John Bolton - June 10, 2025


Premier Smith... the writing is ON THE WALL... no pipelines for you


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4 minutes

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859

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73

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Is Danielle Smith finally catching on to what's going on in Alberta? Is she finally starting to see the writing on the wall when it comes to the Carney government's opposition to oil and gas development in Alberta.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Hope you're having a great day. Tuesday, June 10th,
00:00:04.520 619 a.m. I've got my big blue mug of coffee. Hope you're having an awesome day today.
00:00:10.560 And thank you very much for being here. I've hit 32,000 subscribers. Thanks so much if you
00:00:16.100 have subscribed. If you haven't, please kick on subscribe. So I do not want this to be a long
00:00:20.700 video today. I promise it's going to be a short one, but I think this is an interesting one.
00:00:24.700 I'm wondering if Danielle Smith is finally starting to see the writing on the wall when
00:00:29.980 it comes to the Carney government. I've seen it all along. You've seen it all along. We've seen
00:00:36.020 all the clips of how he has been against oil and gas, and he's been Mr. Net Zero. And he's slowly
00:00:42.580 revealing himself to be that person. We're seeing more and more ways to justify not pumping oil and
00:00:49.580 gas out of Alberta. Is Danielle Smith finally catching on? Stories popped up in the last 24
00:00:55.280 hours. Actually popped up on the weekend, but it kind of popped up in the National Post over the
00:00:59.760 last 24 hours on the latest thing that's going to get in the way of oil production in Alberta. Of
00:01:05.800 course, we've got all those things I call outs, all those excuses, all the ways the Carney government
00:01:11.140 can justify not building pipelines. Carney wraps it up in a word, consensus.
00:01:16.800 We will not impose a project on a province. We need consensus behind these projects, and we need the
00:01:26.100 participation of Indigenous peoples. Pardon me if we've been here before, but at the bottom of these
00:01:32.300 layers that are slowly being built not to have pipelines here, there's a very chilling effect at
00:01:38.060 the bottom. I wonder if Danielle Smith is starting to see. I'm wondering if she's starting to think she
00:01:43.260 should be leading the independence movement in Alberta, because she talks about doing the best
00:01:47.180 for Albertans. She has Albertans' best interests in mind, and our best interests are not going to be
00:01:53.340 served by Mark Carney and the Liberal government. She's got to see it. And there's another thing that's
00:01:58.940 popped up over the last 24 to 36 hours, which we'll get to in just a moment. And Carney's been
00:02:03.660 very smart about this. I think I've mentioned before that he doesn't have to look like the bad
00:02:07.460 guy here. We need a consensus. Quebec and BC say, no pipeline, not my fault. The same thing with the
00:02:13.680 Aboriginals. You know, he talks about decarbonized oil. He brought that up, a decarbonized barrel of oil.
00:02:19.840 Other countries won't trade with Canada if we don't decarbonize our oil. And if we can't do that,
00:02:25.840 why build a pipeline? Right? There's the Vashi Capellas thing, which I mentioned yesterday,
00:02:30.320 which I'm starting to see. Oil companies are doing just fine. They're pumping more oil. They're
00:02:35.280 making more money. Why aren't you spending money on social services? Daniel Smith. Demonize Daniel
00:02:39.600 Smith. Demonize the oil companies. They're doing fine. Why build a pipeline? We've got lots of money. 0.88
00:02:46.240 Everything's just great. And of course, there's the narrative that pipelines aren't at full capacity.
00:02:51.060 Stephen Giebaugh said that. And so did David Eby, the Premier of British Columbia.
00:02:55.440 And there's a reason for that. Daniel Smith wants to pump twice as much oil. And then
00:02:58.860 there's this one as well that popped up. Daniel Smith feuds with Giebaugh over his plans for Canada's
00:03:04.500 national parks. And I remember when I read that he'd be in charge of national parks. I thought this
00:03:09.220 a month ago, five weeks ago, there's a reason for this. And I never mentioned it here on the channel,
00:03:14.560 and I should have, that I thought that he'd put a barrier up all the way around Alberta so we can't
00:03:19.540 get our oil out of here by putting national parks in the way. And I think that's what they're doing now.
00:03:24.220 But the real thing here is, the chilling effect this has and the economic uncertainty there is
00:03:30.920 when it comes to oil and gas companies. Would you invest in an oil pipeline right now,
00:03:35.740 seeing all these layers being built like I'm seeing, that you're probably seeing,
00:03:40.220 that Daniel Smith is definitely seeing? I wouldn't be. There's no investor right now in an Energy East
00:03:46.360 pipeline, for instance. They backed out years ago when it got canceled by the Trudeau government.
00:03:50.380 So things aren't any better today than they were January 6th when Justin Trudeau resigned
00:03:56.060 as the leader of the Liberal Party. And pardon my bad photoshopping here, but this is kind of
00:04:01.480 what I see happening and how I see the border around Alberta being created by national parks so
00:04:08.500 we can't put a pipeline through. Here you go. Here's my map. Tell me what you think in the comments.
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