John Bolton - May 05, 2025


Premier Smith - ALBERTA doesn't want in... we want out!

Topics
separation referendum demands separation referendum alberta independence movement
Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Mark Carney Danielle Smith Donald Trump Daniel Boardman Bill C-63 John Anthony Albanese Jeff Rath Wexit
AMAZING Alberta Rally for Independence - marred by ABHORRENT behaviour I wasn't impressed by Danielle... you were and TOLD ME about it (over 450 times)

Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

183.27

Word count

1,483

Sentence count

140

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

John sits down with Alberta s premier, Danielle Smith, to talk about a possible referendum on separation from Canada. John also talks about why he doesn t think there will be one, and why he thinks it's a bad idea.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 Now let's talk about the elephant in the room, that being separation.
00:00:04.300 We are well aware that there is a large and growing number of Albertans that have lost hope in Alberta having a free and prosperous future as a part of Canada.
00:00:14.600 Many of these Albertans are organizing petitions to trigger a citizen-initiated referendum, as I mentioned earlier.
00:00:21.280 The vast majority of these individuals are not fringe voices to be marginalized or vilified.
00:00:26.520 They are loyal Albertans. They are quite literally our friends and neighbors who've just had enough of having their livelihoods and prosperity attacked by a hostile federal government.
00:00:38.840 They're frustrated, and they have every reason to be.
00:00:42.340 85% of Canadians in this last election voted for the two leaders promising to turn Canada into an energy superpower and to build resource corridors, including for oil and gas,
00:00:53.520 while only 13% voted for the fringe voices in the socialist NDP and block parties and their extremists-leave-it-in-the-ground policies.
00:01:02.400 Obviously, we have a ways to go, and it will take a lot of work to undo the damage caused by these last 10 years of liberal NDP rule.
00:01:10.960 But that clear change in public opinion gives me hope. I think it should give all Albertans hope.
00:01:16.800 Madam Premier, with all due respect, I have no hope for this at all. None at all.
00:01:23.740 Hi, it's John. Welcome to the channel.
00:01:25.740 4.01 p.m. with the big blue mug of coffee, May the 5th.
00:01:28.980 I just spent 20 minutes watching Danielle Smith address the province. 0.99
00:01:33.560 About 4,000 people were watching on YouTube, on the Alberta website.
00:01:37.680 I'm sure other people were watching, and here's my take on what she said.
00:01:40.420 It's the same old, same old.
00:01:41.460 People were expecting her to come out and say, we're going to have a referendum on independence in Alberta.
00:01:46.480 I did not expect her to say that.
00:01:48.480 She went through the same old stuff.
00:01:50.220 She's got demands of Mark Carney, tanker ban, Bill C-69, plastics ban.
00:01:55.100 She added in no more transfer payments for B.C., Ontario, and Quebec.
00:01:58.920 They should be able to take care of themselves, so I agree with that.
00:02:01.400 But there's nothing new here.
00:02:06.220 So what? 80, 85% of the people in the country voted for an energy corridor.
00:02:12.700 Mark Carney's not going to do that.
00:02:16.880 I did a video ages ago.
00:02:19.840 You can't spell liberal without L-I-N-E. 0.98
00:02:22.420 He spent the whole freaking campaign lying to Canadians to get their vote. 0.92
00:02:26.440 He's going to go kiss the ring of Donald Trump, who's talking 51st state again. 0.76
00:02:31.400 And how long before a couple of NDPers walk across the aisle and join them,
00:02:36.300 and they have a majority government, and they're going to screw us over again?
00:02:39.400 Madam Premier, you know who Mark Carney is.
00:02:42.080 You said it yourself.
00:02:43.660 Given that the new prime minister is a whole new level of climate zealot and eco-extremist,
00:02:49.100 from his decades-long push for net-zero banking that sought to make it impossible for banks to invest in oil and gas,
00:02:55.820 to his promise now to massively increase carbon taxes on our industry, make no mistake.
00:03:01.720 He wants to eviscerate our oil and gas industry.
00:03:04.460 It's right in his book.
00:03:06.220 Madam Premier, your first impressions of Mark Carney are correct.
00:03:10.700 He has not changed.
00:03:13.220 That's who he is.
00:03:14.820 He's an eco-zealot, net-zero nut.
00:03:17.280 And so are all the people in the Liberal Party. 0.99
00:03:19.200 They've been voting for this crap for 10 years, year after year after year after year on carbon taxes. 0.99
00:03:24.640 Do you think all of a sudden they've changed? 0.97
00:03:30.440 I mean, he's hitching his wagon to the EU now, net-zero nuts, with Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU,
00:03:37.100 tweeting out to Anthony Albanese in Australia,
00:03:40.300 Labour net-zero nut.
00:03:42.280 That's what he is.
00:03:46.540 Past behavior, best way to judge future behavior.
00:03:49.640 And even if Mark Carney were to give you everything you say you want from him,
00:03:54.260 and he won't,
00:03:55.280 if he doesn't walk out tomorrow and say the end of Bill C-69,
00:03:58.720 you're not going to get any of it.
00:04:01.740 We want to vote on separation here.
00:04:04.180 That's what we want.
00:04:05.620 This is what you said in your speech today to the people of Alberta.
00:04:09.200 To be clear from the outset, our government will not be putting a vote on separation from Canada on the referendum ballot.
00:04:17.340 However, if there is a successful citizen-led referendum petition
00:04:21.480 that is able to gather the requisite number of signatures requesting such a question to be put on a referendum,
00:04:28.920 our government will respect the democratic process and include that question on the 2026 provincial referendum ballot as well.
00:04:36.760 I'm all for finding the correct number of votes to have a referendum,
00:04:41.400 but Madam Premier dropped the number down to 177,000 now. 1.00
00:04:44.980 That has not been passed.
00:04:46.560 The number still sits at 600,000.
00:04:48.720 And you know what?
00:04:49.580 I did not expect her to come out today and say we were going to have a referendum on independence here in Alberta.
00:04:55.600 But you know what?
00:04:56.480 She could have walked out and said,
00:04:58.000 listen, this is going to hang around our neck until we get this straightened out.
00:05:02.180 We're going to have a referendum question in 10 months.
00:05:04.620 Both sides make your case.
00:05:06.760 And then we would get it resolved one way or the other.
00:05:09.840 She could have done that long before we have an election here in 2027, I believe in October.
00:05:16.060 And that way the NDP couldn't continue calling her a separatist after we had the referendum question one way or the other.
00:05:22.720 Now, we're going to see a lot of hostility from people.
00:05:27.580 Don't buy it.
00:05:28.700 Okay?
00:05:29.000 Don't buy it from anybody.
00:05:30.200 Here's something I saw online today.
00:05:31.860 This is on X.
00:05:32.560 I was born in Alberta.
00:05:33.500 I grew up on a rural farm in Alberta.
00:05:35.960 We farm in Alberta.
00:05:37.300 And our farm is now a third generation farm.
00:05:39.740 But I am Canadian first and always.
00:05:42.120 Like the majority of Albertans, I do not and will never support separation from Canada.
00:05:46.440 And I put out, you do not know a majority of Albertans will never support separation until there is a vote.
00:05:51.580 You don't speak for me.
00:05:52.660 A lot of people are saying that as well.
00:05:54.340 Here's Dwayne Bratt.
00:05:55.140 Everybody runs to Dwayne Bratt for his comment on everything.
00:05:57.820 I am a proud Albertan, a proud Canadian.
00:06:00.060 I will not forget anyone who dares to try and make me choose between them.
00:06:03.500 And I tweeted back to him.
00:06:04.640 My name is John.
00:06:05.500 It's easy to remember.
00:06:06.780 Wexit.
00:06:09.240 And it's happening everywhere.
00:06:11.440 Alberta will never separate.
00:06:12.680 But people are worried about this, folks.
00:06:14.380 We need a leader.
00:06:15.920 We need a leader.
00:06:17.120 Watch my video this morning.
00:06:18.900 We don't have a leader.
00:06:19.920 Too much infighting in this separation movement and independence.
00:06:22.880 And people are going to try to make that even worse.
00:06:25.220 Okay.
00:06:26.460 Something else that I did here.
00:06:28.140 I sent this to the Premier today.
00:06:32.600 We want to vote on our independence.
00:06:34.060 Madam Premier, for far too long, Alberta has been disrespected by Ottawa and the East.
00:06:38.980 We have had enough.
00:06:39.980 Hollow words and promises from Mark Carney and the Liberal Party mean nothing to the hundreds of thousands of Albertans, maybe millions, who want their independence.
00:06:47.580 I respectfully ask you to allow Albertans to have a say in their future.
00:06:51.160 We want a vote.
00:06:52.860 And there is the Premier's email address.
00:06:54.520 I'm not telling you to email her, but you may want to do that.
00:06:58.120 And I did get, just to let you know, I got an email response here.
00:07:01.100 Thank you for contacting Premier Danielle Smith.
00:07:03.260 So she got my message.
00:07:04.640 Perhaps you want to send it to her and let her know how you feel.
00:07:08.500 But nothing new today.
00:07:11.360 A few more demands of the government.
00:07:13.640 Carney hasn't answered any of the other demands.
00:07:16.120 So why should he now?
00:07:17.700 But nothing new today.
00:07:18.980 Just on a final note, Jeffrey Rath, who I mentioned in my video this morning, one of the leaders of the independence movement.
00:07:26.320 This is the guy, the lawyer here in Alberta who wants 51st State, wants to talk to Donald Trump.
00:07:31.620 I hope that when we hear Premier Smith today that she has finally realized that she's either on Team Alberta or Team Canada.
00:07:38.040 She can't be both.
00:07:39.060 What do you think?
00:07:41.360 Where does Danielle Smith sit right now? 1.00
00:07:43.400 I like Danielle Smith.
00:07:44.380 I think she's been very strong.
00:07:45.720 But where does she sit?
00:07:47.200 What are your thoughts on that?
00:07:49.220 Leave them in the comments below.
00:07:50.960 Thank you very much for watching this video.
00:07:52.920 I do appreciate it.
00:07:54.060 If you liked it, give me a thumbs up.
00:07:55.480 Subscribe to the channel as well.
00:07:56.700 Ring the bell for notifications.
00:07:58.440 I'm working my way towards pretty close to 31,000 subscribers here.
00:08:01.880 I do appreciate you being here.
00:08:03.280 I will see you in the next one.