John Bolton - The BEST of the ALBERTA Prosperity Project - Alberta INDEPENDENCE NOW

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to my channel. I hope you're having a wonderful day today.

00:00:04.340 If you've been to my channel before, you know that it's no secret that I would like to see

00:00:09.120 Alberta become a separate country. I've had an opportunity to talk to three gentlemen on my

00:00:14.620 channel over the last several months from the Alberta Prosperity Project, three of the men

00:00:19.400 who are, I think, the main voices when it comes to events around the province of Alberta. I'm

00:00:24.820 talking about Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, and Dr. Dennis Modry. And here on my channel, between

00:00:30.620 the three of them, I've spoken to them for over 90 minutes. I thought it would be kind of fun and

00:00:36.940 very informational for people who haven't heard these men speak if I cut this down and I did a

00:00:41.680 best of the Alberta Prosperity Project. So basically, you're going to hear from all three men here in

00:00:47.220 about 30 minutes. I think the original videos are well worth watching in their entirety, but right

00:00:52.980 now, Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, and Dr. Dennis Modry from the Alberta Prosperity Project. I hope

00:00:58.820 you enjoy. I'm feeling pretty optimistic right now. I really am. I spoke with Corey Morgan a couple

00:01:06.500 of weeks ago and I asked him whether he thought maybe there might be a lull in this momentum that's

00:01:12.340 happened, I think, when it comes to the independence vote through the summertime. But I see all the things

00:01:17.440 that you're doing, that the Alberta Prosperity Project is doing, the people who are showing up.

00:01:21.640 It seems like day after day, you've got different meetings set up. I'm looking forward, IRSVP to the

00:01:26.540 24th here in Calgary. So hope to see you. Maybe you'll be there and meet you.

00:01:30.980 I will be there.

00:01:31.600 Yeah. Are you optimistic? How are you feeling about it right now?

00:01:34.700 Well, I am very optimistic. Actually, I'm surprised by the continuing response we're getting. And the

00:01:41.600 other thing that I'm very surprised about that makes me feel optimism as well is that the fact that

00:01:46.980 50 to 60% of the people in the room have never been to a political meeting before.

00:01:52.040 And the other thing I'm seeing is young moms with babies and young people, you know, traditionally

00:01:57.380 our political meetings were people over 45, even over 55. And now we're seeing a lot of 20 to 40

00:02:04.580 year olds attending these meetings and very much in support. So that all by itself makes me optimistic

00:02:10.640 about this. The message is very strong. I mean, the message is very good. And we don't believe for one

00:02:16.100 second and it's even partisan. We think that once people understand the numbers that, you

00:02:21.160 know, both sides of the aisle are going to be very happy with the results of a yes vote

00:02:25.940 in an Alberta referendum for independence.

00:02:28.060 You know, I've watched a few videos of you. You describe Alberta as the richest real estate 1.00

00:02:32.760 in the world. Financially, what would independence mean to a typical Albertan, an average Albertan

00:02:39.280 out there?

00:02:40.420 Well, it's funny that you should mention that. We're just publishing a business plan and we're

00:02:43.500 going to probably have a press conference next week about it. And it's very clear. What does

00:02:47.760 it mean to the average Albertan? It will probably be, I would suggest that the average Albertan

00:02:52.800 can look for an immediate 20 to 25% increase in pay based on not having to pay federal tax.

00:02:59.880 So say you're earning $70,000 a year, you know, you can be looking for $17,000 more disposable

00:03:07.280 income based on the fact that we don't have to pay all of these ridiculous taxes that we're

00:03:12.080 being charged. We have a dysfunctional relationship with the federal government of Canada. And I mean,

00:03:17.120 it's, it's become clearer and clearer and clearer the further down the road we go. Like they're

00:03:22.760 literally sabotaging our industry. They're literally attacking our people. They're literally

00:03:27.000 overtaxing us. This is all conscious. Um, and we make it very clear in each of our presentations

00:03:32.120 that this is actually what happens. This is not my words. These are the words that we see coming

00:03:36.120 from the premier of Alberta all the time. She literally said that they're sabotaging our

00:03:39.920 industry. Um, and we see it every day living where I live. I live in Bonneville, Alberta.

00:03:44.840 So Bonneville produces 35% of Alberta's oil. And so we understand that every time that there's

00:03:51.680 an attack on the oil patch, that we feel it directly. And you know, I mean, the stats are

00:03:56.840 showing that they continue to go down the road of the, of the, of the carbon cap. And, uh, you know,

00:04:02.100 there's stats that are saying that we'll lose 54,000 jobs as a consequence to that. Now,

00:04:07.220 nowhere else in Canada is any of this happening. Like nowhere else in Canada, they are the attacking

00:04:11.940 industry. Nowhere else in Canada won't even dream of attacking industry, but it seems to be

00:04:16.020 something that's been going on here for literally 120 years. Uh, so you're not, you're not, uh,

00:04:21.700 encouraged by what Carney's been saying about energy superpower, um, you know, building projects

00:04:27.300 across the country. You don't believe that at all. Absolutely not. I mean, I mean, you know,

00:04:32.820 once a relationship and once a trust is gone and once the relationship is severed, uh, we totally

00:04:38.100 understand that with 82 ethics violations, the liberal governments are basically criminals.

00:04:42.980 They're basically taking money from Albertans. And if you do not, you, we cannot, these people do not

00:04:49.780 go to jail for the stuff that they do. Like one ethics violation after another ethics violation,

00:04:55.460 any one of which would have brought down any of the previous government. And they had like 82 from

00:05:00.900 what I understand. So, do you know, we arrived, can we, um, program parliament for $400 million missing,

00:05:08.180 uh, printing 327 or however many billion dollars they did, uh, during COVID with no audit, no tracing the

00:05:15.460 money, um, infrastructure projects with actually no projects that happened, but the money gets transferred

00:05:22.020 over. Nobody's looking into any of that. So, so the purpose of this whole exercise is that, and the

00:05:28.340 premier said this to me in, in meetings, in public meetings, actually, she said, uh, and I quote her on

00:05:34.180 this. She said that when I became premier, I thought that I could change everything in six or seven months,

00:05:39.220 but everything's broken. Everything's broken means everything's basically so crap that you can't fix it. 0.96

00:05:45.780 What do you, what do you mean? So I'm sorry, go ahead, continue. And so if the, if that's actually 0.93

00:05:50.660 the case and Pierre Polyev actually says the same thing and you can Google it and find it online

00:05:55.700 anywhere. He said, everything's broken. I've been a little bit concerned along the way, Mitch, about

00:06:01.540 really not having a face of this campaign. There's a number of different people kind of leading the way.

00:06:07.140 Um, Jeffrey Rath is out there, Cam Davies from the Republican party. You're out there as well. Do you

00:06:12.340 think we need sort of that cohesive voice that one person out there speaking on behalf of this

00:06:17.780 movement, or are we okay to where we are right now with a number of people speaking?

00:06:22.580 This is consciously done. Okay. And, and the reason, the reason why we're doing this

00:06:27.220 consciously is here's the problem. The people of Alberta have to be the face of this. The people

00:06:32.740 of Alberta are going to be the ones that ultimately decide this. They're going to go to a constitutional

00:06:36.580 conference after this, and they're going to participate in that. And they're going to forever have to

00:06:41.140 participate in a democracy moving forward. Um, because that is how we got here.

00:06:47.060 Uh, what's happened is because of our apathy that we ended up coming here. Well,

00:06:51.220 let's not mistake the fact that we have real good lives here in Alberta for the most part, up until

00:06:55.220 just recently in the last couple or three years, um, people here always had the opportunity that they

00:07:00.500 worked hard. You could, you know, earn a lot of money and become basically as, as, as wealthy as you

00:07:06.580 almost want by the amount of work ethic and making a smart decision or two here, you could do very,

00:07:11.540 very well as a lot of us have done. Um, and you know, I mean, I, there's a lot of people in Bonneville.

00:07:17.140 That's like I said, the heart of the oil patch. So there's a lot of people there that have come off

00:07:21.060 of, uh, you know, dirt, poor farms and have now become very, very wealthy people based on the work,

00:07:26.420 uh, real good work ethic and nose down, butt up and working hard for years and years and have

00:07:32.900 actually earned a lot of money. And, uh, that's the Canadian dream. That's the dream why people come

00:07:37.940 to Alberta. However, we're seeing today that that is no longer the case. That is no longer the case

00:07:44.260 for young people. Young people can't, uh, actually leave high school and work a couple of years and

00:07:49.140 end up in a new house or a home, uh, with very few exceptions. So when I was growing up, that was

00:07:54.980 something that was not at all out of the question. As a matter of fact, it was more common than not.

00:07:59.460 Yeah. Um, I know you're busy. I've, I've, I've put down a few things and sort of a rapid fire thing.

00:08:05.780 I don't want to, I don't want to take much time on these things, but these are the arguments

00:08:10.180 against independence that I hear all the time. And maybe if you could quickly respond to these one,

00:08:14.900 Alberta's landlocked. No problem. We're policy locked. We've always been landlocked. That's not

00:08:19.940 going to change. We're policy locked. If we can get rid of government policies that are landlocked,

00:08:24.420 that are actually locking us, uh, we will have no problem. We don't forget 90% of our oil export

00:08:29.220 go south. Uh, they may be amenable to another south pipeline that we could put to the west coast.

00:08:33.940 And we could also go north. Um, there's, and BC is actually improving a pipeline as we speak.

00:08:39.060 That's right. Okay. So indigenous have rights to the land because of treaties.

00:08:44.340 Well, the treaties, the treaties gives them lots of rights, but I mean, the interpretation of the

00:08:48.100 rights for the land, but we're not leaving indigenous people behind. I can't, I'm not in a position to

00:08:53.220 talk about what their land rights are. I just know that all crown land in Alberta belongs to the

00:08:57.060 government of Alberta. So that that's not the question. The question is, is that their treaty

00:09:01.380 rights are rights that were signed by them. Nobody's going to chase them down. As a matter of fact,

00:09:04.660 we want to try and make Aboriginal people way richer by giving them, uh, actually tripling their income 1.00

00:09:09.860 and giving them the opportunity to come out of poverty and to give them a better life. We're not

00:09:14.500 leaving those people behind, but I really believe that the people that have, well, I don't believe,

00:09:18.500 I know that we've showed our business plan to, uh, Aboriginal chiefs and they're very excited about

00:09:23.060 it. Seniors are worried about their pensions. So just, just understand CPP has a portability clause.

00:09:29.780 So it doesn't matter if you live in the country of Panama or in Costa Rica or in France or anybody,

00:09:36.020 as a Canadian citizen, you paid into that CPP, it doesn't matter where you move, you're going to

00:09:39.700 still get your Canada pension and your old age security. The other thing that you're not going to

00:09:43.700 lose is your Canadian citizenship based on the fact that, you know, even our prime minister,

00:09:48.020 Mark Carney has like three or four passports. Alberta independence talk is driving away

00:09:52.820 investment and it will drive away investment, Mitch. That's what I'm hearing.

00:09:56.660 Well, I'm going to share something with you as a 47 year old business. I've been in business for 47

00:10:01.540 years, lower tax rates and more disposable income in our region of Alberta, based on a lower tax rate.

00:10:10.020 And based on that formula, I told you Albertans will have between 25 and 45% more disposable income

00:10:15.940 creates just the exact opposite environment. If we have lower tax rates and, uh, you know,

00:10:21.060 it's possible based on our business plan that in 10 years, Albertans won't have to pay income tax in

00:10:25.700 any way, shape or form. So if that's actually the case, um, Alberta business is going to thrive.

00:10:31.140 More people come to Alberta than any other province in the country because we are prosperous here.

00:10:35.700 What do you say to people who say that Albertans are whining? I see this all the time on X,

00:10:40.020 uh, the oil and gas industry is doing just fine. Why do you need more pipelines?

00:10:44.180 I, I, I, I saw, I saw, I stopped listening to liberals years ago.

00:10:48.820 You know, I think it's my response to that. That's all they are. It's a bunch, you know,

00:10:52.260 they're just a bunch of, you know, no good liberal misinformationists. Look, it's a process,

00:10:56.980 you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, people that want to join the United

00:11:00.820 States are wrong, but the first step to getting there in any event is getting Alberta out of Canada

00:11:06.100 and becoming an independent country. And then I think once we do become an independent country

00:11:11.220 and we come as prosperous as I know we can become, you know, I don't think a lot of people are going

00:11:16.340 to be talking about wanting to join the United States anymore. I mean, the plan going forward

00:11:20.660 is to be in a complete free market with the U S with an open border, uh, free trade, uh, no tariffs

00:11:26.660 on any goods and services on both sides of the border. Um, you know, increased, uh, you know,

00:11:31.460 of the doubling of oil exports to the United States through additional pipelines, including

00:11:35.860 a pipeline to tidewater through, uh, Montana, Idaho, and Washington state, you know, et cetera,

00:11:41.540 et cetera. So, you know, we think the benefits of just straight independence, you know, far outweigh

00:11:48.180 any benefits of, uh, of us statehood. What do you, what do you make? You brought up Daniel Smith.

00:11:53.380 What do you make of her? There was a story. I think it might've been in the, um, Calgary sun,

00:11:57.380 maybe the national post ran it as well, but they said that, um, even people who are independence

00:12:02.500 minded here in Alberta, we, we trust Danielle Smith. I mean, she has been very outspoken.

00:12:07.620 She's called on Carney to get rid of C 69, the pipelines ban C 48, the tanker ban, and a number

00:12:14.500 of other things, seven other things she's demanded of Carney, who has basically just passed a new law

00:12:19.140 to give him more power to decide on what gets built in this country. What do you make of Danielle Smith? 1.00

00:12:23.700 Well, we're continuing to give her the benefit of the doubt. She gave Carney six months, two months

00:12:29.460 ago. So she's only got four months left. Right. So, you know, we're going to give her that time,

00:12:34.980 but you know, we're not buying the whole team Canada routine. Right. Um, you know, who wants to

00:12:40.740 be on a team where every time you turn around, somebody is either elbowing you in the mouth or

00:12:45.140 cross-checking you in the face. You know, Danielle says, I'm on team Canada. And then Quebec says,

00:12:50.180 there will never be a pipeline through Quebec. And then Danielle says, I'm on team Canada.

00:12:54.500 And then David Eby from British Columbia says, there'll never be a pipeline, another type pipeline

00:12:58.740 to tide water through British Columbia. Right. So what kind of teammates are these? Right. So

00:13:04.420 we're, you know, she's burning up an awful lot of political capital, um, trying to, you know,

00:13:10.100 under the hollow slogan of a sovereign Alberta within a, you know, a strong Canada, right.

00:13:15.940 United Canada. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Right. Uh, within the United Canada.

00:13:20.580 It doesn't make sense to me either. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it's just,

00:13:24.020 you know, it's just a hollow slogan. I mean, all it is, is a hollow slogan in favor of the status quo.

00:13:29.780 And even if we, she was to get, you know, two more pipelines from Carney, our attitude is so what?

00:13:35.620 So we get another pipeline. It's an extra $20 billion. Half of it goes to Ottawa. So she's really

00:13:41.220 excited about more money going to Quebec or not, you know, but if all of that money were to stay

00:13:46.100 in Alberta, we get a new pipeline and it's $20 billion that stays in Alberta. Well, that takes

00:13:51.300 our fiscal capacity surplus up to, um, $70 billion. Then we get another pipeline that take, you know,

00:13:57.620 that takes our fiscal capacity surplus up to 90 billion, you know, billion dollars. When we get to

00:14:03.140 a fiscal capacity surplus of $90 billion, zero income tax in Alberta is, is, is a real thing.

00:14:10.660 Right. Do you think there are a number of, um, I call them independence or sovereignty in the UCP?

00:14:17.060 Do you think a number of them would support that? Oh God, I, I actually, well, I mean,

00:14:22.340 their base is our base, right? Danielle Smith want to answer that as well.

00:14:27.220 Well, I, I, I'm not sure where she's at. It seems very schizophrenic. One day she, she,

00:14:31.780 you know, well, no, she claims that she's for a sovereign Alberta within the United Canada.

00:14:35.380 Yeah. So that's her position. Again, it's a hollow slogan and it really doesn't demonstrate 0.86

00:14:40.980 a lot of leadership, but anyway, but getting back to your question about support for independence

00:14:45.860 within the UCP, there was a recent poll done that had support for independence within the UCP

00:14:52.020 well over 65%. So that's a real problem that Danielle has. And I would say now, you know, just

00:14:59.460 like I got a standing ovation at a UCP event last week, including senior members of the executive,

00:15:05.780 the boards of the provincial executive, um, CA president sitting MLAs. I got a standing

00:15:11.700 ovation in favor of Alberta independence at a UCP event. Yeah. So, you know, I would say every month

00:15:18.420 that goes by and certainly as the numbers come out and people see that, uh, you know, uh, a strong,

00:15:25.460 financially strong, independent Alberta as a reality, uh, you know, that, you know, by October

00:15:31.780 support, I think for independence within the UCP could be well over 80%. You did an interview back

00:15:37.380 in April. I just want to mention this. And you said, Albertans are sick and tired of being overtaxed

00:15:41.140 and overregulated by morons who believe that punitive taxes on working families will change 1.00

00:15:46.660 the weather. I love it. Cause that's exactly how I feel. Yeah. No. And I mean, that's exactly what it 1.00

00:15:51.540 is. I mean, it reminds me of the ancient Mayans and the ancient Aztecs, right? In this case,

00:15:56.420 what they're doing is they're literally cutting the beating hearts out of working men and women in 0.66

00:16:00.340 Alberta through over taxation, you know, in the same way that the Mayans and the Aztecs were

00:16:05.540 physically cutting the hearts out of people thinking it was going to change the weather.

00:16:09.460 It's the same level of magical thinking, right? The other one I'd like everybody else to consider,

00:16:14.740 you know, that's watching this is think about Carney when he talks about energy, energy corridors,

00:16:19.780 like he's going to allow Alberta a pipeline. All right. The pipeline just happens to be a liquid

00:16:24.180 CO2 pipeline from the heart of the tar sands, you know, out to Bonnieville coal lake to put CO2 back

00:16:30.420 in the ground. His energy corridor has nothing to do, nothing whatsoever to do with oil and gas

00:16:36.740 pipelines. And if Danielle Smith thinks that she is deluded, uh, people see, say we need to give the

00:16:42.500 new liberal government a chance. Yeah, we did. And they screwed us every time we turned around.

00:16:47.860 Yeah. This is the fourth time, right? Right. Yeah. That's right.

00:16:52.420 Uh, a more friendly conservative government is just around the corner. So why not wait for that?

00:16:58.420 Well, we don't have five years to wait. Carney's an existential threat to Alberta. We'll all be

00:17:02.420 bankrupt by then. Okay. Indigenous groups, I know you work with them. They have a veto power over our 1.00

00:17:07.860 resource projects. Oh, I, I don't believe that's the case. I've been litigating, uh, consultation

00:17:13.780 cases by entire life of my entire working career. The law is actually quite the opposite on that

00:17:18.660 point. You know, Carney's bill C five model where he gets to pick and choose which companies are at

00:17:23.540 the trough, which ones get the subsidies, which ones are exempted from Canadian law. It's basically

00:17:28.900 Mussolini's program for revitalizing the, uh, you know, the economy of Italy where Carney has now made

00:17:35.540 himself the fascist dictator of Canada. No more, no more, no less. Let me throw this at you. Do you

00:17:42.020 think you're being overly hyperbolic when you say something like that? Let's be play devil's 0.98

00:17:45.700 advocate here with you. Well, I don't, I've read history. Why don't you go back and read the history

00:17:49.620 about what was going on in and around Mussolini and you know, the entire fascist crony capitalist

00:17:54.740 program. Okay. So this will be the final one in a rapid fire. The independence movement is being

00:18:00.580 run by grifters and con artists. According to Jason Kenney, are you a grifter and a con artist, 0.99

00:18:07.940 Jeff? I haven't, I haven't been paid a nickel for anything I'm doing on behalf of APP. And if you 0.91

00:18:13.860 want to look at a grifter or a con artist, let's ask Jason Kenney, how he got his multimillion dollar,

00:18:19.380 uh, uh, you know, uh, you know, you know, million dollar stipends from all these various corporations

00:18:25.380 on his boards of directors, he sits and ask him why it was after ATCO where he sits on the board

00:18:32.020 was fine. $35 million for defrauding Alberta power consumers, whether his reward for not ordering ATCO

00:18:40.500 to repay all the consumers in Alberta that they defrauded, you know, was a seat on ATCO's board of

00:18:45.820 directors. So, you know, I mean, you know, yeah, I mean, my favorite one too, is when Jason Kenney

00:18:52.220 called me a quote unquote traitorous kook. You know, I mean, I can get into all of the kooky

00:18:58.300 things that Jason's done over his career, including locking every Albertan illegally in their homes 0.99

00:19:05.340 during COVID for which we were rightly threw him out of office onto his ass. I'm going to talk about 0.99

00:19:11.120 Daniel Smith a little bit here. A lot of people are saying Daniel Smith, she, she came up with these

00:19:16.520 nine things that she wanted eliminated. They haven't been eliminated. She's still holding out hope

00:19:21.480 that Carney may throw her a bone when it comes to a pipeline, but people are saying she's trying to

00:19:26.600 use these things as leverage, much like Quebec has used things for leverage since, well, they had a, 0.92

00:19:32.380 a referendum at 80 and I was, I remember the one in 95 more than anything, but do you think that's

00:19:37.740 what she's trying to do right now? And what is your take on Danielle Smith? Because I don't hold

00:19:42.280 up much, much hope that Carney and the liberals and the rest of Canada is going to do anything for

00:19:47.520 the province of Alberta. No, I, I don't either. I think, you know, I've got a lot of respect for

00:19:54.820 Danielle. She's bright, she's articulate and she can get a message across and rhetorically she is

00:20:01.800 standing up for Alberta rhetorically, but substantively, not so much. I don't know which way Danielle is 0.81

00:20:10.480 lead is, is thinking about this, this whole issue of her ability to stand strong for Alberta, to negotiate

00:20:20.680 with the federal government, thinking in her mind, that she and her team has a better ability to negotiate with the

00:20:28.800 federal government than all previous provincial governments in Alberta. So I would ask the question,

00:20:35.840 what makes her think that she can negotiate better terms than all previous provincial governments in

00:20:43.280 Alberta? Because all we've done is gone backwards in over the 120 years where the federal government has

00:20:51.120 taken more and more control of what should be provincial constitutional authority. And I don't see, I don't see that

00:20:58.400 changing. But in a way, she's painted herself into a corner, because she made these nine demands. She said

00:21:05.760 that would be a threat to national unity if she doesn't get them. And like you said, if the federal 0.71

00:21:11.040 government throws her a bone on one of these things, well, is that enough? Really? I mean, if she wants to be 1.00

00:21:19.200 a Maggie Thatcher type leader and, and have a steel resolve to protect Alberta, then she is going to 0.92

00:21:29.200 have to say, come to the people of Alberta and say, citizens of Alberta, we have tried to negotiate with

00:21:36.480 the federal government, we've made nine demands. Now, admittedly, they're all in relation to oil and gas,

00:21:42.960 except single use plastics, right? But then they then the eight constitutional changes that she wants. Similarly, 0.93

00:21:51.200 she's not going to be able to get and, and, you know, I'm going to cut her some slack and say, let's give her 0.95

00:21:58.560 let's give her another month or so. And see where things shape shake out. I don't think they'll shake out in a way in which it

00:22:08.720 looks her it, it makes her look like she is successful, unless she can come to the citizens 0.98

00:22:15.360 of Alberta and say, citizens of Alberta, we can't get anything with this federal government. Okay,

00:22:21.600 yes, they've given us this one thing, but it isn't nearly enough. And when you think about Brexit,

00:22:27.760 the number one reason why Brexit occurred, when you look at the analysis, is because they didn't want

00:22:34.400 Europe telling them what to do. They didn't want Europe telling the Brits what to do. By the same

00:22:42.480 token, we're sick and tired of Ottawa telling us what to do. And here's one of the main reasons why we

00:22:50.720 want out. Yeah, I just jump in here. I'm sorry to interrupt you. But no, no, no, no. What bugs me

00:22:56.640 about this, Dennis, is that my province is begging the government for its prosperity. Well, I think

00:23:06.160 it's even beyond just prosperity. It really truly is a freedom issue too. And, you know, when you

00:23:14.400 consider that term sovereignty, you know, it's really a matter of freedom from external interference. And I

00:23:22.480 like to say, you know, ask yourself the question, are we in this province, in any way, shape or form,

00:23:30.480 by the federal government, subjugated, dominated, exploited, or self determination inhibited? And

00:23:38.080 on every metric we are. Yes. When you look at federal persecution, you could say, you could say what we

00:23:45.600 want is we want out from that persecution. And what do I mean by that? I mean, freedom from political

00:23:52.160 persecution, economic, religious, cultural, medical, and regulatory persecution. We want

00:24:00.080 self determination, we don't want the federal government telling us what to do. And that that

00:24:06.480 freedom comes from getting out from under all federal regulation. Okay. And it also means getting

00:24:14.000 out from under all federal taxation, so that we have the ability to purchase the goods and services that we

00:24:19.360 want. And then eventually, we in this province, we would be able to eliminate provincial taxation as

00:24:24.720 well. And, and this is freedom. It's freedom from regulations, and it's freedom from taxation.

00:24:32.640 And this is really what what we're after that leads to prosperity.

00:24:36.240 Are we going to be on a timeline for a referendum in 2026 if this continues to get pushed down the road,

00:24:42.400 as it seems to be? Well, we're working on the 2026 timeline. Yeah, we expect from our

00:24:48.320 internal discussions with government that we're looking at probably the spring of 2026. But

00:24:54.160 anyhow, what is plan B, for example, if the question wasn't approved, or we weren't able to go ahead.

00:25:01.520 Under those circumstances, your listeners need to understand that the Alberta Prosperity Project

00:25:07.920 has twice the membership of all the political parties in the province of Alberta put together.

00:25:13.360 All right. So we have the ability then to influence the constituency associations,

00:25:22.480 for which many of the CA members are members of the Alberta Prosperity Project,

00:25:28.320 as is the majority of the UCP Board of Directors. And it will be our responsibility then to change the

00:25:36.400 MLA's in the next election so that they're MLA's that are in support of Alberta sovereignty.

00:25:44.640 And then we would proceed under those circumstances. You see, because the Premier doesn't need

00:25:52.240 the citizens to force a referendum on sovereignty. She actually could call for a referendum on Alberta 0.60

00:25:58.480 sovereignty on her own. Okay.

00:26:00.560 Do you think she should, when Carney didn't have a pipeline on his list last week, do you think she

00:26:05.920 should have called a referendum? I think what she should have done is she should have made it very

00:26:10.320 clear her disappointment. Yeah. And I think she should have said, you know, we are going to evaluate

00:26:16.160 further how we can use the Alberta sovereignty within the United Canada Act. And we may need to

00:26:26.400 move forward more quickly on a referendum on Alberta sovereignty. We could talk, we could talk all day.

00:26:31.600 I jotted down a whole bunch of things. I was watching some of your, some of the videos that

00:26:36.080 were done at some of the events. What would be your main pitch to people who are sort of on the fence

00:26:42.640 when it comes to Alberta independence? I mean, you're, you're preaching to the choir here. I want to see

00:26:47.360 the province leave. I want to see us become an independent country, but what would be the main thing you

00:26:51.360 would tell people and how it would benefit them if Alberta left? Sure. I think, well, there's a couple

00:26:57.040 of things I'd say. I'd say number one, I get it. I understand the patriotism in Canada. We fought in

00:27:06.480 two world wars, but what were we fighting for? Were we fighting for Canada or were we fighting for freedom?

00:27:12.480 Because right now we're still fighting for freedom. And I would say to those people, you know, is,

00:27:18.480 is this the same Canada now that you should justify, justifiably hold reverence for? Or has

00:27:27.360 something changed? You know, do you feel as though you or your kids goals and aspirations are harder,

00:27:35.200 harder to achieve now? Do you think freedom and prosperity for yourself and your and your children

00:27:43.440 and future generations is just a dream? And there's an example of that, you know, in 1960,

00:27:51.600 50% of young people at age 30 owned their home. Now it's 12%. So you see, so for people to think about,

00:28:00.560 you know, the future and what's in their best interest, is it in their best interest to stay in Canada?

00:28:07.040 And I say to these people, ask yourself, is your love for Canada greater than your love for your

00:28:14.880 family and your children and future generations? Because if your love for your family is greater

00:28:22.800 than it is for Canada, then when you're out from all federal regulation and taxation, and your take

00:28:29.280 home pay instead of being 55% of your income is now 92%. And now you have the opportunity to truly

00:28:39.600 purchase the goods and services that are in the best interests of you and your family, and to plan

00:28:45.360 for your future, and to pay for goods and services that are less costly, because they no longer have

00:28:50.720 those federal taxes on them. Is that not a better future for you and your family and future generations?

00:28:57.600 So these are the kinds of things that that I would say to people. Some people are more attuned to the

00:29:04.480 idea that they're losing their culture, because of certain things that are going on. And and religious

00:29:13.680 freedom is under under strain as well. And we're we're seeing that there's a parliamentary committee right

00:29:20.320 now, looking to end charitable status for churches. And and so religion is particularly Judeo Christian

00:29:30.480 religions are are truly under attack. And we have an opportunity to get out from under that we have an 1.00

00:29:38.080 opportunity to be a beacon of light a beacon of hope a beacon of a pathway to true freedom and prosperity,

00:29:46.240 which is an which would be not just what we do, but as an example for the rest of Canada, and elsewhere

00:29:52.320 around the world. And you can be sure that other regions in the world that want freedom and prosperity,

00:29:58.000 they're looking at what we're doing. And they're hoping and praying we're successful.

00:30:02.160 For more information about the Alberta Prosperity Project, just go to their website,

00:30:06.640 albertaprosperityproject.com. Be sure to click on events as well. There's probably an event

00:30:12.480 happening very soon near you. They're happening all the time. Thank you very much for watching. If you

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00:30:22.880 I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - September 27, 2025

The BEST of the ALBERTA Prosperity Project - Alberta INDEPENDENCE NOW

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