John Bolton - February 16, 2026


CANADIANS Threaten VIOLENCE - ALBERTA Independence Needs To Act NOW!


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

158.42181

Word count

1,487

Sentence count

129

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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A man drove up and hurled insults at canvassers collecting Alberta independent signatures on a referendum petition and got into a heated exchange with one of them. I m concerned about people's safety and want to make an example of him.

Transcript

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Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Monday, February 16th, 525 AM. I hope you're
00:00:09.220 having a great start to your Monday morning with the big blue mug of coffee. I have been
00:00:13.920 up for several hours. I had something else in mind this morning, but I think it's important
00:00:20.780 to do this video. I'm rather concerned and I'm concerned about people's safety. I went
00:00:28.040 on X this morning. I don't spend a lot of time on social media. It's a toilet. It's
00:00:32.400 a sewer. It's people screaming at each other from their keyboards, wherever they may live
00:00:37.620 around the world. It's a total waste of time. The world would be a better place if we got
00:00:41.720 rid of these phones, smartphones, and social media. You know, yesterday I was going to do
00:00:51.920 a video. I got up to do a video, but I changed my mind. I wish I'd done it at this point, but
00:00:55.920 yesterday I was going to do a video on the fact that it was flag day in Canada. Yesterday
00:01:02.620 the Canadian flag turned 61. Yesterday I turned 61. The Maple Leaf became Canada's flag the
00:01:11.920 day I was born. I used to be a very proud Canadian. I am no longer a proud Canadian. That was going
00:01:18.540 to be the theme of my video yesterday, but I didn't do it. I am an Albertan. I lost my
00:01:26.160 patriotism many years ago. I don't call myself a Canadian anymore. I used to be very proud
00:01:32.740 of the Canadian flag. I am no longer proud of the Canadian flag because I am an Albertan.
00:01:39.000 And I don't think Canadians are the polite, tolerant people that they used to be. And the 1.00
00:01:43.280 reason I'm concerned and I'm worried about people's safety is because of what's going on
00:01:47.240 right now because of what I'm seeing on X. I did this video a couple of weeks ago.
00:01:54.180 The myth of Canadian politeness and tolerance. Perhaps I'll put it in a card at the end.
00:01:59.220 Plus insults, threats, dirty tricks, lies, and of course, Trump.
00:02:05.700 I'll put the card at the end so you can go back and watch it.
00:02:08.800 So why am I concerned today? I'm really concerned. A week ago I was out and I visited a few petition
00:02:15.540 places around Calgary. I went to four of them. And for the most part, everything was fine. But
00:02:20.400 when I was talking to the people behind the tables, I said, have you had any trouble? A few people have
00:02:25.960 given us the finger. We've been called traitors a couple of times and that's fine. But things have
00:02:34.700 escalated and things are escalating very fast. I'm starting to see things like this online. This is
00:02:41.060 Alberta radio. Hey, Jeffrey Rath. See this last week. It was some guy who tried to run me and my
00:02:47.040 wife off the road after some dude followed us from a place. We got signatures. And now this 0.83
00:02:51.980 just thought you should be aware of the violence by the opposition.
00:02:56.740 This is a post by Berta Proud Dad. I'll go over to his post. Threatening canvassers for collecting
00:03:03.020 Alberta independent signatures is unacceptable. This is democracy. You can disagree. You can vote no in a
00:03:09.480 referendum. But intimidation and threats are out of line. He deleted the video after it got shared.
00:03:15.080 Good thing it was screen recorded. And I'm starting to see a lot more of this.
00:03:21.460 We don't see what happens after this deranged lunatic gets out of his car, but it's obviously
00:03:48.060 threatening behavior. And threatening people collecting signatures sanctioned by Elections
00:03:53.620 Alberta can be considered a crime. I've had a lawyer tell me, jail time and up to a $25,000 fine. I'm not
00:04:00.800 quite sure about that. But I think that Stay Free Alberta needs to get ahead of this thing. And 0.70
00:04:07.100 somebody needs to be made an example of. And this person, and this is a screen capture of the beginning
00:04:12.820 of their video, AJ Braun might be the first person that we need to make an example of to nip this in
00:04:18.240 the bud before it turns to extreme violence. Because this is not an isolated incident. Look what this
00:04:24.600 person wrote here. That's how you deal with these racist separatist Fs. I don't want to see somebody
00:04:31.420 get hurt. And it won't come from the independent side. We're dealing with democracy here. Everybody gets
00:04:38.380 to vote. Here's Marty up north. Show his tweet here.
00:04:50.340 This guy drove up today and hurled insults at me. I told him he was harassing an Elections Alberta
00:04:55.240 canvasser. He came back and tried to claim he just wanted a discussion. I told him to move on.
00:05:00.660 Like I said earlier, there is no common demographic of who wants to sign the petition. On the flip side,
00:05:05.760 so far, I've had four older white male boomers go out of their way to insult me. Why? Here's the video.
00:05:17.720 No, you weren't being reasonable.
00:05:19.400 Well done to Marty for doing the right thing. Get out the phone. Get the camera rolling. Get the
00:05:31.420 license number and ask the person to politely move on. There's a saying, once you raise your voice,
00:05:37.980 you've lost the argument. So be really cool about it. If you're out there collecting signatures and
00:05:42.480 somebody is yelling at you, blocking access to your petition, ask them to move on politely or you'll
00:05:48.460 call the police, but get them on camera and try to get their license number as well, because this
00:05:53.340 could be criminal. And be the adult in the room. Don't get into an argument with these people.
00:06:00.780 You'll never convince them. There's a saying I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
00:06:06.940 You get dirty. And besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw.
00:06:13.280 And this isn't just isolated. You're seeing more things like this.
00:06:18.220 I'm in F the traitors. I'm past the let's debate Alberta separatists in a peaceful way and hope they
00:06:25.140 come to their senses stage. And I'm now at the let's burn this treasonous fascist movement to the
00:06:31.960 ground by whatever means necessary until it's a pile of ashes and bone stage. Who's with me?
00:06:41.320 Now, is it against the law to do this kind of thing? Well, I went online. I went on to Grok and I found
00:06:46.160 this. Is interfering with an elections Alberta petition signing campaign illegal? And is it
00:06:52.200 punishable by law? Yes. Interfering with an Alberta petition signing campaign, such as for a citizen's
00:06:58.580 initiative or recall under provincial law can be illegal and punishable depending on the specific
00:07:03.940 nature of the interference. While the acts do not explicitly list a broad interference offense in
00:07:09.240 the same way as voting interference, actions that disrupt, obstruct, or fraudulently interfere
00:07:14.680 with legitimate signature collection could constitute an offense under the specific acts to offense
00:07:20.260 sections, broader Alberta criminal law. Elections Alberta oversees complaints and investigations for
00:07:25.660 violations under these acts with the election commissioner able to pursue administrative penalties,
00:07:30.580 fines, or prosecutions. Physically obstructing or harassing signature collectors, petitioners could
00:07:36.240 be criminal. Minor disruptions, verbal opposition without threats might not cross into illegality,
00:07:43.180 but coordinated efforts to sabotage a sanctioned petition process could trigger scrutiny.
00:07:49.600 My friends in Independence, we are only at the very beginning of this process.
00:07:54.180 It was only on January 2nd that Mitch Sylvester of Stay Free Alberta was given the go-ahead by
00:08:00.940 Elections Alberta to start this petition signing campaign. And if we get to the inevitable question
00:08:07.420 on a referendum, that won't happen for nine or ten months. We've got a long way to go here. In a matter of
00:08:15.280 six weeks, it's only the middle of February, we've been called traitors, we've had veiled threats,
00:08:21.940 we've had violent threats, and now we've got people jumping out of their vehicles looking like they're
00:08:26.320 about to do violence. We need to set an example of somebody now and end this. Because the real battle
00:08:32.900 starts when the referendum is announced. Then it gets serious, folks. So again, if you're out there,
00:08:41.160 you keep your phone at hand, you record these people, you be polite, you ask them to leave,
00:08:46.840 you ask them to move on. If they don't, you call the police. Let Stay Free Alberta know about it. I
00:08:53.860 think they should know about everything that happens out there and let Elections Alberta know
00:08:58.380 about it. We have to stop this now. And the only reason this kind of thing is happening now
00:09:02.380 is because we're winning. We have the facts and the figures on our side. We need to stick together
00:09:11.200 here, folks. Work even harder for Alberta's independence. Thanks a lot for watching. You
00:09:15.700 be safe out there. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,
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