John Bolton - Canada's Most Influential Person For 2025

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John. Happy New Year. Thank you so much for being here and thank you so much

00:00:09.800 for supporting the channel over the last 12 months.

00:00:14.340 Some news organizations have what they call the person of the year. Many of them have already

00:00:19.400 chosen Mark Carney as their person of the year. Others might have the most newsworthy person over

00:00:25.980 the year. What I'm going to do right now is tell you who I think the most influential person was

00:00:33.000 for Canada in 2025. I hope you enjoy it.

00:00:41.500 Canada, rich in resources and built by people who believe that tomorrow would always be better than

00:00:47.720 today. But this Canada found itself at a crossroads. Ten years of liberal leadership had passed,

00:00:54.140 inflation was rising, government induced. High deficit spending created mountains of debt.

00:01:00.620 Food banks were no longer a last resort. They had become a regular stop. Young people did something

00:01:06.660 they had never done before. They stayed home, not by choice, but because they couldn't afford to leave.

00:01:13.840 Homes became dreams. Groceries became luxuries. More and more Canadians began to whisper something

00:01:19.560 that was once unthinkable. Canada is broken. Out west, the unrest grew louder. Resource development

00:01:27.800 halted. Investment disappeared. Unity fractured. And the rest of the world was watching.

00:01:34.840 Justin Trudeau's decade was no longer defended. It was explained away, excused, and apologized for.

00:01:41.800 Then hope emerged. From the right side of the political spectrum, a man spoke plainly.

00:01:47.560 He talked about unleashing Canada's true potential about work, production, ownership, and pride. He spoke

00:01:54.680 about leaving the Trudeau years behind. Pierpoliev surged. Poles soared. As the calendar turned to 2025, 0.95

00:02:03.000 it looked like change had arrived. And then, just like that, it was gone.

00:02:10.040 A new leader came forward and something strange began to happen. A phrase once spoken jokingly,

00:02:16.280 became nervous and then serious. The 51st state. Canadians began to wonder if the country had grown

00:02:23.000 so weak that it could be swallowed whole. One American voice dominated every conversation.

00:02:29.800 Suddenly, there was talk of fighting back from every corner, from every party. Resource development was no

00:02:35.720 longer a dirty word. Working together was back in fashion. They called it Team Canada. Change was

00:02:43.240 necessary to avoid being overwhelmed by the behemoth to the South. Talk of tariffs filled the air,

00:02:49.640 the media, and even the dinner table. Parliament buzzed with the issue. As the nation approached an

00:02:55.560 election, the polls shifted. Fear proved powerful. Gray-haired, comfortable baby boomers who had survived 0.99

00:03:02.680 just fine found a fresh burst of patriotism. They rallied behind the very party that had caused the

00:03:08.440 trouble in the first place. On a campaign fueled not by hope but by fear, Mark Carney won. But make no

00:03:16.040 mistake. This story is not about Trudeau. It's not about Polyev. It's not even about Carney. There was

00:03:23.480 one man who moved markets without voting, who changed elections without campaigning, and who reshaped

00:03:29.640 conversations without stepping a foot in Canada. He shook an entire country awake. He altered the economy.

00:03:37.080 He influenced voters and redirected a nation's future. No Canadian politician comes close.

00:03:45.000 The man who most influenced Canada in 2025 wasn't Canadian at all. He is Donald Trump.

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John Bolton - December 29, 2025