John Bolton - Alberta has to get DIRTY and INDEPENDENT to get things done

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 453 AM, Sunday, June the 29th.

00:00:10.040 Hope you're having a great start to your day.

00:00:11.580 Hope you're having a wonderful weekend as well.

00:00:14.740 And I've got my big blue mug of coffee tasting oh so sweet this morning.

00:00:18.840 And before I get into today's topic on why independence is the only way Alberta can move 1.00

00:00:24.620 forward, I would like to take this moment, and I hope you'll do the same, to honor the

00:00:30.220 Aboriginal people who rule over Alberta and the people of Canada. 0.99

00:00:34.960 Mrs. Carney, would you please take it away?

00:00:38.400 I'm going to begin by acknowledging that we're in the unceded traditional territory of the

00:00:44.220 Anishinaabe Algonquin and the people of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.

00:00:48.640 Thank you, John.

00:01:18.640 I'm going to get to an article I read on the CBC website earlier this morning.

00:01:23.780 Every day, I just know more and more that Alberta independence is the only way forward for this

00:01:30.040 province, and the only way we can get anything done is for Alberta to get dirty. 1.00

00:01:35.340 To get dirty with the guy who runs Ottawa, Mark Carney, and his Liberal Party, and the

00:01:40.200 guy who runs the province directly to Alberta's west, David Eby, because these people do not

00:01:45.260 want anything done in this country, and they're not on the same page of my province of Alberta

00:01:51.160 and prosperity.

00:01:52.560 I mean, Eby's already said he doesn't want to get rid of the tanker ban. That was one of the

00:02:00.260 demands that Smith had with the federal government. Here's an article from earlier this week on the

00:02:06.260 CBC website, Alberta to launch panel tour to chart a path forward amid new pipeline talk. It doesn't

00:02:11.240 matter what Danielle Smith does, because she can't get dirty like an independent Alberta can. She's got 1.00

00:02:17.500 to be diplomatic with David Eby. She's got to be diplomatic with Ottawa. When's she going to get

00:02:22.440 dirty? She's going to have to get dirty if she wants anything, but she won't. On Tuesday, Bloomberg News 0.84

00:02:27.540 reported that Smith told the news agency in an interview she expected a private company would

00:02:31.700 bring forward a proposal to build a new oil pipeline to the British Columbia coast within weeks.

00:02:36.320 Smith has not named the company, and no firm has yet publicly committed to the idea. And it goes on

00:02:42.380 talking about this, Smith saying that we've got this new bill, Bill C-5, that's going to get things

00:02:47.000 done. It isn't worth the paper. It's written on. And it doesn't matter if she gets private funding to

00:02:52.780 build a pipeline. David Eby's just tiptoeing around that one. He was on with Vashti Capellas and had this

00:02:58.120 to say.

00:02:59.780 Well, I've said very clearly to Premier Smith that if she's able to arrange that, then we're happy to sit

00:03:06.140 down with Alberta and have that conversation with them about what that would look like. But let's

00:03:11.620 be honest with ourselves. We have a $36 billion pipeline that's publicly owned that the federal

00:03:16.220 government cannot sell. It's not even operating at capacity. There is not a world in which that

00:03:23.120 pipeline across the north happens without significant federal subsidy. If the Premier of

00:03:28.320 Alberta is able to pull that off, I say more power to her. Let's sit down and have that conversation.

00:03:32.780 Eby says he's willing to talk to Alberta if we find an investor for a pipeline through British

00:03:38.060 Columbia. But that's not what he wants. He immediately gets to the butts. But the current

00:03:42.360 pipeline we've got isn't up to capacity. It costs $36 billion of Canadian taxpayers' money. Anything new

00:03:48.540 we build will have to be paid for by the government. He doesn't understand, because he's a leftist,

00:03:53.580 that people like to invest in things and businesses like to invest in things that can make them some

00:03:58.320 money. And that's what Danielle Smith wants. She doesn't want the federal government to have to pay 1.00

00:04:03.500 for a pipeline. She would see that as a failure. She told Jasmine Lane this on her show yesterday.

00:04:08.940 I certainly wouldn't look at having to build another pipeline with government money as being a

00:04:14.800 success. It would be, I think, a failure of the exercise. The exercise we're going through right now

00:04:19.340 is how do we restore investor confidence so that the private sector will have confidence in

00:04:24.200 investing in Canada again. And that includes pipelines. That's what I'm aiming for.

00:04:28.200 Premier Smith, you can talk until you're blue in the face about getting investment for a pipeline

00:04:33.140 and getting a pipeline out to the coast. But until you can get dirty with Mark Carney,

00:04:37.980 the Liberal Party, the government of Canada, David Eby, the province of British Columbia,

00:04:42.840 nothing's going to happen. And only an independent Alberta can get dirty. And I'm going to tell you how 1.00

00:04:49.520 we're going to do that in just a moment. Now, the reason why I'm doing this video today is because

00:04:53.800 of this article I read earlier this morning from the CBC website, First Nations on BC's North Coast

00:04:59.340 say they would not support a new pipeline. See this face of this woman right here? This woman right

00:05:03.400 here is one of the reasons why nothing will get done in this country. This is a person who is holding 0.96

00:05:07.980 back prosperity for Alberta and for Canada. And it's a very small group of people that look a lot 0.99

00:05:14.140 like her. Let's read a little of this article. President of an organization representing First Nations

00:05:19.300 along the north coast of BC says it would not support any new pipeline projects in northern BC.

00:05:24.840 Alberta Premier, rather, Danielle Smith, told Bloomberg News Tuesday she expects a private

00:05:29.900 company will bring forward a proposal to build a new pipeline to BC's north coast within weeks.

00:05:35.540 Quote,

00:05:35.840 There is no project or proponents that would be acceptable to us on the north coast, said

00:05:40.300 Marilyn Slett, elected chief councillor of the Helsiak Tribal Council about 479 kilometres north

00:05:47.440 of Vancouver and president of the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, an alliance of nine First

00:05:52.860 Nations on the north Pacific coast of BC to Haida Gwaii. Anything that proposes to send oil through the

00:05:58.760 coast is a non-starter, said Slett. And that's the woman right there. That is Mrs. Slett or Ms. Slett.

00:06:05.020 So, the question to you is, how do we play dirty, and you're probably wondering, how do we play dirty

00:06:12.040 with people like Ms. Slett, David Eby, and British Columbia? Well, it's quite simple. Over here, I

00:06:20.620 went on to Google and put, how much does the Port of Vancouver contribute to the economy of British

00:06:25.400 Columbia? Let's read a little bit about this through AI. Port of Vancouver is a major contributor

00:06:32.520 to British Columbia's economy, generating significant economic output and employment.

00:06:38.100 In 2024, the Port and its supply chain supported 132,000 jobs in Canada, with nearly 80% of those

00:06:45.280 jobs and economic activity remaining in British Columbia. The Port's economic impact includes

00:06:51.120 $32.7 billion in economic output and $16.3 billion in GDP for Canada, with a substantial portion of that

00:06:59.460 benefiting British Columbia. So, an independent Alberta goes to British Columbia and says,

00:07:09.680 hey, listen, we'd like a pipeline. And they say, no. And we say, okay, then you have no access to

00:07:15.200 Alberta anymore. We're shutting the border down, which means you have no access to Canada anymore.

00:07:20.220 Why would British Columbia, why would anybody ship anything to Vancouver? All of that economic 0.87

00:07:28.500 activity would be gone. Why not just ship it through Seattle? It's got to come through the

00:07:32.220 United States anyway. There's got to be a cost to shipping things across the border and then back

00:07:37.360 across the border. Ship everything into Seattle. 132,000 jobs in Canada created by the Port of Vancouver.

00:07:46.060 And most of that activity in British Columbia, the people who are holding this back, like Ms. Slett,

00:07:52.980 who I spoke about earlier, boy, the gravy train would probably come to an end pretty quick because

00:07:58.280 there wouldn't be a lot of money happening because all of that economic activity would be gone.

00:08:05.220 And think about all the people who go from Alberta over into British Columbia. We can stay here when we go

00:08:09.880 on vacation. Tourism would probably die. I think British Columbia would want to talk a little bit

00:08:16.660 if an independent Alberta came to them and said, you have no access to the rest of the country

00:08:21.640 anymore. And you know, David Eby told Vashti Capellas he wants to do business dealings with Ontario

00:08:27.400 when it comes to steel and aluminum. Sorry, it's not coming through Alberta. Ship it through the United 0.54

00:08:33.060 States for the additional cost. That's how you play dirty, folks. And that's the kind of thing

00:08:39.740 that has to happen. And it can only happen with an independent Alberta. It's the only way.

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John Bolton - June 29, 2025

Alberta has to get DIRTY and INDEPENDENT to get things done

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