John Bolton - April 12, 2025


Has Mark Carney picked a new TARGET to get votes？ (The campaign pause)


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11 minutes

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2,018

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174

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

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Summary

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Why is the Bank of Canada's Governor taking a break from his duties right now? And why is it so important that he takes a break in the middle of the election campaign? Is it because he's worried about losing the election, or is it about something else?

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00:00:00.200 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. It is 5.13 a.m. Saturday, April the 12th with a big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:08.480 And I hope you're having a great start to your weekend. First off, thank you so much for your kind thoughts.
00:00:14.280 I have been feeling sick all week. I'm feeling much better. So thank you for your comments on yesterday's video.
00:00:20.140 Some of you, by the way, have sent me some super thanks and I have not responded to you.
00:00:25.700 Sometimes I get notifications. I click on them. I lose how to respond. Haven't figured it out yet, but I would like to thank you for that.
00:00:33.280 I'm sorry for neglecting to do that. And if you could click on subscribe right there, I could make it to 25,000 subscribers.
00:00:40.740 So now that we've got that out of the way, I hummed and hawed over how I was going to do this video this morning because there's something I saw posted.
00:00:50.060 It was posted from yesterday. I'm not sure exactly when Mark Carney said this, but because all of his rallies looked the same.
00:00:57.220 Other than the people in behind him, generally there's a bunch of Canadian flags and him standing at a lectern.
00:01:03.080 I saw something that made me gasp.
00:01:07.920 And I don't know whether it made other people gasp.
00:01:10.420 And I watched the video over and over again and I thought, should I include this in today's video?
00:01:15.560 And am I misinterpreting what he's saying here?
00:01:20.680 Or is he sending out a subtle message to the people he wants to vote for him?
00:01:25.020 And it is related to the topic today.
00:01:27.360 So I'm going to do it and I'd like you to comment below what you think and tell me if I'm off base here.
00:01:34.160 So stay tuned. It's going to be number five.
00:01:35.680 I'm going to go through the first four things today on my list of why I think Mark Carney is taking a bit of a break right now.
00:01:41.360 So the first four things are going to go through real quick.
00:01:43.660 So I've written them down here.
00:01:46.640 Carney's taking a bit of time off right now.
00:01:48.720 Lots of hyperbolic videos online.
00:01:52.480 He's giving up. The election's over. What not.
00:01:54.520 I hate when people do that.
00:01:55.780 Particularly when it's good people online who don't need to use that as clickbait.
00:01:59.960 I understand why they do it.
00:02:01.940 The better the title, the more people click on your video.
00:02:04.420 I understand why they do that.
00:02:05.320 But let's talk about him taking off some time in the middle of this election.
00:02:10.060 I think this is his third break.
00:02:11.360 I think he's taking three days off.
00:02:12.760 So the fifth one is the most important one.
00:02:16.040 We'll get to it last.
00:02:16.940 So number one, trying to figure out what to do.
00:02:18.840 Polly F is picking up in the polls right now.
00:02:21.640 So a strategy with his team, Gerald Butts, Katie Telford, all the people around him.
00:02:25.840 How do we turn things around right now?
00:02:28.180 So that's number one.
00:02:29.120 Two, he's getting uncomfortable with all these questions about China.
00:02:33.120 He's running away from these questions.
00:02:34.880 So he may be devising some type of plan on how to handle this situation.
00:02:40.020 Maybe he comes out and he gets ahead of the story and he tells us exactly how he's invested in China so he can get that behind him.
00:02:46.820 You know, it's always the cover-up that's worse than the crime.
00:02:49.600 And he could have done this with Brookfield to New York, Cayman Islands, the Ghislaine Maxwell issue.
00:02:55.080 Instead, this stuff has been festering.
00:02:56.720 He should have got in front of those things.
00:02:58.320 So maybe that's what he's doing as well.
00:03:00.780 Now, number three, he's trying to figure out how to react to Peer Poliev's latest, Peer Poliev's, Peer Policy, Peer Policy, we could call him that.
00:03:09.440 Freudian slip there.
00:03:10.640 He's trying to figure out how to react to Peer Poliev's latest policy release because he seems to steal from Poliev.
00:03:16.680 But his ideas are worse than Poliev's, okay?
00:03:21.100 He's more socialist.
00:03:22.880 And the other thing is, I wonder if he ever expected the relentless focus of Peer Poliev.
00:03:29.360 This guy never stops.
00:03:31.460 I've been following him since I went to see him at Spruce Meadows here in Calgary when he was running for the leadership of the party.
00:03:37.860 He never stops.
00:03:39.380 He's been going for years.
00:03:41.520 He's like the Energizer Bunny.
00:03:43.920 It's hard work being a politician.
00:03:45.500 I did a video on this not too long ago on why Poliev is better suited to be the Prime Minister because he's a politician.
00:03:54.100 Carney has no experience doing this.
00:03:56.680 I spent five hours in a car with a politician in Ontario one time on a Friday night and I never spoke a word to him because he was constantly working.
00:04:06.700 24 hours a day, they work.
00:04:09.340 Poliev's been doing this for 21 years.
00:04:11.580 I don't think Carney has any idea what he's in for here.
00:04:15.500 It's that hard of a job to do.
00:04:18.900 I mean, I watched the Jordan Peterson interview and I just gasped when I heard him say this.
00:04:24.300 I asked my assistant today how many events we had done over the last year and he said it was exactly 600.
00:04:31.700 I mean, a few weeks ago it was 570 something.
00:04:34.100 I remember hearing him say that to Peterson and thinking his wife must be a freaking saint. 0.96
00:04:39.560 How does he have any time to have a family?
00:04:42.900 And people say that Mark Carney's better suited for the job because he was a businessman.
00:04:46.520 And then they say something like, Poliev's never had a job in his life.
00:04:49.880 Well, folks, being a politician is a job and it's a hard one.
00:04:52.820 I don't think Carney can keep up with him.
00:04:54.580 So let's move along to number five.
00:04:56.820 I'm going to show you this video I referred to at the beginning in just a moment.
00:05:01.600 Number five is the most important one and this is the number one reason why he's taking time off.
00:05:08.160 He needs to ramp up the fear about Donald Trump because it's starting to subside.
00:05:13.880 And that's what the Liberals and Carney are running on.
00:05:16.480 So he walks out yesterday and he tries to ramp up the fear once again.
00:05:20.580 We've had a good long discussion on several aspects.
00:05:24.140 The first is the general situation.
00:05:26.520 In the last week there have been a lot of developments in terms of U.S. tariff policy reactions from others, including China.
00:05:36.180 It really marked tightening in financial conditions, the initial signs of slowing in the global economy,
00:05:43.740 impacts that we're starting to see in the, unfortunately, in the Canadian economy, particularly in the Canadian labor market.
00:05:51.720 We reviewed our response to those tariffs, our core strategy to fight, to protect, and to build.
00:06:01.580 We left instructions for officials to ensure that the next government, whichever government Canadians choose,
00:06:11.400 will be in the best possible position for negotiations with the United States,
00:06:17.060 which, as the President and I have agreed, will begin from the start of May.
00:06:22.740 So he has to take a break to look prime ministerial, to leave instructions for the next government.
00:06:28.700 This man has no mandate. This makes me sick.
00:06:31.220 What a rinky-dinky country we live in to allow a man like this, never been elected to anything,
00:06:36.340 to be in a situation like this.
00:06:37.980 How do we allow this to happen?
00:06:39.640 But I digress.
00:06:40.960 Jesus Christ.
00:06:42.960 So he's got to ramp up the fear.
00:06:44.860 Michael Higgins with an article just yesterday,
00:06:46.740 Carney's new project fear is to scare Canadians into voting for him.
00:06:50.440 Well, first off, yeah, he's got a project fear, but there's nothing new about this, Michael.
00:06:55.300 This has been going on since the beginning.
00:06:57.220 That's why they've allowed this to continue.
00:06:59.820 This issue started last November.
00:07:01.740 We've been down this road before, but for God's sakes,
00:07:04.660 this is why the media sucks in this country.
00:07:07.540 Liberal leader pauses his campaign over tariffs,
00:07:10.160 conveniently escaping unpleasant questions.
00:07:12.100 Well, at least he got that right.
00:07:15.180 God, it's so frustrating.
00:07:16.760 So this next video is related to this.
00:07:19.020 It's not related to the pause, but it's related to what you just saw.
00:07:23.440 Ramping up the fear of Donald Trump.
00:07:26.020 But this is more insidious.
00:07:27.720 And that's what I thought when I saw this video.
00:07:29.760 And I want you to look at this through that lens.
00:07:33.280 He's talking about censorship here.
00:07:35.320 I saw this connected to this right here off of X from Ryan Garrison.
00:07:40.160 Follow Ryan.
00:07:40.940 Great.
00:07:41.720 Mark Carney will determine what Canadians can or can't see online.
00:07:45.260 I'm so tired of these people.
00:07:46.520 And the people who responded to him quite rightfully talked about censorship.
00:07:50.140 And that's what he's talking about here.
00:07:51.760 But there's something that made me gasp in this.
00:07:55.720 And I thought, oh my God.
00:07:58.520 This is part of the Project Fear.
00:08:01.040 But it's not just Donald Trump.
00:08:04.820 It's a minute, 20 seconds long.
00:08:06.500 I'm going to play it in its entirety.
00:08:09.200 Just watch it.
00:08:10.160 We announced a series of measures on crime.
00:08:15.820 And we announced a series of measures with respect to online harm and other factors.
00:08:22.180 And one of the observations we had, one of the issues we're dealing with, there's many serious issues that we're dealing with, with respect to crimes of violence, conjugal violence, drugs, fentanyl, others.
00:08:36.820 But one of them is with respect to really just the sea of misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred, conspiracy theories, the sort of pollution that's online that washes over our virtual borders from the United States.
00:08:56.840 And that's a mild version of that.
00:09:01.320 That's fine.
00:09:02.300 I can take the conspiracy theory and all that.
00:09:04.340 But the more serious things is when it affects how people behave in our society.
00:09:12.440 When Canadians are threatened, threatened going to their community centers or their places of worship or their schools.
00:09:20.600 Or God forbid, when it affects our children.
00:09:22.560 So, we, my government, if we are elected, will be taking action on those American giants that come across.
00:09:30.540 Did you catch it?
00:09:32.400 It's the first thing I saw when I watched this clip this morning.
00:09:36.660 And, of course, I thought censorship.
00:09:38.760 But he says, and I wrote it down, the sea of misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred, conspiracy theories, the sort of pollution that's online and washes over our virtual borders from the United States.
00:09:52.100 He's not talking about Donald Trump in this clip.
00:09:54.260 He's talking about the American people.
00:09:57.300 Because if there's misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred, and conspiracy theories, there's somebody behind that.
00:10:02.680 And that's an American citizen.
00:10:05.240 Is he ginning up hatred against American citizens now?
00:10:08.440 I don't know whether this is part of his regular stump speech.
00:10:11.020 And, again, I don't know when he said this.
00:10:12.760 But I'm assuming it was earlier this week.
00:10:14.660 And not only that, Canadians are threatened going to their community centers or their places of worship or schools or, God forbid, it's affecting our children.
00:10:25.000 The American people are now affecting our children.
00:10:27.860 And Canadians are threatened by those American people. 0.96
00:10:31.740 Is this where he's going now?
00:10:33.260 Because he can't come out next week with another break to do another little speech like he did yesterday to gin up more hatred against Donald Trump unless Trump says something or does something.
00:10:45.380 So, is this what he's going to do now?
00:10:48.560 This is disgraceful.
00:10:51.620 That's what I thought when I saw this.
00:10:53.480 What do you think?
00:10:54.120 And, again, he says, my government, if we're elected, will be taking action on the, I think he says at the end, on those American giants that's coming from.
00:11:03.740 It kind of trails off at the end there.
00:11:05.140 But the American giants would be the social media companies.
00:11:08.000 I thought he's talking about Americans being a social media disease.
00:11:13.720 That's what I thought.
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