John Bolton - June 17, 2026


Division, Stagnation and Failure - It's The Liberal Way

Premier Danielle Smith Makes The Case For Alberta Independence Danielle Smith Is A Traitor？ My 2 Word Answer For The Chiefs

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A Divided Canada Cannot Build What the World Needs is a liberal propaganda piece written by Tim Hodgson, special to the Financial Post, about Alberta and the energy crisis in the province. It's a short piece, but it's a good one.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 522 a.m. Wednesday, June the 17th. I hope you're
00:00:08.120 having a great start to your Wednesday. Thanks so much for being here. Hope you're having a
00:00:11.440 good week as well. I apologize for getting going late this morning. I went to Betty by
00:00:17.980 time last night at the regular time and I got a late phone call. So I ended up on the
00:00:24.340 call, which was fantastic, but I went to bed late last night and I slept in a bit this
00:00:28.900 morning. And folks, I need my beauty sleep. I mean, look at this face. So I slept in today and
00:00:34.520 this is an article that's a couple of days old. I wanted to do this yesterday, but when I woke up
00:00:38.640 yesterday, I could hardly talk. So I didn't do an early morning video yesterday. Now what's the
00:00:43.540 article? Here it is right here. Now this article right here, this is a liberal propaganda piece
00:00:50.360 in the Financial Post. And we're going to see a lot of this leading up to October when we have
00:00:54.520 a referendum here in Alberta. This article, A Divided Canada Cannot Build What the World Needs,
00:01:00.080 is, it kind of skirts the issue, but it's about Alberta. Now, if you're in the rest of the
00:01:04.700 country, this is an article about you as well. It's not just about Alberta, but this is an article
00:01:09.260 written by Tim Hodgson. Tim Hodgson, special to the Financial Post, and there is Mr. Hodgson.
00:01:15.040 For those of you who don't know, this is the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources for
00:01:19.420 Canada. And the article is called A Divided Canada Cannot Build What the World Needs.
00:01:25.520 What's this article about? Well, in a nutshell, a couple of the things are right there in the title.
00:01:30.160 It's about unity. It's about building. And it's about how great Canada is. Now,
00:01:37.640 the conclusion you could come to just by reading this headline is, if Canada was unified, if we
00:01:43.540 were building things and Canada was great, articles like this would not be needed. And Mr. Hodgson
00:01:50.220 fails to convince on all three of those issues in this short article. I'm going to read a little bit
00:01:56.380 of it. You can read the whole article, link in the description below. So in this time of global
00:02:01.540 uncertainty, the countries that succeed will not be the ones that fight amongst themselves.
00:02:05.820 They will be the ones that build, which is rich from this guy right here and from the Liberal
00:02:10.880 Party, which hasn't managed to build very much at all. They've been around for well over a year
00:02:16.040 now. So here we go. There are times in a country's history when the need for unity becomes clear for
00:02:22.580 all to see. Right now, Canada is living through one of those moments. We're facing a convergence
00:02:29.620 of multiple global threats to our country. First, world powers are battling for supremacy in ways
00:02:35.900 that challenge Canada's sovereignty. Second, our biggest trading partners are weaponizing that
00:02:40.620 trade against us, leading to tariffs that threaten jobs across Canada. Now, this is the modus operandi
00:02:47.280 for the Liberals. They do this every time. They don't say the word, but what he's saying here is
00:02:53.240 there's a threat, you need to be fearful, and that threat is Trump. This is the lifeblood of the
00:03:00.960 Liberal Party right now. Has Mark Carney managed to work out a deal over the last 16, 17 months?
00:03:08.200 was the number one thing he was elected to do, and right now we're on the verge of renegotiating
00:03:14.620 Kuzma, and Carney's likely to get slaughtered within the next couple of weeks. And then the
00:03:20.020 final line here, finally, the worst energy crisis in modern history is exacerbating affordability
00:03:25.280 challenges for all Canadians. Let me just show you a map. Let me bring this up full screen.
00:03:30.820 see this map why is there an energy crisis in canada now all this black on this map shows you
00:03:39.660 where the oil is and here's alberta right up here it's almost as if god came down and laid
00:03:47.240 the oil along the borders of alberta all of that oil is right there folks and for some reason
00:03:55.460 people like Mr. Hodgson and the Liberal Party have decided to leave it in the ground. There
00:04:01.340 should be no energy crisis in Alberta. Danielle Smith said that we're sitting on, how much was it?
00:04:08.240 There's $9 trillion worth of value in discoverable and achievable reserves right now. And so why
00:04:13.980 would you leave that in the ground? No other country in the world would, and we shouldn't
00:04:16.860 either. $9 trillion. That's with a T. There should be no energy crisis in Alberta. Hell,
00:04:25.060 there should be no energy crisis in Canada. Hell, there should be no energy crisis in the world.
00:04:31.060 But the liberals have caused this problem. Let's move on in this story. I'm not going to read all
00:04:35.540 of it. At a time like this, we have a choice. Canadians can focus on what divides us, or we
00:04:40.380 can come together around what unites us and build a stronger Canada. Everywhere I go, I hear the
00:04:47.140 same thing. Canada has what the world needs. We have energy. We have critical minerals. We have
00:04:52.460 for us. We do, but we don't develop what we've got. But if Canada wants to emerge from this
00:04:58.500 crisis stronger, simply having these advantages is not enough. Team Canada must pull together
00:05:04.100 and put our differences aside to ensure we can come out of this time of volatility and uncertainty
00:05:09.580 more prosperous, resilient, and sovereign. That is why, now read this, this is remarkable, that is
00:05:15.740 why as your Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, I have come to see my role in another
00:05:21.000 way to is a kind of minister of national unity. Now, I have never, and if you're as old as I am,
00:05:27.820 this country has never been as divided as it is today. And Mr. Hodgson and people in the Liberal
00:05:36.620 Party have the audacity to talk about unity when they have caused all of this division. It's
00:05:42.880 another modus operandi of the Liberal Party to divide people. They divide you among ideology.
00:05:50.400 they divide you among gender identity, and they divide you along race, and they divide you about
00:05:56.280 how much money you make. It's all about division, divide and conquer with them. The country's never 0.99
00:06:01.540 been as divided as it is right now. We are having a vote on independence in Alberta in October.
00:06:08.320 Are you paying attention? This has happened before, 95 in Quebec, 1980 in Quebec, but right
00:06:14.940 now we've got Quebec with a party that's likely to win in an election that wants to get Quebec
00:06:19.620 out of Canada. We've got people in Saskatchewan right now who want independence for Saskatchewan
00:06:27.060 in the West, and people in Northern British Columbia, they want out as well, folks. British
00:06:32.080 Columbia, controlled by a few people who live on the southern border of British Columbia, just like
00:06:36.960 Canada, is controlled by a thin group of people between Windsor and Ottawa, 100 kilometers from
00:06:43.560 the U.S. border. This is a very divided country. And why is it? It's divided because of the liberals.
00:06:51.600 So let's go back to the article quickly. Canada is not perfect. And this is what you hear from
00:06:56.500 people who realize that Canada is in a real bad place right now. But we are a country where the
00:07:02.340 strength and diversity of every province, territory, and community contributes to something larger than
00:07:08.580 itself. When we unite, our regional and cultural diversity makes us stronger. And this is what
00:07:14.760 you've been hearing from the liberals for years. Diversity is our strength, and that is a lie.
00:07:22.680 Unity is our strength, but we don't have any unity anymore because of the liberals.
00:07:28.660 The same is true for our energy and natural resources. Our resources are not just economic
00:07:34.660 assets. They are the foundation of who we are. Very weird thing for a liberal to say when we've
00:07:41.060 got all that oil and all those natural resources locked in the ground right now. They help us
00:07:45.920 provide for our families, deliver prosperity in our towns and cities, and fund our public services.
00:07:52.060 So let me ask you this. If our natural resources hadn't been locked in the ground over the last
00:08:00.640 11 years, how much better would your family be off? How much better off would your family be?
00:08:07.700 Okay. If we hadn't locked our natural resources in the ground for the last 11 years or so,
00:08:13.300 how much more prosperity would you have in your town or city? How much more, I don't know,
00:08:19.000 infrastructure could you repair or build? And if we hadn't locked all of our natural resources in
00:08:24.120 the ground over the last 10 to 11 years, how much better off would our public services be?
00:08:29.220 This is the problem that the Liberals have caused. We have a vast energy resources in our Western
00:08:35.040 and Atlantic provinces, but again, the Liberals do not want to get it out of the ground.
00:08:41.700 That means that when Canada puts all its energy and natural resource cards together, we have a
00:08:47.100 strong hand, a winning hand. Well, folks, we may have a strong hand and a winning hand, but the
00:08:52.500 Liberals never lay the cards on the table. I'm going to jump ahead to the next paragraph. I don't
00:08:58.760 want to read too much here. The Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding, and this is where
00:09:03.620 he focuses in on Alberta, and that's what this is about because Alberta is voting to leave.
00:09:10.460 The Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, is a clear example of that in action.
00:09:16.040 Through this landmark agreement, we are working together to increase and diversify our energy
00:09:21.640 exports, cut emissions, and attract investment. The MOU sends a signal to Canadians, to investors,
00:09:28.760 and to our allies that Canada can act like the federation it was designed to be.
00:09:32.680 It does none of these things.
00:09:35.300 There was the CEO of Synovus last week who said there's not a lot of interest in investment in Alberta
00:09:41.400 because there's too many regulations.
00:09:45.000 And it's surprising that Danielle Smith, the premier of this province, has signed on to this.
00:09:50.180 This person I was talking to late last night, the aforementioned phone call I got late last night,
00:09:56.200 said, what the hell did they offer Danielle?
00:09:58.760 They offered the NDPer who crossed the aisle, was it $500 million?
00:10:03.620 She was from Nunavut, I think.
00:10:05.280 What if they offered Danielle Smith to turn her back on her base in Alberta?
00:10:09.160 It's got to be a lot. 1.00
00:10:10.540 Danielle Smith's not a rich woman. 0.99
00:10:12.060 All the people around her, is what this person told me last night, are rich people, are the elites. 0.99
00:10:16.560 And Danielle Smith, she's not really cashed in on being a politician.
00:10:21.180 Is she cashing in now?
00:10:22.500 It's a question we have to ask.
00:10:24.600 Are we attracting investment?
00:10:27.700 No.
00:10:28.760 Listen, let me read this to you again. The Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding is a clear example of that. In action, through this landmark agreement, we're working together to increase and diversify our energy exports, cut emissions, and attract investment.
00:10:41.540 If we really wanted to do these things that Mr. Hodgson is writing about in here, all they would
00:10:48.300 have to do is say, build a pipeline and it would start tomorrow. All they would have to do was
00:10:55.740 repeal the laws and rules and regulations that are stopping us from getting our natural resources out
00:11:01.220 of the ground. Why aren't they doing that? That's because they don't want this to happen.
00:11:06.320 it's so maddening this is why i was exacerbated i was frustrated and i was angry when i read this
00:11:13.440 read this article and i'm starting to boil again get the frig out of the way mr hodgson you're the
00:11:19.260 minister of energy you should be held up as the greatest minister of energy in the world
00:11:24.360 because we are so rich in our province in alberta and in this country but you don't build anything
00:11:31.100 You're not unifying everything in a country that is failing.
00:11:34.720 This article is only needed because those things are failing.
00:11:41.240 To further strengthen our federation, we have been signing one project, one review agreements across the country.
00:11:47.260 The liberal government is great at signing things, but they never do anything.
00:11:50.640 Is your life getting any better?
00:11:52.560 How's the standard of living where you are?
00:11:54.760 Food prices coming down?
00:11:56.220 Housing prices coming down?
00:11:57.580 in this time of global uncertainty, get back to the fear-mongering again. The countries that
00:12:03.760 succeed will not be the ones that fight amongst themselves. They will be the ones that build.
00:12:08.180 Well, I agree. So let's argue less and build more. Let's build our major projects from coast to coast.
00:12:14.400 Let's build partnerships between provinces and territories and with indigenous peoples. Let's
00:12:19.720 build one Canadian economy that creates jobs and security for everyone. And let's build
00:12:24.560 institutions strong enough to carry us forward while others backslide.
00:12:30.680 This article is just proof that Canada is not unified. It is divided, terribly divided right
00:12:37.000 now. You've got Alberta wanting to leave. You've got Quebec about to elect a government that wants 0.77
00:12:41.660 to leave. You've got people in Saskatchewan that want to leave. You've got people in northern
00:12:44.900 British Columbia that would like to leave. How divided are we? Never in my lifetime have I seen
00:12:50.500 anything quite like this. We don't build things. We're not building anything. Nothing's, there's
00:12:54.940 no shovels in the ground. Have you seen any shovels in the ground? If there were shovels
00:12:57.820 in the ground, Mr. Hodgson would be talking about it. There's no shovels in the ground.
00:13:01.820 And Canada isn't great. Canada is backsliding right now. They're afraid. They're worried right
00:13:07.480 now. This article would not be needed if Canada was doing all the things Mr. Hodgson is trying
00:13:11.780 to convince you of right now. But they're concerned Alberta might leave. Don't trust the polls.
00:13:16.340 We can win this thing. Canada will be worse off than Alberta if Alberta leaves.
00:13:24.800 This would be Dubai with snow, as my friend Dennis Kalma would say.
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