John Bolton - June 05, 2026


Catching up on Crazy - A week in OTTAWA


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5 minutes

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964

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71

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A look back at the week that was in Canada, and a few stories you may have heard about, and some others you may not have heard. Canada's Budget Officer releases its latest economic and fiscal outlook, projecting deeper deficits than the government forecast, raising serious questions about the sustainability of Ottawa's fiscal plan. PM Carney appoints member of pro-Hamas group to fight anti-Semitism in Canada. Child sex change advocate appointed head of the Canadian Pediatric Society. Canada needs a reckoning for the mass graves hoax.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 424 AM, Friday, June the 5th.
00:00:08.240 I hope you're having a great start to your Friday.
00:00:10.380 Thank God, it's Friday, the weekend is almost here, and the big blue mug of coffee tasting
00:00:15.660 oh so sweet this morning.
00:00:17.060 Thank you for being here.
00:00:18.720 And you know, I was on the phone with my friend Wade this morning.
00:00:21.320 He goes to bed about the time I'm getting up, and I talked to him for about an hour from
00:00:25.440 2.30 to 3.30, and we were solving all the problems of the world in that hour, and I
00:00:29.880 was thinking around four o'clock this morning, you know, the world would be a better place if
00:00:33.680 we ran it. Don't you agree? It really would. I think we would be rather sensible about how
00:00:41.160 things work. We can call out the stupidity of what's going on in the world, particularly in 1.00
00:00:47.260 Ottawa, that little place that sits right on the border between Ontario and Quebec, which I've been 1.00
00:00:52.360 to many times before. And I thought, you know, I come in here daily and I talk about things and I
00:00:59.100 maybe do a video a day. This week, for the most part, a video a day. I try to keep them short if
00:01:04.780 I can, and this one will definitely be short. And I miss a lot of things. There's things I'd like to
00:01:08.820 talk about. So what I thought I'd do today is look back on the week that was in Canada and talk about
00:01:13.480 a few things that you may have heard about, others you may not have heard about, and I'll find out
00:01:18.080 what's been going on this week without a lot of commentary. Well, just look at the headlines and
00:01:22.000 you can come to your own conclusion because generally the headlines in the stories I'm
00:01:26.500 talking about today, they speak for themselves. So let's move to the first story. I'm going to
00:01:30.780 read a little bit here. This is from Trending Politics. This is a story that's broken within
00:01:34.140 the last 24 hours. Not really surprised by this, but here we go. Canada's parliamentary budget
00:01:39.660 officer released its latest economic and fiscal outlook today, projecting deeper deficits than
00:01:45.440 the government forecast and raising serious questions about the sustainability of Ottawa's
00:01:50.320 fiscal plan. Are you surprised by this? Of course you're not surprised. Article from the Toronto
00:01:55.140 Sun, Lori Goldstein. The parliamentary budget officer projects federal deficits will average
00:02:00.080 $4.6 billion higher annually than the Kearney government's April projections.
00:02:06.280 Here's the problem with these deficits that the government's running right now.
00:02:10.120 I think $60 billion or something like that, maybe a little higher. We've got to the point where
00:02:15.540 when you add $4.6 billion to the deficit, people don't even bat an eye anymore.
00:02:20.240 this is the recipe for failure we're talking 60 to 70 billion dollar deficits here where a few
00:02:27.360 years ago that would have been considered insane and it is insane moving on black locks
00:02:33.140 p.m silent in question period prime minister mark carney yesterday in his first question period
00:02:39.120 appearance in a week sat silently as conservative mps recited stories about jobless workers
00:02:44.900 Carney repeatedly wished opposition leader Pierre Polly have a happy 47th birthday in an attempt to be lighthearted.
00:02:52.040 Will the prime minister stop being so flippant about the suffering he has caused?
00:02:56.160 Well, no.
00:02:58.500 We're in a recession right now.
00:03:00.640 Carney has barely said a thing.
00:03:02.720 Moving on.
00:03:03.980 P.M. Carney appoints member of pro-Hamas group to fight anti-Semitism in Canada.
00:03:08.480 The group's leadership repeatedly expressed support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:03:16.460 Next article.
00:03:17.740 Carney tells Jews, when you come to Canada, leave behind your wars and your animosities.
00:03:26.620 This has all happened in this last week.
00:03:29.300 Then there's this.
00:03:31.460 Canada.
00:03:33.220 Child sex change advocate appointed head of the Canadian Pediatric Society.
00:03:38.480 Now, folks, I don't want to get too deep into this.
00:03:42.000 The video will get throttled on YouTube.
00:03:44.220 The rest of the world is giving up on this nonsense.
00:03:47.680 But Canada, still holding on tight, and here she is, Dr. Natasha Johnson.
00:03:54.720 Child sex change advocate, Dr. Natasha Johnson,
00:03:58.920 promoter of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones,
00:04:01.900 and early medical transitions for minors,
00:04:04.420 has been elected president of the Canadian Pediatric Society.
00:04:09.000 Moving on.
00:04:10.780 Canada needs a real reckoning for the mass graves hoax.
00:04:15.040 We do.
00:04:16.500 Fascinating that the Globe and Mail just within the last week has come out and said a similar thing.
00:04:22.060 A very left-wing publication, by the way.
00:04:25.440 This one from The Federalist.
00:04:27.860 Just a quick little reading here.
00:04:29.300 Five years after the Canadian Liberals incited a moral panic about mass graves of Indigenous schoolchildren,
00:04:35.540 almost no one will admit it happened. I have. Meanwhile, in Canada, this week,
00:04:42.140 black locks again. Vote to outlaw denialism. Senate Human Rights Committee last night voted
00:04:48.920 7-1 to criminalize Indian residential school denialism. Public statements intended to promote 0.93
00:04:54.360 hatred by downplaying the impacts of residential schools would be outlawed under threat of two
00:05:00.140 years in jail, quote, it can be involved denying, minimizing, or justifying the documented abuses,
00:05:07.360 deaths, force assimilation, and intergenerational harms. There's a saying in politics,
00:05:12.760 just because something is insane, don't think it won't be done. And I'm thinking,
00:05:17.480 how long am I going to end up in jail? Because just within the last week or so, I did this.
00:05:23.660 these are just a few of the things that have happened in ottawa this week
00:05:31.380 in canada this week don't you think the world would be a better place if we ran it
00:05:36.460 i do thanks for watching if you like this video give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel
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