John Bolton - July 03, 2026


The Failure of Danielle Smith - Folds Like A Cheap Suit


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944

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66

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Why did Danielle Smith submit a pipeline project to Mark Carney's major projects office yesterday? The surprising and disgraceful answer in less than 30 seconds. Why did she fold like a cheap shirt? And why did she do it?

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00:00:00.000 Why did Danielle Smith submit a pipeline project to Mark Carney's Major Projects office yesterday?
00:00:08.540 The surprising and disgraceful answer in less than 30 seconds.
00:00:16.260 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 6.05 a.m. Friday, July the 3rd.
00:00:21.260 I hope you're having a great start your Friday.
00:00:23.360 Thank you so much for being here.
00:00:25.060 I am getting started later this morning.
00:00:26.860 I was out at a Jason Levine event last night, and I didn't get to sleep until after midnight.
00:00:32.720 I woke up shortly after four, did some things.
00:00:35.220 I've been preparing this video, so my apologies for starting late.
00:00:38.400 So I want to start off by saying this will be a Mark Carney-free video.
00:00:42.820 When people see Mark Carney on my channel, their stomach starts to churn a little bit.
00:00:48.000 There will be a couple of clips from Danielle Smith, and increasingly here in Alberta,
00:00:52.440 we feel the same way about her because we're disappointed in Danielle Smith.
00:00:58.120 The phrase folded like a cheap shirt came to mind this morning, thinking about what happened
00:01:04.300 yesterday. There was something she announced yesterday that really surprised me, which I'm
00:01:08.680 going to get to in just a moment, which I don't think other people have caught on to yet. So we'll
00:01:12.580 get to that in a moment. So let me answer the question off the top of this video. It's got a
00:01:17.280 very simple answer. I don't think other people have come to this conclusion. Why did Daniel
00:01:22.580 Smith submit a pipeline project to Mark Carney's major projects office yesterday? And the answer
00:01:28.660 is this, because no one else will. That's the answer. We seem to think it's only government
00:01:37.400 that can submit projects, but that's not true. Companies can as well. If they think there's a
00:01:42.680 good investment opportunity, why not put in a proposal to the major projects office?
00:01:48.440 They're not doing it because they don't believe in Canada. They don't believe in investing in
00:01:53.160 Canada. They don't think Canada is a good bet. Even Danielle Smith had to jump through all kinds
00:01:59.280 of hoops by signing a memorandum of understanding in November, seven months ago, just to be able to 0.64
00:02:06.400 stand there yesterday and announce nothing. This is such a huge story in Canada that the
00:02:14.400 National Post didn't even put it as their main headline today. Now, how did Danielle Smith
00:02:22.420 fold like a cheap shirt? She's gone on and on, and she was at a recent UCP meeting here, 0.99
00:02:28.240 United Conservative Party, saying that all the nine bad laws were gone. But yesterday,
00:02:32.880 this was announced, that the tanker ban is still in place. And other laws that are in the way
00:02:41.780 are still in place. Here is Danielle Smith with a short little clip announcing this project 0.51
00:02:47.700 yesterday with Mark Carney. Today marks an important step forward for Alberta and for
00:02:53.240 Canada. Beneath our feet here in Alberta, we stand on oil reserves valued at more than nine
00:02:58.760 trillion dollars. This resource wealth presents our nation with boundless opportunities. Developing
00:03:04.000 these resources would equate to hundreds of billions of dollars in government revenue that
00:03:08.660 could be used to support core social programs like health care and education, bolster Canada's
00:03:13.980 national security commitments under NATO, and unlock economic prosperity for Indigenous peoples.
00:03:20.060 She brings up Indigenous people there at the end. It was mentioned quite a few times yesterday. We'll
00:03:24.920 get to them in just a moment. I'm wondering who put them in this warehouse. I mean, this is an
00:03:30.360 awful backdrop. Apparently, this is a pipeline company. Got a dirty old earth mover over here.
00:03:35.680 Carney and Brian Jean over here look like they both received animas. Vote for independence, Brian.
00:03:42.380 But there was part of this that really, really stood out to me that I don't think other people
00:03:46.400 have caught on to. And we've got a flashback for you in just a moment, okay? Danielle Smith was
00:03:51.200 asked about taxpayers dollars paying for the pipeline yeah like how much what portion would
00:03:59.220 come out of albertian or canadian taxpayers pocket i mean that remains to be negotiated
00:04:07.260 and that'll be one of the things that we take away we wanted to get the high level agreement
00:04:11.400 of the partnership and of course it'll be the federal government the provincial government
00:04:15.140 indigenous stake as well as pembina so it'll be negotiated over time paying for the pipeline with
00:04:20.600 taxpayer dollars remains to be negotiated. What? Having to build another pipeline with government
00:04:28.020 money as being a success. It would be, I think, a failure of the exercise. The exercise we're
00:04:32.440 going through right now is how do we restore investor confidence so that the private sector
00:04:36.920 will have confidence in investing in Canada again, and that includes pipelines. That's what I'm aiming
00:04:41.160 for. Building a pipeline with government dollars would be a failure. Cheap suit, folks?
00:04:50.600 Nobody wants to invest in her pipeline.
00:04:53.380 And then you've got these people, folks.
00:04:56.340 A battle is a Bruin.
00:04:59.060 You've got this one from the West Coast Environmental Law.
00:05:02.060 No two pipelines, not here or anywhere.
00:05:04.980 100 plus organizations across the country and multiple MPs speak out against West Coast pipeline plans.
00:05:11.920 David Suzuki's getting involved, folks.
00:05:14.480 This from July 2nd, yesterday.
00:05:17.060 And then you've got this article going back to June 26th in an imminent Alberta pipeline proposal submission as B.C. environmentalists, First Nations readying for battle.
00:05:27.280 Apparently, this pipeline, if they're building it on the north route, will go right through Musqueam territory and the Musqueam own most of Vancouver.
00:05:37.380 Why did Danielle Smith submit a pipeline proposal to Mark Carney's major projects office yesterday?
00:05:45.200 because nobody else will.