John Bolton - March 31, 2025


Carney's Bozo Eruption - I love it (so do the Communist Chinese)


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6 minutes

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169.66417

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1,066

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102


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Candidate Paul Chang says Conservative candidate Joe Tay should be handed over to the Chinese consulate for a $1 million bounty placed on him by the Chinese Communist Party. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will stand by candidate Paul Chang.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today, 11.13 a.m. on Monday, March the 31st, with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:07.780 Paul Chang, one of your candidates in Markham, talked about turning over a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate to receive a bounty placed on him by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:00:16.600 Can you explain why you've not dropped him as a Liberal candidate?
00:00:19.780 Thank you for the question.
00:00:21.140 Look, the comments were deeply offensive.
00:00:27.880 This is a terrible lapse of judgment by Mr. Chang.
00:00:31.760 He has apologized for those comments.
00:00:35.260 He has apologized directly now to the person that he mentioned.
00:00:42.340 I apologized directly to him yesterday.
00:00:44.360 I've spoken to Mr. Chang as well over the course of the weekend to understand his position.
00:00:50.680 He is a veteran policeman.
00:00:57.420 Mr. Chang is a veteran policeman with more than a quarter century of service to his community.
00:01:03.800 28 years of defending rights in his community.
00:01:08.840 And he will continue with his candidacy going forward, having made those apologies very clearly to the individual, to the community, and moving forward to serve.
00:01:23.260 Liberal leader Mark Carney.
00:01:25.100 Prime Minister Mark Carney, the guy who wants to be elected on April the 28th, Mark Carney,
00:01:31.840 just said he is standing behind Liberal MP incumbent Paul Chang in Markham, Unionville,
00:01:40.840 after Mr. Chang suggested that Conservative candidate Joe Tay be turned over to the Communist Chinese consulate for a bounty.
00:01:50.160 Kudos to the journalists.
00:01:56.700 I'm going to show you more of that video in just a moment.
00:01:58.620 They grilled him on this, and that he should be grilled for the next month over this.
00:02:02.960 The whole month.
00:02:05.120 There's a very telling moment in the video, which you haven't seen so far.
00:02:08.440 I'm going to play it for you.
00:02:09.220 It's just a split second, but oh my God.
00:02:12.020 Carney knows he's in deep with this one.
00:02:14.400 Now, people are upset at what he's done here.
00:02:16.320 Kripaliev came out with a weak-kneed response, which I'll show you in just a moment.
00:02:22.640 But I think this is great.
00:02:25.200 I think this is freaking awesome.
00:02:27.500 Ladies and gentlemen, we have an election to win.
00:02:30.760 And as ridiculous as this seems, Mark Carney made a huge mistake here.
00:02:37.580 This is a good thing.
00:02:38.680 This is known as a bozo eruption in Canadian politics.
00:02:43.060 And for those of you who don't know what a bozo eruption is, here it is on the screen.
00:02:47.920 Canada slang, a usually unscripted remark by a politician or other public figure, which is especially ill-considered and foolish,
00:02:55.980 and which has negative repercussions for that individual and their affiliated group, synonym gaffe.
00:03:01.860 So this is a huge gaffe by Mark Carney.
00:03:04.540 Now, generally, a bozo eruption happens by a conservative.
00:03:10.000 And they might float out the word abortion in the middle of an election campaign, which the liberals run with for weeks.
00:03:16.080 And they need to run with this for weeks.
00:03:18.360 Joe Tay, the conservative candidate, is scared for his freaking life.
00:03:21.800 Now, there's a moment in this video where Carney knows he's in deep with this.
00:03:26.200 So watch this.
00:03:27.060 It's only a split second, but here it is right here.
00:03:29.720 I was speaking with the RCMP about his safety.
00:03:31.920 So I'm just wondering why you feel comfortable continuing with a candidate that was parroting conservative,
00:03:37.000 sorry, I should say Chinese Communist Party talking points to try and attack a political candidate.
00:03:42.760 Look, this is a person of integrity who served this community.
00:03:48.860 Great job with the journalist here.
00:03:50.840 He says parroting Chinese Communist talking points.
00:03:55.000 And you can see the grin on Carney's face.
00:03:56.740 And he twists a little bit.
00:03:57.660 Very uncomfortable with this right now.
00:03:58.980 Here it is again on the screen.
00:04:00.220 You can see him doing it here.
00:04:01.500 He does not want to answer these questions.
00:04:03.380 I don't think he wanted to do this.
00:04:05.020 There's something going on here.
00:04:06.180 What has Chang got on Carney?
00:04:08.460 What has Chang got on the Liberal Party of Canada?
00:04:11.340 Pierre Polyev has weighed in on this.
00:04:12.900 I think he needs to be more forceful.
00:04:14.620 But he gets to the point here and he uses a word that I've not heard out of his mouth.
00:04:18.900 And he should have been saying it all along.
00:04:20.760 Here it is on X.
00:04:21.920 Mark Carney is keeping a Liberal candidate who called for his Conservative opponent to be handed over to the Chinese government for a $1 million bounty.
00:04:29.580 The same government that just executed four Canadians.
00:04:32.700 Carney's company owes $250 million to a Chinese state bank.
00:04:36.900 He is compromised.
00:04:38.320 Yes.
00:04:39.680 If he won't stand up for a Canadian against threats to his life, how can he ever stand up for Canada?
00:04:44.900 Yes.
00:04:45.540 There was another moment in there when Carney sighed a little bit.
00:04:48.460 I'm not going to show you the whole video.
00:04:50.040 What message are you sending to Canadians who are worried about pressure from China when you allow him to stay on?
00:04:56.740 It goes on for five and a half minutes.
00:04:58.600 But Carney needs to be dogged to the end of this election with this issue.
00:05:03.420 This is a bozo eruption of all bozo eruptions.
00:05:06.300 He actually goes on to say that this is a teachable moment for Mr. Chang.
00:05:12.340 A teachable moment.
00:05:14.440 Do you know what a teachable moment is?
00:05:15.920 A teachable moment is when you give the keys to your car to your son on a winter day.
00:05:22.300 He goes into a parking lot and does donuts and hits a power pole.
00:05:26.740 That's a teachable moment.
00:05:28.320 I don't know how this isn't criminal.
00:05:30.500 And Chang apparently is a cop.
00:05:33.040 I don't know why he's not in jail.
00:05:34.260 Is this not criminal?
00:05:35.640 To put a bounty on somebody's head?
00:05:37.400 You'd think it is.
00:05:38.380 This is a bozo eruption of bozo eruptions, folks.
00:05:44.160 This is huge.
00:05:45.980 And I think eventually Chang has to go or Carney just can't be elected because he's protecting a man who has basically threatened the life of a conservative candidate.
00:05:58.680 That Mr. Tay is scared for his life.
00:06:02.200 And I understand why.
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