John Bolton - July 21, 2025


The Liberals embrace LENIN - The solution to the LONGEST ballot - GREAT IDEA？!


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A Liberal MP in Canada wants to lower the voting age to 16 years old. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? And what will happen if it passes in the House of Commons? And why it's a bad one.

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00:00:00.260 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 5.56 a.m., Monday, July the 21st, with the
00:00:05.720 big blue mug of coffee. I hope you're having a great start to your work week. Hope you
00:00:09.920 had a great weekend as well. I'd like to say I did, but it rained all weekend. We haven't
00:00:13.700 had summer in Calgary. I think it's supposed to be, tomorrow it's supposed to be something
00:00:18.700 like 15 degrees and pouring rain. Luckily, we've got some mid-20s coming up later in
00:00:24.600 the week, but it has been a miserable month here. Miserable. This is the sunniest big
00:00:29.520 city in the whole country, hardly seen the sun all month. Today, I've got a couple
00:00:33.440 of things. I don't want to go on too long. I did not sleep well last night. Something
00:00:37.800 kept me up last night. I'm going to tell you about it in just a moment, but I didn't sleep
00:00:41.060 well last night. It was 12.15 the last time I looked at the clock, and I wasn't asleep
00:00:45.640 yet, and I was up a little after 4 o'clock this morning, so I want to make this quick.
00:00:48.860 Two things to talk to you about. I'm laying in bed last night. My wife is still awake.
00:00:52.320 I said, I think I've got a solution to the Battle River Crowfoot longest ballot situation,
00:00:56.420 and they might be able to enact this for this election. I threw it at her, and she said,
00:01:01.560 yeah, that might work. Now, I don't know election law. I don't. And I really don't care to look
00:01:07.780 into it. If you really want to dig into election law, can this happen in time for an election?
00:01:12.240 This can happen on August the 18th, which is almost four weeks away, and that's important
00:01:15.900 to remember. So I'm going to tell you about that in just a moment. I think this is workable
00:01:19.360 for this election. It will eliminate almost everybody on the ballot. I'm going to get to that
00:01:23.180 in just a moment. But first, the story I saw this morning had me thinking of a very famous quote,
00:01:28.380 an insidious quote from an awful person. But I knew this was coming. You probably saw this coming
00:01:34.340 as well after something that's happened just a few days ago across the pond. Here's the article
00:01:38.960 right here. Liberal MP pushes to lower voting age to 16. You knew this was coming. And a quote came to
00:01:45.520 mind. And there's a quote in this article that you need to keep in mind before I get to that quote as
00:01:50.360 well. I know it's a lot to think about, but just keep your mind straight here. So let's just read
00:01:56.960 a little bit about this. A Liberal MP has put forward a petition to the House of Commons pushing
00:02:01.420 the Canadian government to drop the voting age to 16. This follows the UK's announcement on Thursday
00:02:06.560 that they're lowering the voting age to 16 for all elections. Petition E6629 sponsored by Liberal
00:02:13.240 MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. Do you remember him? Remember back in January where this creep put his
00:02:18.600 hands all over Melissa Lansman? Remember that? Here he is. This is the guy. The petition sponsored
00:02:25.980 by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith argues that allowing high school students to vote would
00:02:30.680 strengthen civic engagement. Quote, extending the voting age to 16 would empower a new generation to
00:02:38.200 participate in democracy while still in school where habits of civic engagement are more easily built
00:02:44.560 and supported. Reads the petition submitted by Shazia Ibrahim, chair of the Calgary East Federal
00:02:52.060 Liberal Association. Let me read that to you again. Where habits of civic engagement are more easily built
00:02:57.340 and supported. If you like quotes, you might be thinking the same quote I was thinking when I read
00:03:00.780 this article first thing this morning. I'll tell you that in just a moment. Now this, about three years ago,
00:03:06.440 this thing failed. Defeated 245 to 77. 20 Liberal MPs supported it. 13 still remain in the House of
00:03:15.160 Commons. Don't think because this is a stupid idea it won't pass because we're talking liberals here.
00:03:20.560 Nigel Farage weighed in on the situation over in England. He said giving 16 and 17 year olds the right
00:03:26.160 to vote is an attempt to rig the political system. If this goes ahead, Labor could be in for a shock.
00:03:30.380 Suggesting that all 16 and 17 year olds will vote liberal is a stretch, but they are taught things
00:03:36.420 in school that give them that worldview. Again, go back to this here, where habits of civic engagement
00:03:44.280 are more easily built and supported. And what's the quote I was thinking about? I was thinking about
00:03:47.760 this quote right here. Give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be
00:03:54.040 uprooted. Vladimir Lenin. They're teaching kids in school the leftist mindset, the leftist worldview.
00:04:02.380 And they're hoping the 16 and 17 year olds have been indoctrinated, give me four years, enough that
00:04:07.400 they will vote left wing and the conservatives may never get elected again. This is what they're hoping
00:04:12.960 happens. And we've mentioned here before that the East determines the political situation in Canada.
00:04:20.860 What happened just recently here in Alberta? Danielle Smith and the UCP government here is
00:04:27.820 trying to keep inappropriate material out of schools. The left's losing their mind over this
00:04:32.260 because they want them taught this stuff in school. Because if you give, you get four years with the
00:04:37.600 kids, the seeds you've sown will never be uprooted. And then if you look at what happens in Ontario,
00:04:44.920 which helps determine elections in a big way for the whole country, you see the Toronto District
00:04:50.540 school board. I'm not going to even read it. I'd likely get demonetized. This is the stuff they're
00:04:54.760 teaching kids in school. It's inappropriate for teachers to talk to children about this kind of
00:04:59.700 stuff in school. It's inappropriate. There's a name we have for people that do that. Adults who talk to
00:05:06.620 kids about this kind of stuff. I'll probably get demonetized if I say the word. Starts with a P and 1.00
00:05:12.160 ends with a vert. And there's stuff like this as well. They teach kids this stuff in school. I think
00:05:17.480 there was a story just last year where they went on a field trip to a protest against a certain group
00:05:23.260 of people who have a certain religion. This is what they teach kids in school. That's why 16 and
00:05:29.200 17 year olds shouldn't be determining things like your income tax, our environmental policy, whether 1.00
00:05:34.060 we should be going to 100% electric cars in the next 10 years. I wouldn't let a 16 or 17 year old
00:05:39.040 decide what I'm having for dinner each night of the week. I'd be eating junk. They don't have
00:05:43.520 developed minds. This is ridiculous, but don't think it won't pass. Now, I want to move on.
00:05:50.320 I want to move on to my solution to this longest ballot. I'm going to make this quick. So here's
00:05:55.980 the ballot on the screen right now. Most of these people have names. Hardly any of these people have
00:06:02.660 faces from what I can tell. We don't have any information regarding these people. These people
00:06:07.500 are just trying to make a nuisance of themselves. And folks, so many videos yesterday from
00:06:13.960 conservative YouTubers who are just losing their minds about this. Folks, this is what the left
00:06:20.620 wants. They're getting a great deal of schadenfreude from what's happening here. This will pass. But I
00:06:27.440 think there is a solution to this problem. I think it can be solved for this election. There's still time.
00:06:33.780 Again, I don't know whether it's legal or not. Look it up if you want. But this is a solution to
00:06:40.300 the problem I thought about last night. Laying in bed with my wife. I threw this at her. I don't
00:06:43.880 know why I'm thinking about this a quarter after 12 last night when I should be sleeping.
00:06:48.320 But I think this might be a solution. So I'm laying in bed last night thinking,
00:06:52.320 when do they print ballots? Because it's the ballot that's a real issue. And a number of people on one of
00:06:56.540 my videos on the weekend, people were mad at me regarding my video on Saturday. But people had
00:07:01.920 real concerns. Elderly people who can't see have to read this freaking ballot. Everything's getting 0.76
00:07:06.880 smaller. People having to count these votes or even fitting the ballot into the ballot box. It's
00:07:12.320 going to be five feet long. It's ridiculous. It's a nuisance. And it's wrong. So I started thinking
00:07:19.420 about the ballot itself. So when is a ballot printed for an election? I didn't know. So I said,
00:07:25.700 when is a ballot printed for an election in Canada? And this is what comes up from the Elections
00:07:29.520 Canada website. It's there. Who knew? Okay. So remember the election itself is on August the 18th.
00:07:37.400 They've got advanced ballots coming up on the 8th of August. Okay. Keep that in mind. So here it is
00:07:44.420 right here. I'm just going to start here because three weeks before the election. So three weeks
00:07:50.460 before the election would be around July the 28th. Now I might be a day or two off, but we've got more
00:07:56.800 than three weeks left until the election because it's only the 21st of July election on the 18th of
00:08:03.280 August. So three weeks before the election, the ballot paper is sent to printers across the country
00:08:08.200 to be made in ballots for each electoral district. Two weeks before the election, the printers deliver
00:08:15.000 the ballots needed for the advanced polls to the RO. So that's two weeks before the election,
00:08:19.180 August the 18th. One week before the election, the printers give the rest of the ballots to the
00:08:23.540 returning officers. On election day, the election officers bring the ballots in ballot boxes to
00:08:28.160 their polling stations. So this is what we know about this election. And this is what we know is
00:08:33.640 happening to these ballots. So let's say July the 28th, that's when they're going to print the ballots.
00:08:40.220 How do we solve this problem and eliminate almost all of the people from this list? What we do in
00:08:46.080 Elections Canada, I don't know they can do it, but I think this would be smart, is you say that two days
00:08:52.800 prior to the ballots being printed, which would be July the 26th, only five days away from now,
00:09:00.580 all the candidates that intend to have their name on the ballot have to show up in person to sign a
00:09:05.780 document to ensure their name is on the ballot. Almost all of the people are eliminated from the
00:09:13.520 ballot. This is a joke. We know it's a joke. How many of these people are going to fly across the
00:09:18.840 country or around the world, I don't know where all these people are from, to go to the riding of
00:09:24.420 Battle River Crowfoot to sign this document to ensure their name is on the ballot? Virtually
00:09:28.500 none of them would, other than the legitimate candidates. Is this legal? Don't know. Pierre
00:09:34.820 Paulieff, who, not going to get into it, who lives in Ottawa, I guess he's still at Stornoway,
00:09:40.560 he'd be here. The Liberal candidate would be here. The Independents would be here. They'd all show up and
00:09:45.020 sign the document and you'd have a little ballot this big as opposed to one that's five feet long.
00:09:49.040 Can this be done in time? Probably not, but this is a solution to this one. That's just my thoughts
00:09:54.980 on it. Certainly this has to be changed after the election. What do you think? I think it's, I think
00:09:59.520 it could be done. I think the legitimate candidates would have no problem with doing this only five
00:10:04.880 days from now. Sure, I'll sign the document. The rest of them wouldn't show up and you'd have five
00:10:08.720 or six people on the ballot. Solve all the problem just like that. Let me know what you think in the
00:10:13.960 comments. Why am I thinking about this at 1215 at night? I don't know. But this is the kind of
00:10:21.180 stuff that runs through your mind when you can't sleep. Have yourself a great day. Have yourself
00:10:24.880 a great week. If you like the video, give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Ring the bell
00:10:28.580 for notifications. I'll see you in the next one. I think I'm going to go back to bed.