John Bolton - WINNING! Premier Danielle Smith Lets D - E - I ... D - I - E

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, Friday, November the 21st, 4.35 a.m. I hope

00:00:08.580 you're having a great start to your Friday morning, one day away from the weekend. I'm

00:00:12.140 excited. I've got the big blue mug of coffee. I hope you've got a big mug. It does not have

00:00:16.580 to be blue. I hope you've got a big mug of something and you're enjoying it this morning

00:00:20.020 as well. We are winning. I'm excited. We are winning. We're fighting back and we're finally

00:00:27.360 winning. It's a long time coming. I'm talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion. You've

00:00:32.460 heard DEI for years now. I call it division, exclusion, and indoctrination because that's

00:00:39.340 what it is. We're finally fighting back and it's good news. The government of Alberta is

00:00:43.660 fighting back in a big way. I'm going to show you a clip of Daniel Smith from yesterday in

00:00:47.420 just a moment. This article in the National Post this morning, Alberta protects professionals

00:00:52.080 from witch hunts and forced diversity training. Today, I'm going to tell you a personal story.

00:00:57.360 I think you're going to like it. This article and this video I'm going to show you reminded

00:01:03.320 me of something I did on August the 9th, 2020. You're going to say, John, how could you remember

00:01:08.720 such a thing? Well, it was on August 9th, 2020, I sent myself an email from the company I used

00:01:14.840 to work for. Chances are you have already used their product today or a large percentage of

00:01:21.340 you have already used their product today. I'm not going to tell you the name of the company.

00:01:25.200 But on August the 9th, 2020, I was at work and I got an email from the company I worked

00:01:31.300 for and I was offended, extremely offended. And I'm not easily offended. I got the feeling

00:01:39.680 from this email that my company was suggesting I was a bigot or even worse, I was some type

00:01:45.500 of racist and I didn't even know it. And it made me sick to my stomach. So what I did was

00:01:51.260 I screen captured it and I sent it to myself on August 9th, 2020, more than five years

00:01:57.200 ago. And I thought about it this morning and I went in and checked and there it was. I'm

00:02:00.780 going to show you the goods in just a moment. So let's go to Danielle Smith. This is her 1.00

00:02:05.840 yesterday. It goes beyond what she says here. I'm going to expand on this in just a moment.

00:02:10.160 Let's hear what the premier had to say.

00:02:11.480 Today we are introducing Bill 13, the Regulated Professions Neutrality Act. This is common

00:02:16.820 sense legislation that would recognize that everyone should have the right to express their

00:02:22.600 personal views freely. No professional should fear losing their license, their reputation

00:02:27.940 or their livelihood because of a personal opinion, a social media post, an interview or open dialogue

00:02:34.080 outside of working hours. These changes come after one of the most notable cases of professional

00:02:39.200 regulators punishing an individual for comments made outside of a professional setting. And

00:02:44.640 that is Dr. Jordan Peterson. Dr. Peterson was sanctioned and ordered to undertake a so-called

00:02:50.340 re-education program in order to maintain his credentials for statements he had made outside of a clinical

00:02:57.140 psychology setting. Similar notable cases have involved nurses, doctors and teachers that have been

00:03:03.520 punished, sanctioned or have had their licenses threatened for comments that they have made on social

00:03:08.240 media at protests or even at meetings of local city councils. We looked at these cases and asked an

00:03:15.300 important question. Are regulators still focused on public safety and professional competence or are

00:03:21.780 some of them overstepping to enforce ideological conformity and to silence public discourse? The bill

00:03:28.040 aims to protect expressive off-duty conduct. It draws a clear distinction that regulators are responsible

00:03:35.040 for competence and ethics, not policing beliefs or personal expression that has no bearing on a

00:03:40.940 person's ability to do their professional practice. No one cherishes their freedoms like Albertans do.

00:03:46.900 This is a sentiment that we hear often and something that our government takes seriously.

00:03:51.080 Our aim is to uphold professionals' rights and freedoms while continuing to protect the public

00:03:55.800 interest so that both public confidence and professional integrity are maintained. We want to ensure that

00:04:02.240 professional regulatory bodies keep their focus on areas within their scope, on members' actions that

00:04:08.100 affect their professional competence and ethics, because everyone has the right to express themselves

00:04:13.060 and to share their views and to have their voice heard in our society.

00:04:21.300 Well done to Premier Danielle Smith and her government for doing this. I think every province should be doing

00:04:26.500 the same thing. She's been knocking it out of the park lately. She did it with the transgender thing the 1.00

00:04:31.600 other day. I did a video on that as well. I'll put a card at the end so you can watch it. But there's more

00:04:36.140 to this that you didn't see in that clip. Let me show it to you here in this National Post article. Link in

00:04:40.920 the description so you can read the whole thing. She referenced a nurse in that little clip. That would

00:04:45.720 be Amy Hamm, who lost her job for speaking out against the transgender thing. There's actually a 0.96

00:04:50.500 reference to a lawyer in this as well, denounced by his law society for questioning the narrative on

00:04:55.600 indigenous as well. So this won't be able to pass anymore in Alberta. Let's go to this paragraph

00:05:02.380 right here. So on training, the Alberta government is proposing to focus all professional bodies to

00:05:07.660 ensure that their members can do their jobs correctly. No longer would these entities be able to mandate

00:05:12.620 training on cultural competency, unconscious bias, more on that in just a moment, and diversity,

00:05:18.280 equity, and inclusion. So let me take you back five plus years ago, an email I sent to myself on

00:05:25.960 August 9th, 2020. This is a screen capture of an email I got from a company that I used to work for

00:05:32.140 and it offended me. And this has all the buzzwords in it as well that you've heard over the years.

00:05:38.800 And this is starting to go away and this is good news. John, please complete your unconscious bias

00:05:43.920 training today. As we build an inclusive culture where we can all bring our whole selves to work

00:05:50.580 each and every day, whatever the hell that means, an important step in our journey is understanding

00:05:55.180 our unconscious biases and overcoming them during our everyday interactions. Making the unconscious

00:06:01.340 conscious is a 15-minute web-based learning on unconscious bias and is now mandatory, my least

00:06:07.680 favorite word in the English language, for all employees to complete. During the training,

00:06:11.860 you will explore real-life scenarios, learn what unconscious bias is, how they manifest,

00:06:17.080 and how to overcome them. Please make it a priority to complete this training as soon as possible.

00:06:22.840 While you have until October 31st to complete the training, it's important we begin eliminating our

00:06:28.160 unconscious biases as soon as possible so we can all become allies. After completing training,

00:06:35.240 you're encouraged to complete the self-reflection activity and engage in a team conversation

00:06:40.160 by leveraging the unconscious bias conversation guide.

00:06:44.980 So what I was thinking when this came through was, one, they're thinking I'm some kind of a bigot

00:06:49.700 or a racist and I don't know it. Also, bringing this stuff to the forefront that doesn't even exist

00:06:56.440 other than in our unconscious, as far as I'm concerned, is just making things even worse. This is how you

00:07:02.220 divide society. This is not how you bring people together. They talk about team conversation.

00:07:07.260 What's interesting about this is, around the same time, there was a list on the wall of all these

00:07:13.960 team conversations and they broke them down into different identity groups and there were 12 of

00:07:19.520 them. I wish I still had the paper. It's been more than five years and I've lost it. There were 12

00:07:24.500 separate identity groups for team conversations. So they divided everybody up into their little group,

00:07:31.040 whether they were black or Caribbean or Muslim or gay or trans. I couldn't even think of 12 0.82

00:07:36.240 identity groups. They had them and they were all set up these little grievance groups so they could

00:07:41.600 all talk about the unconscious biases, racism, and bigotry at the company they worked at that really

00:07:47.060 didn't exist. So this is good news from the government of Alberta. I'm so pleased that this

00:07:52.620 kind of thing is happening. You know, it was interesting around the same time that I got that email,

00:07:59.180 they started changing their training at the company as well. It used to just be about business practices,

00:08:05.460 good business practices, and you had to do this online training every year. Around the same time,

00:08:11.320 you started to get in training on unconscious bias like this, but the other one was pronouns.

00:08:17.020 There was a whole thing on pronouns at work and how to use them properly and how you offended people

00:08:25.800 if you didn't use their pronouns. And how every meeting you went to, everybody had to announce

00:08:31.240 their pronouns. I'm not kidding. It was ridiculous, this kind of stuff. And let me just say this,

00:08:36.960 just to end this, I haven't discussed this with anybody other than people that are close to me and

00:08:43.080 my family. I ended up leaving that company because I was the victim of racism at work.

00:08:47.780 And I quit my job over it. I went to the HR department of that company and I complained about

00:08:57.360 it. And they told me I had to work with the person who said this to me. I was concerned that

00:09:02.980 this person was going to turn it around on me and I was going to be labeled by work and lose my job

00:09:07.500 over it. So I reported it to HR and I actually filed a case with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

00:09:14.420 And that was more than four years ago. And I haven't heard a damn thing back about it.

00:09:18.620 I know these things can take time, but when I put it in, I thought they're not going to bother with

00:09:23.040 me. Why? Because I'm white. And the person that did this to me was a person of color. 0.77

00:09:29.540 And that's all I'm going to say about that. Anyway, good news. Good news. We're fighting back.

00:09:34.560 Thank you, Danielle Smith, for doing this. I appreciate what you're doing, Madam Premier.

00:09:38.380 If you like the video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe, thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,

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John Bolton - November 21, 2025

WINNING! Premier Danielle Smith Lets D - E - I ... D - I - E

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