John Bolton - The new NARRATIVE - Everything is fine... nothing to see here

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along. I've got the big blue mug of

00:00:04.040 coffee, 5.30 a.m., Monday, June the 9th. Hope you had a great weekend. I took the day off yesterday.

00:00:09.800 I've got family here from British Columbia and Ontario, and it's so wonderful to have them here,

00:00:14.800 but my, is it exhausting. I'm off to Banff and Lake Louise later today to give them a little tour

00:00:21.900 of those beautiful places here in my Alberta. Today, I want to talk about something that I've

00:00:27.100 noticed happening, and I think the lowering of expectations is already here with this liberal

00:00:32.300 government. We went from elbows up, what is it, Canada Strong, Team Canada, energy superpower,

00:00:40.560 we've got to build things to get things done in this country, and we want to be the strongest

00:00:44.800 economy in the G7 to everything's just fine, what are you complaining about? And I noticed this in

00:00:50.160 an interview with Vashi Kapelis and Danielle Smith on CTV. Not only that, but Danielle Smith had to

00:00:56.880 explain investing to Vashi Kapelis, who I think went into this interview with good intentions,

00:01:01.360 with lots of information, but she doesn't understand you have to invest in something

00:01:05.200 to get something out the other end. And the other thing is that the people who voted liberal,

00:01:11.260 well, there's a saying. Lenin said, give me four years with the children and the seed I have sown

00:01:15.840 will never be uprooted. The liberals have done that to adults who voted for them in four months.

00:01:20.800 So let's watch a quick clip of Vashi Kapelis and Danielle Smith on CTV, and we'll talk about it

00:01:26.780 a little bit. We went from excelling to what I'm thinking is stagnation. What are you worried about?

00:01:32.240 Why are you complaining? Like zero to 60. According to Statistics Canada, for the fourth consecutive

00:01:38.400 year, production of crude oil and equivalent projects reached a record high in 2024, up 4.3%

00:01:44.620 from 2023. I do really quickly want to turn to ask you. I just want to say we have an aspiration to

00:01:51.260 double our production and we could have. We could have been at already probably six to seven to eight

00:01:56.360 million barrels a day. That's what I'm looking at. And why should we hold ourselves back when we know

00:02:00.640 the world wants our products? This is the time for us to build them. Yeah, I guess I'm just

00:02:04.460 countering the idea that things are destitute or that nothing is being developed or production is

00:02:08.740 extremely capped. Like the numbers bear out a different story. They're not perhaps as high as you and

00:02:12.560 other people in the province or maybe even across the country want to see, but they're not going

00:02:16.260 down. Actually, we've got the lowest living standards in the world. Like we're falling

00:02:20.260 behind all the OECD countries in productivity growth and center of living growth. And that's

00:02:24.900 because these are the kind of projects that consistently fail and do not get built. So we

00:02:29.840 can't sugarcoat that. That is a reality. If we want to be a rich country and we want to be able to

00:02:33.800 keep up with our neighbors and growth, we've got to build things. We've got to dig things out of the

00:02:37.400 ground. We've got to get products to market. This is the narrative you're going to start to get.

00:02:42.140 Things are just fine. Oil production is up. Vashie says it right at the beginning of that clip,

00:02:47.640 4.3%. And Carney's going to have to start pushing this narrative and you're going to hear it a lot

00:02:52.300 more. And the people who vote liberal who are lost, I mentioned that Lenin quote just a minute ago,

00:02:58.980 are going to push this narrative as well. Because Carney's not going to build anything.

00:03:04.580 Because he can't. Because he needs a consensus. There's never going to be a consensus from

00:03:08.340 aboriginal groups and provinces to get oil pipelines built here.

00:03:12.440 Vashie Capellis, things are great. What are you complaining about, Madam Premier?

00:03:17.040 Oil production's up year after year. 4.3%.

00:03:20.160 And Danielle Smith has to bring her back around saying, but think where we could

00:03:24.320 be if we have actually invested in oil and gas over the last

00:03:28.720 10 years. We want to double our production, which is beneficial to Canada.

00:03:32.580 And then Danielle Smith has to go on to explain investing to Vashie Capellis,

00:03:36.940 which I don't think she understands at all. Watch this.

00:03:39.740 You made the pitch initially that it could build the roads, build the hospitals,

00:03:43.760 build the schools. And now it's instead going to go to oil companies.

00:03:46.800 Well, 100% of zero is zero, Vashie. Like if you don't end up with production and you don't end up 1.00

00:03:51.100 with revenue, there's nothing to divvy up. You have to begin with production. You have to create the

00:03:55.720 environment where energy companies feel like they can get product to market and they can make money at it.

00:04:00.920 And then we all benefit. But at the moment, we've had a situation where we've had cancellation of

00:04:05.800 pipelines. The cancellation of Energy East, of Keystone, of Northern Gateway. That would have

00:04:10.440 generated 2.5 million barrels a day more of production than we have right now, which would

00:04:15.460 have been $55 billion of revenue that we don't have to talk about who ends up getting what share.

00:04:21.280 I don't want that situation to continue. We have to get these projects built. And then we can talk

00:04:26.140 about what the relative amount is that should go to different levels of government, First Nations,

00:04:31.980 the company itself. But I can tell you for certain, if none of these projects get off the ground,

00:04:37.280 then we'll be in the same position that we have been for the last 10 years, watching missed

00:04:40.800 opportunity go by.

00:04:42.140 Do you get the feeling that Vashie Kapelis just doesn't understand how investment works? Or is

00:04:46.580 she pushing some type of a narrative that everything's just fine? What are you complaining

00:04:50.080 about? Madam Premier, you could be spending money on social services instead of giving it to the oil 1.00

00:04:55.060 and gas industry. And Danielle Smith has to go on and explain to her, Vashie, you know,

00:05:00.160 if we had invested over the last 10 years in oil and gas, we'd be rich right now. Do you realize

00:05:05.220 Canada spends more than a billion dollars a week just servicing its debt? That's more by a long

00:05:09.960 shot than we spend on our healthcare system. I don't think Vashie Kapelis realizes that the

00:05:14.020 federal government just doesn't have a big stash of money they can hand out. Government only has what

00:05:18.640 it takes from someone else. The someone else is you and me and Vashie Kapelis.

00:05:22.400 When government gives Alberta money or writes a check like they used to do with the carbon tax,

00:05:28.260 that was just returning money to its rightful owner.

00:05:32.700 She doesn't understand this. You should have been spending the money on social services. Yeah,

00:05:37.820 but Vashie, you know, Vashie Kapelis is like this. She's standing in a pile of money and won't bend 0.86

00:05:44.180 over to pick it up. Danielle Smith is standing in the same pile of money, trillions of dollars,

00:05:48.080 saying, we need to invest. Give me 10 bucks and I'll get that money. We can get it. But the people

00:05:54.600 who believe in this kind of propaganda, right here, see this on the line all the time. Danielle

00:06:01.520 Smith doesn't want you to know that the federal government provided $29.6 billion in direct

00:06:06.060 subsidies and financing to the oil and gas industry in 2024. I think this is BS. I don't think those

00:06:11.240 numbers are right, but even if it is, who cares? It's an investment. If we spent $30 billion last

00:06:17.580 year in the oil and gas industry, money well spent, it'll come back 10 times over or even more.

00:06:25.020 And then something in the first clip I played for you is getting played up online as well. 0.96

00:06:29.200 How Vashie Kapelis owned Danielle Smith, how Danielle Smith is being stupid, how she said something really 0.99

00:06:34.360 stupid because they've got to discredit her as well. They hate Danielle Smith. She's loved in the province 1.00

00:06:38.620 that would destroy the NDP if there were an election today. Danielle Smith would win a massive 1.00

00:06:42.560 majority in Alberta. The rest of Canada hates her because she wanted diplomacy against Donald Trump 0.99

00:06:47.140 and she's handling things differently. She's the smartest politician in this country right now.

00:06:52.260 But they're going after her for what she said in the interview with Vashie Kapelis. You've already

00:06:56.440 heard it and here it is again. Vashie, we've got the lowest living standards in the world. Like

00:07:00.740 we're falling behind all the OECD countries in productivity growth and center of living growth. And that's

00:07:06.180 because these are the kind of projects that consistently fail and do not get built.

00:07:10.660 CTV question period, tweeting out what Premier Smith said on how Canada has the lowest living

00:07:16.500 standards in the world, how we're falling behind other OECD countries, which is absolutely true.

00:07:22.200 You and I saw these graphs, a whole bunch of them during the election campaign. And we were falling

00:07:27.200 behind Germany, which is an economic basket case. They had 10 times GDP growth of Canada. It's pathetic.

00:07:33.920 But the Liberal voters, I mean, Lenin, it took four years to plant a seed. It took the Liberals 0.99

00:07:41.740 January, February, March, April to the election to plant a seed that will never be unsown in

00:07:47.700 their minds about this country. Elbows up, Canada strong, Team Canada, energy superpower. It's

00:07:54.200 a joke. Not going to happen. You see lots of stuff like this.

00:07:57.400 Ontario, Quebec feel Albertans are loud whiners over nothing. Daniel Smith, oil production's

00:08:05.220 up 4.3%. Vashi Capellas on national television, on CTV, pushing that narrative. You're going to see a lot

00:08:10.980 more of that because they've got to, because they build up the expectations, the Liberals, and they're

00:08:15.240 not going to be able to live up to them. And we knew it all along. Conservatives knew that.

00:08:19.340 Then you see stuff like this. This guy, Aaron Singleton, who calls himself an Albertan Canadian.

00:08:24.320 Of course, he's got the Ukraine flag there. One day we're the richest province that gives

00:08:28.660 disproportionately to Confederation. The next we have the lowest living standards. Our Premier,

00:08:32.880 ladies and gentlemen, I think that's a vomit emoji. They've got to discredit Premier Smith

00:08:37.480 because she's the one person who's sticking up for her province. But I have hope

00:08:42.500 because a lot of people followed this up, including me. Responding to Aaron Singleton,

00:08:50.520 I misspelled talking, sorry. She's talking about Canada, not Alberta. Surely you know that. Surely

00:08:56.880 you knew that before you voted for the people who are responsible. And they put a couple of those

00:09:00.700 graphs I just put up on the screen. Other people as well. All the more reason to gain more independence

00:09:06.200 from Ottawa. Glad you agree. Canada's economic growth is poor and near the bottom of the pack.

00:09:12.120 Research and learn. Well, when people have to pay 70% of their earnings to be able to afford a home

00:09:18.440 and don't get me started on the price of food and basic bills in this country,

00:09:21.900 I would definitely agree with her. Even South America has better standard of living than Canada.

00:09:27.940 And then there's this one. Oh my God, actually listen to what she said. I'm not a big fan of Smith,

00:09:32.780 but you are being deceptive in your interpretation of the words used. Stop it and be better.

00:09:37.840 Expect more of this narrative. Instead of excelling, we're stagnating, but it's perfectly fine. And

00:09:45.460 you're going to hear it a lot more from the media as well. I want to go to this. This guy

00:09:48.720 concerned Canadian who I follow on X. He lists the biggest threats to Canada. Let me run a run

00:09:56.160 through the mass immigration, soaring debt, liberal government ideology, food costs, housing affordability

00:10:01.920 and availability, job losses, declining GDP, decreased productivity, WEF aligned Canada,

00:10:08.600 agenda rather, fiscal incompetence, your list, and to which I said, you need to add people who vote

00:10:14.380 for more of this. Liberal voters. The liberal government's a threat, but the people who vote

00:10:21.620 for them are even worse. All the more reason for us to leave Canada. All the more reason for us to

00:10:29.240 leave Canada, meaning Alberta.

00:10:30.660 Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. If you like the video, please give me a thumbs up,

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John Bolton - June 09, 2025

The new NARRATIVE - Everything is fine... nothing to see here

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