John Bolton - July 04, 2026


Canadians should be APPALLED - ALBERTANS should vote to LEAVE

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John Bolton
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Danielle Smith Colin McLeod Mark Carney Chris Sims Kinder Morgan John Gary
The Failure of Danielle Smith - Folds Like A Cheap Suit Maybe The East Should LEAVE CANADA Too - We're All Equal In The End

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A follow up to the Kinder Morgan pipeline announcement from the other day, which was not an announcement about a pipeline at all, but a political stunt designed to distract us from the real issue at hand, which is Alberta's independence from Canada.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 5.45 a.m. Saturday, July the 4th. Hope you're
00:00:08.600 having a great start to your Saturday and your weekend as well. I want to say happy
00:00:12.240 Independence Day to our American friends today. The United States of America is 250 years
00:00:18.360 old today. You're looking great for 250. I tip the big blue mug of coffee to you today.
00:00:24.020 Let me have a sip. So I want to do a follow-up on the pipeline announcement from the other day
00:00:34.680 because it wasn't an announcement about a pipeline at all. You know, I used to respect
00:00:40.780 and admire Danielle Smith. I don't anymore. I think she thinks we're gullible and stupid. I think
00:00:47.420 she's trying to pull the wool over her eyes on this. This announcement the other day,
00:00:53.520 which wasn't an announcement about anything being built at all, proves Canada, dare I say it,
00:00:59.240 is broken. Canada does not work anymore. The Canada that you remember is gone.
00:01:07.980 This should be motivation for people to vote for Alberta independence.
00:01:13.880 And they think this is going to stop Alberta independence. We're going to get to that in
00:01:17.840 just a moment in this article. So let me go to Chris Sims. And this is from X. Now it says,
00:01:24.920 listen at the top because she actually had Mark Carney below here talking. I will not inflict
00:01:29.820 that upon you. Prime Minister Mark Carney announcing pipeline proposal and Premier Daniel
00:01:35.120 Smith asked how much it will cost taxpayers. Note, Alberta government's own document says
00:01:40.660 pipeline will cost taxpayers up to 44 billion dollars. I'm never going to get tired of playing
00:01:49.480 this clip. Having to build another pipeline with government money as being a success. It would be,
00:01:55.260 I think, a failure of the exercise. Failure of the exercise. Failure of the exercise. Failure
00:01:59.240 of the exercise. This pipeline, if it ever happens, is a failure. It's a failure of Danielle
00:02:06.880 Smith. It's a failure of government. And if you live anywhere in this country, even outside 1.00
00:02:11.720 Alberta, you should be appalled by this. Check this out. This was a follow-up to Chris's tweet.
00:02:19.400 A new definition of insanity. A definition of insanity is building one $8 billion pipeline for
00:02:25.560 $35 billion. That's what the Canadian government did. Your money, then upping the carbon taxes and
00:02:31.780 adding another pipeline for $44 billion on the same patch of ground. So let's go to the article
00:02:41.480 that was sent to me by my friend, Gary. Now I'm going to read to you quite a bit of this,
00:02:46.060 but you need to read the whole thing. So go over and subscribe to Colin, Substack,
00:02:51.040 Colin McLeod. Maybe I'll even get Colin on the channel. I'm going to read some of this to you.
00:02:55.880 and it's really a really a good article so let's go here this is from yesterday
00:03:02.660 the latest talk of a new west coast oil pipeline should be treated for what it is political theater
00:03:09.660 ottawa is suddenly pretending to care about alberta energy because alberta is getting
00:03:15.260 restless organized and dangerous to the federal status quo the independence movement has forced
00:03:21.940 the conversation. Now, right on cue, federal and provincial politicians have found a shiny
00:03:27.740 new pipeline announcement to wave in front of Albertans like toys in front of a toddler.
00:03:33.300 The message is obvious. Calm down. Stay in Canada. We are listening this time. No, they are not.
00:03:41.340 Let's jump ahead. Read the whole article. This new pipeline proposal is not a green light.
00:03:46.940 it is not even yellow. It is a press release dressed up as nation building. Alberta produces
00:03:53.200 some of the most responsibly regulated energy on earth. The world needs oil. Asia needs oil. The
00:03:59.300 U.S. needs oil. Canada certainly needs the revenue. But instead of simply allowing Alberta to build
00:04:05.020 infrastructure, export product, create wealth, and strengthen the country, this liberal government
00:04:11.180 insists on attaching ideological baggage to every barrel first alberta must apologize
00:04:18.140 then it must decarbonize then it must subsidize both the bc government and any given number of
00:04:24.460 indigenous groups along the route then it must consult forever then it must promise to feel
00:04:30.140 guilty while doing the very thing that funds the country only in canada could a government take a
00:04:36.940 profitable industry and make it beg permission to remain useful. And nobody should miss the
00:04:44.220 most important point, private capital is not lining up to build this pipeline. That tells you
00:04:50.400 everything. Investors are not stupid. They can read legislation. They can price the risk in this. 0.99
00:04:58.660 They watch Trans Mountain become a federal rescue operation. They watch Kinder Morgan walk away as
00:05:04.200 costs exploded, while activists, courts, regulators, politicians, and federal departments
00:05:09.920 turned a straightforward infrastructure project into a national endurance test. They watched the
00:05:16.080 final cost balloon into the tens of billions. Now we're supposed to believe private capital
00:05:22.080 will enthusiastically return to Canada's energy sector because politicians held another press
00:05:27.800 conference. Canada has created a regulatory environment so hostile, so unpredictable,
00:05:34.100 and so politically contaminated that serious pipeline investment now requires government
00:05:39.340 ownership, government guarantees, government shielding, and taxpayer risk. That is not a
00:05:44.960 market, but it is a clear warning sign. The Trans Mountain expansion should have been a national
00:05:51.200 embarrassment. Instead, Ottawa is now using it as a business model. And now we're being
00:05:57.580 offered the sequel. A new 1 million barrel per day pipeline to the BC coast sounds wonderful.
00:06:04.300 Albertans should support the concept. Alberta needs tidewater. Alberta needs access to Asian
00:06:09.900 markets and leverage beyond the United States. Alberta needs to stop selling into a captive 0.54
00:06:15.360 market while Ottawa lectures us about national unity from the comfort of federal revenues
00:06:20.500 generated by Western energy. But an idea is not a project. A press conference is not a permit.
00:06:27.080 an MOU is not a construction start. A political announcement is not steel in the ground.
00:06:33.400 What we have today is not a pipeline. It is a talking point. This announcement is designed
00:06:40.200 to weaken the independence movement by giving soft Federalists and nervous Conservatives
00:06:45.460 something to cling to. It allows them to say, see, Canada can work. We just need patience.
00:06:51.760 Albertans have been patient for decades. Patients gave us equalization, canceled pipelines,
00:06:58.280 federal emissions caps, tanker bans, and regulatory paralysis. Patients gave us a
00:07:03.360 country that happily cashes Alberta's checks while treating Alberta's core industry as a
00:07:08.040 national embarrassment. At some point, patience becomes stupidity. 1.00
00:07:13.200 the likely outcome is delay the second most likely outcome is a taxpayer-backed mega project 0.99
00:07:22.260 that costs far more than promised and takes far longer than advertised the least likely outcome
00:07:28.580 is a clean privately financed efficiently approved pipeline built on time because canada finally
00:07:35.480 remembered how to act like a serious country. That Canada no longer exists.
00:07:44.840 Albertans should not be fooled by this theatre. The specifics are missing on purpose, confirmed
00:07:51.120 route, permits, financing, ownership, timelines, legal protections, tanker access, indigenous
00:07:58.020 agreements, federal guarantees, and a hard commitment that construction will proceed
00:08:03.140 without being held hostage to every climate lobbyist, federal regulator, and activist law
00:08:08.960 fair shop in the country. Ottawa is not offering Alberta construction or even regulatory certainty.
00:08:17.300 It is simply another promise to Alberta, wrapped in carbon capture, delayed by regulation,
00:08:23.800 financed by taxpayers, and timed conveniently to calm the independence rebellion. And folks,
00:08:30.120 we should use an article like this to stoke the fires of independence. Canada is broken,
00:08:37.500 and this announcement the other day, which wasn't an announcement of a pipeline, is failure.
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