John Bolton - January 31, 2026


Lies, Insults and MISINFORMATION drive more people to INDEPENDENCE


Episode Stats

Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

174.89725

Word Count

1,929

Sentence Count

151

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

People in Canada are trying to misinform people about the Alberta Separatist Movement, and that might be driving more people over to our side. Chief Alan Adam of the Athabasca-Chippewyan First Nation joins me to talk about this.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is 4.32 a.m. Saturday, January the 31st.
00:00:08.620 Hope you're having a great start to your Saturday and your weekend as well. I tip my big blue mug
00:00:12.480 of coffee to you and I'm putting a push on right now to try to get to 50,000 subscribers. It would
00:00:18.740 be an amazing accomplishment and you can help me out with that. If you haven't subscribed,
00:00:22.740 please click on subscribe. Thank you. I appreciate it. So what's the purpose of this video today?
00:00:29.820 Well, I think this will be of interest to people in Canada, certainly for people in Alberta. And I'm
00:00:36.720 going to give you a few examples here, but there are more on how people in Canada are trying to
00:00:42.980 misinform people about the Alberta independence movement, how that might be driving more people
00:00:48.120 over to our side. And certainly I've talked over the last couple of days about insults that are
00:00:52.640 coming our way. I've got a very high profile insult coming up from a very well-known person,
00:00:57.980 very well-connected person, very well-connected liberal person, which I think is driving more
00:01:04.480 people to the independence movement. But before we get to that, I want to congratulate Pierre
00:01:09.220 Polyev. He got overwhelming support from his party last night. This article in the Calgary Sun,
00:01:17.500 separatism Alberta style on the front burner. Polyev scores 87% support. Alberta separatism,
00:01:24.640 love it or loathe it or don't care. It's got people's attention. So Polyev did talk about it
00:01:30.560 last night. I did an analysis video of his speech, which I thought was well delivered. I thought it
00:01:35.880 was well received. And I think he made some very good points. It was a good speech. My question is
00:01:42.880 this, who are the 13%? Any of them MPs that might walk across the aisle to join the Liberals? Just asking,
00:01:48.940 don't mean to rain on your parade, but that's what I was thinking when I saw 87% support. But the
00:01:55.420 independence movement, certainly on the minds of people last night, and Polyev did address this,
00:01:59.500 and he made a very good point that's driving people absolutely loony online, on X in particular.
00:02:05.240 He said that generally independence movements pop up when Liberals are in power because they are the
00:02:09.420 party of division. That is true. The Liberals don't like when he points it out, but it's true.
00:02:14.280 Now, let me move on to a few things here that's misinformation. I'm going to start off with
00:02:21.560 one single newspaper, the Edmonton Journal, that ran two completely conflicting stories on exactly
00:02:28.140 the same day, and they're very much related. First off, you've got this story. I saw this last night.
00:02:34.360 I sent it out to somebody very well-connected in the independence movement who knows the numbers
00:02:38.860 here in Alberta. He says they don't state any facts in this at all, but separatist math doesn't
00:02:45.540 add up, warns Edmonton business leaders. And they go on in this article, I'll put a link in the
00:02:49.520 description, to talk about how the independence movement is driving investment out of Alberta.
00:02:55.220 Now, you look at the date there, January 30th, 2026. Same day, same newspaper, the Edmonton Journal,
00:03:03.100 Dow moving ahead with $10 billion petrochemical project in Alberta after delay, aims for 2029
00:03:10.020 startup. And let me go down here and read just a little bit of this article for you.
00:03:15.520 It's clear they believe in this project and think it's a good long-term investment,
00:03:19.520 and that's why it's moving forward, even as it seems like we're in this prolonged down cycle for
00:03:25.300 commodity chemicals right now. So, Dow obviously thinks this is a good investment. By the way,
00:03:31.800 people often ask me about this ring. I don't know that you can see it there, whether you can get a
00:03:36.360 good focus on it, but this ring says Dow on it. My dad worked for Dow Chemical for 37 years. This is
00:03:42.620 his ring, which he gave me, and I wear it proudly. So, moving on to the next story, I want to get to
00:03:47.180 this one. A lot of people using this guy as an example online right now, and this is Chief Alan
00:03:53.360 Adam. Let me go back in the video here, because he's not on there right now. We'll go back. This guy in
00:03:57.500 the red shirt here. This is Chief Alan Adam of the Athabasca-Chippewyan First Nation, and he's on
00:04:03.740 here calling for Danielle Smith to resign, alleging she has conspired with separatists and violated
00:04:09.880 treaty rights. We're going to talk more about treaty rights in just a moment. Again, Alan Adam of the
00:04:15.260 Athabasca-Chippewyan First Nation. Now, Mr. Adam should resign himself. He's one of the reasons why we
00:04:22.080 want independence in Alberta. And let's go over to this story here, which takes us back to January 17,
00:04:28.280 2014. First Nation's chief received $55,000 from Tides Foundation, and here is his face. A little
00:04:36.520 bit younger, a left-wing lobby group in San Francisco wired $55,000 to the bank account of an Indian chief
00:04:43.840 in northern Alberta, paying him to oppose the oil sands. And sure enough, that chief, Alan Adam, from the
00:04:51.200 Athabasca-Chippewyan First Nation, earned his money. Last weekend, he flew to Toronto to sit on a stage
00:04:57.920 to Neil Young, the folk singer who was in town to demonize Canada's oil industry. So the same guy
00:05:05.180 collecting money to oppose the oil sands and prosperity here in Alberta. By the way, here is
00:05:11.800 another one for you. Here he is cozying up to Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda comes to Alberta to inform them
00:05:18.060 that oil is bad and they should get other jobs. Mr. Adam, you need to resign. You're one of the
00:05:23.600 reasons why Alberta wants to leave. Now, Chief Adam suggests in his little talk that Alberta can't leave
00:05:29.640 because of treaties here in Alberta, but that's not true. I wonder if Chief Adam has ever read the
00:05:35.500 treaties himself. A lot of people who talk about this have never read the treaties. Now, where I live
00:05:40.500 in Alberta, here in southern part of Alberta, in Calgary, Treaty 7, this land is ceded. Ceded. C-E-D-E-D.
00:05:50.680 Give up power or territory. It is ceded. You can read these online. I see people putting this map out
00:05:58.220 all the time, the First People's Map of Alberta. I saw this this morning and here they are. Here's Treaty 7.
00:06:04.800 Here is Calgary. Here is southern Alberta where I live and here are the texts. Treaty and supplementary
00:06:12.100 Treaty 7. And I searched for ceded in here and there it is right there the first time. And then
00:06:18.040 there's this big paragraph where it's mentioned four times and I'll leave it up on the screen so
00:06:22.200 you can read it a little bit, but I'll put a link in the description so you can read a treaty. It's not
00:06:26.600 very long. It's quite easy to understand. This treaty disinformation that gets spread around just
00:06:34.320 shows you how we have the facts on our side. All right. And the thing that I believe is that
00:06:40.380 when it comes to indigenous groups here in Alberta, it will be the first time in the history of Canada
00:06:47.460 that they will have an opportunity to negotiate a better deal for themselves. And I think they'll get
00:06:53.040 a better deal in an independent Alberta than they currently have in Canada. There's this as well.
00:06:58.780 Let me show you this. I think a lot of people who consider themselves aboriginals or indigenous people
00:07:04.180 want to be part of the independence movement. Alberta Radio says, almost 2,000 kilometers put on
00:07:09.260 the car since I started driving across Alberta to get signatures from folks who cannot make it to
00:07:14.060 signing events. Today, 80% of the signatures I got are First Nations, MĂ©tis people. And then you get
00:07:19.820 people like this. High profile person, writes for the Sun Chain, used to work in the Kretchen
00:07:25.700 administration. Warren can sell a shame on you, Warren. But you're driving people to the independence
00:07:30.860 movement with comments like this. My family left Quebec because of separatists who were bigots.
00:07:38.240 Alberta separatists are bigots too, but even dumber. Well, first off, Warren, let me put it to you this
00:07:44.040 way. We are not bigots out here. The independence movement out here welcomes anybody who wants to come
00:07:49.080 to Alberta. We do not care where they're from. We do not care their skin color. If you want to come
00:07:54.100 here and contribute and work hard, you are welcome in an independent Alberta. We don't make an issue
00:07:59.960 out of people's skin color. It's your side that does this. And what you're also saying here, first
00:08:05.500 off, you're calling us bigots, but you're also implying that Albertans are dumber than people who
00:08:10.000 live in Quebec. And that certainly isn't the case. A very Laurentian elite attitude as far as I'm
00:08:17.320 concerned. And we need to get away from people like you. But Warren, keep doing this. Because the
00:08:22.280 more you do this, the more you drive people over to the independence side. Folks, this is what the
00:08:26.840 East thinks of you. If you're sitting on the fence when it comes to independence, time to leave. Let's
00:08:32.240 move on to this one. Check this one out. I had to reload the webpage, but this is facepalm stuff, folks.
00:08:40.720 This is unbelievable. Stephen Gilboa, former environment minister under Justin Trudeau, radical,
00:08:47.040 anti-oil, anti-Alberta, anti-growth. Here he is here. Imagine one second that the Quebec
00:08:53.480 separatist movement reached out to France to help with Quebec separatism. People in English Canada
00:08:59.140 would be rightly outraged. This is no different. David Eby is right. And he's talking about David
00:09:04.320 Eby, premier of British Columbia, calling people who are Alberta independence-minded people,
00:09:08.580 traitors, and the people who are the leaders of the independence movement here in Alberta.
00:09:13.320 Readers added context they thought people might want to know. In 1995, the Quebec separatist
00:09:19.160 movement did just that. And we'll leave it with this from Marty up north at the end. All right?
00:09:28.240 Two separatist movements, two totally different reactions from the rest of Canada,
00:09:31.820 the sweet hypocrisy of Canadian unity.
00:09:34.260 When the Bloc Québécois and Parti Québécois push for Quebec sovereignty, they're hailed as
00:09:41.660 passionate defenders of culture and self-determination. It's noble, just, even romantic. Vive le Québec libre
00:09:48.560 rings out like a freedom cry. But what if an Albertan dares to whisper about ditching Ottawa's
00:09:53.660 endless resource grab and eco-tyranny? We get called traitors and spoiled rednecks accused of
00:09:58.820 threatening the sacred confederation. Newsflash. If Quebec's quest for independence is legitimate
00:10:04.940 democracy, then Alberta's beef with federal overreach is no different. Both are provinces fed up
00:10:10.860 with a distant capital sucking them dry or ignoring their unique cultural heritage. Yet one gets pats on
00:10:17.540 the back while the other gets pitchforks. Call it what it is, Eastern elitism masquerading as patriotism.
00:10:24.680 Time to even the score. Or is Team Canada only for those who tow the Laurentian line?
00:10:31.400 Well said, Marty Up North.
00:10:33.440 If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications,
00:10:38.580 and just before I go, I have my independence calendar coming up on Sunday at 11.
00:10:45.740 If you're at the Big Four on Monday night and have pictures or videos or anything,
00:10:49.800 please send them to my email address, johnboltonab at gmail.com, and I might feature them on the
00:10:57.340 independence calendar on Sunday. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next one.