John Bolton - August 18, 2025


Pierre Poilievre - The next PRIME MINISTER of Canada

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Pierre Poilievre Mark Carney Donald Trump Doug Ford Guy Lozong Damien Keurig Vladimir Zelensky Emmanuel Macron Alexander Stubb Friedrich Merz Keir Starmer John
Catching up on the NEWS - It all makes PERFECT SENSE to me now Poilievre was MASTERFUL - and then there is IDIOT Doug Ford

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Pierre Polyev wins the Battle River Crowfoot by-election and becomes the next Prime Minister of Canada. Today s election will be remembered as one of the most important days in Canadian political history, because the next PM of Canada will be elected today, and that would be Pierre Polyev.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today, 6.03 a.m.,
00:00:09.520 Monday, August the 18th, with the big blue mug of coffee. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope
00:00:14.260 you're having a great start to your week. And I don't think it's a stretch to say that
00:00:19.480 in the future, people will look at today as one of the most important days in Canadian
00:00:26.660 political history, because the next Prime Minister of Canada will be elected today, and that
00:00:31.900 would be Pierre Polyev. The Battle River Crowfoot by-election is today. Polyev should win easily.
00:00:38.700 This riding, I think, has been held by Conservatives for about 100 years. They generally get at
00:00:43.700 least 80% of the vote. Damien Keurig, who stepped down for Polyev, won 83% back on April 28th.
00:00:51.000 Don't expect that. That's not going to happen. But he should win this one easily today.
00:00:55.180 Now, I want to look at Pierre Polyev in the past, maybe back to January. We'll look at what's going
00:01:01.840 on right now, and we'll look at where we are moving forward so he can become the next Prime
00:01:05.900 Minister of Canada. So, the keyboard warriors on the left, who for some reason hate Pierre Polyev,
00:01:11.780 will point out that he lost a 20% lead. And that's about right. But I think Polyev was more a victim 0.98
00:01:18.220 of bad timing, more than anything. Okay? And the bad timing comes down to a couple of words,
00:01:24.960 and those words would be Donald Trump. And he was a victim of, I think, of a campaign team
00:01:28.920 that didn't react fast enough when Trump started to save 51st state. The liberals did. 0.87
00:01:33.920 Mark Carney did. They immediately went to the Donald Trump owns us. I played that clip here many times.
00:01:40.140 The elbows-up thing, which we all know about, and then the Canada Strong thing. Meanwhile,
00:01:45.820 Polyev was talking about the economy with a great message, but his Canada is broken
00:01:52.140 looked weak in comparison to the Canada Strong thing. Meanwhile, when it came to election today,
00:01:58.740 self-righteous Canadians who grasp onto the belief that Canada is superior because we have
00:02:03.920 free health care here. They couldn't remember the last 10 years. They couldn't remember their last
00:02:10.540 overpriced trip to the grocery store or the home down the street with the for sale sign that they
00:02:15.600 can't afford to buy anymore in Liberal Canada. And I think this was one election on April 28th where
00:02:21.660 it's the economy, stupid, didn't win the race. Isn't that fascinating? Because to me, it was about the 1.00
00:02:27.920 economy. It was an election where gray-haired people betrayed their grandchildren by voting, 0.99
00:02:33.920 on faux-Canadian patriotism, and they, to this day, continue to prop up Carney's poll numbers.
00:02:43.760 Moving forward, we need Polyev back in the House of Commons. If you've seen him in question period,
00:02:48.560 I think he's the best there is. He has the support of most of his caucus, but his leadership will come
00:02:54.640 up for review in January, and there are dark forces that will try to see him ousted. Just to give you an
00:03:00.000 idea, Mark Carney today will be meeting with his good friend, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who was not
00:03:06.560 a friend of Pierre Polyev in the election campaign. I think he was detrimental to Polyev.
00:03:13.040 And I think Doug Ford would love to replace Polyev as Conservative leader, and I think Mark Carney would
00:03:18.160 like to help him do that. As far as Canada right now, how irrelevant are we on the world stage? Well,
00:03:24.960 while Mark Carney is talking to Doug Ford today, Donald Trump will be talking to Vladimir Zelenskyy
00:03:30.000 about peace in Ukraine. Along for the ride, EU President Ursula von der Leyen, French President
00:03:36.320 Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,
00:03:41.520 and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Where is Mark Carney? He's talking to Doug Ford.
00:03:47.360 Now, after today's election, I think he's been this way since he lost the election on April 28th. You're
00:03:54.000 going to see a very humbled Pierre Polyev. He lost a riding he held for 20 years.
00:04:00.480 And he had to get right back in the spotlight. And it must have been rather humiliating for him. I think
00:04:05.840 the guy has guts. I think it showed true character what he did after he lost on April 28th. And I think he is
00:04:14.000 stronger for this. What should his message be going forward? I think it should be a message of hope.
00:04:21.840 It's always darkest just before dawn. I hate to use that, but it's true. But I think that Pierre Polyev
00:04:27.600 is the strong man that can create good times for Canada. He needs to continue to point out the
00:04:34.880 problems in this country and they're not going to go away. Housing, cost of living, crime, immigration, 0.75
00:04:41.120 taxes, carbon taxes, EV mandates. It goes on and on and on. I don't think the liberals can fix these
00:04:47.120 things. And I don't think in a lot of cases they want to, particularly when it comes to immigration.
00:04:53.120 I think there is still a Carney cult right now. The elbows up people are not going away. But I think 1.00
00:04:59.760 it's the economy, stupid, will sink in for a lot of people sooner or later. It's going to have to, 1.00
00:05:05.840 because it comes down to dollars and cents for most people. And people will want change.
00:05:11.680 As for today's election, to the people who have an irrational hate on for Pierre Polyev,
00:05:17.840 anything less than 100% today will be considered a loss for him. And that's not going to happen today.
00:05:26.080 I've said here, I don't like when this kind of thing happens. People didn't like that I said,
00:05:31.600 I don't think parachuting Pierre Polyev into Battle River Crowfoot is the right thing to do.
00:05:37.440 People voted for Damian Keurig, 83% of the people. I don't think this is right.
00:05:42.960 I think it's wrong. I thought it was wrong when Mark Carney ran in Carlton. He doesn't live there.
00:05:48.880 And I've been consistent on that. Okay. There's going to be a lot of people today who will not
00:05:53.840 vote for Pierre Polyev simply because of that. They may have voted conservative their whole life,
00:05:58.720 but they don't like that. And I understand that. Okay. But I think Pierre Polyev will win.
00:06:06.560 And if I were in Battle River Crowfoot today, I would be voting for Pierre Polyev. It wouldn't
00:06:12.640 even be a question. He is a fantastic candidate and I think he's a good leader.
00:06:17.920 I have mentioned this before on this channel that I met Pierre Polyev a few years after he was
00:06:25.760 elected. Guy Lozong was the MP in my writing. He passed away recently, by the way. And he was
00:06:32.640 elected in the same year as Polyev for the very first time. And I was interviewing Guy Lozong in my
00:06:39.200 studio, my radio studio. And Polyev had come down from Ottawa and I was introduced to Pierre Polyev as the
00:06:45.920 future Prime Minister of Canada. And I truly believe that to this day. Today is the next step
00:06:53.680 for one of the biggest comebacks in Canadian political history. So it's going to be interesting
00:06:58.560 to see how this one plays out, but don't listen to the naysayers online. It might not be a resounding
00:07:04.320 80% of the vote in Battle River Crowfoot, but Pierre Polyev winning today will be a win for Canada.
00:07:12.240 Pierre Polyev, the next Prime Minister of Canada.
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