with

00:02:06.280 that 100%. But let's go to this article and read a little bit about this and we'll get to the point

00:02:11.820 I want to make on, you know what? I think this is a hill the Liberal Party of Canada would die on.

00:02:18.320 They will risk the entire Canadian economy over this one thing. And there's a lot at risk here,

00:02:24.000 folks. The automotive industry in Canada is in jeopardy right now. I think that's the reason

00:02:31.020 why, and I'll just go over to this quickly. I'm kind of going off topic here. I think that's the

00:02:35.400 reason why Carney's waiting until September 8th for retaliatory tariffs. He realizes that the

00:02:41.380 automotive industry in Ontario is at risk. Donald Trump wants it. He's got to get back to the

00:02:47.500 negotiating table. Let's read a little bit from this article right here. Okay. And

00:02:54.240 just wait. Canada, U.S. trade talks collapsed over disputed deal terms. Carney's envoy says

00:03:03.060 U.S. Canada trade talks collapsed over a range of issues where the written text of a potential deal

00:03:09.060 was at odds with what the Canadian side believed it had agreed to.

00:03:12.580 Prime Minister Mark Carney's top U.S. envoy says,

00:03:15.580 Mark Wiseman, there he is right there, Canada's ambassador to the U.S.,

00:03:20.580 said in an interview Sunday that there was no one issue that led talks to collapse late Friday,

00:03:26.080 a development that triggered new tariffs and a potentially escalating trade fight.

00:03:30.700 Talks were bogged down in particular over a dispute over tariff treatment of medium and heavy vehicles

00:03:36.960 on which the U.S. was resisting cutting tariffs.

00:03:39.920 Wiseman said Canada needed medium and heavy-duty vehicles to be included in tariff relief.

00:03:45.520 That's just something we could not accept because we want to protect the existence of an automotive

00:03:49.440 assembly industry in Canada for cars, light trucks, you know, medium trucks, and heavy-duty trucks. 0.77

00:03:54.940 Now we'll go back to the China issue and the reason why I believe this is more true than we're led to believe,

00:04:01.520 and we're told about here.

00:04:03.000 Carney said the U.S. demanded that Canada constrain its ability to do separate trade

00:04:07.620 deals with other nations. What other nations were they? I'd like to know. Wiseman declined

00:04:12.400 to fully elaborate, saying that the matter was not with any one country, such as China,

00:04:16.840 but broader. Well, Mr. Wiseman, what other countries were included here?

00:04:22.060 I'd like to know. The U.S. has changed its view of economic partnership, and in the face of that,

00:04:27.660 Canada, among other things, has said that we will look to diversify, he said, so we have to ensure

00:04:33.160 that any agreement we would come to with the United States does not constrain our ability

00:04:39.300 to create trading relationships, open and free trading relationships with other jurisdictions,

00:04:44.460 but to be clear, this was not an issue about China. Well, methinks he doth protest too much.

00:04:51.680 It was about China. If it wasn't, what were the other countries we can't make trade deals with?

00:04:56.540 I would love to know. Now, back to the question I asked you earlier. We're going to come to this

00:05:01.500 next section of this article in just a moment. What region of Canada do the conservatives and

00:05:07.760 liberals value more than anything else? And that would be Quebec. They need Quebec. They have to

00:05:13.380 have Quebec. They need seats in Quebec. They need MPs in Quebec. They will do anything they can

00:05:18.880 to please Quebec. My question to you, would Mark Carney sacrifice the Canadian economy over

00:05:28.400 French? I think he did with these other things, but the French language is so important to the

00:05:38.340 Liberals and to the Conservatives and spreading across Canada that they sacrifice hundreds of

00:05:44.520 thousands of jobs in this country to protect french here's what carney had to say the other

00:05:50.200 day in a news conference in french it seemed like we were ready to have a global and equitable

00:06:00.360 Do you think Mark Carney has risked the Canadian economy based over the French

00:06:30.040 language. The other day, it was incredibly dramatic what was announced. The United States

00:06:35.540 was attacking Canada's sovereignty. That's what you heard. People were up in arms over this. Oh,

00:06:39.860 my God, they're coming after our sovereignty. They want us to be the 51st state. Now, here's

00:06:44.300 an article right here in the CBC. U.S. nearly encroached on Canadian sovereignty during tariff

00:06:49.540 talks. Quebec Premier, we'll come back to this. Now, let's go back to the original article and

00:06:54.080 let's read about the language issue, some of you maybe jumped forward. And what was this about?

00:07:01.420 Carney also said the administration was looking to curtail the use of French. Well, how are they

00:07:05.840 trying to do that? If you're in Canada, you can speak French if you like. One of Canada's two

00:07:11.740 official languages and a political lightning rod. No kidding. This could be the hill they die on,

00:07:16.940 folks, and your country dies on. Wiseman said that dispute pertained to digital services

00:07:21.800 and U.S.-based streaming services and levels of French language content. Here's what I think

00:07:28.060 happened. The Americans said, listen, our streaming services are not going to provide

00:07:32.740 French language programs. We're just not going to do that. Wiseman cast the matter as a red line.

00:07:39.620 It is non-negotiable in terms of our ability to protect, and not just protect, but to be able to

00:07:45.420 enhance and grow the French language in Canada, in Quebec, and in the rest of Canada, he said,

00:07:50.460 those that want to do business in Canada, be it digital or anything else, must respect that

00:07:55.860 fundamental reality. The United States said no French stuff on our digital services, and Carney

00:08:01.480 and the Liberal Party walked along with their deals with the Communist Chinese. Going back to 0.99

00:08:06.540 this article over here, sorry, right here, what is this about? They were going after Canada's 0.85

00:08:12.520 sovereignty. You know what this was about? The Americans had proposed negotiating matters around

00:08:17.860 Quebec's French language legislation, Frichette said, such as the requirement for French to be

00:08:23.120 included on consumer devices like electronics or household appliances and user manuals. 0.96

00:08:35.760 This is how ridiculous your country is. Don't you think we could say, okay, we can save 90,000

00:08:44.100 in jobs, if we just tell the Americans they don't have to include French programming on their digital

00:08:49.640 services and streaming services, and you don't have to print stuff on some of the stuff you're

00:08:54.220 shipping into our country in French. That's a huge cost. The Americans don't want to pay it.

00:08:59.820 Did the Liberal Party, and is the Liberal Party and Mark Carney and the Canadian government

00:09:05.380 risking the Canadian economy based on these things? Now, light trucks are important, folks.

00:09:10.360 We're going to be back at the negotiating table. We're going to have to be, because Donald Trump

00:09:14.400 is going to own the Canadian automotive industry. But I want to know all the details. Let's go back

00:09:19.200 to this article over here. I want to know the details. Canadians deserve to know the specifics.

00:09:24.540 I want to know the specifics. And I think this is a hill the Liberals are dying on, French. 1.00

00:09:30.860 You know, I remember when I moved out here from Ontario, I lived in Eastern Ontario. 1.00

00:09:35.140 About 25% of the population of Cornwall, Ontario was French

00:09:39.640 And there are French signs everywhere 1.00

00:09:40.980 It was so refreshing to come out here and not have to see French everywhere 1.00

00:09:44.480 It's just not a thing

00:09:46.280 The Liberals are trying to push this more and more on Canadians 1.00

00:09:49.280 But they may be risking the Canadian economy based on French 1.00

00:09:53.080 How pathetic is that? 1.00

00:09:55.240 Let me know what you think 0.95

00:09:56.060 If you like this video, give it a thumbs up

00:09:57.660 Subscribe to the channel

00:09:58.920 Ring the bell for notifications

00:10:00.740 I'll see you in the next one

00:10:02.440 Au revoir

John Bolton - August 24, 2026

Au Revoir Canada - French Might Be The Hill Your Country Dies On

Episode Stats

Transcript