John Bolton - October 30, 2025


Give 'em an INCH, they'll take a MILE... give 'em a MILE they'll take it ALL!


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13 minutes

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189

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The Blue Jays are one win away from winning the World Series and the National Post has a story about the impact of government cuts on the public service. The Canadian government has a plan to reduce public service jobs that could see as many as 70,000 of them laid off.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 457 a.m. Thursday, October 30th. I hope you're having
00:00:08.440 a great start to your Thursday morning. I have my big blue mug of coffee. I tip it to you. I'm
00:00:14.540 getting close to 40,000 subscribers. Thank you for subscribing if you've already done that. If
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00:00:23.760 if you click on my big blue mug, that does not subscribe you. Click on the little button that
00:00:27.780 says subscribe below, okay? So today I wake up. What am I going to talk about today? There's lots
00:00:33.880 of stuff going on. And seeing that I don't do video after video after video all day long to
00:00:38.360 cover every story that's out there, I thought I'd just take a look at the pages of the National
00:00:42.800 Post this morning. And boy, have we got some stuff going on in the world right now, here in Canada
00:00:46.840 in particular. First off, there's this. Pretty exciting. If you're a baseball fan, even if you're
00:00:52.040 not, you can follow the Blue Jays one game away from winning the World Series as they go back to
00:00:57.640 Skydome. I still call it Skydome. I don't call it Rogers Center. I work for that shit company
00:01:03.540 and I will not call it Rogers Center. It's still Skydome to me, but they are one game away from
00:01:09.540 winning the big prize. Great game last night. First two batters up, Schneider, Guerrero hit home
00:01:16.120 runs. Trey, you savage 22-year-old struck out 12 Dodgers last night. Pretty cool stuff. Now I want to
00:01:21.780 take you back here. This guy here, you may remember this face, but maybe you don't. You can see on his
00:01:27.600 button there. It says Fanjoy. This is Bruce Fanjoy. This is the guy that beat Pierre Polyev
00:01:34.320 in the election in Carlton. And he won basically because of the people who work in the riding of
00:01:43.460 Carlton. A lot of them are government employees. And this is what he had to say. Remember this?
00:01:47.180 We need all hands on deck to defend our country from Trump's trade war. And that includes Canada's
00:01:54.300 public servants. Canada has some of the best in the world. Many of you live in Carlton. You're
00:02:00.640 well-educated. You work hard. And now more than ever, your country needs you. But Pierre, much like
00:02:07.100 Donald Trump, shows utter disdain for public servants. He's promising Trump-style cuts to the
00:02:13.440 public sector, which would lead to 100,000 jobs lost. These cuts will put Carlton residents,
00:02:21.180 his own constituents, out of work at a time when we need them most. We can win this election and
00:02:27.800 stop Polyev from gutting the public service. Go vote on Monday for Mark Carney's liberals.
00:02:35.100 Just like his boss, Mark Carney, who ran on a campaign of fear, a fear of Donald Trump federally,
00:02:40.520 which worked. Fanjoy ran on a campaign of fear in the riding of Carlton because federal service
00:02:46.420 workers were afraid that Polyev was going to cut jobs. And it worked as well. Cue the sad trombone.
00:02:52.960 Federal government's plan to reduce public service will include layoffs. This article just from
00:02:57.880 yesterday, just a bit from the story. I don't want to bore you with this, but Finance Minister
00:03:02.440 Francois-Philippe Champagne seemed to confirm the plan Wednesday at a public event when he said that
00:03:07.080 Ottawa would implement workforce adjustments in a fair and smart way. I'm skeptical of how this is going
00:03:12.280 to work. There's going to be slight of hand in this one. Speaking at a funding announcement to
00:03:16.600 advance equality at the National Gallery of Canada, more on that in just a second, Champagne implied
00:03:21.660 strongly that the government's moves would go beyond simply not replacing employees who leave
00:03:25.700 through voluntary retirement and other forms of attrition. Meanwhile, Gina Gratton, a spokesperson for 0.89
00:03:31.060 the Public Service Alliance of Canada, PSAC, the largest union of federal public sector workers,
00:03:36.820 said Canadians will be shocked. Oh, we're going to be shocked, folks, when they learn about the extent of
00:03:41.720 the job reductions. If the government returns to pre-pandemic levels of employment, she said in a
00:03:46.440 statement, that would mean the reduction of about 70,000 jobs, leaving important services in Canada
00:03:52.180 to be run by a weakened public service. How the hell did we run this country prior to the pandemic
00:03:58.440 without those 70,000 jobs? What are all these people doing? Just at the bottom of the story, as a kicker for
00:04:05.520 you, as we're trying to cut back on funding and we're trying to cut back on all the spending, at least
00:04:11.360 that's what Carney says he's going to do. He's going to spend like a drunken sailor. The government
00:04:15.260 also announced at the Ottawa event that the budget will include $382.5 million over the next five
00:04:21.180 years for the women's program that supports a variety of equality projects, because women, you know,
00:04:26.600 they just can't get ahead in this country if the federal government, us, aren't funding them.
00:04:32.700 Meanwhile, let's take a look at the numbers of people that got hired when Trudeau was first elected
00:04:38.340 back in 2015. How many federal jobs in Canada in 2015 compared to 2025? It was 257,000 in 2015,
00:04:45.840 and it's now 357,000 in 2025. Again, what are all these people doing? Meanwhile, we move on to this
00:04:53.220 story. We're just the victims. Richmond property owners unleash a fury over Cowichan ruling. Now,
00:05:00.020 you may say this is happening in far left British Columbia, but folks, this is spreading. I'll show you
00:05:05.660 that in just a moment. A little bit on this story as the mayor speaks to the people who are pretty
00:05:10.980 pissed off. Does the city acknowledge that its failure to notify residents could expose it or
00:05:16.740 the province to liability for negligence? Tensions high in a jam-packed room in Richmond. Residents
00:05:23.080 just looking for answers and certainty on what the Cowichan lands decision could mean for them and their
00:05:28.780 property, leading to a mayor on edge. I said we're going to have the same decorum. Do we have to
00:05:35.340 shut it down? The town hall was organized by Richmond City Hall in an attempt to answer questions
00:05:39.760 around the Supreme Court ruling, putting into question fee-simple land title for a chunk of
00:05:45.780 property in Richmond. The frustration from residents directed towards both the province and the city,
00:05:51.540 the B.C. government now trying a new legal strategy to provide some certainty. The Attorney
00:05:56.180 General and her team have been gathering the information that they need to be able to file an
00:06:01.160 application for a stay. A stay is a pause on the decision until the Court of Appeal has an opportunity
00:06:08.260 to consider. But for some residents, the damage of uncertainty has already been done. One resident
00:06:13.580 telling the packed room the banks won't approve his mortgage removal because of the ruling.
00:06:18.620 Conservative leader John Rustad was at the meeting in Richmond and brought the issue forward in question
00:06:23.560 period. He says the government must provide certainty to the residents of Richmond around their private
00:06:29.660 property and their ability to access mortgages and insurance. In order to be able to have
00:06:35.080 insurance and a mortgage, you need to know what the value of a property is. You need to know what
00:06:39.600 your rights of a private property is. And that is now in question mark. The Conservatives also warning
00:06:45.320 that until there's clarity, it will not just be a packed room in Richmond, but an entire province
00:06:50.420 dealing with uncertainty. Richard Zussman, Global News, Victoria.
00:06:54.400 You watch a clip like that and you realize how really screwed up BC politics are. You've got
00:07:00.480 Beta Male, Premier David Eby standing there all concerned about this now. When it's people like 0.99
00:07:05.340 him and people on the far left over there that have allowed this to fester. It starts off with
00:07:10.020 land acknowledgements, folks. When the government recognizes and says, you don't actually own the
00:07:14.560 land that you have purchased. It belongs to somebody else. Did you expect anything different from this?
00:07:19.580 Now you've got these groups saying, you don't own your land. And the courts are backing them up.
00:07:24.600 And now he acts all concerned. You've got Rustad there who should resign. He's trailing this piece
00:07:29.100 of crap Eby by 12 points or something in polls right now. Conservative in name only. It's festering.
00:07:35.080 It's getting worse. It's now metastasized into this. Can you blame the native groups?
00:07:40.640 They've been empowered to do this now.
00:07:46.500 You give them an inch, they'll take a mile. You give them a mile and it just gets worse.
00:07:51.200 See this story from yesterday? First Nation files lawsuit demanding Aboriginal title over lands in
00:07:56.560 Western Quebec. It's spreading, folks. How long before it spreads to your land? And you see the far
00:08:01.280 leftists who think that we're living on stolen land saying, you're just giving the land back to the
00:08:05.780 people who owned it originally. Yeah. First they came for Cowichan. Then they came for Western Quebec.
00:08:12.500 But you didn't say anything because you didn't live in Cowichan and you didn't live in Western Quebec.
00:08:16.960 How long before they come for your property, pal? To paraphrase a famous poem.
00:08:23.400 And we move on to this story.
00:08:26.600 God know liberal MPs say Canadians don't want an election as parties point fingers over budget votes.
00:08:31.420 So the budget's coming up. It's going to be fascinating. You know, I just,
00:08:34.560 it makes me sick watching budgets because it's just more and more spending by these liberals. And
00:08:40.760 I can see the, I can see the country going down like this. Canada's demise will result in Alberta's
00:08:45.580 rise. It's getting folks, close folks. But I, I, I'm going to watch the budget because I'm going to
00:08:50.200 be sitting there and just saying, folks, you voted for this. Right? Liberal members of parliament
00:08:57.280 lined up Wednesday to say Canadians are in no mood to go to the polls for a second time this year as
00:09:02.260 the government warns it lacks the votes needed to pass next week's federal budget. The specter of a possible
00:09:07.400 Christmastime election has been raised as government house leader, Steve McKinnon, accuses opposition
00:09:12.640 parties of presenting demands that he says are unserious and sending signals that the minority liberals should
00:09:18.240 not count on their support. Chris Biddle, MP for the Ontario Riding of St. Catharines added,
00:09:23.320 I can assure you that Canadians don't want an election right now. If the opposition parties
00:09:28.420 want to force that, they're going to risk Canadians blaming them for sending us to the polls.
00:09:34.160 Speaking to reporters ahead of Liberals' weekly caucus meeting on Wednesday, McKinnon bluntly accused
00:09:39.040 opposition Conservative leader Pierre Polyev of trying to trigger a Christmas election, suggesting it could
00:09:45.100 be this way of avoiding scrutiny from some of his own caucus about his leadership. Folks, I brought this up
00:09:51.480 about a week ago after, after Carney went out and did his pre-budget speech. I'll just give you a
00:09:58.160 little bit of a recollection of what I said back then. Yesterday was a setup and Pierre Polyev, he did the
00:10:09.340 diplomatic thing by talking to Mark Carney yesterday. So did Yves-Francois Blanchet. He talked to Mark
00:10:16.740 Carney yesterday, but as I said in my video last night, what happens is this. The Conservatives
00:10:21.280 will not support this budget. The Bloc Québécois have demands, which I'll run through a few of them in
00:10:27.220 just a moment. They have demands in this budget that Mark Carney will not be able to fulfill.
00:10:32.820 Non-negotiable demands from the Bloc Québécois. That means the government will fall.
00:10:38.900 And then Carney and the Liberals, they're smart folks. They manipulated the elbows up people
00:10:43.540 and the boomers back during the election campaign to vote for the Liberals after 10 years of dysfunction.
00:10:48.520 They're smart. They're setting us up for an election just before Christmas, and they're setting it up
00:10:54.460 so that Pierre Polyev in particular will be blamed for this. I said that about a week ago. I also said
00:11:00.280 that Carney would say, I reached out across the aisle. I had Pierre in. I talked to him about getting
00:11:08.540 together and working together for all of Canada, and now he's sending you to an election. I even spoke
00:11:14.860 to E. Francois Blanchet. It's their fault. We're going to an election. And then there's this guy,
00:11:21.980 and this has festered even more over the last week with the Doug Ford ad campaign, which Carney saw.
00:11:28.060 Trump, Carney face each other for the first time after fallout over Ontario's anti-terror fad.
00:11:33.540 And then this popped up on the National Post website over the last 12 hours. Bill Gates says climate
00:11:37.640 change won't bring humanity's demise. Trump declares victory over the climate hoax.
00:11:43.240 You know, I said back during the election campaign after Carney eliminated the consumer carbon tax,
00:11:48.600 and I'm doing this, and don't tell me that the carbon tax still exists. We still have an industrial
00:11:53.120 carbon tax. We still have a carbon tax on our gasoline when you fill up at the pump. I understand
00:11:57.700 that. Don't put it in the comments. But I said back during the campaign, Polyev should pledge that
00:12:03.360 he's going to give all the money back that the liberals have stolen from us based on this over
00:12:06.940 the last 10 years and get rid of the department in the federal government to pay for it. And that
00:12:13.640 would have been a great idea. But unfortunately, you can't go back on this. The train is running down
00:12:18.000 the track, folks. This is the biggest business in the world funded by governments everywhere,
00:12:22.560 including your federal government. I talked about that the other day, but Bill Gates recanting this.
00:12:27.000 Shame on you, Bill. We all knew this. We all knew this wasn't true. I did a video on it the
00:12:33.200 other day, if you haven't seen it, on how these people like Bill Gates have been scaring kids
00:12:38.540 about this for years. It's child abuse. That's just some of the stuff going on on the National
00:12:43.860 Post website today. All kinds of things happening in Canada. It never ends. It doesn't seem to get
00:12:48.680 much better. It's going to be fascinating to see what happens in the budget next week. I can't wait
00:12:52.400 to see it. I don't normally feel that way about budgets because it makes me sick. It's going to be
00:12:57.600 fascinating to see what happens before Christmas. If we go to an election before Christmas,
00:13:02.160 the Liberals will either win another minority or a majority. But if the Conservatives win a minority,
00:13:11.920 it's still a loss for the Conservatives. Paulie has to win a majority or we'll be back to the polls
00:13:17.140 next spring. Let me know what you think in the comments. I appreciate you being here. If you
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00:13:26.060 I'll see you in the next one.