John Bolton - December 15, 2024


Trudeau Thinks You're Less Of A Canadian Because You Were Born Here？


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4 minutes

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194.9369

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865

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76

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In Justin Trudeau's own words, being born in Canada makes you less of a Canadian than people who show up here. He speaks and acts as if Canadians don't deserve Canada. This was a part of an interview celebrating Canada's 150th anniversary.

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00:00:00.120 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Still December the 15th. No big blue mug of coffee as I normally have in my hand very early in the morning.
00:00:08.580 Too much coffee late in the day and I get the jitters. But I want to talk to you about a post I saw on X this morning and a video that was accompanied with it.
00:00:17.880 Bruce McGonigal. Here is the tweet.
00:00:21.440 In Justin Trudeau's own words, being born in Canada makes you less of a Canadian than people who show up here.
00:00:27.600 He says being born here means you defaulted in.
00:00:32.080 He speaks and acts as if Canadians don't deserve Canada.
00:00:35.220 This was a part of an interview celebrating Canada hitting the 150-year milestone.
00:00:41.800 So just think about that for a moment and let's watch the video together.
00:00:46.360 I didn't get to choose this place. I was born here.
00:00:49.940 And I can almost take it for granted.
00:00:51.920 And any time I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous.
00:01:00.940 Because I think being able to choose it rather than being Canadian by default is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
00:01:10.940 Which is why I always sort of laugh whenever you see people who are, not many of them, but intolerant or think, oh yeah, no, go back to your own country.
00:01:18.200 Well, no. You chose this country.
00:01:21.160 This is your country more than it is for others because we take it for granted.
00:01:26.280 We default into this place.
00:01:27.640 And I think understanding that power of building a country that is made of people who chose or whose ancestors chose to build a new life here is really, really exciting.
00:01:40.780 So you had a chance to look at the video.
00:01:42.780 Do you think Mr. McGonigal is right in the post he put on X that Trudeau thinks we're less of a Canadian because we were born here?
00:01:50.400 However, I think Mr. McGonigal is wrong and I think Justin Trudeau is correct in this point.
00:01:55.120 And I know you're not going to be happy that I say that, but he's right.
00:01:59.120 Do you take Canada for granted?
00:02:00.900 Well, of course you do.
00:02:02.160 I think North Americans do.
00:02:04.120 I think Americans do.
00:02:05.080 Canadians do.
00:02:05.620 I think the British do.
00:02:06.460 We're born here.
00:02:07.260 We don't think much about how lucky we were, how we won the lottery of life by being born here.
00:02:13.100 Let me just give you a quick story.
00:02:15.960 Eight, ten years ago, can't remember exactly.
00:02:18.600 I had a friend here who is from Egypt.
00:02:20.600 He's a Coptic Christian, terribly discriminated against in Egypt, came here to work at the same company as my wife.
00:02:27.480 And he'd been here for a number of years and he didn't want to be an Egyptian anymore. 1.00
00:02:31.040 He wanted to be a Canadian.
00:02:32.200 And I got invited to his citizenship ceremony.
00:02:34.880 And after the ceremony, there were tears running down his face because he was now a Canadian citizen.
00:02:41.580 Have you ever felt that way about Canada?
00:02:43.320 No, I don't think you do.
00:02:44.540 I think you take it for granted.
00:02:45.980 I think we all do.
00:02:46.860 Again, we won the lottery of life.
00:02:48.880 We're pretty damn lucky to be born here and to be given the opportunity to be here.
00:02:54.780 But Mr. McGonigal also says something else in his tweet, which I think has a hint of truth in it.
00:03:00.760 He speaks and acts as if Canadians don't deserve Canada.
00:03:04.600 I think Trudeau believes that.
00:03:07.300 Okay.
00:03:08.160 I don't think he thinks Canadians born here are less Canadians, but I don't think we appreciate it as much.
00:03:14.180 But I do think he thinks we don't deserve Canada because there is a disease that continues to spread in our society in the West.
00:03:22.140 And we all have to atone for the sins of the past because of the injustices that have happened in the past.
00:03:28.880 And Canadians are called colonizers and settlers in the country they were born in.
00:03:33.300 And I think Trudeau believes that, you know, there's a situation happening right now in Canada.
00:03:39.340 And you can probably find videos of this online, but you've got students who hear from other countries.
00:03:44.920 Their visas have run out and they're being told to leave and they don't want to leave.
00:03:48.080 And now they're protesting to stay.
00:03:50.520 And when asked why they're not leaving, they tell the person interviewing them that they should leave too.
00:03:57.460 They're just on stolen land.
00:03:59.100 Why should we leave?
00:04:00.060 You're on stolen land.
00:04:01.400 And this is the disease that's in our society right now.
00:04:03.820 So do you take Canada for granted?
00:04:05.860 I think you do.
00:04:07.240 I don't much like being part of Canada.
00:04:09.460 I've stayed here a number of times.
00:04:10.700 I'm a separatist.
00:04:11.440 I want Alberta to be a separate country.
00:04:13.300 But I don't think we appreciate the fact that we were born here and we're pretty damn lucky to be born here.
00:04:18.780 So I don't think Justin Trudeau is wrong.
00:04:20.560 Let me know what you think in the comments, whether you disagree with me or not.
00:04:23.360 But that's what I think.
00:04:24.620 Have a great day.
00:04:25.600 See you next time.