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Melanie in Saskatchewan has a message for the Elbows up crowd, and those applauding Mark Kearney. I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn t include me. I live in the part of the country your map forgets, about 2,600 kilometers from the nearest stop on your proposed $90B high-speed train, I am an overtaxed, underserved Canadian. I heat my home with rising costs, I ve got to pay my heating bill at almost $2 a liter, I fill my vehicle at nearly $2 per liter, depending on the day and my luck. I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it s on a meager allowance, and you want me to pay for a train I will never use? How thoughtful.

00:00:00.000 What you're about to hear is extraordinary.

00:00:04.000 You must listen to the end.

00:00:10.240 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.

00:00:12.600 It is Saturday, April the 4th.

00:00:14.240 I hope you're having a great weekend just after 8 o'clock.

00:00:17.920 This is my second video today.

00:00:19.860 I had not planned on doing this video,

00:00:22.140 but I read something today that I think you need to hear.

00:00:26.500 This is something I don't normally do.

00:00:29.000 read somebody's complete post for a video but here's the thing this is on x a lot of you are

00:00:34.620 not on x you may never hear the words i'm about to say what i'm about to say from melanie in

00:00:41.280 saskatchewan is extraordinary you need to hear these words you need to listen until the end

00:00:48.680 now i wouldn't even know about this if small dead animals wasn't my favorite website and this was

00:00:55.700 posted today, Don't Believe Carnival Kearney, Melanie in Saskatchewan has an important message

00:01:01.700 to share with the Elbows Up crowd. So please bear with me, listen until the end, and hear what Melanie

00:01:09.080 has to say. To Mark Kearney and those applauding him, I am a Canadian paying for a country that

00:01:18.500 doesn't include me. I live in the part of the country your map forgets, about 2,600 kilometers

00:01:24.540 from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train,

00:01:28.960 I am an overtaxed, underserved Canadian.

00:01:32.660 I heat my home with rising costs.

00:01:35.180 I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a liter,

00:01:37.620 depending on the day and my luck.

00:01:39.860 I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil

00:01:44.200 behave like it's on a meager allowance.

00:01:47.400 And you want me to pay for a train I will never use?

00:01:51.320 How thoughtful.

00:01:51.940 I am a hard-working, falling-behind-Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch.

00:01:58.960 It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometers, depending on how creatively it detours around reality from Toronto to Quebec City.

00:02:08.260 Seven stops, all neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec.

00:02:12.340 Top speed, 300 kilometers an hour, national reach.

00:02:15.840 Let's just call it selective.

00:02:17.480 I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream invited only by invoice roughly 90 billion dollars

00:02:24.240 about eight thousand dollars per household for a ticket I will never hold from where I sit in

00:02:30.080 Saskatchewan your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel two thousand plus

00:02:36.340 kilometers away circling the station and still billing me I'm a Canadian bereft of a stop on

00:02:43.220 this train, close enough to fund it, far enough to never use it. I am an overextended nickel and

00:02:49.660 dime Canadian. I am fixing my own road access, paying more for groceries, driving farther for

00:02:55.740 basic services, and now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways,

00:03:01.720 and existing rail. At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries.

00:03:08.040 No need for 300 kilometers an hour, just cost-saving reliability.

00:03:13.280 I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation,

00:03:16.420 where every errand costs more than it did last week,

00:03:19.820 and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed.

00:03:22.980 I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future,

00:03:26.440 trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels.

00:03:30.900 While the country accumulates debt it cannot repay,

00:03:33.980 and prints money to pretend it can.

00:03:37.220 I'm a rural Canadian watching how this works.

00:03:39.860 Not my land, not this time, but close enough to understand the mechanism.

00:03:44.100 Because an 800 plus kilometer corridor does not meander politely.

00:03:48.160 It cuts straight, fast, with purpose, through farmland, through properties, through communities.

00:03:55.400 I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent, survey stakes, expropriation powers, public interest to be explained after.

00:04:03.660 It is not my yard today, but it is someone's.

00:04:06.420 and tomorrow it will be called necessary for something larger, something urgent,

00:04:10.980 something climate-related, something that cannot wait.

00:04:14.380 I am a wary Canadian, noticing how easily necessity is declared to match your agenda,

00:04:19.880 and how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared.

00:04:25.260 I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names,

00:04:29.480 and somehow the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back,

00:04:35.740 rebranded as Atkins Realis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts

00:04:41.720 in Canadian history. A remarkable comeback, truly. No apology tour, just a new logo and

00:04:47.840 a larger taxpayer-subsidized opportunity. Seems history doesn't repeat. It follows a predictable

00:04:53.520 pattern. I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar lab scam players return under reimagined

00:05:01.480 branding. The script is the same, only the cover has changed. I am an exasperated Canadian, you

00:05:07.340 include it in your sales pitch. I am told it will create 50,000 jobs. I am told it will add 35

00:05:13.660 billion dollars to GDP, and I'm sure it will, in the corridor where the stations are, where the

00:05:21.200 density is, where the benefit is. I am a shunned Canadian, excluded from the outcome, included in

00:05:28.780 all the arithmetic, excluded from all the access. I am a cynical Canadian, being told this is

00:05:35.340 nation-building, though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates.

00:05:41.080 I am a depleted Canadian who reads grocery receipts like an audit, choreographs fuel stops

00:05:47.340 around paydays, not plans, measures distance and cost, not kilometers. I am an overburdened,

00:05:54.380 last-in-line Canadian, essential when it is time to pay, optional when it is time to benefit.

00:06:01.180 I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement.

00:06:06.620 The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional. I am an exhausted,

00:06:12.040 overlooked Canadian. You're not building this for me or my family. You're just sending me the bill, 1.00

00:06:17.560 signed your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream,

00:06:22.260 Melanie, in Saskatchewan.

00:06:27.420 Do you feel the same way?

00:06:30.880 I do.

00:06:33.320 Nothing more needs to be said.

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John Bolton - April 04, 2026

If you listen to one video today... make it this one... Truth

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