John Bolton - August 23, 2026


Is CARNEY Sacrificing Canadian Jobs For Deals With COMMUNIST China？


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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 3.37 a.m., Sunday, August the 23rd. I hope
00:00:09.160 you're having a great start to your Sunday. Thank you so much for being here. I would
00:00:13.340 like to start this video with a moment of silence today for the 90,000 to 100,000 people
00:00:21.380 who are going to lose their jobs because Mark Carney wasn't able to come up with a trade
00:00:26.340 deal with the United States of America. If you'd bow your heads for a few moments.
00:00:30.000 Thank you. I appreciate your time. Thanks. So I woke up this morning and I had this thought
00:00:42.860 running through my head. It left quite quickly, I might say, that I felt almost sorry for Mark
00:00:50.000 Carney and the Liberal Party and Canada because this trade deal came to an end. I almost felt
00:00:55.160 sorry for them. But I don't. Now, don't get me wrong. You might not like what Donald Trump is
00:01:02.040 doing. And for the most part, he's incredibly erratic here. But Donald Trump is going to try
00:01:07.600 to soak Canada for everything he can in a trade deal with us. And you might not like the way he's
00:01:13.460 doing this with tariffs. And obviously, Mark Carney and the liberals don't and the premiers
00:01:17.480 don't like this. But folks, that's what he's going to do. And that is his job to get the best deal
00:01:23.880 for the United States of America. Mark Carney came out yesterday at a news conference, long on
00:01:29.400 rhetoric, short on details. The mainstream media bought it hook, line, and sinker. I want more
00:01:35.540 details about this. We'll get into that in just a moment. But Mark Carney, he went into Friday
00:01:40.660 realizing that the premiers didn't like the deal he was going to sign. Wob Canoe came out and,
00:01:45.540 you know, insulted Donald Trump the other day, knowing full well that this deal was going to die
00:01:50.000 late Friday night. Doug Ford said nothing about it. He was in Carney's ear, killed the deal.
00:01:56.140 Mark Carney killed the deal just before midnight on Friday after both sides said this was a deal.
00:02:00.960 We were close to a deal. And then Mark Carney comes and explains it all the way yesterday.
00:02:06.440 Again, long on rhetoric, short on details. Now, Mark Carney was the guy who said he was the person
00:02:12.580 that was the best person to get a deal with the United States of America. And this is going back
00:02:17.360 months. We're in a doom loop here now, folks. He talked about dollar for dollar tariffs last year.
00:02:25.200 He didn't do that because it's not good for Canada. He's talking about it again now.
00:02:29.960 But he said he was good in a crisis. That's what Mark Carney said.
00:02:36.000 And it's obvious he's not good in a crisis. This is what he said last year, just prior to the
00:02:42.600 election. Be positive. Convince Canadians that we're the right ones to manage them through this
00:02:48.080 crisis. Look, if there's not a crisis, you wouldn't be seeing me. I am most useful. I am
00:02:53.840 honest. I'm most useful in crisis. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, he's good in a crisis.
00:03:00.320 And that was prior to April 28th, 2025. And here we are, what, 15, 16 months later. By the way,
00:03:07.040 for those of you wondering, I haven't given up on this. And as a matter of fact, the video I did
00:03:11.360 about four or five days ago, I need your help here. This is more pertinent today than it was
00:03:15.720 at the time I did it. So we'll come back around to that over the next several days. But I want to
00:03:21.040 know what's going on here and I want more details. Michael Higgins and the National Post, just how
00:03:26.180 bad was this deal? Mark Carney owes Canadians the full details of why he pulled out of trade
00:03:31.320 agreement with Trump. Okay, just a bit of this story. Prime Minister Mark Carney always said
00:03:36.160 he would walk away from a bad deal and has now done so. But as the Prime Minister urges us to
00:03:41.920 rally around the flag, again, this is the doom loop we're in, folks. He also needs to give Canadians
00:03:48.080 full details as to why the trade talks with the United States collapsed. The Liberal government
00:03:52.800 is pointing out that it was the U.S. demands that led to the collapse of the latest round of trade
00:03:57.720 talks. But how exactly did we get here and why? How is it that Carney suspended trade talks after
00:04:03.920 reports that we were close to a deal. It is not enough to point fingers. What Canadians need are
00:04:09.640 the full details of what was being offered and why it was rejected. And I'd like to know that
00:04:14.580 as well. Now, one of the things that people are talking about here is that the United States
00:04:18.800 were saying that Canada had to restrict deals with other countries, trade deals with other
00:04:24.360 countries. Here's Mark Carney saying that yesterday in his media conference.
00:04:28.520 uh the u.s introduced at the last uh hours in the last hours um efforts to restrict our ability to
00:04:36.140 have other trade deals frankly that sounds awful that the trump administration and these
00:04:42.460 negotiators would try to restrict who canada can make trade deals with but again carney wasn't
00:04:48.740 very specific here what countries did the united states go to mark carney's negotiators
00:04:56.220 and this Charette woman or whatever her name was and say, listen, one more thing. We don't want you 0.99
00:05:03.080 making deals with communist China and bringing communist China into our part of the world. 0.98
00:05:08.220 And we aren't going to sign the deal unless you say no more. And Mark Carney and his government
00:05:13.460 are now throwing the lives of hundreds of thousands of Canadians into disarray because
00:05:18.840 he wants to make deals with communist China. Is that what's going on here? Because that's 0.85
00:05:23.340 the first thing I thought about when I saw that clip. Did anybody ask him? I don't know. I didn't
00:05:30.680 see everything yesterday. Did anybody say, what countries did they want to restrict Mr. Carney?
00:05:35.540 Prime Minister, what countries? Did he give any details on this? Was he specific? Was it
00:05:41.160 communist China? Because that's exactly what I would expect Donald Trump and the United States
00:05:46.200 administration to say to Canada, keep China out of our sphere of influence here in this part of the
00:05:52.020 world. That's what I think happened here. Now, let's move on. There's a couple of other articles 0.99
00:05:57.040 I'd like to look at here. This one from Carson Jaroma, again, in the National Post. Now, read
00:06:02.080 these articles. I'll put links in the description, but it's the ending of this. We've got a bit of a
00:06:06.500 theme coming here for you from a couple of different writers in different newspapers,
00:06:11.500 but let's move down to the bottom here. And this is so true. I've been saying for so long,
00:06:17.500 we wouldn't be in this precarious situation if it wasn't for the Liberal Party and what they've
00:06:21.720 done to us. They don't do things for us to help us. They do things to us, what they have done to
00:06:27.080 the country over the last 10 to 11 years. We'd be in a much better situation when it comes to
00:06:32.480 negotiating and the prosperity of our country if it wasn't for the liberals screwing everything up
00:06:38.060 for 10 years, folks. So instead of permitting competition and foreign investment, we've lost
00:06:43.100 a trillion dollars in investment, folks, over the last 10 years. RBC, not going to put the clip on,
00:06:48.540 Not going to put any newspaper clips up on the screen for you.
00:06:52.460 Canada protects cartels, often for regional political reasons, Quebec, in banking, airlines, telecommunications, and agriculture.
00:07:00.580 Instead of leaning into Canada's comparative advantage in critical minerals and oil and gas,
00:07:06.900 those industries are strangled with endless taxation and regulation that can only be described as predatory.
00:07:13.400 The auto manufacturing and dairy industries are never given the opportunity to mature so they can compete internationally.
00:07:21.240 Instead, they're propped up and protected with subsidies and quotas.
00:07:25.280 It is unsurprising that these are the sectors that create the most tension in trade talks.
00:07:30.600 If this wasn't the reality of Canada, if Ottawa leaned more into its role as guarantor of national security and defense
00:07:38.020 and less into micromanaging all aspects of the economy,
00:07:42.040 these periodic American shifts into protectionism
00:07:44.920 would be a challenge, but hardly existential.
00:07:48.180 Canada is on the back foot,
00:07:50.080 but it was never inevitable
00:07:51.480 that this would be where we landed.
00:07:53.540 It's up to Carney to ensure this isn't where Canada stays.
00:07:56.560 Do you have any trust in him to help us?
00:07:58.300 Let's go over to Brian Lilly in this one.
00:08:00.480 Carney walks away, now Canada faces the terror fallout.
00:08:03.460 Let's look at something he said here,
00:08:05.040 very similar to what I just talked about in that story. All the way down here, walking away may
00:08:11.200 have been the right decision, but what comes next is where Carney risks making a mistake. In
00:08:16.440 response, Carney is doing the one thing he shouldn't be doing, matching the American tariffs
00:08:21.880 dollar for dollar. We should be taking every possible step to make Canada an attractive place
00:08:28.120 to invest, start and grow a business. The next federal budget should announce lower rates for
00:08:33.540 personal and corporate income taxes. The Carney government should repeal the anti-development laws
00:08:39.680 and regulations built up during the Trudeau years. These things have held us back, and we're in this
00:08:44.900 situation because of Mark Carney and the Liberal Party. And they're playing this to the hilt, folks.
00:08:50.660 They're playing you as fools. Elbows up. Now, Danielle Smith needs to get out of Mark Carney's 0.99
00:08:57.620 lane. She needs to back off. She needs to be more Alberta. Premier Smith, come to the Independence 1.00
00:09:03.260 movement. You're supporting a government that is failing Canada and failing Alberta. We'd be
00:09:08.500 better off on our own. This is what Danielle Smith said, and I agree with her here. She's
00:09:13.940 being called a traitor for this and attacking over this. You know, the idea here for the Canadians 0.54
00:09:19.220 now, and those of you who live in Canada, I live in Alberta. This is my country here, folks.
00:09:24.800 The idea of the Canadians now is we're never going to go back to negotiations with the United States,
00:09:28.920 or we'll wait for the next two years for everything to get better.
00:09:32.160 But let's just sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people and their jobs. 0.90
00:09:37.840 We should be going back to the Americans and saying,
00:09:40.560 this failed, let's work something out. 0.87
00:09:42.980 That's what we should be.
00:09:43.820 It may be impossible, but we need to be back at the table.
00:09:46.760 This is what Danielle Smith said.
00:09:50.580 I'm deeply disappointed that Canada and the United States
00:09:53.320 have not been able to reach a trade agreement.
00:09:55.080 Alberta has always advocated for a terror-free relationship
00:09:58.100 and will continue to do so. No one benefits from a trade war. Tariffs and counter-tariffs hurt
00:10:03.380 businesses, workers and families on both sides of the border while weakening one of the most
00:10:08.360 important economic and security relationships in the world. My first concern today is for the
00:10:13.200 Albertans and Canadians whose livelihoods are at risk from these new tariffs and counter-tariffs.
00:10:18.380 I welcome the federal government's intention to provide relief for those businesses that are
00:10:22.280 impacted. Alberta will continue to advocate for a strong tariff-free relationship between Canada
00:10:28.060 and the U.S. And I will be urging the federal government to restart negotiations as soon as
00:10:33.240 possible. You're damn right. That's what we should be doing. But now the Canadians and the people who
00:10:38.780 are all elbows up are perfectly fine that this trade relationship has come to an end as far as
00:10:43.080 they're concerned. And they don't want us to talk to the United States anymore. You know, I put out
00:10:48.340 this tweet yesterday. I don't say a lot online. The vote for independence ticked up a couple of
00:10:55.600 points yesterday, or today, when I put that out yesterday, and that's true. Now, let me ask you
00:11:00.940 a question. Just to finish this up, I'm going to play a short clip that I laughed my ass off
00:11:05.420 about six, seven days ago when I was talking with Keith Wilson, leader of the Alberta
00:11:10.460 independence movement. Let me ask you this. Where was Mark Carney during all of these negotiations?
00:11:17.600 Do you remember? He was on vacation. He did come back a couple of days in advance.
00:11:23.560 My question to you is, this guy was supposed to be the best negotiator for Canada when it comes to dealing with the United States of America.
00:11:30.000 And from what I understand, he wasn't even in the room.
00:11:32.240 Now, people are going to say, well, that's not how it's done, John.
00:11:34.660 Well, maybe that's the way this should have been done.
00:11:37.840 Maybe he should have been in the room because he apparently was the guy to make the deal, and he didn't.
00:11:43.060 He's not good in a crisis.
00:11:44.800 So I'm going to end on this.
00:11:47.100 This is a clip from a couple of days ago.
00:11:48.920 And my reaction to what is said here was completely genuine. If you like this video,
00:11:55.920 give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you
00:12:00.180 in the next one. You know, it's been more than 470 days since the election on April the 28th
00:12:06.860 last year. And all of a sudden, this seems like a priority to the government. And apparently there's
00:12:13.140 been an offer put on the table from the Trump administration, and our side just doesn't
00:12:18.860 want to accept or make a deal here what are your thoughts on what's going on right now
00:12:22.200 well Carney's move of setting up a forward operations center and command center to deal
00:12:27.400 with this crisis in Tuscany Italy was brilliant
00:12:29.920 oh that's beautiful Keith okay but more seriously and this is a serious matter