John Bolton - December 20, 2025


Quebec The PARASITE of CANADA - CUT THEM OFF!!!!

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equalization payments equalization in Alberta referendum
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John Bolton
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John Danielle Smith Francois Legault Tanya Clemens Jason Kenney Scott Moe Marois Albert
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The gall and audacity of the politicians in Canada, and the amount of money they get from Quebec, and why they should stop subsidizing Alberta and British Columbia, and concentrate their resources on their own resources. The gall, the audacity and the gall of these people.

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00:00:00.080 It's five days before Christmas, and I apologize before I get into this, but this might end up being a bit of a rant.
00:00:10.700 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 425 a.m. Saturday, December the 20th.
00:00:16.120 I hope you're having a great start to your Saturday and your weekend as well. Merry Christmas to you.
00:00:21.120 I do have my big blue mug of coffee. I hope you're having a great holiday season so far.
00:00:26.140 And I woke up this morning feeling really good about the video I produced yesterday to go up this morning.
00:00:33.200 Actually, here's the thumbnail for it right here. It was something different.
00:00:37.240 I figured it's Christmas. I want to be happy, John.
00:00:41.140 So I did this. Leave the politics until tomorrow. John's top 10 Christmas movies.
00:00:46.740 I know it's off the beaten track. It's not what I normally do here, but I thought you might enjoy it.
00:00:51.200 I'm going to put this up later today because it's dated for today.
00:00:54.200 And I want to be happy, John. It's Christmas time.
00:00:58.880 But this video is probably going to be titled something like, Quebec is the Parasite of Canada. 0.98
00:01:04.700 Or it's the Boil on the Ass of Alberta. Something like that. 0.97
00:01:08.320 Because Quebec and the politicians out there are garbage. 1.00
00:01:12.280 The audacity and the gall of these people. 0.99
00:01:14.920 And now why am I talking about this on December 20th,
00:01:18.000 when it's supposed to be quiet season when it comes to politics?
00:01:20.780 Because I woke up this morning and I read this article from True North Wire.
00:01:24.880 And, you know, this article starts off by saying,
00:01:27.800 people will be shocked to learn how much money Quebec gets.
00:01:31.420 I live in Alberta.
00:01:33.160 I live in Alberta.
00:01:34.520 We know exactly how much money Quebec gets.
00:01:38.460 If you were to ask an Albertan that wants independence out here,
00:01:43.440 three things that make them mad about being part of Canada and why they want to leave,
00:01:47.180 every one of them would say, we give too much money to Quebec.
00:01:51.800 Every one of them in the top three would be those.
00:01:54.700 That would be one of the reasons.
00:01:55.900 We give way too much money for Quebec.
00:01:58.980 They take our money, raised through hard work and innovation,
00:02:03.240 to fuel their economy while telling us we can't get the resources out of the ground that fuels ours.
00:02:09.000 And by extension, fuels Canada's economy.
00:02:11.280 The gall, the audacity of these people. 1.00
00:02:13.960 These parasites. 1.00
00:02:14.980 I read this article this morning. 0.97
00:02:17.880 Quebec poised to receive nearly half of all 2026-27 equalization payments.
00:02:24.080 Taxpayers will be shocked to learn that nearly $30 billion is set to be paid out in federal equalization transfers in 2026-2027,
00:02:33.060 with Quebec poised to grab almost half of the massive payment.
00:02:36.820 I'm not shocked.
00:02:38.040 You know, if you live in the East, you don't understand the West.
00:02:40.520 Come live here for a while.
00:02:41.860 You'll get it.
00:02:43.020 I used to live out there.
00:02:44.200 I didn't understand either.
00:02:46.000 Quebec is expected to receive $13.9 billion of the total $27.2 billion in equalization payments over the next fiscal year,
00:02:54.160 with Manitoba also poised to get $5 billion.
00:02:57.160 Quebec Premier Francois Legault cited the importance of these transfers during a Tuesday interview with Radio Canada,
00:03:04.100 stating that the idea of his province separating right now would be too risky economically,
00:03:08.800 given how much money it would soon be receiving.
00:03:10.980 Here is the interview.
00:03:12.240 I'd play it, but this guy speaks some different language that drags us down as well. 1.00
00:03:17.660 Thank God I live out West where we don't have as much French. 1.00
00:03:20.800 Here's his quote from this article. 1.00
00:03:22.560 Again, the gall and the audacity of this piece of garbage, this parasite. 0.99
00:03:26.940 When I did the finances for a sovereign Quebec, Quebec was receiving $4 billion a year in equalization payments. 0.99
00:03:34.460 Equalization is the money that we receive from the rich provinces to Quebec, which is less rich.
00:03:40.840 French said Legault in French on Tuesday.
00:03:44.060 Currently, we receive $13 billion a year in equalization payments.
00:03:48.600 The other thing, and this has been said even by Ms. Marois, is that there would be a period of economic hardship for Quebec.
00:03:55.180 Now, they go on to tell you how much money other provinces get.
00:03:58.520 And Albert is quite pleased to be able to help out provinces that don't have oil and gas in the ground.
00:04:05.640 But back in May, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called for Alberta to stop subsidizing provinces with major productive economies like Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.
00:04:17.620 Madam Premier, take it away. 1.00
00:04:19.700 Quebec has substantial national gas resources, and they should develop their own pipelines for their own interests to wean themselves off their reliance on gas from the United States.
00:04:30.740 They should use it to develop their own royalty structure so they can develop their own revenue to pay for their own services for their own people so that they don't have to rely on transfers that largely come from Western Canada to be able to do it.
00:04:42.580 Well done, Madam Premier.
00:04:43.900 Why don't we do it?
00:04:46.400 I'm going to tell you why we can't do it in just a moment.
00:04:48.660 You know why we can't cut off the equalization payments?
00:04:51.580 Quebec!
00:04:53.200 I had a guest on earlier this week that will explain it to you, okay?
00:04:57.400 But while we're giving our money to Quebec, we're running a deficit in Alberta.
00:05:02.060 This is wrong.
00:05:04.460 And what do we get back from Blanchette and Legault in Quebec?
00:05:09.740 The head of the Bloc Québécois and the Premier of the province?
00:05:13.700 We get lectured.
00:05:15.060 The Premiers in the West would like to see pipelines go from the West to East.
00:05:18.660 We have to go across Quebec.
00:05:20.240 Where do you stand on that?
00:05:21.520 Would you allow an outlet?
00:05:22.840 I'm very clear since the beginning.
00:05:26.360 We need social acceptance.
00:05:28.480 Right now, there's no social acceptability for this kind of project right now in Quebec.
00:05:38.160 There's nothing for us in it.
00:05:40.120 There's nothing for the planet in it.
00:05:43.900 There's no project.
00:05:45.720 There's no promoter.
00:05:47.660 There's nothing on the table.
00:05:49.740 We pay for oil.
00:05:51.680 We pay for gas.
00:05:52.960 We pay for the repairs.
00:05:55.280 Thousands of dollars per person in Quebec and in Canada for a project which has no meaning
00:06:02.820 and no future, whatever they say.
00:06:05.980 And whatever intent they might have to become Americans, I don't mind. 0.85
00:06:11.380 Europe does not want it.
00:06:13.080 It could not be built in less than eight to ten years.
00:06:17.600 It would arrive in Europe and be imposed tariff on pollution.
00:06:23.860 There's nothing serious in that project but the fantasy of gaining votes.
00:06:31.740 I could see these two guys sitting around in a room together laughing at the rest of the country. 0.99
00:06:38.700 They're the boil on the ass of Alberta and Canada. 1.00
00:06:41.260 They suck the lifeblood out of the country in my province 1.00
00:06:43.820 while they make us kiss their ass and give them everything they want. 1.00
00:06:47.980 And that's what happens. 1.00
00:06:51.780 You know, again, we work hard out here to raise money to feed them.
00:06:56.080 To give them what they need while we run deficits.
00:06:59.040 And here's the thing.
00:06:59.900 You need to understand this.
00:07:00.820 Back in 2021, we actually had a referendum in Alberta
00:07:04.700 when Jason Kenney was the premier out here on equalization.
00:07:08.220 More than 60% of Albertans voted to end equalization with the rest of the country.
00:07:13.380 If those people who just voted on equalization voted yes in a referendum for us to leave,
00:07:18.980 we would leave it a landslide.
00:07:20.320 And maybe that's the way we should run our referendum.
00:07:22.400 You want to end equalization? 0.99
00:07:23.900 You want to stop giving money to the parasites in Quebec? 0.96
00:07:27.000 Vote yes to leave the country because that's what would happen. 1.00
00:07:29.740 Do you know why we can't end equalization out here, even though we voted for it?
00:07:33.960 Because of Quebec. 0.98
00:07:35.140 Here's Tanya Clemens, who was on my channel earlier this week,
00:07:38.500 talking about the independence movement, explaining it to you,
00:07:41.780 standing on the stairs of the Alberta legislature at the independence rally on October the 25th.
00:07:47.560 In the 2021 referendum, 62% of Albertans voted to end equalization.
00:07:54.920 And Ottawa just laughed because they know the truth.
00:07:59.040 Alberta can't possibly open the Constitution to challenge equalization.
00:08:03.360 To challenge that single clause, that one sentence that drains billions from Alberta every year,
00:08:11.520 we'd have to clear four nearly impossible hurdles.
00:08:15.480 The first one is that 7 out of 10 provinces representing 50% of the population have to agree.
00:08:22.480 The second one is we'd have to have a majority vote in the House of Commons.
00:08:29.200 The third is we would have a majority vote in the Senate.
00:08:34.580 And if we magically somehow passed those three hurdles, the fourth one is a real killer.
00:08:41.960 Because Quebec holds a veto.
00:08:45.020 And they never even signed the 1982 Constitution.
00:08:48.320 Yeah, boo! A lot of people booed.
00:08:54.820 I'm standing just to the right of Tanya, holding her flag.
00:08:58.100 Derek from an unacceptable fringe is standing right next to me.
00:09:02.220 They get a veto over us stopping equalization payments.
00:09:05.940 That's why it can't be done, even though more than 60% of Albertans voted in favor of it.
00:09:10.720 This has got to end. These people are parasites. 1.00
00:09:13.940 And they didn't even sign the Constitution. Did you know that? 1.00
00:09:18.320 And here's Danielle Smith pointing it out once again, how this has got to stop.
00:09:24.720 The federal government must provide to Alberta the same per capita federal transfers and equalization
00:09:30.900 as is received by the other three largest provinces, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia.
00:09:38.200 We have no issue with Alberta continuing to subsidize smaller provinces with their needs.
00:09:42.860 But there is no excuse for such large and powerful economies like Ontario, Quebec, BC, or Alberta to be subsidizing one another.
00:09:51.720 That was never the intent of equalization, and it needs to end.
00:09:55.440 This has got to stop.
00:09:58.900 And if you're in the East and you don't understand the independence movement,
00:10:02.180 why somebody like myself wants to leave Canada,
00:10:04.540 and you were shocked to find out that Quebec was getting almost $14 billion,
00:10:09.120 a lot of it paid for by Alberta and Saskatchewan,
00:10:12.680 maybe you understand a little bit more why we want to leave now.
00:10:15.420 And this is just one of the reasons.
00:10:16.760 It's a big one, but it's just one of the reasons.
00:10:18.920 Here's Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan.
00:10:22.120 About a week ago, the federal government gave next year's equalization amounts to provincial finance ministers.
00:10:27.460 This map is a clear indication of which provinces are driving Canada's economy
00:10:31.060 and how the equalization formula disincentivized economic growth. 0.84
00:10:35.360 And as you can see, the West feeding the parasites out East.
00:10:39.340 And this is the way it's been set up since Confederation, since Alberta joined back in 1905.
00:10:44.240 We're the money bank.
00:10:45.940 And we just siphon our money over here to Quebec. 0.93
00:10:48.020 Oh, and the economic engine of Ontario, which is a bit of a parasite itself.
00:10:53.120 Now, what we have to do, and I've said here before,
00:10:55.440 is we have to stop providing money for people who want to benefit from our prosperity,
00:11:01.300 but don't want to be part of the prosperity.
00:11:03.300 And that goes for the treaty people too.
00:11:05.780 I've said that many times here.
00:11:08.080 Coming up later today,
00:11:10.980 Happy John will return.
00:11:13.380 I'll put this video up later.
00:11:14.900 I think you'll enjoy it.
00:11:16.180 Thank you very much for watching.
00:11:17.500 Let me know what you think in the comments.
00:11:19.640 You have yourself a great December 20th.
00:11:22.140 Go out and do some Christmas shopping.
00:11:24.260 Don't elbow too many people in the face.
00:11:26.240 It's going to be busy out there today.
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