John Bolton - November 02, 2025


I Expect Moral Clarity on Child Pxrx Case, But Get None From Liberals (Supreme Court Madness)


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Supreme Court strikes down a mandatory one year sentence for possession of child pornography. Calls for the government to use the notwithstanding clause to overturn the ruling. Alberta's Premier Scott Moe calls on the federal government to overrule this ruling.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 315 a.m. Sunday, November the 2nd. I hope you're having
00:00:23.400 a great start to your Sunday morning and a great weekend as well. And just a reminder,
00:00:28.020 if you are in an area that has daylight saving time, put your clock back an hour and you get an
00:00:34.100 extra hour this weekend. Isn't that awesome? If you'd done it before you went to bed last night,
00:00:38.400 you'd still be sleeping. So as you can see, I'm ready to go, folks. Tom is my MP here in Calgary
00:00:46.260 Shepherd. I voted for him in the election earlier this year and I kept his sign. I've got the little
00:00:51.400 metal frame in the garage, ready to put it up on my lawn. I think an election's coming, folks. I think
00:00:55.660 it was Michelle Rumpel-Garner yesterday on X that was saying she's ready to go. She's got her
00:01:00.900 election staff ready to go, folks. I think it's coming. Of course, I've got my Alberta Republic
00:01:06.000 sign there. And today's topic has me thinking that we need to become an independent country here even
00:01:13.720 more in Alberta. Because if you have judges that made a ruling like we saw earlier this week,
00:01:18.640 we certainly can't be part of a country that would do that. Billy Joel, by the way, will go right up
00:01:23.540 there because I can't disrespect Billy. And I do have an Alberta flag. It's too big. I've got a
00:01:28.760 smaller one coming that's going to go right there behind me, hopefully by midweek. What are we
00:01:33.080 talking about today? We're going to talk about moral clarity. What? Don't tune out. Moral clarity.
00:01:42.660 Moral clarity is the ability to have a firm, unambiguous understanding of the right and wrong
00:01:48.100 in a specific situation and act accordingly. So what we're talking about today is the story we
00:01:56.400 talked about yesterday. Same article I had up yesterday. Supreme Court striking down one year
00:02:00.620 mandatory sentence for child blank possession prompts calls for liberals to overrule.
00:02:06.520 Now there's been some moral clarity from a number of politicians in this country and all of them are
00:02:11.780 on the right. I woke up this morning saying, why haven't we heard any moral clarity from people
00:02:18.660 on the left? And I'm talking in particular from the prime minister of this country and in particular
00:02:23.740 the top lawyer in the country, and that would be Sean Fraser. There should be no ambiguity when it
00:02:30.240 comes to this ruling. And there shouldn't be any dithering when it comes to Mark Carney and Sean
00:02:34.700 Fraser. This is a ruling that has already been decided. It's not as if they would be influencing a
00:02:39.700 decision. It's already been decided, but so far basically crickets. In fact, in the case of the
00:02:45.080 attorney general, the top lawyer in the land, he says he has to study the ruling. No, I expect some
00:02:51.200 moral clarity on this. Now, am I suggesting that Sean Fraser and the prime minister of the country,
00:02:57.360 Mark Carney, are in favor of this kind of thing? No, but I would like some moral clarity on this.
00:03:03.360 We've been waiting days. And there's a lot of politicians across this country have been very,
00:03:10.280 very specific about what they believe. Alberta Premier calls on Ottawa to use notwithstanding
00:03:16.140 clause over child blank. Here's Danielle Smith on X. This decision is outrageous. The possession of 0.66
00:03:24.200 child blank is a heinous crime. And even a one-year minimum sentence is already far too lenient. We call
00:03:30.620 in the federal government to immediately invoke the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to
00:03:34.560 overturn this ruling and ensure the protection of our children. This is what the notwithstanding
00:03:40.320 clause is for. Activist judges, or judges who make a bad decision. And this is a bad decision.
00:03:48.300 Here's Scott Moe. For those of you who don't know, Premier of Saskatchewan. If you ever wonder why I'm so
00:03:54.360 adamant that elected legislatures, not unelected judges, should be the ones making the laws,
00:03:58.600 read story. Mandatory minimum sentences for possession, access to child blank, unconstitutional
00:04:04.980 Supreme Court rules. Now, some of you will say he's not really conservative, but Doug Ford has some
00:04:11.960 moral clarity here. Doug Ford tells feds to immediately overturn Supreme Court ruling against
00:04:17.060 mandatory child blank sentences. And here is the leader of the conservative party of the country.
00:04:24.220 This is Pierre Polyev, who is being very clear what he believes on this issue, unlike Mark Carney and
00:04:31.400 his top lawyer, who seem to have no moral clarity in this issue and are basically saying nothing.
00:04:36.640 So this ruling is wrongheaded and I would oppose the ruling and I would use the notwithstanding
00:04:42.220 clause to overturn it. And my future government will introduce mandatory prison sentences for
00:04:47.700 possession of child pornography so that dirtbags like this go away for a very long time. 0.57
00:04:51.900 Some of the reasoning from the justices was that they could see a scenario where two 18-year-olds
00:04:58.520 exchange images and then have a mandatory minimum imposed on them. I don't know what you make
00:05:05.200 of that reasoning. I think the Supreme Court needs to get away from these imaginary scenarios.
00:05:11.480 The scenario before them was two men in possession over a long period of time of hundreds of images
00:05:18.260 and videos that were made by torturing innocent children. And with those facts in front of them,
00:05:24.820 their conclusion actually should have been that the sentence should have been met much more than
00:05:29.440 the one year and nine months that the two dirtbag offenders received. They should go away for a very
00:05:34.520 long time. Frankly, if I had my way as a father, I would lock them up and throw away the key.
00:05:38.880 Well done, Pierre Polyev, leader of the official opposition, leader of the Conservative Party of
00:05:45.500 Canada. An unambiguous answer and moral clarity. And I expect an unambiguous answer from Mark Carney.
00:05:52.180 It's been days we've heard nothing. I expect moral clarity from the Prime Minister of this country on
00:05:58.480 this issue. We've heard nothing. I expect moral clarity on this issue from the Attorney General.
00:06:03.360 And he's being ambiguous. There's an article here at the CBC website about this.
00:06:11.160 Friday's decision deeming those one-year prison sentences unconstitutional not only split the bench
00:06:16.660 5-4, but has received swift backlash from provincial and federal leaders. I've talked about provincial
00:06:21.680 leaders who have the moral clarity. Of course, in this article, they have to take a shot at Polyev 0.99
00:06:27.240 regarding something that happened back during the election campaign. You'll remember this. It's not the
00:06:31.060 first time Polyev has vowed to use the controversial clause to override the Supreme Court. Controversial
00:06:36.220 clause is what they say. During the spring campaign, he promised to invoke the clause to impose
00:06:40.360 consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The top court ruled in 2022 that imposing consecutive
00:06:45.540 life sentences violates an offender's charter rights. I don't think imposing the notwithstanding
00:06:50.580 clause when it comes to multiple murderers was a wrong thing. I think judicial activists made this
00:06:56.320 ruling back in 2022. I think most Canadians believe if you murder multiple people, you should go to jail
00:07:01.060 for a long time. Just like people who have child blank in their possession that shows horrific things
00:07:06.860 should spend at least a year in jail. At least. Polyev is being very clear on that. Where does Sean
00:07:14.880 Fraser stand on this issue? We don't know because a spokesperson was talking for him. A spokesperson for
00:07:20.940 attorney, General Sean Fraser's office said they're reviewing the ruling's implications carefully. Why?
00:07:26.840 You either agree with this or you don't, Mr. Fraser. Are you going to invoke the notwithstanding clause? You
00:07:32.640 should. It's not as if commenting on this issue now after the ruling has been made is going to influence it at all.
00:07:39.600 Where do you stand? I know why. I think I know why you're not going to invoke the notwithstanding clause or even
00:07:47.420 brought it up or have a spokesperson speaking for you. Crimes that exploit or abuse blank
00:07:52.820 are among the most serious and reprehensible in our society, said the spokesperson Lola
00:07:57.420 Dandibayeva in an emailed statement. Plain and simple, child blank should face the toughest penalties 0.85
00:08:03.380 Canadian law allows. Friday's decision adds to a growing pile of cases where the Supreme Court has struck down
00:08:09.120 mandatory minimums. Here's Sean Fraser's ex-account. Really nothing on here about that. He talks about
00:08:16.840 the law a lot, but he hasn't made any comments on this. Mark Carney over here, here's his ex-account.
00:08:23.540 And basically, this is a lot of propaganda about his upcoming budget, on how he's doing great things
00:08:28.620 for the country. He's flying around the world, spreading his CO2, accomplishing absolutely
00:08:33.720 nothing, pulling the wool over the eyes of the people who voted for him in the last election. And no doubt
00:08:38.600 there's a lot of talk about Canada being in a crisis and ruptured because of Donald Trump.
00:08:44.160 But why are they not coming out immediately and saying the notwithstanding clause should be used
00:08:49.980 in this case? Because the federal government is challenging the notwithstanding clause.
00:08:56.720 Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause.
00:09:01.180 Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent recall for limits on the notwithstanding clause
00:09:05.720 because it amounts to a complete disavowal of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:09:13.760 Canada's justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on the notwithstanding clause.
00:09:17.920 It wouldn't look good, I think, if the government immediately came out and used the notwithstanding clause
00:09:24.340 when they're fighting it in court right now.
00:09:26.960 Now, as far as the notwithstanding clause goes, a great article here,
00:09:32.400 No Charter Without Section 33, How Six Provinces Are Defending the Notwithstanding Clause.
00:09:37.280 If the Carney government has its way, the Supreme Court of Canada will take up,
00:09:40.780 among the most contentious questions of the Canadian Constitution,
00:09:43.440 what's the role of the judiciary versus parliament,
00:09:45.840 and what, if any, constraints should be imposed on parliament's use
00:09:48.580 of the notwithstanding clause embedded in Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
00:09:53.120 Alberta, the hard-won compromise.
00:09:57.040 Alberta's factum situates Section 33 squarely in its historical and political context.
00:10:02.980 It characterizes the clause as a hard-fought, hard-won compromise,
00:10:07.520 without which there would have been no constitutional agreement in 1982 to begin with.
00:10:12.200 Simply put, there would have been no charter without Section 33, it reads.
00:10:16.560 I truly believe that the government is not talking about the notwithstanding clause,
00:10:22.440 and Carney has said nothing and provided no moral clarity on this yet,
00:10:25.400 because they're challenging this in court right now.
00:10:28.420 And I expect moral clarity from the people who run my country,
00:10:32.300 and I'm getting it from people like Doug Ford, Scott Moe, Danielle Smith,
00:10:36.800 Pierre Polyev, but nothing so far from people on the left.
00:10:41.100 Meanwhile, just to end this,
00:10:44.260 Toronto Blue Jays lost last night.
00:10:45.740 Everything Mark Carney touches turns to shit.
00:10:49.620 Yeah.
00:10:51.120 Well done, the pleb. 1.00
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00:11:03.440 Woo-hoo. 0.65
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