John Bolton - April 11, 2025


Conservative YouTubers are Missing the point about Carney & the Commies


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8 minutes

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171.62971

Word count

1,414

Sentence count

115

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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A story about Mark Carney's ties to a Chinese group that has ties to China's United Front Work Department (UWP) has caused a stir on YouTube over the past 24-36 hours. I think the media are missing a big point here.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today, 4.40 a.m.
00:00:04.480 It is Friday, April the 11th, with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:08.380 I hope you're having a great day today, and I can tell you, I am having an awesome day today.
00:00:14.220 Now, for those of you who watch my channel regularly, you haven't seen me over the last several days.
00:00:21.560 And I just want to explain quickly why I haven't been here.
00:00:23.700 Last Saturday, I was invited out to a children's birthday party with a lot of great people, really great food, and great stomach flu.
00:00:33.260 I'm telling you.
00:00:35.380 Just to put it into perspective, when it hit me on Sunday night, from that time until Thursday morning, I lost almost 10 pounds.
00:00:44.320 And I was running pretty lean, so if I'm looking pretty thin right now, that's because of the flu.
00:00:49.460 Now, I've been trying to follow politics, but I can tell you for about three days, it really didn't mean a lot to me.
00:00:55.820 But over the last 24 to 36 hours, there's a story you've probably been following, and you've seen hyperbolic headlines like the elections over and whatnot,
00:01:03.700 by some of the people who are doing great work, and I've mentioned here on this channel before.
00:01:07.300 But I think they're missing a big point here, a big one.
00:01:09.780 They're all missing this point.
00:01:12.460 I think they're all thinking the same.
00:01:14.000 George Patton, General George Patton, said,
00:01:18.600 If everyone's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
00:01:21.180 I went to bed thinking the same, and I woke up thinking differently.
00:01:24.120 So I'm going to ask you a question at the end of this video.
00:01:26.640 I'm not going to answer it.
00:01:27.500 You can answer it yourself, and you're going to get my point on this.
00:01:29.760 So this is about Mark Carney's ties with, and pardon me if I'm reading this off the screen,
00:01:34.300 the Jiangsu International Chamber of Commerce of Canada, the JCCC,
00:01:38.320 which has ties to China's United Front Work Department.
00:01:42.140 This sounds rather communist, doesn't it?
00:01:45.140 Which oversees Beijing's influence, propaganda, and intelligence operations inside and outside of China.
00:01:51.140 Now, the Globe and Mail wrote a story about him a couple of days ago on this,
00:01:55.240 and you probably know this whole story, talking about Carney's connection to this group.
00:02:01.900 And he got confronted by a Globe and Mail reporter and asked about this.
00:02:06.860 Now, I'm going to cut out the question, but they asked about his connection to this.
00:02:12.440 And here's what Carney had to say.
00:02:13.960 And this is what has caused all of the hubbub on YouTube over the last day and a half.
00:02:19.760 Okay, well, I'm sorry, but you can't believe everything you read in the Globe and Mail.
00:02:23.660 So in your question, and I guess in the article in question,
00:02:27.120 you said I had a meeting with whatever your term was, a Beijing group.
00:02:32.360 I've never heard of this group, okay?
00:02:34.340 Never heard of this group.
00:02:35.340 Certainly didn't have a set-up meeting with this group.
00:02:38.960 Full stop.
00:02:39.680 So check your sources before you write things like that, okay?
00:02:42.860 Or your colleagues, too.
00:02:44.440 I know I'm going over the same ground here, but stay with me here, okay?
00:02:48.780 So you know that Mark Carney has a connection with the Communist Chinese.
00:02:53.100 You know he does through his business workings with Brookfield.
00:02:56.860 It's inappropriate.
00:02:57.840 We don't know what his business dealings are because he hasn't released that information.
00:03:02.260 We won't know that until months after he's elected, if he's elected on April the 28th.
00:03:07.680 You know that.
00:03:09.360 I know that.
00:03:11.120 Pierre Polyev knows that.
00:03:12.560 And he's mentioned this on a number of occasions.
00:03:15.780 Here he is going off a little bit when he's asked about the Paul Chang incident.
00:03:20.900 Now that was the incident where, you know, the abduction of the conservatives set off to the Communist Chinese. 0.52
00:03:26.440 This is what he had to say about Mark Carney and his dealings with the Communist Chinese.
00:03:32.920 Mark Carney is deeply conflicted.
00:03:35.120 Just in November, he went to Beijing and secured a quarter-billion-dollar loan for his company from a state-owned Chinese bank.
00:03:43.320 He's deeply compromised.
00:03:45.840 So Polyev says that Mark Carney is compromised.
00:03:49.240 And I believe he's compromised.
00:03:50.960 You may believe it as well.
00:03:52.220 I don't think a man like that should be the prime minister of our country.
00:03:56.440 Now, here's the thing.
00:03:57.960 I went looking on the Globe and Mail website this morning for the original story regarding this that led to that question,
00:04:05.620 that led to that answer where he criticizes the Globe and Mail.
00:04:10.800 I can't find it this morning.
00:04:12.320 Now, I may be missing something.
00:04:13.780 I don't know whether Carney, his campaign, got in touch with the Globe and Mail.
00:04:17.500 They may have scrubbed it from their website.
00:04:19.100 But they have done a follow-up story on it.
00:04:20.840 And here it is right here.
00:04:22.960 This is just from yesterday.
00:04:24.460 Carney says he never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders.
00:04:29.240 And then here is their statement regarding this.
00:04:32.800 From the story, I got through the paywall for a short time this morning.
00:04:36.240 Liberal Party spokesperson Isabella Orozco-Madison said the JCC inaccurately portrayed their executive members' discussions with Mr. Carney is in depth.
00:04:45.880 Quote, we have reached out to the organization correcting the record and asked that they remove such claims immediately, unquote, she said in a statement.
00:04:53.780 And again, I think maybe the Carney campaign got to the Globe and Mail.
00:04:58.340 Now, this story, the follow-up, tries to soften the blow for the Carney campaign a little bit.
00:05:03.240 Because I read the whole thing all the way through.
00:05:04.720 Now, they've been talking, the mainstream media, I mean, have been talking about Carney and his connections with the Communist Chinese.
00:05:11.420 And I'm getting to the final point here in just a moment.
00:05:13.760 It won't be very long.
00:05:14.700 But they've been framing it differently than you know about.
00:05:18.300 In this story itself, it's from CBC, Ian Hanna-Mansing uses the word false about Mr. Carney and the word targeting Mr. Carney come up in this quick story.
00:05:29.220 You've likely heard concerns about disinformation potentially having an impact on the election.
00:05:34.000 And now federal officials are warning of a campaign on the Chinese social media platform WeChat.
00:05:40.000 They say the content contains false stories about liberal leader Mark Carney.
00:05:43.980 It was uncovered by a special election task force set up to look into security and intelligence threats.
00:05:51.720 This content has been amplified in a coordinated and inauthentic way.
00:05:57.040 This information operation had contrasting positive and negative narratives.
00:06:02.020 First amplifying Mr. Carney's stance with the United States and then targeting his experience and credentials.
00:06:08.340 Is this WeChat using false claims about Mr. Carney?
00:06:12.400 Does this WeChat target Mr. Carney?
00:06:16.200 Well, apparently this WeChat is actually promoting Mr. Carney.
00:06:19.760 This is election interference from inside Communist China.
00:06:26.100 And that's the way it's being framed right now.
00:06:29.420 In the mainstream media, you and I know differently.
00:06:31.860 So the question to you is this.
00:06:34.100 Will the message that you and I know about get to the right people?
00:06:38.380 And that would be Carney voters.
00:06:40.820 You and I are seeing both sides of the story here and seeing how the mainstream media is on the side of Mr. Carney
00:06:48.720 and calling it false claims and targeting when we're seeing him as compromised with the Communist Chinese.
00:06:54.960 Now, here's the big question.
00:06:59.320 Right now in Canada, to the boomers and the people who are voting for Mark Carney,
00:07:06.760 who is more of a threat to humanity, Canada, and the world?
00:07:13.620 Now, think about it for a second.
00:07:15.140 Do you know where I'm going here?
00:07:16.080 Who is more of a threat to humanity, Canada, and the world?
00:07:21.040 The Communist Chinese or Donald Trump?
00:07:28.420 That's what everybody else is missing.
00:07:33.360 You and I know the correct answer.
00:07:37.100 But the boomers and the people who are voting for Mr. Carney don't. 0.62
00:07:42.720 So, elbows up, young millennials.
00:07:49.340 Put it right in the jaw of your grandparents who are selling your future right down the river. 0.97
00:07:55.220 Thanks for watching.
00:07:56.180 I do appreciate it.
00:07:58.280 Feeling better?
00:07:59.320 I think I'll be back again tomorrow.
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