John Bolton - September 28, 2026


Canada Is A Loft Apartment Over A Really Great Party

Topics
trade negotiations Carney's influence in US election U.S. invasion of Canada hypothetical
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John Bolton
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Mark Carney Kathleen Monk Scott Reid Corey Tanike Vashi Capellos Robin Williams Borg Donald Trump Justin Trudeau Vashi Cabalas Samuel Paparo Blue Glasses Jason Levine Tanayek
Independence Calendar - Episode #37 (Sept 27th, 2026) Trump Did This - Carney Did Nothing - Canada Is Over

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00:00:00 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.
00:00:05 Monday, September the 28th, it is 5.30 a.m.
00:00:08 I hope you're having a great start to your Monday.
00:00:10 I tip the big blue mug of coffee to you today.
00:00:13 I'm getting started later than normal.
00:00:16 I wasn't sure I wanted to do this video in this way today.
00:00:20 It's not really my thing.
00:00:23 But what I'm going to do today is I'm going to do some analysis of a panel segment on
00:00:27 CTV with Vashi Capellas.
00:00:30 The people on the panel, Kathleen Monk, Corey Tanike, and Scott Reed, also known as, and
00:00:35 they will be referred to in this video as the Borg or the collective.
00:00:40 Okay.
00:00:41 No, it's a Star Trek reference.
00:00:43 And for people who don't know Star Trek, who are, what are the Borg?
00:00:47 They are a race of people that all think exactly alike.
00:00:51 And that's who Tanike, Reed, and Monk are on this panel.
00:00:55 She, you know, Vashi Capella, shame on her for not getting somebody on the panel that
00:00:59 thinks outside the box, that has a whiff of independent thought. But this is what's being
00:01:05 force-fed to people in the country who still have cable, who haven't cut the cord years ago like I
00:01:09 did, who aren't getting their news from other sources. Okay, we're going to get to that story
00:01:15 in just a moment. You're aware of this story. And the fact that these three people, Corey Tanike,
00:01:21 Scott Reed, and Kathleen Monk, didn't say to Vashi Cabalas, this is the stupidest thing I've ever 1.00
00:01:25 heard in my life. The fact that we're discussing this is preposterous. The fact that the prime 1.00
00:01:31 minister of this country even brought this up is the most ridiculous, dumb thing I've ever heard. 0.99
00:01:36 Why are we talking about this on the national news? It's unbelievable that this gets discussed 0.99
00:01:42 and these people all think alike. You know, I was talking a couple of weeks ago with a group here
00:01:48 in Alberta. Some of you may not have seen it if you live anywhere else but Alberta. You probably
00:01:53 didn't watch it. It's about Alberta independence, but they had some good insight for me. They were
00:01:57 from a group called Seniors for Independence here in Alberta. And I said, why aren't the gray hairs, 0.69
00:02:03 the boomers, the elbows up people in this province getting the message about how great it would be 1.00
00:02:08 for Alberta to leave Canada? And they said, because they watch the mainstream media. They 0.68
00:02:12 don't get the news from anywhere else. They're still watching CTV and CBC, the bought and paid
00:02:16 media by the Liberal Party of Canada. They're not getting the message. This is where they get
00:02:23 their news. That's why Canada is in such dire straits right now. So what's the story we're
00:02:29 talking about? This one from a few days ago. Carney prepared for risk that Trump might order
00:02:37 U.S. to invade Canada. That's just risk management. The prime minister had several
00:02:43 talking points in his interview with the New York Times, but invasion was the one that stood out.
00:02:48 This is the article we're going to be talking about and that the Borg discussed on CTV with
00:02:53 Vashi Capellas. Now, for any of us who have a little bit of independent thought and can think
00:02:58 about this, you thought it was ridiculous. You thought it was outrageous. You laughed at this, 0.75
00:03:02 but this is what makes up for the mainstream media these days. Now, what did I think? I did
00:03:07 a video on this the other day. The first thing I thought was this. I mean, why would Carney even
00:03:11 have the government or anybody studying what would happen if the United States invaded,
00:03:16 you just hand over the keys, Mr. Carney, because this is the kind of thing that happens.
00:03:23 This would be about a five-second situation if the United States ever decided to do this.
00:03:29 And that's what I thought about. So let's go over to,
00:03:32 I actually labeled this video, Idiot People on CTV. So you've got on the left, Kathleen Monk, 0.97
00:03:41 You've got Corey Tanike and you've got Scott Reid in this video with Vasha Capellas on CTV Question Period.
00:03:46 Let me bring it up on the screen here.
00:03:48 There we go.
00:03:49 And let's hear what they had to say.
00:03:51 I did want to also talk about, speaking of where news is made outside of Parliament, the interview at the New York Times this week.
00:03:59 An hour-long interview, Scott, the first big headline that garnered the most reaction here in Canada was certainly this.
00:04:04 he was the prime minister was asked whether or not you know there'd be any instances of
00:04:08 preparation about the prospect of some kind of military attack from the united states and he
00:04:12 said yes you know it's an extreme you know outside risk uh but yes we have prepared what 0.97
00:04:19 now this is where you would say this is the dumbest thing i've ever heard they all should 0.83
00:04:24 say that and then that should say segment over but here we go well it's astonishing i mean well
00:04:31 first of all if they're doing contingency planning i'd like to know more about the draft plans like
00:04:35 will it include heavy set 60 year old men with eyeglasses because if so only blue ones i need
00:04:40 to make some plans fast um the blue glasses brigade that's what we're going to put on the
00:04:46 front lines hopefully that puts me to the top of command i i think there are two things that are
00:04:52 genuinely astonishing about this uh the first is that it is a an understandable but still staggering
00:05:02 reminder of where our relationship is with the united states and how much donald trump changes
00:05:07 everything this was an unimaginable discussion point that has now not only become imagined but
00:05:14 actually we're feel somewhat obligated to think it through i'm also astonished that the prime
00:05:19 minister said it if i'm going to be honest i i'm i i don't think that people find it that
00:05:24 preposterous given the aggression of donald trump he paints the stars and stripes across our map and
00:05:30 he talks often about his desire to preferential access and perhaps exclusive access to our
00:05:35 critical minerals and energy so you can imagine a situation where at some point he just says
00:05:40 all right i'm just going to take them you know you have to think about what was discussed prior
00:05:46 to this New York Times article. I'll bet you Carney planted this. Ask me about an invasion
00:05:53 of the U.S. into Canada. I'll bet you he planted that. Why would anybody bring this up? Although 1.00
00:05:58 it was brought up a little while ago from somebody from CTV, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:06:04 But the fact that these people think this is possible and that it gets worse from here,
00:06:10 trust me, it gets a lot worse from here. The fact that Scott Reed, Mr. Blue Glasses here,
00:06:14 is even suggesting this is possible is ridiculous in itself. Here we go. 0.69
00:06:18 I'm still surprised that the prime minister said this. I can only think of one of two reasons.
00:06:23 One, he just got a little ahead of himself. Or two, and it relates to our earlier discussion.
00:06:29 Perhaps he is trying to reinforce, on both sides of the border and particularly here at home,
00:06:35 how unique these circumstances are, how high the stakes are. And therefore, it reinforces
00:06:41 the political imperative to do things like pass the legislation that he's trying to pass to pursue
00:06:46 the policy agenda that he wants, knowing that he's asking for things that other prime ministers have
00:06:51 been told no to. So he's on to the right track here, but he doesn't say why he's doing this.
00:06:57 Why does he bring up the fact that the United States is going to invade Canada? And we've got
00:07:02 a contingency plan in case it happens, because it riles up his supporters. It riles up the new
00:07:08 world order and allows him to pass a legislation that most Canadians probably would not agree with 1.00
00:07:14 if they were thinking straight and weren't listening to idiots like Scott Reed, 1.00
00:07:19 Corey Tanike, and Kathleen Monk on Vashi Kapelis' CTV question period. He kind of gets it, 1.00
00:07:25 but he doesn't understand. And the other thing that Mark Carney's doing here is, folks,
00:07:29 he's in the United States. I mean, there's a story today. In fact, Kathleen Monk brings it
00:07:34 up in this interview on he's only talking to the media in the United States. Why is he doing that?
00:07:40 One, he, well, let me just show you the article here. This is an article from today. Has anyone
00:07:47 told Carney he can do interviews with Canadian media? If we go down here, earlier this month,
00:07:52 Prime Minister Mark Carney granted Bloomberg News an exclusive one-on-one sit-down interview.
00:07:57 On Wednesday, he sat down with the New York Times and both interviews failed trade negotiations
00:08:02 with the U.S. were discussed. He's not discussed that in Canada because he can't, because he
00:08:06 killed the deal. It wasn't the United States. He killed the deal because he wants to hitch his
00:08:10 wagon with China and the EU. Notably, the same opportunity has not been provided to Canadian
00:08:16 media. Trade talks of the U.S. broke down August 21st. Since then, we've been given conflicting
00:08:21 information from U.S. representatives about the reason for the breakdown and not one sit-down
00:08:26 interview from our PM because he can't do it. Because he's got to keep his supporters wild
00:08:32 up thinking it's all the United States fault. And this is the thing that Tanike, Reed, Monk just
00:08:37 don't get. And Vashti Capellas never calls them out on this. Let's continue with this interview.
00:08:44 And I don't know if you should give him that much credit, but I can't think of another rational
00:08:48 explanation as to why you would speculate on this. Because he's got to rile up his supporters
00:08:54 and he's trying to influence the United States election, which is less than two months away.
00:08:58 well six weeks away at this point less than six weeks away that's what he's trying to do
00:09:04 that's why he's in the united states well i think he said it because it's true like i
00:09:09 said it because that's actually what's going on uh you know it's it's not a a unfortunately sadly
00:09:18 unbelievably not a completely uh out of the realm possibility i agree it's like a very low
00:09:25 percentage risk but it's not a zero and and it would have been a zero for you know most of the
00:09:31 last century but it's but it's not now and why not because the guy who gets to make the decision
00:09:36 donald trump uh has been making threats uh uh about us about greenland about other places
00:09:43 uh while cozying up to uh to putin and uh the chinese dictators and uh north korean dictators
00:09:50 It's, you know, no mention that Carney's cozying up to Chinese dictators and just think of it from.
00:10:00 Think of this through the lens of somebody who's in their 60s who think Canada is what it was 30 years ago.
00:10:07 It's not the same. You know that. I know that. But think about it from their standpoint.
00:10:11 Oh, that awful Trump. Now Carney can do anything he wants.
00:10:14 We've talked about this. He can do anything he wants to you now to push the agenda that other prime ministers,
00:10:20 have been told they can't do like scott reed said it's really uh i think it speaks to the craziness
00:10:26 of the times i i doubt it's intentional but i agree with scott's point that it's maybe accidentally
00:10:31 brilliant to bring that up it's the same time you're bringing up this legislation because it
00:10:35 does at least he gets that he brings it up so that he can pass this legislation out the you know
00:10:44 depth and breadth of the stakes here kathleen yeah putting aside carney's love affair with
00:10:49 international media uh so there you go she mentions the fact that carney's not talking
00:10:54 to canadian media nothing because he can't he'd let the cat out of the bag he'd have to
00:11:01 kind of avoiding domestic media i i think that you know don't put too much you know genius
00:11:07 comm strategy on this on on answering the question right the the 10 journalists in the room asked
00:11:11 the question he responded he actually has kind of a propensity to answer quite a forthright in some
00:11:17 in some times. And so I think that's what happened. But I think there were two audiences
00:11:20 here that he was both, both the Canadian audience, as my colleagues have suggested, but also
00:11:25 the American audience. Yeah. So he's got the Canadian audience that still watch his crap like
00:11:30 this. Then he's got the American audience that he's trying to rile up because he wants to 0.99
00:11:35 influence the U.S. election. That's where, I mean, we get concerned about influence from other
00:11:40 countries in Canadian elections. Now, Canada is interfering in the United States election.
00:11:44 They're also doing the same same thing in Israel. And while we've been living this nightmare for 18 months under Trump with all the threats, 51st state, you know, economic.
00:11:52 I've been living a nightmare for the last 18 months under Mark Carney and the liberal government.
00:11:57 Oh, hell, it goes back 11 years under the liberal government, the previous government run by Justin Trudeau.
00:12:02 They don't get that media reported in the same way that we live this nightmare every day.
00:12:07 And I think it was important for Carney to talk to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg and all the other agencies he's been speaking to lately to get that message out because he's telling Americans just how bad it's been from a Canadian perspective.
00:12:22 And that's important from a public opinion point of view, a persuasion point of view, and the fact that we're heading into the midterms.
00:12:29 And he really wants that audience to know why Canada is making the dramatic moves to diversify that it is.
00:12:35 say it say it he wants the american public to know because he wants to influence their vote
00:12:43 arming up and and possibly buying planes from european countries and you know and i actually
00:12:50 don't even think you know it was the only interesting thing in that article article that
00:12:53 was posted i mean the stuff that he said about you know we're not only changing geopolitical
00:12:57 relations we're actually changed want to change you know global financial relations and his
00:13:03 reference to the dollar that actually is quite significant and for a business audience could have
00:13:08 big impact too okay so let's move away from this so you know you know what's interesting about this
00:13:15 is the americans don't give a damn what goes on in canada and i have a friend who was just it was
00:13:19 jason levine he was down there with his family they went on a vacation they went to mount rushmore
00:13:23 in different places and he talked to people and that's jason's way you're paying attention to
00:13:29 what's going on in canada right now i've heard rumblings but don't think about it very much
00:13:33 Canadians think about this every day.
00:13:34 The people who watch this PAP on CTV and CBC, they're thinking about this constantly.
00:13:40 Here's an article right here.
00:13:41 Let's read a little bit of this.
00:13:42 There's actually a quote in here, and you know I like quotes.
00:13:44 There's a quote in here from Robin Williams that I actually have saved.
00:13:47 I saved quotes, and it explains what Canada is really about and what Americans think about
00:13:51 Canadians and what Robin Williams thought about Canadians.
00:13:54 So here's the article right here.
00:13:56 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he was prepared for a U.S. invasion.
00:13:59 This is PJ Media.
00:14:01 This is great stuff here.
00:14:02 In what universe would the United States invade Canada?
00:14:05 Contingency plans are supposed to be about what-if scenarios, such as what if the leader of Canada went absolutely bonkers and imagined the U.S. would invade his country?
00:14:14 Perhaps the U.S. would be forced into a preemptive strike before Carney could warm up the sled dogs and attack Minnesota or something.
00:14:22 Bye-bye, Canada.
00:14:23 Canada mentioned being prepared for a U.S. or sorry, Carney mentioned being prepared for a U.S. invasion to a news outlet equally bonkers with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, as he was.
00:14:36 The New York Times. I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk.
00:14:41 That's just risk management. That's not a base case, Carney told the Times, arguing that it would be irresponsible not to.
00:14:49 Some idiot news person asked the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, a hypothetical question about an American invasion of Canada. 0.97
00:15:00 I find that scenario to be absolutely and utterly preposterous. 0.99
00:15:08 And so I follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, but that is a needlessly emotional question.
00:15:19 I don't find, forgive my saying it too, is that Canada is a close ally.
00:15:30 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be insulted, but you didn't answer the question. I'm sorry. You didn't answer the question. I said I follow the orders of the president and I find it to be a. Would you ask me, please, also what my attack plans are for the Martians?
00:15:50 I might add, I think it was a CTV reporter that works with Vachy Capellas who asked that stupid 1.00
00:15:56 question. How did the media cover this? We'll get back to this article in just a moment. 1.00
00:16:00 U.S. Admiral dodges questions about attacking Canada. Excuse me? He said it was utterly
00:16:06 preposterous. Here's a story from just a couple of days ago. Zero chance U.S. attacks Canada.
00:16:12 Alaska governor tells conference, of course, it's zero. Back to the article. Papero shouldn't be
00:16:19 so harsh with the Canadians. They have moved beyond the snowflake stage of wokeness and entered 1.00
00:16:25 marshmallow brain territory back to the idiot people on CTV you were just watching. Corey 1.00
00:16:31 Tanike, Scott Reid, and Kathleen Monk, along with Vashie Capellas. Carney's angst originated with
00:16:37 President Donald Trump's epic troll of our northern neighbors, referring to them as our
00:16:41 51st state. There is no greater insult that can be given to a Canadian who has books of jokes
00:16:47 about Canada really being America due to its geographic proximity, cultural similarities,
00:16:53 or polite nature. Now, here's the Robin Williams quote, which is just genius. Robin Williams
00:16:59 summed it up when he said, Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
00:17:07 Why did we never invade Canada before? Because every time American military planners looked at
00:17:13 a map, they realized they'd have to administer Quebec and everyone decided it just wasn't worth
00:17:19 the trouble, ladies and gentlemen. If you ever wonder why people are so misinformed and so
00:17:26 clueless when it comes to the relations between Canada and the United States of America,
00:17:33 it's because of things like CTV and CBC. You know what really needs to be done right now
00:17:37 that is not being discussed, not at all,
00:17:42 Carney should make a trade deal with the United States of America.
00:17:46 That's what should be happening. 1.00
00:17:49 But that doesn't keep the boomers, the gray hairs, the elbows up people riled up 0.99
00:17:54 so he can do what he wants. 1.00
00:17:55 At least Tanayek and Reid got that right.
00:17:58 He wants to pass his agenda. 0.98
00:18:00 So this is why he goes on the American media and does crap like this 1.00
00:18:03 and says stupid things. 1.00
00:18:05 Thanks for watching. 1.00
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