John Bolton - Alberta's flag... extremist？! Lunatics say so... BOYCOTT incoming？

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. It is Friday, August the 1st. When I'm recording this,

00:00:10.900 you're seeing it on Saturday, August the 2nd, early in the morning. Right now, it is 19.59.

00:00:17.360 That means it is 7.59 p.m. for those of you who aren't into military time. I hope you're having

00:00:23.140 a great evening. And tonight, I'm doing a video late because I saw something earlier this evening

00:00:27.920 that really bugged me. It really bugged me. And I decided to react to this a little bit,

00:00:36.840 but I'm going to act on this video tonight, and you're going to see that in just a moment. Now,

00:00:40.720 who put up the video that really bugged me? Corey Morgan from the Western Standard and the Corey

00:00:46.560 Morgan Show. Now, Corey doesn't bug me, but the topic bugged me. Here's Corey's YouTube channel.

00:00:51.620 He's got less than 10,000 subscribers. For God's sakes, go over and subscribe to this man.

00:00:56.120 He's got great content on his site. And if you're into the independence movement here in Alberta,

00:01:02.900 he's one of the premier voices. He wrote a book on it, for God's sake. So, go subscribe

00:01:07.800 to Corey's channel. Now, I'm not trying to benefit from Corey's work here. I'm not doing that.

00:01:14.280 I'm going to play a little bit of this video for you in just a moment. Alberta's flag is under attack. 0.60

00:01:20.380 You won't believe this. It's 11 and a half minutes long. So, go over and watch the whole thing. I'll

00:01:26.780 put a link in the description so you can watch the whole video. But here's just a little bit of what

00:01:31.580 Corey had to say to start off this video. Less than 20 seconds. Hey there. Well, we know the real race

00:01:39.620 is on when it comes to the pursuit for Alberta independence when the anti-independence groups

00:01:45.780 are actively trying to get Alberta flags pulled out of public spaces. They're trying to characterize

00:01:52.900 the flag of Alberta as being extreme and that it shouldn't be displayed in public. Who's extreme here?

00:02:01.940 And I wish I was kidding. So, Corey goes on in his video to talk about Thomas Lukasik,

00:02:07.540 the former deputy premier of the province, who has this petition out. He's trying to get a

00:02:13.700 referendum question to keep Alberta in Canada. You're aware of that. And he also goes on to talk

00:02:19.940 about how people are now trying to make the Alberta flag look like its extremist. I'm not going to get

00:02:25.140 deep into it. Go watch Corey's video. He explains the whole thing and he does quite the biography on

00:02:30.020 Thomas Lukasik as well. But the reason he brought this up about Alberta's flag is under attack because

00:02:37.700 on the Forever Canadian Facebook page, which is the Facebook page of Lukasik's

00:02:45.300 little project here, this got posted by a guy named Sean Copeland yesterday at 512. And let me read this to

00:02:54.820 you. This is an update to an earlier post I made regarding the display of an Alberta provincial

00:02:59.620 flag in a Safeway store in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The flag has been removed at the request of Western

00:03:05.060 Canada Regional Office. I did not approach the store manager personally. Please thank the upper

00:03:09.860 management at Safeway, Sobeys, Empire Company. It appears that after relating my concerns to Safeway's

00:03:16.020 Western Canada Regional Office, they have taken the decision to enforce their policy to ensure

00:03:20.980 that their stores not appear to politicize Alberta's flag. I feel confident that this policy will be

00:03:27.540 enforced at all of their stores. The decision to have the flag in this photo removed reinforces

00:03:32.580 Safeway's long-term commitment to keep politics out of shopping. My original belief that there is a

00:03:38.980 policy that discourages the display of the Alberta flag inside or outside of stores seems to have been

00:03:44.500 accurate. Shopping locally means buying Canadian and by extension Albertan. This is not a rebuke of this

00:03:50.740 manager or whatever political views they may hold. Simply a win for those who would not wish to see the Alberta

00:03:56.580 flag co-opted for reasons other than pride in Alberta. Kudos to Safeway, Sobeys, and Empire Company for

00:04:03.220 taking a stance in turbulent times for Canada and the province. And the responses to this, I won't get into it,

00:04:09.220 but you can just imagine what people are saying about this. This is a big win for Mr. Copeland and the

00:04:15.860 Forever Canadian campaign as they try to make the Alberta flag look like its extremist. And this sickens me. It really does.

00:04:24.580 Corey goes on to state his views on how he feels about this as well. As a matter of fact, let me just

00:04:30.020 take you back here real quick before I show you what I am going to do. If we go over to his channel

00:04:34.660 here, Corey talks at the end about we need to display the Alberta flag everywhere we can. And on

00:04:40.100 the video that I'm going to link below, you'll see that in the description, he's got all these links to

00:04:44.580 Amazon where you can buy different Alberta flag paraphernalia. Okay, so keep that in mind. Now,

00:04:50.420 what am I going to do? Well, as you can see in here, he talks about the Safeway, Sobeys, Empire

00:04:56.260 Company. And he also talks about the Western Canada Regional Office. I'm writing a letter to both.

00:05:02.820 Okay. And this is what I'm writing. So this is the Empire Company. And as you can see down here,

00:05:07.620 they do food retailing. And here are the different companies they represent, including Safeway. And this

00:05:13.700 is a medicine hat store, apparently, that took down the Alberta flag because it's political in

00:05:18.980 some way. It's the other side that's politicizing this, folks, not us. But I'm writing a letter to

00:05:25.620 the head office and I'm writing an email to the Western office as well. And here's what I'm writing.

00:05:31.540 I will put my email address and phone number in later. Just saves me having to blur it out while

00:05:35.540 I'm doing this right now. Okay. So let's go down here and read this. Hopefully I can do this. Okay.

00:05:41.540 Okay. It has come to my attention through an influential Alberta YouTuber and media figure

00:05:47.780 and a post on the Forever Canadian Facebook group that you have been approached by someone named

00:05:52.820 Sean. I'll have to re-spell his name. It's not spelled that way. I will fix that. Sean Copeland

00:05:57.540 and have now removed the Alberta flag at his request from a medicine hat store. To say I am incensed about

00:06:04.500 this move by your company is an understatement. The Alberta flag is a symbol of pride in our province

00:06:10.900 in Western culture and in the strong sense of community for all Albertans. Mr. Copeland's comments

00:06:17.060 suggest you have been convinced it is a political statement and should be removed. It is not.

00:06:22.020 It is representative of the examples I give above. I would like you to respond to this email and tell me

00:06:28.820 if you have in fact removed the flag of Alberta from any of your stores and if you intend to do this

00:06:33.940 in other stores across the province. Your response will determine my next action and

00:06:40.100 how I instruct the 35,000 subscribers to my YouTube channel when it comes to how we patronize your

00:06:46.100 stores. Bigger channels will follow suit and I put my name in my YouTube channel there and I'm sending

00:06:51.300 these out as soon as I am done this video and I will get back to you as soon as I get any response at

00:06:57.780 all. But folks, if I do not get a response, I will be doing a video shortly on how we can boycott these

00:07:03.620 companies because this cannot stand. We have to stick up for our province. We have to stick up for

00:07:09.700 the flag of our province. We are proud of our province. We're proud of our flag and as Corey says

00:07:14.420 in his video, it's one of the few provinces, if not the only one across the country, that puts up their

00:07:20.500 provincial flag and thinks of it proudly. And I'm with Corey 100% on this so I'm going to send these out

00:07:26.580 immediately. Maybe a few revisions just to add a little bit more detail. But I just wanted to let

00:07:32.100 you know this is happening and I will get back to you just like I did when it came to the letter I

00:07:37.540 wrote to the Chief Electoral Officer of Alberta back in early June. I put a video up on the response

00:07:42.820 to that just the other day. Thank you so much for watching. I'm working on another video. Perhaps it

00:07:47.780 will come up today, meaning Saturday, August 2nd. If you did like this video, please let me know by

00:07:54.020 giving it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications and go over to

00:07:57.940 Corey Morgan's video, watch the whole thing, give it a like and subscribe to Corey's channel as well.

00:08:03.940 I'll see you in the next one. Oh yeah, got my big blue mug here, of course.

John Bolton - August 02, 2025

Alberta's flag... extremist？! Lunatics say so... BOYCOTT incoming？

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