John Bolton - June 22, 2026


Carney's First Parliamentary Session - He Sucks


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10 minutes

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1,750

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131

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8

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Let's go back to Mark Carney's first parliamentary session and judge him on how he did in his first session as Prime Minister of Canada. Is it the government's job to build houses or is it the private sector's?

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00:00:00.000 Kearney sucks. 0.99
00:00:30.000 please click on subscribe i would appreciate it and a reminder that clicking on the big blue mug 0.96
00:00:35.360 does not subscribe you to the channel so i mentioned yesterday on a couple of videos that
00:00:41.680 it was the first full day of summer yesterday we're now into the first full week of summer
00:00:47.040 doesn't it feel good but you know what else it is it's the first full week without government
00:00:53.600 this year federal government isn't that great doesn't it feel good now don't get me wrong they
00:00:58.000 They can still do things to us, okay?
00:01:00.960 Like they passed a C-22, I think on Thursday, didn't they?
00:01:04.260 All the free speech laws are coming, folks,
00:01:06.400 but we don't have government sitting right now.
00:01:08.840 Politicians call it the rubber chicken circuit, sort of.
00:01:12.660 They go around, they do backyard barbecues 0.63
00:01:14.680 and eat a lot of crappy chicken,
00:01:16.420 but they can still do things to you,
00:01:18.240 but it feels good that government isn't sitting right now.
00:01:20.360 So what I thought I would do
00:01:21.520 is look back on the first parliamentary session
00:01:24.860 of Mark Carney and see how he did.
00:01:28.260 I think it was quite evident by the way this video started. 0.99
00:01:33.660 Carney sucks. 0.98
00:01:35.900 If you're here, you probably feel the same way as I do. 0.98
00:01:39.660 But how do we judge Mark Carney on how he's done in his first parliamentary session?
00:01:44.240 And I guess maybe going back to when he was elected on April 28th last year.
00:01:48.980 I call Mark Carney a performative prime minister.
00:01:53.460 And a lot of politicians are like this, but Carney's a master, right?
00:01:56.600 They make all these promises, but never follow through on these things.
00:02:00.420 The thing is with Carney, he's got the people who voted for him and the people who still
00:02:04.840 support him convinced he's accomplishing these things, but it's all a performance.
00:02:11.160 So I thought about listing the different things he promised, but I thought a better way to
00:02:15.420 go back and judge him is to listen to him prior to the election and find out what were
00:02:21.260 the main things he wanted to do, and we'll throw in a couple extra things off the end.
00:02:26.120 So, very short clip here, I do not want to torture you.
00:02:30.000 Less than 30 seconds, Mark Carney, prior to the election in 2025.
00:02:35.080 We will have to do things that we haven't imagined before at speeds we didn't think possible.
00:02:40.940 And that means building millions of homes, building Canada into an energy superpower,
00:02:46.220 building new trade corridors with reliable trading partners.
00:02:50.420 It means the government's spending less so Canada can invest more.
00:02:53.040 It means making big polluters pay instead of hardworking Canadians and creating one Canadian economy instead of 13.
00:03:00.980 Sorry about that, but it was less than 30 seconds long.
00:03:04.100 So let me ask you a question.
00:03:06.440 What word would you use to describe how quickly the Carney government is getting things done in the country right now?
00:03:13.720 Think of it for a second.
00:03:15.220 Because the word I came up with is glacial.
00:03:18.760 A glacier moves so slowly, you can't even see it happen.
00:03:24.740 But he started off that clip by saying,
00:03:26.940 we will have to do things that we haven't imagined
00:03:29.880 before at speeds we didn't think possible.
00:03:33.360 I never thought the government would move glacially, but it is.
00:03:37.160 We're really not getting things done quickly here at all.
00:03:39.500 He talks about building millions of homes.
00:03:41.200 Are we doing that?
00:03:42.280 This is part of the Kearney performance.
00:03:45.060 They'll continue to come out and say they're building houses,
00:03:47.340 but have they really built a lot of houses? And is it the government's job to build houses? I've
00:03:53.440 got a former prime minister on that in just a second, but is it the government's job to build
00:03:58.340 houses? And if we were building a lot of houses, don't you think Carney would be standing in front
00:04:03.420 of all the houses that his government is building? Look, we build all these houses. Here's an article
00:04:09.060 here from the Fraser Institute, Build Canada Homes Remains Clear as Mud Despite Carney
00:04:14.040 government claims. This is from May of this year. Build Canada Homes is the new bureaucracy that
00:04:19.760 Carney created to build houses. Is it the federal government's responsibility to build houses?
00:04:28.380 I'll be blunt as well. Housing isn't a primary federal responsibility.
00:04:34.100 Sorry about that. But he's right. I don't think it's the government's job to build houses. Leave 1.00
00:04:39.760 that to the private sector. I mean, Pierre Polyev during the election campaign, what he wanted to
00:04:44.900 do was get rid of the red tape and regulations to make it easier for the private sector to build
00:04:49.080 houses. Carney's plan is bigger government. And as I often say, and as Reagan said, the government
00:04:54.380 that is best governs least. Let's move on. I don't want to spend too much time on this. So he goes on
00:04:58.860 to talk about building Canada into an energy superpower. Well, I could go on and on about
00:05:03.640 this. It's been discussed here many times. I live in Alberta. There's still no pipeline built.
00:05:07.240 there's not likely to be a pipeline built. Talked about that yesterday. Carney's plan for being an
00:05:12.700 energy superpower is his federal electricity plan, which I've talked about here a couple of times
00:05:18.240 before, four paragraphs on his webpage on the Canadian government website, where he talks about
00:05:23.760 clean energy 25 times in four paragraphs. That's being an energy superpower to Mark Carney.
00:05:30.240 Building new trade corridors with reliable trading partners. Well, has he done that? He's been out of
00:05:35.700 the country a lot, signing lots of pieces of paper with possible agreements. You could call
00:05:41.360 them memorandums of understanding, but it doesn't amount to a lot when you consider our biggest
00:05:46.700 trading partner is the United States, but he still hasn't signed a deal with Donald Trump in the
00:05:51.520 United States. And going into Kuzma, it looks like it's going to be a disaster. It means the
00:05:57.280 government's spending less, so Canada can invest more. Well, here's a headline for you right here.
00:06:03.720 This is from The Hub.
00:06:05.560 Canada's $66.9 billion deficit,
00:06:08.920 breaking down the big numbers in Carney's fear-fueled spring economic update.
00:06:13.720 He is not spending less.
00:06:15.360 This is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
00:06:19.160 You'll remember it wasn't very long ago.
00:06:22.440 Justin Trudeau said modest deficits of $10 billion a year.
00:06:27.320 People lost their minds when Trudeau said that,
00:06:29.740 and now we're in the range of $60 billion every year.
00:06:33.920 It's not a catastrophe waiting to happen.
00:06:36.600 It's happening in real time.
00:06:37.880 He talks about making big polluters pay
00:06:40.840 instead of hardworking Canadians.
00:06:43.580 I don't know what he's done there
00:06:45.400 other than putting an industrial carbon tax
00:06:47.740 on Alberta's oil, which makes us uncompetitive.
00:06:51.100 I don't think that helps hardworking Canadians at all.
00:06:53.980 And then creating one Canadian economy instead of 13.
00:06:57.180 He promised to do that by last Canada Day.
00:06:59.940 What are we, eight, nine days away from Canada Day?
00:07:02.900 Again, I don't think he's accomplished that.
00:07:05.260 It's all a performance.
00:07:06.460 So let's move on to things that are kind of important to you,
00:07:08.860 like the cost of living.
00:07:10.340 I remember it's been probably,
00:07:12.420 it's well over a year now
00:07:13.600 when I held a liter of cream here
00:07:16.580 and said I judged the economy by how much cream cost.
00:07:20.220 And at that point, it was $2.85 a liter. 0.72
00:07:23.960 My wife was out yesterday, called her up. 0.96
00:07:26.220 I said pick up some cream. She said she got one liter. How much was it? $3.65 a liter.
00:07:33.900 And that's low. It's generally up around $4 a liter now. Things are not getting better for you.
00:07:40.280 What Carney provides when it comes to cost of living is Band-Aid Solutions. They created the
00:07:46.040 Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. Kind of an Orwellian thing to say about having to buy food
00:07:52.180 for Canadians now because they can't afford anything anymore in this crappy Canadian economy
00:07:57.000 created by the Liberals. And they've got a school food program. You know, I did a video on this,
00:08:02.940 how this is a failure. Liberals celebrate this like it's some kind of victory. This is sad. This
00:08:10.380 is a Band-Aid solution to a big problem. This is throwing a bone to you. I'll use the quote again
00:08:17.180 from George Bernard Shaw, the politician that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have a friend
00:08:23.380 in Paul. You become dependent on government. The liberals love this stuff. I mean, take a look at
00:08:28.520 GDP per capita. I'll bring this up on the screen for you. Look at this. Here's Canada up here.
00:08:33.820 Here's the United States. Canada per capita economic growth laggard for 10 years.
00:08:40.220 And then they've got the fuel tax cut. Again, this is another indication of failure in the
00:08:46.640 country. This isn't solving the problem. This is government subsidizing failure, failure of the
00:08:52.380 liberal government. Now, what I want to do here is I'm going to end with another politician who
00:08:56.860 quite rightly points out all the problems of the Carney government. I haven't mentioned that we're
00:09:04.240 in a recession right now, but Andrew Scheer does. He's the only leader of a G20 country that has
00:09:10.460 delivered a recession. The stats are just awful. Under Mark Carney, Canada has seen five consecutive
00:09:18.140 quarters of business investment decline. That means more business dollars leaving Canada than
00:09:23.860 coming into Canada. He's delivered the highest household debt in the G7. He's actually doubled
00:09:29.820 Justin Trudeau's deficits. All those deficits that pushed up inflation and caused interest
00:09:34.920 rates to arise. Mark Carney's actually doubled all that. Meanwhile, Canadians are paying the
00:09:39.800 price for all of this terrible economic data. There was a poll just recently that showed that
00:09:44.580 38% of Canadians report experiencing at least one form of food insecurity in the past six months. 0.98
00:09:51.920 Was I right when I said right off the top of this video that carny sucks?
00:09:56.920 Listen, I also said it's summertime. You're not going to hear as much about politics. That's a 0.95
00:10:03.120 good thing. Go for a drive, have a barbecue, take your kids to the ball game or the soccer game,
00:10:09.040 and enjoy the summer and leave it all behind and don't stress over it because before very long,
00:10:16.560 the liberals and Kearney will be back to screw everything up.
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