John Bolton - December 17, 2024


Hey Justin, Snow Is Expected On Wednesday


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5 minutes

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Word count

1,098

Sentence count

89

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

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Trudea Freeland has resigned as Finance Minister, what does this mean for the future of the Trudeau government? And what will it mean for our economy and the economy at large. Also, the snow forecast for the week.

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00:00:00.080 Hi there, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Tuesday, December the 17th with my big blue mug of coffee just before 5 a.m.
00:00:08.020 Eight sleeps until Santa. Merry Christmas to you and yours. And what a day it was yesterday.
00:00:13.480 I made a video, I think was one of my best yesterday, and within 90 minutes it was out of date because I mentioned Christia Freeland in it
00:00:21.000 and she resigned, as you know, as the Minister of Finance.
00:00:24.320 Check it out, it's still very pertinent, but hasn't got many views because I had to put it in the description before Freeland resigned,
00:00:30.280 so I don't think many people clicked on it.
00:00:32.720 So today I think I'm going to make a connection that I don't think many others have.
00:00:37.100 You can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's one of those bits of information that I think kind of flew under the radar
00:00:42.840 with all that happened yesterday in Ottawa.
00:00:45.980 Today I want to talk about a few things. I'm not going to do a lot of speculation because who knows what's going to happen
00:00:51.100 by the time you look at this, right? I mean, Trudeau could resign today. Who knows?
00:00:55.800 So anyway, first off, watch Pierre Polyev's speech in the House of Commons yesterday.
00:01:00.640 An absolute banger of a speech. I think he spoke for about 12 minutes.
00:01:04.400 Here's just a short, short bit of what he said yesterday in the House of Commons.
00:01:08.600 A country where people are proud again to fly the flag, where they know the government is a servant and not a master,
00:01:18.240 where they understand that every day the Commons, this place, works for the common people,
00:01:25.120 not for the ego of one man desperate to cling on to his job.
00:01:30.460 We must remember that we are servants in this place. We have a job to do on behalf of the people who sent us here.
00:01:40.160 Our personal dramas are not important. The dramas that should seize all of our concern and imagination
00:01:47.200 are the daily dramas of the working women and men that build this country.
00:01:53.040 We are in it for them. We're going to give them back control of their lives in the freest country on earth, Canada.
00:01:59.500 Let's bring it home.
00:02:00.440 Great speech from Paulie Evel. Put a link in the description.
00:02:06.660 I actually think he should have looked across at the Liberals yesterday and asked them to vote non-confidence in their own government.
00:02:11.980 Because I'm sure there's a lot of them who are disgusted with that $61.9 billion deficit.
00:02:17.600 Had to read it. I knew what it was. I had to read it.
00:02:19.600 But it's almost unbelievable it's that much.
00:02:22.480 Perspective here.
00:02:23.900 We pay more than a billion dollars a week to service the debt in this country now,
00:02:28.700 which is more than federal transfer payments for health care to the provinces.
00:02:32.780 That's how much that money is. Unbelievable.
00:02:36.840 What will Jagmeet Singh do?
00:02:38.560 I can't think like this guy, thank God.
00:02:41.100 But I was thinking, does he now have cover?
00:02:44.480 Or at least, does he have cover if Trudeau resigns, which he asked him to do yesterday?
00:02:49.800 Because if Trudeau were to resign, he could now maybe wash his hands of the situation and say,
00:02:56.520 listen, the architects of the deficit, they're gone.
00:03:00.500 Freeland and Trudeau.
00:03:02.100 So I'm going to continue to support the Liberals until Election Day in October.
00:03:05.440 Could he possibly do that? Credibly do that?
00:03:07.700 I happen to think, no.
00:03:09.080 His hands are all over that mess yesterday.
00:03:10.860 He's been supporting the government for years.
00:03:12.740 But I don't know how he thinks.
00:03:14.140 As far as Trudeau goes, who knows what he's going to do.
00:03:17.600 I checked the weather forecast.
00:03:18.780 Here it is in Ottawa.
00:03:20.060 Snow is expected on Wednesday.
00:03:21.360 And for those of you who have been following Canadian politics for a long time, you'll get my reference here.
00:03:26.480 Snow expected on Wednesday.
00:03:27.880 So let's just wait to see what happens.
00:03:30.500 But will he hold on?
00:03:31.380 I mean, the knives are out against him.
00:03:33.480 There was open rebellion from Liberal MPs in the media yesterday.
00:03:37.100 23 MPs who previously asked him to step down a couple of months back or back at it again.
00:03:42.560 This is an egotist and a narcissist.
00:03:44.340 Who knows what he's going to do?
00:03:46.060 Now, we've had a number of non-confidence votes.
00:03:48.440 Will there be another one?
00:03:49.420 Paul Yev called for one yesterday on that mini-budget.
00:03:52.180 Didn't happen.
00:03:52.980 Trudeau apparently isn't going to show up in the House of Commons today.
00:03:55.660 He's gone.
00:03:56.640 After today, Parliament doesn't sit until January 27th.
00:03:59.960 So he's gone.
00:04:01.000 We've got weeks to speculate unless he steps down today.
00:04:04.600 Again, by the time this video goes up, he could be gone.
00:04:07.200 Who knows?
00:04:08.140 But the reason why we haven't had a successful vote of non-confidence,
00:04:11.540 we've been saying it for ages.
00:04:12.720 Jagmeet Singh wants to get his pension.
00:04:14.100 Do you really think he's going to vote non-confidence in the government
00:04:17.420 when there are seven NDPers waiting to get their pensions on October 27th?
00:04:22.760 Let me read something.
00:04:23.980 I connected this.
00:04:24.980 It's almost like there's an incestuous relationship going on.
00:04:28.240 It's unbelievable.
00:04:29.200 It's like the fix is in for us.
00:04:30.580 It's hard to believe this is possible.
00:04:32.260 But again, incest.
00:04:33.940 It's an incestuous relationship.
00:04:35.440 So this is from an article in the National Post on March 26th, 2024.
00:04:41.600 But Democratic Institutions Minister Dominic LeBlanc
00:04:44.940 has introduced a suite of changes to the Elections Act.
00:04:48.460 While it includes expanding days for advanced voting
00:04:50.980 and an easier process for mail-in ballots,
00:04:53.140 it also moves the current proposed fixed election day
00:04:55.600 from October 20th to October 27th.
00:05:00.740 And the reason they said they're doing that is because of Diwali 0.93
00:05:03.540 and interfering with the Alberta elections.
00:05:05.940 But that's not the reason.
00:05:07.240 22 Liberals will get their pensions
00:05:09.600 if the date of the election is moved back one week.
00:05:12.880 And there are seven NDPers as well.
00:05:15.040 Okay, and on the list as well,
00:05:17.540 who will get their pensions
00:05:18.460 because they've hung around for six years,
00:05:20.220 Environment Minister Stephen Gilbo
00:05:21.820 and Transport Minister Anita Anand.
00:05:25.080 Do you really think that Jagmeet Singh,
00:05:28.480 who is holding on for dear life to get his pension,
00:05:30.480 is going to screw over seven NDPers to get theirs? 0.77
00:05:33.960 In October, not a chance in hell.
00:05:37.100 And the guy that changed the date of the election to the 27th
00:05:42.920 is now Trudeau's finance minister
00:05:45.820 after Freeland resigned yesterday.
00:05:47.960 It's hard to believe.
00:05:49.760 Election day, October 27th, 2025.
00:05:52.920 Thanks for watching.
00:05:53.840 See you next time.