John Bolton - June 25, 2026


Carney Liberals Push a Dying Religion As The World Wakes Up


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In this episode of the John talks about how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is lying to Albertans about what's going on in the oil and gas industry, and why she needs to be fired. Also, a boner!

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00:00:00.000 There's a lot of good news in what I'm going to talk about in just a moment,
00:00:03.880 but at the same time, you're going to be pretty frustrated.
00:00:10.260 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 447 a.m. Thursday, June the 25th. I hope you're
00:00:15.480 having a great start to your Thursday with the big blue mug of coffee. I've been up for a couple
00:00:19.680 of hours thinking about today's video, which I'm going to talk about in just a moment. Hey,
00:00:23.640 I watered my plants this morning. I have weeping hoses on my property. I have no grass. Plants
00:00:30.000 and trees and bushes are my whole property. I turned that on this morning. Is it even my
00:00:35.160 watering day today? Oh, I lucked out. I can water my plants today. You know, the city of Calgary
00:00:41.560 now restricts when we can water our plants in Calgary. You know that we've had some major
00:00:46.080 water main breaks. Matter of fact, a couple of summers ago, I couldn't water my plants
00:00:49.840 all summer. Well, now my plants did quite well because a lot of people don't get up
00:00:54.840 at 1.30, 2 o'clock in the morning to see whether I'm watering my plants. My plants did very well
00:01:01.260 during the water main break a couple of years ago, but we now restrict water in Calgary.
00:01:06.720 You know, I talked to my counselor about this. I said, listen, when the city of Calgary can fix
00:01:12.100 its infrastructure, when 20% of the water that runs through the pipes in Calgary doesn't leak
00:01:16.940 into the ground, which is happening right now, come talk to me about restricting my water use
00:01:21.620 when it comes to my plants, but they restricted our water use here in Calgary, like they restrict
00:01:26.360 bands playing during the Calgary Stampede. That's the latest thing in the city. But let's move on
00:01:32.640 to what I want to talk about today. A little rant off the top there. So what am I going to talk
00:01:39.020 about today? Well, first off, at the end of this, I have got a quote from an email I received from
00:01:43.980 a friend of mine about a week and a half ago. I was talking about carbon capture utilization and
00:01:49.200 storage. This friend who will remain anonymous here is a very smart person. I was in a meeting
00:01:56.120 not too long ago and I was amazed that I was in the room with the people I was with.
00:02:02.900 Everybody was asked to introduce themselves, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you would
00:02:09.740 like to accomplish as part of this little committee here. So we go around the room and
00:02:14.740 I'm sitting there thinking, oh my God, how am I in the room with these people? Very accomplished
00:02:19.540 man in this room. And I get to my friend who sent me this quote I'm going to show you at the end
00:02:24.720 that you have to wait for. And he lists off his CV and it goes on and on and on. Now he's not
00:02:30.660 being boastful. He's just saying what he has accomplished. Retired oil and gas. This guy has
00:02:36.120 forgot more about oil and gas than most people know. And we're going to talk about that today.
00:02:40.720 This quote is amazing, and it shows you how Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta, has committed.
00:02:47.080 Now, I'm going to use an old-fashioned phrase here.
00:02:49.160 For the young people, you're probably going to laugh.
00:02:50.880 In fact, most people will probably laugh because this phrase is not used, or this word is not used very often anymore.
00:02:57.840 But the word I'm going to use is boner. 0.95
00:03:01.020 Okay, Danielle Smith committed a boner.
00:03:04.880 People don't use that anymore, and we know what the connotation is. 0.99
00:03:08.040 I hope this video doesn't get banned on YouTube because I said that, but a boner
00:03:11.960 is a embarrassing mistake or a clumsy blunder. And she has done this in a big way. In fact,
00:03:19.480 Danielle Smith, I'm just going to put it this way, has been outright lying to Albertans about 0.96
00:03:24.840 what's going on when it comes to oil and gas, net zero, and pipelines. She is lying to Albertans 0.98
00:03:32.140 about this right now. You remember her nine bad laws. She says all of them are gone. They're not 0.97
00:03:36.900 gone. A couple have been adjusted. One may be gone. We still have the most important ones that
00:03:42.860 are holding back Alberta's oil and gas industry. So why am I talking about this today? Kind of a
00:03:49.580 long preamble into what I want to chat about today. I saw this article. Oh, by the way, we're
00:03:54.580 going to have some video here from Tim Hodgson, who was called the Energy Minister of Canada.
00:04:01.440 All right. We're going to see him. Here's another phrase for you. Shuck and jive with Vashi
00:04:05.720 Capellas on CTV, talking about carbon capture, utilization, and storage. I did a video on this
00:04:11.580 just a week or so ago. And he's lying about what the government is really about. I guess the real
00:04:18.980 moral of the story of this video I'm going to do is, despite the fact that Stephen Gilbo,
00:04:23.920 former energy minister who's going to step down from the Liberal Party to go on with his fight
00:04:29.800 against climate change, the Carney government is still all in on net zero, despite the fact that
00:04:36.360 they're telling you differently. Because Tim Hodgson, our energy minister, he shouldn't even
00:04:40.800 be our energy minister when he is a climate change zealot. He actually reveals what the
00:04:47.520 Carney government is doing here. And then I'll show you the amazing quote from my friend here
00:04:52.520 that shows how Danielle Smith committed a boner, all right?
00:04:59.240 Believe me, I know I just explained what boner meant to you,
00:05:02.800 but you still have to grin every time you say it.
00:05:05.100 So here's the article I read here.
00:05:08.020 I went on maybe a little longer than I wanted off the top.
00:05:10.300 I saw this article the other day.
00:05:12.380 There is a link in the description.
00:05:13.800 You're really going to like this.
00:05:15.000 And this is from the New York Post.
00:05:18.780 The moral of the story with this article is this.
00:05:21.740 while the rest of the world is finally smartening up on this issue, Canada and the liberals are
00:05:28.060 still all in. All right. This is written by, let me get my face on the screen here. I guess I can
00:05:32.960 fit on there without going over the text. Written by Bjorn Lomborg. All right. Here's what can come
00:05:39.000 next with climate change fever finally breaking. Now, I've said the magic words here. I've said
00:05:43.500 net zero. I've said climate change. Now, that means the algorithm on YouTube is going to put
00:05:47.740 the Wikipedia post below this video explaining how oil and gas and carbon dioxide raise the planet
00:05:53.480 and we're all in peril. So what I want you to do right now is click on the thumbs up because
00:05:58.400 they will throttle this video simply because I've said those words. But I'm going to say them
00:06:03.420 because honestly, I don't actually look at how many people watch my videos. Not important. I
00:06:08.360 talk about what I want to talk about. I think that's why you're here. So this is from Bjorn
00:06:12.340 Lomborg. If you don't know who Bjorn Lomborg is, here he is right here. This is one of his books.
00:06:17.540 He's kind of known as the skeptical environmentalist.
00:06:20.380 Now, what you need to understand here, and don't judge Mr. Lomborg, but he believes that
00:06:25.660 the world is heating up and he has a strong belief in climate change.
00:06:31.080 But he's called the skeptical environmentalist because he doesn't think we should be spending
00:06:35.700 trillions of dollars on doing this.
00:06:37.900 There are other ways to bring down the temperature or to slow the warming of the earth.
00:06:43.320 And as a matter of fact, I think in this story, I think I highlighted it here.
00:06:46.500 Here's how much money the world has spent on climate change mitigation right now.
00:06:51.600 The world has already spent more than $16 trillion on climate measures with promises of hundreds of trillions more.
00:06:59.680 I'm going to read a bit of this article to you. 0.99
00:07:01.980 And then we're going to go on to Danielle Smith on one of the lies she's been telling.
00:07:06.260 And she said this recently at the United Conservative Party meeting they had just a week or so ago.
00:07:11.340 And we're going to show what Prime Minister Carney is doing when it comes to his net zero program right now.
00:07:17.860 Danielle Smith said net zero is gone, but Prime Minister Carney is actually accelerating this as far as I'm concerned.
00:07:24.220 And then we're going to hear from Tim Hodgson, the energy minister.
00:07:27.300 And then the quote from my friend who has a great suggestion on what Danielle Smith should have done when it came to her memorandum of understanding with Mark Carney.
00:07:37.780 So let me read a bit of this.
00:07:38.780 You're going to like this.
00:07:39.520 You know, back years ago, I'm talking 20 years ago, around the time that Al Gore came out with
00:07:46.120 his science fiction movie, An Inconvenient Truth, where he predicted doom and gloom and Armageddon
00:07:52.320 for the world, and none of it has come true over the last 20 years. It was 2006 when he came out
00:07:57.500 with his science fiction movie. Nothing he predicted back then has come true. Bjorn Lomborg
00:08:02.600 gets into it in this article. I'm going to read just a bit of it to you. I don't want to bore you
00:08:06.560 to tears. So here we go. This article, by the way, just from a few days ago. Something was
00:08:12.780 conspicuously missing from California's primary this month. In the state that built its political
00:08:19.860 identity around fighting climate change, the issue barely registered. Voters fixated on
00:08:25.120 affordability and housing. About 44% named the cost of living, jobs, and inflation as the state's
00:08:32.020 Most important problem with just 1% citing climate change.
00:08:35.800 You know, these numbers are probably very similar in Canada now.
00:08:39.620 All right.
00:08:40.320 Even Tom Steyer, the billionaire who made his name funding climate activism,
00:08:45.040 ran a campaign centered on lowering household costs.
00:08:48.500 I mean, when it comes down to it, that's the thing that's most important to you, isn't it?
00:08:52.200 A little bit more here.
00:08:54.060 Even the money has moved on.
00:08:55.540 A new Times of London survey of 200 institutional fund managers found
00:08:59.820 climate change had tumbled from their number one environmental, social, and governance concern to
00:09:05.640 fifth place behind human health, AI ethics, corruption, and corporate conduct. After the
00:09:11.940 Cold War, it became fashionable to call climate the last great challenge it never was. COVID,
00:09:18.920 wars, budget deficits, immigration pressures, faltering schools, the uncertainties,
00:09:24.080 artificial intelligence, and aging populations straining health and pension systems
00:09:29.080 are all legitimate competing priorities.
00:09:32.900 Climate is one item on a long list, not the only line.
00:09:36.940 Second, you can cry wolf only so many times.
00:09:40.360 For 50 years, we have been fed apocalyptic deadlines.
00:09:43.500 One peer-reviewed study cataloged at least 79 specific doomsday predictions.
00:09:50.220 In 2019, King Charles warned that we had 18 months to save the planet.
00:09:55.240 Al Gore told us in 2008, we had 10 years left.
00:09:59.080 Those deadlines came and went. Nearly every dramatic prophecy that has reached this expiration date has simply turned out to be wrong, and voters have noticed.
00:10:08.840 Third, climate policy is staggeringly expensive and accomplishes remarkably little.
00:10:14.960 The world has already spent, line from before, more than $16 trillion on climate measures, with promises of hundreds of trillions more.
00:10:22.900 Yet a landmark study in science examined 1,500 climate policies across 41 countries, Canada probably in there, over two decades and found out that only 4% meaningfully cut emissions.
00:10:36.260 Together, the entire apparatus reduced global emissions by less than a quarter of 1%.
00:10:42.980 In any other field, governments delivering so little for so much would have been thrown out long ago.
00:10:49.440 Now, it's a great article. Read the whole thing. Link in the description. I want to show you this
00:10:54.740 short clip from Danielle Smith, and then I want to get on to our energy minister and our amazing
00:10:59.760 quote from my friend who sent me an email about a week or so ago. So here is Danielle Smith talking
00:11:05.540 to the United Conservative Party. She got very limited applause in this speech, going on about
00:11:10.500 the nine bad laws, and this is one of the laws she said that Mark Carney and the liberals have
00:11:16.140 gotten rid of. In addition, under this agreement, the dangerous net zero electricity regulations
00:11:22.220 gone. You see, Premier Smith has to say this or her credibility is nothing but mud. And her
00:11:28.420 credibility is nothing but mud because she said at one time, if we don't get rid of the nine bad
00:11:33.420 laws, we're going to have a national unity crisis. Well, folks, we have a national unity crisis.
00:11:38.360 Alberta is having a vote for independence in October. So she's got to say this.
00:11:44.960 So is net zero gone?
00:11:47.520 No, it isn't.
00:11:48.100 I've shown you this before.
00:11:49.060 I'm not going to go on forever.
00:11:50.580 This is Carney's National Electricity Strategy.
00:11:53.820 Sounds so close to National Energy Program, doesn't it?
00:11:58.460 But I've shown you 25 times in this short document on the Prime Minister's website.
00:12:03.400 It says clean 25 times.
00:12:06.280 Not only that, it talks about emissions, getting rid of emissions, subsidies for electric vehicles.
00:12:12.100 So this is the net energy or the net zero strategy of Kearney these days.
00:12:16.240 Now, let's go on to Tim Hodgson.
00:12:18.680 I keep using the quotes.
00:12:21.980 This is Tim Hodgson, the energy minister, with Vashi Kapelis just a short time ago.
00:12:27.340 And let's hear what they have to say.
00:12:28.360 I'm going to go through this quickly, about two and a half minutes of discussion here.
00:12:32.080 And there's another phrase I'm going to use.
00:12:34.540 He shucks and jives through this, okay?
00:12:36.940 A shuck and jive is sort of, he dances around the answers because he hasn't got answers here.
00:12:42.100 The carbon capture program known as Pathways in Alberta ain't working out for the province
00:12:47.500 and it ain't working out for the federal government.
00:12:49.700 And this proves it because if it was working out,
00:12:52.460 he wouldn't have to have this discussion with Ms. Capella.
00:12:55.180 So let me go over here and click on this and let's hear what the energy minister has to say.
00:12:59.800 I did want to ask about what is an increasing amount of industry pushback
00:13:04.280 to part of the MOU that your government signed with Alberta.
00:13:07.740 And that is in particular around the Pathways carbon capture project, right?
00:13:11.500 Mr. McKenzie, the CEO of Synovus, gave a speech just this month basically saying, you know, financing that and the pipeline isn't doable, unfinanceable, was the word that he used.
00:13:23.120 Your government is already providing very significant tax credits for carbon capture.
00:13:27.540 Are you willing to put more federal money to make sure that Pathways is realized?
00:13:32.260 So I would say that there are very productive conversations going on as we speak between the
00:13:39.580 federal government, between the government of Alberta and the Pathways Alliance. We are working
00:13:44.640 hard to get to a framework. That framework involves some support from the federal government
00:13:51.000 and involves some support from the Alberta government. It means that people in Alberta
00:13:56.640 and in Canada are going to have to pay for this because the oil and gas companies realize that
00:14:02.080 this is going to make them uncompetitive. My friend, I'm going to show you his quote in just
00:14:05.740 a moment on what Daniel Smith should have said about this in the first place and should have
00:14:11.920 said to Mark Carney about this. It makes absolute sense. I never thought of it, but this is a very
00:14:16.800 smart gentleman. But they have to subsidize this. You're going to subsidize this in order for Carney
00:14:23.080 and Tim Hodgson, our energy minister, to achieve their net zero. And he actually concludes with
00:14:28.440 that. Let's go back to what he has to say here. And it involves some financial commitments by
00:14:34.220 the Pathways Alliance. We've done the work. We think it's eminently financeable. And I'm not
00:14:41.180 going to get in the middle of discussions, but I think you'll hear some good news in the not
00:14:45.660 too distant future. And I understand that you don't want to get in the middle of discussions,
00:14:49.980 but I ask with great respect, Minister, there's already a lot of federal money that has been used
00:14:54.580 subsidize oil companies that have have quite significant profits they obviously don't think
00:15:00.180 and numerous ceos have now said that the economics of pathways are there without significant taxpayer
00:15:08.180 input the question is a simple one are you willing to go beyond the current federal input into if you
00:15:14.660 don't pay for pathways the oil and gas industries can't be competitive is basically what vashi
00:15:19.940 Capella said there but they're doubling down on this and the province of Alberta is doubling down
00:15:26.060 on this to try to get the so-called pipeline that Daniel Smith is supposed to submit to the
00:15:33.220 major projects office here in Calgary well within the next week here we go pathways I'm I'm not going
00:15:41.320 to get in the middle of discussions that are that are going on right now we have a clear framework
00:15:45.680 that we're working on with the government of Alberta
00:15:48.340 and Pathways, we will negotiate that.
00:15:50.880 And when the discussions are done,
00:15:53.520 we'll share that with the people of Canada
00:15:55.900 and the citizens of Alberta.
00:15:58.540 I take your point on that,
00:16:00.080 but I'm asking out of principle, right?
00:16:02.000 Like what you're feeling as the Minister of Natural Energy
00:16:04.180 is on a question that has been asked for years now
00:16:07.180 about whether or not further taxpayer subsidies
00:16:09.760 of oil companies are something that...
00:16:12.260 The oil companies don't want to pay for this.
00:16:14.820 We shouldn't have to subsidize this at all.
00:16:17.380 The ins should be behind.
00:16:18.920 Like, do you have a principled stance on whether or not more taxpayer money should go towards this project?
00:16:25.360 So my principled stance is we're going to do what's right for Canada.
00:16:28.420 We're going to develop our resources in the most responsible way.
00:16:32.800 When we do that, it will be a benefit to Canada.
00:16:36.020 It will be a benefit to Canada economically.
00:16:38.480 It'll be a benefit to Canada from a sovereignty perspective.
00:16:42.180 and we will do it in a way that reduces emissions and gets us to net zero. Those are our guiding
00:16:49.220 lights, and that's what we're working towards. Yeah, net zero is one of his guiding lights.
00:16:54.420 They're not giving up on net zero, and this is what Daniel Smith wants you to believe. That's
00:16:59.200 not true. We do not need the giant carbon-sucking machine, and the oil companies don't want to do
00:17:05.760 this. Now, I'm going to show you what my friend told me, and this is what he said, and what
00:17:10.820 Danielle Smith should have done regarding this carbon capture utilization and storage. And this
00:17:17.120 makes perfect sense. And you're going to love this. And I love it as well. I'm going to bring
00:17:20.900 it up full screen here. Here we go. And this is what my friend wrote to me. And I just think this
00:17:25.400 is brilliant. And this is what Danielle Smith should have done. Maybe a better position for
00:17:31.320 Alberta would have been, we build the oil pipeline. And then if and only if our competitors start
00:17:39.360 CCUS, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, and or our customers are looking only for
00:17:46.620 decarbonized oil with a premium price, then proceed with Pathways. If only, if only Daniel
00:17:54.980 Smith had done it that way. Build it first, and then if people want to decarbonize their oil,
00:18:00.940 we'll build the giant carbon sucking machine. Brilliant. And to my friend, thanks for writing.
00:18:06.940 I appreciate you watching my videos.
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00:18:15.180 I'll see you in the next one.