John Bolton - June 29, 2026


Someone Is Going To Get Killed - Pro Ottawa Goon Attacks!

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John Bolton
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Chris Scott John Mitch Sylvester Jason Levine LeVar Payne Kool-Aid Okotoks Aviva Fergette Danielle Smith Thomas Lukasik Pierre Poilievre Corey Morgan Medicine Hat Jason Kenney Mark Carney Claire Nanton Cindy
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Length

11 minutes

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163.47

Word count

1,935

Sentence count

166

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

1

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In this video, I talk about three things: friendship, danger, and action. In the case of friendship, it's a trip to Tabor to make a point, but the weather is terrible and it's hard to make the trip in good weather. In danger, it s a drive to meet up with a group of friends. And in action, it is the people on the other side of the independence movement.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Today, I want to talk about a dear friend of mine in Edmonton, who I have never met.
00:00:07.960 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel for 24 a.m., Monday, June the 29th.
00:00:13.640 I hope you're having a great start to your Monday with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:16.800 I appreciate you being here.
00:00:18.340 I did not expect to be doing a video quite like this this Monday morning,
00:00:23.060 but I think it's important that I address this.
00:00:26.320 And I've been thinking over the last couple of hours, because I've been up since about
00:00:30.700 2.30, how do I talk about this issue?
00:00:34.800 It would be quite appropriate for me to go into a rant here, but I want to think about
00:00:39.920 this in a little different way.
00:00:41.640 So what I want to do is I want to talk about three things in this video.
00:00:44.720 Now, the first one I want to talk about is friendship.
00:00:47.980 The second thing I want to talk about is danger.
00:00:50.540 And the third thing I want to talk about is action.
00:00:53.040 And that's how I will conclude this video today.
00:00:56.320 Action from the people on the other side of the independence movement, the leaders.
00:01:02.640 So I'm going to start off with friendship here.
00:01:04.560 So let me describe Sunday for you.
00:01:06.480 A little quick story here.
00:01:08.060 I get up at around 1.30 on Sunday morning, very early as usual, knowing that I'm going to Tabor on Sunday.
00:01:15.820 Now, for those of you who don't know where Tabor is, here's where I live up in Calgary.
00:01:20.740 Tabor is all the way down here.
00:01:22.140 And as you can see, quickest trip to Tabor, two hours, 42 minutes in good weather.
00:01:26.880 But if you've been following the weather here in southern Alberta, to say it's atrocious is an understatement.
00:01:33.280 The weather is just unbelievable.
00:01:35.460 So I'm supposed to meet up with a bunch of people.
00:01:38.080 We're going to cruise down to Tabor to make a point yesterday.
00:01:41.000 Now, for those of you who don't know, Corey Morgan has put up a billboard in Tabor,
00:01:46.460 and they tried to take it down because they didn't like what it had to say.
00:01:51.440 It had the words, choose Alberta, send Ottawa, a message on it.
00:01:55.780 And they're afraid of this billboard.
00:01:57.680 Even the city council there wanted his billboard taken down.
00:02:01.100 So we're going to go down there and make a point and meet up with a bunch of people around 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
00:02:06.540 So as I'm driving out of Calgary yesterday, I'm heading south down towards Okotoks.
00:02:11.060 And again, we'll go back over here, Okotoks, just south of Calgary.
00:02:15.500 A number of people got a jump start on me yesterday, and I was going to meet them at High River right here.
00:02:20.680 and I'm driving along Deerfoot Trail going southbound, and my car is hydroplaning on the
00:02:25.400 highway. Here's some footage of the drive to Tabor yesterday. At times, the wind was blowing
00:02:31.260 so hard across the highway, the people in front of me, their flags were going sideways and not
00:02:36.760 out the back of their vehicle, and we were going 100 kilometers an hour. So it was an awful day,
00:02:41.260 and what I'm thinking to myself is, is this worth it to drive all this way for maybe an hour to
00:02:48.420 make a point. So as we're going along on this trip, we stop in a number of places. Claire's
00:02:53.720 home, Nanton. We stop for lunch. Here's the people at lunch. All smiling faces. Great people.
00:03:01.120 Love them all. Had a great chat with so many of them yesterday. And we get into Tabor around 325.
00:03:07.420 So again, do the math here. Two hour, 42 minute. Fastest trip to Tabor if you're going full speed.
00:03:14.060 we took close to six hours to get there. I start my GoPro rolling just as they get out of the car
00:03:20.660 and this is what greets me. I would have spilled it all the way down. How are you doing? Really
00:03:40.880 good. Thank you. I'm recording right now. We're from Medicine Hat. Thanks, John. Thanks, John.
00:03:48.940 Thank you. Yay! Yay! How are you doing? Thank you. Thank you. What greets me is my friends.
00:04:02.180 I've never met these people, but they're my friends. We have something in common here.
00:04:10.880 And I almost get tearful thinking about it
00:04:13.440 because I'm going to get to something
00:04:14.640 that's very dangerous in just a moment, okay?
00:04:18.760 I thought back to Mitch Sylvester.
00:04:20.580 I was doing a little feature for the upcoming telethon
00:04:24.440 and I thought about something I said to Mitch Sylvester
00:04:27.960 after the event back in January at the Big Four
00:04:30.460 and this is what I said to Mitch.
00:04:32.040 Short clip here.
00:04:33.480 To be a part of an event like this is terrific.
00:04:35.760 It's fun, isn't it?
00:04:36.700 It really is.
00:04:37.580 You know, I feel like I'm with friends here.
00:04:39.180 That's exactly correct.
00:04:40.880 That's what the whole thing with all these events are for.
00:04:44.120 I feel like I'm among friends.
00:04:47.260 You know, I go...
00:04:50.340 Pardon me.
00:04:54.540 So I go there yesterday, and I'm driving down there, and I forget names.
00:04:58.840 I apologize. I meet so many people.
00:05:01.960 These people I met in Tabor yesterday, I hadn't met hardly any of them, and they're my friends.
00:05:06.760 I go down there yesterday, Cindy and Roy made this little mug for me.
00:05:10.580 People give me things.
00:05:11.520 This is me and my three cats on the big blue mug.
00:05:14.520 Thank you. 0.99
00:05:16.200 A woman walks up to me and gives me the little Kool-Aid guy.
00:05:18.860 Says, John, don't drink the Kool-Aid. 0.96
00:05:20.340 I said, there's always coffee in the big blue mug.
00:05:22.320 But she put a little note in a bag along with the Kool-Aid guy.
00:05:30.000 In case no one said it yet today, you're great.
00:05:35.000 I'm not lost.
00:05:36.520 If I have cheered you up, please take me home.
00:05:39.020 If you want to brighten someone else's day, please feel free to give me away.
00:05:44.420 God bless your day.
00:05:46.920 Well, I'm going to put my little Kool-Aid guy over here.
00:05:54.760 Got a magnet on him and he's going to stay right there.
00:05:57.180 Thank you so much.
00:05:58.040 You made my day.
00:05:58.780 I met LeVar Payne yesterday.
00:06:00.680 I had mentioned one time that I wanted a Let's Go hat and LeVar sent me one to the house.
00:06:06.600 LeVar, a former MP.
00:06:08.320 Here's the hat he sent me.
00:06:09.940 You know, these are my friends.
00:06:11.260 I met so many great friends yesterday.
00:06:13.080 We have a kinship, something we will always remember.
00:06:16.440 So I spent about an hour in Tabor yesterday and wanted to get home.
00:06:21.420 And the weather was just terrible coming home.
00:06:24.360 Sheets of rain, visibility almost down to nothing at times.
00:06:27.340 I got all the way home, 7.30 last night.
00:06:31.740 I walked in the house and I thought that was worth it because I spent the day with my friends.
00:06:37.200 and then the phone rang. And it was Jason Levine. I was in the house for a minute and Jason called
00:06:42.940 me. I had tried to contact him a couple of times yesterday to see how his event was going in
00:06:48.760 Edmonton yesterday. He couldn't get into Edmonton. The weather was worse there.
00:06:54.100 John, did you see the video? This is the danger part. What video, Jason? Can hardly keep my eyes
00:07:01.380 open. Some guy got pushed under a car in Edmonton today. I said, you're kidding. He said, no,
00:07:06.220 I'll send you the link.
00:07:07.920 I didn't watch the link last night.
00:07:09.580 I ate, went to bed, and I was out cold.
00:07:12.300 I got up this morning, and I watched this.
00:07:35.860 Now, this has to stop.
00:07:44.220 Somebody is going to get seriously hurt.
00:07:46.280 And I can assure you, it won't be our side hurting the other side. 0.94
00:07:50.680 Some of these people are unhinged.
00:07:54.260 You know, yesterday as we were driving into Tabor, 0.50
00:07:57.180 somebody was passing our little convoy,
00:07:59.980 and somebody in the passenger side had their finger out the window like this.
00:08:03.920 Other people can confirm this.
00:08:05.340 I was laughing about it. This is their free speech rights, as far as I'm concerned.
00:08:10.240 They weren't accomplishing anything other than getting a very wet hand.
00:08:14.440 But this is going to escalate to the point where somebody is going to be
00:08:17.820 seriously injured, if not killed here. And again, it will not be our side that's doing this.
00:08:24.040 You remember during the petition campaign, people got threatened. People jumped out of vehicles and
00:08:31.020 charged people collecting signatures somebody got burned by a cigarette if i remember correctly
00:08:36.780 if we look at this video again i don't know who this person is on the left side over here with
00:08:43.340 the alberta flag but this is my friend this is a friend i haven't met just like the people
00:08:49.580 people in taver yesterday who is the guy on the right side of the screen here i want to know
00:08:53.980 i want this person prosecuted this person should go to jail if this guy was holding a canadian flag
00:09:00.460 this would be national news today. If this guy was holding a rainbow flag, this would be national
00:09:07.580 news and would be run all week long. But if you watch this video back, this almost became a tragedy.
00:09:19.900 His leg got hit. It's a wonder he walked away. And then the guy had the audacity to threaten him
00:09:25.480 with what looks like a hockey stick that has his flag on it.
00:09:29.640 But my friend was attacked yesterday in Edmonton.
00:09:32.080 Now, I was talking to somebody yesterday in Tabor,
00:09:34.840 and they said, did you see that Chris Scott was threatened?
00:09:39.620 Look at this.
00:09:42.520 Is this appropriate from a government employee?
00:09:44.960 Chris Scott.
00:09:47.800 Name, Aviva Fergette. 1.00
00:09:50.180 Come up here and try it. 1.00
00:09:51.940 I will personally slit your effing throats. 1.00
00:09:55.480 and let your blood water the northern soil that is my home. 1.00
00:10:01.620 If this is actually a government employee,
00:10:05.400 it's Monday morning, I expect this person to be fired by noon.
00:10:09.840 Now, what does Chris Scott want, folks?
00:10:13.100 Here's Chris's website.
00:10:15.640 Let's talk Alberta.
00:10:17.280 All Chris wants to do is talk, and these people threaten him.
00:10:21.500 this is a vote in october this is democracy and the other side is going to do something
00:10:30.400 tragic and they need to be stopped now as far as action you've seen this before i'll put it up
00:10:36.480 full screen these are the prominent voices on the other side of the independence movement
00:10:41.480 alberta premier danielle smith former alberta premier jason kenney alberta ndp leader nahed
00:10:47.460 Nenshi, former deputy premier of Alberta, Thomas Lukasik, and the leader of the Forever Canadian
00:10:52.640 side, conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, and the prime minister of this country, Mark Carney.
00:10:57.660 On this graphic, I say they're all the same because they're all fighting against the independence
00:11:01.700 movement. But I expect the same from all of them. I want them all to denounce this violence. And
00:11:09.020 they need to say cease and desist before somebody gets killed. And I want to know who this person is
00:11:15.680 on the right side of the screen, they need to go to jail. And if this is actually a government
00:11:20.680 employee that threatened Chris Scott, they need to be fired immediately. And I think that's a crime
00:11:25.980 as well. You are not going to threaten my friends and me be quiet about it. This has got to stop.
00:11:36.000 Somebody is going to get seriously injured or killed before the end of this.
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