John Bolton - A Message for CANADA — ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE Doesn’t Care What You Think

00:00:00.000 A message to people in Canada who think they're accomplishing something by insulting people in the independence movement?

00:00:06.420 We don't care.

00:00:10.760 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 3.30 a.m., Monday, February the 9th.

00:00:15.720 Hope you're having a great start to your Monday and a great start to your work week with the big blue mug of coffee this morning.

00:00:20.620 And I woke up this morning thinking, you know, it almost feels like the dog days of summer right now,

00:00:27.820 where not a lot happens.

00:00:30.460 In summertime, when politicians go out, they call it the rubber chicken circuit.

00:00:35.420 They get to go to a lot of barbecues and eat a lot of rubber chicken.

00:00:38.900 Now, there are things going on in federal politics and in Canada right now,

00:00:42.320 but overall things are a little quieter than they have been.

00:00:45.980 You've got Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives reaching across the aisle to try to assist the government.

00:00:51.920 They've got a different tone, if you noticed.

00:00:53.820 Jamil Javani goes down to talk to his friend J.D. Vance in the United States.

00:00:57.820 Good article in the National Post about that today as they're trying to, you know,

00:01:01.940 trying to rebuild and trying to win the next election.

00:01:04.300 That's what this is about.

00:01:05.540 But right now, it's rather quiet.

00:01:07.080 I woke up this morning and not much happening right now.

00:01:10.060 Just the same old crap that is Canada.

00:01:13.720 What's really happening in the most interesting place in the country is here in Alberta.

00:01:18.340 Alberta is driving the dialogue across the country right now

00:01:22.340 because of the independence movement right here, which is growing on a daily basis.

00:01:26.740 You know, I went out on Saturday.

00:01:28.640 What a great day.

00:01:29.480 It was a beautiful day here.

00:01:30.520 The weather has been outstanding.

00:01:32.660 As I said in my video that I put up, I think it was yesterday morning,

00:01:37.760 I think God is on the side of independence.

00:01:40.240 Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I think God is on the independent side.

00:01:44.440 Because for the most part, people who are having to sign up,

00:01:46.940 people on a petition have to be outside.

00:01:51.320 And generally, at this time of the year in February, it's minus 30 degrees.

00:01:54.940 It hit 14, 15 over the weekend here in Calgary.

00:01:58.160 And it's been like this for at least three weeks out of the last month and a half.

00:02:02.580 Unbelievable.

00:02:03.760 So things are going here in Alberta.

00:02:05.280 But what people don't understand is that we really don't care what the rest of Canada thinks

00:02:10.620 about the independence movement.

00:02:11.800 As I said off the top of this video, we don't care what you're thinking.

00:02:14.480 As a matter of fact, when you call us traitors, many of us see that as a badge of honor.

00:02:20.640 Because we've come to the realization that we don't want to be part of Canada anymore.

00:02:24.200 And we have the facts on our side.

00:02:26.820 But you go daily onto X.

00:02:29.020 And it's amazing how polluted my X timeline is.

00:02:32.200 Every day I go there, the things that we're being told.

00:02:35.580 And the misinformation that's being spread around.

00:02:37.680 Great article in the Western Standard, which I'm going to go into in just a moment

00:02:41.400 and read a little bit of that for you about the dirty tricks that are coming for Alberta. 1.00

00:02:45.560 We ain't seen nothing yet.

00:02:46.620 But people out here really don't care what you think.

00:02:49.660 The keyboard warriors out east who are insulting us with the nastiest of things

00:02:57.140 and threatening us as well.

00:02:58.980 You just don't understand what's going on out here.

00:03:00.880 I'm going to go through a few tweets on X in just a moment.

00:03:03.640 And I'll go through that Western Standard article.

00:03:05.860 And we're expecting anything and everything out here.

00:03:09.040 We know things are going to get worse.

00:03:10.680 But we really don't care.

00:03:12.720 Here's something you need to understand if you live in Canada.

00:03:15.780 And my friends and independents watching this right now will understand exactly what I'm

00:03:20.080 talking about.

00:03:21.100 Canada, look me in the eyes.

00:03:23.200 We are not Canadians anymore here.

00:03:25.520 We are Albertans first and foremost.

00:03:29.480 Canada isn't even in the picture for us anymore.

00:03:31.440 And this is a growing feeling out here that you don't understand.

00:03:34.700 I am an Albertan from Calgary.

00:03:38.220 In that order, Canada isn't even in the picture anymore.

00:03:41.660 You see, Canada left us.

00:03:43.340 We didn't leave it.

00:03:45.700 And no amount of threats and insults and promises, even pipelines or memorandums of understanding

00:03:53.860 are going to change that.

00:03:56.380 The more you insult us and threaten us, the stronger we get out here.

00:04:01.720 So keep it coming.

00:04:02.540 Let's take a look at what's on X today.

00:04:05.620 It's unbelievable, the things that we're seeing here.

00:04:08.940 Just before I get to these tweets, on a weekly basis, somebody will say to me, somebody in

00:04:15.120 the independence movement will say to me, John, do you remember the 1995 referendum in

00:04:19.160 Quebec?

00:04:19.540 And I grin and I nod knowingly.

00:04:21.940 I remember it very well.

00:04:23.640 And they say, do you remember how people treated Quebec and the people in Quebec at that point?

00:04:27.880 And I say, yeah.

00:04:29.020 And they say, oh, Quebec, please don't leave.

00:04:32.560 We love you.

00:04:33.540 Please don't leave.

00:04:34.520 And that's exactly the way it was.

00:04:36.800 I was at the unity rally in Montreal just prior to the 1995 referendum.

00:04:41.180 I was under the big flag.

00:04:42.600 I was reporting down there.

00:04:43.840 I would never go there again.

00:04:45.340 Never.

00:04:46.620 But I remember exactly the way it was.

00:04:48.960 Alberta treated with respect and love.

00:04:52.400 Alberta doing the same thing.

00:04:54.880 Treated with insults and threats.

00:04:56.920 It's kind of the way we're treated when it comes to our economy.

00:04:59.100 Like a parallel.

00:05:00.040 Quebec gets exactly what they want.

00:05:01.720 Alberta gets the shaft.

00:05:02.900 One of the reasons why we're leaving.

00:05:04.260 So let's take a look at a few of these tweets.

00:05:08.820 We've got Michael Gerald Gibbs here with every virtue signal possible.

00:05:13.200 And this is the attitude of people in Canada.

00:05:16.220 One thing no one is talking about is the feelings of the rest of Canada.

00:05:19.360 We don't care, Michael.

00:05:20.540 Do you care about the feelings of the people here in Alberta?

00:05:22.640 Obviously not.

00:05:23.660 We're angry as hell.

00:05:24.600 This referendum is even happening.

00:05:26.340 Spitting angry.

00:05:27.320 We're in no mood to kiss Alberta's ass or hold your hands through this. 1.00

00:05:30.060 We don't want you to hold our hands.

00:05:31.460 Alberta is leaving its abusive relationship with Canada.

00:05:35.520 We're walking away.

00:05:38.600 Hell with Mark Slipinski.

00:05:40.960 Everyone who loves Alberta and who loves Canada needs to volunteer here, please.

00:05:44.740 Forever Canadian.

00:05:45.420 Now, for those of you who don't know, there's this group here that had a petition signing campaign

00:05:50.180 on a nothing question that went nowhere.

00:05:53.160 Thomas Lukaszek, who used to be the deputy premier of the province, is leading this up.

00:05:57.860 And this is all about Forever Canadian.

00:05:59.720 Ask somebody who's part of this movement in Alberta why Alberta should stay and then say,

00:06:05.440 you can't use patriotism and they've got nothing.

00:06:08.380 And I've got 25 reasons why Alberta should leave. 1.00

00:06:12.520 Okay.

00:06:13.100 Alberta separatists, I'm genuinely asking, tell me specifically how Alberta leaving Canada

00:06:18.820 improves your life.

00:06:20.540 Break it down.

00:06:21.940 Money, healthcare, pensions, borders, trade, not vibes, not slogans, not Trudeau.

00:06:26.460 If this is a serious plan, the details should be easy.

00:06:29.860 I actually responded to this tweet.

00:06:32.800 Let me click on it here.

00:06:35.140 And it should be right underneath.

00:06:37.620 Here you go.

00:06:38.240 The whole plan, costed out, laid out in numbers, educate yourself.

00:06:42.200 And I tweeted over this, the value of freedom.

00:06:44.760 And this is the draft, fully costed fiscal plan for an independent Alberta.

00:06:50.040 Here it is.

00:06:55.140 Maybe instead of being a keyboard warrior who lives in the rest of Canada, you should learn

00:06:59.900 a little bit about what's going on out here.

00:07:02.640 It's fully costed.

00:07:03.920 It's right here.

00:07:06.040 Everything.

00:07:07.320 Healthcare, pensions, money, borders, trade.

00:07:09.780 Not vibes, not slogans, not Trudeau.

00:07:12.720 It's right here.

00:07:15.660 Read it.

00:07:17.000 Maybe you'll understand.

00:07:22.000 Holy f***, are you this dumb?

00:07:23.780 That's because 70% of the population of Canada lives in Eastern Canada.

00:07:27.600 The East decides our elections, the West has no say. 0.95

00:07:30.000 That's true.

00:07:31.740 The system's broken.

00:07:33.400 The system that we have now is broken.

00:07:35.700 Alberta is a conservative province.

00:07:37.640 We are not like you, Canada.

00:07:39.280 We're not like you.

00:07:40.620 We're not like the East. 0.97

00:07:41.880 We don't vote liberals in who vote against our prosperity.

00:07:46.060 That's what you're doing.

00:07:47.260 Moving on.

00:07:51.140 I grew up in Alberta.

00:07:52.500 Back then, it was a place of leadership and opportunity.

00:07:54.840 Now, it's just a bunch of idiots and shitty cowboy hats that hate Canada.

00:07:58.480 You whine because of a 40% increase in oil production in a decade because of liberals.

00:08:03.180 Shame on every one of you.

00:08:04.260 Well, let me explain something to you here, Roddy.

00:08:06.800 Any of the oil production that's an increase, this was all decided on about 20 years ago.

00:08:13.940 And some of the companies managed to hang in there through all of the regulations of the Liberal Party, most of which came in around 2015 when Trudeau got in.

00:08:21.960 These people, it took them 20 years to get their oil production up because it's so dysfunctional to get things done here in Canada.

00:08:30.040 And here's the other thing.

00:08:31.840 Do you realize about $500 billion in investments have been lost in Alberta over the last about 10 years because of the Liberals?

00:08:39.900 We would be rich beyond belief if we could leave.

00:08:42.680 In fact, Alberta would be one of the richest countries in the world.

00:08:47.920 We have trillions of dollars in natural resources below our feet and we can't get it out.

00:08:52.560 I'm not going to go on too long, but you get my point.

00:08:55.820 Moving on, we have Markham Hisslop here. 0.95

00:08:57.960 See, this is my whole timeline.

00:08:59.760 It's one after the other.

00:09:01.280 The only ones who want to separate are Americans living in Alberta.

00:09:04.720 I don't mean Americans with a U.S. passport living in Alberta.

00:09:08.000 I mean Albertans with an American fetish.

00:09:10.520 That's maybe 20% of Albertans.

00:09:12.500 Those Albertans can go to hell.

00:09:14.760 Well, where do you come up with a number like this, Markham?

00:09:17.520 There's a saying, lies, damned lies, and statistics.

00:09:21.360 We see a growing movement of people here in Alberta.

00:09:24.020 Do we have an American fetish?

00:09:26.020 No.

00:09:27.280 But I'll tell you this.

00:09:28.320 This is an absolute truth.

00:09:29.860 Albertans have more in common with people who live just south of us in the United States

00:09:34.200 than we do with the rest of Canada.

00:09:35.720 And that is true.

00:09:36.820 Okay, so you've got Alberta separation with this group of ladies here signing people up 1.00

00:09:41.440 on the petition.

00:09:42.900 Albertans are not treasonous.

00:09:44.240 And this person, handmade for the Republic of whatever, you can say it as many times as

00:09:48.640 you want, but that doesn't make it so.

00:09:50.380 Absolutely are treasonous.

00:09:51.700 Do you even know what the definition of treason is?

00:09:54.280 You know what these people are doing?

00:09:55.500 This is called democracy.

00:09:57.640 Do you know what treason means?

00:09:58.700 Let's read it up.

00:09:59.480 Hey, Google, what's the definition of treason?

00:10:02.600 Treason is the betrayal of allegiance to one's country, typically involving overt acts to

00:10:07.000 overthrow the government, harm the sovereign, or assist enemy forces.

00:10:11.220 Is that what these people are doing?

00:10:13.880 Everybody gets a vote.

00:10:15.200 You can either say yes or no.

00:10:17.080 And you know what?

00:10:18.520 We will abide by what happens during the referendum in October.

00:10:22.340 Is your side going to do that if we vote to leave?

00:10:25.420 Let's look at one more.

00:10:27.180 Oh, here's another good one.

00:10:28.360 Let's bookend this with Michael Gerald Gibbs once again, Mr. He, Him.

00:10:32.820 Jason Kenney is right.

00:10:33.920 The Quebec referendum sparked a flight of capital that Quebec never recovered from.

00:10:37.940 Toronto snatched away from Montreal its status as the financial and cultural hub of Canada,

00:10:42.820 and it happened rapidly.

00:10:44.480 Alberta is facing rapid permanent hits to its economy and drawing power if it goes ahead with

00:10:49.420 this referendum.

00:10:50.500 Well, you know what's really interesting about this, Gerald, is the fact that over the last

00:10:54.220 several weeks, we've had tens of billions of dollars in investment in Alberta.

00:10:58.680 And here's the real uncomfortable thing for people like you.

00:11:02.200 It's your government.

00:11:03.500 It's the liberals.

00:11:04.360 And it's people like David Eby in BC that have driven investment away from Alberta.

00:11:09.440 As I mentioned earlier in this video, $500 billion in investment.

00:11:13.820 Now, let's take a look at the article from the Western Standard.

00:11:17.300 I'm not going to read this whole thing to you.

00:11:18.760 I'll put a link below.

00:11:20.400 If you're in the independence movement and you aren't subscribing to the Western Standard,

00:11:24.000 do it now.

00:11:24.620 Support them.

00:11:25.500 They support us.

00:11:27.280 Fringe or freedom?

00:11:28.340 The dirty tricks being used to kill Alberta's independence vote.

00:11:31.980 From Dr. E.W. Barber.

00:11:34.640 Mainstream and alt-media outlets on both sides of the border are working overtime to persuade

00:11:38.880 you that President Trump and his administration are engaged in some shadowy, nefarious plot

00:11:44.060 to interfere with and perhaps undermine Canadian sovereignty.

00:11:47.040 After all, he did say that Canada should be the 51st state.

00:11:50.600 And I'll repeat, we do not want to become the 51st state.

00:11:53.540 We want to be our own country.

00:11:55.360 The actual facts are far more mundane.

00:11:57.700 The leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project have met with officials in Washington, D.C.

00:12:03.000 It remains unclear whether they met with Trump.

00:12:05.460 According to both a U.S. government spokesperson and representatives of the APP, the discussions

00:12:10.600 concern the hypothetical feasibility of a line of credit in the event the Alberta independence

00:12:15.640 vote is positive.

00:12:17.020 There does not seem to have been any discussions of involving the U.S. in the independence campaign

00:12:21.620 using U.S. resources in an independence campaign or the APP requesting binding ties

00:12:27.460 between an independent Alberta and the U.S.

00:12:30.040 Put simply, they were exploring the same kind of standby credit facility that many readers

00:12:35.060 have with their local bank.

00:12:36.780 British Columbia Premier David Eby inaccurately depicted the meetings as and labeled the simple

00:12:41.600 act of meeting U.S. officials to discuss a line of credit is treason.

00:12:45.100 Oh, and then with all due respect, as I said earlier to the Premier, perhaps he should consult

00:12:49.780 the Oxford English Dictionary before hurling such a loaded term.

00:12:52.920 Far from treason, this is the APP leaders acting with foresight and being responsible towards

00:12:58.840 the people of Alberta.

00:13:00.280 Albertans should take comfort knowing that, unlike in Ottawa, adults are in charge at the

00:13:04.520 APP, and they definitely are.

00:13:06.600 I speak to them here regularly on this channel.

00:13:09.020 Meanwhile, as the collection of signatures for an Alberta independence referendum presses

00:13:12.880 ahead, undeniable images of large crowds braving the cold to add their name to the petition

00:13:18.220 are repeatedly, repeatedly emerge.

00:13:20.860 The politicians and the legacy media are intensifying their efforts to downplay the Alberta

00:13:25.820 movement.

00:13:26.620 They dismiss it as fringe, branding its supporters as bad Canadians or worse.

00:13:30.940 The objective seems clear, disenfranchise as many voters as possible by demoralizing

00:13:35.920 Albertans, suppressing turnout, and engineering the referendum's failure.

00:13:40.000 To that end, Prime Minister Carney met with Thomas Lukasik, who I mentioned earlier.

00:13:43.760 The use of the recycled campaign slogans, threat to Canadian sovereignty and treason, is calculated

00:13:49.440 to inflame nationalist passions.

00:13:51.640 The insinuation of President Trump's involvement is a transparent attempt to taint the independence

00:13:56.560 movement by association.

00:13:58.760 Furthermore, the discontent is spreading because other provinces see the problems.

00:14:03.640 Quebec's sovereignty movement is once again in the headlines, and Saskatchewan is openly

00:14:07.980 discussing similar frustrations as Alberta.

00:14:10.420 Even parts of B.C. are looking to Alberta for examples of how to push back against federal

00:14:15.580 overreach and problems specific to B.C.

00:14:18.380 I'm waiting to talk to somebody from the B.C. independence movement.

00:14:23.180 I had an interview set up, but he got the flu, so I'll hopefully have that for you later this

00:14:28.120 week.

00:14:28.820 Albertans should embrace themselves as each milestone of the independence initiative approaches.

00:14:33.940 The use of propaganda will intensify, complete with the relentless wall-to-wall messaging that

00:14:39.120 defines a propaganda campaign.

00:14:41.080 What they will not do is offer logical arguments, clear reasons, or even genuine policy changes

00:14:46.600 to address the intolerable situation that the Ottawa elite has imposed on the province.

00:14:52.320 In contrast, the APP, the Independence Party of Alberta, the Wildrose Independence Party of

00:14:57.780 Alberta, and others offer a list of reasons in accompanying arguments for self-determination

00:15:02.980 and independence.

00:15:03.980 I hold this up once again.

00:15:05.860 Regardless of one supporting or disagreeing with the independence initiative, the sorry

00:15:10.520 state of affairs is that one party is peddling propaganda.

00:15:14.720 I say once again to the people in Canada, and my friends in independence will say the same

00:15:19.500 thing.

00:15:20.040 We do not care what you say about us.

00:15:22.100 We do not care how you insult us.

00:15:23.900 We do not care how you threaten us.

00:15:26.080 We are moving forward with this.

00:15:27.700 This is a democratic process.

00:15:29.080 We want what is best for our families and our province and our soon-to-be country, Alberta.

00:15:35.580 There is nothing you can do to slow us down.

00:15:38.220 You only strengthen our resolve.

00:15:40.540 Thank you very much for watching.

00:15:42.140 I hope you liked the video.

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John Bolton - February 09, 2026

A Message for CANADA — ALBERTA INDEPENDENCE Doesn’t Care What You Think

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