John Bolton - Danielle Smith Has An Alberta Problem

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. My second video today. I'm not going to see very

00:00:09.740 much in this one. It's just going on 10 o'clock when I'm recording this. I've been told that

00:00:15.600 Premier Danielle Smith said at the Premier's dinner that she would vote yes to stay in Canada.

00:00:22.360 Ladies and gentlemen, Premier Danielle Smith. Alberta's biggest threat to our prosperity and

00:00:28.560 growth has come from our own nation's capital. Alberta has an Ottawa problem.

00:00:33.320 Ottawa problem. Ottawa problem. Ottawa overtaxing us. I mentioned that at the

00:00:40.320 beginning of the evening that our program costs are 70% of all

00:00:46.540 tax dollars. We only collect 40%. Ottawa collects 60% and then they use

00:00:52.100 political means to transfer it. Alberta, year after year, has 20 to 25 billion

00:00:57.780 dollars that is siphoned out of our system to go to ottawa so that it could be spent mostly in

00:01:03.860 quebec but also in other places that vote liberal come together here today because canada stands

00:01:09.140 at a critical crossroads beneath our feet here in alberta we stand on oil reserves valued at

00:01:14.500 over nine trillion dollars and one more thing we literally live on top of more than a trillion

00:01:20.420 barrels of oil and more than a quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas what's your message

00:01:25.700 for the liberal leader? Well, you can't ride two horses at months. You've got to decide.

00:01:31.620 Are you going to repeal the policies that have killed investment in Alberta so that we can be

00:01:37.380 that energy superpower, or are you not? And so we've yet to see the answer to that question.

00:01:44.020 You look at pipelines in particular, we had $176 billion worth of proposed projects that got

00:01:52.180 cancelled because of the uncertainty created by various government laws the ban on export of

00:01:58.160 bitumen from the west coast the no more pipelines bill the threats of net zero electricity grid

00:02:04.660 of an emissions cap on oil emissions cap on methane net zero vehicles the list goes on and

00:02:11.140 on and on and all of that dampens investment and we've seen the results of it and their anti-resource

00:02:16.440 keep it in the ground eco extremism has left us less able to secure to provide a secure supply of

00:02:23.720 energy to our friends and allies around the world with safe secure and responsibly produced energy

00:02:28.960 products so there's a reason why we refer to the last 10 years as canada's lost decade well i can

00:02:36.300 tell you that the albertans are questioning uh whether canada works and i'm not telling anything

00:02:41.680 you don't know there's a very active group that thinks canada's broken and so i suppose i could

00:02:47.920 just go down to the united states and start working with american counterparts to see if we can

00:02:52.800 build more pipelines they've expressed an interest in restarting the keystone xl

00:02:56.400 and i suppose we could maybe sell another million or two million barrels a day

00:02:59.600 additional to the united states i have one message alberta has had enough enough with

00:03:06.080 Ottawa trampling over our provincial jurisdiction like Canada's Constitution doesn't exist,

00:03:12.240 enough with the meaningless virtue signaling climate policies that only make Canadians

00:03:17.200 poorer and threaten our energy security, enough of their screw the West will take the rest 0.86

00:03:23.400 mentality, enough with their soft on crime policies that let repeat offenders roam the

00:03:29.640 streets on bail, enough with their unsafe supply, their open border policies, their

00:03:34.760 There's censorship laws, the list goes on and on.

00:03:50.140 Alberta's biggest threat to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's

00:03:54.000 capital.

00:03:55.360 Alberta has an Ottawa problem, Ottawa problem, Ottawa problem.

John Bolton - June 06, 2026