John Bolton - Carney Liberals Push a Dying Religion As The World Wakes Up

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.

00:18:09.640 And if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications.

00:18:15.180 I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - June 25, 2026

Carney Liberals Push a Dying Religion As The World Wakes Up

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