John Bolton - March 16, 2025


Carney signed away the carbon tax... what so many people are getting wrong


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

183.05539

Word Count

955

Sentence Count

74


Summary

Is the carbon tax gone? Is it actually in place? Is Mark Carney really going to get rid of it? Or is it all a bunch of nonsense? Today I take on a couple of Canadian media outlets who are getting it all wrong.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 557 a.m. on Sunday, March 16th with the big blue mug of
00:00:05.600 coffee. Hope you're having a great day today. And hold tight, folks, because today I am going to
00:00:11.240 take on a couple of bigwigs in Canadian media who are getting it wrong. Yes, little old me with 13
00:00:17.420 to 14,000 subscribers on this YouTube channel. I'm getting it right and they're getting it all wrong
00:00:23.460 along with thousands of other people on social media who call themselves conservatives who are
00:00:28.880 getting it all wrong. And it's in relation to a video I did yesterday. Yesterday, my video was
00:00:36.100 called Mr. Polyev, you got the win. Carney is taking the victory lap. So that video goes out
00:00:41.460 and within an hour or so, I am absolutely infuriated because the Liberal Party tweeted out this.
00:00:49.220 That really bothered me when I saw it. I mean, the gall of the Liberal Party to put that out
00:00:59.680 after punishing us with the carbon tax for six to seven years. Now, my video, I'm going to get to
00:01:04.960 my media types in just a moment here. My video yesterday was basically, the Liberals are only
00:01:10.060 doing this because Pierre Polyev has been like a dog on a bone for two years to axe the tax,
00:01:15.100 and he's not taking credit for it. And what do we get from the media and thousands of people online?
00:01:20.720 This isn't actually official. Let's go over to Brian Lilly here, who should know better.
00:01:25.060 Now, he's mostly right in what he puts here, responding to the Liberal Party saying,
00:01:29.140 we canceled the carbon tax. This is the Liberal Party. They've been telling us for years that if
00:01:33.920 you oppose the carbon tax, you hate the planet. Now they're bragging about canceling it,
00:01:38.020 which they haven't actually done. Variation on a theme from Ezra Levant at Rebel News,
00:01:42.560 you just signed a piece of paper. That's not an executive order. In Canada, I know you've been
00:01:48.320 away for a long time, prime ministers don't sign executive orders like presidents do.
00:01:53.040 You just made that up because it looks Trumpy, and our low IQ regime media bought it. Well, yeah,
00:01:58.360 the low IQ regime media bought it, and you know who else bought it, Mr. Levant? Millions of Canadians
00:02:03.820 who don't follow politics like you and I do. We know what's going on here. They don't.
00:02:08.560 All they care about is the fact that Mark Carney signed off the other day, and it was all theater,
00:02:16.820 and was it ever freaking brilliant? All they care about is that on April 1st, they're going to get
00:02:23.540 20 cents a liter off their gas, and it's the Liberal Party and Mark Carney, our new prime minister,
00:02:28.320 that did it. That's all they care about. And you're concerned about this not going through parliament?
00:02:32.740 Is the carbon tax really gone? No. Will the price go down on gas on April 1st? Yes, and you know damn
00:02:41.200 well that a week before April 1st, everybody's going to be saying, don't fill up yet because Mark Carney
00:02:46.940 got rid of the carbon tax, and you're going to save 10 bucks on a tank of gasoline because of the
00:02:51.980 Liberal Party. We've got an election to win here, folks. And you're missing the point. It's the narrative
00:02:58.260 that's important here. The narrative, not the truth. I mean, is the carbon tax going to go down
00:03:05.720 on April 1st? Am I wrong here? It is going to go down on April 1st. Everybody's saying it is,
00:03:10.980 unless I'm totally wrong here. Here, CBC. Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as prime
00:03:18.300 minister. After being sworn in on Friday, Carney signed a prime ministerial directive instructing
00:03:24.280 that the fuel charge be removed April 1st, and that April's carbon rebates go ahead as planned.
00:03:30.000 Yes. 20 cents a liter April 1st, 20 cents a liter less. It's the economy, stupid. That's what people
00:03:38.100 care about. We've got an election to win. Not only that, they're going to send out a check.
00:03:44.740 And what do we get from Pierre Polyev yesterday? Instead of taking the win, he's looking like a
00:03:49.120 damn fool, waving around a piece of paper. Whether I think that Mark Carney will abolish
00:03:55.020 the carbon tax, well, the truth is he can't do that without recalling parliament. This is the
00:04:01.420 carbon tax law. It's in place today. Until parliament is recalled, this carbon tax law will be the law of
00:04:09.320 the land. So he looks like Neville Chamberlain, waving around a useless piece of paper. It means
00:04:16.920 nothing. I'm going to level with you here, folks. Mark Carney, thank you so much for getting rid of
00:04:25.360 the carbon tax on April 1st. That makes me happy. I'm going to save 20 cents a liter on gasoline as of
00:04:31.960 April 1st because of you. Thank you so much. You know who else is happy? Millions of Canadians who don't
00:04:37.420 know that what he did the other day was absolute BS. All they care about is that they're going to save
00:04:43.280 20 cents a liter as of April 1st and they're thanking Mark Carney and the Liberal Party and
00:04:48.120 they're going to vote for him because of it. We're missing the big picture here, folks. We've got an
00:04:53.020 election to win. You need to take the wins when you're offered them, Mr. Polyev, and you blew it.
00:04:59.520 Opportunity lost. Thanks so much for watching. If you liked the video, give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to
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