John Bolton - March 07, 2026


A Message to MITCH and My Friends in INDEPENDENCE - Let's Go!

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John Bolton
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Mitch Sylvester John Hancock Sharon Jerry Gary Mark Carney Wade
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Join me at a petition signing event on Saturday, March 7th at the dog walk park in Auburn Bay, BC. We need to gather as many signatures as humanly possible, not casually, not when it s convenient, but full throttle, because when the people show up in overwhelming numbers, when support is undeniable, when participation is massive, that matters.

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00:00:00.000 April 7th through April 10th, that's when a group will be in court seeking an injunction
00:00:05.760 against the independence question that is before all burdens.
00:00:08.860 Let that sink in.
00:00:09.860 They're asking the court to stop this question from moving forward.
00:00:12.900 That is exactly why what we do right now matters so much.
00:00:16.640 Between now and April 7th, we need to gather as many signatures as humanly possible.
00:00:20.640 Not casually, not when it's convenient, full throttle.
00:00:24.760 Because when the people show up in overwhelming numbers, when support is undeniable, when
00:00:29.600 participation is massive.
00:00:31.480 That matters.
00:00:34.480 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 308 AM, Saturday, March the 7th.
00:00:51.780 I hope you're having a great start to your Saturday morning.
00:00:57.080 And this is going to be a little bit different, this video.
00:01:00.960 I woke up a little after 1 o'clock, maybe a little earlier than normal.
00:01:07.160 I woke up nervous this morning.
00:01:11.960 I've got an event coming up a few hours from now, starting at 10 o'clock and running till
00:01:16.960 4 at the Auburn Bay Dog Walk Park, which I've been talking about, which is getting some promotion
00:01:21.960 online.
00:01:22.960 It's a petition signing event.
00:01:24.840 It's going to be a little bit different for sure.
00:01:26.840 But I'm nervous about it.
00:01:28.840 And I'm nervous because I don't know how many people are going to show up.
00:01:31.840 I talked to my wife yesterday.
00:01:33.840 I said, I'm nervous.
00:01:35.840 You know, I've got some coffee coming out this morning.
00:01:37.840 Some other things happening throughout the day.
00:01:39.840 She says, John, people are coming out to be part of the independence movement.
00:01:43.840 They're not coming out for a cup of coffee because I don't know how much coffee to get
00:01:46.780 and other things today.
00:01:49.760 But I am a little bit nervous about it.
00:01:51.520 But I think the timing is just right for what I'm doing today.
00:01:55.640 I've been working on this.
00:01:56.520 Well, I actually wanted to do this back in early February, but the timing wasn't right.
00:02:00.740 But the timing hit perfectly.
00:02:02.080 There's a word that I love in the English language.
00:02:04.360 And it is serendipity, which means a lucky happenstance.
00:02:07.700 It's just lucky that this event is happening today after what Mitch Sylvester said yesterday.
00:02:13.660 And you saw a short bit of what Mitch said off the top of this video.
00:02:17.520 You know, I met Mitch, you know, probably six, seven months ago in person.
00:02:23.580 But I've had the opportunity over the last, I don't know, 10 months, 11 months to talk to
00:02:28.580 Mitch on a number of occasions.
00:02:30.980 And I trust Mitch.
00:02:34.360 And I want to work harder for Mitch.
00:02:36.360 And that's what he's asking for us to do.
00:02:38.360 You know, what's interesting about this is I think Mitch was a little bit of a reluctant leader.
00:02:43.660 I found it fascinating in one of the interviews, and I've done many of them with Mitch since
00:02:48.520 last June when I first spoke with him.
00:02:51.500 In one of the interviews, he said he really only came over to the independence movement
00:02:55.380 100% after April 28th last year.
00:02:58.400 And you and I know what happened on that date.
00:03:00.940 Mark Carney and the Liberals won.
00:03:02.300 The Liberals won their fourth straight election.
00:03:05.760 And that's when Mitch really started working hard.
00:03:07.940 And boy, has he been working hard along with so many other people in the independence movement.
00:03:12.620 These are the big names in the independence movement.
00:03:14.780 You know.
00:03:17.560 And we're so thankful to have them.
00:03:21.160 But, you know, I have this channel here.
00:03:23.280 I've got about 50,000 subscribers.
00:03:25.140 And when I do an interview with somebody from the independence movement, you know, gets 20, 30, maybe 40,000 views, which is very helpful.
00:03:30.860 But I think about the people out there on the front lines during this petition campaign, which started on January the 2nd.
00:03:37.660 And we knew this court case was coming up in April.
00:03:43.020 I knew it was going to be challenging.
00:03:44.820 But when Mitch put out that video last night, you saw a short bit of the clip.
00:03:48.060 And I'll put a card at the end so you can watch the whole thing.
00:03:50.340 It's only about two minutes long.
00:03:51.980 It kind of lit a fire under me.
00:03:53.440 And I think it lit a fire under a lot of people in the movement.
00:03:56.200 But there have been people out there constantly since they got their badges, probably about the first week of January.
00:04:03.000 And they've been working hard ever since.
00:04:07.060 I think it was by design that this petition campaign happened in the wintertime.
00:04:12.060 Much easier than going out in the middle of summer, like the so-called Forever Canadian campaign, which didn't have to collect ID on a bogus question.
00:04:21.480 These people having to collect identification when they sign people up.
00:04:24.580 And they're working hard.
00:04:25.520 I think of my friend Gary, who I speak to regularly.
00:04:27.880 Gary knows who he is.
00:04:29.460 I speak to him very early in the morning, quite often.
00:04:31.960 He's up in the Edmonton area.
00:04:33.020 I talked to him yesterday.
00:04:33.920 He's out at two or three different petition places every day.
00:04:36.480 And people are doing this everywhere around the province, on the front lines, getting a signature at a time.
00:04:44.880 Every one counts.
00:04:46.060 We talk about that from elections.
00:04:47.620 Every vote counts.
00:04:48.520 There was an election in Quebec that was decided by one vote.
00:04:52.940 So, your petition signature counts.
00:04:56.680 So, make sure you sign up.
00:04:57.880 And I think of Sharon and Jerry.
00:04:59.760 I met Jerry over a week ago at the Auburn Bay Dog Walk Park, where I'm having my event today.
00:05:08.140 I spoke to him.
00:05:09.120 He's been out there when it's minus 20 degrees Celsius.
00:05:13.720 And they're being nice enough to allow me to use this space with them today to work together for independence.
00:05:19.220 I think of his wife, Sharon, who's excited about this event today.
00:05:21.860 And I think about the 6,000 other people across the province collecting signatures.
00:05:27.560 If they're out every day collecting signatures, you can take the time to find one of these petition signing places and put your John Hancock down.
00:05:37.240 And if you don't know where one is, go to stayfreealberta.com.
00:05:40.440 Now, this court case, it's a challenge from indigenous people. 0.96
00:05:46.600 And I have a message for them in just a moment, okay?
00:05:50.240 But people ask why you want Alberta independence.
00:05:55.000 And I've said here before, 9 out of 10 people will say money.
00:05:57.660 I say it's because Ottawa gets in the way of what Alberta wants.
00:06:02.260 But you know what we really want?
00:06:04.160 When it comes right down to it, we just want a better future for Alberta. 0.99
00:06:11.760 I think of my friend Wade, who I really just met back at the Big Four here in Calgary when that big event happened here.
00:06:19.540 I stood with him through that event.
00:06:21.280 I interviewed him for that event.
00:06:26.220 I don't think he would be mad at me for saying he got a tear in his eye when he said,
00:06:30.100 I'm doing this for my grandchildren.
00:06:31.500 I want them to have a better future.
00:06:35.200 And the future looks a little more bleak in Canada than it once did.
00:06:38.400 A lot more.
00:06:40.680 And when it comes to people my age, I'm in my 60s.
00:06:45.180 I have a grandchild who doesn't live in Alberta.
00:06:47.520 But I think about those people who are graying on the sides. 0.95
00:06:51.240 And they see the Canada that they loved at one time slip away.
00:06:54.720 But they now want Alberta independence.
00:06:56.240 They're thinking about their grandchildren.
00:06:57.840 Now, as far as the indigenous people, we see the things that are happening in British Columbia.
00:07:08.400 Sometimes we don't have nice things to say about the indigenous people in this country.
00:07:17.520 But they're our fellow citizens.
00:07:19.600 And maybe we need to rethink.
00:07:22.940 Because there are a lot of people who want natural resources.
00:07:26.040 They want oil and gas.
00:07:27.200 They're on our side.
00:07:28.080 We've got people in this province.
00:07:29.820 I've seen posting online.
00:07:31.100 I'm an indigenous person from wherever it might be in Alberta.
00:07:35.000 And I signed the petition for Alberta independence.
00:07:38.020 And what we need from you, and I don't know that anybody has said this to you yet, my indigenous friends.
00:07:43.140 If you're part of the Alberta independence, my friends and independents who are indigenous,
00:07:48.240 we need you to step forward.
00:07:51.540 And to stand beside us.
00:07:53.320 We need your voices.
00:07:54.620 We need to see your faces now.
00:07:57.520 There is this group that wants to stop us.
00:07:59.260 You can help us at this time when we really need you.
00:08:06.940 The last thing I really want to say is that the real war is about to start.
00:08:12.020 And I mean war from a standpoint of fighting against a foe.
00:08:16.780 And the foe is the other side here.
00:08:18.260 I'm not talking about violence when I say war.
00:08:21.280 The Alberta independence movement does not want that.
00:08:23.520 We've seen aggressive people show up at petition signings.
00:08:26.240 We do not want that.
00:08:27.300 We are peaceful people who want what's better.
00:08:29.260 For ourselves, our family, our grandchildren, and for Alberta.
00:08:35.440 So I want to end with this.
00:08:38.780 You know, if you've been to this channel before, I like quotes.
00:08:41.760 You can learn a lot from quotes.
00:08:43.060 You can learn a lot from the past.
00:08:44.620 I don't read enough history, but I love quotes.
00:08:47.100 Because they're short little bursts of dialogue that can teach you so much.
00:08:51.180 And I'm going to read to you right now from Sun Tzu from The Art of War.
00:08:56.360 And please excuse me.
00:08:57.640 I'm going to read this so I get it right.
00:08:59.160 The Alberta independence movement knows itself, and we know the enemy.
00:09:03.620 The Alberta independence movement knows itself, and we know the enemy.
00:09:17.680 The other side doesn't get us.
00:09:31.140 If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
00:09:39.980 We're thinking about one right now for this petition campaign.
00:09:43.660 The real battle will come when we get a question on a referendum.
00:09:49.360 Think about that.
00:09:50.580 Now, to Mitch Sylvester.
00:09:52.700 Mitch, we thank you for all of your hard work.
00:09:57.480 We thank the leaders of the independence movement for all of their hard work.
00:10:01.420 I thank the people on the front lines who are doing the grunt work, who are out there every day.
00:10:09.560 These people are determined.
00:10:12.900 They want a better life.
00:10:15.180 They want an independent Alberta.
00:10:17.360 So, to Mitch Sylvester, thank you again.
00:10:19.780 If you meet Mitch, shake his hand.
00:10:21.360 And to Mitch, let's go.
00:10:24.800 Thank you for watching.
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