John Bolton - January 28, 2025


The question no one is asking about Trump tariffs - except me


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Where do we stand on the 25% tariffs coming in from the United States of America on Canadian exports? Is it close to being resolved? Who is dealing with this issue when it comes to Canada? And what is the Prime Minister doing about it?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Tuesday, January 28th at 524 a.m. with the big blue mug of
00:00:06.420 coffee. I hope you're having a great day today. And today I'm going to ask a question for you.
00:00:11.800 And it's a question I know you want answered that nobody is asking. Now, I watch a lot of people who
00:00:17.220 cover Canadian politics on YouTube. They do a wonderful job talking about the absolute chaos
00:00:23.180 we have in this country because of the Liberal Party, but nobody has asked this question.
00:00:27.620 Where the hell do we stand on tariffs that are incoming in this country? Ladies and gentlemen,
00:00:34.300 you as well as I can look at a calendar and we can see that it is Tuesday, January 28th.
00:00:39.760 That means right around the weekend, 25% tariffs are incoming from the United States of America.
00:00:46.780 And nobody is asking the question of Justin Trudeau, Melanesia Lee, or any of the people
00:00:52.320 in the Liberal Party right now if this is close to being resolved. Nobody. It's a matter of
00:00:57.520 fact, I looked today and maybe somebody can point me to another video. Tell me in the description.
00:01:03.380 But this is the latest video I can find from Justin Trudeau. Now, whether you like him or not,
00:01:07.760 he's still the Prime Minister of this country. And he's the guy that should be helping to negotiate
00:01:12.240 a deal with Donald Trump so that we don't have a destruction of our economy and lose millions of
00:01:17.840 jobs. This is what we're being told. And we don't have an update on this. The latest from him
00:01:22.420 is from his own ex-account, January 22nd, which is almost a week ago. This is what he had to say.
00:01:29.360 We remain confident in the facts. Canadian energy powers American manufacturing, businesses
00:01:38.440 and homes. Of America's top five trading partners, Canada is the only one with whom the United States
00:01:47.540 runs a trade surplus in manufacturing. And Canada buys more goods made by Americans than China,
00:01:55.440 Japan and Germany combined. So we're their biggest trading partner. We know that. There's no trade
00:02:03.940 deficit when you take oil out of the equation. We know that. We knew that from Danielle Smith,
00:02:08.060 the Premier of Alberta, prior to the inauguration, weeks ago. She told them that. Obviously, Trudeau,
00:02:15.100 or apparently he told them that. So what's the problem? Oh, it's the border. Well, here's Justin
00:02:19.700 Trudeau. Same day, January 22nd. It's like he disappeared off the face of the earth almost a week ago,
00:02:24.540 from what I can see. RCMP Black Hawk helicopters start patrolling Manitoba U.S. border. Okay,
00:02:30.500 so we've solved the border issue. So what's the problem? Where do we stand when it comes to the
00:02:35.500 tariff issue? I want an update four days before a 25% tariff comes in. But we haven't got that.
00:02:42.620 What do we have from Justin Trudeau and most everybody in the Liberal Party? This is what we've
00:02:47.440 got. If they do move forward with tariffs, our response will be robust and rapid and measured
00:02:56.940 but very strong. The goal will be to get those tariffs off as quickly as possible. And in order
00:03:06.780 to do that, everything is on the table. So from what I can see, Justin Trudeau isn't really dealing
00:03:12.000 with this issue with Donald Trump right now. I'm sure some intrepid conservative YouTuber would
00:03:17.700 have tracked his plane going to Washington if that were the case. So who is dealing with this issue
00:03:22.800 when it comes to Canada? Well, I think the point man here or the point woman here is Melanesia Lee.
00:03:30.360 She's going down there on Wednesday, three days before tariffs come in. Boy, waiting till the last
00:03:35.260 minute. Here's a story from the Globe and Mail today. Ottawa planning pandemic-level relief for
00:03:40.180 workers, businesses if Trump imposes tariffs. Pandemic-level relief? They printed $300 billion
00:03:47.200 during the pandemic. This is a major issue. How close are we to resolving this issue? I want to know.
00:03:53.960 What is Melanesia Lee saying about what we're going to do if tariffs come in?
00:03:57.660 Meanwhile, we have leverage. We have also different levers. We are the biggest customer to the U.S.
00:04:08.280 We are the biggest customer in 36 countries, 36 states within the U.S.
00:04:16.260 So the answer for all the Team Canada types is getting to a trade war with the largest economy
00:04:21.040 in the world. Now, folks, who do you think is going to win that? If you think it's Canada,
00:04:25.280 you're dreaming. Do you think Donald Trump's staying up at night worrying about Canada? Not
00:04:29.940 a chance. He's going to win this one, folks. What's Chrystia Freeland, the latest spurned 0.50
00:04:38.240 woman, the latest victim of Justin Trudeau saying, well, she tweeted this out yesterday,
00:04:43.800 Chrystia Freeland's plan to protect her economy from Donald Trump. So fight back against tariffs. 1.00
00:04:47.800 These people aren't serious. And who's probably the next prime minister, unelected prime minister,
00:04:52.940 by the way? Mark Carney saying about the great businessman, great economist. Mark Carney saying,
00:04:58.220 we can use our electricity for leverage in the event of a trade war. This guy isn't serious. Why
00:05:02.960 are we talking about this stuff? I mean, even Pierre Polyev is talking about trade wars, which I think
00:05:07.960 he's wrong about. But do you think we'd have this problem if we had a new government? Do you think
00:05:14.100 if Polyev was the leader? No, I think this would have been resolved already. I believe that. And
00:05:18.260 Polyev better watch out, by the way. All the liberal leadership candidates are in, and holy 0.94
00:05:23.300 hell is going to be rained down on him over the next couple of months by these people. So he better
00:05:27.280 be prepared. But the reason why we're not getting an answer to where we stand on this trade issue and
00:05:32.360 this tariff issue, four days before 25% tariffs come in, is because this is all by plan, folks.
00:05:38.820 You talk about chaos. Damn right we've got chaos right now. It's an absolute mess.
00:05:42.880 But that's the plan. We've got to bring the liberal poll numbers up, folks, because as we're
00:05:47.360 talking about this and the tariffs, if they come in, I think the liberals want it. This
00:05:54.320 is the plan all along. Our poll numbers are so bad, we need an absolute catastrophe so
00:06:00.000 that people will start thinking we're the people standing up to Trump as the economy goes down.
00:06:04.740 We're not talking about prorogation right now. We don't have government until the 24th of March.
00:06:09.460 We're not talking about the fact that Parliament's not sitting. We have no government. We're not talking
00:06:13.880 about getting no help for Canadians who are suffering from the high cost of living right
00:06:17.680 now. No, we're talking about a trade war with the United States of America. We're not talking
00:06:23.260 all that much about the fact that Trudeau's going to stack the Senate with 10 more liberal
00:06:26.580 senators. We're not talking about that. We're not talking about the carbon tax hike, which
00:06:30.220 is still apparently on the table for April 1st. We're not talking about these things because
00:06:34.380 the Liberal Party has to create an absolute catastrophe in order to pull their poll numbers up.
00:06:38.420 That's what this is about. I want to know, where do we stand four days before the tariffs
00:06:44.140 come in? Where do we stand in negotiations? Because we don't know. And nobody's asking
00:06:49.080 that question. I appreciate you watching. Thanks so much. Please give me a thumbs up.
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