John Bolton - June 15, 2026


Premier Danielle Smith Makes The Case For Alberta Independence

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1 minute

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168.96

Word count

299

Sentence count

17


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While we wait for the Forever Canadian side to give us one good reason why Alberta should remain a part of Canada, other than fear and threats, one influential person continues to have clarity and convincing reasons why Alberta shouldn t leave Canada.

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00:00:00.000 While we wait for the Forever Canadian side to give us one good reason why Alberta should remain a part of Canada, other than fear and threats,
00:00:08.500 one influential person continues to have clarity and convincing reasons why Alberta should leave.
00:00:15.560 Well, you have to understand just how damaged Alberta is by the fact that we didn't get pipelines built.
00:00:20.880 If we had built Northern Gateway, if we'd built Keystone and we'd built Energy East, we'd have 2.5 million barrels more per day of production.
00:00:27.900 This onslaught of anti-energy, anti-agriculture, and anti-resource development policies have scared away global investments to the tune of a half a trillion dollars.
00:00:38.540 We had $176 billion worth of proposed projects that got cancelled because of the uncertainty created by various government laws.
00:00:48.180 We have been watching this for years. $600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken out of this province.
00:00:55.860 You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?
00:01:01.800 You don't think we'd be able to cut taxes a bit if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?
00:01:07.560 It is $5,000 per Albertan that every single year gets transferred out of this province for political reasons
00:01:17.440 so that the Liberals can continue to spend it in places that vote Liberal.
00:01:22.000 There's $9 trillion worth of value in discoverable and achievable reserves right now.
00:01:27.220 And so why would you leave that in the ground?
00:01:28.760 No other country in the world would, and we shouldn't either.
00:01:31.140 Alberta's biggest threat to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's capital.
00:01:36.360 Alberta has an Ottawa problem.
00:01:38.880 On October 19th, listen to Danielle and send Ottawa a message.
00:01:43.600 Select Option 2 on Question 10.