John Bolton - August 01, 2026


Canada's Greatest Weapon - The Hissy Fit (It's pathetic)


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00:00:00.000 Great news, folks. There may soon be justice in Canada. That little twit, Justin Trudeau, may soon be going to jail.
00:00:13.640 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 510 a.m. Saturday, August the 1st. I hope you're having a great start to your Saturday and August as well. 0.91
00:00:21.960 Hard to believe July has slipped by so quickly.
00:00:25.480 You know, we're in a long weekend now.
00:00:27.540 It'll be another long weekend, Labor Day in about a month.
00:00:31.400 Enjoy the summer while you can, folks.
00:00:33.080 It is slipping by far too quickly.
00:00:35.380 I apologize for not putting a video up yesterday.
00:00:37.760 I took the day off.
00:00:38.540 It was a crazy night, Thursday night.
00:00:40.860 I was way down south in Cardston, Alberta.
00:00:43.740 For those of you who don't know where Cardston is, it's pretty close to the American border.
00:00:47.980 Two, two and a half hour drive.
00:00:49.340 I was there with the Alberta Women for Independence.
00:00:51.960 Here I am with my friend Angela Tabak, who, along with Kathy Flett, invited me to be there,
00:00:57.840 and I met some great people.
00:00:59.220 It was nice meeting everybody to talk about the referendum coming up in October.
00:01:03.300 So what are we going to talk about today?
00:01:05.200 Well, including the story off the top that I teased, a couple of things we're going to
00:01:10.240 talk about today.
00:01:11.960 And I guess I could only describe a couple of these things as hissy fits. 0.99
00:01:16.800 This is all Canadians have anymore, all right?
00:01:19.980 when it comes to the sad state of Canada, its economy, and the government, and its relationship
00:01:25.700 with the country to the south, and the guy that runs it, hissy fits. It's, shall I say it,
00:01:31.680 rather pathetic. A couple of stories coming up in just a moment that show that we're having hissy 0.99
00:01:35.960 fits. All right. It's pretty sad. And then the other thing would be this. It was a cartoon I
00:01:40.060 saw earlier this week. You may have seen, but if you haven't, it's where Canadians put responsibility 1.00
00:01:45.280 for the sad state of Canada, for the sad state of the economy, the government, and the relationship
00:01:50.580 with the country to the South and its leader. Okay. So we're going to show you that in just
00:01:54.540 a moment. But the big story over the last 24 to 48 hours is this one. All right. So you've got
00:02:01.240 people on X and YouTube now saying that, or asking the question, is Justin Trudeau finally
00:02:09.660 going to go to jail over this story. Supreme Court says judicial review of ethics ruling in Trudeau
00:02:16.800 case can proceed. So let me give you a little background on this, if you're not aware. I'm
00:02:21.120 going to try to do this in a nutshell. The WE Charity, you may have heard of it. Now, back in
00:02:25.900 2020, the WE Charity was given administration over the Canada Student Service Grant, $900 million,
00:02:33.500 dollars, your money, your tax dollars. I don't know that they had any experience doing this,
00:02:39.340 but they were given administration over this huge amount of money. At the end, Craig and Mark
00:02:46.060 Kielberger, who ran the Weed Charity, would get $43.5 million for administration, a lot of money.
00:02:52.660 Now, the problem being here that the Weed Charity and the Kielbergers had a very close relationship
00:02:57.940 with Justin Trudeau and his family. So Trudeau's government, and Trudeau himself, gave them 0.86
00:03:02.540 administration over $900 million. Now, here he is on stage with his former wife, Sophie, and the
00:03:09.020 Kielbergers at a WE event. Now, not only Justin and his wife, but his mother, Margaret, and his 0.69
00:03:15.580 brother, Alexander, were paid an exorbitant amount of money to go speak at WE events to the tune of
00:03:21.380 $400,000 to $500,000. Now, you and I would think there's something wrong here, that there's a
00:03:27.660 conflict of interest, right? That's what you would think. There's an ethics violation here somewhere,
00:03:32.260 But at the time, Canada's ethics commissioner named Mario Dion said, nothing to see here.
00:03:38.800 This did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act.
00:03:41.720 It didn't smell right.
00:03:42.940 It did not pass the smell test.
00:03:45.400 Now, a group called Democracy Watch came along and said, listen, we want to challenge this
00:03:50.700 conclusion.
00:03:51.900 But they were told that the Conflict of Interest Act bars judicial review.
00:03:57.480 So they couldn't go forward with this.
00:03:59.300 But they challenged that up to the Supreme Court. And in the last 48 hours, the Supreme Court
00:04:04.400 unanimously said, you're damn right that they can challenge this in court, which is good news
00:04:10.620 because going forward, any time a group wants to challenge the ethics commissioner,
00:04:15.340 it can have judicial review. Good news. But the question is this, will Justin Trudeau go to jail?
00:04:23.080 And you and I both know the answer to this. Any of those thumbnails you've seen are clickbait.
00:04:28.880 there's not a chance Justin Trudeau is going to go to jail over this.
00:04:32.900 Hell, he's got too many Katy Perry concerts to go to in the future,
00:04:36.560 but I just don't see that ever happening.
00:04:38.720 So let's move on to the next story.
00:04:40.360 This one right here is one of the hissy fits I was talking about. 0.98
00:04:42.960 Mo faces criticism from the opposition over a taxpayer-funded Lindsey Graham funeral trip.
00:04:50.380 Instead of me reading this story to you, here's a short video, a news story from Global News.
00:04:56.180 Premier Scott Moe is catching criticism from the official opposition for flying to Washington to attend Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral.
00:05:05.100 Moe's team announced he was in D.C. on Tuesday for the funeral at the invitation of the Graham family,
00:05:12.380 after meeting with the late senator several times over his tenure in office.
00:05:17.000 The NDP, however, criticizing Moe's trip, questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to attend a funeral for an ally of President Donald Trump,
00:05:24.600 who continues to threaten Canada with heavy tariffs and the possibility of annexation.
00:05:30.840 A funeral is not a trade meeting, and there are problems here at home that I think Premier Mo should be attending to.
00:05:39.300 I think it's important that politicians are held accountable for where they spend taxpayers' money,
00:05:44.520 but this is a hissy fit wrapped up in faux Canadian patriotism.
00:05:48.820 As if we're going to get back at the United States of America.
00:05:51.960 if Scott Moe doesn't go to a dead man's funeral. There's this from the online story from Global
00:05:58.320 News. It's really where it gets pathetic. Saskatchewan NDP leader Carla Beck echoed 0.98
00:06:04.140 those concerns in a Facebook post questioning why attending Graham's funeral was a priority.
00:06:08.560 Mr. Graham was one of Donald Trump's closest allies and endorsed his strategy to dismantle
00:06:14.100 the Canadian economy. She added, we must show strength. We must stand as Team Canada.
00:06:21.960 Hissy fit. Pathetic. Next story. Now, Canadians are just loving themselves over this one. 1.00
00:06:28.540 Canadians spent $3.3 billion less on travel to the U.S. last year. According to StatsCan,
00:06:34.180 if you look this up, there's all kinds of stories about this online. It goes on and on and on.
00:06:39.740 Go over to X, story after story after story, and then you get people like this guy.
00:06:44.080 Raghu Venugapal, MD. It's important Canadians boycott all travel to the United States 0.69
00:06:52.420 because Trump is an enemy and a threat to our Canadian confederation, as if $3.3 billion is
00:06:59.000 going to have any effect on the United States of America. Now, granted, in Canadian dollars,
00:07:03.400 this is a lot of money. But what people like Mr. MD here don't seem to realize is, you know,
00:07:09.300 about half of the population of the United States disagree with Donald Trump. And there's a fair
00:07:13.620 number of Republicans that do as well. So not going to the United States is kind of hurting
00:07:18.440 those people who disagree with Donald Trump and tariffs as well. But then you get this guy here
00:07:23.200 who is a PhD. Okay. No one cares. Those 25% fewer trips amounted to $3.1 billion, which is 0.01%
00:07:34.940 of our GDP. Meanwhile, our tourism industry has grown strongly since January, 2025, buoyed by an
00:07:42.000 unprecedented surge in domestic travel. Also, we honestly would rather Canadians who don't like 0.85
00:07:48.640 America and who often tip horribly to stay the hell out of our country. I just want to tell you 0.66
00:07:54.560 this. My wife and I just booked a trip to Key West next January. Now, it's incredibly expensive.
00:08:02.540 And I would suggest to you a lot of people aren't going to the United States simply because the
00:08:07.960 dollar exchange is ridiculous. I said to my wife the other day, there's talk that the Canadian
00:08:12.040 dollar is going to tank even worse. Perhaps we should get some American cash, but we found a
00:08:16.580 good deal in Key West. I have no problem going down South and visiting my American friends.
00:08:22.380 By the way, let's just take a look at this. I asked, how big is the United States GDP?
00:08:27.780 The nominal gross domestic product of the United States is approximately $32.38 trillion,
00:08:34.120 dollars making it the largest economy in the world you self-righteous Canadians keep feeling
00:08:41.080 good about your 3.3 billion dollars it's having no effect at all and the other thing you guys have 0.75
00:08:48.100 is you're not buying American booze it's pathetic now moving on to the last thing here you may have
00:08:53.700 seen this cartoon right here please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star now a lot of
00:09:00.780 people talking about this cartoon. Polyev making a trade deal with Trump. I'll trade you Baltic
00:09:07.520 Avenue for all your properties, all your houses and hotels, and all your money. That's a good 0.99
00:09:12.540 deal. And here is pure Polyev. Now, what Mr. Moudakis and people who think this is really
00:09:18.280 clever don't get is the fact we don't have a trade deal with the United States of America.
00:09:22.900 They're suggesting that pure Polyev is going to make a bad deal. He's not the prime minister. He
00:09:27.940 can't make a deal with the United States of America. And what I see here is actually pure
00:09:32.760 poly of talking to Donald Trump about coming up with a trade deal. Because isn't that what Mark
00:09:37.720 Carney was supposed to do? They're focusing all of their animus towards the leader of the
00:09:44.300 opposition who has no power at all. And there should be a cartoon in the Toronto Star with
00:09:50.080 Mark Carney standing there looking like an absolute fool because he has accomplished absolutely 0.98
00:09:55.640 nothing. This is pathetic. Let me know what you think in the comments. If you like the video, 1.00
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00:10:06.380 in the next one. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.
00:10:11.940 No matter how friendly or even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that,
00:10:17.000 one is affected by every twitch and grunt.