John Bolton - August 18, 2026


I Need Your Help - Let's Ask Carney To Resign


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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

175.94

Word count

1,682

Sentence count

155


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
00:00:00.000 I can assure you what I am talking about and I'm asking you to do today is not a stunt. I am totally serious.
00:00:11.300 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. 355 a.m. Tuesday, August the 18th. I hope you're having a great day today. Thank you so much for being here.
00:00:19.620 And I want to start off by saying this. I am not doing this for clicks. I'm not.
00:00:24.260 you know, on occasion when I'm out, somebody will come up to me and say, John, you just get up early
00:00:29.940 in the morning and do these videos because you want clicks and you want to get paid. And I tell
00:00:34.740 these people, no, I do this for fun. And when it stops being fun, I'll stop doing it. That's the
00:00:42.840 truth. What I am talking about and what I'm asking you to help me with today, I am totally serious
00:00:49.500 about. Like I was serious with my letter to CSIS a couple of weeks ago because I'm concerned about
00:00:55.020 foreign interference in Thomas Lukasik's Forever Canadian campaign when it comes to the referendum.
00:01:00.820 Serious. This is serious business. What am I going to ask you to help me with today? I need your help
00:01:06.340 with a formal petition to the House of Commons to ask for Mark Carney's resignation. I'm serious
00:01:12.200 about this. Now, you may say, John, you can't be serious. You don't think Mark Carney's actually
00:01:17.800 going to resign? Well, no, but we need to make a point. It's important to make a point.
00:01:26.760 We are less than 24 hours away from what could be an absolute catastrophe in this country.
00:01:34.380 Why are we waiting until the 11th hour to get a deal with the United States of America on trade?
00:01:41.740 You know, it's been, oh God, 17 months since the first Trump tariffs were to take place in early
00:01:47.280 2025? Do you realize it's been since late April of 2025, since Mark Carney has been
00:01:54.940 prime minister, getting elected because he was the best guy to make a deal with Donald
00:02:00.160 Trump? He said he was good in a crisis. He said he was the best guy for the job. He's
00:02:06.080 failed in that. Why are we waiting until the 11th hour? Now you may say, John, the Trump
00:02:12.300 tariffs we're talking about now are different tariffs. Maybe so, but if we'd have come up
00:02:16.580 with a trade deal last year, I don't think we'd be in this predicament right now.
00:02:21.420 And there are a lot of jobs at stake here, folks. This is a big deal.
00:02:27.040 You know, you got stories like this. I mean, read this headline. Read what's behind this headline.
00:02:35.800 Read between the lines. Carney dodges questions on U.S. trade talks,
00:02:39.740 but says he'll speak to Trump before the tariff deadline. You mean he hasn't yet?
00:02:46.580 Oh, but he's got negotiators in Washington. He's the prime minister.
00:02:50.880 Oh, he's been in Tuscany. That's right. And here's really the reason why
00:02:56.540 Carney doesn't want a trade deal. And I've been saying this for months.
00:03:01.320 Most Canadians oppose concessions as a response to looming 50% U.S. tariffs, according to a poll.
00:03:08.320 You see, as soon as Mark Carney talks about making a deal and talks about concessions,
00:03:15.000 his poll numbers drop. So actually he'll stay more popular if he doesn't get a deal with Donald
00:03:21.700 Trump. You need to realize this. Here's something you need to realize. Carney and the liberals care
00:03:27.480 more about power than they care about you. I believe that. I mean, look at this headline.
00:03:34.740 A couple of days ago, Toronto Sun, Warren Kinsella, Ontario and Quebec to be hit hard
00:03:40.600 if Canada fails to reach trade deal with U.S., look at the sub-headline here.
00:03:46.380 Canada's greatest vulnerabilities are autos, steel, aluminum, copper, and lumber,
00:03:51.280 sectors that employ an estimated 250,000 Canadians directly.
00:03:57.440 And there's probably hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs as well.
00:04:01.320 But the Liberals, I believe, would be happier if they didn't get a trade deal.
00:04:09.220 because Carney's poll numbers drop
00:04:11.900 as soon as he starts talking about it.
00:04:15.220 Carney needs a crisis.
00:04:18.360 You know, I'm wondering,
00:04:20.480 I'm going to need your help with this as well.
00:04:22.220 I'm looking for one person.
00:04:24.220 You're going to see in just a moment,
00:04:25.400 I've written a petition.
00:04:27.680 It's up on the House of Commons website right now,
00:04:30.400 but I'm going to need some of your help
00:04:31.860 before I can actually submit it.
00:04:33.340 I'm going to read it to you in just a moment.
00:04:34.940 I'm looking for one person.
00:04:36.200 You're going to find out what I'm talking about
00:04:37.600 in just a moment.
00:04:38.280 But I'd like to know if Pierre Polyev or any conservative, any, would be willing to stand up
00:04:46.440 and say, I want Mark Carney to resign. Listen, he's a politician, I know. He's got a job to do.
00:04:52.700 I think people who don't do their job, after they promise to do something, and it's the main reason
00:04:58.440 for them getting their job, if they don't do their job, they should lose it, just like anybody else
00:05:03.480 in the public or private sector. You're going to say again, John, you must be dreaming.
00:05:07.040 this is never going to happen, but we need to make a point. Let me take you back to a video I did
00:05:13.420 October, 2025, talking about Pierre Polyev. Here's Pierre Polyev. I want to just go back
00:05:20.500 over to Pierre Polyev. Here he is on X. You know, he's got an open letter here to the prime
00:05:27.500 minister. You promised to negotiate a win with the U.S. Tomorrow's the big day. You get U.S.
00:05:33.540 tariffs off all Canadian goods like you promised. Don't let us down. Here is the letter. A little
00:05:39.960 bit of it, not much here. Conservatives will always put Canada first. We restate our standing
00:05:45.340 offer to help you keep your promise to negotiate a win on tariffs with the U.S. We only ask that
00:05:51.260 you keep your promise in this meeting with the President. You promised a deal by July 21st,
00:05:55.860 2025. Still no deal. You promised to negotiate a win and now U.S. tariffs on Canada are twice as
00:06:01.660 high is when you were elected saying you were going to get rid of them. Pierre Polyev wrote
00:06:06.500 that letter back early October of 2025. Will Polyev have the guts to stand up and ask for
00:06:13.240 Mark Carney's resignation if people start feeling pain because of these tariffs and his failure to
00:06:19.260 get a deal with the United States of America? I want to know that. Now, here's where I need your
00:06:23.300 help. So let's go over to the screen here. This is the House of Commons. And I'm serious about this.
00:06:28.900 create an e-petition. So it's a petition to the government of Canada. I'm not going to read the
00:06:35.700 whole thing, although I will bring up the full text of this in just a moment. You can stop the
00:06:41.040 video and read the whole thing if you want, but it's got a lot of whereases here. Whereas Canadians
00:06:45.620 elected Mark Carney prime minister on April 28th, 2025, in significant part because he presented
00:06:51.520 himself as the best qualified to deal with trade with the United States. He stated that Canada was
00:06:56.980 in a crisis and said he was most useful in a crisis. He repeatedly warned Canadians Trump
00:07:01.780 wanted to own us while presenting himself as a leader best equipped to protect Canada.
00:07:06.180 More than 15 months later, Canada's trade relationship with its largest trading partner
00:07:10.020 remains deeply troubled. And I go down here and say we the undersigned residents of Canada call
00:07:16.260 upon the Prime Minister to resign immediately as Prime Minister of Canada and accept responsibility
00:07:22.000 for failing to adequately protect Canadian citizens,
00:07:25.820 jobs, businesses, and Canada's economic interests
00:07:28.720 during the ongoing trade crisis with the United States.
00:07:31.520 And I'm going to bring up the document.
00:07:32.760 I'll bring it over here.
00:07:34.140 And if you want to freeze it on the screen,
00:07:37.500 feel free.
00:07:40.140 Give you a second there.
00:07:42.160 But that's the whole text that I'm sending off.
00:07:45.880 But I need your help.
00:07:46.740 Now, here's where I need your help.
00:07:48.780 I need some supporters.
00:07:50.020 and you can see I need five supporters.
00:07:52.460 So if you would like to support me in this petition,
00:07:55.520 please send me an email right now
00:07:57.700 and say petition in the subject and I'll use you.
00:08:01.460 I need five people.
00:08:02.600 I might put as many as 10 in here.
00:08:04.440 You can add supporters.
00:08:06.100 I may put 10 in.
00:08:08.200 johnboltonab at gmail.com.
00:08:10.000 But here's the big thing.
00:08:11.920 I talked about Pierre Polyev.
00:08:13.260 Will he stand up and ask for the resignation of Mark Carney?
00:08:17.420 I need a member of parliament.
00:08:20.020 in order to submit this. Do you know a member of parliament who would support this petition?
00:08:28.360 I'm looking for somebody that I can contact and ask them if they would be my member of parliament
00:08:34.200 on this petition. So again, write to me and put member of parliament in the subject matter
00:08:39.620 at johnboltonab at gmail.com. I am serious about this. If you're serious, write to me now. Let me
00:08:48.360 know if you'd like to be a sponsor of my petition, and this is official. There are other petitions
00:08:53.620 out there that I found out this morning, but it goes through change.org. This is actually the
00:08:59.440 House of Commons. Now you may say, John, we've still got until Wednesday to come up with a deal.
00:09:04.780 It is the 11th hour. Perhaps something will happen. I'm not optimistic, and neither are people
00:09:11.020 who are close to the situation. They say they're a long way apart when it comes to a trade deal.
00:09:16.460 And if we do get a deal, well, then this petition won't mean anything.
00:09:20.320 Although I do still think that Carney should resign because I still think he's a disaster for Canada.
00:09:26.080 Thank you very much for watching this video.
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