John Bolton - May 22, 2026


Danielle Smith... Just Sittin' On The Fence... Or Is She The Fence？


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584

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33

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Thursday, May 21st, it is about quarter past seven with the big blue mug of coffee on my back deck right now, enjoying my evening.
00:00:09.220 I did just watch Premier Danielle Smith make an announcement to Alberta, to Canada and the world, and I thought perhaps we might get a vote on independence on October 19th this year, but we did not get that.
00:00:21.280 I thought it would have been delicious if Thomas Lukasik's petition actually triggered a vote on independence in the fall.
00:00:28.980 That's not going to happen.
00:00:30.140 What we get to do is vote to perhaps have a vote on independence.
00:00:35.760 You get to vote to stay in Canada or have an independence vote.
00:00:39.380 So initially what I thought was Danielle Smith isn't sitting on the fence.
00:00:44.420 Danielle Smith is the fence here.
00:00:47.960 And all I can see this is, is kind of a stalling tactic.
00:00:54.480 Here's what I was thinking about.
00:00:56.640 If we vote in this so-called referendum question, October 19th,
00:01:01.180 to actually have a referendum on independence, when would that happen?
00:01:06.800 How soon?
00:01:08.720 Well, do you think it's going to happen in 2027?
00:01:11.340 Do you think Daniel Smith will come out of this referendum on October 19th
00:01:14.900 and schedule another one quickly in 2027. Not a chance. First off, it costs a lot of money and
00:01:21.400 there is a provincial election coming up in 2027. It would be political suicide for her to have a 1.00
00:01:28.060 vote on independence in this province in 2027. So when would we eventually have this vote on 0.90
00:01:35.480 independence? It could be years. And this isn't going to satisfy the people who want to vote now.
00:01:41.640 But what else is happening? Well, total meltdown. Before we got this announcement, people were
00:01:48.880 saying, if Danielle Smith doesn't get us a vote, we're going to bring her down. You know, sign up 1.00
00:01:54.420 for the UCP, you'll have a vote. When a leadership review comes up, we can get rid of Danielle Smith. 1.00
00:02:00.380 But she didn't bite on that. She's staring that right in the face right now. But what's the 1.00
00:02:06.140 alternative to danielle smith and the ucp right now nahed nenshi and the ndp and we'll never get
00:02:15.660 a vote on independence with those guys running this province i'm going to be talking with keith
00:02:21.700 wilson on the channel and i'll have that video up approximately around 8 30 quarter to 9 tonight
00:02:27.200 i've got some interesting questions for him but what do you think you're obviously not pleased
00:02:32.440 with this i'm not pleased with it but every time something like this gets in our way we seem to
00:02:38.380 rally and we still seem to rise to the top with this i think somehow we're going to turn these
00:02:45.060 lemons into lemonade when it comes to the independence movement i'm going to ask keith
00:02:49.160 about that is there i don't know a silver lining to this cloud that's the question i want to ask
00:02:56.160 But I think she took the easy way out here by giving us a vote to have a vote on independence.
00:03:04.040 And I'm not really pleased this evening.
00:03:06.140 Let me know what you think in the comments.
00:03:07.880 Keith will be on sometime this evening.
00:03:10.220 I'm hoping before 9 o'clock at the very latest.
00:03:13.620 Thank you very much for watching.
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