John Bolton - February 10, 2025


Canadians prepare for an election... in 2026


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On today's show, John runs through a few indicators that point to an emergency being declared in Canada regarding the fentanyl crisis and why the election should be pushed back until 2026. He also talks about the Trump administration's demands for Canada to tighten up the border with the United States and the impact that could have on the economy.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel 5.11am on Monday, February 10th.
00:00:07.380 Hope you're having a great day today with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:11.220 And I think we are on DEFCON 5 right now when it comes to an emergency here in Canada and
00:00:19.100 delaying the election until 2026.
00:00:21.360 I think all of the pieces are in play now for the Liberals, and I think some of this
00:00:25.940 is planned as well, which I think is disgraceful.
00:00:28.960 But I do believe we're going to have an election in 2026.
00:00:32.240 So what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to run through a few of the things and the
00:00:35.220 indicators I've come to see regarding this issue here in Canada.
00:00:40.160 So let's start off with not securing the border.
00:00:43.260 This article right here, running in the Canadian press, Ford urges Ottawa to move faster to
00:00:48.900 satisfy U.S. border security demands.
00:00:51.180 Now, this was published on February the 7th, just a few days ago.
00:00:55.440 And Doug Ford, who's in an election campaign right now, so keep that in mind, had this
00:01:00.740 to say in front of the cameras.
00:01:02.440 You know what the Trump administration wants?
00:01:04.700 They've been very, very clear.
00:01:06.500 They've been clear to me.
00:01:07.400 They've been clear to everywhere in North America.
00:01:09.780 They need to tighten up the border.
00:01:12.320 It's been four days.
00:01:13.540 The federal government says we're going to get a border czar.
00:01:15.980 That's what the Trump administration wants.
00:01:17.720 What takes four days to figure this out?
00:01:21.980 Announce a border czar.
00:01:23.520 But to the federal government, enough talking in the back room.
00:01:27.080 Announce a czar.
00:01:28.920 So the Premier of Ontario was saying Canada is not acting fast enough in declaring a border
00:01:34.720 czar here.
00:01:35.460 Now, I don't know the answer to this question.
00:01:37.560 Maybe you do.
00:01:38.520 Is a fentanyl czar the same as a border czar?
00:01:41.620 Now, going back to that headline from Doug Ford, that was from February the 7th.
00:01:46.520 So that's just a couple of days ago.
00:01:48.360 Here's an article from the 6th of February.
00:01:51.120 Canada's fentanyl czar details should clear by end of week, Minister says.
00:01:55.800 Now, the end of the week has already gone by.
00:01:58.440 We're at the beginning of the week.
00:01:59.320 I don't think we've named a fentanyl czar.
00:02:01.760 And if you look at what the fentanyl czar is supposed to be doing, this article right
00:02:05.280 here, Public Safety Minister David McGinty, look in the middle, in that middle paragraph,
00:02:10.300 speaking to reporters on Thursday.
00:02:11.940 This would be last week.
00:02:13.020 McGinty was asked about the timeline of the fentanyl czar, who will serve as the primary
00:02:17.500 liaison between the Canadian and U.S. governments in addressing the two countries' fentanyl crisis,
00:02:23.000 not addressing border security issues.
00:02:25.260 So I think the border czar is different than the fentanyl czar.
00:02:29.180 And it looks like the government of Canada is not acting fast enough when it comes to
00:02:34.040 a border czar in this country.
00:02:36.700 And as Doug Ford said, that's the thing that the Trump administration wants.
00:02:40.500 They want a secure border.
00:02:41.800 So moving along to number two on this list, today we have an aluminum and steel tariffs
00:02:47.260 coming in from the United States.
00:02:49.740 Now, I think this is a real, it's an awful move by Donald Trump.
00:02:53.860 But Donald Trump smells blood in the water, folks.
00:02:56.440 And he's going to take advantage of this as much as possible.
00:02:58.960 So tariffs are coming in today.
00:03:00.980 Aluminum, steel.
00:03:01.880 Another reason why the liberals will say we need to declare an emergency and push off the
00:03:07.740 election to 2026.
00:03:09.280 This will hurt.
00:03:10.600 We export a lot of aluminum and steel to the United States of America.
00:03:14.500 And we really don't have an answer to this one.
00:03:16.800 It's going to be interesting to find out what happens over the next couple of days.
00:03:19.600 But that's another indicator.
00:03:21.120 Now, number three.
00:03:22.660 Trudeau says Trump is serious about Canada becoming the 51st state.
00:03:27.140 Now, this was an open mic.
00:03:38.260 Just a rule to you, being a broadcaster for years, never, ever say anything around microphones,
00:03:43.780 even if you think they're dead.
00:03:45.400 But Trudeau said this on an open mic.
00:03:47.640 The only reason he's admitting this right now is because it gives him another opportunity
00:03:51.580 to say we need an emergency, we need to delay the election to 2026.
00:03:56.620 So another piece has fallen into place.
00:03:58.940 Up next, number four.
00:04:00.280 You all know this.
00:04:01.120 Why have we not recalled Parliament?
00:04:03.300 If this is the biggest economic threat we've been in under decades.
00:04:07.620 More on that in just a moment.
00:04:09.540 Why have we not recalled Parliament?
00:04:11.320 We've recalled Parliament on a number of occasions here in Canada for things like housing,
00:04:16.420 the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:04:18.040 Obviously, a very serious situation there.
00:04:21.380 But this is an incredibly serious situation.
00:04:24.260 And we have not recalled Parliament.
00:04:25.840 This is not a serious government right now.
00:04:28.180 We actually have no government.
00:04:29.540 We have no leader of the government.
00:04:31.200 He's over in Europe, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:04:33.960 But that's another reason why I think they're setting us up for an emergency here in Canada.
00:04:39.000 Now, I want to go through this video with Melanie Jolie, the Foreign Affairs Minister,
00:04:44.780 and listen to what she says.
00:04:46.100 I'll just end on this.
00:04:48.220 Do you not think, though, that having a quote-unquote lame-duck Prime Minister
00:04:51.440 and a government that is nearing the end of its life cycle,
00:04:55.660 that that is not helpful to the country and to facing off the president-elect?
00:05:00.660 Great question.
00:05:01.520 Well, what I will answer to you on that question is any politician,
00:05:07.320 any leader in this country need to put their country first.
00:05:11.040 Okay, so she wants to point out Pure Polyev here.
00:05:13.980 She's playing petty politics. 1.00
00:05:15.840 Listen to what she says in just a moment.
00:05:18.260 And we need to be united because this is the biggest economic threat that we've been under in decades.
00:05:24.560 So if it's the biggest economic threat we've been under in decades, why is Parliament not sitting?
00:05:29.820 And so based on that, this is not the time to play politics.
00:05:32.660 This is not the time for conservatives to try to undermine the government.
00:05:38.000 So this is not the time for the conservatives to undermine the government.
00:05:41.520 We have no government.
00:05:43.960 Or score points against the liberals because of petty politics.
00:05:52.020 There's the petty politics.
00:05:53.320 This is a time to be serving the country for the best interests of the country.
00:05:59.800 So this is a stupid answer because we're supposed to be serving the country for the best interests of the country,
00:06:04.860 but we have no government right now.
00:06:06.840 That's what I'm doing personally.
00:06:08.460 And that's what Pierre Polyev needs to do.
00:06:10.400 And that's what everybody in the country needs to do.
00:06:12.540 This is time for Team Canada.
00:06:13.840 If it's time for Team Canada, why do we have tariffs coming in, aluminum and steel today?
00:06:18.220 We have no Team Canada.
00:06:19.420 There's no Team Canada.
00:06:20.360 This country is more divided than it's been.
00:06:22.500 I love seeing the people online, the faux Canadian patriotism we're going through right now.
00:06:28.900 I'm canceling my trip to Florida because I don't want to deal with the United States of America.
00:06:32.880 Donald Trump, as I said, sees blood in the water, folks.
00:06:36.060 And he's going to take advantage of Canada because we are weak right now,
00:06:39.700 because we have no government, because we're in the middle of a liberal leadership campaign,
00:06:45.040 and we're months away, if not years away, from an election right now.
00:06:48.580 So this woman is not a serious person, and she's our foreign affairs minister. 0.98
00:06:53.340 So our foreign affairs are an absolute mess right now with the United States of America.
00:06:57.640 Now, another reason why I think we're in for an emergency situation in the country
00:07:03.640 and a very, very late election into 2026 is because Trudeau's in Europe right now.
00:07:08.020 I mean, the article's running right now that he's over there talking about them
00:07:10.980 getting into some more trade deals with the EU, almost joining the EU,
00:07:14.900 which I think is a ridiculous idea. I mean, Britain got out of it for all the right reasons.
00:07:19.000 They had no control of their government anymore.
00:07:20.900 Their government was controlled from Brussels and the EU.
00:07:23.200 No control of their borders, no control of their immigration, no control of their trade,
00:07:26.360 no control of their seas, no control of anything.
00:07:28.800 I certainly don't think we need to be in that situation when it comes to Europe and Canada.
00:07:34.320 And Trudeau's a lame duck prime minister.
00:07:36.740 Anything he's doing over there is useless.
00:07:39.200 He's not accomplishing anything.
00:07:40.560 We'll have a new government pretty soon, hopefully sooner before later, but I don't think so.
00:07:45.320 And they're just going to make their trade deals on their own.
00:07:47.880 So Trudeau's over there hiding, as far as I'm concerned.
00:07:51.080 And the last thing I want to tell you here is another reason why I think we're going to an election in 2026
00:07:56.580 is because Jagmeet Singh is running third in his riding right now.
00:07:59.200 Here's his riding. He is running third in his riding right now.
00:08:02.640 So he is very close to being shown the door.
00:08:06.300 He says his party will vote non-confident in the government,
00:08:10.920 and they're not going to vote in lockstep with the Conservatives.
00:08:13.720 There's no way.
00:08:15.540 And Singh is not going to bring himself down,
00:08:18.140 because that's what's going to happen if we go to an early election.
00:08:21.000 Jagmeet Singh will no longer be the leader of the NDP.
00:08:24.940 Their poll numbers are falling right now,
00:08:26.680 so he's going to be shown the door.
00:08:28.580 And he's not going to win in his own riding.
00:08:30.480 So that's another reason why I think we're going to an election in 2026.
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