John Bolton - February 16, 2025


Pierre Poilievre's Best Moment


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Length

11 minutes

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162.35083

Word count

1,814

Sentence count

113

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

4

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Pierre Polyev's speech in Ottawa and the reaction from the Liberal Party of Canada and the media. The flip side of the coin is that the Liberals have completely reversed themselves on everything that they believe and everything that has put Canada in a precarious situation.

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00:00:00.240 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 5.48 a.m. on Sunday, February the 16th, with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:07.080 And the first thing I did this morning was watch Pierre Polyev's speech at a rally from Ottawa yesterday.
00:00:13.360 Didn't have a chance, too busy yesterday, but I did get up and watch it.
00:00:16.500 First thing I thought about the speech was, God, I wish I didn't have to watch all this stuff in French. 1.00
00:00:21.300 I know it's necessary, but I could have got this done a lot quicker.
00:00:24.780 But the thing that was on my mind when I first woke up this morning, I always wonder why these things are running through my head,
00:00:31.160 is the Liberal Party and what they were saying about Polyev and how he's handling, well, the election campaign,
00:00:38.440 because that's what we're in right now, even though it is not official as of yet.
00:00:42.060 Here is a post on X from the Liberal Party yesterday, statement by the Liberal Party of Canada on Polyev's desperate rebrand.
00:00:49.660 Did he have to rebrand? Well, yeah, he did.
00:00:51.860 I mentioned weeks ago that now that the Liberals have completely reversed themselves on everything that they believe
00:00:57.980 and everything that has put Canada in a precarious situation, now that they've done that,
00:01:03.080 he has to change his message and it's now Canada First.
00:01:06.620 And certainly it has to be Canada First because of the incoming threat from the United States and tariffs.
00:01:12.900 All right, so this is what they put in this post. Look at this.
00:01:16.440 First off, they insult the leader of the free world and Donald Trump.
00:01:20.040 Now, who do you think Donald Trump would rather deal with when it comes to trade issues in this country
00:01:25.560 and when we have a new Prime Minister?
00:01:27.740 Of course, he would rather deal with the Conservative because he is completely overturning
00:01:32.200 all of the Biden administration and what they've done over the last four years.
00:01:38.160 All of their policies are gone.
00:01:40.100 They are going quick, folks.
00:01:41.740 He'd rather deal with Pyro Polyev who is going to do similar things here in Canada.
00:01:45.460 The Liberals want the status quo, even though they say they're changing everything that they believe.
00:01:51.660 But read the beginning of this.
00:01:52.820 After spending years calling Canada broken, it is because of nine to ten years of Liberal rule.
00:01:58.500 It's broken, folks, and you know it.
00:02:00.840 Following Donald Trump's playbook, insulting the leader of the free world, Pyro Polyev...
00:02:05.340 Now, listen to this. This is fresh.
00:02:06.800 Pyro Polyev is now desperately trying to rebrand himself in the hopes that Canadians will forget who he is.
00:02:12.320 That's exactly what the Liberals are doing.
00:02:14.940 It's exactly what the Liberals are doing.
00:02:17.740 It's stunning that people still believe this party in anything they say.
00:02:22.180 Like I say, if Liberals actually told you what they believed, you'd never vote for them.
00:02:26.920 So they're lying to you all the time to get your votes.
00:02:30.340 And then they're going to go back to the same old, same old and just continue to drag this country down.
00:02:34.800 But what did Pyro Polyev yesterday say?
00:02:37.120 He said Conservatives have been right about everything.
00:02:40.440 Here he is from his speech in Ottawa.
00:02:42.320 You know, the media is now saying that I should change my entire platform because of the tariff threat.
00:02:50.940 In fact, in fact, in fact, the Trump tariff threats have proven Conservatives right on everything.
00:02:59.520 It's true.
00:03:00.440 Everyone now admits, or they claim to admit, that Conservatives were right on the Liberal Capital Gains tax hike,
00:03:13.680 that Conservatives were right on the carbon tax, on pipelines, on LNG, on fentanyl, the borders, immigration,
00:03:20.800 and the need to celebrate rather than cancel our proud history and country.
00:03:32.000 And he followed it up by saying this, which I think is one of the strong points of what he said yesterday in his speech.
00:03:37.340 It's funny.
00:03:38.060 First, the Liberals said, Polyev has no policies.
00:03:42.540 And then they said, OK, he does, but they're really scary.
00:03:48.040 And now they say they agree with all my policies.
00:03:51.320 You know, imitation is the highest form of flattery, but you cannot believe them.
00:04:00.080 My friends, it is not realistic that we would believe a party 60 days before election suddenly reversing itself on absolutely everything.
00:04:09.540 If you want Conservative policies, you will have to vote Conservative.
00:04:16.160 But is this a desperate rebrand?
00:04:18.960 No, because if you watch what he said yesterday, he has been very, very clear on what he stands for since he showed up here at Spruce Meadows in southern Calgary
00:04:29.680 a year and a half to two years ago when he was running to be the leader of the party.
00:04:33.840 He's talked about food lines in that speech yesterday, high home prices, the carbon tax, uninspected shipping containers, illegal immigration, gun crime, drug issues.
00:04:43.880 He has been very, very clear on all these issues and how he would handle them.
00:04:48.040 The Liberals always tell you he hasn't got any policies and he isn't telling you how he's going to do anything.
00:04:52.940 He's been very clear on all these things all along.
00:04:55.640 The other thing he did yesterday was he talked about different options for the United States because, yes, this was a rah-rah Canada thing.
00:05:02.340 Definitely. Rah-rah Canada.
00:05:04.340 He mentions having a warrior culture, not a woke culture in the military.
00:05:09.260 And he talks about Canada first, not becoming the 51st state.
00:05:12.200 But he gives some options to the United States.
00:05:14.280 Now, the only thing I wish he'd done is instead of saying to our American friends is how he started this,
00:05:20.020 he should have said, I wanted to send this message to Donald Trump.
00:05:24.020 He should have spoken directly to Trump himself.
00:05:27.040 And I'm not going to show you all three of these because this video would go on far too long.
00:05:30.840 But just quickly paraphrasing, option one was, the Americans can attack our economy and make things worse on both sides of the border. 0.62
00:05:39.620 That's the first option.
00:05:40.860 Number two is, work with us, make us stronger and trade more.
00:05:44.840 Which, of course, is the option that I think both sides of the border would be better off with.
00:05:49.580 Now, he didn't actually say option three, but he said this, which other country would you rather have as your neighbor?
00:05:57.480 The other message he had during his speech, which I would encourage you to watch the whole thing, because it was a good speech, was the fact that we should be rich in this country.
00:06:21.160 I mentioned not too long ago in one of my videos that if we had been selling our natural resources, getting it out of the ground and actually selling it around the world, we would all have solid gold swimming pools in our backyards.
00:06:33.940 Paulie have had this to say.
00:06:35.440 We should be the wealthiest and most self-reliant economy in the world today, given our natural resources.
00:06:41.440 But instead, here we are.
00:06:51.500 We have the fourth biggest supply of oil, yet we must import 179 million barrels of foreign oil every year because of the Liberal No New Pipelines Act, which is still law today.
00:07:06.620 We are the fifth biggest supplier of natural gas, but we can't export a single cubic foot of it overseas because we don't have a single liquefaction facility.
00:07:18.460 The Liberals, according to Trudeau and Carney, they don't believe there is a business case for LNG plants.
00:07:27.140 I think Paulieff's best message yesterday was when he talked about the end of cancel culture, on how we should embrace our past and not tear it down like the Liberals have done.
00:07:38.300 The Liberals are trying to fool people into believing that they're wrapping themselves in the Canadian flags and that the great defenders of Canada, when they're the ones who have got us in our predicament, they've got the noose around our neck and have us hanging from a gallows pole right now.
00:07:52.400 Forget everything that we've done over the last 10 years.
00:07:57.400 They think they can fool people.
00:07:58.400 You know, I'm a strong believer in quotes.
00:08:00.400 I love quotes.
00:08:01.400 You can learn a lot from quotes.
00:08:02.400 And Paulieff has a good one coming up.
00:08:04.400 I'm going to show you in just a second.
00:08:05.400 I think it was Mark Twain who said,
00:08:07.400 It's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled.
00:08:11.400 And Liberal voters have been fooled.
00:08:12.400 And they're trying to be fooled again.
00:08:14.400 And they're going to be fooled again.
00:08:15.400 They are fools.
00:08:16.400 It's pathetic to think that the Liberals are the great defenders of Canada when we're in deep trouble right now in Canada is broken.
00:08:26.400 They wrap themselves in the Canadian flag and think it's okay.
00:08:29.400 And Liberal voters think it's okay to boo a young girl singing the American national anthem or last night at the hockey game between USA and Canada booing the national anthem.
00:08:39.400 It's pathetic.
00:08:40.400 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light.
00:08:50.400 And I was out having dinner for my birthday last night with a group of people and the Americans scored. 0.98
00:08:55.400 I started laughing.
00:08:57.400 And my wife said, what are you laughing about? 0.98
00:09:00.400 I said, no, it's political.
00:09:03.400 I almost stood up and went, yay, 51, go 51.
00:09:08.400 Get the point?
00:09:09.400 But here's what Pierre Polyev said about cancel culture yesterday and embracing Canada's past.
00:09:16.400 But just as terrible economic policies have made, has threatened our economic independence, so too have the radical post-national ideologies that say that Canada has no core identity threatened our national sovereignty.
00:09:35.400 As the great Nova Scotian Joseph Howe said, a wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs the great public structures and fosters national pride and love of country by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
00:10:02.400 We will end cancel culture and stop the war on our history. 1.00
00:10:17.400 It was a great speech.
00:10:20.400 I encourage you to watch the whole thing.
00:10:22.400 When I watched it this morning on Polyev's X account, 300,000 people had watched it.
00:10:27.400 And I don't think that covers all of social media, so a considerable number of people watched that video.
00:10:32.400 A poll came out yesterday, a big poll saying that the Conservatives would wipe out the Liberals in an election.
00:10:38.400 That's an encouraging thing.
00:10:39.400 But I have a final quote for you if you're a Liberal out there.
00:10:44.400 And it goes like this.
00:10:45.400 You may have heard it before.
00:10:46.400 Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
00:10:50.400 Do you really want to repeat the last ten years under the Liberal Party?
00:10:54.400 Do you really want to vote for them again and repeat the past?
00:10:57.400 Because if you do want that, we are doomed.
00:11:09.400 Until next time, we will see you in the next one.