John Bolton - December 14, 2025


NO ONE else will make this connection to a First Nations veto... PERIOD


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In this episode of The Big Blue Mug, John talks about the possibility of a "Native veto" in Canada and why he thinks they have a say in everything that happens in the country. John also talks about a story that has been making the rounds in the national media.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is 4.07 a.m. Sunday, December the 14th. I hope
00:00:08.460 you're having a great start to your Sunday morning here with the Big Blue Mug, of course.
00:00:12.460 Thank you so much for clicking on this video. By the way, for those of you who watched yesterday's
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00:00:22.480 watching. If you haven't seen it, I'll put a card at the end. And if you're here, you're new,
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00:00:31.600 click on subscribe. And a reminder, clicking on the Big Blue Mug does not actually subscribe you
00:00:36.340 to the channel. Just do that below. So today, I am going to go someplace, I guarantee you,
00:00:43.880 I guarantee you 100%, I'm absolutely sure that nobody else is making this connection. No one.
00:00:50.600 In fact, there was a story I read this morning, it's about three days old, that I hadn't even seen
00:00:55.580 that made me absolutely sure that native groups have a veto in this country, because anything that 1.00
00:01:02.020 they do gets national news coverage. And I can't actually believe I'm making this connection today,
00:01:08.380 considering the subject matter, the story that's coming up. Hold on, folks. The other day,
00:01:16.220 I told you a story about what happened back on May the 3rd, all right? Orwell, actually,
00:01:22.860 Animal Farm said that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. And that's
00:01:29.220 the case with Aboriginal groups in this country, First Nation groups, whatever you want to call
00:01:33.500 them. That's true. Here's what I said just a few short days ago, and then I'm going to make a
00:01:38.900 connection here that's going to prove to you that they have a veto. Hold on, folks. This is going to
00:01:45.940 get interesting. Folks, I'm here to tell you, I think they have a veto. And I was thinking back
00:01:51.620 this morning about this. Back on May 3rd, I was at the Alberta Legislature, and we had an
00:01:59.080 independence rally back then. A couple of thousand people showed up. It was great. And the group that
00:02:03.060 was there before us had booked the spot on the Alberta Legislature steps. They had to leave to let
00:02:08.540 us come in. But there was a group of Aboriginal people on a hill to the right of the stage
00:02:13.040 who yelled and screamed into a microphone constantly through our whole event to disrupt
00:02:18.540 us. And there wasn't a cop. There wasn't anybody from the Alberta Legislature. There wasn't an
00:02:23.760 official in this country that would have walked across and told those people they had to get off
00:02:28.160 the land because they didn't have a right to be there. And I remember saying to somebody at the time,
00:02:32.460 they've got the native veto. Do you really think the federal government's going to go in
00:02:37.660 and move a group of natives off land they think is their own in British Columbia if a pipeline is
00:02:43.700 okayed to go out to the West Coast? I said that just a couple of days ago. I stand by that comment.
00:02:50.220 Hang on one second. I need to take a sip from the big blue mug to screw up my courage here
00:02:55.280 because I guarantee you nobody is making this connection.
00:03:02.460 Before I get to the main course, a little appetizer for you to prove my point
00:03:06.700 about a native veto. So let's just take you back a few weeks ago. You might remember this story.
00:03:13.280 This was from your national broadcaster that you paid billions of dollars for and you're going to
00:03:17.680 pay more for. This is the propaganda wing of the Liberal Party of Canada, the CBC minister
00:03:22.900 apologized for poor choice of words about meeting with BC First Nations. Just a refresher for you.
00:03:28.100 This is the anti-energy minister, Tim Hodgson. And the minister made a suggestion to the
00:03:34.200 coastal First Nations, in particular the president, Marilyn Slett, on power and politics with David
00:03:40.080 Cochran that they could have a Zoom meeting. You know, pretty regular thing. Zoom. It's called
00:03:45.120 Zoom, he said. I think that's what we're using. But boy, did this offend the treaty people because he's
00:03:51.380 now apologized. He has prostrated himself in front of the people who rule over you here in Canada.
00:03:56.840 The federal minister said he apologized. My comments last night about a virtual meeting
00:04:00.420 with coastal First Nations, a poor choice of words, which I regret, said Hodgson. Slett
00:04:04.920 said, Hodgson's initial comments were deeply disrespectful and show a complete lack of
00:04:10.380 understanding of our communities. I would suggest it shows a complete lack of understanding of
00:04:15.580 First Nations people with modern technology. But we'll move on from that. And this made national 1.00
00:04:21.080 news. Lots of it. There's the National Post, Yahoo News. Feel free to look for it.
00:04:26.840 Hodgson, Zoom. And you'll find dozens of stories about this, which takes us to the main course.
00:04:34.240 Now, if you were to see this on the CBC, this is CBC again. Here it is. If you were to see this
00:04:39.760 headline on the CBC website, you might read it. Elders say they were fired from Regina Youth
00:04:44.120 Correction Center for defending cultural protocol. This is from three days ago. I haven't heard anybody
00:04:48.660 talking about this, probably because if you looked at that headline, you would think it's a nothing
00:04:52.660 story. It's the subject matter that has me absolutely convinced that the natives have a
00:04:58.840 V to want anything because anything that happens to these people becomes a national news story.
00:05:04.060 And this made it to the national news. Let's read a little bit about this. And I can't believe I'm
00:05:09.580 going here. I can't believe they went there. I can't believe this is actually a news story. But here
00:05:14.360 are the two people involved here. Elders, Calvin Peltier and Melanie Fisher. A little bit about this story.
00:05:21.060 Elder Melanie Fisher says she enjoyed working at Regina's Paul Dojak Youth Center and loved the
00:05:27.080 boys at the facility like her own children. She and fellow elder Calvin Peltier had a good
00:05:32.360 relationship with the staff and were praised for their work until the relationship soured over an
00:05:37.600 October cultural camp, she said. Fisher and Peltier say staff disrespected them and sacred ceremonies
00:05:44.880 at the camp. Now, let me just make this point. These people can believe anything they want. They can
00:05:50.580 believe these things are sacred ceremonies. I think it's total bullshit and I have that right
00:05:55.600 to say that. But here we go. Continuing on, you're not going to believe this. This has made it to the
00:06:00.600 national news, folks. When their concerns were not adequately addressed by the administration,
00:06:08.020 they brought the issue to the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety, which was renamed the
00:06:14.280 Ministry of Community Safety in Thursday's cabinet shuffle. Shortly after that, they were told not to come to
00:06:19.700 the center and then fired. Fisher said. Why were they fired? Here we go, folks. Hold on to your hats.
00:06:26.340 According to them, a staff member knowingly participated in sacred ceremonies, including a sweat lodge
00:06:33.300 ceremony while menstruating. Fisher said in an email was sent and a meeting was held before the cultural
00:06:42.180 camp advising staff that those on their moon time could not participate in ceremonies. This is not
00:06:48.840 permitted because of the belief that women are very powerful during that time and their participation
00:06:55.000 can affect traditional medicines and prevent them from working. It can make people sick, which
00:06:59.920 happened. Our boys came out of the sweat puking, she said. This wasn't a misunderstanding. It was a serious
00:07:05.440 violation of spirituality. Fisher said she was kicked to the corner and disrespected and that wild moose meat
00:07:11.620 she brought to the camp, which was intended for stew, was thrown out. Now, here's my point.
00:07:19.760 This made it to the national news. Two people fired for a job for that. Can you imagine what would
00:07:28.320 happen? And I told you about the Hodgson story, which made it in all the media. Can you imagine an oil
00:07:33.800 company rolling through BC with all these pipes and they start going across what they think is their
00:07:39.680 sacred land and they have a right to this? This is their treaty right. Do you not think this would be
00:07:45.280 the biggest story in the freaking country if a hundred of the natives showed up blocking that 1.00
00:07:51.740 pipeline? It would never go through. Just like I said, those people wouldn't be thrown off the
00:07:57.400 legislator lawn back in May because there's not a damn cop that would go out there and throw them off
00:08:02.580 their land. Now, I want to case in point here. Do you remember Oka? I remember Oka. I was working at a
00:08:13.000 radio station in Sarnia at the time. This is the Oka standoff. It was known as the Oka crisis.
00:08:19.980 And this was over a freaking golf course. In March 1990, Mohawk warriors at Kanesataki, this is in eastern
00:08:28.480 Ontario, western Quebec, set up a blockade over disputed land with the municipality of Oka. In
00:08:35.280 August, Canadian soldiers were called in to serve at the standoff. There will never be a pipeline go
00:08:41.900 through because this would be the biggest freaking story in the country and all the news media would
00:08:47.560 be covering it. And these people have a veto, folks. And I'm proving it with a story about menstruation.
00:08:58.480 Let me know what you think in the comments. Tell me I'm totally crazy. I don't. I'm going to read
00:09:05.880 them. Tell me I'm totally nuts for making this connection. If you like the video, give it a
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00:09:23.500 Thank you for watching. I'll see you in the next one.