John Bolton - Poilievre's BRILLIANT 42 seconds - Was it enough？

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 403 a.m. It is Friday, April the 18th with the big blue mug

00:00:06.400 of coffee. Hope you're having a great day today. I certainly am. And just a reminder to click on

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00:00:16.980 One other thing I want to do before I talk about last night's debate, which I did watch,

00:00:21.520 I want to thank all the contributors, all the people who are out there doing great work. A lot

00:00:25.940 of these clips I get off of X, I get off of YouTube. I want to thank you so much. Juno News,

00:00:30.920 Rebel News, Mark Nixon, Government is Corrupt, and others. I don't always attribute all the things

00:00:36.220 I get here on this channel to the people who are creating them and I apologize for that,

00:00:40.180 but I wanted to make sure you got some credit. Thanks again. So I watched the debate last night

00:00:45.340 and I came out of it thinking the same as I went into it. Certainly not going to change my mind

00:00:51.200 and I was thinking back and maybe you thought the same thing. You've watched a lot of debates over

00:00:55.160 the years. Have you ever changed your mind based on what you saw on a debate? Probably not.

00:00:59.680 Now, maybe if you're undecided, it might sway you one way or the other, but two hours of debate in

00:01:05.660 English last night. I'm glad I watched the English one because the best part of the whole debate,

00:01:10.800 I could have avoided all of it because the very best part of the debate was the last 42 seconds.

00:01:19.860 Watch this.

00:01:21.440 Only in Canada could someone start where I began and get to the stage. I was born to a single mother

00:01:28.760 and adopted by school teachers who raised me to believe in the incredible Canadian promise that

00:01:34.540 anyone who worked hard could do anything. That promise feels broken today. Many of you worried about

00:01:43.480 paying your bills, feeding your families, or ever even owning a home. You're worried your kids are in

00:01:49.340 danger. But I'm here to say it doesn't have to be this way. With change, we can restore the

00:01:55.760 Canadian promise so that hard work gets you a beautiful house on a safe street under a proud

00:02:01.860 flag. We can do it with hope for a change.

00:02:06.400 An absolute beautiful moment from Pierre Polyev. And you can almost see his eyes well up a little

00:02:13.280 bit while he's saying that. He truly believes that. It's a message he talks about very often

00:02:18.420 in his rallies. Now, unfortunately for him, he was the last person to speak. And maybe the people who

00:02:25.040 tuned into Mark Carney in his fear closing statement, which I'm going to get to in just a moment, didn't get

00:02:30.160 a chance to hear Polyev. Then again, Polyev did have the last word in the debate last night. So compare

00:02:36.260 this to what Mark Carney had to say. Now, other people were thinking about this last night. And it was

00:02:41.380 something that came to mind while I was watching the debate. Everything is a crisis to Mark Carney

00:02:46.240 and the Liberal Party. And this plays really well. As I've said here before, James Madison said,

00:02:50.900 crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. Everything is a crisis to the Liberals. And they are depending

00:02:57.280 on people to believe that there was a climate crisis, a housing crisis, an economic crisis,

00:03:02.960 tariff crisis. Donald Trump is a crisis. And even in the closing statement, Mark Carney, well, it was a

00:03:08.700 crisis. We are facing the biggest crisis of our lifetimes. Donald Trump is trying to fundamentally

00:03:16.060 change the world economy, the trading system. But really what he's trying to do to Canada, he's trying

00:03:21.560 to break us so the U.S. can own us. They want our land. They want our resources. They want our 0.81

00:03:27.280 water. They want our country. We're all going to stand up against Donald Trump. I'm ready. I've

00:03:35.260 managed crises over the years. I've built strong economies. We will fight back with counter tariffs.

00:03:41.940 We will protect our workers and those businesses. And we will build the strongest economy. We will

00:03:47.460 build Canada strong. I'm asking for your support, the honor of doing so. Thank you.

00:03:53.880 Looking at Carney's message and then looking at Polyev's, who would you rather put your trust in?

00:03:58.640 The one who's trying to play on your fears and manipulate you? Or the one who's talking about,

00:04:03.080 you know, hope and doing something good for the country? I think the answer is clear here. And again,

00:04:08.680 who knows how many people tuned out before they heard those 42 seconds out of pure Polyev's mouth.

00:04:14.540 And I think it's interesting because Polyev represents the young people. I saw some videos

00:04:19.220 pop up online last night. Young people going on TikTok, trying to encourage their grandparents

00:04:25.300 not to vote liberal because their futures don't look very good under the liberal government.

00:04:31.320 They're asking people to vote for Polyev because Polyev represents some hope to them.

00:04:36.420 While Carney represents the fear. Now, the other thing I find interesting as well, I was watching

00:04:40.540 Juneau News last night and that's where I watched my live feed, Candace Malcolm talking to David Knight

00:04:45.460 Legg. And about two minutes and 40 seconds into the discussion, they were doing some post-debate

00:04:52.820 analysis. Legg had a great point here and I've mentioned it here on my channel as well.

00:04:57.620 I actually think the problem for Mark Carney that became apparent during this debate is that already

00:05:03.620 a lot of his themes are dated. You could sort of feel that the wheel is turned over the course,

00:05:09.720 even over the course of this last few weeks, on Donald Trump as a crisis. And it sounds a little

00:05:16.080 stale. I don't think people are feeling that Donald Trump is the crisis right now.

00:05:20.280 Can Mark Carney continue along with this fear campaign, which is seeming rather stale?

00:05:25.360 Can you do it for the next week and a half? I was watching Warren Kinsella talking with Brian

00:05:29.640 Lilly and others on the Toronto Sun feed last night. Kinsella says it's over. We might as well vote.

00:05:35.800 Nobody's going to change their mind at this point. Nothing was changed with these two debates.

00:05:39.540 I don't know whether that's the case, but we'll have to see. Now, as far as the debate

00:05:43.180 goes itself, there were some highlights and lowlights. I'm not going to go into the clips

00:05:47.380 very long, but the real low light of the night was Jagmeet Singh. I mentioned yesterday, why

00:05:53.300 is he even on stage? He seemed like a petulant child looking for attention last night. Couldn't

00:05:57.880 stop interrupting Pierpoliev. Some people suggesting he's already made a deal with the liberals for

00:06:03.940 after the election. I don't know whether that's the case because chances are Singh won't even be

00:06:08.380 around. He might not even get reelected in his riding. But at one point, Steve Pakin, who did a

00:06:13.520 pretty damn good job moderating last night, is a good journalist, had to tell Jagmeet Singh finally

00:06:18.620 just to basically shut up. Steve, the question that Canadians have to ask is whether he's got the

00:06:28.200 Mr. Singh. Sorry, he has the floor. Now, as far as block leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, I said

00:06:34.260 yesterday that he shouldn't be on stage, but I'm glad he was on stage last night. I think he was the

00:06:39.020 best one on stage. I think he won the debate. It means nothing, but I think he won the debate.

00:06:45.760 A man who represents only Quebec, and he brought it up all the time last night. It became rather

00:06:50.720 boring to hear him say it. A man who is no friend of Canada, certainly no friend of Alberta because

00:06:55.260 he doesn't want oil and gas, but he got the best shots in last night. And here's one. I'll just show

00:07:00.440 one to you. And this is when Jagmeet Singh was making a statement. Just listen to what he says. It's

00:07:06.340 great. What I found very troubling is that the past number of years, the liberal government record

00:07:13.640 is one where we have spent the most subsidies compared to any other country in the G7 on

00:07:19.520 subsidizing oil and gas. These are highly profitable companies. You voted for it. I think that's the

00:07:24.100 wrong thing to do. We fought against it again and again. No, you voted for it. And then the liberals

00:07:28.000 have continued to do it. And so my question really to Mr. Carney is, Blanchet actually went after Carney

00:07:33.920 for his offshore bank accounts and went after him for Brookfield a number of times. I think he was the

00:07:38.580 most entertaining part of the debate last night. I say he won the debate. He didn't really win

00:07:43.600 anything, but I was glad he was there. It was very entertaining to hear what he had to say. Biggest

00:07:47.880 fail on the night, Mark Carney, no doubt about it. And he laid up one for Pierre Polyev that Polyev

00:07:54.540 couldn't have hoped for. The left seems to think Polyev's security clearance is a big deal. And it's

00:07:59.760 quite logical why he hasn't got his security clearance. And Carney asked him about it last night.

00:08:05.500 As soon as it started to come out of his mouth, I leaned forward and I thought,

00:08:09.580 he's actually going to go here? And Polyev went in and he ended up with a slam dunk.

00:08:15.580 I'm not going to play the whole clip, just a little bit of a clip. And he even gave a bit

00:08:19.580 of a nod to former opposition leader, NDP leader, Tom Mulcair.

00:08:24.180 But when the government made this recent offer, they said that if I got the secret security clearance

00:08:30.680 briefings, that I would be gagged under the security law and I could be prosecuted if I spoke

00:08:36.860 freely about matters of foreign interference. Now, given that Canada has experienced Chinese 1.00

00:08:44.180 interference by Beijing, the government of China, in two consecutive elections, I needed to do my job

00:08:51.040 to speak freely without fear of prosecution. Even Thomas Mulcair, the former leader of the NDP,

00:08:57.580 said that when he was the leader of the opposition, he never would have accepted the kind of gag order

00:09:03.500 that your government and Mr. Trudeau's government was attempting to impose on me.

00:09:07.820 There were no knockout punches during the debate. All Carney had to do was survive this,

00:09:13.120 and he survived it quite well. So again, I don't think this really swayed too many people's minds.

00:09:18.300 Were there any knockout punches? No. I think the best moment of the night

00:09:21.160 was when Pierre Polyev talked about, don't you really want four more years of this? And the same

00:09:26.980 people that have been running the country for the last 10 years are running the country right now.

00:09:31.800 And he had this to say to Mark Carney.

00:09:33.580 And are you prepared to elect the same liberal MPs, the same liberal ministers, the same liberal

00:09:38.040 staffers all over again for a fourth term? Mr. Carney, Justin Trudeau's staffers are actually here with

00:09:44.500 you at this debate in Montreal, writing the talking points that you are regurgitating into the microphone.

00:09:50.020 How can we possibly believe that you are any different than the previous 10 years of liberal

00:09:56.880 government? Carney survives the debate. I wasted an hour and 56 minutes of my time, could have watched

00:10:04.500 the last four minutes to get the closing statements, in particular Carney's message of fear and crisis

00:10:10.320 compared to the change that Pierre Polyev is promising and some hope for the future, which was

00:10:15.860 his best 42 seconds, I think, of this campaign for sure. I'm almost more interested in this election

00:10:22.340 to find out if the polls are correct because they've swung so far since the beginning of this year. I think

00:10:27.680 this is a neck-and-neck race right now, which isn't good for the conservatives because they have to win

00:10:32.380 a majority outright. Otherwise, if they win a minority, it's over, folks. Coalition government,

00:10:38.240 the Liberals, NDP, bloc will all team up and we'll be on the outside looking in and we might be looking

00:10:45.320 at the end of Canada as we know it. And I believe that 100%. Thanks so much for watching this video.

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John Bolton - April 18, 2025

Poilievre's BRILLIANT 42 seconds - Was it enough？

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