John Bolton - July 18, 2025


This Week in DUMB Cana-DUH - Vol. 1 Ep. 1

Topics
safe injection sites and violence in Nanaimo supply management crisis
Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Pierre Poilievre Corey Morgan Leonard Krog Derek Ronald Reagan Screw Alberta Danielle Smith Donald Trump Mark Carney Bill C-63 Jerry John
Carney knew NEGOTIATIONS were futile - Lied to get elected The LONG ballot - I LOVE IT! It's just what we needed

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Length

10 minutes

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1,693

Sentence count

129

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

4

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In this episode of The Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John talks about some of the dumb things happening in Canadian politics, including: 1. Mark Carney's immigration plan. 2. Safe injection sites. 3. Censorship. 4. Safe drug injection sites in Alberta. 5. The government wants to build a fence around Nanaimo, B.C. to protect against drug use.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 534 a.m. Friday, July the 18th with the big blue
00:00:10.560 mug of coffee. Of course, I hope you're having a great start to your Friday, getting set
00:00:15.080 for an awesome weekend as well. And I am doing that. Now, before we get to today's video,
00:00:20.280 just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Derek from the unacceptable fringe for being
00:00:25.260 part of this channel. I posted a fantastic interview with him earlier this morning where
00:00:30.640 we talked about Canadian politics, Alberta politics, Alberta separation, censorship,
00:00:35.400 touched on Mark Carney, Pierre Polyev, Daniel Smith, and so much more. I wanted to go on,
00:00:40.000 didn't have time, but check out the video. I'll put a card at the end of this video so you can
00:00:44.920 click on it and watch it in its entirety. And I hope to do more videos and interviews with people
00:00:50.880 who are doing independent media in Canada. Thanks again, Derek. Go to his channel and subscribe.
00:00:56.920 So, I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Dumb things in Canadian politics. And of course, 0.98
00:01:03.300 you can get pretty deep into this. And this video could go on for two hours because there's a lot
00:01:08.360 of dumb stuff happening. But I'm going to limit it to three with maybe an honorable mention on occasion.
00:01:14.640 Hopefully, I can do this on a weekly basis. So, immigration has been a big issue here in Canada.
00:01:19.660 We bring too many people into the country. The supply and demand thing becomes an issue. 0.99
00:01:26.560 Low supply of houses, high demand, it drives up prices. So, there's been talk of cutting immigration.
00:01:32.060 The Carney government is not going to do that. Pierre Polyev was the one who made this an issue
00:01:36.760 during the election campaign. He's actually changed his tune on immigration lately. And he's talking
00:01:44.060 about immigration almost like he's talking about negative immigration.
00:01:49.960 We need to ensure that more leave than come in over the next couple of years while we catch up,
00:01:57.060 while housing, health care, and jobs can catch up.
00:02:00.520 So, at a time when Polyev is calling for negative immigration and Canadians are saying we need to let 0.74
00:02:06.220 fewer people into the country on a yearly basis, illegal and legal, what's the Carney government
00:02:13.200 doing? They're going to let more people in. Thousands of Canadians to start receiving invitations
00:02:18.660 to apply to sponsor parents and grandparents from CTV News just published yesterday.
00:02:25.360 Thousands of Canadians will soon receive invitations to apply to sponsor their parents and grandparents
00:02:30.240 as permanent residents. The 2025 intake will open for a few weeks starting July 28th for 17,860
00:02:39.520 potential sponsors who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020, according to Immigration,
00:02:46.020 Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. In a notice published online Wednesday, IRCC said its goal is to accept
00:02:53.140 it to 10,000 complete applications under the Federal Parents and Grandparents Program. So, I'm assuming
00:03:00.000 if they have 10,000 complete applications, it doesn't just mean 10,000 people are coming here. They
00:03:05.660 could be applying for more people in their own family to come here. It could be 20,000 or 30,000 or
00:03:12.060 40,000 more people coming to the country at a time when we're calling for less immigration. 0.99
00:03:18.320 That's number three. Let's move along to dumb thing number two. 0.96
00:03:22.120 Number two on the list of dumb things here in Canada has to deal with safe injection sites. 0.97
00:03:33.300 Here in Alberta, the government has decided that they want to help people get off drugs, 0.91
00:03:39.120 not continue to give people drugs to eventually have them die of a drug overdose in the future. That's
00:03:46.320 what safe injection sites eventually lead to. Now, I'm a compassionate person. I'm all for helping
00:03:53.780 people who have a real problem. I've had a close family member of mine die of a drug overdose. But
00:04:01.220 with these safe injection sites, people don't want them in their neighborhood. It causes problems. It
00:04:06.820 causes dysfunction. It causes crime. It causes them to find needles in the street. They don't want them in
00:04:13.680 their neighborhood. But when it comes to government, the government needs to be protected from safe
00:04:19.020 injection sites, which takes us to Nanaimo, B.C. You see, the people out in the communities who
00:04:25.800 complain about these sites get nothing. But the council's got to be protected from the very policies
00:04:32.640 that they put into place. Plan to fence off Nanaimo, B.C. City Hall to protect from overdose site
00:04:39.140 disorder. Violence and disorder associated with an overdose prevention site next to City Hall.
00:04:45.560 Let's read a little bit of this story, shall we? The city of Nanaimo, B.C. is considering building a
00:04:51.840 1.8-meter-high fence to protect its staff from congregations of people, violence, and disorder
00:04:58.060 associated with an overdose prevention site next to City Hall. Staff proposing the $412,000 fence site
00:05:08.580 intimidation and harassment of employees, particularly those working early or late, as well as damage to
00:05:15.800 staff vehicles, fires near doorways and building perimeters, human waste, and a general deterioration
00:05:21.960 of the site. Now, let's read what the mayor has to say about this.
00:05:27.220 Mayor Leonard Krog said in an interview Monday that the municipality had a legal obligation to protect
00:05:33.700 its staff and property, and the final cost may be less or more than the recommended budget.
00:05:39.600 We can't fence off everybody's private property, he said. We can't control every street, but we do have
00:05:45.620 a duty to our employees which is legal and present and very clear. This report represents the views of
00:05:51.880 our staff, their feelings, and more importantly, and sadly, their fears and experience that they have had in
00:05:57.640 the last few years as we've seen the situation in our streets become the challenge that it is.
00:06:03.900 Mayor Krog, it is your duty to help the people that you represent. You have a duty to your constituents,
00:06:11.940 to your voters, not just to the staff that feel intimidated by these people in the street.
00:06:18.060 That's your job. I don't think government has many jobs. As Ronald Reagan said, the government that is
00:06:27.360 best governs least, but one of the few things government should be doing is security, making
00:06:33.200 people safe. And Mr. Krog, you've got it all wrong. Let's move on to number three.
00:06:39.600 So number three on the list this week is Mind Numbingly Dumb, and I want to give credit where
00:06:48.740 it is due to Corey Morgan from The Corey Morgan Show and The Western Standard. Now, the video you're
00:06:54.640 going to watch in just a moment, admittedly, is probably from the wintertime, but Corey tweeted this
00:07:00.860 out this week because this is a story that is very pertinent right now. Here is Corey's tweet.
00:07:06.980 Every Canadian should watch this. A farmer is forced to dump thousands of liters of good
00:07:13.280 milk down the drain because supply management makes it illegal for him to sell it. This
00:07:18.940 is a sick system while families struggle with food prices.
00:07:22.820 Hey guys, we're here at Gibbonbo's Farm in Southern Ontario. We milk about 260 pounds. Right
00:07:32.120 now, during the winter months, we milk quite a bit more milk because the feed is very consistent.
00:07:36.980 And if you do a good job, you will produce quite a bit of milk. So, but right now, we're
00:07:42.980 over our Fultum. It's regulated by the government and by the DFO. But the problem is, is what
00:07:49.980 they don't understand is millions of people, look at this milk running away, because it's
00:07:53.980 the end of the month. So I have to dump, I dump 30,000 liters of milk and it breaks my heart.
00:07:59.980 And it breaks my heart. I will show you, by the way, this here Canadian milk is $7 a liter.
00:08:06.980 When I go for my haircut, people say, wow, $7, Jerry, for a little bit of milk. I say, well,
00:08:13.980 you have to go higher up because we have no say anymore as a dairy farmer on our own farm
00:08:19.980 farm or on our own farm because they, they make us dump it. And no matter how we stand
00:08:31.980 up, so this time I'm going public. I want the people to see the pain that us growers have.
00:08:36.980 Oh, 365 days as a little boy, we grew up on a dairy farm, came from Europe. Work, work, work. 0.71
00:08:44.980 And here we are. This is what's happening.
00:08:46.980 Doesn't that just turn your stomach? You know, I watched that video and I'm incensed.
00:08:51.980 I've held liters of cream here on my channel saying I pay more than $4 a liter for this in
00:08:57.980 some places. And it's creeping up at Costco where it's $3.20 a liter now. Yeah, American friends,
00:09:04.980 we pay more than $4 for a liter goddamn cream in this country because of stuff like this. 0.96
00:09:11.980 The policy couched in the language of defending Quebec farmers artificially inflates food prices 0.95
00:09:18.980 and hinders consumer choice and limits market access for Canadian producers from an article
00:09:24.980 in the Western Standard. They cover this quite extensively. Supply management. Go over and subscribe.
00:09:30.980 I do. Meanwhile, this is a major bone of contention when it comes to Donald Trump. He talks about this all the time.
00:09:37.980 So what does the Canadian government do just before we're supposed to go into trade negotiations?
00:09:43.980 This big issue. The crisis of our lifetime. Parliament on June 17th passed Bill C-202,
00:09:50.980 a Bloc Quebecois bill that bars the government from making any international trade deals
00:09:56.980 that alters Canada's quotas for dairy, eggs, or poultry.
00:10:00.980 Meanwhile, it passed. Everybody voted in favor of this because they pander to the vote in Quebec.
00:10:06.980 Screw Alberta. Screw the rest of Canada. Drives up prices. 0.82
00:10:10.980 Polyev confirms he will never cancel controversial dairy supply management.
00:10:16.980 So even if you get a conservative government, this will not change.
00:10:20.980 That's number one on our list this week.
00:10:23.980 Thanks so much for watching this. I do appreciate it.
00:10:26.980 I'll have Volume 2 for you next Friday.
00:10:28.980 If you like the video, please give me a thumbs up.
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00:10:34.980 And I'll see you in the next one. Have a great weekend.