00:13:35.560And all of these people here for the Alberta independence movement.
00:13:39.380And I can't stress it enough how nice the people are that we've met here today.
00:13:45.820just salt of the earth Albertans coming together for a common cause. You know, we've run into a
00:13:53.060few people who have yelled a few things at us today, had a discussion with an older man here
00:13:57.620who believes that patriotism is a reason for us to stay in Canada. I've said many times that
00:14:03.900I think that's going to be the number one thing that we have to fight during the independence
00:14:10.540movement. How do you get around the patriotism thing? Well, we have to just keep talking to
00:14:15.840people, getting out there, telling them what we're all about, what we need, what we want,
00:14:21.480what Alberta needs, how Alberta has been abused by the rest of Canada. And I think we'll get our
00:14:28.720message across eventually, and we'll get our win in the fall when we get a referendum question.
00:14:33.160But it's days like this that really, really show you how wonderful
00:14:37.760um this movement is and if you're not part of it and you haven't been out to one of these things
00:14:43.880you need to come out because it certainly is a hell of a lot of fun
00:14:49.340so we're doing a double interview here at the same time john from talking
00:14:55.760is your beautiful wife well nice to meet you i'll shake your hand in just a second
00:15:00.220talking to albertans with us and and we can kind of interview each other at the same time i know
00:15:04.720talk to albertans but if you ever talk to albertans well we're going to talk to albertans yeah this
00:15:11.840is kind of weird this is kind of strange first off uh thanks for coming out today nice to see
00:15:15.920you again we last saw you uh when you came by the bouncy castle in calgary how are you seeing
00:15:21.760how are you seeing things going and i've noticed you've been talking to indigenous people good for
00:15:25.440you and what are you hearing from them i i know people have watched your videos but just your
00:15:29.120thoughts on that yeah i mean well like i say i said a few things on x's for people and uh they're
00:15:34.720like oh yeah indigenous people don't support this and then i'm like wait a minute here's like a
00:15:39.920whole bunch of accounts that do and so then i just kind of randomly put it out there started talking
00:15:44.640like hey come talk to me so kate uh i'm gonna get the name wrong on x katie rocks or something like
00:15:52.400christy's her name she's in my video yeah uh then she's like reached out to me let's make a video
00:15:57.200and you know what a lot of indigenous people support this that's another voice that that
00:16:02.820people need to hear right and so i don't want to speak for them i let them speak so here are the
00:16:08.340whistle stop cafe just outside mirror alberta burda proud dad with me an honor to meet you sir
00:16:13.960um first time meeting you and bumping into you i i come across youtubers and social media people
00:16:19.680and influencers uh you're one of the best thanks for talking to me here today uh you came in from
00:16:24.740calgary today yes sir what are your thoughts on what we're seeing here today and and overall the
00:16:29.000independence movement as we move forward into the kind of the end of the signature campaign
00:16:33.040well you know what it's it's kind of got his own legs right and the thing is is what people don't
00:16:37.680understand about me is i haven't always been part of the independence movement i supported a more i
00:16:42.500was like daniel smith i supported you know sovereign alberta within united canada and that's what i
00:16:46.680wanted until we started seeing floor crossers and it was at that moment you know and you know a lot
00:16:51.860of people were ahead of me on that and uh believe it or not and the thing is is i said canada's over
00:16:56.520you know democracy's done it's finished right so i i i jumped all in on alberta independence
00:17:01.420um a lot of people from all over because i have followers from all over they they kind of said
00:17:06.240what are you doing you're turning your back on the conservative movement and doing all this
00:17:09.180you know you really have to find your your line in the sand and that's what happened and since then
00:17:14.880what i've seen is you know a brotherhood a sisterhood we've seen community we've seen people
00:17:19.720you know from all walks of life whether they're you know immigrants that you know their parents
00:17:23.960are immigrants or they're first nations people or from wherever they're from they're getting
00:17:29.220behind this because it makes sense you can't actually look out the back door and what is
00:17:34.160canada today versus what it used to be and say that you know there's not corruption or scandal
00:17:39.480or or it's not harder on your life anymore you just can't i think it's awesome i think we've
00:17:44.900We've got a great bunch of people who now come out and they lend their support, both knocking doors, visiting people's homes, doing these pop-ups, but also rallying the troops, bringing up the morale.
00:17:55.220I mean, it's a cold out here and we need a little boost.
00:17:58.320And you guys have been more than helpful to make that happen.
00:18:00.740You obviously have some fun with this.
00:18:03.900And I think it was Corey Morgan said to me a few weeks back, we did an event down in Southeast Calgary.
00:18:09.380He said, John, we need to have more fun doing this because it's a long slog.
00:18:12.440We're getting into three months now when it comes to the petition campaign, maybe another month.
00:18:16.700Who knows? But then after that, there'll be five or six more months if we get a question on a referendum.
00:18:21.920We need things like this. We need people like you to have some fun and, you know, kind of have a laugh about this, but be serious at the same time, I guess.
00:18:30.480Well, it's a serious topic, but at the same time, I think only Ottawa would do things serious the whole time.
00:18:36.900Yeah. Yeah. But where can people find you?
00:18:39.740You can find me at MrAlberto on all the platforms.