John Bolton - Radical... An Independence Debate - Who Won？ The Knockout Punch？

00:00:00.000 That Canada tore down its monuments to Sir John A. Macdonald and Queen Victoria.

00:00:06.820 That Canada spits on the heroes that conquered and settled a harsh and hostile wilderness

00:00:12.200 and made it into one of the greatest and freest nations on earth.

00:00:16.480 That Canada lured its flag in self-flagellating shame for months

00:00:21.040 to atone for a genocide that it well knew was a hoax.

00:00:24.940 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 458 a.m. Friday, July the 10th. I hope you're having

00:00:33.480 a great Friday. Looking forward to the weekend, no doubt, with the big blue mug of coffee,

00:00:38.380 which I tipped to you today. That clip off the top, Derek Philibrandt last night at the Glenmore

00:00:44.080 Inn here. Thank God it was in Southeast Calgary. It didn't have to go very far from home

00:00:48.640 to go see this debate. Generally, they put them downtown where the parking is atrocious

00:00:54.340 and expensive. It was a great night last night. Pretty much a full house, very much a pro-independence

00:01:00.280 crowd last night. Dwayne Bratt, I said to Derek before the debate, I stopped Derek and I said,

00:01:07.080 please tell Mr. Bratt that we appreciate him being here tonight. We appreciate him coming out and

00:01:12.880 taking the other side and debating you because I don't think we're going to see a lot more of this

00:01:17.640 leading up to October 19th. There have been a few debates. Bruce Party debated Jason Kenney on

00:01:23.100 YouTube. Keith Wilson, of course, two times debated Jason Kenney here and one of them in Calgary,

00:01:28.740 which I was lucky enough to be at. And I went up and I shook the former premier's hand, introduced

00:01:33.960 myself and said, sir, I disagree with you vehemently, but I appreciate you being here

00:01:39.640 tonight. And I shook Dwayne Bratt's hand after the debate last night. He was leaving. I walked

00:01:45.020 up. I said, thank you for being here. We appreciate that you came out here and told us your thoughts

00:01:50.440 on this. It was a good night last night. Now, I'm going to play you more of the open that you just

00:01:57.520 saw off the top of this from Derek Philibrand. I told Derek this in the interview I did with him.

00:02:01.920 It was great. So you're going to see the whole open last night. Now, people always say,

00:02:06.960 was there a knockout punch? We're always looking for the knockout punch. And generally,

00:02:12.540 those things don't happen. I can only think, and I think I may have mentioned this in another

00:02:17.420 video I did a while back that I can only think of one, really, maybe two in history that come

00:02:26.220 to mind as a knockout punch. Lloyd Benson, Dan Quayle, vice presidential debate many years ago,

00:02:32.380 Dan Quayle, going on and on about John F. Kennedy. And Lloyd Benson leans into the microphone and

00:02:39.500 says, Mr. Quayle, I knew John Kennedy. John Kennedy was my friend. Sir, you are no John

00:02:46.860 Kennedy. I think I've used that story again, but you can search that out online. Watch it on

00:02:51.440 YouTube. It was one of those great gotcha moments in debating history. But there's something that

00:02:56.500 came to mind this morning, and I think I was thinking outside the box this morning,

00:03:01.440 thinking about the debate last night. I got more out of it than you might imagine.

00:03:06.160 I'm going to give you a summation of what I think the other side is about in just a moment.

00:03:10.560 Mr. Bratt, for the most part, he stayed away from fear-mongering. He got there near the end

00:03:18.020 of the debate last night, and that's when he started slipping a little bit, as far as I'm

00:03:24.440 concerned, because he had some good arguments, nothing I agreed in, and he didn't change my

00:03:28.880 mind at all. Who won the debate? I can't say. I'm very biased here. Obviously, I think Derek won

00:03:34.400 this debate last night, but I was on his side, so it's not really fair of me to judge. But Mr.

00:03:40.560 Mr. Bratt slipped into fear-mongering last night, right near the end of the debate,

00:03:44.880 and I thought he started to lose the argument when he did that.

00:03:49.920 And I'm going to tell you right off the top, why do they fear-monger?

00:03:54.080 Ask you that.

00:03:54.840 Why do they fear-monger?

00:03:56.180 Well, obviously, they do it because they want to scare you away from Alberta independence.

00:04:01.140 But there's another reason that dawned on me this morning.

00:04:04.700 And I wrote it down.

00:04:06.320 They do it because they do not believe in you.

00:04:08.940 They do it because they do not believe in Albertans. They do not think we are capable

00:04:14.940 of doing independence. And that's the difference between me and them. I think Albertans are

00:04:21.800 capable. I know we are capable of doing this. If you're somebody sitting on the fence,

00:04:26.860 do you believe people like Dwayne Bratt or Jason Kenney, who fear-mongered a lot in his debate

00:04:33.160 with Keith Wilson? They don't think we can do it. And that's the difference between us and them.

00:04:40.580 If you're sitting on the fence, do you think Albertans are capable of building a better

00:04:44.860 lives for themselves with independence? So I'm going to sum up, I'm going to sum that up a little

00:04:51.300 bit more at the end here, but I'm going to play you the interview I did with Derek Fildebrandt.

00:04:55.140 And in the middle, I'm going to play his open because I brought it up in the short interview

00:04:59.140 I did with Derek last night and I said it was fantastic. You know, he should print it out and

00:05:04.280 pass it around because it was exceptional. So here's my interview with Derek after the debate

00:05:08.800 last night. So I'm here with Derek Fildebrandt after the debate at the Glenmore Inn with Dwayne

00:05:15.160 Bratt. First off, I saw you before this, Derek, and I said, please tell Dwayne, thank you so much

00:05:20.740 for being here tonight. I appreciated the fact that somebody would come out and actually talk

00:05:25.180 to you this evening well you know uh everyone else we invited uh chickened out or or wouldn't

00:05:30.060 take us up on the invitation uh and you know we actually tried we we had a very we had a mutually

00:05:36.640 agreed upon moderator i think donna kennedy glans did a great job yeah like couldn't have been

00:05:41.420 better i mean she's a federalist but uh she was great she was absolutely great uh we tried hard

00:05:46.760 to actually have a more balanced crowd roughly 50 50 i actually kind of like a little bit of

00:05:51.340 hate in the crowd too uh i get off on that right um i'm but it was it was the way ticket sales

00:05:58.140 worked it was a pretty home kind of a home field advantage for me and that takes some courage on

00:06:03.380 duane's part to come into uh you know where he doesn't have home field advantage and you know

00:06:09.120 so really great on him i'm glad he took me up on it when uh when most others chickened out so you

00:06:13.860 know it's it's the conversation we've been talking about for months i think it takes us back to the

00:06:18.220 beginning of the petition campaign in January. We need to sit down. We need to try to change

00:06:22.340 people's minds. There were people in this audience tonight who were pro-Canada, and we haven't seen

00:06:28.520 that a lot. A lot of the rallies we've had and discussions outside the city have been generally

00:06:33.800 are almost 99% people on the independent side. So it's nice you got some people in the room this

00:06:40.060 evening. Yeah, I mean, I think most people had made up their minds coming in. Most debates are

00:06:45.700 like that because you're going to be more motivated to show up it's the same in election

00:06:48.820 debates as well uh but you know i i talked to a good number here uh who were undecided they were

00:06:54.940 they came in leaning one way and they've maybe moved a bit uh some people did move but i do

00:07:00.400 think a majority were um you know already came in with with a general position that being said

00:07:05.820 even if you have already made up your mind about how you're voting on a referendum or in an election

00:07:10.720 for a candidate, you still have to subject your candidates or your ideas to the forge of debate

00:07:17.340 to see if your candidate, to see if your idea stands up to scrutiny, to see if it's strong

00:07:21.960 enough. And, you know, I like to think I did my part in making sure that the side I stand for

00:07:28.520 could stand up to scrutiny. Yeah. And you did a great job tonight. I think Dwayne did an excellent

00:07:32.660 job as well. Now, I don't know at the time I'm going to put this interview with you up, but

00:07:37.820 I think you should take your opening this evening and print it out so people can read it.

00:07:43.780 It was an outstanding opening this evening, I have to say.

00:07:47.780 I mean, I was sitting here and I got shivers listening to it.

00:07:51.080 So hopefully I can get that video and play.

00:07:53.360 Maybe I should have closed with that, but yeah.

00:07:55.520 Your closing was good, but you had a great opening this evening talking about, you know,

00:08:00.500 basically why Alberta should leave Canada and your reasoning behind that.

00:08:04.740 Remarkable stuff. Good stuff.

00:08:06.100 Thank you.

00:08:06.400 Thank you, Dwayne, for agreeing to debate me tonight, especially in a room that I think is disproportionately a bit Western standard.

00:08:12.480 It's brave of you. I appreciate it.

00:08:16.500 Alberta has given Ottawa a net $322 billion more in revenue than has received back since 2007.

00:08:26.440 Alberta has six times Nova Scotia's population, but only three and a half times as many MPs and half as many senators.

00:08:35.040 Alberta votes overwhelmingly conservative, but four out of five of our senators are liberals. 0.85

00:08:40.200 Most of them are on the radical left, and one even pushes transitioning little children. 0.96

00:08:45.540 Well-meaning federalist conservative politicians tell us that we just need to vote for them to make everything okay. 0.92

00:08:51.540 But we have done that for the last 28 elections in a row since 1935.

00:08:57.860 We have said the West wants in, but on the occasion that we do get in, the changes that we get are relatively small and quickly reversed by the next Liberal government.

00:09:08.860 Conservatives may promise a pipeline, but they will never promise to reform the Constitution to give the West fair representation or to end equalization.

00:09:17.860 They cannot, because they need to win votes in the East to form government.

00:09:22.860 I fight for independence not because I dislike Canada. On the contrary, I love Canada.

00:09:31.860 I grew up in small army and air force towns across Canada and had dreams of being a captain in the Royal Canadian Navy.

00:09:37.860 But our Canada is gone. It has been replaced by a post-national economic redistribution zone.

00:09:45.860 That Canada is terminally ill and it shows no signs that it is willing to save itself.

00:09:53.860 That Canada is crippled with shame and guilt and only arouses itself to fly the Maple Leaf when the bad orange man says mean things.

00:10:03.860 That Canada tore down its monuments to Sir John A. Macdonald and Queen Victoria.

00:10:10.820 That Canada spits on the heroes that conquered and settled a harsh and hostile wilderness

00:10:16.660 and made it into one of the greatest and freest nations on earth.

00:10:20.500 That Canada lowered its flag in self-flagellating shame for months to atone for a genocide

00:10:26.980 that it well knew was a hoax. That Canada rejected its liberty for censorship and the false illusion

00:10:34.420 of safety. That Canada opened the floodgates to third-world mass migration that is destroying 1.00

00:10:40.740 the inheritance passed on to us by our ancestors. That Canada tells you that you're racist

00:10:47.100 if you oppose it. That Canada puts tampons in the men's room of a military base that 0.58

00:10:52.860 used to be the home of one of the most feared armies in the world. That Canada used emergency

00:10:58.440 war powers to violently and unconstitutionally crush a peaceful protest of flag-waving Canadians 0.52

00:11:04.400 that were sick of having their freedoms crushed on the altar of COVID hysteria.

00:11:08.640 That Canada was ashamed of the Canadian flag until we raised Alberta's blue shield in defiance.

00:11:15.360 Alberta and perhaps Saskatchewan is the last bastion of real Canadian patriots,

00:11:21.120 patriots proud of our past and unwilling to surrender our future.

00:11:26.320 We are trying to save a part of Canada by declaring that our portion of it is proud

00:11:31.920 of its inheritance and is willing to fight to hand it to our posterity stronger than we found it

00:11:38.080 uh well i mean when i write for speaking it actually doesn't translate well for reading

00:11:50.520 sometimes but i mean it could be adapted for uh for that kind of thing but uh you know um you know

00:11:56.380 it's like the difference between writing a column and writing a tweet your sarcasm doesn't come very

00:12:00.200 good to tweet i've gotten in lots of trouble over the years for that yeah so well congratulations

00:12:04.760 tonight uh thank you to the western standard for putting this on thank you do you think that you'll

00:12:09.700 be able to do any more of these i mean so totally so many people are waiting to get lakasic out he's

00:12:15.100 been called out so many times he will not we thought we had we thought we more or less had

00:12:19.280 an agreement to do it and he uh he hadn't agreed to do it but we thought we were at the verge of

00:12:23.240 an agreement then he chickened out that was too bad the invitation's still there and i i promise

00:12:27.480 us to be nice if he if he takes us up on it right thank you very much for this thank you thank you

00:12:32.520 thanks to Derek for the interview now a lot of people want to know was there a knockout punch

00:12:37.540 during during the debate and very seldom as I said off the top of this video very seldom you

00:12:42.500 have a knockout punch but this was one of the most memorable moments of the night on the treatment of

00:12:48.320 Alberta there was a book that came out by Donald Savoie a very prominent political scientist out

00:12:54.240 of the University of Moncton, where he walked through how every region of Canada feels that

00:13:00.480 they're a victim. Obviously, Quebec feels that they're a victim. Indigenous people

00:13:06.040 feel that they're a victim. Atlantic Canada, we hear about, oh, look how many extra seats

00:13:11.240 PEI has in the House of Commons. Yeah, that's why PEI runs the country, right? They feel

00:13:15.980 victims. Obviously, Western Canada feels victims. B.C., there's something about the Rocky Mountains

00:13:20.720 Sometimes they feel entirely ignored by the rest of the country.

00:13:23.700 And then the rebuttal would be, well, what about Ontario?

00:13:25.840 They obviously can't feel that they're the victims.

00:13:27.960 They actually do towards the United States because of the legacy of the loyalists in

00:13:32.480 the American Revolution.

00:13:33.940 So every part of Canada, part of the great Canadian trait, is we're all victims.

00:13:41.880 Ms. Candy Glantz mentioned at the beginning that she's a mom of three kids.

00:13:45.140 I'm sure each one of her boys believes that mom liked the other ones better, right?

00:13:50.320 part of the process. Your analogy that, you know, everyone of Donna's children, sons probably thinks

00:13:57.560 that mom loves them the most is perhaps apt. I can see how the Canadian family feels that way

00:14:02.480 sometimes. But in this case, one kid has had to drop out of school and work to support all the

00:14:08.100 others. That kid deserves a little more love. I think that was the best moment out of a lot of

00:14:16.320 good ones last night. It wasn't a long debate, a little over an hour. And if you want to watch it,

00:14:21.520 I'll put a link in the description below. My thanks to the Western Standard for recording it,

00:14:25.920 for putting on the debate last night. Go over to the Western Standard right now. They support

00:14:30.860 the independence movement. So if you want to subscribe to them, do that. Help them out. They're

00:14:34.820 doing great work. Thanks to Derek Fildebrandt for debating. He was exceptional last night. And again,

00:14:39.760 thank you very much to Dwayne Bratt for being there. It's pretty sad that it's almost a radical

00:14:45.220 thing now that two people can stand in a room and have a civil discussion without it coming

00:14:51.160 to blows. I mean, and I don't think we're going to see many more of these before October. It's

00:14:56.680 really sad. You know, everybody wants Thomas LeCasic to debate. He has been called out so

00:15:03.000 many times. He almost accepted this thing from the Western Standard last night, but he's a chicken. 0.96

00:15:08.960 And when it comes to his arguments for unity, as he calls it, he hasn't got a chicken leg to stand

00:15:16.060 on. So unfortunately, Mr. Lukasik will never, ever stand up for what he believes in.

00:15:23.100 Now, I just want to sum up here. I'll go back to what I said at the beginning. You're going to hear

00:15:27.180 a lot of fear mongering. Fear works, folks. They're going to try to scare you away from

00:15:31.820 Alberta independence. But I also believe they do it because they don't believe in you. I don't

00:15:37.760 think they believe in Albertans. They don't believe that we're capable. And I wrote something

00:15:42.840 down. I want to read this to you if you don't mind. The stay in Canada types don't think Alberta

00:15:48.500 is capable. The stay in Canada types don't think Albertans are capable. That's what they'll tell

00:15:53.660 you. You're not going to be able to do this, but we believe we can. They don't think we can because

00:15:59.940 they have accepted we can't. We have wanted to do so many things in Alberta over the last 10 years

00:16:06.160 in particular, and 40 years, and going back before that, and we're told by Ottawa that we can't do

00:16:13.320 these things. This becomes the norm. This is the Canadian attitude these days, unfortunately.

00:16:19.960 You lower the standards enough and for long enough, and the mediocre becomes the regular.

00:16:25.520 The status quo becomes acceptable. The extraordinary seems out of reach. People who

00:16:32.780 want Alberta independence have had enough for long enough and believe the extraordinary is within

00:16:39.800 our grasp. People like myself, we have more of a fear of staying in Canada than Alberta leaving

00:16:47.240 Canada because I don't buy it when they try to scare me away from Alberta independence. Thank

00:16:54.100 you very much for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the

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John Bolton - July 10, 2026

Radical... An Independence Debate - Who Won？ The Knockout Punch？

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