John Bolton - My Movie1

00:00:00.000 speaking of energy just a little screech I should tell you it's very uncomfortable

00:00:13.080 being here I'm not used to being in rooms full of achievers and of course with all

00:00:21.780 the talent that you've assembled I guess the idea of Jim Davidson to get me here

00:00:26.560 in the first place was that you needed some structured anti-climax at some point in the

00:00:30.880 evening that's me before I even do anything I will ring in I was looking at all of this I mean

00:00:38.560 the setting the way that this has been placed out the great screens the entertainment and I thought

00:00:44.000 back to one of my first engagements which was the Lions Club in Joe Batts arm and this is not the

00:00:50.520 Lions Club of Joe Batts arm you guys and it's not a praise to the people it's the ones that done

00:00:57.480 it here you have really put on a superb superb performance I should begin by acknowledging of

00:01:09.300 course Madame Premier and I believe also Madame leader of the opposition gentlemen you will

00:01:16.860 realize the way the world is going now I also think you should give Mayor Nenshi just a little

00:01:32.340 smidgen extra of the applause I know he deserves because he has so strongly resisted the almost

00:01:39.660 ferocious draft that's coming from Toronto they want to trade speaking of Toronto I should thank

00:01:53.760 you just for the invitation to be here I know I'm an outsider in the province that does a lot of things

00:01:58.440 and it is according to Newton's law you may remember he said that one body however wretched cannot be in

00:02:08.320 two places at the same time so the fact that I'm on this stage now means that I'm not currently in Toronto

00:02:16.320 which is about a moral and hygienic elevation I have because the time is short I have two things that I really

00:02:30.320 really wish to do and it's because a the premier and members of government are here industry is here the mayor is here this is not some shtick it's something that I've waited a long time to find the best group to say it to it's going to be compressed I'll say it in less than a minute and a half or two but I want

00:02:52.320 you to do but I want you to know I really really do just how absolutely deep how intense I mean what I'm about to say it's compressed I can't fill it out but I will say it this way 1992-93 Newfoundland got an arrow in the heart

00:03:14.320 the fishery on which for 500 years we built the entire life of the province soul body and mind was shattered 31,000 people in a single day were out of work which just to give your proportions if you were in Toronto when you picked up the global mail some morning and I hope you don't

00:03:38.320 and read 660,000 people were out of work overnight you'll understand the scale of the economic shock and there's where the great compression comes in you're the energy industry you're the government you're the citizens citizens of Alberta Newfoundland would have been crushed you do not understand and

00:04:08.300 and I haven't time to explain just how savage that shock was it was much more than economic it was much more even than cultural and it went to individuals and families but by the genius of providence or by the great initiatives and energies of this province that was at the beginning of your boom and though it does not get often registered

00:04:38.300 thousands thousands thousands thousands thousands not only from my province but from other provinces too here's what it is I want to say to premier leader of opposition industry mayor of Calgary do you know how much social misery how much dislocation of individual families how many divorces were postponed how much dignity of the individual was received

00:05:08.280 restored because instead of leaving a great pocket of 31,000 families out of reach Alberta and I mean it Alberta absorbed over time so much my closest friend went through divorce loss of house loss of job in a nutshell came up here houses back marriage repaired he's making more money than some of you

00:05:36.280 here's my point and I'm saying it out loud even though I'm chewing up time for another message

00:05:43.280 I think as a Newfoundlander as a Canadian it would be very nice to say for sparing Newfoundland a 1.00

00:05:54.280 a psych a trauma a trauma of the deepest kind and for being there at the precise moment when this input was most necessary Newfoundland says thank you to Alberta

00:06:19.280 I have a second message too but I was watching some of these rock and roll videos and they really

00:06:26.280 really are splendid I'm just wondering when you're bringing on Neil Young

00:06:32.280 you know I saw that he was giving advice on the oil sands from the back of his 1959 Lincoln Continental

00:06:48.280 being shot from two helicopters you know something I wouldn't take advice from Neil Young if he was talking about the bare naked ladies but his information on what goes on here on the sophistication on the technological miracles on the amplitude of effort and industry and invention 1.00

00:07:17.280 he's not even in the same age he's not even in the same age and then this week there must be an IV drip of idiocy down in the states this week Robert Redford whose last movie hit occurred at the same time that Tolstoy was learning to read

00:07:40.280 he's also saying to you oh it's the dirtiest oil in the world look at some of your films man

00:07:47.280 here's my message because I do have one and I'm going to concentrate it because this is an audience that really should hear it and it is an audience I need to screech both political industry worker

00:08:07.280 and citizen it's a point not only about Alberta it's about the whole of the country

00:08:14.280 and here's this one of the things that as an outsider I have no skills I'm in journalism okay as an outsider to your industry one of the things that has alarmed me puzzled me robbed me of the innocent sleep that my otherwise wonderful conscience would allow me to have is why this industry and to a degree this province I know the premier is here

00:08:21.280 Stand so silently at times when you are made a target here

00:08:28.280 right

00:08:51.280 of such slander and such misrepresentation.

00:08:56.800 Here is my point.

00:08:58.820 I'll give you three or four things.

00:09:00.360 Samuel Johnson's great quotation.

John Bolton - December 04, 2013

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