John Bolton - May 15, 2026


My thoughts on your thoughts on independence - Greetings from The Rockies


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3 minutes

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639

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43

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Misogyny

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Many of you have sent in your thoughts on Alberta's independence from Canada and I am here to respond to them. I have received a lot of great ones and I will read them all. I also talk about some of the reasons why I think Alberta should become an independent province.

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00:00:00.680 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel.
00:00:02.800 As you can see, I'm not in Calgary right now.
00:00:05.720 The Rocky Mountains over my shoulder right there.
00:00:07.800 Off in the distance, you can see three peaks.
00:00:10.480 One, two, three.
00:00:12.680 That's famous Three Sisters 0.98
00:00:14.520 that you can see here in Canmore, Alberta.
00:00:17.480 And you might hear some cars going by, I'm sorry.
00:00:19.960 It's kind of hard to get away from the traffic
00:00:21.680 where I am right now.
00:00:22.900 But I wanted to do an update for you
00:00:24.560 on my thoughts on independence.
00:00:26.520 So many people wrote to me over the last several days.
00:00:30.440 I think now more than 400 email have come in.
00:00:33.080 I put a video up earlier this morning.
00:00:35.300 I did AI analysis on the email you sent me.
00:00:39.460 There were a few people upset that I did that.
00:00:41.420 I certainly couldn't have gone through 300 email at the time and compiled information.
00:00:47.560 It would have taken me days, if not weeks, to do that.
00:00:50.020 AI certainly did help out.
00:00:51.940 But I am responding to your email now.
00:00:53.960 I'm going to try to read them all.
00:00:55.300 I think I've gone through 150 and some of you may have already received a response from me and I have received email.
00:01:03.300 A lot of people from the United States, even people from Australia wrote me and I appreciate all your comments.
00:01:10.360 Not all of you were brief. I did say in the video where I asked for your help, be brief, but I am reading through and I do appreciate all your comments.
00:01:20.920 I'm going to try to get through them all. Now, certainly AI was correct. People are concerned
00:01:26.260 about immigration. They're concerned about equalization. They're concerned about an
00:01:30.100 overbearing government in Ottawa. They're concerned about things like freedom. They're
00:01:34.560 concerned about religion. I heard that quite a bit as well. And they're concerned about things
00:01:38.900 like not being able to get our natural resources out of the ground. Very important to a lot of
00:01:43.740 people. There are some people on the fence, and the people on the fence generally are saying what
00:01:49.640 AI said we don't have a credible plan right now a credible transition plan to leave and there are
00:01:56.840 still a lot of people out there even though we've told hundreds if not thousands of people that your
00:02:01.880 CPP and OAS are secure when we get to an independent Alberta people still aren't getting the message so
00:02:09.340 we need to do a better job of that. I've received information and email from Indigenous people as
00:02:15.100 well, people who live on reserve and off reserve saying they're in favor of Alberta independence.
00:02:20.680 I would say keep your email coming to me, but I think I've got enough, a big enough sample right
00:02:27.260 now, and it's going to take me forever to get through the rest of the email that I've got so
00:02:31.760 far. My thoughts on independence, your thoughts on independence, absolutely outstanding. Thank you
00:02:37.560 so much for sending me your thoughts. You know, somebody did send me a great message. I can't
00:02:44.740 remember his name but he said regarding the giant carbon sucking machine why don't we just build one
00:02:51.120 of those and all of the liberal ridings across the country and they can deal with the carbon
00:02:55.260 dioxide certainly the carbon dioxide in Ontario and Quebec is as important as the carbon dioxide
00:03:02.100 here in Alberta one more thing I am here with my wife this weekend it's her birthday I'm taking a
00:03:08.360 couple of days off I won't be on on Saturday so you might miss me on Saturday but maybe I'll
00:03:14.720 do a video just to show you some more of this magnificent scenery here from Canmore, Alberta.
00:03:20.380 Thank you very much for watching. I appreciate it. I'll see you in the next one.