John Bolton - May 30, 2026


Canada is F'd - Travel Expenses, Food Lines, and Recession — Oh My!


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8 minutes

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1,385

Sentence count

105

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11

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Toxicity

2

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2

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00:00:00.000 oh hi it's John and welcome to the channel Saturday May 30th 4 38 a.m. I hope you're
00:00:09.800 having a great Saturday thank you so much for being here and I hope you have a really good
00:00:14.060 weekend I was just sitting here looking over the grocery bill we got some groceries yesterday a 0.89
00:00:19.400 few boxes came in with groceries I helped my wife unpack them my wife does a great job in
00:00:23.900 handling our budget here in the house and it was pretty lean for a number of years not easy to get
00:00:29.640 by. It was a radio announcer, didn't make a lot of money. My wife didn't. We're doing all right now,
00:00:33.940 managing to save a few dollars, which is really nice. And I don't often look at these things,
00:00:38.600 but I did. I picked it up. $326.89 for groceries yesterday. Now, you're probably in the same boat
00:00:46.380 as I am. It's hard to pay for groceries these days. What is Kearney giving people? What is it,
00:00:51.880 a dollar a month or something? Break on their taxes so they can buy groceries? Actually,
00:00:56.560 subsidizing groceries in this country. Things are so bad under the liberal government, but there's
00:01:00.640 nothing on here that's really extravagant. We've got some bread. We've got some milk. We think we
00:01:04.580 picked up some hot dogs, some stuff for salad. The only meat on here, a couple of pork chops.
00:01:09.960 Haven't had a steak in years. Can't afford steak. How about you? I live in Alberta. Alberta beef.
00:01:16.380 Can't afford it. Things are far too expensive these days right now, and it's caused by government.
00:01:21.720 Your government says it's going to help you with the cost of living. In fact, they say everything's
00:01:25.020 just fine. Things are so much better for you folks under the Liberal government. Meanwhile,
00:01:30.460 Mark Carney, well, he's living high in the hog. Not on his dollars, but on yours. This story from
00:01:36.800 the Toronto Sun just a couple of days ago, Carney's flights racked up a 195G catering bill
00:01:42.120 featuring premium wines and veal escalope. I don't even know what that is. I know it's meat,
00:01:49.080 but I have no idea what Vio Escalope is. Trips covered under the documents were the PM's March
00:01:55.600 2025 trip to the UK, his May 2025 trip to Rome, and a June flight to Brussels. A little bit of
00:02:03.640 this story. I'm not going to read much of it. I don't want you to vomit on your electronics.
00:02:08.640 There's a lot of that recently. Over a month after the Toronto Sun revealed that Prime Minister Mark
00:02:13.740 Carney spent $524,000 on in-flight catering during his first year in office.
00:02:19.680 Newly released documents reveal what the PM and his guest noshed on at 30,000 feet.
00:02:25.940 This from Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation.
00:02:29.940 Carney spent more money on airplane food during three trips than the average family will spend on groceries in a decade.
00:02:36.580 I would like to correct the Toronto Sun.
00:02:39.100 And with all due respect, I'd like to correct Franco Terrazzano.
00:02:42.020 Carney did not spend this money. You did. This is your money. And he went on all these flights.
00:02:49.920 When was the last time you were able to take a vacation? I was lucky enough to be able to do
00:02:54.340 that back in January. But a lot of you have to stay home. Well, Carney's flying around and eating
00:03:00.000 and flying with your money. Now, I remember when the liberals were in righteous rage.
00:03:06.420 You might remember this. You might be old enough to remember this. When they were pissed off over
00:03:11.660 Bev Oda and a $16 orange juice. Now, this is an article that Global was obviously rehashing
00:03:18.800 because it was a few years earlier that Bev Oda bought a $16 orange juice. Now, just to be fair
00:03:24.980 here, Oda actually upgraded to a very expensive hotel when she was over, I think, in the United 0.77
00:03:31.220 Kingdom at the time, and she paid for a lot of limousine service, which just goes to show that 0.77
00:03:35.760 both sides are bad. But compared to Mark Carney, Bev Oda was just a drop in the bucket. But there 0.99
00:03:43.100 was righteous rage when it came to the CBC. I call it the Canadian Broadcorp incastration.
00:03:49.700 Righteous rage from a guy named Evan Solomon. More on him just in a moment. Over $16 in orange juice.
00:03:58.300 I mean, let's just stay candid for a second. You've got to regret ordering a $16 orange juice.
00:04:03.240 no not at all not at all i have been working hard i arrived in london was very late i was working on
00:04:09.800 a speech i was to give the next morning and who is evan solomon well he works for mark carney
00:04:16.680 the art dealer look that up i wonder if anybody in the mainstream media is going to walk up to
00:04:23.240 the guy you see on the screen right here and say listen you made a big deal over 16 in orange juice
00:04:29.200 Got any thoughts on the hundreds of thousands of dollars that your leader is spending when he's on trips out of the country?
00:04:36.360 Any comment, Mr. Solomon?
00:04:39.080 And Solomon was working for the CBC at the time.
00:04:42.160 Liberals were an absolute meltdown over what Bab Oda did in the House of Commons. 0.76
00:04:47.280 Isn't someone over there embarrassed by her behavior? 0.97
00:04:49.380 Will someone stand up and apologize to the hardworking Canadian taxpayers who she's living like a queen off their backs? 1.00
00:04:54.880 Well, the minister stopped ripping off taxpayers' dollars because she couldn't get a smoking room 1.00
00:04:59.520 and stopped living like a millionaire and the taxpayers died. 0.99
00:05:02.920 She might have got a glass of orange juice for less than the 16 bucks the Savoy charged. 0.98
00:05:07.940 We'll work together and find her some good orange juice. 0.68
00:05:10.860 You won't have to pay 16 dollars. 0.60
00:05:13.180 And coming from a government who is demanding that Canadians tighten their own belts, 0.86
00:05:17.480 the hypocrisy is wreaking. 0.98
00:05:19.600 All liberals.
00:05:20.420 And I'm not sure how many of them are still around, but somebody in the mainstream media should find these people, put a microphone in front of them, and ask them about Mark Carney and his spending.
00:05:31.120 And they speak of hypocrisy.
00:05:32.520 There's a saying, hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
00:05:39.640 Great quote.
00:05:41.080 Meanwhile, this isn't really the kicker to the story because, you know, just a few short days after we get this story, this is running from yesterday in Black Locks.
00:05:50.420 charity feeds 1 in 10 in the greater toronto area now is this really the kicker to the story no
00:05:58.540 because here we are folks we're in a recession polyev says carney's policies to blame for
00:06:05.480 canada dipping into recession territory you've got this article from global canada slips into
00:06:11.180 technical recession as economy stalls in q1 but meanwhile while we slip into recession
00:06:18.020 You've got Pierre Paliyev out there talking about this, saying this is Mark Carney's fault.
00:06:23.940 This is the liberal government's fault.
00:06:25.400 Hell, this is the people who voted liberal.
00:06:27.560 It's their fault as well.
00:06:29.700 And the mainstream media running cover for Carney once again.
00:06:33.940 Sorry, Mr. Paliyev, just to jump back to the economy real quick.
00:06:37.600 In Q3 2025, the economy grew at an annualized rate by 2.6%.
00:06:42.780 We have economists saying that today's numbers are so nominal they could be forecasted away and revised away.
00:06:48.220 So aren't you jumping the gun a little bit, calling this a full-blown recession?
00:06:51.600 Right. So I know that there's a lot of excuses being made for Mark Carney today, and I'm not surprised.
00:06:58.540 By the way, which outlet are you with?
00:07:00.260 It's 2.6% economy growth.
00:07:03.080 The mainstream media will run cover for the Liberal government.
00:07:06.580 They're paid for by the Liberal government, and of course the Liberals will just blame it on Orange Man.
00:07:12.780 bad. They used to blame things on orange juice. And I put this little graph together. Maybe you'll
00:07:18.640 like it. I'll just leave it on the screen here so you can check it out. God, I love AI. Thank you
00:07:33.540 very much for watching. I do appreciate it. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up,
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00:07:42.780 Thank you.