John Bolton - David EBY to Danielle SMITH & ALBERTA - Go F yourself!

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 527 AM, Thursday, October the 2nd. I hope

00:00:08.360 you're having a great day today. I certainly am. I've got my big blue mug of coffee with

00:00:13.060 me, ready to head back upstairs and refresh that in just a few minutes. But I want to

00:00:17.820 talk to you about a story that I first saw yesterday. Well, Western Standard sent me

00:00:23.020 an email, I think it was like breaking in my email, talking about this new plan by Premier

00:00:28.380 Daniel Smith in the province of Alberta to get a pipeline to the West Coast. And the

00:00:34.720 Western Standard, I'll show you a bit of their article in just a moment, seemed very optimistic

00:00:38.000 about this. I applaud the Premier for trying to come up with a plan to do this. But the

00:00:46.920 thing and the phrase that came to my mind regarding this is, she's pissing up a rope because nothing 1.00

00:00:52.940 has changed. I watched an interview, I'm going to show you a clip in just a second. I watched

00:00:57.320 an interview between her and Vashi Kapalas on CTV talking about this new plan. And it

00:01:02.280 was like deja vu all over again. It was like an interview I watched between the same two

00:01:07.400 women. I think it was back in June. June, July, August, September, October. So we're four

00:01:13.540 to five months into this. Nothing has changed. Nothing at all. All of the same barriers are in

00:01:22.680 the way that were before. And people seem to be optimistic about this plan going forward.

00:01:29.500 Now, I'm just going to say to you, and I hate to be complimentary of Mark Carney, but he played

00:01:34.680 this perfectly, like a master. Daniel Smith, in the interview with Vashi Kapalas just yesterday,

00:01:41.020 mentioned that the ball is in Mark Carney's court. And Mark Carney isn't returning the ball,

00:01:46.480 folks. He set up all the barriers to get in the way of an Alberta pipeline months ago. He's been

00:01:55.560 setting it up forever because he doesn't want a pipeline and there will be no pipeline.

00:02:01.080 We will not impose a project on a province. We need consensus behind these projects and we need

00:02:10.160 the participation of Indigenous peoples. We will only do that in the case where we have the support 1.00

00:02:15.260 of First Nations. We have the support of all the provinces coming together with consensus.

00:02:22.640 That old word consensus comes up again. Has anybody, any province, any government been able to agree on

00:02:29.120 everything in this country? And there's just no way this is going to happen. There's too many

00:02:32.980 barriers here getting in the way of this pipeline. You know, you got to, God love Danielle Smith for

00:02:37.820 trying, but she's going to have to finally get to the end game here. When none of this happens, what is

00:02:44.840 Danielle Smith prepared to do? And that's what I, I thought I would find that out weeks ago when the six

00:02:50.700 months were up regarding those different demands she had of the government. Let's take a look at the

00:02:55.600 Western Standard story here quickly. Editorial, Alberta takes charge. Time for a new pipeline to the West

00:03:01.120 Coast. Alberta's government has stepped up to lead a fresh push for a pipeline to British Columbia's

00:03:06.380 coast. Premier Daniel Smith announced the move in Calgary tapping experts from Enbridge, South Bow,

00:03:11.700 and Trans Mountain to Mapa Root. He doesn't say here that they are investing in this at all.

00:03:17.360 This isn't just talk. It's a smart strategy to hand off a de-risk project to private investors,

00:03:23.620 avoiding past pitfalls like the Keystone XL mess that cost Alberta $1.3 billion. Here's Daniel Smith

00:03:29.800 talking a little bit about this with Vashi Capellas. Well, it's $14 million. And I think

00:03:34.920 that the reason is because a proponent has told us that they cannot get companies lined up to ship

00:03:40.260 on their pipeline as long as we continue to have a tanker ban, an emissions cap, and some of the

00:03:45.820 other bad laws that are in place. And so we know that it's going to take our work to make sure that

00:03:50.460 the federal government repeals or in some way revises those bad laws substantially. And to get to that

00:03:58.420 point, we want to make sure that there's some of the technical work being done in the meantime.

00:04:03.040 The ball's going to be in Prime Minister Mark Carney's court.

00:04:06.420 She says that a lot in this interview on how the ball is in Mark Carney's court,

00:04:10.920 which just sickens me. Because Alberta, our premier, is basically begging the Liberal government,

00:04:18.600 Ottawa, and Mark Carney to get a pipeline. Because we got to go through them, folks,

00:04:22.960 in order to get this done. And Carney's created all the circumstances to not have a pipeline.

00:04:28.700 And instead of getting rid of the laws that she talked about there, 0.87

00:04:32.680 they created another law on top of laws, Bill C-5. So now it's up to Carney to be the decider of what

00:04:39.780 goes on in this country. It's just, you know, I used to have a teacher that used to write BSBB on

00:04:44.080 the chalkboard. BS baffles brains, and that's what this is all about. Back to the article from the

00:04:49.580 Western Standard. Fiscal sense seals the deal. Alberta's ponying up just $14 million for early

00:04:55.560 planning. Not owning the pipe, but prepping it for private hands. Sources told the Globe and Mail

00:05:00.960 that Bill C-48's tanker ban blocks companies from leading applications. So the province is stepping

00:05:07.060 in to slash legal risks. Smart move and Indigenous involvement starts now. Leaders like Chief Raymond

00:05:13.380 Powder of Fort Mackay, First Nation, and Dale Swampy of the National Coalition of Chiefs praise the

00:05:19.220 early engagement. As Swampy noted, this drives economic reconciliation through ownership stakes.

00:05:26.100 And this was discussed with Vashi Capella's huge barrier in the way of the pipeline.

00:05:31.180 So is it your impression from those proponents that they believe if, for example, all those

00:05:35.960 irritants in the form of those laws are removed, that there will be a proponent for this pipeline?

00:05:40.880 Because again, they will still be up against, for example, Coastal First Nations, which just released

00:05:45.540 a press release saying, as the rights and title holders of BC's North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii,

00:05:50.380 we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline

00:05:55.060 and oil tankers project in our coastal waters. Like, that opposition doesn't disappear, even if Mark Kearney

00:06:00.980 does everything you want him to.

00:06:03.000 Well, we'll see. I mean, we, I have a very skilled Indigenous relations minister who's very sensitive

00:06:07.540 to the fact that any major project that goes forward has to have Indigenous ownership as

00:06:12.440 the foundation. That's a bit different than it was 10 years ago, that we're beginning with the

00:06:17.420 conversation about how we can get to a yes.

00:06:21.360 Danielle Smith is trying to work with Indigenous people, but there's just too many barriers in the 0.64

00:06:26.140 way Vashi Capella's actually addressed that in this interview with Premier Smith.

00:06:30.260 And I do understand your point about endeavouring to change that. And if it were, you know,

00:06:36.380 one or five or even 10 First Nations that had expressed some opposition to this, I can, you

00:06:42.380 know, envision a path forward. But I think it was 61 First Nations 10 years ago that expressed

00:06:47.900 opposition so much so that they took it all the way through the courts and ultimately got

00:06:52.000 a decision in their favour. How much taxpayer money are you willing to bet on something like

00:06:57.640 this when the track record is what it is? You can see on her face there that Danielle

00:07:01.640 Smith knows her back's up against the wall, and she's eventually going to have to come 0.85

00:07:05.440 to the endgame, as I mentioned with Mark Carney. You haven't done this, so National Unity Crisis,

00:07:11.080 which I did a video on just the other day. But Indigenous groups, it's almost like extortion. 1.00

00:07:19.360 Do you get that feeling? Extortion is threatening somebody unless you get an economic payoff.

00:07:26.100 And that's kind of what Indigenous groups do in this country. You give us money or else you

00:07:30.900 don't get what you want. And that's where we are right now. I've said for months, provinces

00:07:34.940 and Indigenous groups that get in the way of building things that make life more prosperous 1.00

00:07:41.140 in this country should not benefit from the prosperity of this country. We should start

00:07:45.260 slowly cutting them off from any transfer payments or any benefit they get from the rest

00:07:48.920 of the country if they get in the way. So I'm jumping in here after I had already cut

00:07:55.100 my video and edited it. And I wanted to include this in because this is David Eby after Danielle

00:08:01.340 Smith did this announcement regarding this plan. And the only way to describe what David Eby

00:08:07.700 is doing here, he's basically telling Danielle Smith in the province of Alberta to go f*** 0.68

00:08:12.920 itself. Eby is all in with Mark Carney, all in with his major projects office, which is located

00:08:21.160 here in Calgary. This is just proof that nothing is going to happen when it comes to a pipeline

00:08:28.040 between Alberta and the British Columbia coast.

00:08:31.640 And that's a relationship that needs to go both ways. British Columbia has literally tens

00:08:45.580 of billions of dollars of real private sector, shovel ready projects that are going to drive

00:08:53.080 forward not just our economy here in BC, but the national economy at a time that the national

00:08:58.300 economy is under direct threat and attack by Donald Trump. The problem that we have is that Premier

00:09:04.780 Smith continues to advance a project that is entirely taxpayer funded, has no private sector

00:09:11.780 proponent, is not a real project, and is incredibly alarming to British Columbians, including First Nations

00:09:21.760 along the coast, whose support is required for the success of the billions of dollars in real

00:09:27.900 projects that I'm talking about. We need a major projects office at the federal level, not a major

00:09:37.020 distractions office, not a major politics office, but an office that advances real shovel ready projects

00:09:45.020 that will move this economy forward in British Columbia and nationally. And what I am seeing from Alberta

00:09:51.340 directly threatens that. There is no investment right now, and there is no proponent and there is no pipeline,

00:09:59.340 despite what Daniel Smith is doing here.

00:10:03.340 Tim Hodgson, energy minister, is waiting on this. This is from the CTV.

00:10:06.940 We are building Canada strong. The statement starts off by saying, and that means any project brought forward by a proponent

00:10:12.460 will be evaluated against the same rules for all proponents. If Alberta wishes to be the initial

00:10:17.980 proponent and funder of a pipeline to the West Coast and put it forward to the MPO, that is within

00:10:24.060 their right to do so. We have an active and constructive dialogue with Alberta, the statement goes on to say,

00:10:29.180 and we'll always look for ways to advance shared priorities. We have listed Pathways Plus as a

00:10:33.980 transformative strategy for Canada and have been clear that a pipeline project must move forward in conjunction

00:10:39.740 with the Pathways project, which will decarbonize our oil sands to the equivalent of taking over 4.75

00:10:44.940 million cars off the road. So she actually mentions, I'm talking about Daniel Smith in this

00:10:49.900 interview that she did with Vashti Capella. She says she wants to change the climate when it comes

00:10:53.740 to investment in pipelines. This has got a lot to do with climate, but it's not investment.

00:10:59.580 It's why we can't have nice things anymore. And listen, we'll hear Hodgson, the final part of what he wrote

00:11:04.300 here. Concludes by saying, building major projects includes meaningful consultations with

00:11:08.620 Indigenous rights holders, working with all affected jurisdictions, and alignment with

00:11:12.700 Canada's objective with respect to climate change and clean growth. Once any proponent has done this

00:11:17.260 work, the federal government is open to evaluating a project on its merits.

00:11:22.780 So there you go. All of the things are in the way there, okay? You've got the provinces,

00:11:28.140 you've got the Indigenous groups, you've got the climate thing there, you've got Mark Carney and

00:11:31.580 the federal government in the way. All of these things are in the way. Nothing's going to get done.

00:11:35.580 At the end of this interview, Danielle Smith goes back and repeats what she said before.

00:11:45.100 It's going to be up to Prime Minister Carney whether or not he wants to work with us on being

00:11:49.900 able to advance these kinds of projects or not. Mark Carney. Mark Carney is the decider, folks,

00:11:55.740 of everything that happens in the province of Alberta. I can bring up Alberta independence here.

00:12:01.020 People often say, and the argument is, well, you'd be in the same boat if Alberta were independent.

00:12:08.620 Well, no, we would have the federal government out of the way because we'd be our own country.

00:12:13.500 We would have more bargaining power, as far as I'm concerned, because British Columbia would now

00:12:20.140 be isolated from the rest of the country. And we could say to British Columbia, play ball with

00:12:25.580 us or we can just cut off the three or four roads that run between British Columbia and the rest of

00:12:29.420 the country. And there's only three or four roads, folks. You either play ball with us or you might

00:12:35.980 as well shut down your port in Vancouver because everything will have to be shipped through the

00:12:39.420 United States of America because not a damn stick of wood, not one product will go through Alberta

00:12:45.180 until you play ball with us. We could do that. We can't do that right now because we've got to go

00:12:49.580 through the federal government. And we're begging the federal government

00:12:54.220 for our prosperity here in this province. Sorry to be so damn negative about this.

00:13:02.700 Danielle Smith knows who Mark Carney is. She's not stupid. The look on her face through that

00:13:07.100 interview with Vashti, look at the look on her face here. The look on her face, she realizes that this

00:13:12.700 is a futile activity. She knows who Mark Carney is. Here she is talking about him. Given that the new

00:13:20.140 prime minister is a whole new level of climate zealot and eco extremist from his decades long push for

00:13:26.780 net zero banking that sought to make it impossible for banks to invest in oil and gas to his promise

00:13:32.780 now to massively increase carbon taxes on our industry. Make no mistake. He wants to eviscerate

00:13:38.940 our oil and gas industry. It's right in his book. Danielle Smith knows who he is. I just want to

00:13:46.460 know what the end game is here. Where does this end? She gave the six months. She's extended it.

00:13:52.940 She's now trying with this project. I am not optimistic that this will ever happen. I am not

00:13:57.580 optimistic that a pipeline will ever happen until Alberta goes on its own. Is that where we're going

00:14:04.220 with Danielle Smith? I said months ago, we need a leader of the independence movement out here. I

00:14:10.540 talked to Mitch Sylvester. You can watch his video. I actually put up a video of Jeff Rath,

00:14:16.060 Dennis Mowdry and Mitch Sylvester kind of encapsulating all of their interviews where I

00:14:20.460 asked him about this and he said, no, it's done by design. I don't know.

00:14:26.060 Danielle Smith, the leader of the independence movement out here?

00:14:28.460 Wouldn't that be something? But I just don't ever see a pipeline going through,

00:14:34.380 not with all of the barriers in the way. And the biggest barrier is Mark Carney and the government,

00:14:38.300 because he, as Danielle Smith said, it's up to him.

00:14:41.580 Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. If you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up,

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John Bolton - October 02, 2025

David EBY to Danielle SMITH & ALBERTA - Go F yourself!

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