John Bolton - September 04, 2025


Danielle Smith's Slick, Professional HAIL MARY - Is begging next？


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10 minutes

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119

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Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta has a video on her YouTube channel that has been getting a lot of attention. She is trying to convince the country that Alberta can become an economic and energy superpower, and she has a plan to do just that.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 12.33 p.m., Thursday, September the 4th.
00:00:08.000 Hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:11.000 And I do not have the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:13.540 It's in the afternoon now.
00:00:14.700 No more coffee until after dinner.
00:00:17.320 And I haven't done a video today.
00:00:18.600 I didn't feel really inspired earlier this morning, but I saw a video pop up on my YouTube
00:00:22.780 feed an hour and a half ago or so, and I wanted to comment on it.
00:00:26.460 And here's the video right here.
00:00:27.920 This is Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, and this is a video she calls Three Bad Laws.
00:00:34.400 And more and more people are watching this video.
00:00:36.880 More than 6,200 people have now watched it, and it goes up by the minute.
00:00:40.160 And what is this all about?
00:00:42.040 Well, this is what I would consider a Hail Mary pass by the province of Alberta and the
00:00:46.500 Premier to finally get something done when it comes to our natural resources, our oil
00:00:51.240 and gas industry, and the prosperity of my province of Alberta.
00:00:57.920 So I think Danielle Smith sees the writing on the wall, and she's trying to get something
00:01:03.200 done here.
00:01:03.780 I think the only thing she can do beyond this, and it's got to come really soon, is to become
00:01:10.260 a pathetic character and get down on her knees and beg the country for prosperity for Alberta. 1.00
00:01:15.160 Because her timeline for the federal government, that six months that she talked about, way
00:01:21.520 back when, is coming due middle of this month.
00:01:23.580 And I don't think she thinks anything's going to get done.
00:01:27.000 Or we'd have heard about it by now.
00:01:28.760 So this is a 9 minute and 20 second video of a lot of things we have heard before.
00:01:38.220 And there's only one reason why what she wants here is not being done, and I'll have that
00:01:44.720 for you at the end of this video.
00:01:46.540 So let's see what the Premier has to say, and we'll run through a few of these clips with
00:01:50.960 just some short comments.
00:01:52.480 This is the very start of the video, music removed so I don't get it demonetized.
00:01:56.900 We all know Canada's economy is suffering right now.
00:02:00.040 We've had an inflation crisis, high unemployment, declining GDP, capital investment fleeing Canada
00:02:06.200 for other countries, massive federal deficits, and of course, the U.S. tariff threat, which
00:02:11.320 has exposed just how dependent we are on one single country for the vast majority of our
00:02:16.020 exports.
00:02:16.940 It's been a tough go lately.
00:02:18.500 But what if I told you that we could help solve every single one of these problems with
00:02:23.060 just a couple of key policy changes by our federal government?
00:02:25.920 What if there was a way to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, attract back hundreds
00:02:30.560 of billions in investment capital, bolster GDP growth, diversify our trade markets, and
00:02:36.660 flow new revenues to federal and provincial budgets, all without spending a single tax dollar?
00:02:41.780 Does that sound too good to be true?
00:02:43.540 Well, it isn't.
00:02:44.520 And all that stands in the way is just some common sense and a bit of courage by our Prime
00:02:48.980 Minister.
00:02:49.320 So who is she trying to convince here?
00:02:52.620 You or me?
00:02:53.580 The Prime Minister?
00:02:55.540 The Prime Minister should already know this.
00:02:57.620 It's been brought up many times before.
00:03:00.020 But the reason why we're not doing this coming up in just a moment, she then goes on to say
00:03:03.720 we can become an energy superpower.
00:03:05.460 And one more thing, we literally live on top of more than a trillion barrels of oil and
00:03:10.940 more than a quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas.
00:03:13.940 These oil and gas resources represent an astounding tens of trillions of dollars in potential wealth
00:03:19.440 for our country.
00:03:20.740 That means hundreds of thousands of new great paying jobs, hundreds of billions in taxes
00:03:25.760 and royalties for government services and infrastructure, and potentially trillions more in spin-off industries
00:03:31.820 like AI data centres, petrochemicals, environmental technology, and a host of other industries that
00:03:38.400 would benefit profoundly from the wealth generated from its development.
00:03:42.600 Oil and gas is not only Canada's largest economic sector, it's Canada's trump card, so to speak.
00:03:48.380 It makes us a potential economic superpower.
00:03:50.960 So, the next thing she goes on to say, well, she's talked about the things that we can have
00:03:57.080 if we become an economic and an energy superpower, but she goes on to list the reason why that
00:04:02.680 isn't happening right now.
00:04:04.140 And then to cap it off, the federal government announced an impossible-to-achieve oil and
00:04:09.000 gas emissions cap that makes new oil and gas production effectively impossible, which is
00:04:14.540 why Albertans call it an oil and gas production cap.
00:04:17.640 The funny thing about this particular emissions cap, it wasn't imposed on any other type of
00:04:22.180 production, not on the production of cement, or steel, or aluminum, or any other product
00:04:28.460 mined or manufactured in Canada.
00:04:30.800 Nope, the cap was placed on just one single sector, oil and gas.
00:04:35.660 You can probably understand why Albertans are mighty unhappy about that.
00:04:39.180 The Conference Board of Canada just released a report concluding that this cap will cost the
00:04:43.640 Alberta economy roughly $1 trillion in lost GDP, 150,000 jobs, and $200 billion in provincial
00:04:51.860 revenues by 2050.
00:04:54.160 Sounds like kind of economic suicide, doesn't it, to not unleash Alberta and our energy?
00:05:00.040 In any event, all of these laws combined constituted one of the greatest acts of national economic
00:05:05.040 self-harm in our nation's history.
00:05:06.740 No other nation would ever think to phase out its most valuable assets worth tens of
00:05:12.040 trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs for its people.
00:05:15.660 That would be utterly self-destructive.
00:05:18.680 And yet, that is exactly what Canada has done to itself.
00:05:23.440 So, she then says we don't have to continue this way and list the three things that we need
00:05:31.060 to do to become economically strong in Canada and, of course, in Alberta.
00:05:34.960 We don't have to remain economically weak.
00:05:38.920 We don't need to rely on any foreign nation for our economic well-being. 0.95
00:05:43.320 Our success is a guarantee if, and here's the key, if our federal government and a couple
00:05:49.860 of provincial ones will simply agree to unblock and unleash the power of our oil, gas, and
00:05:56.020 natural resource sectors.
00:05:57.560 So, here's where I want to comment just a little bit.
00:06:00.160 She talks about the federal government and some provincial leaders.
00:06:03.080 Those would be people like Legault in Quebec.
00:06:05.940 That would be Wab Canu in Manitoba.
00:06:08.260 That would be David Eby in British Columbia.
00:06:11.100 Well, and, of course, Mark Carney.
00:06:13.380 So, Danielle, why don't you call up those gentlemen and say, let's sit down and ask
00:06:17.660 them if they'll allow us to have a pipeline.
00:06:19.980 Just ask them outright.
00:06:21.720 David, are you going to let us have a pipeline to the West Coast?
00:06:25.120 Yes or no?
00:06:26.440 Wab, are you going to let a pipeline go through your province, through Alberta?
00:06:29.760 And Mr. Legault out in Quebec, you've been standing in the way of Alberta for years.
00:06:35.440 Are you going to let a pipeline go through there?
00:06:36.960 Yes or no?
00:06:38.400 And see what they say.
00:06:40.040 Because I bet you all of them would say no.
00:06:42.220 And that includes Mark Carney.
00:06:45.220 Why don't you do that?
00:06:47.900 Because you're getting close to the point where you become a pathetic character.
00:06:51.020 And you're down on your knees begging of the country.
00:06:54.940 There is a solution to this.
00:06:57.200 I'll get to that in a moment.
00:06:59.120 And she ends on this note right here.
00:07:01.260 The true north, strong and free.
00:07:03.860 We can do this.
00:07:05.580 We just need the prime minister and our federal government to act and get it done.
00:07:11.080 So the true north, strong and free.
00:07:13.000 You know, during the election campaign, Carney and the Liberals, they played up the fact that it's Team Canada.
00:07:22.440 And the provincial premiers did as well, including the aforementioned E.B. Canu and Legault.
00:07:31.420 They talked about Team Canada.
00:07:33.600 But to be a team, you have to have similar goals.
00:07:37.700 Does Danielle Smith have similar goals to David E.B. or Wab Canu or Legault in Quebec?
00:07:43.560 Does she? I don't think she does.
00:07:46.000 Not at all.
00:07:47.520 Her goals are a lot different.
00:07:49.360 So Team Canada just goes poof and it's gone.
00:07:51.620 The only person she really has common goals with is Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
00:07:56.660 Maybe we should join up with Saskatchewan to become our own country.
00:07:59.260 But why is this still?
00:08:00.180 Why are we still in this situation?
00:08:02.900 Why is it a Hail Mary pass right now by Danielle Smith producing this really well done and slick video?
00:08:09.360 And why are we almost to the point of having to beg?
00:08:13.860 I think we've been begging really for months to get things done.
00:08:17.900 And we still haven't got a commitment by the government.
00:08:20.280 We're going to get thrown the scraps.
00:08:24.200 Churchill, Manitoba, that's going to be thrown at us.
00:08:26.620 And they're going to want us to be happy with that and be grateful that we get anything at all.
00:08:31.060 Why is this happening?
00:08:32.180 Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly.
00:08:36.360 They've been set far too low.
00:08:38.060 A relentless focus on net zero.
00:08:39.680 It's called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero for a reason.
00:08:42.800 Because we've moved to the relentless logic of having to get emissions down consistent with the carbon budget.
00:08:51.280 So we can't meet our ultimate objectives, which is to get to net zero emissions.
00:08:57.440 We can't get there unless we do not just have a cap on emissions, but those emissions are brought effectively to zero.
00:09:04.580 To reach net zero, every country, every company, every bank, every investor, every pension fund around the world will need to make some big changes.
00:09:13.600 The company's responsibility, first and foremost, is to reduce their absolute emissions.
00:09:18.100 And as the report says, they need to first reduce, then report, including net zero plans.
00:09:23.300 I'm sure we'll get into the specifics of that.
00:09:25.440 And then, only then, look to offset.
00:09:28.460 So the companies and those who invest in them and lend to them, who are part of the solution, will be rewarded.
00:09:35.280 But those who are lagging behind and are still part of the problem will be punished.
00:09:39.600 Now, some of these clips go back years, but some of these clips are from this year.
00:09:47.900 And this is why we can't get anything done.
00:09:52.020 And this is why you're pissing into the wind, Madam Premier. 0.72
00:09:58.140 And you're that close to becoming a pathetic character.
00:10:00.820 There's only one solution to getting anything done.
00:10:04.620 And I think it's Alberta Independence.
00:10:06.480 Thank you very much for watching.
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