John Bolton - July 16, 2026


How The Media Spins For Carney - How Smith Has Failed


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A history lesson on why I don t think the Trans Mountain pipeline is ever going to be built, and why it s time to get our shovels in the ground to get the shovels into the ground. I m tired of all the crap that gets in the way of building a pipeline.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 309 a.m. Thursday, July the 16th. I hope you're
00:00:07.940 having a great Thursday morning and a great week as well with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:13.680 And you know, I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm not tired physically like I haven't had enough
00:00:19.460 sleep, although that's probably true. I'm tired mentally. I'm tired mentally of Mark
00:00:26.380 Kearney. I'm tired mentally of the Liberal Party. I'm tired mentally of the Canadian government.
00:00:31.060 I'm tired mentally of Ottawa. I'm tired mentally of the mainstream media that is a propaganda tool
00:00:36.960 of the federal government. You know, I used to work in media. I did it for 35 years. It used to
00:00:42.060 have credibility and integrity and today it has none. I read an article like this in the newspaper
00:00:47.080 and I wonder who the hell are Jesse Snyder and Stephanie Taylor and why did it take two brains 1.00
00:00:52.560 to write this piece of crap in the National Post. 0.99
00:00:56.520 I'm going to give you a little bit of a history lesson. 0.99
00:00:58.640 We're talking about pipelines here, folks,
00:01:00.660 but I'm going to give you a little bit of a history lesson
00:01:02.740 to tell you why I don't think this pipeline is ever going to be built,
00:01:07.080 and it's going to take you back to 1990.
00:01:08.960 Some of you kids were not even born then,
00:01:11.340 but I remember this vividly, and you probably do too,
00:01:14.860 if you're old enough to remember 1990.
00:01:18.300 I graduated high school in 1983, so I remember this.
00:01:21.600 I was working at a radio station, one with integrity and one with credibility at the time.
00:01:29.000 So I read this article, Carney was iffy on a pipeline, now his government's building one
00:01:33.080 itself. Here's what's changed his mind. You know, this article is ridiculous.
00:01:37.980 There is no pipeline and there will never be a pipeline. I'm convinced of that. You know when 0.97
00:01:42.240 I will be convinced we have a pipeline? When an oil tanker rolls up into Vancouver,
00:01:46.780 the oil goes on the tanker and it heads towards Asia.
00:01:50.320 That's when I will be convinced because shovels in the ground aren't enough for me, folks,
00:01:54.080 because there's a lot of crap that can get in the way between the shovel in the ground
00:01:57.480 and the west coast of Canada. 0.85
00:02:02.340 When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood alongside Alberta's Premier earlier this month
00:02:06.640 to herald a plan for a new oil export pipeline,
00:02:09.520 the news came with a massive taxpayer-funded caveat.
00:02:13.200 I do not get tired of playing this clip.
00:02:15.460 Premier Danielle Smith, this is what you had to say.
00:02:19.200 Having to build another pipeline with government money as being a success,
00:02:23.460 it would be, I think, a failure of the exercise.
00:02:25.720 The exercise we're going through right now is how do we restore investor confidence
00:02:29.620 so that the private sector will have confidence in investing in Canada again,
00:02:33.520 and that includes pipelines. That's what I'm aiming for.
00:02:36.000 This is a failure of Danielle Smith, an absolute failure of Danielle Smith,
00:02:40.760 and the true reason behind this pipeline is written in here briefly.
00:02:45.460 In the absence of a private firm to build the proposed oil corridor, the pair confirmed the federally owned Trans Mountain Corp would lead the roughly $40 billion project, taxpayer-funded pipeline.
00:02:59.060 You know, if this pipeline were truly going to be built, Mark Carney, let me just do this. Let me take my microphone. Hang on a second. I'll see if I can get on camera here. Let me see. I'll get down here so you can see me.
00:03:09.420 Hi, I'm Prime Minister Mark Carney, and I just wanted to say that Bill C-5 is being rescinded.
00:03:16.520 That was the law that was put in place to get around the other laws that were in place to stop an oil pipeline.
00:03:22.600 But we're rescinding Bill C-5, and then we're going to immediately rescind Bill C-69, C-48.
00:03:27.700 There's no more consensus when it comes to pipelines.
00:03:30.320 No one can get in the way of this, because, ladies and gentlemen, if you get in the way of this pipeline,
00:03:34.800 which is in the national interest of this country, which is necessary for the economic stability of
00:03:40.280 Canada, you will be cut off from any money you get. And that includes David E.B. and the British
00:03:45.480 Columbia government and any indigenous groups that get in the way. Because we have to get this
00:03:51.160 pipeline built. But is he doing that? No. The tone had changed quite a bit. Sorry, my heart rate's up
00:04:01.940 here. The tone had changed quite a bit, said senior Alberta government official, who spoke
00:04:07.160 about the negotiations on the condition of not being named. This wasn't a nice to have anymore.
00:04:13.040 This was, let's get it done. This is important to the economy in a pretty profound way. So it goes
00:04:18.900 on to talk about reasons why Carney all of a sudden thinks this pipeline is of national interest,
00:04:24.360 or I don't even think he's declared that yet, but why this pipeline is important. It was important
00:04:28.660 10 years ago. Alberta's oil industry has been important for decades. So, talks about the
00:04:37.260 Strait of Hormuz, you know what's happening there, but here's the crux of the matter here.
00:04:40.840 At the same time, there was worry about growing anger in Alberta. Really? All of a sudden,
00:04:45.260 you're worried about growing anger in Alberta? Fueled largely by years of seeing Ottawa as
00:04:51.200 antagonistic to its oil industry that saw support for separatism in the province reach its highest
00:04:57.060 level in decades earlier this year. And that's the crux of the matter here, folks.
00:05:02.300 What's going to happen is this. We've got this so-called pipeline that's going to be built.
00:05:08.060 And just before the independence referendum, we've got a question, question 10, October the 19th,
00:05:14.240 just before that, around the beginning of October, you're going to have Carney and Daniel Smith come
00:05:19.160 out and say, we're going to build a pipeline. It's going to happen. We're going to put shovels in
00:05:23.140 the ground next year, but it ain't never going to happen. Let me take you on a little history
00:05:28.160 lesson here. For those of you who aren't old enough to remember this, some of you who are a
00:05:31.720 little more well-seasoned, you got a little gray hair. You might remember back as far as 1990.
00:05:37.340 I was born in 65. I surely do. I was in the radio business, in media at the time,
00:05:42.800 for almost five years when this happened. It's called the Oka Crisis, 1990. So let's take a
00:05:49.400 Look, here it is right here, Kanesatake Resistance.
00:05:52.180 I'm very, very familiar with this area.
00:05:54.300 I lived in Cornwall, Ontario for a long time.
00:05:56.660 Cornwall Island and part of upper New York State was Akwesasne.
00:06:01.020 Just down the road, eastern Ontario, western Quebec, you have Kanesatake, Mohawk Warriors. 0.99
00:06:06.740 The Oka Crisis. 0.98
00:06:07.740 Do you remember when this happened?
00:06:08.820 It happened from 11th of July to September of 1990, a 78-day standoff.
00:06:15.640 Do you remember this picture?
00:06:16.880 Anybody out there remember this picture?
00:06:18.420 This is an iconic picture in Canadian history, a Mohawk warrior staring down a Canadian soldier. 0.79
00:06:24.420 No Canadian soldier moved the Mohawks off that land, but there was eventually a resolution to 0.60
00:06:30.300 this problem. What was this about? Do you remember what the Oka crisis was about? It must have been 0.75
00:06:35.120 something earth-shattering. No, it was about a golf course. The crisis was sparked by the proposed
00:06:41.840 expansion of a golf course and the development of townhouses on disputed land in Ghana-Sataki.
00:06:48.420 Now, if we go back to our original story from the National Post, there's this brief little bit in
00:06:54.520 here. Let me bring it up on screen. Perhaps most complex of all, Trans Mountain and government
00:07:00.200 representatives will have to consult with 23 First Nations in Alberta and another 85 in British
00:07:06.160 Columbia in order to secure the pipeline's right of way. I've said it before, folks.
00:07:10.920 All it takes is one little group of ancestral leaders of some indigenous group in British
00:07:17.540 Columbia. By the way, these indigenous groups own most of British Columbia right now. All it's going
00:07:23.840 to take is four or five people to stand in front of an earth mover, and nobody in this country will
00:07:28.660 move them out of the way. Nobody. I remember being at the legislature in Edmonton, May 3rd, 2025,
00:07:37.860 and a group of indigenous people were supposed to leave because we had the right to use the steps of
00:07:43.520 the legislature and all that space in front of it for a rally for independence. They stood over
00:07:48.000 there and screamed for two hours and nobody would come over and tell them to leave. Nobody. And that
00:07:53.280 was just a rally. We're talking about a pipeline here, folks. So let's move on in this story. I'm
00:08:00.120 not going to read much more of it to you. I'm just, I'm incensed that this kind of crap gets 0.99
00:08:03.680 spread around. This is propaganda. This is government propaganda. This is trying to stop 0.99
00:08:08.180 our movement. Folks, this is proof that we need to leave. This isn't proof that we need to stay.
00:08:13.060 you need to understand this. If you're sitting on the fence, this is the kind of hoops we have
00:08:16.720 to jump through just to get something done. When Ottawa is out of the way, things happen in Alberta.
00:08:22.780 Investment in Alberta is good despite Ottawa, not because of it. People come here because we're
00:08:28.000 prosperous, because we get things done. But when we have to go through Ottawa, we can't get things
00:08:32.660 done. Think of the things that have to get done just to get a pipeline. Indigenous, we have to
00:08:36.800 have industrial carbon taxes on our oil, which is the reason why nobody wants to invest. And then 1.00
00:08:42.260 we've got a $30 billion carbon capture utilization and storage machine that has to be built on top
00:08:47.860 of $43 billion that the government is going to use to buy a pipeline because nobody wants to
00:08:53.560 invest in us. The project still needs to clear a long list of regulatory and permitting approvals
00:09:01.960 before construction can begin. And officials in both Ottawa and Alberta have not provided a
00:09:06.660 breakdown for who will pay what in the estimated $35 billion to $43 billion the new pipeline will
00:09:13.020 cost. And it's going on land where there's another pipeline. How in the world does it cost this much
00:09:21.240 money? I'm sorry I had to stop and start my video. I'm having software issues that had frozen. My
00:09:26.080 apologies for that. So let's get back to this. You know what I'm seeing here? Danielle Smith,
00:09:31.780 Along with Mark Carney, they're nationalizing the oil and gas industry.
00:09:36.160 This is a project that you're going to pay for to the tune of $43 billion.
00:09:40.260 It was in 1930, I believe, almost 100 years ago,
00:09:44.140 the federal government gave control of the natural resources in Canada to the provinces,
00:09:48.400 meaning the oil and gas underneath Alberta is Alberta's,
00:09:52.020 much like it's the same in your province, wherever you may be in the country.
00:09:55.680 This despite what a lot of people think.
00:09:57.940 The oil and gas in Alberta does not belong to Canada.
00:10:00.800 It belongs to Alberta, but not anymore, because we can't get it out of the ground without the approval of Ottawa.
00:10:08.380 Let's go back over to this article and just read a little bit more of it.
00:10:11.740 I don't want to go on much longer here.
00:10:13.680 It's not clear industry will answer the call.
00:10:15.800 Last week, Enbridge CEO Greg Abel, who advised Alberta on its pipeline proposal,
00:10:20.640 suggested there's no rush on the part of the private sector to make any decisions,
00:10:24.300 particularly given that construction is not slated to be finished by 2032,
00:10:28.220 even under the most optimistic timelines.
00:10:30.860 It's likely to be much longer than that.
00:10:32.700 You know, we used to be able to build things in this country.
00:10:35.320 You know, I lived in eastern Ontario for a long time.
00:10:38.840 If you go down from Cornwall, Ontario and start going west,
00:10:42.260 you end up in Long Sioux.
00:10:43.340 And then you head along a bunch of islands
00:10:46.840 on the Long Sioux Parkway,
00:10:48.660 Philpots Island, Van Cuffnit Island.
00:10:50.840 Used to ride my bike along there.
00:10:52.720 In that area, there are roads that go into the river.
00:10:55.860 And if you didn't know what was going on,
00:10:57.220 you'd wonder why a road went into the St. Lawrence River. It's because there used to be a community
00:11:02.200 at the end of the road. And if you went under there and were a diver, there's still foundations
00:11:06.440 underneath the river. And we built that in five years. The St. Lawrence Seaway, massive project.
00:11:14.620 And we can't build a pipeline in six. That's the optimistic type timeline. That's how broken
00:11:20.200 Canada is. There'll be plenty of time for the private sector to get into this. He recently 0.88
00:11:25.640 He told the podcast In The Money, his company, for its part, has some $40 billion worth of projects already in the works.
00:11:31.680 Well, that's great news for Canada, $40 billion.
00:11:33.780 So I guess maybe I'm wrong.
00:11:35.640 Companies want to invest in Canada.
00:11:37.400 His company, for its part, has some $40 billion worth of projects already in the works, he said,
00:11:42.540 and is particularly focused on expanding its investments in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
00:11:46.980 That's not coming to Canada.
00:11:48.080 lost opportunity trillion dollars and lost investments in the last 10 11 years
00:11:56.040 where new developments face far fewer regulatory or political hurdles the political hurdles are
00:12:01.500 mark carney the liberal party in ottawa and despite what this article says mark carney
00:12:07.220 is not in favor of building a pipeline he could wave a magic wand get rid of everything that's in
00:12:12.840 the way and we would have a pipeline built. But he's not doing that. And we're going to see a lot
00:12:18.160 more stories like this, which are nothing but propaganda before Alberta votes in the referendum
00:12:23.100 on October the 19th. What do you think? Sorry for getting overly dramatic. I promise never to play
00:12:28.420 Mark Carney on this channel again. But what do you think? If you like this video, give it a thumbs
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