John Bolton - February 14, 2026


I Want The Receipts, The Accountability... The Arrests - The Buck Stops Nowhere


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A rant about government promises made, no accountability, and a whole lot of your money wasted. Happy Valentine's Day to you! John - The Big Blue Mug of Coffee - Valentine s Day Rant

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 504 AM. It is Saturday, February the 14th. I hope
00:00:08.460 you're having a great start to your Saturday and your weekend as well with the big blue mug of
00:00:13.080 coffee. And it is February the 14th. It is Valentine's Day. So happy Valentine's Day to
00:00:19.600 you. So this video is something I wanted to do the middle of this past week, but something
00:00:24.720 happened in British Columbia that everybody was talking about. So I didn't get around to it,
00:00:29.320 but I thought I'd get around to doing this today. And I don't know whether this will turn
00:00:33.860 into a bit of a rant, but this makes me mad. It probably should make you mad as well. And I'm
00:00:40.740 not just trying to make you mad today. I think what we need here is some accountability. We need
00:00:45.060 some answers. Promises have been made as well. This has got a bit of a theme here. It deals with
00:00:51.100 government. Promises made, no accountability, money spent, your money wasted, a lot of it. And the
00:00:57.720 thing that got me thinking about this was the story you're seeing on the screen right here.
00:01:02.260 This is from February 10th, just a few days ago. PM Mark Carney billed taxpayers 94 G's for in-flight
00:01:09.140 catering on one trip. This isn't the first time the government has gorged itself on taxpayer money.
00:01:16.720 $94,000 for in-flight catering on one trip. Let that sink in for just a moment.
00:01:23.160 How many of you made 94 G's last year? $94,000 last year alone. I went on a trip recently. Many of
00:01:32.920 you know, I went to Panama recently. And on my trip, I got a can of Coke and some cookies, which
00:01:39.340 probably cost less than $3. How the hell do you spend $94,000 on one trip? I don't care if you're the
00:01:47.780 prime minister of Canada. This is taxpayers money. Not only that, here's this story here. Carney spent
00:01:56.120 over $772,000 on in-flight catering and accommodations last year. Records show data
00:02:04.620 from Global Affairs Canada includes accommodations on a half dozen trips and catering costs on nine
00:02:11.660 with more to be counted. Three quarters of a million dollars on in-flight catering and accommodations.
00:02:18.940 How do you spend this much money? How do you spend this much taxpayers money? I want an itemized list
00:02:26.160 of everything. You know, I'm old enough to remember when the liberals made a big deal out of Bev Oda
00:02:31.020 buying a $16 glass of orange juice. Now granted, she upgraded her accommodations and spent some more
00:02:39.040 money. But we're talking about an exorbitant amount of money here. I want some accountability. I want
00:02:45.680 answers. I want somebody to tell me where this money went. But nobody seems to care. It doesn't
00:02:52.440 even matter anymore. Now, if I were to ask you, send me a list of all the ways government has wasted
00:03:00.140 your money, I would get a list that would stretch from the wall in front of me, 40 feet behind me. It
00:03:05.040 would be very easy to do that. I'm just going to focus in on a few things here. And again, this is
00:03:10.880 about money wasted and I want answers and accountability. So the one that really, really
00:03:16.160 bugs me is one that shut down government for months in late 2024 at a time when Polyev's poll
00:03:24.700 numbers were right through the roof, folks. And it's the green slush fund. And every once in a while,
00:03:30.740 it comes back around to me, but we still haven't got answers. We still haven't got accountability.
00:03:35.540 Hell, somebody should go to jail for the money that's wasted in government. 0.82
00:03:40.900 But the green slush fund, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, what was it? 400 million
00:03:48.460 taxpayer dollars just poof. Here's Pierre Polyev talking about it. Secret recordings from a top
00:03:55.820 bureaucrat in the liberal government admit that a green fund was giving out, quote, free money.
00:04:03.900 Get this. I'm going to quote from the recording. It was free money, he said, before making an analogy
00:04:10.020 with the controversy that affected John Chrétien's liberal government in the 2000s. That is almost
00:04:15.740 sponsorship scandal level giveaway. Wow. So when they said green fund, what they meant is putting green
00:04:24.320 in the pockets of well-connected liberals. A billion dollar fund. Where is the money? I really want to
00:04:30.820 know. I do care about this. I want somebody held accountable. This green thing. This is just the
00:04:36.540 gift that keeps on giving. Here's a story from yesterday. Look at this. Built 1.4 million dollar
00:04:43.240 garage in Yukon. This is from Blacklocks. The Department of Environment spent more than 10 years and 1.4 0.99
00:04:49.620 million dollars building a net zero garage in Whitehorse that it neither needed nor finished,
00:04:55.120 say auditors. The project was commissioned by then Environment Minister Catherine McKenna as proof
00:05:01.200 her department could, quote, lead by example. How is this even legal that somebody could spend money
00:05:08.800 on something that is totally unnecessary? 1.4 million dollars. If you live in a community in Canada
00:05:14.440 right now and you need to build something like a hospital or you need a new MRI for your hospital,
00:05:19.940 imagine how 1.4 million dollars would benefit your community. We spent money on a shed
00:05:26.860 and Catherine McKenna isn't in chains for doing this. How is this even legal?
00:05:34.100 Now let's move on to accountability. Promises made and in many of these cases a lot of money is spent
00:05:40.380 but it doesn't benefit you whatsoever. You're told these things are supposed to benefit you.
00:05:44.920 Carney shows up January 16th last year. I'm running to be the Liberal leader. He gets the
00:05:49.340 Liberal leadership. He's made the Prime Minister and then wins an election on April 28th. He made
00:05:54.360 promises to us and he's not being held accountable. One of those promises was to break down
00:06:00.240 interprovincial trade barriers. Here's Philip Lawrence, Conservative MP on X.
00:06:05.740 Removing Canada's interprovincial trade barriers offers one of the most powerful and
00:06:10.260 least fiscally costly levers to raise productivity, strengthen resilience and support
00:06:15.780 inclusive growth according to the IMF. But the government has barely touched the file since
00:06:20.820 last summer. And here's another graphic from Philip Lawrence, seven months after Canada Day,
00:06:26.900 still lots of talk, still no free trade, still the same old Liberal bait and switch. Here's Carney on
00:06:32.960 April 21st, 2025, free trade in Canada by Canada Day. Here's Mark Carney on January 27th, 2026. The
00:06:41.340 evidence is clear internal barriers remain large, economically costly. Here's Mark Carney saying
00:06:48.080 we can be our own best customer. We will be our own best customer. We'll be our own best customer.
00:06:55.980 This government is incapable of making deals within its own border, let alone without. And who's
00:07:01.640 responsible for this other than Mark Carney? This guy. The Honorable Dominic LeBlanc, very high-level
00:07:08.800 Liberal here, Minister of Internal Trade. And a total failure at what he is supposed to do,
00:07:16.040 not being held accountable for promises made. And what does he do when he stands up and he's asked
00:07:21.680 about these things, no doubt. It's blah, blah, blah, Donald Trump. And they get away with it. Now,
00:07:26.980 I went looking for one thing this morning from Philip Lawrence, Conservative MP, and I went to his
00:07:31.760 X account. And the guy was a goldmine of information for what I wanted to talk about today. And all of
00:07:37.360 these things that we're talking about, he has commented on X quite recently. This one from January
00:07:42.600 the 28th, nearly a million dollars spent in six months, no new projects approved. Does the major
00:07:48.720 projects office build major projects or does it build bureaucracy? Nothing has been done on this.
00:07:55.040 Who's responsible for this other than Mark Carney? This guy. The Honorable Dominic LeBlanc,
00:08:02.080 high-level Liberal, who isn't capable of doing anything. What does this man do other than standing
00:08:08.740 up in the House of Commons when asked about these things and going, blah, blah, blah, Donald Trump?
00:08:14.240 Why is this guy even working for us? We pay this man to work for us and he accomplishes nothing.
00:08:19.900 Moving on. Let's move on to housing. We were promised houses by the Liberal government. Lots and lots and
00:08:29.040 lots and lots of houses. And then we see stories like this. National housing starts to slow even
00:08:34.600 further, says CMHC, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Supply crisis set to worsen in
00:08:41.560 the coming years as National Housing Agency highlights challenges ahead. And who's responsible
00:08:47.020 for this? This guy. The Honorable Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure. And he was
00:08:54.060 asked about housing and how many houses were building. And, well, this is what he had to say in the
00:08:59.160 House of Commons during question period. Honorable Member.
00:09:02.080 To you, Mr. Chair, these are important questions that Canadians need answer to. Will the creation
00:09:06.820 of Build Canada Homes just lead to more red tape and government bureaucracy?
00:09:10.840 Honorable Minister.
00:09:12.840 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Build Canada Homes is going to focus on building affordable housing
00:09:18.640 across Canada at a scale that is unprecedented.
00:09:21.440 They say they're going to give us homes, but we aren't getting any homes. What they've built
00:09:26.240 is another bureaucracy like the Major Projects Office that has spent a million dollars and accomplished
00:09:31.360 nothing. We now have a housing office here in Canada that is spending, no doubt, millions of
00:09:36.320 dollars to accomplish nothing. Nobody has held accountable for this. And no doubt, I could
00:09:40.500 probably find Gregor Robertson standing in the House of Commons going, blah, blah, blah, Donald Trump.
00:09:46.100 And who is really responsible for overseeing all of these things?
00:09:51.540 You know, before I even show you the face of the guy who is supposed to be accountable for all of
00:09:56.920 this stuff, Harry Truman, former President of the United States of America, had a
00:10:01.320 sign on his desk for all the kids out there who don't know this that said, the buck stops
00:10:06.840 here. Meaning he is responsible, ultimately. Who is responsible in Canada? This guy. The
00:10:14.760 Right Honorable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, the man ultimately responsible for
00:10:20.040 everything. Does the buck stop with this guy? Well, of course it doesn't. And like I said
00:10:26.760 earlier in this video, if I were to ask you the ways the government wastes your money,
00:10:31.080 the list would be 40 feet long, probably even longer. The list of unaccountability would be
00:10:36.440 that long as well. I'd like to know what's happening when it comes to car theft. We know
00:10:40.760 car theft is a big issue. A friend of mine had two cars stolen. One of them ended up overseas.
00:10:46.320 Doing anything about that? Who's responsible? How about guns? Since it's such a top of the mind
00:10:52.820 thing right now and will likely be bigger after what happened in BC the other day. We know where
00:10:58.260 the guns are coming from, the United States. We know those guns are used in crimes. Anything being
00:11:04.340 done about that? Don't know. But we're going after law-abiding citizens to try to get their guns,
00:11:10.500 making them criminals. I'd just like a little accountability. I'd like the receipts on where
00:11:15.140 all our money is being spent. I'd like to know what these people in government, the liberals are actually doing.
00:11:22.820 Not a hell of a lot. Let me know what you think. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up,
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