John Bolton - Breaking News - Lawyer Keith Wilson (The Plan, Carney and A New Group)

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Friday, May 29th. You're seeing this if you're clicking

00:00:08.480 right when it goes up around 10 o'clock in the morning. Nice to have you here today

00:00:11.840 with the big blue mug of coffee. Hope you're having a terrific Friday and I hope you have

00:00:16.080 a great weekend moving forward. As you can see, we've got a guest for the channel with

00:00:20.780 some good news, some new news coming up. We're going to look at some things that have happened

00:00:24.820 in the recent past, but lawyer Keith Wilson is with me today to talk about some really

00:00:29.880 exciting new things coming up to make an announcement here as well. But we're going to

00:00:33.640 catch up on some of the things that are happening. We're going to talk about some comments by the

00:00:38.640 prime minister as well, but we'll get to that in just a moment. Keith, it's great to have you here

00:00:42.840 today. Thank you so much for being on the channel as always. I appreciate it very, very much.

00:00:47.940 Good to be here, John.

00:00:48.960 So what I want to do is I was at the debate the other night and I enjoyed it very much. I actually

00:00:53.500 went over. I actually shook former Premier Jason Kenney's hand. I told him I vehemently was opposed

00:00:59.240 to what he had to say got a picture with him and everything i just wanted to get your thoughts on

00:01:03.520 this i know it's been talked about quite a bit but i haven't had a chance to talk to you maybe

00:01:07.800 you can just give us your ideas on what happened the other night and how you did and and how it

00:01:12.400 has come across to people who may have watched it well all that the premier had their former

00:01:18.240 premier kenny had was fear uh that was his his main theme fear uncertainty about so what would

00:01:25.320 happen with independence and of course that's part of the reason that i started some time ago

00:01:30.500 the alberta transition council that's working on the transition plan to answer those questions

00:01:35.020 and progress is occurring there uh the other thing that um was clear and i set them up for

00:01:41.740 this because they switched the order at the last minute and moved me to go first which is actually

00:01:47.380 can be a disadvantage but i i took advantage of that by setting an expectation in my opening

00:01:54.800 statement that you're going to hear agreement from the former premier that alberta is being

00:02:01.520 poorly treated by ottawa and being disadvantaged by ottawa and his legitimate concerns and

00:02:06.360 grievances but what you're not going to hear from the former premier is any plan to address it and

00:02:12.140 that's exactly what happened but he really played the fear card i tried to play the rational card

00:02:16.640 and also you know what i'm afraid of is the future for my kids in a dystopian canada and a

00:02:23.020 a bankrupt canada and one that we can't you know we we we start following down the road

00:02:27.660 of venezuela that that could that that's my fear but you know my frustration john was

00:02:33.260 the format is you get two minutes and then a one minute rebuttal and and the moderator was under

00:02:39.180 some pressure i think and he kept forgetting to give me rebuttals and even jason so i there were

00:02:46.140 so many things he that jason said that i was ready to respond to and had a good answer to but i just

00:02:51.980 just didn't have enough time so i felt like i was like that that farm kid who'd just gotten a brand

00:02:56.680 new 22 or high-powered pellet gun and had nothing but fence coast fence posts with pop cans on them

00:03:03.080 and i was just like i can only shoot them so fast but one of the ones that really bothered me was

00:03:07.640 uh that i didn't get a chance to respond to because the time was he's put brought forward

00:03:13.240 this idea that passports would immediately extinguish that's just total nonsense that

00:03:17.700 fear-mongering and then he brought forward this ridiculous legal notion that has no basis in law

00:03:23.540 and makes no sense that that the city of calgary and the city of edmonton could vote to stay in

00:03:28.100 canada well there's no provision for that it's only a province that constitutionally can become

00:03:34.580 independent municipalities are creatures of statute so there was a lot of fear-mongering

00:03:39.540 but i thought it was important debate and it's now up on the internet and so it'll be there forever

00:03:45.620 Yeah, I saw Dwayne Brad actually had retweeted something this morning about Calgary and Edmonton leaving.

00:03:52.400 If Alberta can leave, they can too.

00:03:53.800 The other thing that, just quickly before we move on here, was that Kenny's plan is business as usual.

00:03:59.340 That's the thing I got the other night.

00:04:00.680 We can just continue to negotiate with Canada to get what Alberta wants.

00:04:04.300 Look at all the ways we've moved ahead with the nine bad laws, which for the most part, Premier Daniel Smith has failed on.

00:04:10.180 it's attributed to Mark Twain. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing

00:04:14.740 over and over again and expecting a different result. That's what I got from Jason Kenney the

00:04:19.300 other night. And people who have been paying attention know what we've been doing doesn't

00:04:23.860 work within Canada. Well, and not only that, you know, you may remember at one point he was boasting

00:04:29.560 that, you know, his government brought this challenge to the single use plastic laws.

00:04:34.700 Well, you didn't solve the problem. You know, have you gone to a grocery store lately? You know,

00:04:40.080 they're not giving you plastic bags um he'd said about the successful court challenges on the no

00:04:45.880 more pipelines the impact assessment act yeah well the federal government effectively ignored the

00:04:51.640 court as they did on the plastics thing so all of the things he claimed progress on are actually

00:04:57.520 not true and evidence of how much ottawa continues to engage in overreach interfere into you know he

00:05:08.140 He said something like, Peter Loughey was able to get this amendment to the Constitution, Section 92A, so we could develop our resources.

00:05:18.000 Excuse me?

00:05:19.340 Like, Ottawa is holding us back from developing our resources.

00:05:26.440 Like, it's just, to me, he was so tone deaf on those points.

00:05:29.900 A trillion dollars in lost investment.

00:05:31.640 Let's move on.

00:05:32.260 I want to talk to you about the Prime Minister.

00:05:33.960 And I want to, you know, you straightened me out on this a while back.

00:05:37.200 I read the Clarity Act. I did a video on it saying, I don't think it's too clear. You said,

00:05:41.480 John, the Clarity Act's one thing. You need to look back a couple of years before that. The

00:05:45.880 Clarity Act, I remember in 2000 when that came to being, but I did not know much about the Supreme

00:05:52.860 Court decision in 98, and people should read that according to you. Carney's using the Clarity Act

00:05:59.080 to hammer us when it comes to the independence movement. What are your thoughts on that?

00:06:02.300 Well, it's fascinating what's happened last week with Quebec and how they've been standing up for Alberta and independence. But before I get that, let me just explain the legal context here. So in 1998, the Quebec or the Supreme Court of Canada issues this ruling on whether or not a province after holding a clear vote on a clear question can secede and become independent from Canada. And they say yes, and here's how it works.

00:06:30.380 um and then that's 1998 in the year 2000 the the federal government brings in the clarity act the

00:06:38.780 goal of the clarity act is to constrain and try and narrow and the ruling from the supreme court

00:06:47.200 and make it harder for a province to leave immediately the problem is is that law if there's

00:06:54.100 a conflict between a statute and a supreme court of canada decision the supreme court of canada

00:06:58.580 decision trumps okay so you can't that's the constitutional hierarchy makes sense it's a

00:07:05.640 general principle of law in alberta and canada so immediately upon in 2000 when the clarity act was

00:07:11.940 passed the same day the quebec general assembly passed a bill i think it might have been bill 99

00:07:17.180 i gotta double check the bill number it doesn't matter they passed a bill declaring that the

00:07:22.820 clarity act was overreached by the federal government the federal government will not

00:07:27.780 be deciding whether a question is clear the federal government will not be deciding whether

00:07:32.680 it's a clear majority and that only the people of quebec when they decide in a referendum

00:07:38.420 they will be deciding and exercising self-determination and deciding whether or not

00:07:44.000 they're becoming independent not the federal government but out so when this past week uh and

00:07:51.060 and even into the previous week a little bit when prime minister carney first said well we're going

00:07:56.080 to have the question reviewed in ottawa that premier smith has set to see if it meets the

00:08:01.960 clarity act test quebec politicians in quebec and bloc quebecois mp stood up in the house

00:08:09.000 and held press conferences and said no this is authoritarian overreach by the federal government

00:08:16.640 by the carny liberals they said albertans just like quebecers have the right to hold a vote on

00:08:23.640 independence and it will be quebecers or albertans that will decide if the question is clear and

00:08:28.900 decide whether there's a clear majority so it was really remarkable to see quebec coming to alberta's

00:08:35.900 defense on the independent side and reminding the federal government that the clarity act is not

00:08:42.740 constitutionally valid in many ways because it goes way further and and gives powers to the

00:08:49.220 federal government that the supreme court of canada didn't give them and that we really need to

00:08:53.300 remember that, that let's not get distracted by the Clarity Act. We need to remind the federal

00:08:58.520 government that it's actually the people of the province that will decide whether it's

00:09:03.840 independence, not the federal government through the Clarity Act. I don't think he's all that

00:09:08.560 relevant anymore, but this has come up when it comes to the federal NDP as well. Abby Lewis has

00:09:13.220 come out saying that Alberta separatists MAGA aligned disruptive despite the NDP endorsing

00:09:19.740 Quebec self-determination this is more than what 25 years ago they did this so it seems like the

00:09:25.640 east is all massing at the borders here coming against us but we've got Quebec who you know we

00:09:33.080 are often very critical about because a lot of our money goes there we've got Quebec standing

00:09:37.320 up for Alberta I find it quite remarkable that this is happening right now well me too and I

00:09:42.740 it's a great thing but it's also interesting the double standard that uh we have where um

00:09:51.140 the federal politicians will praise the uniqueness of quebec's culture and economy

00:09:57.540 and their right to self-determination and then immediately smack down albertans how dare you

00:10:04.580 think you can become independent right uh and and and this position uh well first of all it

00:10:12.820 reinforces the point i've made it the debate and even here on your program that i think canada is

00:10:18.940 no you know is a failed experiment confederations a failed experiment and the reason i say that

00:10:23.520 is as we've grown and our economies have developed and our populations have matured

00:10:28.820 and our economies have matured and our cultures have matured uh canada being the second largest

00:10:34.000 country in the world by landmass i think it's just too big to be efficiently governed by one

00:10:38.800 city effectively in the center of it and we have regional cultures we have regional economies

00:10:47.340 and i think alberta is a more optimal size of government all of the decisions affecting

00:10:52.880 albertans should be made in alberta whether that's what's in our criminal code what our

00:10:57.060 monetary policy is our ability to develop our resources our environmental protection laws

00:11:02.300 should be made here not imposed on us from ottawa and the fact that we have this complete

00:11:08.040 disconnect between how central canada says quebec can work versus alberta sort of reinforces my

00:11:15.340 point that it's a dysfunctional country that we've progressed into jason kenny brought up

00:11:21.600 landlocked at the debate i don't want to go back to that too much but you came back adam with a

00:11:25.180 great line we're landlocked by policy i thought that was a great line from you the other night

00:11:29.920 it was uh we're we're not landlocked by the rockies we're landlocked by policy i like that

00:11:35.960 a lot okay so yeah it's interesting so read don't read the clarity act and what i'll do is i'll find

00:11:40.760 a link i'll put it in the description so people can read it because i went back to read it after

00:11:44.100 you told me about that um probably about a month ago but remember let's not fall into the trap

00:11:50.020 yeah we should be taking the same approach as quebec's taken which is to say to the federal

00:11:55.220 government, look, this is unconstitutional overreach. You cannot tell the people of a

00:12:00.560 province. You're not the gatekeeper. You do not decide. I think some of the expressions

00:12:05.320 that Quebecers used and the Quebec politicians, you do not get to decide, Ottawa, whether a

00:12:11.140 province gets to leave. Yeah. So I'll put a link down below so people can read it. You've got lots

00:12:17.480 going on right now. I asked you before I went into the interview, how should I refer to you?

00:12:22.960 because you've got a lot of things happening right now.

00:12:25.280 The other night, you had a sit-down after the debate.

00:12:28.620 A lot of people out there, and people ask questions.

00:12:32.060 Great discussion there.

00:12:33.580 I have a Chip Yuck was with you as well.

00:12:35.940 The Alberta Transition Council.

00:12:37.820 Just quickly on how that's going,

00:12:39.620 and then something new that's coming up as well

00:12:41.660 that you mentioned the other night.

00:12:43.200 But how's the transition going right now?

00:12:45.960 So the Alberta Transition Council is a group

00:12:48.640 that I formed some months ago

00:12:51.560 that is working on a detailed transition plan

00:12:55.640 to explain what would happen after a successful vote,

00:13:01.060 how we will move from a provincehood into statehood

00:13:05.520 to being a full country,

00:13:07.780 and to answer people's questions about passports

00:13:11.620 and monetary policy and border security,

00:13:16.920 basically how the Alberta government as a country

00:13:20.260 will take over the few functions that the federal government provides so we're making good progress

00:13:25.060 on that i'm co-lead along with dennis kelma who's the other co-lead as as many will know dennis is

00:13:33.020 an amazing albertan uh he's the author of the value of freedom document that had done the fully

00:13:38.460 costed plan that's right so but we're bringing in subject matter experts from everything from

00:13:43.560 telecommunications to aviation to military to uh and the military is for the purpose only of

00:13:51.480 how what would the new military uh forces uh civil defense forces look like in a new alberta

00:13:59.420 um so yeah so that's progressing well and but you know i've been looking like you i think you've

00:14:06.420 noticed that there's been some other groups on the other side more recently yeah uh and there

00:14:12.820 and and they're and they're out there and they're busy right now you said you took a walk are you

00:14:16.900 seeing signs in your neighborhood is that what you said to me before yeah i took the dog for a walk

00:14:20.880 here the other night and i started to see some of these forever canadian signs and of course

00:14:25.040 uh we've had three other groups form one is um vote to stay.ca another is this lead not leave

00:14:36.440 group and what's really interesting and serious about these some of these new groups is they're

00:14:44.220 just not you know average albertans they're the groups have been formed by public relations

00:14:53.260 companies whose day job is to ran met to develop and implement campaign strategies whether it's

00:15:03.420 for companies, whether it's for issues or political campaigns. These are the professionals

00:15:10.100 that politicians and companies spend huge amounts of money on to develop strategies and messaging

00:15:19.300 and advertising to achieve an outcome. And they have formed a group. So this is not grassroots.

00:15:27.500 and um that should be very concerning to those us in the independence movement it is because unless

00:15:34.480 we match them and bring the same level of sophistication and transition from a strictly

00:15:41.820 grassroots highly motivated but grassroots approach unless we transition and match them

00:15:52.340 we're going to get creamed. And, um, uh, so, uh, I, I gave that a lot of thought and, uh, um,

00:16:01.580 I pleased to make an announcement if you would like me to. Yeah. Let me, let me just, let me

00:16:06.920 just say one thing. Um, you know, you're talking about these, these groups and the way I look at

00:16:13.340 this very much is that it's like the establishment versus us here in Alberta. They're all coming

00:16:19.060 after us at once. And I like to root for the underdog. And if you're sitting out there,

00:16:23.480 you can see what's happening here. You have the federal government, all the politicians,

00:16:27.520 all the pencil pushers, all the bureaucrats, all of them coming after us at once. And we are strong

00:16:32.140 when it comes to the number of people we have here and 7,000 people canvassing. But I look at it as

00:16:37.720 the establishment is coming after us. And we want a right to self-determination as well. And I think

00:16:42.520 that's what we need to fight for. But you do have a plan here. And this is what I heard you mention

00:16:47.960 it the other night um after the debate alberta's next step what is that about so um i'm forming

00:16:58.540 a new group to act as uh and it's in the formative stages right now uh to act as a formal third

00:17:08.200 party advertiser that will be registered with elections alberta in full compliance with all

00:17:13.520 the election laws we have here and the financial disclosure laws, they're pretty onerous and

00:17:18.440 complicated. These other groups in favor of staying in Canada will be registering and being

00:17:26.500 third party advertisers as well. And the idea is to match them. We'll develop an equally

00:17:34.800 sophisticated campaign with campaign messages in support of independence, with advertising in

00:17:41.100 support of independence because as you know uh john we're fighting for the same hearts and minds

00:17:48.520 they're fighting for the people who are undecided or the reluctant federalists those who are would

00:17:55.780 vote to stay in canada right now but they're really concerned about what ottawa's doing and

00:17:59.780 what ottawa's imposing on albertans and the future so they're trying to convince them that the that

00:18:06.140 you know don't shift your vote to leave stay with stay they're trying to scare them they're trying

00:18:10.840 do all these things and you're going to see increasingly sophisticated strategies because

00:18:15.940 again this is what these guys do as a day job right this is their profession so we're going to

00:18:21.680 deploy the same strategies and be very strategic in our messaging and going into the forums that

00:18:29.500 they're going into we're going to have to go into legacy media as if anybody follows me you'll

00:18:34.360 probably notice I've done more legacy media interviews in the last 10 days than I've done

00:18:39.300 in the last four years I've been on CBC three times CTV twice I could keep no three times on

00:18:46.020 CTV yeah I could keep going so and I'll keep doing that because those were the people we need to

00:18:51.900 reach are there that unfortunately they're not coming to the town halls a very small percentage

00:18:56.860 of the undecided extremely small percentage come to town halls town halls are great for building

00:19:02.440 enthusiasm but they're not going to uh these other groups that are trying to stop us are not

00:19:10.380 putting on town halls per se they will put some on but so this new group that i'm forming will be

00:19:17.100 called uh is is being called alberta's next step it's intentionally neutral because what the what

00:19:25.040 the focus groups and polling is showing the data is showing if you're too provocative with this

00:19:30.540 undecided group it turns them off if you get in their face it turns them off so you got to approach

00:19:37.100 them much more gently you got to get them thinking about things more abstractly uh just telling them 0.99

00:19:44.200 they're stupid for not supporting independence is a surefire where to fail to be blunt about it 0.95

00:19:49.880 and um uh i'm very pleased to announce that uh tanya clemens who many in the independence 0.99

00:19:58.280 movement will know, is going to be joining with me to lead this new group. And we're going to be

00:20:04.540 bringing others on of some name that people will recognize as well, to move us forward in a

00:20:12.840 sophisticated, proper campaign style, focused on independence and independence alone, and getting

00:20:20.760 Albertans to understand the benefits of independence and supporting it in the two

00:20:25.940 referendums that will be coming up. Let me ask you this, because I think this is kind of important.

00:20:30.300 I think it's great. Fantastic. Tanya is an excellent choice. I saw her the other night.

00:20:34.920 Yeah, she was out at the debate the other night, and it's wonderful that you've got her here,

00:20:38.880 and I'm sure there'll be other people stepping forward. It's about $600,000 you can raise as a

00:20:43.180 third-party advertiser. We're going to need many of these. You've talked about different ways,

00:20:46.980 different groups, farmers for, I don't think you can call them farmers for independence. You have

00:20:51.280 to have a specific name, but you're looking for different groups to come forward. This is fraught

00:20:56.100 with danger for people like myself. I thought about becoming one myself. It can be dangerous.

00:21:00.520 I'm a YouTuber here. There's a lot of rules, like you said. But how do people go about becoming a

00:21:06.520 third-party advertiser? And what can somebody like myself do? I'm just asking, maybe on behalf

00:21:11.740 of other YouTubers, how can we support these groups to see that money's going to them so we

00:21:16.380 can build up our coffers because we've got 1.4 billion dollars in the cbc going after us we've

00:21:21.480 got all these other groups that are coming after us what can we do to help when it comes to the

00:21:26.140 advertising and the promotion of of our cause here okay so first of all a group called farmers

00:21:32.900 for independence can form and a group called you know nurses for independence first nations for

00:21:38.420 independence veterans for independence i've talked about this in other interviews in my own videos on

00:21:43.940 my youtube channel and an interesting enough right after i did my youtube on that recommending this

00:21:48.660 as a strategy a group forum called veterans for independence so guys self-actuated so they don't

00:21:55.020 need anybody's permission if you're a group if you're a senior and you've got a bunch of a network

00:22:00.040 of people that you have and you want to build and you want to focus on seniors issues and creating

00:22:06.020 awareness among seniors about independence you can do that same with farmers lawyers for independence

00:22:12.000 you know whatever yeah uh um uh carpenters for independence trades people for independence

00:22:18.200 you name it so that's perfectly permissible and and i encourage it um and any you're right uh each

00:22:27.200 a third party advertiser is restricted to spending 600 000 i think it's 607 000 to be technical i

00:22:34.660 have no idea why it's such an odd number but use 600 000 as your mental marker you know you know

00:22:40.600 for sure that um these other groups uh formed by former politicians the vote to stay group this

00:22:49.080 other group um lead not leave group is going to be spending the full 600 000 and we're going to

00:22:55.420 be saturated with radio and tv ads and billboards and and and other campaign materials and mail

00:23:01.920 drops and things so we got to match them and i encourage others who are concerned about

00:23:07.300 independence and support it to form groups uh there's no way that one independence group is

00:23:14.400 going to pull this off that's right the other side obviously has decided that forever canada

00:23:20.180 was not a single group that's going to pull it off that's why they already have four groups

00:23:25.140 and so we got to get out on the battlefield um and that's what i'm seeking to do and i'm thrilled

00:23:31.780 that uh tanya clemens is going to be at my side and we're gonna we're gonna move forward and i do

00:23:37.180 encourage others to get active and focus on a campaign to win hearts and minds rules changed

00:23:47.240 as of midnight last night people are watching this saying i want to help how can can i donate

00:23:53.140 to alberta's next step how do i do that i know the max you can do now is five thousand dollars

00:23:58.540 that's it one time donation between now and the 19th of october correct me if i'm wrong

00:24:03.540 How do people donate to that? Can I tell somebody, go donate to Alberta's Next Step being a YouTuber? Or am I colluding? Am I in contravention of rules and laws here? Can I send somebody to the Lawyers for Independence or the Farmers for Independence? And how do we do that? People want to give money. They're watching this right now. They've got their wallets open, Keith. How can we give you guys some money?

00:24:25.600 well um we're in the process of setting up the website okay we're in the process of getting

00:24:32.980 an accountant and a chief financial officer and we're not going to accept any money until we have

00:24:39.860 all the legalities checked and everything's done in a proper form and the registration is complete

00:24:46.160 with elections alberta so i'll let you know when that's all in place and we're not going to accept

00:24:52.560 any money. We'll only accept donations in accordance with the law, period. We're going

00:24:58.960 to do this completely lawfully and in full compliance. So I'll let you know when everything's

00:25:04.600 in place, but it's not there yet. We're moving fast, but it's going to take us into next week

00:25:11.700 for sure before we'll have everything in place. Okay. And can I, somebody like myself, if I know

00:25:17.000 these different groups, can I direct people to give money to them? Absolutely. There's nothing

00:25:21.040 preventing you i know these rules are so abstract so they're trap like you know like one thing

00:25:27.440 seems intuitive and then you go to do it and you realize oh i can't do that so uh but no there's

00:25:33.160 no restriction on you as a as an albertan uh as a podcaster because you're not a third-party

00:25:40.040 advertiser you're not receiving money and spending money in support of independence

00:25:44.320 your podcaster uh of indicating which groups you think are worthy of support just like

00:25:51.520 um that jesperson guy uh with his podcast is encouraging groups to support forever canada and

00:25:59.860 support these other things so he's allowed to do it on the other side you're allowed to do it on

00:26:04.880 the independent side yeah it just seems like the rules for the other side a little different than

00:26:08.280 our side for some reason in ways it's easier for them they've got political parties and unions and

00:26:13.280 probably getting involved behind the scenes.

00:26:15.380 Well, they also have this thing called the legacy media.

00:26:17.400 Yeah, well, yeah, $1.4 billion CBC coming after us as well.

00:26:21.300 And that's what concerns me.

00:26:22.920 What I would like to see is maybe have a list of the different groups that get in

00:26:26.260 so we can all, you know, kind of fill up their coffers.

00:26:28.560 You said four groups are in already, as well as Forever Canadian.

00:26:31.720 That, do the math, that's $2.4 million they've already got.

00:26:36.560 And we haven't got anything as of midnight last night.

00:26:39.980 We're starting from scratch, right?

00:26:41.660 They're all going to fill their coffers pretty quick, I'm sure.

00:26:44.960 Anything more on Alberta's next step and ways people can support?

00:26:49.660 There's people out there right now want to know if they can do something to help you, Keith.

00:26:52.900 Is there anything that they can be doing to help with their cause?

00:26:56.400 I am seeing more blue flags hanging.

00:26:58.560 I'm seeing more of these out in my neighbourhood.

00:27:00.620 You can put one of those up.

00:27:01.740 I guess that's a good way to start, isn't it?

00:27:03.860 We'll be making various campaigning tools available.

00:27:06.920 Okay, good.

00:27:07.440 And we'll develop, we'll use social media to get information out to our supporters, right? To supporters of independence. We'll use our website. We're going to have a very sophisticated website that's being constructed right now. It's amazing how the technology has evolved for these things.

00:27:26.560 and uh you're going to see some cool stuff and we're just going to move forward uh you know

00:27:32.640 one of the advantages we have if we have the truth on our side we have the truth on our side

00:27:38.780 because the truth is that alberta does not need to be beholden to ottawa the truth is alberta

00:27:45.700 doesn't need ottawa you know for every dollar we send to ottawa we get 65 cents back if we can keep

00:27:53.400 that money here that's 23 billion dollars that we can put to uh delivering the services that the

00:28:01.360 federal government currently provides um and we can free ourselves or we don't always have to go

00:28:08.040 on bent knee to ottawa and say please sir may i work harder so i can give you more money right

00:28:14.840 because that's our circumstance right now it's absolutely remarkable if you were to sit back and

00:28:19.920 look at this objectively disinterestedly you know you're some i you know you're you're an alien that

00:28:25.360 comes from mars or you're just even a person from another side of the planet and say what's going on

00:28:29.960 in alberta you've got the third largest reserve of oil in the world and you're right beside the

00:28:33.580 largest consuming market in the world you're right there at your border at coots what and you know

00:28:39.620 you're being told by ottawa that you can't produce more of what the world needs and it's and we have

00:28:45.080 all these global conflicts and uh consumers around the world and countries are desperate for our

00:28:50.420 reliable supply of energy oh you can't you know the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is regulating

00:28:57.840 your livestock industry to death uh you know and on and on and on one of the things that that's so

00:29:04.080 motivating for me is that when I look at this objectively and I look at the facts is that

00:29:09.020 Alberta truly can become one of the most prosperous countries in the world we can have a good

00:29:13.840 relationship with the rest of canada we can be neighbors with the rest of canada we can have a

00:29:17.920 trade agreement and mobility agreement with the rest of canada but we can change it so ottawa is

00:29:22.840 not making decisions and imposing them on albertans if we need to change the criminal code if we need

00:29:27.560 to change other laws it'll be albertans making that decision and not having to get permission

00:29:32.860 from ottawa or convincing people in nova scotia and quebec and ontario and victoria to agree with

00:29:39.780 us on a change of law. We'll be able to control our lives. We'll be able to control the future

00:29:45.380 of government and how government performs rather than having no say, which is the current system

00:29:52.880 and being ruled by Ottawa and having Ottawa impose its will and its ideologies upon us.

00:29:58.760 Keith, thank you so much. I appreciate it. And don't get discouraged. We talk about things

00:30:02.940 aren't moving along as quickly as possible. Remember, federal election campaigns, I think

00:30:07.420 you can be 38 days long. And I think most people will start listening really a lot in September

00:30:12.980 when the kids go back to school. So there is time here and we can win this thing for sure. Keith,

00:30:17.200 it's always a pleasure. Good luck to you. Congratulations on Alberta's next step.

00:30:22.080 Obviously the Alberta Transition Council, and we'll be waiting to see how we can assist you

00:30:26.920 in the future. I appreciate this and we'll talk to you again soon. Thank you. Thank you very much.

00:30:32.160 If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,

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John Bolton - May 29, 2026

Breaking News - Lawyer Keith Wilson (The Plan, Carney and A New Group)

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