John Bolton - Things Have To Change In Canada

00:00:00.200 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Hope you're having a great day today, 6.11am with the big blue mug of coffee, Thursday, January the 30th.

00:00:08.520 You may have noticed, changed my lighting a little bit if you've been here before.

00:00:11.400 You know, I'm far better looking than in my previous videos, but I want to make things, spruce things up a little bit here on the channel.

00:00:18.960 So let me know what you think of the new lighting here.

00:00:22.460 I was going to do a video today about the latest news story politically here in Canada, but I didn't want to do that.

00:00:29.460 I was going to talk a little bit about one of the candidates for the Liberals.

00:00:32.600 I didn't want to do that. I want to do something different today.

00:00:34.760 So what I want to do today is a participation video.

00:00:38.260 I'd like you to participate in this video, and I may do another video in a week or so with your ideas.

00:00:46.140 Today, I want to talk about things that have to change in Canada.

00:00:49.680 We are in absolute chaos right now in this country.

00:00:52.880 You know, Pierre Polyev has been saying for ages, Canada's broken.

00:00:56.100 The Liberals are saying, Polyev says Canada's broken.

00:00:58.120 And it's not. It is broken.

00:00:59.940 We have got major problems right now.

00:01:02.700 And it's gotten even worse since Trudeau walked out on January 6th behind the microphone, in front of the cameras,

00:01:09.340 and semi-retired and pro-road government.

00:01:11.640 So things are a mess right now.

00:01:13.080 And I could go on all day with this probably about things that have to change in Canada.

00:01:17.660 But I came up with eight.

00:01:19.000 Stay tuned for eight because I think all of you are going to agree this is one of the most important things

00:01:23.720 that have to change, has to change in Canada.

00:01:26.800 But let me know what you think has to change as well in the comments below.

00:01:31.340 So first off, prorogation.

00:01:34.100 I mentioned it already.

00:01:35.920 It should not be allowed by anybody to pro-road government to try to raise poll numbers for a political party.

00:01:44.800 And that's what this is about in Canada right now.

00:01:47.240 Everybody can see it.

00:01:48.300 And it's also an opportunity for the liberals to get a new leader.

00:01:52.460 And that's not what prorogation is about.

00:01:54.500 I went online and here it is right now.

00:01:57.740 Parliament of Canada, basically.

00:01:59.400 It lays out all the rules when it comes to prorogation.

00:02:02.880 But there should be an additional rule in there.

00:02:05.400 Parties cannot use prorogation for things that are self-serving.

00:02:10.240 Meaning to raise poll numbers.

00:02:12.560 This is ridiculous.

00:02:13.380 The governor general should never have allowed prorogation in this situation.

00:02:18.060 And it's being challenged in court.

00:02:20.020 It may be too late when we find out whether they won that challenge.

00:02:23.880 But she should never have allowed this.

00:02:25.280 But you knew she was going to allow it.

00:02:27.140 Because who appoints the governor general?

00:02:30.940 The prime minister.

00:02:32.040 And it just happened to be Justin Trudeau.

00:02:33.460 So that was going to happen.

00:02:34.500 So number two on the list.

00:02:36.300 Now I have been dealing with this and been hearing about this for years.

00:02:40.100 I turned 60 in about 15 days.

00:02:42.580 And this has been an issue for a long time in Canada.

00:02:45.360 But the governor general costs too much money and is a waste of time.

00:02:51.280 Number two.

00:02:52.240 Get rid of the governor general.

00:02:54.320 Why do we have this position?

00:02:55.860 Well, I know why we have this position.

00:02:57.640 It's our ties to the monarchy.

00:02:59.580 She's the representative of the king here in Canada.

00:03:02.720 But why we have to go to this unelected person to ask if we can go to an election or to allow for the prorogation of government.

00:03:12.240 I do not know.

00:03:13.560 Get rid of the governor general.

00:03:15.360 They cost too much money.

00:03:16.980 We do not need them.

00:03:18.100 It's a useless position.

00:03:19.440 A more useless person I cannot think of.

00:03:22.360 Number three.

00:03:23.700 The pension plan here in Canada.

00:03:25.420 Now I'm not talking about your pension plan.

00:03:27.660 I'd like that to change.

00:03:28.740 I think we should get more out of it after paying into it for about 40 years.

00:03:33.180 Which I'm not too far away from going that way.

00:03:37.060 But the pension plan for MPs.

00:03:38.980 And of course we're in this position of chaos and stupidity right now because of one man and his pension.

00:03:45.640 And that is Jagmeet Singh.

00:03:46.820 Enough has been said about Jagmeet Singh.

00:03:48.560 Yeah, Trudeau and the Liberal Party are responsible for our predicament right now when it comes to Canada and our economic situation.

00:03:56.300 But we would not be in this situation right now of all this chaos if Singh had toppled this government months and months ago just to get his pension.

00:04:04.840 There is no way someone should get $2.3 million in pension payouts for six years of work.

00:04:11.440 You work for more than 40 years of your life and you're going to get squat when you get your Canada pension plan.

00:04:18.480 So that has to change.

00:04:19.920 Now, up next, the size of government in Canada.

00:04:26.060 It's too big.

00:04:28.060 Let's look at the numbers.

00:04:30.300 So this is right off the Government of Canada website.

00:04:33.060 The population of the Federal Public Service.

00:04:35.380 This is the earliest year I could find, 2010.

00:04:37.600 So Stephen Harper would have been Prime Minister at this point.

00:04:40.400 And these are the Harper years, right down to 2015.

00:04:43.180 Trudeau would have taken over in 2015.

00:04:45.080 You can see we started at 282,000 employees with the federal government.

00:04:49.880 And the numbers actually dropped down through the years of Stephen Harper to 257,000.

00:04:56.140 But now if we scroll all the way down to 2024, you can see we're now at 367,000 people working for the federal government.

00:05:06.100 We've grown by between 30% and 40%, 110,000 employees in the years of Trudeau between 2015 and 2024.

00:05:16.360 Now the question is, what the hell are all of these people doing and why do we have to pay for it?

00:05:21.720 It'd be interesting to ask the Liberal candidates if they'd be willing to cut the federal public service a little bit.

00:05:28.240 Because it's far too big right now, way too big.

00:05:31.220 We have too many employees working in this country and all of us have to pay for it.

00:05:35.600 Up next, from the very same graph, the size of Canada when it comes to population and the number of people coming here on a yearly basis through legal and illegal immigration.

00:05:46.960 What I want you to do now is take a look way over here at the right side, Canadian population, Statistics Canada, 33,890,461 people in the country in 2010 when Stephen Harper was Prime Minister.

00:06:02.720 If we move down to 2015 when he left, 35,606,734.

00:06:09.260 Now that's an average of about 286,000 people a year.

00:06:13.380 Now if we scroll all the way down to 2024, here we go, we now sit at 41,012,563.

00:06:25.260 So again, we averaged about 286,000 per year under Harper, but from 2015 to 2024, Canada's population grew by 5.4 million people.

00:06:35.220 That's about 540,000 per year, but it has accelerated in the last three years.

00:06:40.800 In the last three years, the average is 776,000, and last year alone, 1.272 million people came into Canada.

00:06:52.360 Where are all these people staying?

00:06:54.040 Well, we don't have any place for them to stay.

00:06:56.640 That's why we don't have any homes.

00:06:58.500 We don't have any rental properties, because the government's bringing far too many people in, both legal and illegal, and this has to stop as well. 0.91

00:07:06.340 So up next, you know, this actually could be something positive that comes out of all this chaos when it comes to Donald Trump and tariffs coming in with the next couple of days.

00:07:17.200 And that is interprovincial trade barriers.

00:07:19.480 And it's something that's being discussed again.

00:07:21.960 Just like talking about the Governor General, this is something that's been going on for years, and how we need to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers.

00:07:29.760 A lot of Canadians don't even know that these things exist.

00:07:32.820 So here's a little quick story.

00:07:34.120 I think this is global news.

00:07:35.200 They kind of explain how screwed up this is, and how we can't even deal with each other, East and West, when we're having all these issues when it comes to North and South.

00:07:45.780 Regulations vary from province to province on a range of products, like alcohol, milk, tires, and until recently, even first aid kits.

00:07:56.840 That means businesses often trade North-South instead of East-West.

00:08:01.380 It's easier to move a truck to the U.S. sometimes than from Atlantic Canada to Ontario.

00:08:06.380 So that's not a good way to approach things if you're trying to become less reliant on other trade partners.

00:08:12.380 Trump's threats may be the catalyst for greater cooperation among the premiers.

00:08:19.380 It's a no brainer that we need to get rid of these trade barriers.

00:08:21.380 We make it so difficult to do business with each other.

00:08:24.380 This has been going on forever, and enough's enough.

00:08:27.380 I'm not going to harp on for a long time on this next one.

00:08:31.380 I'm just going to show you one picture that explains it all.

00:08:35.380 Now, I'm in Alberta, and this is a huge issue here in Alberta.

00:08:39.380 And I want to know why the West is paying the way for everybody out East.

00:08:44.380 Alberta pays so much money into transfer payments, much of it going to Quebec.

00:08:50.380 I want this to change.

00:08:52.380 Now, Pierre Pauliev has come out and said he won't even address this issue.

00:08:55.380 I think it needs to be addressed.

00:08:57.380 Alberta paying the way for Quebec.

00:09:00.380 Quebec keeping our oil going from the East Coast.

00:09:04.380 It needs to change.

00:09:05.380 We need to get rid of transfer payments.

00:09:07.380 Now, here is the one I think is the most important thing.

00:09:10.380 Let me know in the comments below what you think, and give me your thoughts on what has to change in this country.

00:09:15.380 Number 8. Someone should not be allowed to become Prime Minister without first being elected to Parliament.

00:09:22.380 And we're talking about Mark Carney.

00:09:24.380 This man should not be allowed to be Prime Minister if he's chosen as the Liberal Party leader.

00:09:30.380 And I believe that's going to happen.

00:09:32.380 In no way should this be allowed.

00:09:35.380 You should have to be a sitting MP or elected or have somebody, at least one person vote for you,

00:09:41.380 to be the Prime Minister of this country.

00:09:43.380 I find this to be amazing that it could even happen.

00:09:47.380 I mean, similar things have happened, but not with an unelected person.

00:09:51.380 That has to change.

00:09:53.380 There needs to be a rule on that.

00:09:55.380 And somebody needs to ask the people who are running, including Carney, whether they think this is alright.

00:10:01.380 And they should ask Pierre Pauliev as well, if that should be allowed at all.

00:10:04.380 Never again should we have somebody in the position of being the Prime Minister without even being elected.

00:10:12.380 So that's my list.

00:10:14.380 What do you think?

00:10:15.380 Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

00:10:17.380 And again, I might do a video in upcoming weeks if I get a good list of them.

00:10:21.380 And put your thoughts down and give you credit as well.

00:10:24.380 So put them in the comments.

00:10:26.380 And thanks very much for watching.

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John Bolton - January 30, 2025

Things Have To Change In Canada

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