John Bolton - March 22, 2025


Canada's demise is closer than you think - Danielle Smith hints referendum

Topics
Alberta Premier's demands and referenda referendum
Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Danielle Smith Rachel Parker Pierre Poilievre Rick Bell Pipelines North Mark Carney Trudeau John
Mark Carney - not an original idea in his head - All hat, no cattle Mark Carney - Elitist, globalist, climate zealot, DANGEROUS

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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

194.07

Word count

1,146

Sentence count

97

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

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In this episode of The Big Blue Mug of Coffee, John talks about the Alberta premier's nine demands to the federal government, and why she may be threatening a national unity crisis if they don t get what she wants.

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00:00:00.200 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 9.33 a.m. on Saturday, March the 22nd, with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:07.820 Hope you're having a great day today, lovely day here in Calgary today.
00:00:10.840 I put a video up earlier this morning, I hope you'll watch that, and thanks for subscribing to the channel.
00:00:15.020 I hit over 15,000 yesterday, it'd be nice to get to 16,000.
00:00:19.680 So I wanted to do a quick video today, I think it's, well, it's timely, actually.
00:00:24.180 Tomorrow night, I will be doing an interview with the interim leader of a major independence party here in Alberta.
00:00:30.820 And I'm talking independence, Alberta leaves the country.
00:00:34.400 They got in touch with me earlier this week, wanted to send me some correspondence,
00:00:38.320 and they say that the independence parties here in Alberta are unifying.
00:00:42.300 And this has been a problem here over the years, too many different groups doing too many different things, and infighting as well.
00:00:47.960 So I'm hoping to have that video up online on Monday morning.
00:00:51.220 Again, I've got that scheduled for 5 o'clock on Sunday night.
00:00:54.380 Now, why am I doing this video today?
00:00:56.420 Because a couple of stories dropped in Calgary.
00:00:58.940 I'm not sure if they've made it on the national news, but I certainly saw it on the Calgary Sun website.
00:01:03.080 I'm going to look at the Calgary Herald here, but wow, this is quite amazing.
00:01:07.200 Here's the article right here, Bell.
00:01:09.300 And this is a Rick Bell story, by the way, for those of you who don't follow Rick Bell.
00:01:12.700 I like his writing, but he writes paragraphs in sentences, so it's a very interesting read.
00:01:17.500 But here it is.
00:01:18.400 Smith firm, if demands tossed, Alberta could hold a referendum.
00:01:22.700 This is the first time I've heard Premier Smith say the words referendum,
00:01:26.880 although at times I believe that Danielle Smith is a bit of a closet separatist in this country. 1.00
00:01:32.360 So I'm going to go through a bit of this.
00:01:33.840 I'll put a link in the description, but I don't want to take too much time on it.
00:01:37.920 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has nine demands, nine U-turns that she wants the federal government to take.
00:01:45.920 That would be things like getting rid of the tanker ban on the West Coast, the pipeline ban, getting rid of...
00:01:51.980 She doesn't want to pay Quebec all of Alberta's money anymore. 0.97
00:01:55.160 She put that into these demands as well.
00:01:57.100 Pipelines North, East and West as well.
00:01:59.100 She gives the new federal government, when it is elected, six months to move on these issues or else.
00:02:05.400 Smith says if Alberta is brushed off on these demands, she will ask Albertans what they want to do.
00:02:11.480 It will be a next steps panel and she will likely be on it.
00:02:16.680 So let me just scroll down a little bit here.
00:02:18.120 I believe in direct democracy, Smith says.
00:02:21.840 I always feel like big, important decisions need to be put to a referendum of all Albertans.
00:02:30.660 Is there some referendum question the public wants us to ask, says Smith.
00:02:35.660 This is something Albertans are going to have to be very engaged in over the next number of months and weeks.
00:02:41.660 On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with the premiers.
00:02:45.940 When he emerges, he is asked about a made-in-Ottawa emissions cap on the oil patch more than once.
00:02:51.840 Carney dances around it, but finally says there will be an emissions cap on oil and gas.
00:02:56.040 After telling Smith on Thursday, there would be no emissions cap on oil and gas.
00:03:00.720 Let me just put this clear.
00:03:02.240 Pierre Polyev has now said there will be no carbon taxes on anything in this country if he is elected Prime Minister.
00:03:08.900 Anything.
00:03:09.780 No industry, no people, no nothing.
00:03:11.700 There will be no carbon taxes in this country if he is elected.
00:03:15.160 One of Smith's demands is to get an oil and gas corridor going east, west, and north.
00:03:20.100 It seems there was agreement around the table from Carney and the premiers.
00:03:24.480 Let me just go back up here.
00:03:26.560 A national corridor from sea to sea to transport, export oil and gas to other goods is a priority requiring further discussion.
00:03:34.660 Permit Albertans to be skeptical until they see something concrete.
00:03:38.320 After all, fool me once, shame on you.
00:03:40.340 Fool me twice, shame on me.
00:03:42.640 Indeed.
00:03:43.080 The Alberta government has a photo album of liberal politicians who talked a good game and stabbed the province in the back.
00:03:50.280 And let me just scroll down here towards the bottom.
00:03:57.000 Some ask if Smith is threatening a national unity crisis.
00:04:00.480 If the Carney liberals are elected and screw around Alberta like the Trudeau liberals did, there will be a national unity crisis.
00:04:07.140 That is a fact.
00:04:08.000 Where does conservative leader Pierre Polyev fit into the story?
00:04:11.160 Polyev says Smith's demands are very reasonable.
00:04:13.560 He agrees to everything that she has asked for of the government, of the new government, when it is elected.
00:04:19.760 I want to go over to Rachel Parker here. 1.00
00:04:21.600 Rachel did a poll on independence here in Alberta.
00:04:24.420 Let me just scroll down here and just show you an online poll she did on X. 0.93
00:04:30.500 Should Danielle Smith hold a referendum on separation? 1.00
00:04:32.880 47.8%.
00:04:34.300 Now, this isn't scientific or anything saying do it now.
00:04:37.240 I actually was in this poll.
00:04:39.080 I said yes in a few months.
00:04:40.120 I think a separation movement, an independence movement, needs a bit of time at least, which we'll talk about in the interview I do tomorrow night.
00:04:47.660 And the head, Nenshi, he used to be the mayor here in Calgary.
00:04:50.380 He's the head of the NDP.
00:04:51.920 He's asking Smith to call an independence referendum right away because she's threatened a national unity crisis.
00:04:57.260 I don't see that at all.
00:04:58.160 I see Danielle Smith being strong and standing up for Alberta.
00:05:01.440 Thank God that is happening.
00:05:03.280 Rachel Parker says the premier isn't threatening a national unity crisis.
00:05:07.260 It's already on her doorstep.
00:05:08.800 She did an independent poll.
00:05:11.100 Nearly 40% of Albertans are interested in leaving Canada.
00:05:15.280 And finally, a poll commissioned by independent journalist Rachel Parker shows 36% of Albertans would support Alberta independence.
00:05:21.200 And 20% would support Alberta becoming a U.S. state or territory.
00:05:25.000 So this is closer than you think.
00:05:27.040 And this is the first time I've heard Danielle Smith use the word referendum. 0.95
00:05:30.800 And I'm glad she's doing it.
00:05:32.260 I am an Alberta separatist.
00:05:34.020 I believe that we have to have pure poly of elected. 1.00
00:05:36.460 So again, check out that video.
00:05:38.720 I'm expecting to put that interview up on Monday morning.
00:05:41.900 But referendum is being talked about by the premier of Alberta right now.
00:05:46.580 Thanks a lot for watching.
00:05:47.680 I do appreciate it.
00:05:48.640 Please give me a thumbs up.
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