John Bolton - August 15, 2025


Alberta fights back and Canadians should too


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In this episode of the Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John talks about the Alberta Prosperity Project's call for a referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada. He also talks about why Albertans want to vote yes or no on the question.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel.
00:00:07.300 Great to have you along today, Friday, August the 15th, 4.14am with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee.
00:00:13.600 I hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:17.240 As you can see, I am home.
00:00:19.120 I am no longer in the hospital.
00:00:20.880 I got out on Wednesday evening.
00:00:22.600 I'll give a full update on my health if you're interested at the end of this video.
00:00:27.080 But I'm currently kind of living on my ground floor.
00:00:30.680 I'm shooting this in my dining area.
00:00:33.200 I'm sleeping on a hospital bed in my living room.
00:00:36.240 Here's a picture.
00:00:37.240 Because I can't go up and down stairs right now.
00:00:39.400 I certainly couldn't get in and out of my bed upstairs without extraordinary pain.
00:00:46.240 And I'm currently under the influence of drugs, although it's not affecting my thinking.
00:00:50.040 Let me just tell you that.
00:00:52.160 But it's keeping me from being in excruciating pain right now.
00:00:56.600 Before I move to today's topic, I'd like to thank everybody that's reached out over the
00:01:01.320 last several days to wish me well.
00:01:03.720 I'd like to thank the people at the Alberta Prosperity Project who reached out to me a
00:01:09.000 few days back to offer assistance.
00:01:11.560 I appreciate that very much.
00:01:12.920 I feel blessed that I'm part of an independence movement that would do that for me.
00:01:16.600 So thanks to everybody for that.
00:01:18.200 Now, keep in mind, I'm shooting this on my Mac.
00:01:21.480 I haven't got my regular screens around me.
00:01:24.040 I've got one screen right now and I'm kind of doing guerrilla recording.
00:01:28.680 But I did a video from the hospital the other day talking about the two candidates.
00:01:36.680 The reason I did that video was that story on hiking.
00:01:39.880 Pardon me if I move around a little bit.
00:01:45.640 That story on hiking out of the East Coast on how people are just so willing to accept
00:01:50.760 stuff like that where people like myself, probably people like you would never accept that.
00:01:56.280 And I've been watching in the news as much as I can over the last few days,
00:02:00.680 some of the crazy stories that have been popping up in Canada.
00:02:06.920 And it came to mind how I could talk about these things when I watched a video from Corey Morgan last night.
00:02:14.440 Now, he's talking about Alberta independence and the question for Alberta independence
00:02:19.720 at the beginning of this video that he did yesterday.
00:02:22.520 But I think there's something something to be learned here from Albertans.
00:02:26.920 And you'll get a reason why Albertans kind of want to move on from Canada when you watch this video.
00:02:32.360 And when I talk about these different things that I saw in the news this week.
00:02:35.880 But I think Canadians can learn about this as well.
00:02:38.120 And I think they need to take a stand.
00:02:39.640 So let's watch a little bit of Corey's video and I'll come back and explain.
00:02:43.800 Hey there.
00:02:44.200 Well, I see the first level of court ruled on a motion on the independence quest
00:02:52.840 for referendum.
00:02:54.600 And throughout basically the APP's motion to just quash the judicial review of the question.
00:03:02.440 And some folks are not sure where to go with this.
00:03:06.600 The first thing I say is don't sweat it.
00:03:08.280 Don't worry about it, guys.
00:03:09.880 Look, they're going to pull out all the stops.
00:03:12.760 The establishment is going to do everything it can to fight the independence movement.
00:03:19.240 And they're going to lose.
00:03:20.920 But we're in a long game, right?
00:03:23.720 So now it sounds like it might be one into November before this goes to review.
00:03:28.200 I can't say with confidence how they're going to rule on that, whether or not the question
00:03:33.640 is constitutional or not.
00:03:35.080 You know, I don't care.
00:03:36.360 I really don't.
00:03:37.720 We're not asking the court's permission.
00:03:40.280 We're not asking Ottawa's permission.
00:03:43.480 We're not asking anybody's permission, except those of Albertans.
00:03:46.520 And the only way to do it is through a referendum.
00:03:48.200 And we're going to have one.
00:03:50.600 I'll put a link to Corey's video in the description so you can watch the whole thing.
00:03:54.840 Go over there and subscribe to his channel as well.
00:03:57.000 And pardon me, I'm losing my voice a little bit right now.
00:04:00.040 But what has this got to do with Canada?
00:04:01.720 We're talking about an Alberta-centric issue here.
00:04:05.480 How the Alberta Prosperity Project has put a question forward for Albertans to determine
00:04:10.680 their fate.
00:04:11.320 And there are people who want to get in the way.
00:04:15.080 What has this got to do with Canada?
00:04:17.800 I'll get to it in just a moment.
00:04:19.240 If you ask the average person who wants independence in the province of Alberta,
00:04:25.960 what is the number one reason you want that?
00:04:27.880 People would say money.
00:04:30.440 I'll get to that in just a moment.
00:04:32.920 But we don't recognize the country we live in anymore.
00:04:35.480 It doesn't represent us.
00:04:36.760 Alberta is different.
00:04:38.280 Alberta is a distinct society.
00:04:40.040 I learned that as soon as I moved here 13, 14 years ago.
00:04:45.800 We don't want to accept what's going on in Canada right now because we don't recognize
00:04:49.720 the country we used to live in.
00:04:51.560 It's not the same anymore.
00:04:55.160 You kind of get used to it after a while.
00:04:57.000 You become numb to all the stupidity that goes on, much of it caused by government.
00:05:03.960 Reagan said that government isn't the solution to your problems.
00:05:08.360 Government is the problem.
00:05:09.320 So let's look at a couple of stories here, which I'll go through quickly.
00:05:11.640 I won't comment on them very much.
00:05:13.720 They kind of have a main theme here that most Canadians,
00:05:19.480 regardless of what side they're on, would that be the left or the right politically,
00:05:24.840 would agree that these stories are ridiculous and shouldn't be happening.
00:05:28.040 But very little is being done about this because we've become numb.
00:05:31.400 And Albertans have become numb to this and want to say goodbye.
00:05:35.960 So you've got this story about Canadians' blood, conservatives calling for an investigation into foreign
00:05:43.880 corporations cashing in on Canadians' blood.
00:05:46.200 And the Globe and Mail, which is not a conservative newspaper, reports that Spanish drug maker Griffal is selling products made with plasma obtained from Canadian blood donations.
00:05:58.120 And then we hear that Brookfield Asset Management has been aggressively trying to buy this company and that Mark Carney could benefit through Brookfield.
00:06:09.160 I mean, how is it acceptable that Mark Carney could do this?
00:06:13.560 It is because people are allowing this stuff to happen.
00:06:16.520 You've got this story.
00:06:17.720 Why are we trading our bread basket for a battery pack?
00:06:21.480 Mark Carney has been very quiet on this issue.
00:06:23.480 It's been going on for months, going back to, I think, before the election campaign.
00:06:28.280 In protecting a shaky electric vehicle dream, Ottawa is putting a $43 billion canola reality at risk, sacrificing your cornerstone of our agriculture economy for a battery pack that may never deliver.
00:06:39.560 And then there was this article that popped up just the other day.
00:06:43.000 They've decided to put a 75.8% tariff on Canadian canola seed, just as it's about to be harvested, on top of the 100% tariffs on Canadian canola oil, canola meal, and peas, and an additional 25% on lobster and pork.
00:06:59.160 How is this even possible in a country like Canada?
00:07:03.160 It shouldn't be.
00:07:05.640 You've got stories like this.
00:07:07.340 This is an actual screen grab from Smelted Animals.
00:07:11.000 Today, in the vote-rich RP beheader community, federal officials spend at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy, and wine.
00:07:27.320 They're whining and dying terrorists on your dime.
00:07:30.620 How is this possible?
00:07:31.960 I do not recognize this country.
00:07:33.800 There is this story from Brian Lilly.
00:07:36.880 This would be the Toronto Sun.
00:07:38.760 The Sun Chain.
00:07:39.540 Carney's liberals hiding immigration data as questions mount.
00:07:45.060 Here's a bit of the text from that story.
00:07:47.200 Carney liberals have been hiding immigration data from the Canadians for months.
00:07:51.140 Now, after being called on it, the government says it's all in the name of openness and transparency.
00:07:56.260 You know, I saw this story.
00:07:57.840 I immediately thought of 1984.
00:08:00.440 God, it's brought up so much.
00:08:04.880 But it's so true.
00:08:06.080 Here's a quote from 1984.
00:08:07.640 The party told you to reject the evidence of your ears and eyes.
00:08:12.360 It was their final, most essential command.
00:08:16.000 And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became the truth.
00:08:27.340 And this is kind of where we are right now.
00:08:29.200 I mean, there's a famous guy from the 1930s and 40s that said, a lie told once is still a lie.
00:08:35.300 A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
00:08:37.700 And that's where we are right now in this country.
00:08:41.160 There was this story right here.
00:08:42.740 And this is a good indication of how people can push back and make changes.
00:08:47.040 And it's not happening enough in the country.
00:08:49.420 There's a story regarding the Toronto International Film Festival.
00:08:54.260 TIFF removes October 7th documentary film from schedule, citing implausible copyright clearance concerns from Hamas.
00:09:01.840 Terror footage.
00:09:03.320 That's absolutely absurd.
00:09:05.560 And I remember when I saw this story, I thought, how is this even possible in this country?
00:09:10.680 You know, when it came to that hiking story, people were mocking Canada from around the world.
00:09:17.920 It's so absurd.
00:09:19.180 But people pushed back and you end up with this.
00:09:22.060 TIFF and filmmaker Barry Average reached resolution to screen October 7th doc amid outcry.
00:09:27.760 And there needs to be more outcry.
00:09:29.620 But I think people are just so tired of dealing with this stuff that they turn it off.
00:09:38.300 It reminds me of another quote.
00:09:39.660 I saw this the other day.
00:09:40.700 I thought this was interesting.
00:09:42.700 If you keep people exhausted and distracted, they won't organize.
00:09:46.360 If you keep them struggling and divided, they won't resist.
00:09:49.560 The system isn't broken.
00:09:51.380 It's working as designed.
00:09:54.320 And I think that's where we are right now.
00:09:57.460 And then there's these stories.
00:10:00.220 I got this in an email from Free Alberta.
00:10:03.340 And this is directly directed, I guess, towards Albertans.
00:10:10.260 And this goes back to the money thing.
00:10:12.660 The federal government's so-called emissions reduction plan, including its oil and gas emissions cap,
00:10:17.220 will devastate Alberta's economy.
00:10:20.180 We knew it all along.
00:10:21.500 But thanks to a freedom of information request obtained by the hub, we now have proof from the Alberta government.
00:10:28.320 Own commission research showing just how bad it will be.
00:10:31.900 And here's how bad it's going to be, folks.
00:10:33.920 And this is why Albertans are pushing back and want independence.
00:10:39.100 You need to understand this.
00:10:41.080 Pardon me.
00:10:41.360 The numbers are staggering.
00:10:43.700 $941.7 billion in lost economic activity between 2030 and 2050.
00:10:50.120 Over 150,000 Alberta jobs gone by 2050.
00:10:53.780 $3,291 less disposable income per Alberta household by 2050.
00:11:01.700 More than $196 billion wiped from provincial revenues.
00:11:05.880 For perspective, the much-hated national energy program of the 1980s only cost Alberta $37 billion over four years.
00:11:15.580 Ottawa's current plan will take $102 billion in just the first four years alone.
00:11:21.000 And this is only the partial data.
00:11:23.040 The complete numbers could be even worse.
00:11:25.180 You see, Alberta is doing what Canada isn't doing.
00:11:30.300 We are pushing back.
00:11:34.840 We want something better for ourselves.
00:11:38.260 And that's why we want the independence question.
00:11:41.900 Canadians aren't pushing back enough.
00:11:44.560 They're accepting their fate.
00:11:46.040 I've said here many times before, I don't want to go back to the same place again, that Canada is mediocre.
00:11:51.980 You know, I've just come through the healthcare system.
00:11:54.100 And I'm very critical of the healthcare system, but I stood with somebody the other day who works in the healthcare system,
00:12:03.280 who criticized the healthcare system because it doesn't work quick enough.
00:12:06.480 Now, I was in distress last Saturday laying on a bike path in the southern part of Alberta in Fish Creek Park.
00:12:15.380 I've got a broken collarbone and a pelvis is broken in two places.
00:12:22.280 I'm on drugs to just move around my house using a walker.
00:12:26.940 But our healthcare system could be far better.
00:12:29.760 If you're in distress, you'll get the care you need quickly.
00:12:34.200 But I do have to say, on Saturday afternoon, all the way through Sunday, almost into Monday,
00:12:41.160 I had to sit in a very busy emergency room where I got no sleep and it wasn't comfortable at all
00:12:46.040 until I could actually get the care I needed to get on the road to recovery.
00:12:50.060 But Canadians accept mediocrity. 0.99
00:12:52.480 You accept stories like this, and these are just a few things.
00:12:55.700 You don't push back enough.
00:12:57.520 You vote for this.
00:12:59.100 And it gets worse, and it gets worse and worse.
00:13:01.180 Alberta doesn't want to do that anymore. 1.00
00:13:03.060 All that money that Alberta is going to lose because of this emissions thing,
00:13:07.980 and because of Mark Carney and net zero.
00:13:10.720 We don't want this anymore.
00:13:15.060 If Alberta just left right now, we would be tens of billions of dollars, 0.99
00:13:20.200 almost hundreds of billions of dollars ahead.
00:13:23.720 If we stay, the province will be pilfered by the federal government
00:13:28.600 and we'll continue to complain about it.
00:13:33.020 You know, people say, what do you want?
00:13:37.800 As a conservative, I say, I want to be left alone.
00:13:42.000 Right?
00:13:43.100 The nine scariest words in the English language, Reagan again.
00:13:46.740 I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
00:13:48.600 I just want to be left alone.
00:13:51.320 I think we need less government, not more.
00:13:54.400 The government that is best governs least.
00:13:57.040 But I also want to be able to keep more of the money that I earn.
00:14:04.740 And I think every Canadian would say that.
00:14:06.800 I don't care what side of the ideological spectrum you're on.
00:14:10.360 I think most people would like to keep more of the money they earn.
00:14:13.160 People work into, what, middle of June now just to pay the taxes in this country?
00:14:20.200 Shouldn't Alberta feel the same way?
00:14:21.660 If you're in Alberta, and you're a conservative, and you're off signing that petition for that
00:14:28.240 Blatherskite, Tom Lukasik, who's trying to get in the way of me having a choice in this
00:14:33.860 province to stay or leave Canada, don't you believe that Alberta should be able to keep
00:14:39.300 more of what it earns?
00:14:41.360 Don't you believe Alberta should be able to walk away from a country, and Albertans walk
00:14:46.780 away from a country that they don't recognize anymore?
00:14:49.320 I said a while back on a video here that patriotism is a hard thing to fight.
00:14:57.040 And I think it is.
00:14:57.920 I think people are just, they've got this idea that Canada is something special.
00:15:04.180 Well, it might have been.
00:15:05.440 But by all those stories and more and more that you see every day, I don't think it's
00:15:08.280 that special at all anymore.
00:15:12.120 Anyhow, thank you very much for watching.
00:15:14.720 I do appreciate it.
00:15:16.440 A little update on my medical in just a moment.
00:15:18.560 If you like the video, give me a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for
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00:15:23.340 I'll see you in the next one.
00:15:24.720 Now, as far as I go, I am living in my living room basically right now.
00:15:29.440 I've got a long road to recovery, but luckily I'm at home now where I feel more comfortable.
00:15:40.260 But frankly, I've got to get up right now and get back to bed because I'm in severe pain
00:15:45.880 right now in my right hip, and I'm probably not doing myself any good.
00:15:49.880 Thanks for watching.
00:15:50.840 I'll see you in the next one.