John Bolton - With All Due Respect Premier Smith - You Need Some Danielle Time

00:00:00.000 I hope you don't take today's video the wrong way.

00:00:04.920 I hope Premier Danielle Smith doesn't take today's video the wrong way.

00:00:13.380 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel.

00:00:15.760 It is Monday, September the 21st, 5.48 a.m.

00:00:19.260 I hope you're having a great start your Monday.

00:00:21.360 Thank you so much for being here.

00:00:23.100 I am getting going later this morning than usual.

00:00:25.800 I was up rather late last night, so I apologize for that.

00:00:30.720 Now, let me just start off by saying, no disrespect to Premier Danielle Smith with the video I'm about to do.

00:00:37.480 I think I have a different take on something that's happened within the last 24 hours or so.

00:00:42.720 People were sending me text messages and email messages about this yesterday.

00:00:48.200 I do have a different take on this. I have great respect for Danielle Smith. 0.92

00:00:51.840 I do not support her anymore.

00:00:54.500 I think she's turned her back on her base and I in her base.

00:00:57.000 I think she realizes that. And that's one of the reasons why I think she's in the predicament

00:01:01.340 she's in right now. And I think she is in a predicament. I do not ever want to comment on

00:01:07.420 the appearance of a woman on this channel. I would never do that. That's not my place. 1.00

00:01:15.240 I would never comment on the appearance of a man on this channel. People have bad days. Most of the

00:01:20.460 days, well, I look at myself and I'm having a bad day. But I think you know where I'm going with

00:01:26.220 this. So I'm just going to start here. Okay. So the other day I'm watching a video with Stephen

00:01:32.460 LaDrew. Now, I don't know whether you watch the LaDrew three minute interview. I would suggest

00:01:36.900 you go over there and you subscribe to his channel. I think he needs more subscribers.

00:01:41.260 He has these short interviews with politicians and policy makers and all kinds of people on

00:01:46.400 there. It's very interesting. They're short videos, easy to consume. So I was watching this

00:01:51.560 video the other day. I'm just going to show you a short little bit of this. And I want to tell

00:01:55.640 what i was thinking while i was watching this video and then i'm going to get to what happened

00:02:00.200 yesterday and tie the two things together so here is stephen le drew and he's introducing

00:02:06.120 his guest for the day danielle smith is the premier of alberta she's been on here before

00:02:10.040 and she's here and again in toronto and so i had to just get her on the show and i want to put the

00:02:14.680 question to you are you afraid of president donald trump well i'm worried that we're not going to

00:02:21.400 resolve this current trade and tariff war okay so i'm not going to play this whole thing for you

00:02:29.480 and again i'm not being disrespectful to danielle smith and i don't like making

00:02:34.840 comments about the way people look but when i watched this video the other day i didn't quite

00:02:39.480 see the danielle smith that i normally see here to me she looked the first word that came to my mind 0.96

00:02:44.600 she looked a little gaunt she looked a little thin here in this picture and then 0.81

00:02:49.720 I thought a little drawn, tired, stressed, a little bit haggard because she's going through

00:02:57.500 a lot right now and she's dealing with a lot of things. This was when she was in Toronto the other

00:03:01.760 day for the investment summit of Mark Carney. And I thought about maybe talking about her and saying,

00:03:08.340 listen, Premier Smith, you need to take some time for yourself because you're not looking

00:03:12.180 quite yourself. But I thought that might be a little bit crass. So I laid off on doing that.

00:03:17.280 but I did think she isn't looking quite herself. And let me tell you this. She's a very beautiful

00:03:22.060 woman. I think anybody would agree with me. She's certainly the best looking premier in the whole

00:03:26.600 country. No doubt about that. Very smart woman as well. You know where I'm going with this. Now 1.00

00:03:32.980 there's this story right here. Let me just bring it up. Tearful Danielle Smith addresses grievances

00:03:39.180 with Ottawa at need for Alberta, Alberta's referendum questions. So this popped up and

00:03:44.760 People were sending me all kinds of text messages and email messages yesterday about this happening.

00:03:51.540 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:03:52.940 I'm not going to play the whole thing.

00:03:54.360 Our economy runs on energy.

00:03:55.540 Oil and gas pay for a large share of our schools, our hospitals, and our roads, and a good share of Canada's as well.

00:04:02.380 And for years, it felt as though Ottawa was working to shut our economy down.

00:04:10.440 We watched pipelines canceled.

00:04:14.760 We watched a law passed that Albertans came to call the No New Pipelines Act.

00:04:25.540 We watched an emissions cap aimed at one industry, ours, in essentially one region,

00:04:33.880 Alberta.

00:04:37.720 electricity regulations that would have made it hard to keep the lights on in one of the

00:04:46.180 coldest places in the country. Now, this is a woman who's not in a very good place right now. 0.99

00:04:57.100 That's just my, again, I'm not a psychiatrist. She's not in a very good place right now. There's

00:05:02.260 a lot of pressure on her right now. She lost a riding to the NDP, a pretty safe one for the

00:05:08.880 United Conservative Party the other day. There's an election coming up next year. We've got this

00:05:14.780 referendum coming up in October. Been a lot of pressure on her to support Canada, which I don't

00:05:20.540 think she really wanted to do. But I think she's got some issues here right now she needs to deal

00:05:26.160 with. And again, I'm not a psychiatrist, but anybody can see this woman is not quite in the

00:05:31.340 right place right now. She's crying right now. And listen, her grievances are right.

00:05:36.100 This is what she believes. She was at this event, which was a Preston Manning event,

00:05:41.940 and she was trying to defend the fact that she's supporting the stay in Canada side or option one

00:05:48.600 in October. I don't think that's where her heart truly is, or it lays somewhere in between.

00:05:54.700 the argument against danielle smith from our side from the option two side is she should have

00:06:01.700 stayed neutral and i think that's what she would have preferred to do in this situation a lot of

00:06:08.040 people in her caucus are part of the alberta independence movement they would vote for

00:06:12.140 independence right now and you know what i think danielle smith thinks we'd probably be better off

00:06:16.420 if we left canada as well but she will never say that but she is she's going out and actively

00:06:21.940 supporting the other side, the opposite side to what I really want. And her base has dropped her.

00:06:29.380 Here in Alberta, we've got an annual general meeting for the United Conservative Party coming

00:06:33.600 up in Calgary, the 27th of November, if I remember correctly. And back in the spring,

00:06:41.620 Mitch Sylvester from the Alberta Prosperity Project, Stay Free Alberta, and others were saying,

00:06:45.760 everybody in the independent side sign up as a UCP member so that you can vote on things and be

00:06:53.220 part of the process in Danielle Smith's party. And a lot of people did, including myself.

00:06:59.000 Those people are going to show up at this AGM in November and they're going to lower a bomb

00:07:03.520 on Danielle Smith because they're very upset with her. This is why it's been discussed here

00:07:08.560 and amongst other people that we don't even think she's going to last until November. 0.97

00:07:12.160 She might resign because she might get Jason Kenney by the people who have supported her, her base. 0.96

00:07:18.500 She's turned her back on her base, and she's going to lose.

00:07:22.000 There's a chance the province could be lost because of what she's done,

00:07:25.940 and I'm saying being lost to Nahed Nenshi and the NDP next year.

00:07:30.960 But she's not in a good place right now. 0.72

00:07:33.360 She needs a little bit of Danielle time. 1.00

00:07:37.020 Now, here's Danielle Smith. 1.00

00:07:40.920 I'm going to bring the audio down on this. You don't have to actually listen to this. I'm just

00:07:45.020 going to bring the audio down on this. Here's Danielle Smith with Mark Carney signing the

00:07:52.860 Memorandum of Understanding that gave us all these great pipelines that you're seeing built

00:07:57.680 every day here in Alberta. Big grin on her face. I think there was a lot of pressure put on her

00:08:02.960 at this time to sign this memorandum of understanding. She couldn't walk away from

00:08:11.320 this. Look at the smile on her face here. She could not walk away from this. If she walked

00:08:15.120 away from this so-called deal to give Alberta a better place in Canada, she would have been

00:08:21.600 drawn and quartered here in Alberta by a lot of people. So she signed this thing under duress.

00:08:28.060 As a matter of fact, I think one of the ways they got her to sign it, and again, I'm just

00:08:32.540 speculating here. Carney said, listen, we can make this deal, but you have to support the stay

00:08:38.420 in Canada side in the referendum that's coming up. That's due. Now this happened last November,

00:08:43.940 but there was a looming referendum on the horizon. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts. Part of the

00:08:49.160 deal was you have to come out and support the stay in Canada side. And Danielle Smith's not 0.88

00:08:55.000 looking herself these days. He's not looking good at all. In that tearful little exchange there the

00:09:01.740 other day, she made a very good case for why Alberta needs to leave. She was crying about it.

00:09:09.020 She had tears because of all the situation that Alberta is in.

00:09:13.820 People that I know, they're not crying about it. They're mad about it. Really mad about it. And

00:09:20.160 that's why we're going to vote option two in the fall. What Danielle Smith, you saw right here,

00:09:28.160 Crying.

00:09:31.420 This is the Danielle Smith.

00:09:35.620 And this is the way people feel about it.

00:09:38.060 Everything she says here, it pisses us off.

00:09:41.660 And you know what's fascinating about it?

00:09:43.160 I was on a live stream last night with Keith Wilson and Tanya Clemens from Let Alberta Decide.

00:09:52.820 And he was at the same thing that she was at yesterday with Preston Manning.

00:09:58.220 And Daniel Smith is quite aware of what Preston Manning said almost 40 years ago, almost 40 years to the year.

00:10:03.240 I think it was 1987.

00:10:05.640 He said the West wants in.

00:10:06.980 Daniel Smith is telling you right there the West has not got in, and it's 40 years later.

00:10:11.980 But I just want to say this.

00:10:13.300 No disrespect to Premier Daniel Smith.

00:10:15.760 And I think you have to step aside for a little bit and just work some things out.

00:10:23.460 I don't think she's doing very well right now.

00:10:25.100 And I don't wish any harm on her at all.

00:10:29.320 But there's a lot of pressure on her right now.

00:10:32.980 And honestly, you know, this might seem rather flippant.

00:10:37.400 Premier Smith, you'd be better off on our side, because I think that's where your heart

00:10:41.160 really is.

00:10:43.780 I wouldn't doubt it if you walked in on October 19th, even though you've been saying you're

00:10:49.140 going to vote option one all along, and you ticked the other box.

00:10:53.160 I wouldn't doubt that would happen at all.

00:10:55.100 thank you very much for watching if you like this video give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel

00:11:01.280 ring the bell for notifications i'll see you in the next one get well premier smith

00:11:06.560 while we wait for the forever canadian side to give us one good reason why alberta should remain

00:11:12.740 a part of canada other than fear and threats one influential person continues to have clarity

00:11:19.120 and convincing reasons why Alberta should leave.

00:11:23.060 Well, you have to understand just how damaged Alberta is

00:11:26.480 by the fact that we didn't get pipelines built.

00:11:28.360 If we had built Northern Gateway, if we'd built Keystone

00:11:30.960 and we'd built Energy East, we'd have 2.5 million barrels more per day of production.

00:11:35.880 This onslaught of anti-energy, anti-agriculture

00:11:38.820 and anti-resource development policies

00:11:41.160 have scared away global investments to the tune of a half a trillion dollars.

00:11:45.580 We had $176 billion worth of proposed projects that got cancelled because of the uncertainty created by various government laws.

00:11:55.580 We have been watching this for years. $600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken under this province.

00:12:03.580 You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?

00:12:09.580 You don't think we'd be able to cut taxes a bit if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?

00:12:14.580 It is $5,000 per Albertan that every single year gets transferred out of this province for political reasons so that the Liberals can continue to spend it in places that vote Liberal.

00:12:29.560 There's $9 trillion worth of value in discoverable and achievable reserves right now.

00:12:34.340 And so why would you leave that in the ground? No other country in the world would. And we shouldn't either.

00:12:38.620 Alberta's biggest threat to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's capital.

00:12:43.780 Alberta has an Ottawa problem.

00:12:46.320 On October 19th, listen to Danielle and send Ottawa a message. 0.65

00:12:51.260 Vote option two.

John Bolton - September 21, 2026

With All Due Respect Premier Smith - You Need Some Danielle Time

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