John Bolton - May 13, 2025


S#!t really hit the fan yesterday - but I have some concerns


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Danielle Smith had a big day yesterday in Alberta and in Canada and I want to talk about it. She says she's got the demands of Mark Carney and the Liberals, and she's lowered the threshold for a referendum. I also talk about who might be a good leader of the independence movement.

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00:00:00.400 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is May the 13th, 6.34 a.m. I've got my big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:08.020 Hope you're having a great day today. And just before I get into my video, I need to explain something.
00:00:14.040 I was up very early this morning. I woke up at 2 o'clock and I wanted to shoot this video and get it out for, well, an hour and a half ago.
00:00:21.560 Maybe two hours ago. But unfortunately, I've had some real issues with my computer. I need a new computer.
00:00:27.640 It's just not working with my editing program anymore. And it has been so frustrating this morning.
00:00:32.940 So you're going to notice a couple of these segments needed to be reshot today, including this one.
00:00:38.000 You can see the window back here. You can see the light. It's light outside. It's 6.35 a.m. now.
00:00:43.220 The first segments I shot, it was pitch black. So you're going to see that window change a couple of times through this video.
00:00:48.220 So huge day yesterday. Wow. The shit is hitting the fan here in Alberta and in Canada.
00:00:57.080 Right now. Danielle Smith. I want to talk about her today. Lots of stuff to talk about.
00:01:01.200 And what she did yesterday. Another shot across the bow of Mark Carney and the Liberal Party. Unbelievable.
00:01:08.040 I want to talk about Jeff Rath. Got my hat. You know, Jeff with the hat. He walked out yesterday.
00:01:12.960 They announced a question for the referendum with the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:01:18.960 Great question. But I've got real concerns with the optics of what happened yesterday.
00:01:23.780 I also want to talk about how Alberta is being disrespected and give you an idea of who might be a good leader of the independence movement.
00:01:32.340 Because that's a big part of my problem with what's going on right now.
00:01:36.980 The Feds are working for you, according to the Prime Minister.
00:01:41.580 But somebody else in the government says they're not working for you.
00:01:44.740 Getting mixed messages from them and how they're working with Alberta, which they're not at all.
00:01:49.260 And I want to talk about a statesman here. Great interview yesterday with a great Western statesman on Juneau News.
00:01:56.560 So I'm going to get a clip of that for you today as well.
00:01:58.700 But Danielle Smith. Unbelievable day yesterday. 1.00
00:02:03.240 Hitting another one out of the park.
00:02:05.120 She's batting a thousand when it comes to going head-to-head with the Liberal Party.
00:02:09.800 And Mark Carney right now. This is what she had to say.
00:02:12.520 That's why today we're announcing that effective immediately, Alberta is freezing the industrial carbon tax under Alberta's Technology and Innovation Emissions Reduction System, or TIR, at $95 per tonne of emissions.
00:02:26.780 So that's the first thing.
00:02:27.960 The next thing was she lowered the threshold to have a referendum here in Alberta. 0.96
00:02:31.580 The signature collection time for citizens' initiatives will be extended from 90 days to 120 days.
00:02:38.860 We are also improving the process by setting the threshold to be 10% of the number of eligible voters who participated in the last general election.
00:02:48.140 And she's also provided a long list to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of things that Alberta demands so that we get a fair shake here in the country.
00:02:57.480 Here's just a couple of them.
00:02:58.560 By repealing the No New Pipelines Law, C-69, the Oil Tanker Ban, the Net Zero Electricity Regulations, the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap, the Net Zero Vehicle Mandate, and any federal law or regulation that purports to regulate industrial carbon emissions, plastics, or the commercial free speech of energy companies.
00:03:19.180 So the Premier just basically saying we're not raising the industrial carbon tax anymore.
00:03:23.960 It's something that Carney wants to do on a federal level.
00:03:26.780 Absolutely not.
00:03:27.800 And by the way, just to let you know, climate change is dead.
00:03:31.480 It was hardly mentioned during the election campaign.
00:03:33.940 It will come back in a big way with the Liberals.
00:03:35.960 You can count on that.
00:03:36.840 It's who they are.
00:03:38.280 She says she's got the demands of Carney and the Liberals, and she's lowered the threshold for a referendum out here.
00:03:44.840 You'd almost think at times that she was a bit of a separatist herself.
00:03:48.780 But I know what she's doing here.
00:03:50.160 She's putting pressure on the government to get what Alberta wants. 1.00
00:03:52.960 Kind of what Quebec has been doing for years.
00:03:54.820 Which takes me over to Jeff Rath.
00:03:57.160 All right.
00:03:57.440 Let's put it on my hat again.
00:03:59.960 Jeff yesterday with the Alberta Prosperity Project coming up with a question to be on the referendum.
00:04:07.080 Now, I think it's a great question, but I have some severe concerns at the optics of this, what it looks like, who is making these announcements, and I have some ideas of who should be making these announcements instead of Jeff Rath, who I don't think speaks for the whole independence movement.
00:04:25.980 But it was a great reveal yesterday, so here is Jeff Rath with the question for the referendum.
00:04:32.420 I am very proud to announce that we have an official referendum question for the referendum petition campaign that we would like to introduce today.
00:04:42.420 So, gentlemen, if you could excuse me for a minute, and I'll try to do this without pulling down the signboard.
00:04:50.920 That is the question that will be on the ballot for the Alberta referendum.
00:04:56.780 It states quite simply, do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada, yes or no?
00:05:07.980 I think it's a great question. It's the question that I would have written in order to fulfill the Supreme Court's rules under the Clarity Act.
00:05:16.100 Clear question. I don't think you can argue it's not a really clear question.
00:05:20.200 And then we have to get the clear majority in order for us to separate.
00:05:23.800 I have a problem with the way this looked yesterday.
00:05:27.760 And no disrespect to Jeff Rath. True Albertan here. He's got the hat.
00:05:32.440 He's got the blue jeans. Probably wearing cowboy boots. I couldn't tell.
00:05:35.720 But it wasn't a very good look yesterday.
00:05:38.940 I think we need somebody a little more professional.
00:05:40.900 I don't think Jeff Rath is the head of the independence movement here.
00:05:44.300 Although it seems like he's taking that spot.
00:05:47.860 And the other thing that really bothered me in this, and I think if Jeff watched that video,
00:05:51.900 he walked up and removed the Alberta flag from the question and threw it on the floor.
00:05:56.480 You just don't do that.
00:05:58.420 I addressed the issue of leadership a week ago.
00:06:01.400 I think I refer to it as, we have a rudderless ship here.
00:06:06.380 There's nobody really leading this movement.
00:06:09.500 This is what I had to say.
00:06:11.400 But the people heading up the, let's get Quebec out of Canada movement at that point,
00:06:17.780 were Jacques Perizeau, the head of the Parti Québécois,
00:06:20.780 and the Premier of the province,
00:06:23.600 and Lucienne Bouchard, the head of the Bloc Québécois,
00:06:26.340 who was the leader of the official opposition in the House of Commons.
00:06:30.720 You're talking huge names here.
00:06:33.940 The equivalents in Alberta would be having Danielle Smith, the Premier, 1.00
00:06:37.400 and Pierre Polyev heading up the independence movement here.
00:06:41.020 We've got nowhere near that.
00:06:43.020 We're rushing headlong into a referendum in this province without a clear leader.
00:06:48.080 Without a cohesive voice.
00:06:49.820 There's too many cooks. 0.82
00:06:51.040 Some of them working against this movement.
00:06:52.880 We're not going to be successful until that is addressed, as far as I'm concerned.
00:06:57.700 And I'm not part of this movement, other than I want to vote yes, I want Alberta to leave.
00:07:02.040 Which brings me to my next segment.
00:07:03.880 I want to talk about Cory Morgan.
00:07:06.160 Cory out last night.
00:07:07.840 Rebel News had a town hall in Edmonton regarding the independence movement.
00:07:12.260 There's another one here on Wednesday in Calgary.
00:07:14.220 I didn't get tickets.
00:07:15.020 I wish I could be there.
00:07:16.580 But Cory is one of the best communicators regarding the separatist movement in Alberta.
00:07:22.240 I wrote a book, The Separatist Handbook.
00:07:23.860 I would suggest you get it.
00:07:25.220 Go to his YouTube channel.
00:07:26.500 He answers all the questions people have regarding the independence movement here in Alberta.
00:07:30.740 He's outstanding.
00:07:31.920 And I think he would be a terrific person to lead up this movement here in Alberta.
00:07:37.620 Put him out front to release the question.
00:07:40.820 Put him out front to answer the questions.
00:07:43.780 And to talk to Albertans regarding this movement.
00:07:46.200 I think he's outstanding.
00:07:47.180 Now he tweeted this out.
00:07:49.900 And I was thinking about this as well.
00:07:51.760 I mentioned this in Edmonton.
00:07:54.340 At my speech at the independence rally a couple of weekends ago.
00:07:58.400 Cory, during the 1995 referendum, Federalists beg Quebec, please stay.
00:08:03.160 Please stay.
00:08:04.920 As a referendum looms in Alberta, Federalists tell Albertans, F you.
00:08:08.560 We won't let you leave Canada in a nutshell.
00:08:10.900 I put this little quick clip together, taking you back to 1995, just prior to the referendum in Quebec.
00:08:17.540 Cory's right.
00:08:18.240 On the bus, there was a mix of emotions.
00:08:21.060 While some celebrated.
00:08:22.540 Yay! 0.99
00:08:24.300 Yay! 0.99
00:08:24.700 Yay! 0.99
00:08:24.880 Yay! 0.99
00:08:24.960 Others, like Bob Baxter and his wife, worried about the latest opinion poll showing the yes side ahead.
00:08:32.460 We heard the polls this morning.
00:08:34.120 They say the yes side is six points ahead.
00:08:37.740 And boy, if you're not worried at that, nothing's going to worry.
00:08:41.100 Go, go, go, go!
00:08:42.640 Soon, local people were swept up in the huge crowd.
00:08:51.060 Amongst the enormous crowd, a group of University of Ottawa students were erecting a sign.
00:08:56.460 Every bit of work that everyone's doing here is worth it.
00:08:59.200 If there's a no vote, we can save this wonderful country and we'll all feel better about it in the morning.
00:09:04.180 I was at the Unity Rally.
00:09:06.200 I lived in Cornwall, Ontario at the time.
00:09:07.860 I took a bus to go to Montreal.
00:09:10.160 I wouldn't do it today.
00:09:11.660 It was all, oh, we love you, Quebec.
00:09:13.300 Please don't leave.
00:09:14.300 Oh, Quebecers, please don't vote to separate.
00:09:16.460 We love you.
00:09:17.480 We love you.
00:09:18.200 And Cory's right.
00:09:19.180 Alberta gets this.
00:09:20.600 And it's getting worse all the time.
00:09:22.140 And expect it to get worse as the referendum gets closer.
00:09:26.580 Recruit Cory Morgan.
00:09:28.020 Make him the leader.
00:09:28.780 Which moves us on to something else that's related here.
00:09:33.940 Alberta doesn't get any respect from the Liberal Party.
00:09:36.560 They've been trying to destroy us for years.
00:09:39.640 They've had an epiphany, according to Dominic LeBlanc, who's been finance minister.
00:09:44.120 We'll have to see if he's in the cabinet as finance minister later today, as Carney announced his cabinet.
00:09:50.560 Different pile.
00:09:51.360 Same shit, as far as I'm concerned.
00:09:53.200 Same disrespect for Alberta.
00:09:55.280 Oh, but all of a sudden, the Liberals love Alberta and they love our oil and gas.
00:09:59.700 So we intend to be supportive of the Alberta economy.
00:10:03.820 And our government recognizes the importance of conventional energy in terms of the economic prosperity of the country.
00:10:11.380 We can do both.
00:10:12.620 We can support a transition to less carbon-intensive forms of energy.
00:10:16.980 But recognize that the world continues to need conventional oil and gas.
00:10:21.200 And Canada should be a reliable, dependable supplier of those energy resources as well.
00:10:27.320 So LeBlanc is all for oil and gas now.
00:10:29.240 The Liberals are, after 10 years of trying to destroy Alberta and destroy our oil and gas industry.
00:10:34.160 Now, Vasya Kapelis, who did a good interview here, I was critical of her the other day. 0.98
00:10:38.680 Credit where it's due.
00:10:39.920 She asked LeBlanc why he hasn't done anything.
00:10:42.120 Why the government hasn't done anything.
00:10:43.900 Alberta has demands.
00:10:45.480 Saskatchewan has demands of the government.
00:10:47.280 You haven't done anything.
00:10:48.320 And this is what he answered.
00:10:50.600 What actions specifically will you take to address the concerns of a very important part of this country?
00:10:59.120 So you'll forgive me, Vasya, but actions, as we speak this morning, the election was less than two weeks ago.
00:11:06.220 The new government hasn't been formed in terms of a swearing in of a new cabinet.
00:11:11.680 LeBlanc is saying they can't do anything because they're not really in power yet.
00:11:14.700 Meanwhile, you've got the prime minister of the country with this message.
00:11:18.320 We're in the biggest crisis of our lifetime, still playing up the fear for the sheep that voted for him.
00:11:23.520 Now is the time for ambition, to be bold, to meet this crisis.
00:11:27.400 With the overwhelming positive force of a united Canada, he's not going to unite Canada.
00:11:32.900 Now is the time to build and my government is getting to work.
00:11:35.740 Dominic LeBlanc says they can't do anything.
00:11:37.620 Carney says they're getting to work.
00:11:38.900 They're not going to do anything for Alberta.
00:11:40.720 Meanwhile, we get over to the statesmen here.
00:11:43.580 Candace Malcolm talking to Preston Manning for about 30 minutes on Juneau News.
00:11:47.500 I would suggest you watch the video.
00:11:50.380 It's fantastic.
00:11:51.400 Preston Manning knows more about the West than pretty much anybody.
00:11:54.600 He's asked about his op-ed a few weeks ago where he talked about Mark Carney being the last prime minister of United Canada
00:12:01.100 and how he's skeptical and Westerners are skeptical of this liberal government.
00:12:05.900 Just to go back to your op-ed in the Globe and Mail, you predicted that Carney, if he's re-elected, might be identified,
00:12:12.500 you said would then be identified in the history books as the last prime minister of United Canada.
00:12:17.020 So presumably you do foresee something like this happening in the next four years.
00:12:20.820 Now, if the federal government responded to some of this, then some of this could be averted.
00:12:27.700 But there's a real skepticism in the West.
00:12:31.360 I mean, Mr. Carney's done a 180-degree turn on, used to be a total champion of climate change.
00:12:39.040 Now that's been put in the background.
00:12:41.860 The Liberal Party was opposed to hydrocarbon energy development, opposed to pipelines, etc.
00:12:48.640 Now he professes to be in favor of these things.
00:12:52.800 Standing behind him at present, and he's going to maybe change this tomorrow, was a cabinet of 23 people
00:12:59.600 who just three months before were saying exactly the opposite of what he's been saying.
00:13:04.900 So you can forgive Westerners for being pretty skeptical.
00:13:09.180 It is a great interview.
00:13:10.900 Be sure to watch it.
00:13:11.900 I'll put a link in the description so you can find it.
00:13:14.160 But when Preston Manning started the reform movement back in 1987, their motto was the West wants in.
00:13:20.760 I think if Preston Manning were a little bit younger, he may want to lead the independence movement out here in Alberta
00:13:26.080 because I think he realizes now that the West wants out.
00:13:30.020 Great interview.
00:13:31.220 Thanks very much for watching.
00:13:32.440 I do appreciate it.
00:13:33.520 Hope it didn't go on very long.
00:13:34.760 Lots of different things.
00:13:36.160 Big day yesterday.
00:13:37.140 Lots of connections between the different things that are happening in Alberta and in your country of Canada.
00:13:42.900 I appreciate you being here.
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