John Bolton - June 22, 2025


Bill C-5... a Carney CATASTROPHE for CANADA and ALBERTA


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Bill C-5 is back and it's a doozy! Mark Carney and the Liberal Party are back at it again, and this time with a vengeance. Can they get rid of Bill C-69?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 444 AM with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee.
00:00:10.120 Hope you're having a great day today, Sunday, June the 22nd.
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00:00:36.260 So Bill C-5 passed the other day.
00:00:38.680 You're probably aware of this.
00:00:40.320 And I put out a warning about this bill early last week.
00:00:44.500 I don't think it's a good bill.
00:00:46.280 It got passed by all the parties in Parliament.
00:00:49.700 Mark Carney looked like the cat who swallowed the canary the other day because he got the
00:00:55.240 conservatives to buy in on this.
00:00:57.120 I've seen Scott Moe and Daniel Smith in a news conference the other day.
00:01:02.060 They were all for C-5.
00:01:04.460 I watched Brett Wilson, who's an Albertan, a strong Albertan, who's very, very into the
00:01:11.460 oil and gas industry.
00:01:12.460 I saw him on with Candace Malcolm the other day putting trust in Carney and the Liberals,
00:01:17.040 which just stunned me because I don't trust these people at all.
00:01:19.700 So Bill C-5 was watered down somewhat, but Carney's inner circle now have the power to
00:01:26.440 pick and fast track what they call nation-building projects here.
00:01:31.160 And I don't think my idea of nation-building projects and probably your idea of nation-building
00:01:36.560 projects are the same as Mark Carney's and the Liberal Party.
00:01:39.720 So what I want to do here is look at a number of things.
00:01:43.100 I'm going to look at this thing a little bit differently.
00:01:44.580 Hopefully, I can get through this quickly.
00:01:46.280 I want to look at, first, Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta, and what she wants and
00:01:51.420 how that's going so far.
00:01:52.700 I want to look at Scott Moe and Danielle Smith in a news conference they had the other day.
00:01:56.780 What they want.
00:01:57.840 They want a lot.
00:01:59.240 And they've got really big plans.
00:02:00.580 Then, I know it's cringeworthy, but I'm going to show you Mark Carney and his plans for C-5,
00:02:06.240 not as big as Moe and Smith's ideas.
00:02:10.400 And then I'm going to throw the elephant into the room because the big thing is the elephant.
00:02:16.080 The elephant is hiding right now behind the couch.
00:02:18.340 I can see its trunk.
00:02:19.280 I can see part of its ear and part of its head.
00:02:22.060 But it is coming, folks.
00:02:24.100 The elephant in the room is coming.
00:02:25.640 And Mark Carney revealed that the other day as well.
00:02:27.740 And he brought back the word.
00:02:32.580 We're on summer vacation in Parliament, but the word is back.
00:02:36.120 The word he used constantly during the election campaign to scare voters to vote for him.
00:02:41.520 The word is back.
00:02:42.580 He uses it still all the time, but it came out the other day when he was talking about Bill C-5.
00:02:49.280 But this hasn't been resolved yet.
00:02:52.220 And we'll get to that in just a moment.
00:02:53.680 So first, Danielle Smith, what does she want from Mark Carney?
00:02:57.040 We want to see a guaranteed access to economic corridors that include pipelines to get to new markets.
00:03:05.920 We want the repealing of Bill C-69 so that we do not have an unending process for approvals
00:03:12.260 that essentially means no more pipelines can be built.
00:03:14.680 We need to lift the tanker ban off the B.C. coast.
00:03:17.180 We need to eliminate the oil and gas emissions cap that has been proposed, which is a production cap.
00:03:23.280 We need to scrap the so-called clean electricity regulations.
00:03:26.860 We need to end the treatment of plastics as toxic.
00:03:31.400 We need to abandon the net zero car mandate.
00:03:33.360 We need to return oversight of the industrial carbon tax fully to provincial jurisdiction.
00:03:37.900 And we need to halt the federal censorship of energy companies.
00:03:40.940 So why am I back at this again?
00:03:43.360 Because so far, Madam Premier, the federal government, Mark Carney, and the Liberals have given you a big FU
00:03:50.220 when it comes to two of these things.
00:03:53.280 I'm not going to play the clips again.
00:03:55.300 But during the campaign, he said he wouldn't repeal Bill C-69.
00:03:59.240 We've added on another one now.
00:04:01.140 They're not going to get rid of the net zero electric vehicle mandate.
00:04:04.320 Here's a story from the National Post on the screen.
00:04:06.320 We know this.
00:04:07.680 And the Conservatives have been after the Liberals in House of Commons in question period about this.
00:04:13.800 They wrap it up in, we're supporting the car industry with our net vehicle mandate.
00:04:19.000 But no, they're not.
00:04:19.780 If they were doing that, they would allow the car companies who know what cars to build
00:04:24.000 and know what people want to drive, they'd allow them to choose what cars they make.
00:04:29.000 But I don't want to go too far down that road.
00:04:30.820 But Madam Premier, how many of these things have to be ticked off your list
00:04:35.740 before you start leading the independence movement?
00:04:39.360 Because two of them are gone already.
00:04:41.560 So that's what I want to know.
00:04:43.220 But then we get Scott Moe and Danielle Smith.
00:04:45.360 And they want big things, folks.
00:04:47.760 And they were all in favor of C-5 as well.
00:04:49.900 I don't know why.
00:04:51.480 Because this gives all the control to Mark Carney and the Liberals
00:04:54.960 to make decisions on Alberta and Saskatchewan's future.
00:04:59.140 Here's what Scott Moe said, sitting beside Danielle Smith.
00:05:03.580 They got big plans, folks.
00:05:05.660 The very fact that Bill C-5 has been introduced,
00:05:09.220 which is a bill to legislate around the current regulatory process that we have,
00:05:13.240 I think is an admission that this hard work does have to happen.
00:05:16.320 And so we've been supportive of, yes, prioritizing projects in the short term,
00:05:21.080 which is really a stopgap to fixing the entirety of the regulatory process
00:05:26.880 that we have in Canada so that all projects can move forward.
00:05:30.100 In Saskatchewan, we don't have one or two or three projects that are a priority.
00:05:34.640 We have literally in excess of 100 projects.
00:05:37.960 Scott Moe and Danielle Smith have big plans, folks.
00:05:41.320 Moe says literally in excess of 100 projects.
00:05:44.820 And you see Danielle Smith there nodding along with that.
00:05:47.920 So hundreds of projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan need to be built right now.
00:05:52.780 We want this stuff done.
00:05:54.100 And Mark Carney is now in charge of what gets built here.
00:05:57.740 Alberta and Saskatchewan are down on their knees,
00:06:00.340 begging Mark Carney and the Liberal government now to get stuff built.
00:06:06.140 Again, Danielle Smith, when are you going to join the independence movement here in Alberta?
00:06:10.500 Alberta, because Carney's asked in this news conference about the passing of Bill C-5.
00:06:18.520 The reporter uses the words great speed when it comes to building these projects
00:06:23.080 that Carney promised during the election campaign.
00:06:26.100 The first word out of Carney's mouth, I think, is it depends.
00:06:30.940 Hello, Prime Minister.
00:06:32.020 So Paul Dutch, Global News.
00:06:33.240 You spoke during the election about the need to build at speeds we've never seen before.
00:06:36.760 Today, you met with the premiers.
00:06:37.940 How soon should Canadians expect for you to name projects of national significance?
00:06:42.780 Well, that depends.
00:06:45.240 It's the right question.
00:06:47.240 You're absolutely right in the premise of the question.
00:06:49.620 That's the need.
00:06:52.160 But we're all responsible for that.
00:06:55.040 When I say we're all responsible for that,
00:06:56.900 obviously it's the federal government, the provinces,
00:07:00.420 indigenous rights holders, the proponents of these projects,
00:07:05.000 labour coming together, identifying where the criteria are met of this.
00:07:12.880 And we will have, I can say this, a high degree of confidence.
00:07:19.760 We will have more potential nation-building projects than the country can build at any one time.
00:07:25.660 And so the challenges is, or the opportunity slash challenge is coming together around,
00:07:32.080 coalescing around certain ones so that they can move forward.
00:07:36.040 And those will be jointly determined.
00:07:37.780 So it depends on all of these factors that have to be considered before we build anything.
00:07:43.700 And of course, he, and along with the liberal government, will decide what gets built here.
00:07:48.820 So Scott Moe and Daniel Smith, who have these big plans,
00:07:51.560 well, they have to go and beg to him to get something done.
00:07:53.980 And I want to know, if Quebec comes to Kearney with a big nation-building project
00:07:59.580 that's a bunch of solar panels in the middle of Quebec,
00:08:03.060 and Daniel Smith comes to Kearney with an oil pipeline,
00:08:06.340 which one do you think Mark Kearney is going to choose?
00:08:10.720 We'll get to the elephant in the room in just a moment.
00:08:14.580 I mean, Kearney says,
00:08:15.360 We have more nation-building projects than the country can build at any one time.
00:08:20.480 Well, Moe says there's literally in excess of a hundred projects.
00:08:25.060 And Daniel Smith nodding along?
00:08:26.520 Oh yeah, yeah.
00:08:27.320 Well, let them decide that.
00:08:29.040 We live out here in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
00:08:31.540 We can make our minds up.
00:08:32.860 No, no.
00:08:34.180 Moe and Smith have to go beg and prostrate themselves in front of Mark Kearney.
00:08:38.960 And then, of course, there's that word that popped up once again,
00:08:41.460 which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:08:42.640 But what is the elephant in the room here?
00:08:46.140 It's the elephant that's been around for a long time that I saw.
00:08:49.580 I could see the whole elephant.
00:08:50.940 I said earlier it was behind the couch,
00:08:52.540 and you could see its ear, its head, and part of its trunk.
00:08:55.640 I could see the elephant when this guy got into the race,
00:08:58.840 when his face showed up.
00:09:00.360 And he was talking about running for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
00:09:03.820 He mentioned it in the news conference the other day about C5.
00:09:08.540 Yeah, we've been rightly stressing here is partnership with Indigenous peoples.
00:09:13.280 But I will also stress consistency with our climate goals and environmental responsibilities.
00:09:19.400 We've kind of come full circle here now.
00:09:22.980 We have to build things at great speed.
00:09:25.360 Nation building projects.
00:09:27.540 But we now go back to climate goals and environmental responsibilities.
00:09:32.560 The elephant in the room.
00:09:33.940 And you've seen it all along.
00:09:35.520 So we go back to Danielle Smith and her demands.
00:09:38.660 As I said earlier, Carney has given the big F you to Daniel Smith on two of these things.
00:10:03.980 How long before they're all gone because of climate goals and environmental responsibilities?
00:10:09.880 There's the elephant in the room.
00:10:12.340 And you and I saw it all the time.
00:10:15.920 I just don't think things are going to get built because of that.
00:10:19.420 Because their plan is net zero by 2050.
00:10:22.560 They've never, ever said they'd repeal that.
00:10:24.740 And what does this do to investment?
00:10:30.180 I mean, if you're in the oil and gas industry, would you invest in this country with the word,
00:10:34.380 and I wrote it down, ambiguity?
00:10:39.860 Definition, the lack of exactness?
00:10:43.240 I think that Danielle Smith and Scott Moe want him to be exactly clear on where he stands on pipelines
00:10:48.780 and our resources industry.
00:10:50.480 And he's not being that way.
00:10:51.540 He's being ambiguous.
00:10:53.020 And then the big word is back.
00:10:56.540 And he uses it all the time, but he brought it up during C5 the other day.
00:10:59.540 And it hasn't been resolved.
00:11:00.980 He said it all the time during the election campaign to scare people.
00:11:06.640 I hate to say it, but we are in the middle of the toughest crisis that we have ever experienced.
00:11:14.960 From my experience of how you deal with a crisis.
00:11:17.680 And I've seen a lot of crises.
00:11:18.960 And here he is in his C5 news conference.
00:11:21.660 This bill unlocks that.
00:11:24.220 Yes, it unlocks it in quick time.
00:11:26.040 But in quick time, because we are in a crisis.
00:11:30.340 Crisis.
00:11:31.200 We're in a crisis.
00:11:32.100 It's the crisis of our lifetime.
00:11:33.880 He even went into all the people that this crisis was hurting.
00:11:38.600 And government's now on vacation for the next couple of months.
00:11:41.440 I guess I should be thankful because as long as government isn't really sitting, it might save me a little bit of money.
00:11:49.240 But they're not solving this problem if they're on vacation.
00:11:52.920 And I don't think he wants to solve the problem because it's easier for Carney and the people who support him to hate Donald Trump to do actually sit down and resolve this problem.
00:12:02.820 And remember, the other guy said government would be sitting all summer long to get things done.
00:12:09.260 The promise of Canada is over as far as I'm concerned.
00:12:13.740 That's why I'm an independent Albertan.
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