John Bolton - February 07, 2026


The LIBERAL Campaign of FEAR is Back As The Economy CRATERS


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In this morning's show, John talks about the possibility of a spring election, why it might not be as likely as we think, and why it's less likely we'll see one in the near future. He also talks about Canadian conservative MP Jamil Javani's trip to the U.S. and the impact that could have on Canada's economy.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, Saturday, February the 7th, 4.03 a.m. I do
00:00:08.300 have my big blue mug of coffee. I hope you're having a great start to your Saturday and
00:00:12.160 to your weekend as well. I want to be brief. I'm not feeling quite myself this morning.
00:00:17.500 I have a very, very busy day today, so I'm going to try to be short as possible. I want
00:00:22.620 to talk about three things I'm seeing right now that are kind of connected. Number one,
00:00:27.120 the possibility of a spring election. Lots of talk about this right now. I've mentioned
00:00:32.520 it here. The pundits saying the liberals want an election. They would likely win a majority
00:00:37.600 looking at the polls right now, and they desperately want a majority. So that's number one.
00:00:43.120 Number two, indicators that number one might not be quite as possible as we think. And number
00:00:50.340 three, what the liberals are going to do, and I'm already seeing them doing right now because
00:00:54.760 of what's happening with number two. So we'll get to these things right now. Let's look at
00:00:58.980 number one. Possibility of an election. Questions swirl about where Polyev will run as conservatives
00:01:06.220 prepare for a possible spring election. Conservatives are hoping to avoid going to the polls by working
00:01:11.620 with the liberals to pass key pieces of the government's legislative agenda. Now, the liberals
00:01:18.860 don't want to work with the conservatives because you can't have those pesky conservatives solving
00:01:24.320 any problems because there's less likely that they could win an election if that happens. And the
00:01:29.420 conservatives are trying to help in other ways, which they don't like either, which I'll get to
00:01:34.940 in just a moment. So let's move on to number two. Why it's less likely we're to see an election coming
00:01:41.080 up in the spring. It's because Canada's economy is in the dumps right now. I was going to say a word
00:01:48.760 that starts with S and ends with hitters, but I won't do that. It's in the dumps right now. The
00:01:53.000 great white north ain't so great anymore. And here are some of the indicators that might say we might 0.98
00:01:58.460 not have an election because you don't want to go to an election when you get a lot of bad news. And
00:02:02.420 here it is. Canada lost 25,000 jobs in January. Labor force participation fell to 65%. We move on to
00:02:11.240 this article. One sector of Canada's economy is in deep recession and we can't even blame Trump.
00:02:18.080 Manufacturing output has been declining for two decades. Here's why. Number three, North American
00:02:24.220 manufacturing is suffering under the strain of tariffs. And number four, this article mentioned
00:02:30.140 this, seen this in other news organizations as well. Canada's economy is on life support and country
00:02:36.900 is in recession watch, says Economist. So things are not looking good right now in Canada. These are
00:02:44.120 things that conservatives would definitely use against the liberals if we went to an election
00:02:48.300 campaign. Things are not good in Canada right now. Now, what are the conservatives trying to do to help?
00:02:55.620 Well, they're trying to help pass the legislative agenda, as it said in that first story I told you
00:03:01.420 about when it talked about where Pierre Paulyev will run. But they're also trying to smooth over
00:03:06.220 negotiations with the United States of America. And we knew that the other day when we got this story
00:03:12.420 about Jamil Javani. He's gone down to the United States because he has a connection with J.D. Vance.
00:03:18.740 This article right here says a hell of a lot. Just the title here. If Jamil Javani succeeds,
00:03:24.440 it would be a win for Canada. Why can't liberals admit this? They do not want Javani to be successful
00:03:31.240 because they want to win an election. Your pain is the liberals gain. More on that in just a moment.
00:03:39.040 Melanie Javani and Mark Carney are throwing partisan jabs when they should be looking for
00:03:43.320 out for the interests of Canadians. And here is Melanie Javani on with Vashi Capellas. And listen
00:03:49.900 to what she has to say here.
00:03:51.520 If I could ask you about Jamil Javani, the conservative MP who headed to the United States,
00:03:55.600 he said that he was going to meet, and I don't have confirmation, I just, this is just through
00:03:58.980 his social media channels, that he was going to meet with GM. And I just wondered if he had
00:04:03.360 asked for a briefing or if you had offered one.
00:04:07.280 No, I think it's because I actually called him on it, saying that as MP in charge of Oshawa
00:04:13.140 constituents that are working at GM, that are losing their job, why is he just embracing
00:04:20.100 the Trump administration that is putting tariffs on them and having them, you know, lose their
00:04:26.800 job? And why is he basically not denouncing the U.S. auto tariffs? And that's just a question
00:04:34.580 that across Oshawa people are asking.
00:04:36.680 He says he can be of help to the government by going there. Do you think that's possible?
00:04:40.600 You know, I'm not in his heart nor in his mind. I'm just looking at what he says and what are the
00:04:47.720 facts. And until I actually said on television that he was not talking and denouncing the GM
00:04:55.380 layoffs, he didn't talk about it. And now he's talking about it. So I think, you know, basically
00:05:02.980 it talks for itself.
00:05:04.720 So number one was about the possibility of an election. Number two was the indicators
00:05:10.360 that make number one less likely. This is number three, how the liberals are going to react
00:05:16.000 to the bad economy that's happening right now as they lead the country. And it's the campaign of
00:05:22.060 fear. The campaign of fear is coming back. You're seeing it everywhere. They've got to scare people
00:05:27.140 about Donald Trump. This is the playbook they go to every time. Carney even did it when he made an
00:05:36.120 address regarding the Olympics. In a more divided and uncertain world, your success will unite Canadians
00:05:43.480 from coast to coast to coast and remind us that we are part of something bigger.
00:05:49.120 In a more divided and uncertain world, Mark Carney can't even keep an Olympic address positive. He's
00:05:55.560 got to drag politics into it. He's got to have the campaign of fear. And we know what he's talking
00:06:01.560 about when he says that. And I'm sure the Trump administration is listening and they'll react
00:06:05.980 accordingly. And that doesn't help Jamil Javani be successful in trying to help smooth over trade
00:06:12.440 negotiations. We can't have the conservatives helping. But what else are they going to do?
00:06:18.520 Well, it's already happening, folks. They're going to bribe people with your money. It's going to be
00:06:23.480 very costly. They've got the grocery rebate that cost $12.4 billion. They've got an EV mandate.
00:06:30.080 They're even bribing people that have money to buy a $50,000 EV to the tune of $5,000 rebates.
00:06:37.340 And don't forget, there is an anniversary coming up that the liberals are going to be very quick to
00:06:41.420 remind you about. It's coming up in March. Carney kills consumer carbon tax and first move as prime
00:06:47.860 minister. This is what they're going to be talking about. That happened back just in the middle of
00:06:51.880 March. So expect that to happen. Carbon tax went up every April 1st. Remember, they're going to remind
00:06:58.180 you about this carbon tax, even though industrial carbon taxes have gone up in Canada. And here in
00:07:04.260 Alberta, they're going up six times. So are we going to have an election? Possibly. There are
00:07:09.320 indicators that we might not have an election. And what are the liberals going to do in order
00:07:13.860 to make people forget about all the problems that are having in the country, the campaign of fear is
00:07:19.480 back, and they're going to bribe people with their own money? That's what I see happening right now.
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