00:05:01.040The part that concerned me is that she said, you know what, we're going to wait for a court ruling and then we're going to decide what's going on there.
00:05:07.240Well, Jeff's got that judge in court on Wednesday.
00:05:10.840They're going to talk about bias and they're going to spend a lot of time talking about bias.
00:05:15.440So, you know, in case we need to appeal this, we can't just bring bias out after we lose a case if we're going to lose a case.
00:05:21.300And it's been my feeling right from the beginning that we're going to lose this case.
00:05:24.900So as a consequence to that, we have to, you know, take the correct steps
00:05:30.080so that we could challenge it and appeal it.
00:05:34.060So that's what we're doing Wednesday, somewhere in Edmonton, I believe.
00:05:37.200And so I'm just thinking that, you know, Jeff's feeling the same as I am.
00:05:41.860I don't want to put words in his mouth, but, you know,
00:05:44.000we're both feeling that we're not going to win this court case
00:05:46.080and that they're going to use everything they can do to stop this process.
00:05:48.300She was pretty quick to drag out Thomas Lukasik's petition.
00:09:03.780We're going to come out with some kind of a plan now that we know that people are coming.
00:09:07.480We have people coming from Red Deer, which is exactly what started this conversation, all the way here to drive to the city and then, of course, continue to go home after it was done.
00:09:16.720But we'll be leaving Bonneville at about 9.30 in the morning.
00:09:20.400We have to be in Elections Alberta by 1.30, so that'll give us lots of time.
00:09:24.380So we'll be able to get there in time to deliver the signatures.
00:09:29.280We will have people there to take your picture.
00:09:31.140We will have, you know, John's coming.
00:09:34.660so we'll have some we'll have celebrities there as well and uh you know they'll they'll want to
00:09:40.180meet you and everybody will be excited that will be a real feel-good moment and i'll guarantee you
00:09:45.220five minutes after that's over i'll we'll be relieved yes you okay so we're waiting for the
00:09:49.540relief and we'll uh we'll maybe put a microphone in front of you and have you do a big sigh next
00:09:53.640monday um we're moving into the next phase of this um i think fundraising is the big thing to come
00:10:00.000there's going to be a lot of money being poured in here from ottawa all over the country to try
00:10:04.380to keep us to stay um how can people help out with that um if they can at all right now well you can
00:10:11.020donate to the to the alberta prosperity society is that where they that so they need to go to the
00:10:16.140alberta prosperity project website is that the place to go now okay yeah or finish us up here
00:10:21.660with stay free alberta sure sure of course so one place or the other but uh you can donate
00:10:26.620any amount anonymously to the alberta prosperity society now uh so that money goes in anonymously
00:10:32.780we until this is how third parties work if you donated money to us and we were a third party
00:10:39.400then we would have to disclose who the donors are right now if you donate to us it's totally
00:10:44.920anonymous we're a non-for-profit so you can donate any amount of money to albert prosperity society
00:10:51.360and we will use that money 100 guaranteed to advance this cause okay gotcha um so fundraising
00:10:58.100is coming up. I suppose that people have ideas as well to get in touch, and I have another idea
00:11:03.680that I want to kind of do as well, so I'm pretty excited about that. What's the timeline here?
00:11:10.860When will we know how many signatures? People have been asking this for three months. How many
00:11:14.980signatures have we got? What's the timeline in finding out the number of signatures we got,
00:11:19.760and when's the earliest we might find out about a question on a ballot if that happens?
00:11:25.260the answer to that is you'll know when you get to the elections alberta office on monday what
00:11:31.820the number is you'll also it's it's three weeks it's three weeks to that they are taking to
00:11:39.180to verify the signatures so the earliest that all of this could get going so probably the 25th of
00:11:45.260may 26th of may so if they verify the signatures and then uh you know these are legit and i've
00:11:51.500looked over these sheets and i was involved with signing people and our process was completely
00:11:57.100different completely completely different to lucasics yeah he did not need never mind legal
00:12:02.140land description he did not need id he did not need anything just people had to sign their name
00:12:06.140on the on the line and then away they went well we need we need physical address uh you know peel
00:12:11.820box numbers don't work if you have a driver's license with a peel box number that doesn't work
00:12:15.260for us we were sending people home 15 or 20 percent of our people were going home to get
00:12:19.740physical address yeah and i you know i'm concerned about how many of them ever came back
00:12:24.060so you you say that on monday this coming monday you're going to have a number for people we're
00:12:31.420going to know how many because you've had them counted already well we're counting them every
00:12:35.200day yeah okay so you got a number it's just going up okay good so that's that's people really want
00:12:40.800to know how many signatures after all the work over the last four months so that's going to be
00:12:45.000interesting to hear on monday so we'll be prepared for that as well um what do you what do you want
00:12:52.640to say i mean you've already mentioned the people that were out there and i've been out visiting
00:12:57.580people i've said to them so many times thank you for being out here i ran into some people down
00:13:02.500at elbow falls a while back a couple sitting out there doing good business by the way at elbow
00:13:07.240falls uh on 66 highway just uh southwest of brag creek there and they had 860 signatures each and
00:13:16.280you've mentioned that these people are great your final words for what's happened over the last four
00:13:20.440months well you know what i think this sums it all up i was coming home from the south i wasn't
00:13:24.760coming home from the south i was going to another event it was 25 below zero there was a cargo
00:13:30.760trailer at the side of the road with alberta flags on it big sign on the door says knock if you want
00:13:36.680want to sign they're both sitting inside that cargo trailer bundled up for like 30 below in a
00:13:42.420cargo trailer with a small heater yeah and they're going to be there all day collecting signatures
00:13:47.060hoping to get 10 signatures all day what does that tell you yeah yeah i know it's just it's
00:13:53.640just incredible how much work people have done and you know i'm so appreciative and i know
00:13:58.120everybody's appreciative for everything everybody does but uh without all that massive group of
00:14:03.520volunteers. There's just absolutely no way this happens. And people have no idea how hard it was
00:14:07.980to collect signatures from people. People don't want to be on the list. I started with that
00:14:12.860earlier today, but you have to be aware people are afraid of government. And the fact that people
00:14:18.220are afraid of our government here, I remember the day. I can tell you exactly where I was when they
00:14:22.220first announced that they're freezing back accounts. I was on my way back from an Oilers
00:14:25.260hockey game. I was just at the Glendon turnoff about 15, 20 minutes from Bonneville. And I turned
00:14:31.640in and I stopped and I had a discussion with my wife and I go, holy, this is a whole new level
00:14:36.380here. So, so yeah, so that's exactly what was going on there. Well, I remember having a
00:14:42.780conversation with my wife being concerned that my bank account was going to be frozen back then
00:14:47.780because I had contributed to that and I was, we were quite concerned about it. So yeah, I remember
00:14:54.300that as well, but it has been an interesting, you know, it's, it's very strange. I was thinking this
00:14:58.140before you just connected with me here on this zoom call was it seems like just yesterday this
00:15:03.420began but boy those four months took some time to get through after when you really start to think
00:15:07.420about it you know there was there was it was an adventure from december 22nd till today yeah like
00:15:15.180it's just been one thing after another after another uh one thing to deal with another thing
00:15:19.660to deal with uh you know issues here there and everywhere government uh you know we've had court
00:15:25.340case after court case we've had three letters every week from elections alberta multiple letters
00:15:31.020every week from elections alberta we had all those people trying to assault our canvassers
00:15:35.340with no reaction from the other side we never did that to forever canada people never would do that
00:15:41.820either that's just not who we are so you know what uh there was a lot going on here you know i mean
00:15:48.140it started off with people trying to run marty over on the side of the road and then the bullet
00:15:53.740here and then finally somebody gets a cigarette but to put out on their face here at the end uh
00:15:59.580you know people are throwing hot coffee on our canvassers so i'm just saying you know what it
00:16:03.580was uh a lot of courage uh shown by our people and uh you know what i respect that i respect courage
00:16:10.860and that's why i respect all my people so much you know going around um driving around and seeing
00:16:16.380blue flags flying everywhere it's been a great way to educate people about this as well and
00:16:21.740Despite those things happening, people have kept their spirits very high, and I think they're ready for the next phase.
00:16:27.580And it's going to be about six months.
00:16:29.000So four months for the petitions, six months for the question and educating people and fundraising.