John Bolton - June 01, 2025


It's D-Day for Mark Carney - D is for Danielle


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6 minutes

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177.54863

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1,211

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104


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It's D-Day for Prime Minister Mark Carney and he's using one of his many "outs" to get things done. He always has an "out" to justify what he does. He's not going to commit to anything unless he knows what he's going to do.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Sunday, June the 1st, 544 a.m. I've got my big
00:00:06.760 blue mug of coffee. Hope you're having a great day today. Still working out the bugs with my new
00:00:10.980 Mac. Still haven't got my editing program going properly. I'm working on it, folks.
00:00:17.040 But I think the videos will come out just fine over the next couple of days. So it is D-Day
00:00:21.280 for Mark Carney today. D-Day. I'll explain that in just a moment. But really the theme of this
00:00:27.020 video is Mark Carney always has an out. Have you noticed that? I'm starting to notice a trend here.
00:00:34.820 There's things that he does. He uses excuses not to commit and he uses excuses to justify what he does.
00:00:43.560 He always has an out. So I'm going to get to that in just a moment because the first thing I want to
00:00:48.600 talk about is D-Day for Mark Carney. And this is one of those things I think he's going to use one
00:00:53.660 of his outs, one of his excuses, one of his excuses not to commit and one of his excuses
00:01:00.740 to justify his actions. So what is D-Day? D stands for Danielle. Now you probably have seen this clip.
00:01:08.000 I watched this clip. I was going to talk about it yesterday. I'm glad I didn't because I woke up
00:01:12.020 this morning with the inspiration for this video. So here's Danielle Smith being asked a question
00:01:18.340 and basically she gives a one word answer. How long are you going to allow Ottawa to basically stall
00:01:29.200 the questions because I can see it coming. They're stalling. They're stalling. We're into stampede.
00:01:38.420 We're into the summer. You know, we'll be into the fall and nothing will happen. So there's got to be
00:01:46.700 a bottom line and what's it going to be? Sunday. I'm giving them until Sunday.
00:01:56.360 And I'm only partly joking on that because we do have these first ministers meetings and ministerial
00:02:04.320 meetings. All of the ministers take part in those with their counterparts and with the federal minister.
00:02:10.340 For most of the time that I've been in this job, the prime minister doesn't show up. But with this new
00:02:15.860 prime minister, I'll give him credit for this. He has met with us many times and he's only been
00:02:20.260 the prime minister for a few, a few short months, but he is coming to Alberta on Sunday to meet with
00:02:29.320 probably some people in this room, some business leaders. So D-Day, Danielle Day is today, Sunday.
00:02:35.440 She gives that one word answer, but expands on it. She says Carney's meeting with people in Calgary
00:02:40.060 today. And to his credit, he's meeting with the premiers on Monday. But he's got an out. I'm going
00:02:46.320 to get to that in just a moment. He's got an out and he won't commit. Here's Rick Bell in the Calgary
00:02:52.860 Sun. Daniel Smith in Alberta give Mark Carney an offer he shouldn't refuse. This article goes on to
00:02:58.100 talk about how Smith says that we need a path to oil and gas to avoid stranding trillions of dollars
00:03:04.320 of energy assets in Alberta. And then she goes on to say she wants him to scrap the cap on oil and gas
00:03:11.120 emissions and get rid of Bill C-69. Now we, we know, and I'm not playing the clip for you again,
00:03:16.100 what he said during the election campaign. He was asked about C-69. He said he will not get rid of
00:03:21.800 the anti-pipelines bill. But what's his out? His out is, I don't have to commit to anything because of
00:03:29.980 everybody else. But we will only do that in the case where we have the support of First Nations.
00:03:36.820 We have the support of all the provinces, obviously, including Quebec and the example that I gave.
00:03:42.960 So the man so many people voted for because they thought he was a good leader isn't leading on this
00:03:48.080 issue at all. He's deferring to other people. And if any of those other groups say no, then we can't
00:03:55.020 have a pipeline. He should come out and say, listen, I'm all for reaching our potential in Canada when it
00:04:01.360 comes to oil and gas. And I want to convince you why. But he's not doing that because it's his way
00:04:06.500 out. It is his out. So that's the first one. The second one, he said it all the time during the
00:04:12.000 election campaign to great effect, which helped him get elected. And it's one word, crisis.
00:04:19.160 That's why these meetings in this process is so important. That's why the legislation that we're
00:04:24.080 putting forward, we will put forward in coming days is so ambitious. We are in a crisis. We can
00:04:31.060 control our destiny. We are a bold, confident nation. We are the true north, strong and free.
00:04:36.960 As James Madison says, crisis, the rallying cry of the tyrant. During the election campaign,
00:04:42.120 there was one speech where he said it five times. I hate to say it, but we are in the middle of the
00:04:49.640 toughest crisis that we have ever experienced. From my experience of how you deal with a crisis.
00:04:56.800 And when you're in a crisis, and I've seen a lot of crises, but in a crisis.
00:05:01.440 Crisis can work for pretty much anything. Vote for me. We're in a crisis. We're going to spend half a
00:05:06.120 trillion dollars. We're in a crisis. Meanwhile, people bitch about Pierre Pauly, having the
00:05:10.080 conservatives voting against this ridiculous spending and complain that they're not going to
00:05:14.520 get $400 out of the federal government this year. The inflation alone will eat up all of that.
00:05:20.860 And then, of course, there's the last thing which I mentioned yesterday. Tariffs. Tariffs in the trade
00:05:25.360 war with Donald Trump. It's the excuse for everything. They can do anything they want,
00:05:29.600 and the people will be led around by the nose following the liberal government because of tariffs
00:05:35.040 and Donald Trump and the trade war. His energy minister, I played this clip yesterday. I'm going to
00:05:40.880 play it again. When asked about Bill C-69 and pipelines, this is what he had to say.
00:05:47.340 Yes, we will support new pipelines if there is consensus in Canada for them.
00:05:52.900 With American tariffs threatening our economy and threatening our sovereignty, we must protect
00:05:59.560 our energy security. All the liberals got the memo. They're going to use all of these excuses,
00:06:05.120 all of these outs so they don't have to commit to anything. It's a crisis. We must have everyone
00:06:11.500 on board. Carney throws around the word consensus as much as he says catalyze, I think. And, of course,
00:06:17.000 Donald Trump and the tariffs is the main reason for everything. It's the reason why they got elected.
00:06:21.080 But there's always the other excuse that Carney doesn't mention all that much, and he hasn't been
00:06:26.200 asked a lot about since he came into the political scene here in Canada. The real excuse for him not
00:06:32.600 committing to pipelines, even when it is D-Day here in Alberta. Danielle Day is this.
00:06:39.920 To reach net zero, every country, every company, every bank, every investor, every pension fund
00:06:46.160 around the world will need to make some big changes.