John Bolton - May 15, 2025


CRACKS form in Carney's government - Auto industry LEAVING？ Climate confusion!


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Could there be open revolt within the Liberal Party of Canada? Is it time to get your resumes ready because things are not looking good for the auto industry in Canada. John reflects on a few things that have happened in the past 24 hours that have got him thinking this way.

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00:00:00.040 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 355 a.m. It is May the 15th. I've got my big blue mug of
00:00:05.960 coffee. Hope you're having a great day today. And I've got a question for you. Do you think
00:00:12.140 there could be an open revolt within the Liberal Party of Canada? Do you think that they may turn
00:00:18.740 on themselves? A couple of things have happened in the last 24 hours that got me thinking this
00:00:22.560 way. I know it's outside the box thinking. I know that the Liberals always vote in lockstep. If you
00:00:27.380 don't vote with the leader, you end up in a back bench and out of caucus. But a couple
00:00:31.580 of things have happened. I'm going to show you two clips today. A couple of things have
00:00:35.440 happened. They have me thinking this way. Now, first off, I want to lead into this with a question
00:00:43.860 that Mark Carney was asked the other day by Vashi Capellas. He was asked if he trusted Donald
00:00:52.080 Trump. Here's what he had to say. Do you trust him? I will work with him and negotiate
00:00:57.340 with him, yeah. But do you trust him? Look, my answer is my answer. Okay, I'll leave it
00:01:02.420 on that. He evades the question, but he answers the question. He does not trust Donald Trump.
00:01:08.020 Now, if I was asked that question, I would say, yeah, I trust Donald Trump. And you might
00:01:13.980 think, I'm nuts. John, are you crazy? No, I trust Donald Trump to do what's right for
00:01:19.140 the United States of America because that's why he got elected. And one of the things he promised
00:01:24.240 was to bring jobs and industry back to the United States of America. I'll get to why
00:01:30.020 there might be open revolt within the Liberal Party in just a moment. And a lot of people
00:01:33.420 might really regret voting Liberal in just a moment, particularly in Ontario. But what's
00:01:38.120 one of the crown jewels of industry in the United States and in Canada? It's the auto industry.
00:01:43.740 Now, if you work in the auto industry in Canada right now, you might want to get your resume
00:01:48.440 ready because you might have to look for a job very soon. This is not looking good, folks.
00:01:54.980 Melanesia Lee, the minister of industries, being asked questions. It's hard to hear what
00:02:02.180 the reporter asks. So we'll tell you what she says. Quote, the PM says, always have a plan
00:02:05.900 for the worst. If the auto plants move south, can they be retooled? Can you redevelop the
00:02:11.180 auto plants? Unquote. Here's what the minister had to say.
00:02:14.780 So I've already been in contact with the CEOs of GM, Ford and also Stellantis. My goal is to be
00:02:22.360 able to have good conversations with them before the end of the week. My message to the workers in
00:02:28.400 the auto sector is we're there for you. We know that there's anxiety. We know you're concerned about
00:02:33.880 losing shifts. We know we were concerned about losing your jobs and we will always fight for your
00:02:39.340 jobs. Notwithstanding that, we also have a $2 billion worth of support for the industry,
00:02:47.480 the auto industry, the steel aluminum industries that are affected by the trade war. One of my first
00:02:52.400 decisions will be also to make sure that the workers can benefit from these investments.
00:02:58.440 It seems to me that the minister of industry is planning to bail out people who work in the auto
00:03:03.700 industry who are going to lose their jobs. That's what that sounds like to me. It's like it's almost
00:03:08.420 ready to happen.
00:03:11.960 And 69 liberals got elected in Ontario. A lot of them work in areas where people work in the auto
00:03:19.180 industry and they might lose their jobs and they're going to be pissed. Because it doesn't matter what
00:03:24.120 else Mark Carney said during the election. All the promises, all the money he says he's going to spend,
00:03:28.340 the number one reason why he got elected was because he said he could negotiate with Donald
00:03:34.500 Trump a good deal for Canada. If the auto industry goes, the liberal MPs are going to want to string
00:03:39.520 him up by his neck because they're going to get phone calls from thousands of people who have lost
00:03:45.640 their jobs in the automotive industry. And the people who voted for Mark Carney because he could negotiate
00:03:53.660 with Donald Trump are going to be pissed off as well. Which brings us to the next thing, which is
00:03:58.900 probably even more significant. There's open revolt within the liberal party right now regarding the
00:04:03.840 climate change thing. Carney, depending on where he stood in Canada during the election campaign, if he
00:04:10.600 was in BC, yeah, we'll have a pipeline. But if he was in Quebec, we won't have a pipeline. He took both sides of
00:04:17.480 this issue. And he's kind of there now. He's still sitting on the fence. But he's got people within his party,
00:04:21.860 lots of them, who are climate change zealots, just like Carnius himself. And there's no one
00:04:27.540 who's a bigger climate change zealot than Stephen Gilbo, the former Minister of Environment and Climate
00:04:33.940 Change. Here he is climbing the CN Tower because of climate change, for Christ's sakes.
00:04:39.760 The new person, what's her name? Julie DeBruzen is the new Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
00:04:46.000 Here's a tweet from Julie from December of 2021. Climate change is the number one issue for Canada.
00:04:53.880 I'm honored to be asked by the PM to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministers of Natural
00:04:58.220 Resources and Environment and Climate Change. Looking forward to working with ministers.
00:05:02.700 She was Stephen Gilbo's right-hand man in the ministry. And Stephen Gilbo walked out yesterday,
00:05:10.960 knowing full well that this is a political football right now for Mark Carney. And he said this,
00:05:18.120 you've probably seen the clip, but folks, open revolt is coming within the Liberal Party over
00:05:22.920 this issue alone, I'm pretty sure.
00:05:24.960 Are you against the construction of pipelines in Canada? What I'm saying is that we already have
00:05:29.760 an infrastructure in place that's not even at 50% capacity. So before we think about building new
00:05:35.980 infrastructure, we should maximize the use of what already exists. And as I said to your colleague,
00:05:41.660 the Canadian Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency, yes, but the Prime Minister is saying,
00:05:48.640 well, let's build pipelines and you're pushing the brake on that. Well, what I'm saying is that the
00:05:54.780 international and Canadian energy agencies are saying that demand for oil will peak by 2028,
00:06:03.300 2029. And there's no developer who's interested in building an S2 East-West pipeline at this time.
00:06:10.320 Why would Stephen Gilbo say this knowing the political football that this is right now?
00:06:15.100 And I fully expect him to take it all back within the next 12 to 18 hours because Mark Carney called
00:06:20.780 him and told him to do it. Danielle Smith is waiting on this. This pissed her off in no uncertain terms. 1.00
00:06:29.200 Here's a tweet from yesterday, Canada's new Canadian identity minister in quotes, because what the hell is
00:06:33.800 that? Stephen Gilbo just deceived Canadians saying we don't need more pipelines because the TMX pipeline
00:06:39.840 is only 40% full and peak oil will be in two years. The facts are that TMX, which just opened and would
00:06:47.300 have been built entirely with private dollars if Ottawa hadn't made it impossible for the original
00:06:52.460 proponent to build it as already close to capacity costs you $34 billion, by the way, in your money.
00:06:58.220 Further, most estimates of demand for bitumen shows it growing for several more decades and that it
00:07:02.860 will be needed to replace declining US conventional oil fields. This is just another example of how
00:07:08.600 misleading and destructive this former environment minister was to Alberta and Canada's economy
00:07:13.300 and investment climate. We ask for the new environment minister, Julie DeBruzan, to disavow his comments
00:07:20.060 and commit to working with Alberta to build new pipelines to access new markets. The prime minister
00:07:25.960 of the country, Mark Carney, Stephen Gilbo and this Julie DeBruzan, climate change is their religion.
00:07:32.220 This is bigger than ideology. They have a faith in this, that they're doing the right thing to save the
00:07:38.820 planet. Mark Carney, Mr. Net Zero, Gilbo, one of the biggest ecozealots on the planet and Julie DeBruzan
00:07:45.320 worked for the guy. And a lot of other liberals feel the same way. They want to keep oil on the ground
00:07:51.980 and they've done it. Economic suicide for 10 years, half a trillion dollars of natural resources kept
00:07:56.620 in the ground. Not all of it in oil and gas, but 120 billion, give or take a couple of billion in Alberta,
00:08:03.280 left in the ground, oil and gas, because of the climate change zealotry of the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:08:09.560 They might vote non-confidence in their own government if any of this goes to a vote.
00:08:13.740 And that's why I say there might be open revolt. Because there is on camera right now, it happened with Stephen Gilbo.
00:08:20.480 Expect him to take it all back. I have a feeling he'll do that within the next 12 to 24 hours.
00:08:24.880 And if you read the end of Danielle Smith's tweet, again, what does she say? She hopes that
00:08:32.800 Environment Minister Julie DeBruzan disavows his comments and commits to working with Alberta to
00:08:39.580 build new pipelines to access new markets. I don't see that happening. I just don't see it happening at
00:08:45.280 all. And the other awful thing is we can't trust this government at all. Another reason why Alberta,
00:08:50.320 you need to leave.
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