John Bolton - November 14, 2025


Canada, past its BEST BEFORE date - This is DISGRACEFUL... this is CANADA

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John Bolton
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Mark Carney Gabriel Guindy Longay John
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A new kind of grocery store in Quebec is promising big savings at a time when food prices keep rising. The low-cost chain sells discounted items sometimes past their best before date. As the CBC's Gabriel Guindy found out, shoppers say the deals are hard to beat.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 338 a.m., Friday, November the 14th. I hope
00:00:08.380 you're having a great start to your day. I certainly am. Looking forward to the weekend
00:00:12.300 as well. I've got my big blue mug of coffee with me as usual. I hope you got a hot mug
00:00:16.140 for yourself this morning. And this story is disgraceful. This story is disgusting, 0.74
00:00:25.600 and this story is absolutely jaw-dropping. It really is. If you have somebody overseas and 0.85
00:00:33.940 they're concerned about what's going on here in this country, they may ask you the question,
00:00:37.020 how bad have things gotten in Canada? If you're somebody who has been responsible for how bad
00:00:43.020 things have gotten in Canada, if you voted for how bad things have gotten in Canada,
00:00:46.780 if you still defend how bad things have gotten in Canada, you need to watch the next video.
00:00:52.900 Because this is how bad things have gotten in Canada.
00:00:58.600 A new kind of grocery store in Quebec is promising big savings at a time when food prices keep rising.
00:01:05.620 The low-cost chain sells discounted items sometimes past their best before date. As the CBC's
00:01:12.040 Gabriel Guindy found out, shoppers say the deals are hard to beat.
00:01:16.280 I'm at a type of grocery store that's gaining a lot of momentum. It sells discounted items and
00:01:23.120 people shopping here say they're saving a lot of money. I spent 52 days and if I would have
00:01:30.060 it, buy it everywhere else, probably $150. The food is sourced through distributors and
00:01:37.600 manufacturers. So products that are mislabeled or can't be sold in regular grocery stores end up here,
00:01:43.040 like this beef that was supposed to go to a restaurant. It's sold at a discount, making
00:01:48.420 prices more affordable. Another reason for why prices are so cheap is because they sell items
00:01:54.280 that are near or past their best before date. Best before is almost more of a recommendation
00:02:00.780 about marketing, whereas expiry for something like a meat product is, you know, about the safety
00:02:09.760 of consuming that food. Experts say the stigma around low-cost stores like this one seems to
00:02:16.060 be shifting. Years ago, there was a bit of a negative stigma in being a bargain hunter, you know,
00:02:22.880 but nowadays, lots of people shop at these retail locations. Just five years, five years ago,
00:02:29.140 people are looking, no, I'm not touching the box because it's expired. Now, because of the economy,
00:02:36.840 people are, oh, you know what, it's 88 cents. I'm going to try it. As for Liquidation Marie,
00:02:42.060 business is booming. In 13 years, they have eight locations and plan to expand to 10 locations within
00:02:48.400 the next year. As a company grows, there's usually added costs, cost of distribution, transport, HR,
00:02:56.000 you name it, and those costs tend to be passed on to consumers. But while expansion comes with its own
00:03:02.100 set of challenges, this type of store and the products they sell at a cheaper price are clearly
00:03:07.760 in demand. Gabriel Gindi, CBC News, Longay. Is this how far things have fallen in Canada?
00:03:17.900 And you know what's interesting here? Did you catch what's missing in that story?
00:03:21.320 Because there's something very important missing. Keep in mind, this is the CBC,
00:03:26.280 the national news broadcaster. Mark Carney just gave this entity another $150 million of your money.
00:03:32.920 He's going to entrench the CBC in law and make it so that it can never be defunded. He promised that.
00:03:38.920 What's missing in the story? What's missing in the story is somebody at the end saying, you know,
00:03:43.460 this might not be a very good idea. It's not very healthy to eat meat past its best before date or
00:03:48.840 sour cream. Somebody could get really sick. We could have an outbreak of salmonella poisoning here.
00:03:54.340 And I'm wondering how long these grocery stores will be in business when 10, 15, 20, 30 people end
00:03:59.780 up getting sick and sue the pants off them. I'm wondering this is even legal. Because if you're
00:04:06.260 a restaurant, you can't sell food past its best before date or a grocery store. How can this happen
00:04:11.940 in this country? Because this is what's known as normalizing. This is becoming normal now.
00:04:18.300 This is managing the decline. And the CBC is part of that now. Because Mark Carney gave them $150
00:04:24.740 million of your money. And he's keeping them in business. Now, when I officially saw, initially saw
00:04:31.600 this story, I was shocked, as you probably are. I mean, Polly have talks about food lines, people
00:04:38.780 standing in line to get food. I mean, rate them the way you want. But I think this is even worse than that.
00:04:45.140 Because people can't afford food in this country because the cost of living is so bad.
00:04:53.980 Now, initially, I was shocked at this. But then I started thinking, you have to laugh. And I started
00:05:00.140 thinking, boy, you know, maybe the government of Canada, Health Canada can come out with an official
00:05:03.740 list of dumpster diving days so people can get free food out of dumpsters. And here's a list of it here.
00:05:09.400 I'll scroll it up so you can see. They actually have Saturday and Sunday on here. You don't take a break
00:05:13.320 from dumpster diving on the weekend. But I particularly like this one right here. Thursday,
00:05:18.480 butcher's surprise, expired meat day. Think of it as Russian roulette charcuterie. Sausages with
00:05:24.520 mystery flavors, steaks that move only in your imagination, and ground beef that's already halfway
00:05:29.000 to becoming jerky. But this is how bad things have gotten in the country that you live in.
00:05:34.640 Shame on you if you continue to vote for this. I appreciate you being here today. Probably another
00:05:40.140 video coming later today. I never expected to be talking about this today. I never in my wildest
00:05:45.400 dreams imagined that this could happen in the country where I was born.