John Bolton - July 05, 2025


Alberta, why are we still a part of this thing？ Fortune favours the brave!


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Why are we still part of Canada? Why are we not out of it already? Why do we still have to pay taxes when Alberta could be doing so much better? And why does the federal government keep handing over more and more money to Ottawa?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 504 a.m. Saturday, July the 5th. Hope you're having a great
00:00:10.300 start to your weekend. I've got my big blue mug of coffee. I've been up since I think before three
00:00:16.500 o'clock this morning and I've been kind of putting everything together for this video. I sent a whole
00:00:20.360 bunch of email to myself yesterday because of things I saw in the news. Before I get to that,
00:00:25.660 to the people who commented yesterday on my video regarding the Alberta Prosperity Project
00:00:30.720 Independence Rally in Airdrie the other night and said they came out to meet me. They enjoyed
00:00:34.740 meeting me. I enjoyed meeting you as well. Some of you, by the way, you gave me some super thanks.
00:00:39.920 You clicked on the little dollar sign there. Somebody, first of all, thank you. Somebody was
00:00:44.060 quite generous and to that person, I want to tell you I have invested in microphones for my phone
00:00:49.140 and they're coming in today. So thank you. Thank you for that. If you are subscribed to the channel,
00:00:53.760 I just noticed I hit 33,000 subscribers. If you're subscribed, thanks so much. If you aren't,
00:00:58.720 just click on subscribe. Let's make it to 34,000. Let's get those numbers up. So this is regarding,
00:01:05.020 today's video is regarding what happened the other night, but I want to expand on that and talk about
00:01:10.900 the country called Canada as well. I'm an independent Albertan. I'm a sovereigntist. I want to see
00:01:16.660 Alberta's independence sooner before later. And I came out of the meeting the other night very,
00:01:21.820 very pleased and very happy and very optimistic. And I sat down yesterday and was looking over the
00:01:27.060 news and I got a little bit angry. Now, I do not want to be the angry old man on this channel. I
00:01:32.260 don't want to be that person. But I started looking at stories in the news. I'm going to go over a few
00:01:36.760 of them as quickly as possible here in just a moment that got me thinking, why are we still part of
00:01:40.980 Canada? Why are we still part of this thing? Why are we not out of it already? It just doesn't make
00:01:46.560 any sense to me at all. And to the people who are Albertans, who have an allegiance to Canada
00:01:51.740 and the flag, you are patriots. I mentioned this in a video the other day. Why do you still have,
00:01:56.760 wrap yourself in the Canadian flag when Alberta could be doing so much better?
00:02:02.780 Answer me the question. I lost that feeling a long, long time ago. I say it here all the time. I'm an
00:02:10.640 Albertan. I'm not a Canadian. So let's take a look at a few of the things that had me thinking,
00:02:14.880 why are we still part of this thing? Meaning Canada. So here's the first story. This is just
00:02:21.220 obscene. This is what people voted for. There was a guy in the election who said, you can't continue
00:02:27.460 to do this. It drives up inflation. It makes things more expensive. Federal deficit projected to soar to
00:02:32.300 $92 billion this year. Unfair to pass these burdens on. Passing it on means to your children,
00:02:37.200 your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, probably your great-great-great. You'll never pay
00:02:41.820 this down. And check this out. Deficits of more than $77 billion a year over the next four years.
00:02:47.020 Is this what you voted for? But Carney's going to call this investment, not spending. That's what
00:02:53.540 he's going to do. He wants to invest more, spend less. It's all spending. Why are we still part of
00:02:58.260 this thing? Meanwhile, I've got Danielle Smith. Now, the other night at the meeting in Airdrie,
00:03:03.740 Danielle Smith's name was brought up. And I think a couple of the speakers there admire Danielle Smith.
00:03:07.940 I like Danielle Smith. I think she's one of the strongest politicians, if not the strongest 0.96
00:03:13.300 politician in this country. But Danielle Smith is down on her knees, begging the Carney government, 1.00
00:03:19.420 the federal government, the government that millions of people voted for, begging them to
00:03:24.240 allow us to do things in our province of Alberta. Why are we still part of this? Alberta taxpayers send
00:03:29.200 over $20 billion more to Ottawa every year than we get back in benefits for our province.
00:03:33.100 We could keep all that money here if we were gone. Next story. A fiery Danielle Smith on 1.00
00:03:38.460 fighting when Alberta is punched in the face. Now, she talks a lot about Nahed Nanchi, the head of 0.81
00:03:43.280 the NDP in this. But this is what caught me down here. In Canada, Smith hopes for a bitumen pipeline
00:03:49.180 to the BC port of Prince Rupert, shipping to waiting Asian markets. She also hopes for scrapping the bad
00:03:55.380 laws. Smith has already mentioned in this column. That would be Bill C-69. No pipelines.
00:03:59.920 C-48. No tankers. She wants them gone, among other things. It's not rocket science. It's very simple.
00:04:08.340 They know what to do. We've told them. They know. We know. They know what to do. Why aren't they doing
00:04:14.200 it? What's up with the delay? The primer does not like the sound of the clock ticking. We don't just
00:04:20.520 want one pipeline, one project, one project that gets the golden ticket to go ahead. The jury is out.
00:04:25.940 They haven't done anything yet. We still have all the same bad policies hanging over our head
00:04:30.500 as we did three months ago under the former Prime Minister. I asked the Premier, Premier Daniel
00:04:34.940 Smith, why are we still part of this thing? Why are you begging the government to do things?
00:04:39.480 Meanwhile, we've got our energy minister tweeting this out yesterday. He's in Alberta announcing a
00:04:45.240 pittance $21.5 million for carbon capture projects. He's the energy minister. Why is he talking about
00:04:54.380 carbon capture projects and not about pipelines and energy? Because this is their religion, folks.
00:05:01.200 And I don't blame the companies who want to do this crap. It's free money. It's your money. Why are we
00:05:07.520 still part of this thing? Here's Hodgson yesterday. It's the same old spiel they had during the election.
00:05:12.620 At a time of challenging global dynamics, our country is choosing to rise to the challenge.
00:05:20.420 We are choosing to strengthen our economic sovereignty, assert our strategic independence,
00:05:27.080 and build a future based on our values and ambitions. The values and ambitions of Mark Carney
00:05:34.220 and Tim Hodgson in the Liberal government are not oil and gas industry. It's their religion,
00:05:39.380 which is climate change. He's asked about Bill C-69. There's some questions that come from
00:05:43.840 reporters. He's asked about 48. He dithers. He says nothing. He doesn't announce there'll be any
00:05:48.220 pipelines. But the government, under the One Canadian Economy Act, that's Bill C-5, folks,
00:05:53.880 will determine what gets done. And Scott Moe and Daniel Smith sat down in a news conference not too long
00:06:01.260 ago after the caucuses from Alberta and Saskatchewan sat down and said they have hundreds of projects
00:06:06.140 they want done. Meanwhile, Daniel Smith is begging for a pipeline. Why are we still part of this
00:06:11.080 thing? Meanwhile, I've got Jeff Rath on with me the other day. And Jeff brought this up as well.
00:06:16.080 Here's what he has to say.
00:06:16.580 So all these people that have, you know, and these are all Brookfield adjacent, you know,
00:06:22.280 crony capitalists that they call stakeholder capitalists, you know, that are all in on the
00:06:26.800 big World Economic Forum scam, you know, are all sharpening their knives and forks,
00:06:31.860 waiting to get at the $50 billion trough of Alberta taxpayer money that's going to go into
00:06:38.300 their hands so that they can suck carbon out of the, you know, out of the Alberta oil patch.
00:06:43.660 Yeah, yeah. We're like a buffet for the rest of Canada, Alberta. All sorts of money coming out of
00:06:48.660 here. We're like a buffet. Pull up, pull up your chair, folks. There's lots to eat. Move on now. 0.56
00:06:53.620 Let's go. EU exempting heavy industry from carbon taxes. Canada doubles down. We told you about this
00:06:58.400 the other day. I think Donald Trump got the EU to drop their carbon border adjustment mechanism.
00:07:03.000 Canada still pursuing industrial carbon taxes, and that's a direct tax on Alberta. Why are we still
00:07:08.820 part of this thing? Next up, federal government says electric vehicle mandate must reflect current
00:07:13.360 times after auto CEOs meet car. And we joked about this the other night. So much laughing about this
00:07:18.800 stupidity of getting rid of gas-powered vehicles within the next 10 years, folks.
00:07:25.380 The auto industry is reeling right now because of tariffs from the United States.
00:07:30.200 Why, at a time when the industry is under pressure, would we keep in place a domestic policy that is
00:07:34.640 hugely damaging to this industry? Well, that goes back to their religion, doesn't it? Moving on.
00:07:40.120 So, meanwhile, we were talking about this the other night.
00:07:43.520 You can't talk about Alberta independence without mentioning the word Quebec.
00:07:47.520 Because we give so much money to Quebec, and what do they do? They disrespect us.
00:07:50.700 Happy coincidence or master plan how Kearney's team full of Quebecers wants to govern Canada? 0.78
00:07:57.600 It's like he's sticking his finger in the eyes of Albertans. The key question centers on the
00:08:02.720 possible effects of this Quebec-heavy contingent in the Kearney government, both in terms of policy
00:08:07.200 and politics. Meanwhile, you've got a country that's talking about Canada strong, and, you know,
00:08:12.360 we've got shared values and a shared history, and you can't even embrace your history anymore.
00:08:16.760 The Historic Sites and Monuments Board calls the father of Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald,
00:08:22.360 polarizing and controversial on issues like 19th century Chinese immigration.
00:08:27.380 This is absolutely absurd. And then we've got these people. This is Canada, folks.
00:08:33.080 Academics call on Ottawa to speed up Palestinian student visas.
00:08:37.760 When you see the words academics in a story, or experts, you know, the experts that told you to
00:08:42.280 stand on a dot, put on a piece of flimsy material over your face, and stay two feet or two meters
00:08:48.160 away from people to keep a virus from getting into you, or rolling up your sleeve to give you a
00:08:52.140 safe and effective vaccine that really didn't do anything. When you see stories like this,
00:08:57.520 you have to question it. Why would we want to bring people from a part of the world who hate
00:09:02.420 a specific religion so much? Why would we want to do this? Will we properly vet these people? 0.68
00:09:09.380 Will we tell them actually how, what kind of values we have in this country?
00:09:14.540 And then I see this from the Rise of Alberta. I want you to just watch a couple of seconds of this,
00:09:19.640 because this is what it's all about. Now, again, Rise of Alberta on X, you can go and follow.
00:09:24.800 If Alberta were to become independent from Canada, it would emerge as a mid-sized nation with a
00:09:29.740 population of approximately 5 million people. Covering an area of 661,848 square kilometers,
00:09:37.000 this new country would be larger than France and slightly smaller than Ukraine. English would
00:09:41.400 likely remain the official language. Economically, Alberta would have a GDP of around $350 billion,
00:09:48.280 contributing about 15% to Canada's total GDP. This translates to a GDP per capita of approximately
00:09:55.080 $1,700, making it one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
00:09:59.180 One of the wealthiest countries in the world.
00:10:07.480 I ask again, why are we still part of this thing, this thing called Canada?
00:10:15.280 If you're an Alberta patriot, and you want Alberta independence, work hard for our common goal,
00:10:21.240 folks. I see more and more stories like this all the time, and I just can't believe we're still part
00:10:27.100 of Canada. No disrespect to Canada. If you want to be Canadian, that's fine.
00:10:34.460 But I'm an Albertan first.
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