John Bolton - The Dark Days - Go To The Light

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 429 a.m. Tuesday, April the 7th. I hope you're

00:00:08.000 having a great start to your Tuesday morning. I appreciate you being here. I really do.

00:00:15.100 I've been up for far too long this morning. I've been up for more than three hours.

00:00:20.900 One of the first things people say to me when they meet me is,

00:00:23.640 boy, you don't sleep very much or when do you sleep?

00:00:26.140 it's very odd but i don't sleep a lot i try to get a nap in when i can in the afternoon but i

00:00:33.560 don't sleep a lot and i got up this morning and i looked at the news i looked at you know what was

00:00:39.420 going on on the internet i went on x i don't like x it's a sewer it's depressing it's hostile

00:00:44.780 don't like that i go there for news i i didn't have a an x account or a twitter account for a

00:00:51.160 lot of years because it was so negative but i got one because of this channel i post my videos on

00:00:55.700 there. But that's about it. I don't follow the news all the time. I've said that quite often.

00:01:00.740 Sometimes I think I should follow it more, but I think I drive myself crazy. And I think we should

00:01:06.180 all take a step back from it every once in a while. And I almost did that this morning.

00:01:10.740 This isn't going to be a deep dive into the news this morning. I looked at the news. There's all

00:01:14.400 sorts of things happening. But I thought that I might call this video the dark days.

00:01:25.700 If I do a thumbnail for this, I can see it already.

00:01:27.840 I can see a face peering out of the darkness.

00:01:31.560 A singular light bulb hanging on a cord with one of those chains on it.

00:01:36.000 In a very dark room, and on the back wall, there's a flag of Canada.

00:01:40.580 Because I think things are pretty dark right now.

00:01:42.340 I don't recall things ever being quite like this.

00:01:46.600 And you know what?

00:01:47.280 I can look back on the good old days now.

00:01:49.160 I'm in my 60s.

00:01:50.200 I don't recall ever thinking what I'm thinking right now about Canada. I do see light at the

00:02:00.060 end of the tunnel. I live in Alberta, after all, and there is going to be a way out of this. I

00:02:04.320 hope enough people realize that. But I don't ever recall things being like this. Now, for those of

00:02:09.660 you who may be early 60s or in your 60s, you may have, you know, you may look at the late 70s into

00:02:17.520 the 80s as your formative years, those years when you were trying to find your way in life.

00:02:21.820 I remember in my first radio job, you're going to find this amazing.

00:02:27.460 My first radio job, I made $11,000 a year, and that was in the mid-80s.

00:02:33.300 If you were to look back historically on what radio people made, in the late 50s, people

00:02:39.740 were making about $5,000 a year.

00:02:41.720 I left my first radio job making $11,000 a year for a radio job. I moved for a radio job that made

00:02:51.340 $12,000 a year. I swear to God, people said, why would you do that? I said, that's almost a 10%

00:02:57.520 raise. Think about it. But I don't recall ever thinking I can't afford to eat, even when I was

00:03:05.620 making $11,000 a year. Had a car. I don't ever recall thinking gas prices are too high right

00:03:12.860 now. The cost of living is so high that I can't afford accommodation. I can't afford to drive.

00:03:19.420 I can't afford food. But I'm doing better now, certainly. But I watch prices. And I'm very

00:03:27.420 concerned when I pay $1.72 for gas, which happened the other day. I think we're in dark days right

00:03:34.900 now. I look at the headlines. I see headlines about Canada cozying up to China. And I remember

00:03:46.820 the debate, and I played a clip from it, I think less than a week ago, the debate, which was, I

00:03:51.200 think, April 14th last year, leaders debate prior to the election where Carney said, China is our

00:03:58.740 biggest threat. And now we're cozying up to the communist Chinese. And the people who voted for 0.91

00:04:06.240 Carney and live in this country are perfectly fine with that because they blame Donald Trump

00:04:13.500 for all the problems. And that's not true. Trump is a symptom of an incompetent liberal government,

00:04:23.380 which we're going to be stuck with

00:04:25.560 another three to four years

00:04:28.480 as of Monday night.

00:04:31.420 Liberal majority coming.

00:04:33.200 I see this. 0.97

00:04:34.340 People are rooting on the communist Chinese 1.00

00:04:36.160 and they're fine with it. 0.98

00:04:37.760 We're very divided in this country.

00:04:39.500 I've never seen it quite like this before.

00:04:41.740 Now, it may be because

00:04:43.740 we have constant access to the news

00:04:46.620 and social media is there.

00:04:49.640 you know i i often have a discussion with people people say that we're having more

00:04:56.220 people who believe in the climate change hoax well we have more floods we have more tornadoes

00:05:02.580 we have more droughts well is that true or is it simply because you hear about them more now

00:05:08.340 because you have access to media 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year

00:05:15.320 We only used to get the news at noon, 6, and 11.

00:05:19.060 But I see people rooting against the United States and Israel against a terrorist country.

00:05:27.620 Does that make any sense to you? No.

00:05:30.460 Dark days indeed.

00:05:33.800 I look at other headlines, and I talked about Bill 3.

00:05:37.400 I'm not sure if you're aware of this.

00:05:39.100 I did talk about Bill 3 probably a month or so ago.

00:05:42.060 Bill 3 will allow more people into the country. Why is this happening? I thought we were trying 0.98

00:05:47.980 to have fewer people coming here, but Bill 3 will allow anybody to come here as a resident

00:05:54.600 and be a Canadian citizen if anybody ever in their family was a Canadian citizen,

00:05:59.880 which will likely flood the country with thousands, if not tens of thousands,

00:06:03.800 hundreds of thousands more people. Can you imagine? We're talking about supply and demand.

00:06:13.040 It's kind of economics 101. Low supply, high demand drives up prices. Well, that's what's

00:06:18.100 been happening when it comes to things like housing. In the last year, Carney, has he built

00:06:24.520 any houses? I don't know. Said he would do that. Said he would make the cost of living better.

00:06:30.240 How's that working out for you right now?

00:06:32.140 It's getting worse, isn't it?

00:06:33.120 I paid $1.72 for gas the other day

00:06:35.260 in a province that has the third largest oil reserves in the world.

00:06:39.940 Canada should be rich.

00:06:45.180 Aaron Gunn, conservative, going on about building pipelines in Canada.

00:06:49.560 Too late, Aaron.

00:06:51.720 Too late. 1.00

00:06:54.280 Alberta's going to leave. 0.97

00:06:55.600 We wanted this years ago. 0.84

00:06:57.080 that the Liberals put laws and rules in place

00:07:00.920 based on their climate cultism

00:07:02.880 that didn't allow us to build pipelines.

00:07:05.700 Imagine how that would benefit us right now.

00:07:11.060 And then I see things like Canada being divided over a train

00:07:16.820 that cost $90 billion.

00:07:23.280 And you've got people who support Carney,

00:07:25.940 the elbows up people, saying that this is a good thing and mocking conservatives for being afraid

00:07:33.900 of a train. $90 billion. I've been told this is $8,000 for every household in the country.

00:07:43.680 How would $8,000 in your pocket help you? And the thing is, you're going to be paying for this

00:07:51.480 thing. This is government dollars, government dollars that Canada can't afford. They're

00:07:56.720 going to print the money. You know, in my household, I'm not sure whether it's the same

00:08:04.200 where you live, but there is a saying, wants and needs. I want to do this, but I need to

00:08:14.800 put brakes on my car. What's more important? Do we really need a $90 billion train right

00:08:21.460 Right now, do we need the division this is creating?

00:08:26.040 Do we really need that for the people of Toronto

00:08:30.340 out to Quebec City in Vote Rich, Ontario

00:08:32.660 and Vote Rich, Quebec?

00:08:35.480 Is that really needed right now? 0.93

00:08:37.880 No, people can't afford food.

00:08:41.080 Dark days, folks.

00:08:42.960 And the contract for the train is going to a company

00:08:46.360 that's renamed itself Atkins Realis.

00:08:49.180 that was known as SNC-Lavalin.

00:08:53.700 Of course it is.

00:08:55.600 And the finance minister has had to

00:08:57.600 recuse himself from discussions on this

00:09:00.680 because his wife is involved

00:09:01.960 with the Crown Corporation that's building the train.

00:09:05.740 I mean, it's just so sleazy.

00:09:10.020 It's hard to believe it's possible.

00:09:13.740 Now, I'm concerned.

00:09:15.500 I'm concerned for my friends and my family

00:09:17.920 that live in Canada.

00:09:19.180 I do see light at the end of the tunnel you know I've I've been very lucky that I've been a small

00:09:30.100 part with so many other people who want Alberta independence and I don't want to turn this into

00:09:35.740 an independence discussion but I've gone out over the last several months I was just out the other

00:09:42.760 day you may have seen the video where I went out and I shook hands of the people out there

00:09:47.140 collecting signatures on petitions so Alberta can have a referendum on independence. And over the

00:09:53.660 last almost a year now, I've met up with hundreds, if not thousands of people in Alberta who want

00:10:00.580 independence like I do. And they're all happy. They're all optimistic. They're all friendly.

00:10:08.080 They're all positive.

00:10:12.180 And I want more of that.

00:10:14.440 If you're somebody sitting on the fence right now,

00:10:17.620 look at the dark days in Canada that you're going through right now.

00:10:24.920 Think of your future.

00:10:26.400 Think of your children's future.

00:10:27.720 Think of your grandchildren's future.

00:10:31.980 Think how things could be so much better right now

00:10:35.260 and you could be in the light

00:10:37.520 as opposed to the darkness

00:10:39.420 that is Canada right now.

00:10:41.920 And I've only touched on a couple of things.

00:10:49.780 I'm going to go do some housework.

00:10:52.960 You know, keep up on the news.

00:10:54.580 It's what I do,

00:10:55.500 but I don't obsess about it.

00:10:57.560 I can't.

00:10:58.620 I did for a long time.

00:11:01.140 It's not good for your mental state.

00:11:02.960 thank you very much for your time

00:11:05.920 I do appreciate it

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John Bolton - April 07, 2026

The Dark Days - Go To The Light

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