John Bolton - October 19, 2025


The Political DESTRUCTION of Pierre Poilievre BEGINS - It's the usual suspects


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Pierre Polyef's comments on a YouTube video on the SNC-Lavalin scandal have sparked a firestorm of criticism and calls for him to resign as Conservative Party of Canada leader. John Tkachuk takes a look at what Polyev said and why he should go to jail.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 617 AM, Sunday, October the 19th. I hope
00:00:08.120 you're having a great start to your Sunday morning and a great weekend, as well as I
00:00:11.520 tip my big blue mug of coffee to you today. And what I want to do today is I want to look
00:00:16.560 at a controversy that's bubbled up over the last couple of days regarding Pierre Polyef
00:00:24.040 and something he said on the Northern Perspective podcast on YouTube. And folks, this is going
00:00:30.700 to be a story that's going to lead the news for God knows how long. Expect this. Expect
00:00:38.340 in the House of Commons for the Liberals, the NDP, probably the Bloc Québécois, to call
00:00:43.280 for Pierre Polyef to resign his position as a leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:00:49.400 Canada. He's undermining the integrity of the Prime Minister's office, the Canadian
00:00:55.040 government, and undermining the authority of the RCMP with what he said on the Northern
00:00:59.780 Perspective podcast. And that's going to happen. Taking away the focus which should be on the
00:01:05.360 absolute dumpster fire that is Canada right now, caused by Mark Carney and the Liberal Party.
00:01:10.400 And this is where I've got a bit of a problem with what Pierre Polyef said here. For the most
00:01:14.600 part, I agree with him, but I think there's a bit of an own goal here. And I think
00:01:19.120 conservatives need to learn from this as well. I think a lot of us are focusing in the wrong
00:01:23.880 place, which I'll get to in just a moment. The other things I want to get to here, which
00:01:28.080 is why you come here, a little different way of looking at things, is the absolute sheer
00:01:32.840 hypocrisy of the Liberal Party, the NDP, and a warning I had about something like this happening
00:01:41.820 back on August the 18th, which is a pretty significant day in Canadian political history, which I'll
00:01:48.260 talk about in just a moment. Here's Pierre Polyef on the Northern Perspective podcast, 38 seconds.
00:01:54.700 Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have been involved jail time. I mean, Trudeau broke
00:01:59.960 the criminal code when he took a free vacation from someone with whom he had government business.
00:02:05.260 It's just like, it's right there in the criminal code. If the RCMP had been doing its job and not
00:02:10.280 covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged. And again, he probably violated the
00:02:17.120 criminal code and the SNC-Lavalin scandal. These would normally have led to criminal charges. But
00:02:22.920 of course, the RCMP covered it all up. And the leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable
00:02:29.420 when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.
00:02:33.060 Just a little advice to Northern Perspective. Put your logo on the screen up in the top left-hand
00:02:37.740 corner proudly because you did the work here and the mainstream media does not want to give you
00:02:42.200 credit for this. They're begrudgingly giving you credit if they give you credit at all. They just call you a
00:02:46.640 podcaster and you need the credit for it. Good job here. But I do think that Pierre Polyev is right.
00:02:53.100 I think somebody should go to jail. If you steal money from the Canadian taxpayer, somebody should
00:02:59.080 pay for it. I think he might be a little off base when it comes to the RCMP. I'm not a lawyer.
00:03:04.400 I did go back and look at some committee meetings regarding the SNC-Lavalin affair and what happened
00:03:09.520 with Jody Wilson-Raybould. The Conservatives call it obstruction. The RCMP basically said their hands were
00:03:15.820 tied because the Prime Minister's office wouldn't hand over documents. I don't know whether the
00:03:21.300 Prime Minister's office and the Prime Minister has that privilege to do that and withhold that
00:03:25.520 information. I'm not a lawyer. He could be right, but were they covering up for Justin Trudeau? I don't
00:03:31.360 know. Of course, this has become a bigger story because Dimitri Soudis, who used to be a senior
00:03:37.100 aide to Stephen Harper, wrote an article in the Toronto Star. This is the best I could do. I don't subscribe to
00:03:41.300 the Star behind a paywall. Pierre Polyev dismantling the principal trustworthy Conservative Party we
00:03:46.320 tried to build. This is what you're going to hear this week. Polyev giving ammunition to the left
00:03:51.280 about this. Bringing this up now, I don't understand why. I'm glad that he's honest with us and I agree
00:03:59.120 with him. And then there's this. The Watcher puts, you left the part out where he abandoned Stephen
00:04:04.880 Harper and the Conservative Party for the nookie. This is Dimitri Soudis right here. Buys Liberal
00:04:10.120 membership ahead of Eve Adams' nomination vote. This is his babe here. By the way, he didn't
00:04:16.200 abandon Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper fired him. And this is Anna Tamala. This article does not
00:04:22.980 reflect former Prime Minister Harper's views. Mr. Soudis does not speak on behalf of Mr. Harper.
00:04:28.060 But let's expand on this a little bit. Let's expand on this. Polyev in that clip I showed you
00:04:34.720 talked about the Aga Khan situation. Mentioned SNC-Lavalin. What about the Green Slush Fund? Just 0.64
00:04:41.320 for another one. There's the We Charity. There's Arrive Can as well. But let's talk about the Green
00:04:45.740 Slush Fund. We'll just use that one. What was it? $400 million? That the Liberals, in whole or in
00:04:55.780 part, allegedly funneled to Liberal-friendly companies and friends. Conservatives wanted documents on this
00:05:02.860 because it's the Canadian taxpayers' money. Your money. The Liberals wouldn't hand over the documents.
00:05:07.600 And basically, at this time last year, government was handcuffed and couldn't do anything and didn't
00:05:13.300 get anything done because of this issue. $400 million of your money, poof, into the ether. And we don't
00:05:23.560 know where it is. And nobody's been held responsible for this. Then we went away on Christmas vacation on
00:05:28.980 December 19th. January 6th, Trudeau comes out and resigns, throwing the Liberal Party into a
00:05:34.220 leadership race. We've got a leadership race until we choose Mark Carney as the next Prime Minister.
00:05:38.760 We go into an election. And all year long, I think we've only got 73 days of government. And we still
00:05:44.280 don't know what happened with the $400 million. This is money that's been robbed from you. Should
00:05:48.740 somebody not go to jail for this? Now let's look at the hypocrisy. And then I'm going to get to
00:05:55.660 my warning back on our August 18th. By the way, August 18th, just to let you know, was the day,
00:06:01.440 and I did this in the morning, of the by-election in Battle River Crowfoot, the pure poly of one.
00:06:08.560 So I'm going to get to that in just a moment. So let's look at the hypocrisy of the left,
00:06:12.880 the Liberals, and the NDP as well. And I'm going to get to one guy in just a moment,
00:06:16.900 who's actually in Carney's cabinet right now, who says absolutely nothing about the theft of hundreds
00:06:24.540 of millions of your dollars. Yet 13, 14 years ago, he made a huge issue of something that costs less
00:06:32.920 than 20 bucks. So let's go back a few years. And some of you will know who Bev Oda is,
00:06:39.960 former Conservative Party member, appointed minister for international cooperation, August 14th, 2007.
00:06:47.200 On July 3rd, 2012, Oda announced she was resigning her seat in the House of Commons,
00:06:51.080 effective at the end of the month following public controversy about her spending habits.
00:06:54.840 She was dropped from cabinet the following day. Had to go back and look at this again.
00:06:58.120 There was one thing I remembered about this, but there were other things that Bev Oda did.
00:07:01.400 She went to England, ran up huge limousine bills, changed hotels, which cost Canadian taxpayers money,
00:07:08.180 apologized for it, paid it all back, but she had to resign. The Liberals made a huge issue out of this, 0.89
00:07:14.100 and you know where this is going. This became a national issue, and people still talk about this
00:07:22.880 to this day. Now look at the look on this guy's face, grilling Bev Oda about $16 in orange juice.
00:07:32.100 I mean, let's just stay candid for a second. You've got to regret ordering a $16 orange juice. No?
00:07:37.300 Not at all. Not at all. I have been working hard. I arrived in London, was very late. I was working
00:07:43.400 on a speech I was to give the next morning. But you know, that cost of the orange juice was not
00:07:49.620 maybe the appropriate expense for the government to pay. I've repaid that cost, and I have apologized
00:07:55.900 for it. Evan and I would hope that, you know, we can all move on. I can move on, be proud of the
00:08:01.940 work that I've done, to have Canadians be proud of Canada's position in helping the world's most
00:08:07.440 vulnerable people, and... But that's the problem in politics. Does it overshadow the legacy? I mean,
00:08:14.720 you did all that work. You're a minister for CETA, and then at the end of your career, and again,
00:08:19.200 we've spoken a lot, people are talking about limousines, $16 orange juice, and the Savoy Hotel.
00:08:24.780 I mean, I guess my question is, was that... So this is Evan Solomon, folks. Grilling Bev Oda about
00:08:33.300 $16 in orange juice. Doesn't give a damn these days about the Green Slush Fund, SNC-Lavalin,
00:08:39.700 Arrive Can, We Charity, AgaCon, hundreds of millions of dollars. Here he is.
00:08:43.700 Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. That'll have Evan Solomon.
00:08:48.240 The Honorable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Immigration,
00:08:52.540 Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Minister Responsible for the Federal Economic Development
00:08:55.840 Agency for Southern Ontario. Where are you, Mr. Solomon, when it comes to the hundreds of
00:09:00.300 millions of dollars? The party that you support, and are now part of, rips off the Canadian people
00:09:05.100 to hundreds of millions of dollars. Don't you think somebody should go to jail for this, Mr. Solomon?
00:09:11.480 And speaking of going to jail, you know who Charlie Angus is. He didn't run in the last election,
00:09:16.160 but he's been an NDPer for years. The government that he supported under Jagmeet Singh,
00:09:22.540 virtually said nothing through a lot of these transgressions and this theft of Canadian people.
00:09:27.680 Here he is, going back, I think, 13 to 14 years in the House of Commons. Well, listen to what he
00:09:32.380 says here. I'll play it twice for you so you can hear it.
00:09:34.120 You're in the private sector, and you repeatedly covered up your documents and misrepresented your
00:09:39.460 spending. You'd get fired, or they'd call the cops. What did he say there? Let's hear that again.
00:09:45.360 You're in the private sector, and you repeatedly covered up your documents and misrepresented your
00:09:50.980 spending. You'd get fired, or they'd call the cops.
00:09:54.200 But this is what he's talking about, the Bev Oda affair. Where were you, Mr. Angus,
00:09:58.660 when the Liberals were ripping off the Canadian people with millions to hundreds of millions of
00:10:03.220 dollars, allegedly? The hypocrisy here, it just drips in hypocrisy. Now, I want to take you back.
00:10:11.680 There's a pattern here, folks. This is the beginning of what I started talking about on August the 18th.
00:10:16.300 They're going to play a clip here for you. Again, this is going to be a huge issue.
00:10:21.580 They're going to call for Paulia's resignation this week. It's coming, folks.
00:10:26.220 And this is what I said way back on August the 18th. I was in pretty beat-up shape at this point,
00:10:30.840 so I'm kind of twisting into my seat here. I was up in my kitchen. This is what I had to say.
00:10:35.080 Moving forward, we need Paulia back in the House of Commons. If you've seen him in question period,
00:10:39.860 I think he's the best there is. He has the support of most of his caucus, but his leadership will come
00:10:45.960 up for review in January, and there are dark forces that will try to see him ousted. Just to give you
00:10:51.260 an idea, Mark Carney today will be meeting with his good friend, Ontario Premier Doug Ford,
00:10:57.140 who was not a friend of Pierre Paulia in the election campaign. I think he was detrimental to
00:11:01.820 Paulia. And I think Doug Ford would love to replace Paulia as Conservative leader,
00:11:08.040 and I think Mark Carney would like to help him do that.
00:11:11.740 I don't think Alberta would support Doug Ford at all. We see him as a liberal.
00:11:17.080 But the knives are up for Pierre Paulia, and it's really starting. It's going to start this week,
00:11:21.280 folks. It's going to start this week. Now, I want to take you over to this. I don't want this video
00:11:25.820 to go on forever, but this is amazing. So here is City News, and as you can see at the bottom of the
00:11:32.700 screen, they're talking about the interview with Northern Perspective.
00:11:38.040 Paulia calls RCMP leadership despicable during podcast interviews. See, they don't say Northern
00:11:42.400 Perspective there. So she's going to throw to a reporter to talk about this issue. But instead
00:11:50.640 of talking about this issue, I'm going to play the whole thing for you. He goes on for 90 seconds,
00:11:57.400 linking Pierre Paulia to Donald Trump. This is how it goes in the mainstream media.
00:12:02.140 Joining us now is our Parliament Hill correspondent, Glenn McGregor in Ottawa. Glenn Paulia is now,
00:12:07.120 not just questioning Trudeau, but the RCMP.
00:12:12.020 Yeah, this is sort of an interesting development. I think we've got to, before we talk about this,
00:12:15.460 let's rewind the tape a little bit here, Faiza, back to the election campaign.
00:12:19.620 Remember, Pierre Paulia, the Conservative leader, was put in sort of an awkward position
00:12:23.560 because he had to really disavow Trump, which has suddenly become the U.S., Canada's relationship
00:12:29.760 with the United States, and the tariffs that Trump had imposed became the dominant issue and allowed
00:12:33.740 Mark Carney to win the election campaign. Since then, there's been an expectation
00:12:37.580 that Paulia might pivot his tone. He might try and take some of the rough edges off,
00:12:42.860 present sort of a more amenable, nicer, open tone, and back away from some of the comparisons
00:12:48.780 that some people have made to his policies and, crucially, his style to Donald Trump.
00:12:54.200 Paulia has disavowed that. He says, listen, I'm nothing like Donald Trump. He's rejected this
00:12:58.200 Maple, MAGA label that some people have put on him. But in the recent weeks, he really seems to be
00:13:04.400 leaning in, at least stylistically and to a certain extent, on policy of some of the things that Donald
00:13:10.120 Trump has done. He has called for, and his party has called for, an end to birthright citizenship.
00:13:15.220 That is, people who were born to foreign nationals but born on Canadian soil automatically get 0.91
00:13:20.420 Canadian citizenship. That's something that Donald Trump eliminated and tried to eliminate in the
00:13:24.680 United States. There's still a constitutional challenge of it almost immediately after his
00:13:28.240 inauguration. Now, Paulia is pushing the same policy. Paulia also tweeting out something this
00:13:33.280 week about diversity, equity, inclusion, saying it has to stop. This was a major issue for Donald
00:13:39.280 Trump, especially with the universities in the United States going after them, threatening to cut off
00:13:43.420 funding if they used any of the money to support DEI programs or DEI-related staff in their
00:13:50.360 universities. Now, Paulia is saying he'd like to do that. And now, he's basically advancing this
00:13:55.960 theory about, during a podcast interview that he did recently, about the RCMP alleging that they are
00:14:02.400 essentially covering up for past liberal governments. Listen. It took him 90 seconds to get
00:14:09.040 to the actual issue that he's supposed to talk about. And he spent most of that talking about linking
00:14:15.580 Pierre Paulia to Donald Trump. This is how it's going to work, folks. And Paulia, watch out.
00:14:21.380 Watch your back, pal. And conservatives hold strong on this. Pierre Paulia is a good leader.
00:14:28.460 I still think he might be the prime minister of the country in the future. But this is how it goes,
00:14:34.680 folks. He's got a leadership review coming up in January, and they're out after him right now.
00:14:42.240 And I'm sure that the Liberal Party, probably Doug Ford, are trying to undermine him right now. But
00:14:47.480 look at how all of this stuff, from one thing leading to another here. I also think there's
00:14:54.800 something we can learn as conservatives from this. I think this is a bit of an own goal from Pierre
00:15:01.080 Paulia. I think he's telling the truth. I respect him for doing that. But it gives ammunition to the
00:15:07.020 other side. And this will be the issue we'll hear about for weeks now, if not months. I also think
00:15:14.320 conservatives need to learn that maybe we shouldn't focus so much on things like Justin Trudeau going
00:15:22.240 out on a boat or dating Katy Perry. It's just rather petty. The left mocks us because of it. And I think
00:15:29.920 some ways they're right. I don't care who the guy dates. I'm glad he's gone.
00:15:33.280 Again, we cannot ignore what he did for 10 years in this country, and how dysfunctional it is because
00:15:40.120 of him, how divided it is because of him. But focus on what's important. I think that's important.
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