John Bolton - June 30, 2026


Mitch Sylvestre On SIGNATURES, Nenshi LIES & The Premiers Pipeline


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Court of Appeal rules in favour of the Separatist petition to be allowed to be counted at Elections Alberta on May 4th. We talk to the people who were there on that day and get their thoughts on the ruling.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel Tuesday, June the 30th.
00:00:06.960 Hope you're having a great day today with the big blue mug of coffee and a big news
00:00:12.800 yesterday coming out regarding the Alberta independence movement and the petitions that
00:00:18.400 were presented, was it May the 4th at Elections Alberta in Edmonton finally being counted.
00:00:25.380 And I wanted to get comments from the person you see on the screen right here who was there
00:00:29.980 presenting those petitions on that day we are going to finally see them counted mitch and i
00:00:35.680 wanted to get your thoughts on what's happened here um the court of appeals allows counting of
00:00:41.500 alberta separatist petition to go ahead according to an article in the calgary sun what were your
00:00:47.380 thoughts when you heard this was happening and i guess congratulations going out to jeff rath and
00:00:52.080 his team for doing this well yeah and thank you very much we're happy about it i mean it's the
00:00:57.360 first step. I mean, it's the first step before the next step. And the next step is what this
00:01:01.160 whole process is all about, right? The next step is you have to turn it into the justice
00:01:05.180 minister as an official petition. And then they have to ask, and then it forces them to trigger
00:01:09.540 the question. Or a question. Or a question like the question that we presented. Yeah, so it was
00:01:15.940 Justice Woolley stressed that the courts have yet to weigh in on the constitutionality of the
00:01:19.960 Citizens Initiative Act. Because of that, she opted against holding an expedited hearing on
00:01:23.960 larger questions the issue is raised by leonard's decision the original ruling we had regarding the
00:01:29.600 petition including the constitutionality of the citizens initiative act are complicated and will
00:01:34.560 not be best served by being addressed on an expedited basis she said so that would move us
00:01:39.760 to the next part of this where we could get the question you want on the ballot in the fall are
00:01:43.800 they just trying to run out the clock on us here we're never going to see this happen before
00:01:47.620 october the 19th well i don't think we're going to see it happen before october 19th yeah yeah
00:01:52.700 Let's just be clear. I mean, it's funny that they would actually go. This will make Alberta ungovernable. We all understand that, right? We all understand that if we have to consult for every decision that we make, that's going to make Alberta ungovernable. They totally understand that.
00:02:09.320 So they're going to, I don't think they can allow it, actually, to tell you the truth.
00:02:13.740 I don't think they can allow it.
00:02:15.280 It's against the Constitution that's already there because the consulting part comes in two steps.
00:02:21.940 Once the Clarity Act gets put in, after we win a successful referendum vote, then they will be at the table.
00:02:29.180 They will be at the table with the federal government, the provincial government.
00:02:31.940 They have a large place at the table, and they will be consulted.
00:02:35.060 so so that's that is the way that the current constitution is written so as a consequence to
00:02:41.540 that we think you know i think that it's crazy that we're celebrating a win about being able
00:02:47.040 to petition government you know i never i never thought of it that way i didn't think you were
00:02:51.940 going to say that but yeah i thought it's kind of crazy saying this is a win because we're nowhere
00:02:56.000 we're no further along really when it comes to the question the same questions on the ballot in
00:03:00.900 october but you're right um it's crazy that we have to we actually have to do this in order to
00:03:05.340 get democracy in this province i mean you do you just think they should just say come on i mean
00:03:09.660 the the citizens initiative act and what we're doing here is just people asking the government
00:03:13.960 for something and we have a right to do that as opposed to having to go through the court
00:03:18.300 again i think they're just kind of trying to run out the clock on us here well and it's they've
00:03:23.280 been playing games with us the whole way but we and we knew they would but quebec's done this twice
00:03:28.240 And here we are, you know, in Alberta, another thing that Quebec gets that we don't get, which is quite interesting, actually.
00:03:36.720 Yeah, and just before Canada Day.
00:03:38.760 So, you know what, I think it's all good.
00:03:41.600 It's amazing to me, though, John, actually, really, this whole process and how it's gone and how they keep kicking the can down the road and kicking the can down the road.
00:03:49.580 And like Justice Feesby said, there are questions that the people should not be allowed to ask.
00:03:54.220 And apparently this is one of them.
00:03:56.000 Yeah. So let me ask you this. I mean, from the other side, they're saying that, well, what did Nancy say? It's exactly what he had to say. I know that you really don't give a damn what Nancy says, but others are saying this as well. The separatists had everything they needed to forge the signatures on that petition. They're bringing up the Centurion Project again.
00:04:15.720 And the Athabasca Chippewa Nation said, we know that people gathering petition signatures were being actively pushed in the direction of the Centurion Project.
00:04:23.940 So this is the narrative, again, we're hearing today after we get an OK to count these signatures.
00:04:29.080 And, you know, that's I think that's an insult to the people who were out there for four months.
00:04:33.280 Well, you know, the left doesn't have to tell the truth.
00:04:36.340 They don't tell the truth.
00:04:37.540 So, you know, let's let's go there.
00:04:39.660 We didn't have any union lists.
00:04:41.900 And apparently there was lots of union lists floating around.
00:04:44.120 True or not.
00:04:44.680 that. So since they're going to start throwing that kind of nonsense around, the Centurion
00:04:48.100 Project had absolutely nothing to do with this. As a matter of fact, we didn't need
00:04:53.200 the Centurion Project. We knew that going in. I knew that going in. I made that call
00:04:56.920 early. Our people did the work. I'm not worried about it at all. The results are going to
00:05:01.620 be 100% clear. They were well done. And I showed this at a regional meeting last night
00:05:06.920 with our people. I said, you know, it's funny that they should bring that up because from
00:05:11.100 my position if i didn't hear it once if i didn't hear it a hundred times i didn't hear once here's
00:05:16.760 what they said oh my god i've got to make sure that i get everything done i've got to make sure
00:05:21.040 that everything's right i don't want to screw this process up i want to make sure that's absolutely
00:05:24.400 perfect so nothing stops this from happening so that was our attitude and our attitude was
00:05:30.000 and much to the dismay of those other people we went and got it one signature at a time and
00:05:35.740 it's legit it's real so yeah we're very you know we've talked about the strict rules during this
00:05:41.080 uh with third-party advertisers and whatnot the the rules incredibly strict uh during this
00:05:46.540 petition signing so i mean if anybody put names down and forged them they would be able to trace
00:05:52.360 that directly back to the person who had those petitions that's how strict it was absolutely
00:05:58.300 yeah and that's the thing so mr nenshi just you know mr nenshi i'd like to meet him the first
00:06:03.480 question I'm going to ask him is, at what point are you ever going to say something truthful
00:06:07.220 about us? Like one thing. So anyway, I guess it's his job to lie. So, you know, he's part of that
00:06:14.700 Federalist Party that enables the Liberals to do what they're doing. In spite of the fact that he
00:06:19.400 wants to distance himself from them, he is them. And, you know, he's not hiding from us.
00:06:25.480 Right. Yeah. So I want to ask you about this. You wanted to bring, you said to me before we
00:06:30.380 went live you wanted to talk about canada day which is coming up tomorrow um are you are you
00:06:35.080 somebody who ever celebrated canada day i'm wondering no actually i've never been a big
00:06:39.120 canada guy i'm going fishing tomorrow right i'm actually going to pack my boat up and my wife and
00:06:45.480 are going to spend all day fishing we're going to go catch somebody tomorrow and and play around and
00:06:49.760 you know have a nice relaxing day bobbing around right a lot of people going up to mirror tomorrow
00:06:54.560 i don't know that i'm going to do that my wife's off i think i'll spend the day with my wife we
00:06:58.020 don't get a lot of time to spend together so i think i might just stay home but i'm the same
00:07:01.540 way with you it was never much uh for fireworks and stuff like that and uh tomorrow is alberta
00:07:05.840 day as far as i'm concerned uh here well actually john i'm going to tell you something we're going
00:07:10.200 to have an alberta day rally okay great idea late august and we're going to have an alberta day
00:07:17.280 we just ended that uh at a board meeting last week uh we're going to have an alberta day rally
00:07:23.180 So late August, it's going to happen.
00:07:26.460 By hook or by crook, we're going to make it work.
00:07:28.720 And we're going to bring together 50,000 or 60,000 of us
00:07:31.620 or find a place where we can put that many of us just before the big push
00:07:35.160 for the last eight or 10 weeks before the vote.
00:07:39.540 Terrific. I will look forward to that.
00:07:41.160 I want to ask you about something. 0.80
00:07:42.300 Danielle Smith's going to present a pipeline project to the major projects office,
00:07:47.860 I guess on Thursday, day after Canada Day, Alberta Day.
00:07:51.460 your thoughts on that? Well, unless he cans the carbon tax, it's not going to happen. So
00:07:58.460 the industry is not going to, Synovus has basically said they're not spending another
00:08:05.140 nickel here until that carbon tax is gone. So you can't have it both ways. I remember the
00:08:09.880 premier saying, you know, tell Mr. Carney that you can't ride two horses at once. So the premier
00:08:15.160 is going to have to understand at some point that the carbon tax has to go. And literally, John,
00:08:20.640 that's the green new deal in spades i mean carbon capture and carbon tax is the green new deal so
00:08:27.520 so that's globalist agenda so let's just get rid of the globalist agenda and build a pipeline and
00:08:31.440 so the people of alberta can actually benefit from it and then you know i mean building the pipeline
00:08:35.680 is part of it they have to fill it they have to allow construction uh they're not fooling anybody
00:08:41.360 on this side so if they're going to if it's going to be seven to ten dollars a barrel more to produce 0.97
00:08:47.840 this oil where's the math to do it and if the aboriginals are going to be able to shut it down 0.96
00:08:54.720 until they start building it don't tell us about pipelines surprise surprise us
00:09:01.680 yeah there's an article just a couple of days ago on aptn news imminent alberta pipeline proposal
00:09:06.560 submission has bc environmentalist first nations readying for battle video yeah i did a video on
00:09:13.040 that this morning saying you know there's this indigenous veto and all they have to do is stand
00:09:17.440 in front of the pipeline and it won't go through despite the fact that daniel smith and mark carney
00:09:22.480 might make deals with indigenous groups all the way through there's always somebody who's going
00:09:25.600 to get in the way probably funded by some ngo out of out of the united states to stop our oil and gas
00:09:31.680 right well the rockefeller foundation the tides foundation uh the same people that have been
00:09:36.480 bringing us dirty oil for 20 years so the whole thing is is that you know they're they're going
00:09:41.920 to have to stop pretending that they're going to do stuff and have to stop pretending that they
00:09:47.120 can because the reality of it is this mr connie can say look we're building this pipeline period
00:09:54.320 dumb deal there's going to be no protest will be known but what do they say they said no it's going
00:09:58.800 to have to go through all the regulation process going to have to do all that so they're basically 0.88
00:10:01.840 not building a pipeline they're just talking to us like we're children and they're actually going
00:10:05.920 to pretend that they're actually going to do something and and you know what honestly i think
00:10:11.440 for a lot of albertans it's not going to matter i i think that the albertans are to want to get
00:10:16.960 rid of ottawa um you know no matter what at this point yeah and so a pipeline or no pipeline and
00:10:23.200 and you know we got news for the whole world an independent alberta can build pipelines too
00:10:28.320 probably without federal regulation and and we could do that to our own benefit
00:10:32.720 and uh you know at the speed that we need to do it and we wouldn't have to worry about all this
00:10:37.360 nonsense going on because you know bc so we're just going to have to decide you know i mean it 1.00
00:10:42.000 keeps coming up these indigenous people keep standing in front of of the pipelines and all 0.96
00:10:46.240 the production while at some point you know they're going to have to be included and make a 1.00
00:10:52.560 deal with them so that this is this doesn't happen anymore uh or you know i don't know i i'm they're
00:10:59.760 just going to have to be resolved and it is resolved the prime minister can call it they
00:11:04.080 they don't have to give permission. Right. I want to ask you about something that happened
00:11:07.560 the other day. I did a video on this yesterday, and I've been concerned about this. I think I
00:11:11.460 said to you sometime last year, do you have security? You and Jeff, you guys are out there
00:11:15.660 all the time. You're the faces of the Alberta independence movement. You're on the front lines
00:11:22.340 literally of this. We had a guy at Edmonton the other day who was just waving a blue flag that
00:11:28.980 looks very much like the one that's on the wall behind me right here. I had a little discussion
00:11:33.100 with some young man apparently the apparently the guy with the blue flag um was about 68 years old
00:11:37.960 so a senior citizen by the way young man came up to him they had a discussion our guy turned around
00:11:43.040 walked away and was attacked and almost got run over by a car it was that close to being a tragedy
00:11:48.860 what do you say about this well i saw it yeah we guys should go to jail yeah and i got a story for
00:11:56.780 so i got death threaded through my mla's office my mla and me they said that if i ever came to
00:12:03.820 calgary again they were going to do me so fine so we charged the guy he went to court uh he was in
00:12:11.500 court in june here and uh they they said he had mental issues and they were going to put him through
00:12:16.460 the mental program and they weren't going to do anything else with it so that this is the victim
00:12:20.220 services called me and i said to the guy there i said uh you know if this guy is unstable and are
00:12:26.700 you putting him in jail he said no i said would you send me a picture of him so i know what he
00:12:29.900 looks like you know what they told me no no they're not going to send me a picture i i i literally
00:12:37.900 said to him i said i just want to understand something who's the victim here like what the
00:12:43.900 heck is wrong with you guys yeah i knew they weren't going to send me a picture i just thought
00:12:48.380 i'd ask just just in case i'm getting out of my truck and the guy that looks like this guy that
00:12:54.300 threatened to kill me is going to walk up to me and i'm going to know at least have an idea what's
00:12:59.100 coming uh so so yeah so so there you go this is an extension of that i just it's just craziness
00:13:06.300 what's going on out there but you know what at some point we're going to have to start defending
00:13:10.220 ourselves from these people yeah and uh you know that's not uh that's not the program that's not
00:13:15.500 who we are. However, at some point, yeah, we're just going to have to make sure that we're safe
00:13:21.280 too. Yeah, I'm concerned about that. And as we get closer to this referendum, I just hope nothing
00:13:25.840 more serious happens. What are your thoughts? We're moving along here. We're into June. We're
00:13:30.600 in the dog days of summer, although it doesn't feel much like it. It's been a lot of rain here
00:13:34.040 and it's been kind of dismal. I don't much like it myself. I hope you get good weather while you're
00:13:39.380 out there fishing. What are your thoughts on this as we're moving forward? How are we doing? I know
00:13:44.620 that your wife's involved with the third-party advertiser more of them coming aboard are you're
00:13:48.740 seeing signs up going up across the province uh good things happening here according to you
00:13:52.720 you know john i think well i know we can win first of all uh and i know that we have a good
00:13:59.460 i know that we have a good plan to win and i know we're integrating it right now
00:14:02.880 i mean we're we're building it i'm actually going around the province next week i'm going to be in
00:14:08.800 every one of our areas talking to our leaders and their leaders and everybody in a room um that
00:14:14.440 I want to spend all week traveling the province next week,
00:14:16.920 talking to them, making sure that everybody understands what's going on.
00:14:19.480 We're ready to go.
00:14:20.380 We're organized.
00:14:21.040 We're ready to go.
00:14:21.660 We're going to have pop-ups going on all over Alberta.
00:14:24.700 We know that the way to the path to win this is to get more people on our
00:14:29.320 Get Out to Vote list.
00:14:30.680 So, and we made it free.
00:14:32.880 So you can join APP and get out on our Get Out to Vote list.
00:14:37.000 We've got a special team of people that will be able to communicate with you
00:14:41.400 directly as a member of APP.
00:14:43.280 so please join so as a consequence to that what we're going to do is we're going to we're going
00:14:48.660 to get more people because this whole thing no matter what is about getting more people on our
00:14:54.260 get out the vote list that's what it's going to take to win this so yeah that's what we're doing
00:14:58.640 and we're doing it in you know in spades we're raising money i raised a bunch of money i raised
00:15:03.520 a hundred thousand dollars here last week and just to buy flags for calgary so we're going to do that
00:15:09.680 um i ordered them here right away so they're coming they'll be here we're going to paint calgary
00:15:14.480 blue and we're going to be doing those kind of things all over the province and and we can do
00:15:18.880 that through the project we're doing that through app because other flags are not considered uh
00:15:23.440 political advertising as much as so so we can do that so we're going to be doing that through app
00:15:29.520 and uh you know what we're going to we've got many more of those kinds of initiatives happening
00:15:34.320 so yeah so we're we're working really hard i'm working eight to ten hours a day every day
00:15:38.720 uh on this making sure that we can move this forward we're we're ready to go
00:15:42.880 mech thanks so much for your time today congratulations on this i i actually texted
00:15:47.280 you yesterday minor victory i think it's good i think it's nice that people that went out
00:15:51.120 there and got all those signatures are going to have them counted finally which i think is fantastic
00:15:56.560 so that's real good news and when accounted then we can present them to the justice department and
00:16:01.840 it becomes a constitutional question like it's supposed to right so so so the first step is
00:16:06.880 counting them so then after that just the next step is making sure that the provincial government
00:16:11.840 feels the pressure uh to present it to so that we can present it to the right place and and and then
00:16:18.240 you know i'm always in the opinion that if we either side of this we win if the federal government
00:16:24.400 says we can't do this we still win right yeah yeah we win because people are going to understand
00:16:29.360 where we are right i always said it's just as important to watch who says no to you as who says
00:16:35.600 yes at least then you understand who they are great so yeah go ahead i'm sorry well that's
00:16:40.880 it that's where that's where i'm at with it mitch thank you very much for this i appreciate it guys
00:16:44.880 since i think i sent a text message out to you around two o'clock this morning i hope i didn't
00:16:48.400 wake you up i always forget when i send that stuff up out i'm up very early in the morning
00:16:54.320 thanks for this always a pleasure to talk to you looking forward to seeing you good luck out there
00:16:57.840 on the road through the summer time we'll talk to you again soon okay okay john take care mitch
00:17:02.560 Sylvester. And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,
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