John Bolton - Poilievre Schools The CBC In A Reaganesque Way

00:00:00.080 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Friday, December the 20th. Five sleeps until Santa.

00:00:05.560 Five sleeps until Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to you and yours with the big blue mug of coffee

00:00:10.760 this morning. I might change the mug as we get closer to Christmas Day. Very, very Christmas

00:00:15.940 appropriate. A new one coming up in a couple of days. Now, the big story in Canada today is a

00:00:21.320 cabinet shuffle, I guess. That's happening today. Yeah, yeah. Not going to talk about that. I don't

00:00:25.460 know whether I'll bring it up at all unless something very interesting happens, but I don't

00:00:29.120 think anything of note is going to happen today. Everybody else will be reporting on this.

00:00:34.440 I think the big story will be the people that turn the jobs down because a lot of liberals know that

00:00:40.520 the ship is going down. And if I'm not the first person to say it, you're going to hear it a hundred

00:00:44.040 times today. This is shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's all it is. That's all that's

00:00:49.700 happening today. The only thing we don't know is that as the government announces the new cabinet

00:00:54.440 positions, whether they'll play Near My God to Thee as the background music, which apparently

00:00:59.580 was the music that the band was playing on the deck of the Titanic as it went into the ocean just

00:01:04.980 off the coast of Newfoundland. So we'll have to find out what happens, but I'm not going to talk

00:01:08.480 about that today. I want to talk about a video I saw yesterday. It's all over the internet.

00:01:12.480 I've seen it on CTV, CBC, but I'm going to use Rebel News because they're the good guys. And it's

00:01:18.000 Pierre Polyev talking yesterday. I got a question from somebody from CBC.

00:01:21.440 Polyev is very impressive. I don't think we've seen anyone quite like him as a conservative

00:01:28.700 leader or any leader here in Canada. And when I watched him yesterday, as I did over the years,

00:01:34.720 over the last year or so, even including the Apple video, which is notorious and one of the best

00:01:38.820 videos ever. I thought yesterday when I saw this, that he was rather Reagan-esque and I'm kind of a

00:01:44.620 collector of quotes. I like quotes, great things said by great people in the past. And I've saved a

00:01:51.160 bunch of them from Ronald Reagan. So what I'm going to do, show you the video, and then I'm

00:01:55.840 going to do a comparison to Ronald Reagan and some of the things he said. High praise for Pierre

00:02:01.520 Polyev. So let's watch that video right now. The government is coming out with a $1.3 billion

00:02:06.680 plan to address border security. Do you think that's enough to stop Trump's tariffs? And if it

00:02:13.660 was up to you, how much specifically would you spend on border security? What number would you put on

00:02:19.040 on border security? Well, you ask a classically CBC question, which is how much money can you spend

00:02:25.840 on a problem? Well, that's the wrong question. That's exactly the question Trudeau has been asking

00:02:33.020 for nine years. It's the reason he's doubled our debt while making everything worse. You know,

00:02:36.900 for example, he spent $80 billion on housing affordability. Well, how'd that work? He doubled

00:02:43.380 housing costs. He spent $60 million on his gun confiscation. Zero guns. He spent millions on a

00:02:52.180 school food program that hasn't served a single solitary meal. So we should not judge a program

00:03:00.400 based on how expensive we can make it. We should judge it by what it can do. How many helicopters?

00:03:07.900 How many drones? How many boots on the ground? That's the question I will be asking when I'm

00:03:14.640 prime minister. And how do we deliver it for the lowest possible price to taxpayers? Wouldn't it be

00:03:21.160 nice if we had a prime minister who said, we secured the borders, we put more boots on the ground,

00:03:27.880 we stopped tons and tons of fentanyl from traveling back and forth, we arrested the terrorists,

00:03:33.800 we shut down the organized crime, we reduced gun crime. And by the way, we did it with less tax

00:03:42.400 dollars. That's how our mentality has to change. We have to stop judging politicians by how expensive

00:03:49.960 they can make things and start judging them by the results they get. You went into a restaurant

00:03:54.500 and had a terrible experience. The food was awful. You got food poisoning. The service was bad.

00:03:59.760 You wouldn't walk out and say, but it was great because it cost me $1,000. And because it must,

00:04:04.940 it's the most expensive restaurant around, it must be the best. No, we judge the meal by the food on

00:04:10.320 the plate and the service that delivered it. That's how I'm going to run a common sense conservative

00:04:15.580 government. Next question.

00:04:20.160 Okay. So the first one is the government that is best governs least. And I think this is one of my

00:04:28.180 favorite quotes because people ask me why I'm a conservative and what I want as a conservative.

00:04:33.280 And very often I say, I want to be left alone. I don't think there's anything the government can

00:04:39.260 do for me that I can't do better. There's not many things I think the government should do at all,

00:04:43.680 other than maybe security roads. I can't do that kind of thing. Provide me with some documents that

00:04:49.840 I might need, but I need the government out of my life. And we've got taxation, we've got regulation,

00:04:54.040 we've got bureaucracy. Canada's government under Trudeau has grown 40%. Are things getting better?

00:05:00.140 No, you just spend a lot more money on a lot more people to do a lot less things. And a lot of the

00:05:04.460 things they do, they aren't doing very well. It's kind of subpar. The logical thing is to be efficient

00:05:09.800 and live within our means. The left seems to think big government can do everything. I don't believe

00:05:14.420 that at all. The government that is best governs least. That's why we need our own does. Department of

00:05:19.980 Governmental Efficiency in Canada. I did a video a couple of weeks ago on that, suggesting that

00:05:24.760 maybe Kevin O'Leary, sort of like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the States, Kevin O'Leary

00:05:30.500 should maybe head up Canada's Department of Governmental Efficiency.

00:05:39.280 The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. I absolutely love that Reagan quote.

00:05:45.260 Governments who continually throw money at a problem, thinking it will fix things.

00:05:49.300 Governments who continually throw money at a problem, thinking it will fix things.

00:05:53.820 Governments who continually throw money at a problem, thinking it will fix things.

00:05:57.760 You get the idea, okay? So, what's the definition of insanity? There's another great quote for you.

00:06:02.760 How about the Indigenous problem? We continually throw money at that? Not getting any better. 1.00

00:06:07.280 How about gun confiscation or gun registration? Government continues to do things about that.

00:06:12.620 I remember when Alan Rock rolled out years ago, when they had a gun registration plan promising

00:06:17.780 a $5 million program. I think they ran it up to $2 billion. How about so-called climate change?

00:06:25.040 Continually throw money at that? It's not getting any better, but they want more of your money,

00:06:28.880 and they expect you to give it to them because they think they're solving a problem.

00:06:32.000 How about housing affordability? How about the availability of housing?

00:06:36.040 How about Ukraine? Billions upon billions upon billions of dollars.

00:06:39.960 More money, more money, more money. Solves nothing.

00:06:41.780 There's too much government in the way to actually fix the things, and throwing money at it 0.66

00:06:47.560 ain't fixing it either, just like Pure Poly have said.

00:06:55.880 The problem is not that people are taxed too little. The problem is that government spends too much.

00:07:01.020 Well, hallelujah. That's self-explanatory, particularly if you're Canadian and you live through 1.00

00:07:05.680 what happened on Monday with that disastrous fall economic update. We're $1.23 billion in debt,

00:07:12.740 and we had a $62 billion deficit last year. And apparently, don't know if you know this,

00:07:19.640 the Liberals are planning for a $48 billion deficit this year. Un-freaking-believable.

00:07:26.360 What's more unbelievable is that I look in the Calgary Sun yesterday, and I see this picture of

00:07:31.500 Dominic LeBlanc in this headline,

00:07:34.060 Canada has fiscal room

00:07:35.600 to withstand tariff war,

00:07:37.500 new finance minister says.

00:07:40.160 Well, we don't have

00:07:41.560 any fiscal room at all. We're

00:07:43.300 $1.23 trillion in debt,

00:07:46.160 and we've got a $62 billion

00:07:47.460 deficit. And we are not

00:07:49.260 going to win a tariff war

00:07:51.340 with the biggest economy in the world.

00:07:53.400 It ain't gonna happen, folks. 1.00

00:07:55.380 So, this guy's an absolute lunatic, 0.99

00:07:57.300 and what Paul E. F. was talking about 1.00

00:07:59.240 was border security. That's what we need to do

00:08:02.220 to fix things on the border

00:08:03.420 so we don't have to get into a tariff war.

00:08:05.820 That's all we have to do.

00:08:07.420 But the government is not doing its job.

00:08:10.240 Now, let me leave you with one more 0.87

00:08:11.640 Reagan quote.

00:08:12.980 Government does not solve problems.

00:08:14.720 It subsidizes them.

00:08:16.380 And I think with Pierre Polyev speaking

00:08:18.200 the way you saw in that video,

00:08:19.660 I think we're on the right track

00:08:21.360 when the next government comes in

00:08:23.340 in late 2025.

00:08:25.580 Thanks so much for watching.

00:08:26.860 See you next time.

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John Bolton - December 20, 2024

Poilievre Schools The CBC In A Reaganesque Way

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