John Bolton - July 22, 2026


We Are About To Be Elbows Upped - The Liberals Could Take Alberta


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In this episode, I speak directly to United Conservative MLAs in Alberta and ask them to step up to the plate. I believe Danielle Smith, Pierre Polyev, and Jason Kenney are about to hand Alberta over to the Liberal Party of Canada and there are certain politicians in this province that need to STEP UP NOW.

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00:00:00.000 I believe Danielle Smith, Pierre Polyev, and Jason Kenney, who call themselves conservatives,
00:00:05.540 are about to hand Alberta over to the Liberal Party.
00:00:08.520 And there are certain politicians in this province that need to step up now.
00:00:16.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 405 AM, Wednesday, July the 22nd.
00:00:21.400 I hope you're having a great start to your Wednesday.
00:00:23.940 Thank you so much for being here.
00:00:25.860 And I'm not going to beat around the bush, folks.
00:00:27.640 I am speaking directly now to United Conservative Party MLAs in Alberta.
00:00:35.580 You know who you are. You're the ones who want Alberta independence.
00:00:38.320 We've heard 60% of you want Alberta independence.
00:00:41.760 Well, it's time to step up now.
00:00:44.340 You're on Danielle Smith's leash right now, boys and girls.
00:00:47.920 She thinks she has control of you as she kisses Mark Carney's behind.
00:00:51.960 And she turns her back on your constituents, the people who voted for you, 0.98
00:00:56.040 who want Alberta independence, who want a better place for Alberta. But it's time to step up for
00:01:01.320 the independence movement, because this is your only chance. Because I feel, and this, I truly
00:01:07.080 feel this, something happened over the last day, and I watched this video this morning, something
00:01:11.400 happened over the last couple of days that has me convinced, if we don't win this vote,
00:01:17.200 Alberta will fall to the Liberal Party of Canada. And Danielle Smith, Jason Kenney,
00:01:22.340 and other conservative politicians are going to hand Alberta to the Liberals. They're sleepwalking
00:01:28.320 into destruction. And if you're part of this and you're an independence person and you don't step
00:01:33.540 up right now, shame on you. What was it that I saw that had me convinced that we're going to get
00:01:39.920 elbows upped, folks? And the Liberals are going to play Alberta just like they played Canada
00:01:46.880 in the election last year against Donald Trump. I saw this.
00:01:51.380 In the wake of the whole elbows up movement, I've never known Canada to be as united as it was then.
00:01:57.980 And one of the things that breaks my heart and frustrates me deeply is to see people trying to
00:02:03.320 pick apart that web of unity that we had woven for ourselves. What we need to do is get elbows up
00:02:11.380 and get, you know, giver, as we say in this country. Now, do I think that elbows up will
00:02:18.860 be used in the independence fight for the next three months? No, I think something else is coming,
00:02:24.800 but I think a similar playbook is coming. And I think that the aforementioned politicians,
00:02:29.740 Smith, Polyev, and Kenny are playing into the Liberals' hands and about to hand Alberta over
00:02:34.420 to the Liberal Party of Canada because the Liberals are smart. You may not like them,
00:02:39.740 but they're smart. They outplayed Pierre Polyef. He lost a 20% lead last year because he got
00:02:44.720 outmaneuvered. They're not just seeing this as an opportunity to keep Alberta and Canada because
00:02:49.900 we're their piggy bank. They're not doing this for unity. They're not fighting against the
00:02:55.740 independence movement for the people. They're not doing this because they love Canada. They're
00:03:01.460 doing this because we're the nation's piggy bank and they can't let us go. So the same type of
00:03:07.100 strategy is going to be used, I think, right around Labor Day. It won't be elbows up. But think of it
00:03:13.860 this way. The liberals are going to be the knight in shining armor, riding in on a white horse,
00:03:19.340 and it's going to be something like, saddle up for Canada. And the same type of people,
00:03:26.620 the people who have a $4 million house overlooking Fish Creek Park, just a few blocks away from where
00:03:32.120 I live, that people who have paid off their mortgage and have a big pension will go saddle
00:03:37.080 up for Canada and they'll vote against the independence movement and look at the Liberals
00:03:41.360 as the saviors of Canada. And not too long from now, there'll be another election and they'll
00:03:46.260 vote Liberal and Alberta will fall to the Liberal Party of Canada. We've heard that polls say that
00:03:55.000 40% of Albertans right now would vote Liberal. I think Jason Kenney mentioned it at the debate
00:04:00.880 with Keith Wilson. The only political winner will be the Liberal Party of Canada. Right now,
00:04:06.320 the Liberals are polling at or above 40% in this province. The Liberal Party of Canada looks at
00:04:10.880 Alberta like Democrats look at Texas. The Democrats have been saying, if we can win, Texas will be in
00:04:16.400 power forever. And that's the case. That's why Polyev is scared out of his wits in sending
00:04:21.500 somebody here to try to stop the independence movement. If we leave, the Liberals will be in
00:04:26.400 power in Canada forever. Polyev will be done. Is he trying to save Canada? Does he want unity? 0.99
00:04:32.720 No, he's trying to save his skin. But Polyev left Alberta 20 years ago. 0.89
00:04:38.520 The Ottawa mind virus got to him years ago. I don't think he's thinking correctly here.
00:04:43.300 He's playing into Carney's hands, just like Kenny and just like Smith and others. And Thomas
00:04:47.720 Lukasik, Mr. Forever Canadian, he's not a conservative. He supported a liberal in the
00:04:52.820 election last year. I mean, folks, there's a lot at stake here. If you're a UCP MLA, it's time to
00:05:00.700 stand up now. Oh, but if we stand up now, Nenshi will win in the election next year. So what?
00:05:05.760 This is your only chance. What do you want? The status quo? That's what people like Simons and
00:05:12.760 Kenny want. They've made that clear. But our previous posture, whether we were being led by,
00:05:19.820 you know, Ernest Manning or Peter Lougheed or Ralph Klein or Alison Redford or Rachel Notley
00:05:28.620 was to say, let's fight for our place at the table. I mean, I remember when Preston Manning's
00:05:34.640 slogan was the West wants in. So the challenge that we've always faced, I think we've succeeded
00:05:39.720 at as Albertans, is to put our shoulder behind the wheel to fight for fairness, to fight for
00:05:46.160 reform to fight for a better deal. It's hard to believe that Jason Kenney is so naive.
00:05:54.840 We have to fight for a better deal. I mean, sort of like you fought for a better deal when it came
00:06:01.620 to the referendum on equalization. 62% of Albertans voted that they wanted to end it.
00:06:08.700 And you fought for a better deal by going to the federal government and the provincial governments,
00:06:13.360 and they told you to take a hike.
00:06:15.640 And Paula Simons, I know you're getting up there in age,
00:06:18.460 but I don't think your brain is totally gone yet.
00:06:20.840 Preston Manning said the West wants in four decades ago.
00:06:25.580 Forty years ago.
00:06:27.040 We're still waiting, Senator Simons.
00:06:30.420 To the United Conservative Party MLAs
00:06:32.600 who want Alberta independence, it's time to step up now.
00:06:35.120 The same tactics that the Liberals used
00:06:38.120 to win the election last year,
00:06:39.680 I believe are coming to Alberta very soon.
00:06:42.700 saddle up for Canada, folks. And the very people who say the independence movement
00:06:48.000 is causing people to vote liberal are doing it themselves. They are pushing people towards the
00:06:53.720 Liberal Party of Canada and are sleepwalking into disaster. So step up now. We've got your back.
00:07:00.780 So what? Danielle tugs on your leash. You sit in the back benches of the Alberta legislature for a 1.00
00:07:06.220 while. Let me tell you this. We've got your back. We don't have Danielle Smith's back. She thinks
00:07:12.340 we're going to hold our nose in the election next year because, Nancy, she's got another thing
00:07:17.040 coming. We think we're going to win in October, and we're going to win another referendum to get
00:07:23.060 Alberta out of Canada. Stand up. We need to hear your voices. Now, something else is coming, folks.
00:07:28.760 Character assassination, insults are coming. We're going to be called intolerant. We're going to be
00:07:34.360 called stupid. We're going to be called worse. You know the kind of things that are coming. 1.00
00:07:38.620 we need to be prepared for this. And I've been telling people sitting in meetings over the last
00:07:43.780 couple of months, we don't have to go dirty, but we've got a lot of politicians fighting against us
00:07:48.800 and they all have baggage and we need to use it against them. Kenny does, Lukasik does,
00:07:55.420 Carney does, so does Danielle Smith. We need to be prepared to fight back. If we don't push back,
00:08:03.580 we will get pushed around. Thank you for watching. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up,
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