John Bolton - Oh Canada…LIBERAL Progress Is KILLING Us

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 4.50 a.m. I hope you're having a great start

00:00:08.260 to your Wednesday, December the 10th. I am. I've got my big blue mug of coffee. I appreciate

00:00:12.980 you being here. I tip my big blue mug to you today. And I woke up this morning thinking

00:00:18.820 about what happened yesterday in the House of Commons. I did a video on it. The tricks

00:00:27.680 that Pierre Polyev has to resort to, the stunt, as the liberals called it, that he had to

00:00:33.900 resort to yesterday. And it was successful, I believe. I think he did a very good job.

00:00:37.960 But what I thought about was how we can't progress in this country anymore, that we seem to be

00:00:44.360 slipping backwards on a lot of things. I did a video the other day talking about the failures

00:00:48.900 of the liberal government. That's not what this video is about. We're not progressing.

00:00:53.780 I would suggest to you, there's a lot of liberals who sit in caucus, who were sitting

00:00:58.300 there yesterday, who would call themselves progressives. The main part of the word progressive

00:01:03.960 is progress, but we're not doing that. We're regressing in a lot of places. There's three

00:01:09.520 things that I've been thinking about. There were a couple of them brought up in the House

00:01:12.880 of Commons yesterday, and one other thing that was discussed yesterday that is rather frightening.

00:01:18.020 And we're going to get to all of those things in this video. I hope I can make this short.

00:01:21.320 So what's the number one thing that concerns you right now? Just think about it for a second.

00:01:27.020 What's number one on the list right now that concerns you? I would suggest it would be the

00:01:34.060 cost of living. That's what concerns me the most. I think the place you see it the most is when you

00:01:41.360 buy groceries every week. You buy a little pile of groceries that's got a big bill. The opposition,

00:01:48.000 Pierre Polyev and the conservatives are talking about affordability and the ability to eat. The

00:01:53.540 government isn't on the same wavelength as you. They're in another place completely. It was brought

00:02:00.700 up over and over and over yesterday. It was what I expected to be the main thing that drives the

00:02:07.460 liberal government. As soon as Mark Carney got his name in the race back in January to be the leader of

00:02:13.100 the party. While the opposition is talking about affordability and the cost of living,

00:02:19.180 the government keeps pushing climate and industrial carbon taxes. Here's Polyev,

00:02:25.760 one of his best moments yesterday when it came to question period.

00:02:29.560 The Honorable Leader of the Opposition.

00:02:32.640 Yet the Prime Minister is afraid to stand up and debate grocery prices. He says he knows so much

00:02:39.880 about inflation. Well, he certainly caused a lot in his life, Mr. Speaker. Then he should be able to

00:02:45.200 stand up and defend the very industrial carbon tax that he says is even more than important than a

00:02:51.540 pipeline from Alberta. An industrial carbon tax on farm equipment, fertilizer, food processors at a time

00:03:00.480 when Canadians are paying twice what they were a decade ago for groceries. At Christmas time,

00:03:07.180 will he do the right thing, get rid of this tax so Canadians can eat? 0.89

00:03:11.360 The Honorable Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.

00:03:15.720 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Apparently, I need to repeat it again and again. So let me do that.

00:03:20.540 To make it simple for the member offices, the industrial carbon price does not increase the cost of food.

00:03:26.700 It does not apply to farms. But more than that, if we're going to look at that food price report that

00:03:31.920 he is referring to, perhaps he wants to refer to the other parts of it, which is climate change and

00:03:38.080 weather events have become a growing concern for agricultural producers. And increasingly severe

00:03:43.260 and unpredictable weather events are disrupting agricultural production, creating supply challenges

00:03:48.220 that continue to influence food prices across Canada. They should get on board to fight climate change.

00:03:53.120 Mr. Speaker, no matter how high they raise the taxes, they're not going to change the weather,

00:04:03.040 Madam Speaker. And the Prime Minister should be willing to stand up before Christmas.

00:04:07.700 And look the seniors in the eye who can't afford to feed themselves, the single mothers who can't 1.00

00:04:13.040 afford to feed their children and buy Christmas gifts this winter. While he not only does an industrial

00:04:18.600 carbon taxes on farmers and fertilizer, but a food packaging tax, which will increase grocery prices

00:04:24.680 by a billion dollars across the land. So will the Prime Minister live up to his promise to be judged by

00:04:30.260 the prices of the grocery store and get rid of those hidden liberal taxes on food?

00:04:35.480 While you're concerned about food prices, the affordability of everyday life, the cost of living,

00:04:41.600 the liberals don't seem to care about it much at all. They talk about a middle-class tax break they

00:04:50.260 got you. Well, I'll just let you know this. Food prices are going up faster than your middle-class

00:04:55.420 tax break. It doesn't amount to a lot of money when you get right down to it over a year. And food prices

00:05:01.160 are going to go up a lot next year. I'll get into that in just a moment. The opposition talks about

00:05:06.060 affordability and the ability of people to eat. The liberals keep pushing climate change on

00:05:11.560 you as the reason everything's going bad in the country. And Julie DeBruzan talks there about how

00:05:17.680 food production's down because of climate change and weather events. Is that true?

00:05:23.420 No, it's not true. I know the answer to this. It's not. Food production is actually way up.

00:05:28.180 Are yields in food going down or up? Over the past several decades, global crop yields rose dramatically.

00:05:33.720 Yields for staple crops like wheat, maize, soybean, and rice increase. Wheat yields up 225%.

00:05:40.640 Maize, 196%. Soybean, 153%. Rice, 146%. Compared with mid-20th century baselines. Of course,

00:05:48.540 chat GPT has to bring up climate change. Countries vulnerable to climate change, poor ones who can't

00:05:53.900 do a goddamn thing right when it comes to putting anything in the ground and getting any yields at 0.93

00:05:57.600 all aren't doing well. But we're doing just fine. We're feeding more people than we ever did before. 0.93

00:06:03.320 And do you realize, and here's something I was thinking about today. Next year will mark the 20th

00:06:09.580 anniversary of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Right now, we're not supposed to have any

00:06:15.360 ice caps. They're all melted, folks. All the polar bears are dead and people are starving to death

00:06:20.700 because food yields are down. They're up everywhere right now. Here's Shannon Stubbs, MP. A new report

00:06:27.380 warns that after a decade of illiberals, Canadians could pay $1,000 more for groceries for the exact

00:06:32.660 same amount of food next year. Let me put this into perspective for you.

00:06:40.300 If your boss came to you right now and said, things are a little tough. I'm cutting your pay

00:06:44.460 by $1,000. How much would that affect you? It's the same thing. What's the top issue when it comes

00:06:51.060 to Canadians right now? Climate change? Let's take a look. This is from September. Abacus data.

00:06:56.740 This year, rising cost of living, 57%. The economy, 37%. Housing affordability and accessibility, 34%.

00:07:05.340 Donald Trump and his administration. Look, it's not even close to the number one thing, but a lot of

00:07:10.820 people voted on this. Screwing over the people that are worried about this. Where does climate change

00:07:16.220 come in here? Climate change in the environment, 15%. This is what the government's focusing on.

00:07:21.060 Not this. The other thing they're focusing on is Indigenous reconciliation. Most people don't

00:07:28.060 give a damn about that. Meanwhile, you've got the government spending $40 million over the next

00:07:33.960 two years on a youth climate core so they can indoctrinate children. And then we move on to

00:07:39.280 our next thing. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but pipelines. This is what this is

00:07:44.240 about yesterday. We can't get anything done. We're regressing. There's no progress here at all.

00:07:49.500 Let me put this into perspective. I found this on my wife's Facebook the other day. This is what's

00:07:53.720 happening. Now, this talks about Alberta, but the pipelines that are built from Alberta,

00:08:00.280 maybe to the West Coast, will benefit all of Canada. Because a lot of that oil from Alberta,

00:08:06.340 that money ends up going to Canada. This is why we want to leave. We want to keep more of the money

00:08:10.100 for ourselves. Get rid of income taxes, things like that. This is how it works right now.

00:08:15.840 You'd have to be nuts to continue doing this. What's the definition of insanity? Here it is

00:08:21.280 right here. Here's the trap. $20 billion handout. How Alberta subsidizes the U.S. economy.

00:08:26.320 One, the trap. Canada has the third largest oil reserves. 98% of exports go to one customer.

00:08:32.420 They set the price. That's the United States. The math, the ripoff. Landlocked, we sell cheap to U.S.

00:08:38.720 refineries. They keep the profit. The cost. $20 billion per year. This discount bleeds billions

00:08:46.500 from Canada. Money that should fund Canadian hospitals, schools, and infrastructure. The solution.

00:08:52.740 Tidewater. The only way to stop the handout is to reach the coast. When the U.S. competes for our oil,

00:08:58.320 the discount disappears. See, the people who don't want the pipeline, the people who want to support

00:09:04.260 Mark Carney and not having a pipeline, are feeding Donald Trump and the United States of America,

00:09:10.460 who the left seems to hate right now. And that's all I'm going to say. This is the system we've got

00:09:17.920 right now in this country. And we can't put a pipeline to the coast. How regressive is that?

00:09:22.380 This is not progress. This memorandum of understanding is not a guarantee for a pipeline.

00:09:28.220 It's not going to happen. Would you invest in this country? And then let's move along to this.

00:09:35.820 Freedom of speech. Let me just go to this Franklin quote right off the top.

00:09:40.080 Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

00:09:44.720 Benjamin Franklin. It's true. Here are your fundamental freedoms in the Charter of Rights and

00:09:50.240 Freedoms. You should know them all. About the first 15 sections are the most important.

00:09:57.660 Number one is the most important. That's the one that gives the government the right to take away

00:10:01.440 your rights, which should not be able to happen. It's the number one thing.

00:10:06.580 You have all of these freedoms. You have all of these rights unless we can take them away. It's

00:10:10.560 what they did with the convoy. But the things that are really important to me in here, they're all in

00:10:16.740 here. Freedom of the press, freedom of association, peaceful assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of

00:10:22.040 thought, freedom of belief, freedom of expression, freedom of speech. It's utter attack.

00:10:27.660 Andrew Lawton has been great on this. Absolutely great. Here he is in the House of Commons.

00:10:35.740 Member for Elgin, St. Thomas, London South.

00:10:38.500 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's a great honour to present a petition on behalf of Canadians

00:10:43.560 concerned, I would say actually alarmed, that Liberal block amendments to Bill C-9 will be

00:10:49.460 used to criminalise passages of the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and other sacred texts. A lot of this

00:10:55.400 concern emanates from the fact that the man who's now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture said

00:11:00.700 that prosecutors should be able to, quote, press charges, unquote, for people citing scripture the government

00:11:06.460 finds objectionable. The petitioners believe the state has no place in religious texts or teaching of any faith

00:11:12.700 community and that this house must stand firm and protect freedom of expression and freedom of religion. The

00:11:18.760 undersigned call on the Liberal government to protect these fundamental freedoms and reject any incursions on them in

00:11:24.780 C-9 or any other legislation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:11:28.700 Is this progress? Well, no, it's not progress. If you're taking away the rights of somebody or an organization

00:11:34.640 or a church, it's a step backwards. By the way, we have laws already on the books against violent speech.

00:11:42.060 If you threaten somebody's life, you can't do that. I think you should be able to say anything but that.

00:11:48.240 But what does this do? It has a chilling effect on what churches might say. They might not agree with, say,

00:11:54.160 same-sex marriage. Is that going to be considered hate speech now? And I guess this is progress in a way. 1.00

00:12:03.540 It progresses us to the next spot, the next place, the next logical place, and that's going after your speech

00:12:11.720 because that's coming next. Pretty soon, I probably won't be able to say some things on YouTube. You won't be able

00:12:18.160 to post anything on Facebook or on X that the government doesn't like that they deem against the law. 0.92

00:12:24.160 And you say, John, that's ridiculous. We have the freedom of expression. It's written into

00:12:28.320 Section 2. It's our fundamental freedoms in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They thought the

00:12:32.900 same thing in England.

00:12:34.160 Someone has been caused, obviously, anxiety based upon your social media page.

00:12:40.820 That's why you've been arrested.

00:12:41.780 30 people a day are arrested in England right now for saying things online. 30!

00:12:50.160 Can you imagine? There's 365 days in the year. Do the math just for saying something because somebody

00:12:56.580 was offended. Meanwhile, the liberals supported the block on this. It's going to get passed.

00:13:00.640 And we progressed down the road. As George Washington said, if freedom of speech is taken

00:13:08.380 away, then silent and dumb we shall be led like sheep to the slaughter. So we can't progress when 0.97

00:13:14.320 it comes to food because of climate change. How progressive is that? We can't have anything because

00:13:20.840 of climate change. It's the reason why we can't have nice things in this country. We don't have any

00:13:25.640 progress. We can't have any pipelines which would progress the country, which would progress Alberta,

00:13:30.060 which would progress us because we'd have better health care and better social services,

00:13:34.900 better jobs with better pay. And we can't have our speech anymore because going backwards to the left

00:13:43.120 is considered progressive. That's considered progress.

00:13:47.420 Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. If you liked it, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel.

00:13:52.800 Ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you and I'm going to progress my way upstairs to get a new

00:13:58.340 big blue mug of coffee. See you in the next one.

John Bolton - December 10, 2025

Oh Canada…LIBERAL Progress Is KILLING Us

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