John Bolton - Carney & Smith Are About To Throw Alberta A Bone - It Stinks

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 326 a.m. Tuesday, May the 12th. I hope you're having a

00:00:08.080 great start to your Tuesday and I appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. And I don't do

00:00:13.240 this very often, but you would help me get to 51,000 subscribers if you were to click on

00:00:19.700 subscribe right now, if you haven't already. Thank you very much. Well, I believe I can have

00:00:25.520 two different thoughts on something or somebody at the same time. I did this video the other day

00:00:32.780 about Premier Danielle Smith on how I think she is a secret weapon for Alberta independence. We

00:00:37.780 only have to use her words. She's very critical of Mark Carney, the Liberal government, Justin

00:00:43.040 Trudeau, and what has been happening and what the Liberal government has been doing to Alberta

00:00:47.260 over the years. And I think we should do that more often. But I also think she's incredibly

00:00:53.120 smart, but at the same time, she might be a little bit naive. I think of this article right here.

00:00:59.960 We're hearing more and more about this memorandum of understanding. The prime minister shares my

00:01:04.840 urgency. Alberta premier believes a framework largely in place on carbon pricing under the

00:01:10.420 energy accord. Premier Daniel Smith believes a framework for federal provincial agreement on

00:01:15.060 ramping up Alberta's industrial carbon price has largely been reached with prime minister Mark

00:01:20.160 Kearney, one that could be unveiled as early as this week. Now, I think the timing of this is

00:01:25.840 suspect. I don't think it's any coincidence that this has happened about a week after the 300,000

00:01:34.620 signatures were handed over in Edmonton last week for Alberta to have a question on a ballot

00:01:40.540 regarding independence here in October. I don't think this is a coincidence at all. And I think

00:01:46.080 that Carney and Daniel Smith think they can placate Albertans by throwing us this bone of

00:01:52.380 a possible perhaps maybe pipeline, which isn't likely to happen anyway. We want a hell of a lot

00:01:57.220 more than that, the people in Alberta independence. And we know that even if this pipeline were to go

00:02:03.000 through, the liberals would put their boot on our neck in the future anyway, and stop us from

00:02:08.100 getting the prosperity that we truly want and need here in Alberta. But I think the premier is being

00:02:13.660 naive. You see, there's five things that need to be done to get things, need to be done to get

00:02:18.880 things done here in Alberta. And I would start with the laws that are in place right now that

00:02:25.200 stop us from getting pipelines built. You see, you might remember, let's take you back to a little

00:02:31.240 over a year ago, I think it was, when Mark Carney did this. We will be eliminating the Canada fuel

00:02:39.720 charge, the consumer fuel charge immediately. So it's my honour on behalf of my colleagues

00:02:45.780 to sign this order.

00:02:51.420 What Carney did there was performative, like much of the things he does. And I'm going to

00:02:56.180 run through a list of some other things in just a moment to prove my point. But it really

00:03:00.740 accomplished nothing because the consumer carbon tax was still on the books until an

00:03:06.040 act of parliament ended it earlier this year. I think it was called Bill C-4. So until an act

00:03:12.000 of parliament gets rid of the laws that stop us from building pipelines and getting the oil on

00:03:16.800 tankers on the West Coast, this will never happen. And those laws are Bill C-69, the anti-pipeline

00:03:24.280 law, and Bill C-48, the tanker ban. And of course, there's the indigenous groups that don't want 1.00

00:03:29.760 tankers off the West Coast that are going to get in the way. We've discussed this before.

00:03:34.660 And then there's the Pathways Project.

00:03:36.580 And for those of you who aren't paying attention in the rest of the country,

00:03:39.440 you should be because this project to take carbon dioxide out of the air

00:03:43.800 and put it in the ground here in Alberta will largely be paid for by you.

00:03:47.960 The estimated cost right now is around $20 billion.

00:03:50.740 I've seen it as high as 24.

00:03:52.540 It's the government.

00:03:53.600 It'll be twice that much to accomplish virtually nothing.

00:03:56.220 And then there's the industrial carbon tax,

00:03:59.080 which Danielle Smith is negotiating with Mark Carney right now.

00:04:02.800 here's an article in the national post talking about this this from just yesterday the easy

00:04:09.060 fixes Carney isn't doing if his whole plan is to boost the economy there are many levers he

00:04:14.080 hasn't pulled this article from Tristan Hopper link in the description from the national post

00:04:18.220 the first thing on the list is repeal the industrial carbon tax and the premier of Alberta

00:04:24.480 is negotiating with this guy over this and we keep hearing this in article after article after

00:04:29.300 article how this is not good for investment in Canada. More on that in just a second.

00:04:36.080 Danielle Smith says he has a radical net zero agenda. He's called Carney out on this. Well,

00:04:42.000 call him out and say, no, we're not doing this. No carbon sucking machine, no industrial carbon tax.

00:04:48.500 Get rid of the laws that get in the way. They get in the way of prosperity in Alberta. This

00:04:53.240 in the national interest of Canada get the hell out of the way. From this article, just this week,

00:05:01.380 Synovus Energy CEO John McKenzie told a conference outside Montreal that no other oil-producing

00:05:07.100 nation maintains a similar tax. So rather than its intended purpose of incentivizing decarbonization,

00:05:13.060 it incents industry to invest outside of Canada. We have created a set of national policies and

00:05:19.560 regulations that make resource development and investment in Canada uncompetitive with the rest

00:05:25.260 of the world, he said. The industrial carbon tax adds an extra five to fifteen dollars to every

00:05:31.080 barrel of oil. We become uncompetitive. And the next thing on the list from Tristan Hopper,

00:05:36.140 repeal the tanker ban. And what does it say? Right now, it is illegal to sail an oil tanker

00:05:42.700 into the one stretch of Canadian coastline where it would be most profitable to establish an oil

00:05:48.640 export port. Shipping oil in a tanker from the west coast of Canada is illegal, and only an

00:05:55.300 act of parliament is going to change that. But Mark Carney and Danielle Smith will walk out in

00:06:00.760 a couple of days. They'll be hand in hand, raised in the air, big smiles on their face. We've come

00:06:06.300 to an agreement on an industrial carbon tax, which makes our oil uncompetitive, and it drives up

00:06:12.600 costs for you. Then they'll announce they've got the giant carbon-sucking machine known as

00:06:17.420 pathways, which is $20 billion mostly paid by you, which will drive up costs for you.

00:06:24.320 And there's still one little thing that hasn't been resolved here, investment. Danielle Smith

00:06:29.540 herself has said, if government has to pay for the pipeline, it will be a huge failure. So we need

00:06:35.480 investors. But this all stifles investment in Canada as well. And this is all performative,

00:06:42.600 just like signing off on the consumer carbon tax last year. Let me run through a little list

00:06:48.680 I've given you. See, Mark Carney doesn't have to do anything. He merely has to talk about it

00:06:53.620 and the elbows up people think he's actually accomplishing something. He's do nothing Carney.

00:06:58.680 So last June in Kananaskis, Mark Carney said he would have a deal on trade with Donald Trump

00:07:07.040 within 30 days, but that didn't happen. He promised he would eliminate the interprovincial

00:07:13.940 trade barriers here in Canada by last July 1st. That hasn't happened. He said his major projects

00:07:22.560 office, which is 20 minutes away from where I'm sitting right here in Calgary, would fast track

00:07:28.760 all these things, all these giant projects. Two are underway right now, and those were already

00:07:34.920 in the works before Mark Carney even became prime minister. So that isn't happening. Mark

00:07:40.600 Carney said he would build homes faster, he would build them smarter, and he would build them

00:07:45.380 Canadian, but that isn't happening. He said he would spend less, but as you know, by this mini

00:07:51.900 budget we heard about a week or so ago, yeah, the deficit isn't as high, but it's stratospheric

00:07:57.940 at $68 billion other than COVID years, this is off the charts. Everything this man does is

00:08:06.220 performative, is really accomplishing nothing. But merely by saying it, people believe him.

00:08:14.160 We need to get away from this pipe dream. Danielle Smith needs to call him out on this.

00:08:19.080 Five things you need to do to get a pipeline. Get rid of Bill C-69, get rid of Bill C-48, 0.99

00:08:25.000 eight, get rid of the Pathways Project, remove the industrial carbon tax, and get Mark Carney,

00:08:30.540 the Liberals, and Ottawa out of Alberta's way. Thank you very much for watching. If you like

00:08:35.660 this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications.

00:08:39.620 I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - May 12, 2026

Carney & Smith Are About To Throw Alberta A Bone - It Stinks

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