John Bolton - June 15, 2025


Politicians are IRRELEVANT - PERSUADE this group and oil and gas will flow

Topics
independence movement
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John Bolton
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Mitch Sylvester Mark Carney Dudley George Scott McLeod Rupert Danielle Smith Mike Harris David E.B. John
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In this episode, I talk about my recent interview with the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, Mitch Sylvester, and what he said about the independence movement in Alberta. I also talk about the Heisla Nation's new joint venture with natural gas companies, and how it could be a stumbling block to independence.

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00:00:00.160 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Hope you're having a great day today. It is Sunday, June the 15th.
00:00:06.260 I have my big blue mug of coffee as usual and I've got a different setup here in my home.
00:00:12.680 Trying to make things look a little bit better here, although I have a question for you right off the top.
00:00:16.820 Does that picture over there, does it distract you?
00:00:19.900 Somebody commented on it on the video yesterday that I'm a King Crimson fan and that's the album cover for In the Court of the Crimson King.
00:00:27.860 It's actually the lyrics to 21st Century Schizoid Man. For those people in the know, it makes up the photo.
00:00:33.760 I might take it down if it's distracting to you. It's been up there all through the videos I've done on this channel.
00:00:39.100 Every one of them, but it's now visible.
00:00:42.100 Anyhow, thank you very much for being here today.
00:00:44.800 And yesterday, I really, really got some great feedback on my video I did with Mitch Sylvester, the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:00:54.360 And I'm not patting myself on the back here, but I think it was one of the best videos done
00:00:59.840 that answered a lot of questions regarding the independence movement here in Alberta.
00:01:07.280 And I want to get Mitch back on.
00:01:09.200 I'm going to try to set up interviews with more people in the future regarding the independence movement
00:01:14.640 because that's what I used to do. I used to interview people.
00:01:17.200 And I had, you know, 15, 20 minutes to talk to him yesterday, but I had a lot of questions I didn't get to.
00:01:21.820 So hopefully we can do that in the future. But he said something in that interview that I thought was very important.
00:01:28.960 And it was regarding indigenous people. Let me just play back a little bit of the interview from yesterday.
00:01:34.220 And I want to come back and talk about this particular thing when it comes to the independence movement.
00:01:40.040 Not only that, but when it comes to the oil and gas industry and resources right across the country.
00:01:46.200 So indigenous have rights to the land because of treaties.
00:01:48.840 Well, the treaties, the treaties gives them lots of rights, but I mean, the interpretation of the rights for the land,
00:01:55.160 but we're not leaving indigenous people behind. I can't, I'm not in a position to talk about what their land rights are.
00:02:01.160 I just know that all crown land in Alberta belongs to the government of Alberta.
00:02:04.380 And that's, that's, that's for sure, because I just went through a big undrip fight with, you know,
00:02:10.400 basically the federal government on that and won that based on treaties that were signed by all parties concerned,
00:02:15.220 aboriginal Métis, uh, farmers, trappers, all those people on caribou preservation, just north of Bonneville. 0.99
00:02:21.180 And, uh, it was very clear.
00:02:23.300 It was made very clear that crown land in Alberta belongs to the government of Alberta.
00:02:27.480 Yeah.
00:02:27.780 So that, that's not the question.
00:02:29.160 The question is, is that their treaty rights are rights that were signed by them.
00:02:32.340 Nobody's going to chase them down.
00:02:33.500 As a matter of fact, we want to try and make aboriginal people way richer by giving them, 1.00
00:02:37.260 uh, actually tripling their income and giving them the opportunity to come out of poverty
00:02:41.460 and to give them a better life.
00:02:43.420 We're not leaving those people behind, but I really believe that the people that have,
00:02:47.260 well, I don't believe, I know that we've showed our business plan to, uh, aboriginal chiefs.
00:02:51.620 And they're very excited about it.
00:02:52.740 I watched my interview with Mitch back yesterday, and I focused in on what he said right there,
00:02:57.840 particularly the part about making people rich, making aboriginal groups rich. 0.94
00:03:03.720 And I wrote down the words less adversarial and more persuasive with aboriginals. 1.00
00:03:09.000 You know, there is a very small minority of people who make the biggest noise who are against
00:03:16.320 natural resource projects.
00:03:17.520 And I think these people are funded by environmental groups, but those people have a loud voice,
00:03:23.000 which is amplified by the media.
00:03:24.820 But I think there are lots of aboriginal groups out there that want to be rich and they don't 1.00
00:03:30.700 want to get rich off of government dollars.
00:03:32.500 They want to be in business.
00:03:33.500 Here's a story from the national post, how the Heisla nation became a model for indigenous led
00:03:38.420 economic development, how Canada wins.
00:03:41.700 The Heisla nation has partnered with natural gas companies and now owns a majority stake
00:03:46.960 in Cedar LNG, a floating LNG export facility.
00:03:52.600 This could be a stumbling block against the independence movement in Alberta.
00:03:56.020 And certainly these groups, this minority of people that want to keep everything in the ground,
00:04:02.420 I'm talking aboriginal groups here, could be a stumbling block because Mark Carney gives them 1.00
00:04:08.440 a veto.
00:04:09.740 He's mentioned it many times.
00:04:11.160 I call them outs.
00:04:12.560 His outs for oil and gas in this country, his outs for natural resources in this country.
00:04:18.440 He's on record saying it many times.
00:04:20.540 He uses the word consensus at times, but he just wraps it up in nothing gets done if everybody
00:04:26.220 doesn't agree.
00:04:26.980 And that's just something that will never happen.
00:04:29.920 But we will only do that in the case where we have the support of First Nations.
00:04:35.440 We have the support of all the provinces, obviously including Quebec in the example that I gave,
00:04:41.760 and with respect to environmental assessment.
00:04:44.440 Any major energy project, virtually any major energy project that comes from this great province
00:04:49.740 is going to pass the boundaries of other provinces, is going to be built on first aboriginal lands.
00:04:59.940 They will need the consent and the support of other provinces, of the pop-up doctone aboriginal people. 1.00
00:05:09.680 Mark Carney gets everything he wants, which is nothing, I mean building nothing,
00:05:14.700 when he sees stories like this.
00:05:16.860 From APTN News, Anishinaabek Nation chief says he briefed OPP on protests against fast-track bills.
00:05:25.080 Shutting down the economy of Ontario is not off the table, Scott McLeod.
00:05:28.620 Ontario wants to develop what's known as the Ring of Fire, which is an amazing amount of resources
00:05:34.080 in northern Ontario that would make everybody rich, things that the world needs.
00:05:39.120 But these people will stand in the way.
00:05:41.120 Today, Scott McLeod says he was invited by an Indigenous relations coordinator to brief officers
00:05:45.800 at the OPP's Orillia headquarters on why First Nations opposed the legislation
00:05:50.380 and why they see the bills as a violation of treaties with the Crown.
00:05:53.860 McLeod saying that shutting down the economy of Ontario is not off the table
00:05:57.600 and that if police want to avoid another Dudley George, they need to understand First Nations' position.
00:06:03.540 I remember this well.
00:06:04.660 It happened at Ipperwash on Lake Huron, 1995.
00:06:07.680 I believe Mike Harris was the premier at the time.
00:06:09.620 Dudley George killed as supporters occupied a provincial park that the government appropriated
00:06:15.980 back during the Second World War.
00:06:17.700 So, you know, trying to invoke this death of this man, you know, do as we say because we
00:06:22.480 have a veto over natural resources in Ontario.
00:06:25.280 But, you know, if we're more persuasive with Aboriginal groups and less adversarial, we won't 0.97
00:06:33.100 have to worry about the people who are really getting in the way.
00:06:35.580 Here's an article in the National Post.
00:06:37.080 Prince Rupert Mayor sides with E.B. over Smith on Northern Gateway Pipeline reboot.
00:06:42.640 People like Mayor Herb Pond from Prince Rupert don't want a pipeline.
00:06:46.260 People like David E.B., the premier of the province, don't want a pipeline.
00:06:49.600 People like Mark Carney, the current prime minister of the country, don't want a pipeline.
00:06:53.580 But if we were to convince the Aboriginals it was in their best interest and work with 1.00
00:06:57.920 them and try to be less adversarial and more persuasive, do you think that E.B., Pond, and
00:07:04.260 Carney could turn them down?
00:07:06.340 Not a chance in the world.
00:07:08.140 Stop focusing on the politicians and start focusing on people who we can persuade.
00:07:13.840 And that's our Aboriginal groups.
00:07:15.860 And I think we need to work with them.
00:07:17.000 I've already sent out an email.
00:07:18.140 Well, I'd like to get somebody on the air, maybe a First Nations chief.
00:07:21.540 Perhaps I can get the Heisla Nation chief on.
00:07:24.720 They're being very prosperous working when it comes to LNG, making a lot of money off of it.
00:07:30.840 And they're owning a large part of pipelines across the country.
00:07:34.380 I want to get somebody on the air to talk about this issue from a First Nations perspective
00:07:39.580 and how we can bring them into the independence movement, but also do it from the standpoint
00:07:45.220 of a national movement as well.
00:07:48.760 I think there's allies on the Aboriginal side.
00:07:52.900 And I think this is probably the best way to go.
00:07:55.160 Let's just keep the politicians out of it. 0.98
00:07:56.760 Other than Daniel Smith, who is continuing to work with these people and wants to cut some
00:08:01.540 deals to make Aboriginals rich and to make us rich as well. 0.99
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