John Bolton - Premier Smith ADVANCING Independence - In Her OWN WORDS

00:00:00.000 If Premier Danielle Smith thinks she's making a good case for Alberta to stay within Canada, 0.98

00:00:05.300 she's making a damn poor argument. 1.00

00:00:10.740 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. 410 a.m. Monday, December the 1st. Welcome to December. I 0.97

00:00:17.980 hope you're having a great start to your Monday morning. I've got my big blue mug of coffee with

00:00:22.980 me. I just refreshed it. It's tasting very sweet this morning. I just checked the channel.

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00:00:40.720 please click on subscribe. I would really appreciate it. Boy, would I love to make it

00:00:44.540 to 50,000. So today I'm going to make the case that Danielle Smith, despite the fact that she

00:00:50.620 continues to talk about a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada, here she is,

00:00:57.400 back in mid-March saying exactly that. I have always said I support a sovereign Alberta within

00:01:02.780 a united Canada. I'm going to make the case that Premier Danielle Smith is one of the greatest

00:01:08.880 voices for independence in Alberta, whether she knows it or not. And she does it in everything

00:01:14.140 she says. I'm going to go back to her keynote address from the weekend in just a moment to play

00:01:20.680 some clips here that proves my point. But she started doing this earlier this year. In fact,

00:01:25.600 if we go back to October 24th, she did it when she announced Bill 1.

00:01:30.280 As we return to the legislature, our government is focused on delivering the clear mandate that

00:01:34.500 Albertans gave us in 2023 to stand up for this province, protect our freedoms, and chart our

00:01:40.040 own path forward. That's why we are taking the next step to defend Alberta's constitutional rights

00:01:45.260 through Bill 1, the International Agreements Act. Ottawa can sign international agreements with

00:01:50.860 other countries. That's their right. But this legislation, it makes it clear that those

00:01:55.100 agreements will only become enforceable in Alberta if implemented under provincial legislation. We have

00:02:01.340 made our position clear. Work with us and we'll get things done. Overstep and Alberta will stand its 0.92

00:02:07.240 ground. When she made that announcement back in October, I saw that. I didn't think what I thought

00:02:12.880 this morning when I watched it again. She was advancing Alberta independence on her own. And she's been

00:02:18.220 doing it ever since. In a way, she was, if I can use this word, separating Alberta from the rest of

00:02:25.380 the country and Ottawa. And when I watched her keynote address at the annual general meeting for the United

00:02:31.560 Conservative Party on the weekend, I thought, oh my God, I've got to do a video on this. I inspired myself

00:02:36.600 with a tweet I sent out after I watched it. And here's my tweet. On Danielle Smith, the things she does

00:02:43.840 well on are the things Alberta does independently or in spite of Ottawa, the things Danielle Smith does

00:02:50.180 poor on are the things where we have to endure federal meddling. Independence versus meddling. 0.79

00:02:56.500 What would you want? And what I've done here is I went through her speech this morning. I hope you'll

00:03:02.700 appreciate this. Just after two o'clock, I'm sitting down here cutting up a 35-minute speech into about

00:03:08.780 five and a half minutes. It takes time to do this. But what I'm going to show you here is all the bits and

00:03:12.680 pieces where she is advancing the independence movement as we separate more from Canada.

00:03:19.180 Whether she knows it or not, she's advancing the cause. If you're somebody sitting on the fence,

00:03:24.260 listen to her words here. Because these things, many of them are federal jurisdiction where Alberta's

00:03:30.460 going it alone or where other provinces would never touch this stuff. Alberta is going it alone.

00:03:37.300 Premier Danielle Smith and her case for Alberta independence.

00:03:41.820 We need an immigration policy that puts Albertans first. And that is why our government will be 0.96

00:03:48.400 taking primary control over our immigration system in the coming months and years ahead.

00:03:58.320 Using our constitutionally protected provincial rights, Alberta will return to a more stable number

00:04:04.100 of primarily economic migrants so that newcomers come here to work and contribute as they have

00:04:10.220 historically done. While Canadian citizens living in Alberta are given first priority to the jobs and

00:04:15.780 the opportunities our economy creates. Our government is accelerating desperately needed health care reforms.

00:04:22.740 For far too long, politicians across the country have neglected the growing crisis in our provincial public health

00:04:29.320 systems. Canada's health care systems, quite frankly, are broken. They are administered by bloated and

00:04:35.960 bureaucratic monstrosities that are often concerned more with centralizing power and control and money rather than with

00:04:48.820 empowering frontline staff and healing patients. By empowering Albertans to access private diagnostic

00:04:55.400 testing and screening services as they so choose. No longer will Albertans require a doctor to give them

00:05:02.600 permission to access private preventative tests or screening. Our government has introduced dual practice

00:05:08.400 legislation that permits doctors to provide private elective surgeries such as hip and knee and eye

00:05:14.980 surgeries after regular business hours and on weekends so long as they continue to provide their regular

00:05:21.980 amount of public surgeries as well. Let's talk about freedom and justice. We all know that woke ideological

00:05:28.980 policies such as the safe supply of drugs or soft on crime bail and sentencing rules, state sponsored social

00:05:37.980 engineering of children and institutionalized censorship of speech are just a few examples of terrible

00:05:44.560 NDP policies that have needlessly destroyed the lives of thousands in communities all across Canada. Albertans have

00:05:51.660 had quite enough of watching this train wreck of left-wing ideas in action and our government has stood firmly

00:05:58.560 against these dangerous and destructive policies when few other governments in the western world would. Although I'm

00:06:04.300 pleased to say that that is changing a little bit more and more each day. And despite the continued hysterics

00:06:10.880 of the NDP and their woke activists, Alberta will continue to march boldly forward with policies that

00:06:17.080 promote freedom, save lives and make our communities safe. This government will fund, not defund, the police. We will

00:06:25.660 seek justice for victims, not excuses for the guilty. We will replace enabling continued drug use for the

00:06:34.060 addicted with providing treatment and a means to recovery. We will lift up and support those struggling

00:06:40.860 with mental health rather than giving them the means to end their lives because of it. And while governments

00:06:46.780 around the world seek to institutionalize the censorship of free speech, our government will forge an

00:06:52.220 accelerated path in the opposite direction. That's why last week our government, inspired by the attack on

00:06:58.380 Dr. Jordan Peterson, as well as so many other doctors and lawyers and nurses and teachers and others,

00:07:04.460 introduced legislation containing comprehensive free speech protection so that no professional will lose

00:07:11.020 their license to practice due to their political beliefs or for not kowtowing to DEI and other destructive mandates.

00:07:20.460 I'm announcing today that next week our UCP government will be introducing a new motion under the Alberta

00:07:29.180 Sovereignty within a United Canada Act that will, if passed in the legislature, instruct all provincial

00:07:36.540 entities including our municipalities and law enforcement agencies to refuse to enforce or prosecute under the

00:07:43.180 federal gun seizure program. Now this Sovereignty Act motion will also make it clear that these

00:07:50.060 agencies will not enforce or prosecute Albertans defending their homes and families from intruders.

00:07:57.340 I got a little tip for low-life criminals out there. If you don't want to get shot, don't break into

00:08:02.140 someone's house. It's really that simple, isn't it? It really is.

00:08:09.820 We want our great men and women in law enforcement and our justice system to spend their precious time

00:08:15.420 and effort going after criminals, not farmers, not ranchers or sport shooters,

00:08:20.780 nor Albertans defending their families and their homes. Imagine that, right? As premier, I want to assure

00:08:27.260 every parent and grandparent here today that under no circumstances will we back down from defending

00:08:32.540 Alberta's children. And that means banning graphic sexual images from our school libraries, full stop. 0.86

00:08:38.940 And it also means using the charter's notwithstanding clause to protect our children by restricting

00:08:44.940 puberty blockers for minors and prohibiting gender reassignment surgery until a child reaches adulthood.

00:08:51.820 Of course, we will also protect women and girls in sports so they aren't forced to compete with those

00:08:56.300 who were born male. And we will make sure that parents are notified and included in the decision to

00:09:02.860 change their child's name or pronouns at school. Alberta was born strong and free. Alberta is still

00:09:11.580 strong and free. And together, my friends, we will ensure that Alberta remains forever strong and free. Thank you.

00:09:22.300 Premier Danielle Smith continues to think and try to sell to the province that Alberta is better within

00:09:29.340 Canada, a sovereign Alberta within United Canada. But in everything she said there, she proved that we're

00:09:36.700 better off when we do things on our own, independently, that Canada is going in the wrong direction and we need

00:09:44.140 to right the ship here and we need to take the next step towards independence so we can keep the money that we earn

00:09:52.620 here and we're not giving it to the rest of the country to advance their ridiculous agenda.

00:09:56.700 Canada. She proves that being independent is better than being part of the collective. 0.57

00:10:03.900 Now, the other thing that wasn't discussed the other day, and I've mentioned it here on this channel,

00:10:08.460 do you think one pipeline is enough? Premier Smith, do you think one pipeline is enough? Really?

00:10:13.740 Because now, continually, we have to go to Mark Carney, the Liberal Party in Ottawa, to beg. And that's

00:10:20.380 unacceptable. I can't accept that as an Albertan. All of her moves are proving that Canada is going 1.00

00:10:26.540 in the wrong direction, and we need to go on our own here in Alberta, and that would be independence.

00:10:32.460 Thank you very much for watching. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,

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John Bolton - December 01, 2025

Premier Smith ADVANCING Independence - In Her OWN WORDS

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