John Bolton - May 18, 2025


Carney's NUTS don't fall far from the tree - How are things going Canada？ Not good.


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

177.13371

Word Count

1,587

Sentence Count

114

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

On this episode of The Nuts and Bolts, John reflects on the current state of affairs in Canada and takes a look at some of the headlines from the past 24 hours in the news. Canada's new PM Mark Carney meets with Pope Leo to meet with him and talks about Ukraine, Canada's support for Ukraine and much more!


Transcript

00:00:00.100 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 606 a.m. Sunday, May the 18th. I've got my big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:06.380 It's a nice fresh mug. You might even see the steam coming off of it in the big blue mug this morning.
00:00:11.720 You know, I'm going to drink as much coffee as I can right now. I've got some stockpiled upstairs
00:00:16.140 because very soon I might not be able to afford coffee and I'll get to that in just a moment.
00:00:21.960 Wanted to ask you, how are you doing in Canada? Things going great for you with this new liberal government
00:00:26.880 and Mark Carney as your prime minister? Things must be just terrific right now after a couple of weeks.
00:00:33.460 Now, I don't expect things to get better in a couple of weeks. I don't think that's reasonable.
00:00:39.160 But I expect the government to be focusing on the things that are important to you.
00:00:42.860 You know, the other guy in the election, Pierre Polyev, who's getting beat up online for losing the election,
00:00:49.580 for losing his seat, for living at Stornoway, he was talking a lot about cost of living
00:00:54.900 while the reason people voted for Mark Carney was a single issue, that was Donald Trump and tariffs.
00:01:00.840 And what you get when you vote on a single issue like that is you get a bunch of nutcases running your government.
00:01:06.920 And you get a lot of the same nutcases who screwed things up in the first place over the last 10 years.
00:01:10.880 And you get a new head nut running your country.
00:01:14.840 While you're having issues and trouble right now affording things in Canada, where is the prime minister?
00:01:19.820 The prime minister is kissing up to von der Leyen, the head of the European Union, right now,
00:01:26.960 sitting down with Zelensky.
00:01:29.620 And today he's taken a whole bunch of Catholic liberals on your dime to meet with Pope Leo
00:01:34.960 and go to Sunday Mass today instead of focusing on things like this.
00:01:40.500 A new warning from the head of Canada's biggest grocery chain that the food in your cart,
00:01:48.060 the prices of that, soon going to be rising.
00:01:51.180 And the reason is Donald Trump's tariffs are really starting to take effect, starting to take a bite.
00:01:56.300 Instead of focusing on the things that actually affect you here in the country,
00:02:00.380 like affording bread and milk, Carney's overseas talking to Zelensky,
00:02:04.500 speaking on behalf of all Canadians, and he doesn't speak for me,
00:02:09.520 promising full support for more killing in Ukraine.
00:02:12.480 Mr. President, welcome.
00:02:15.060 Welcome to this corner of Canada.
00:02:17.600 And may I say in every corner of Canada is Ukraine.
00:02:21.840 The Canadian people stand in steadfast and unwavering support of your leadership,
00:02:28.620 of the people of Ukraine.
00:02:32.760 We admire what you're doing.
00:02:35.220 We admire your commitment to peace.
00:02:37.800 I'm no friend of Vladimir Putin.
00:02:40.620 I am a proponent of peace.
00:02:42.940 And I'm tired of seeing my money going to killing in Ukraine.
00:02:46.480 And probably going into the pocket of Zelensky,
00:02:48.980 who's sitting across from Mark Carney right there.
00:02:50.980 Now, how much money is Canada giving to Ukraine?
00:02:53.620 Who knows?
00:02:54.640 Because we aren't going to have a budget,
00:02:56.060 something that's even being criticized on the Canadian Broadcorp incastration.
00:03:00.320 That's why he told Canadians, and it's why he won this last election,
00:03:04.300 they believed he had a plan.
00:03:07.180 And in fact, he used it as an attack point.
00:03:09.700 You know, a plan beats no plan.
00:03:12.200 He has no plan now.
00:03:13.620 He doesn't have a fiscal plan.
00:03:15.700 Now, he was elected leader of the party in March.
00:03:19.060 You know, he could have given direction even before the election
00:03:22.160 on what he wants his budget to look like.
00:03:24.320 He had a costed platform.
00:03:26.300 Why is there no budget?
00:03:27.580 I could go on with Mark Carney,
00:03:29.480 but let's move away from the head nut for a moment
00:03:31.480 and go after some lower-hanging fruit.
00:03:33.720 Let's go after Anita Anand,
00:03:35.480 who is the head of global affairs for Canada now.
00:03:38.380 And we see headlines like this.
00:03:40.100 Anita Anand seems to side with Jew and Israel haters
00:03:43.240 in propaganda war.
00:03:45.240 And then this one here as well from Carson Jarama.
00:03:48.300 Anita Anand debuts at foreign affairs
00:03:50.200 by doing publicity for Hamas.
00:03:52.360 50,000 people have died
00:03:55.200 as a result of the aggression
00:03:59.340 caused against the Palestinian
00:04:01.960 and the Gazan people in Palestine.
00:04:06.160 And using food as a political tool
00:04:09.780 is simply unacceptable.
00:04:11.340 That's what you get, folks,
00:04:13.540 when you vote for Elbows Up.
00:04:14.960 And just a reminder,
00:04:15.860 if you haven't subscribed to the channel,
00:04:18.040 could you please do that?
00:04:18.960 Just click on subscribe.
00:04:20.260 Thank you very much.
00:04:21.700 Now, moving on to the next nut,
00:04:23.220 one you're very familiar with.
00:04:24.660 This would be Stephen Gilbo,
00:04:25.980 former Minister of the Environment,
00:04:27.760 Heritage Minister prior to that.
00:04:29.360 He's the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture,
00:04:33.340 whatever that means.
00:04:34.280 This came out the other day,
00:04:35.800 spread misinformation about the oil and gas industry.
00:04:39.000 And contrary to what the Liberals are saying,
00:04:41.420 he said we don't need any more pipelines.
00:04:43.400 He's now in control of the internet.
00:04:45.020 This from the National Post.
00:04:46.720 Gilbo now back in charge of controlling the internet.
00:04:49.040 Michael Geist,
00:04:49.720 who's an expert on internet regulation,
00:04:51.740 wrote this five years ago on his channel.
00:04:55.160 On his website, michaelgeist.ca,
00:04:58.060 Canadian Heritage Minister Stephen Gilbo
00:05:00.320 on regulating foreign news sites,
00:05:02.240 quote, what's the big deal from his article
00:05:04.920 down here at the bottom.
00:05:06.460 That is a big deal.
00:05:07.480 It would mean establishing
00:05:08.340 the most extensive speech regulation
00:05:10.340 Canada has ever seen
00:05:11.620 on the demonstrably false premise
00:05:13.700 that doing so will level the playing field,
00:05:16.220 support Canadian stories,
00:05:17.420 or save a production sector
00:05:18.960 that is thriving in the internet age.
00:05:21.000 He's not controlling the internet.
00:05:22.640 He's controlling what you can see and hear
00:05:25.320 in this country.
00:05:27.320 It's censorship.
00:05:28.940 And Carney alluded to that
00:05:30.180 back in the election campaign as well.
00:05:32.060 He was going to censor news sites
00:05:34.580 from the United States,
00:05:35.500 which I think would include X.
00:05:37.860 So censoring your speech,
00:05:39.480 taking away your freedom of speech.
00:05:41.840 Large American online platforms
00:05:43.860 have become seas of racism,
00:05:46.060 misogyny, anti-Semitism,
00:05:47.960 Islamophobia, and hate in all its forms.
00:05:51.540 And they're being used by criminals
00:05:53.620 to harm our children.
00:05:55.700 My government will act.
00:06:01.020 And today, we're announcing our plan
00:06:02.500 to fight crime,
00:06:03.720 to protect Canadians,
00:06:04.960 and to build communities
00:06:06.540 that are safe, secure, and strong.
00:06:09.140 A plan to make Canada secure,
00:06:11.580 to make Canada strong.
00:06:14.220 Moving on to the next nut,
00:06:15.580 Gregor Robertson,
00:06:16.460 former mayor of Vancouver,
00:06:18.160 who now is in charge of building houses.
00:06:21.140 A rookie MP,
00:06:22.700 but no stranger to politics,
00:06:24.660 Gregor Robertson was handpicked
00:06:26.220 by the prime minister
00:06:27.220 to run in his Vancouver riding.
00:06:29.200 And bear true allegiance
00:06:30.180 to His Majesty King Charles III.
00:06:32.300 Now he's in charge of fulfilling
00:06:33.780 one of Carney's biggest promises,
00:06:36.140 building homes,
00:06:37.300 and lots of them.
00:06:38.340 And I'm thrilled that he is
00:06:39.440 in the new role.
00:06:41.500 Robertson was tapped,
00:06:42.600 says the PM,
00:06:43.440 because he has the know-how
00:06:44.740 to cut through city red tape
00:06:46.280 and get homes built faster.
00:06:47.900 But few have forgotten
00:06:48.900 when he was mayor of Vancouver,
00:06:50.800 housing hit a crisis moment.
00:06:52.620 The conservative leader
00:06:53.620 singled him out.
00:06:54.820 Giving Vancouver, his city,
00:06:57.080 the most expensive housing prices
00:06:59.100 in all of North America.
00:07:01.240 Now, Mr. Carney puts this gentleman
00:07:03.840 in charge of housing.
00:07:06.120 Then there was that famous promise.
00:07:08.300 Homelessness must end,
00:07:09.800 and I tell you today
00:07:10.840 that it will end.
00:07:12.200 It didn't.
00:07:12.980 Not quite sure he would be the person
00:07:14.360 I would have put into
00:07:15.300 a position like that,
00:07:16.500 given his record.
00:07:18.320 Gregor Robertson,
00:07:19.280 just another one of the nuts,
00:07:21.100 the kind of person you get
00:07:22.280 when you elect people
00:07:24.120 based on something stupid
00:07:25.600 like elbows up
00:07:26.520 and not the cost of living.
00:07:27.780 That's the most important thing
00:07:28.960 to people.
00:07:29.920 Paulyev was talking about that
00:07:31.400 all the time.
00:07:32.140 If you're a Paulyev online,
00:07:33.380 here's another thing
00:07:34.520 that's been going on.
00:07:35.920 Elbows up.
00:07:36.600 Mark Carney told everyone,
00:07:38.060 yep, in the middle
00:07:38.760 of the 37-day election campaign,
00:07:40.920 quietly dropped retaliatory tariffs
00:07:42.840 to near zero
00:07:43.540 without telling anyone,
00:07:45.080 knowing it would only become public
00:07:46.440 after the election was over.
00:07:48.100 Mark Carney owes the Canadian people
00:07:49.640 some answers.
00:07:50.300 Now, and this is true,
00:07:51.680 some of the tariffs are still there,
00:07:53.680 but what Mr. Paulyev says here is true.
00:07:56.120 Meanwhile, we're being told
00:07:57.120 that Canadians aren't going
00:07:58.120 to the United States
00:07:59.220 because of elbows up,
00:08:01.040 because of the tariffs.
00:08:02.280 This from my favorite website,
00:08:03.660 Small Dead Animals,
00:08:04.580 National Post,
00:08:05.380 majority of Canadians
00:08:06.180 feel unwelcome
00:08:06.960 and unsafe
00:08:08.060 traveling to the United States
00:08:09.780 according to a new poll.
00:08:11.060 Probably the people
00:08:11.840 who voted elbows up.
00:08:12.840 Meanwhile,
00:08:13.700 one week later,
00:08:14.720 the National Post,
00:08:15.600 Canadians warned
00:08:16.320 about border wait times
00:08:17.660 during the long weekend
00:08:18.600 and how to avoid them.
00:08:20.200 These are just a few
00:08:21.160 of the things
00:08:21.600 that have happened
00:08:22.100 in the last couple of weeks.
00:08:23.980 Within the next week,
00:08:24.920 we're actually going
00:08:25.420 to have government again.
00:08:26.720 We haven't had one
00:08:27.540 since December the 19th.
00:08:29.500 They get back
00:08:30.140 on March the 26th.
00:08:31.840 And then in about a month,
00:08:33.960 they're going to be
00:08:34.360 on summer vacation.
00:08:36.380 We can only hope
00:08:37.440 that there'll be
00:08:38.000 a non-confidence vote
00:08:39.160 in this government
00:08:39.740 sooner before or later
00:08:40.760 and they can be voted out.
00:08:44.500 And I can only hope
00:08:45.600 that there's a separation vote
00:08:46.880 here in Alberta
00:08:47.560 so I can get out
00:08:48.740 of the nuthouse.
00:08:50.300 Thanks a lot for watching.
00:08:51.440 I do appreciate it.
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