John Bolton - March 04, 2025


Trump Tariffs - It's what the Liberals wanted all along


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Trump Tariffs are coming in on $155 billion worth of Canadian goods. What has Justin Trudeau been up to since February 1st? And why hasn't he spoken to President Trump since then? What does that tell us about their relationship?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 457 a.m. on Tuesday, March the 4th with the big blue mug
00:00:06.000 of coffee coming in handy at this early hour. Hope you're having a great day today and welcome
00:00:11.580 to Trump tariff day, March the 4th, 2025. And honestly, I have no idea why this is happening.
00:00:20.400 It doesn't make any sense at all, but folks, here we are on March the 4th and we're in uncharted
00:00:25.920 territory today because tariffs are coming in today. Unless something miraculous happens
00:00:30.460 within the next 24 hours. I woke up with a couple of questions today. First question was
00:00:37.820 what has Justin Trudeau and our government, our government, we don't have a government
00:00:43.000 right now. The most dire situation in Canada in decades. We haven't got a government right
00:00:48.940 now. What has Trudeau been doing since February the 1st? And is this exactly what
00:00:55.900 the Liberal Party wants to happen? And I'm going to say it again. The Liberal Party cares
00:01:00.460 more about power than they care about you. Are they using this in order to win the next
00:01:07.800 election? Let's go back to February 1st when Justin Trudeau said this. Tonight, I am announcing
00:01:16.520 Canada will be responding to the U.S. trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion.
00:01:25.900 worth of American goods. So in the same press conference, somebody asked him this.
00:01:31.460 Good evening, Prime Minister. Stephanie Taylor with the National Post. What does it tell you
00:01:35.240 about your relationship with President Trump that you've been trying to get a hold of him
00:01:38.920 and he hasn't been speaking with you?
00:01:42.640 I think this is a time where we've all remarked on just how active President Trump has been
00:01:49.720 in engaging with a wide range of topics in his first weeks in office. As you all know, I've
00:01:59.060 had many, many good and substantive conversations with President Trump over the past months.
00:02:04.780 Great question. And obviously, he hadn't spoken to him very much. He had been very busy at that
00:02:11.140 point. Well, Trump has been very busy since he was asked that question on February the 1st.
00:02:16.760 How many times has Justin Trudeau spoken with Trump since then? I think it's kind of important.
00:02:22.160 This is a huge thing for Canada. You'd think Trump would be on speed dial. You'd think he'd have asked
00:02:27.960 to go to Mar-a-Lago or Washington to have a sit-down to iron this issue out. But that hasn't happened.
00:02:35.060 So what has Trudeau been doing? Well, you can go to the Government of Canada website and they have
00:02:41.700 the itinerary of the Prime Minister there. Now, there could be situations where things are not
00:02:47.560 on record and Trudeau has spoken to Trump. But I'm going to go through what is on the website. I went
00:02:52.760 through every day since February 1st up until today to find out what Trudeau has been doing. So let's
00:02:57.240 look here. This is the address, 9pm. The Prime Minister will make that announcement and you saw part of
00:03:02.720 that right there. Let's go back to February the 3rd. He spoke with Trump on February 3rd right here.
00:03:10.540 And on that same day, Reuters wrote this story. Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico and Canada but not
00:03:17.060 on China. And that meant we were going to have the tariffs coming in on March 4th, which is today.
00:03:22.980 And then the next time I see anything listed on the official itinerary of the Prime Minister of
00:03:28.860 Canada, Justin Trudeau, is on February 22nd where he spoke to Trump once again on the progress we
00:03:35.260 had made. So let's read this. The Prime Minister and the President of the United States spoke today
00:03:39.980 about the war in Ukraine ahead of Monday's virtual G7 meeting. The Prime Minister also updated the
00:03:46.280 President about shared progress at the Canada-US border combating fentanyl, including the work of
00:03:52.060 Canada's new fentanyl czar and Canada's listing of cartels. The Prime Minister noted seizures of fentanyl
00:03:58.660 at the border have decreased. That's the last thing since February 1st that was listed on the
00:04:06.820 Prime Minister's itinerary. From what I can find out, he hasn't spoken to Trump since that point.
00:04:12.780 So where are we now? Well, we know over the last month that we've had this leadership campaign going
00:04:18.920 on and the Liberals have been using Donald Trump to great effect to raise their poll numbers. Mark
00:04:25.040 Carney even at one time said he'd be the best negotiator against Donald Trump better than
00:04:30.920 Pierre Polyev. That's what a poll said. But they have been using Donald Trump in order to push up
00:04:36.300 their poll numbers and I think get an advantage in the next election. But where do we go from here,
00:04:42.100 folks? Where are we going from here? I mean, we're in uncharted territories. Here's Doug Ford over the last 24
00:04:49.620 hours. This is crazy, folks. Ford, who just got re-elected with a huge majority and I think Donald
00:04:55.320 Trump and talking tough about Trump helped him there. This is what he's saying he might do now
00:05:00.880 that these tariffs are coming in today. We keep the lights on, the 1.5 million homes and manufacturing
00:05:07.860 in New York, in Michigan, and in Minnesota. If he wants to destroy our economy and our families,
00:05:14.740 I will shut down the electricity going down to the U.S. and I'm telling you, we will do it.
00:05:22.040 Holy crap, he's threatening to shut off energy and freeze people in the United States of America. Now,
00:05:28.220 I'd be interested in seeing that happen. I don't want anybody to get hurt, but I want to see what
00:05:32.060 happens to people in the middle of wintertime when energy is cut off because I'd like to see Alberta
00:05:36.740 do that to Quebec when they deny us having a pipeline going out east. But this is where we are right now.
00:05:42.740 This is uncharted territory. Now, is this what the liberals wanted? This has helped the liberals.
00:05:49.960 I think they're sacrificing you to maintain power. I believe that. But where are we right now? We are
00:05:54.900 in a siege situation right now. That's where we are unless things change quickly and somebody backs
00:06:00.940 down. We're in a siege situation. What's a siege? Well, it's a military term. Here it is on the screen
00:06:05.420 for you. A military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender. We're in an
00:06:12.000 economic siege right now. Somebody's going to have to back down. But what's going to happen
00:06:16.460 if the Americans back down? I don't think that's going to happen. What happens if we back down?
00:06:20.780 What do we have to give the United States? Do we have to declare we're the 51st state?
00:06:26.580 What is going to happen here? It's unbelievable. And why is Donald Trump doing this?
00:06:31.980 Nobody seems to know why Donald Trump is doing this. It doesn't make any sense at all. It's
00:06:38.400 really quite callous. The only thing I can think is Trump thought he could influence the next election
00:06:44.440 and get a conservative government elected by putting pressure on the liberals and making them
00:06:49.820 look weak. But things didn't play out the way he planned. Trudeau resigns on the 6th. We've got a
00:06:56.040 leadership campaign and now these tariffs are the reason why the liberals have gone up in the polls.
00:07:02.100 They're going after Donald Trump and Trump is not going to back down at all ever about anything.
00:07:07.300 Can you see him backing down on this? No. So he got between a rock and a hard place and he has to
00:07:11.760 impose the tariffs. That's the only thing I can think why he would do this to us right now. So where do we
00:07:17.360 go from here? It's going to be interesting to find out. There could be some real hard times coming.
00:07:21.700 Folks, everybody's talking about buy Canadian. Folks, I buy what's the least expensive because
00:07:27.680 it's so expensive to live here in the country because of the Liberal Party. The reason we're
00:07:32.920 in this situation, again, is because of the Liberal Party. We've got to elect a conservative
00:07:37.960 government. It's the only way to get out of this mess. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
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