John Bolton - August 06, 2026


F - A - F - O - Free Alberta From Overreach - Fighting For Alberta Independence


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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. I tip the big blue mug
00:00:07.680 of coffee to you today. It is a pleasure and I appreciate you clicking on this video today. You
00:00:12.940 know, we're getting down to the nitty gritty here. Right now, we're about a month out from
00:00:18.500 Labor Day in a long weekend. As I record this, as soon as we get to the next long weekend of Labor
00:00:23.780 Day, things are going to start getting really interesting. I think that's where the rubber
00:00:28.760 hits the road as far as the independence movement goes. We need to keep pushing forward and we need
00:00:34.540 to keep contributing to the different groups who are trying to win Alberta independence. And that
00:00:38.920 means third-party advertisers. I've interviewed many of them here and I've got a new one for you
00:00:43.820 today. I'm so excited to talk with Karen Friesen, who is the chief financial officer for Free Alberta
00:00:52.220 from Overreach. Karen, thank you so much for doing this and thank you so much for, you know, getting
00:00:58.100 a third-party advertiser together, and that's much appreciated by people who want Alberta
00:01:02.440 independence. Thank you so much for having me, and I really appreciate this opportunity
00:01:08.860 to discuss our TPA. Yeah, well, I want to tell you what kind of brought you to my attention.
00:01:17.540 It could have been an email that I got my johnboltonab at gmail.com account one time.
00:01:23.720 somebody may have been you got in touch with me and the acronym we've got here for free alberta
00:01:29.560 from overreach is f-a-f-o i thought it was appropriate yeah it's it's pretty clever i
00:01:37.240 really like it and everybody can you can say it to yourself i'm not saying it here uh youtube may
00:01:42.520 you know downgrade this uh this video but i think that's fascinating were you thinking about that
00:01:46.760 when you came up with the name free alberta from overreach that fafo was that the thing that was on
00:01:52.280 your mind uh not me yeah yeah asked me to to do this with them he said what do you think of this
00:02:03.160 acronym and i thought that's perfect i love it it touched the rebel in me yeah and i think it will
00:02:10.120 resonate with a lot of albertans um yeah so you know there's a lot of tpas that are very um you
00:02:18.760 you know, by the book and very, you know, out there and stuff. And I thought this will
00:02:24.460 kind of touch the people that are rebels at heart. And so that's, I think Robin is like that. And
00:02:34.000 yeah. So I said, yeah, that sounds good. Your website is freealbertafromoverreach.com.
00:02:40.380 Yeah. Freealbertafromoverreach.com is your website. There is a donate button at the top
00:02:45.180 and information there before we find out what exactly you're doing here and how people can
00:02:50.840 support you in in your um your movement towards the independence uh vote on the 19th why are you
00:02:58.280 a part of the independence movement karen oh my gosh so many reasons just the top one you can
00:03:04.800 think of yeah the number one was i seen that lady getting trampled by the horses in ottawa
00:03:11.080 I was only a few feet away and that was kind of like my pivot point where I knew in my heart of
00:03:19.540 hearts Canada is no longer redeemable and in order for even a portion of Canada to survive
00:03:27.680 Alberta needs to become independent. Right and yeah I remember that it was kind of a pivotal
00:03:34.840 moment I think for people when they lowered the boom on the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa a number of
00:03:39.660 years ago and you were there i was there for the last three tumultuous days the first day was
00:03:46.140 pretty good and then they started kettling us and bringing out the horses and and having all those
00:03:52.160 un soldiers and riot gear and all of a sudden the whole mood just shifted and you knew you were not
00:04:00.220 like it was unreal you knew you were not in canada anymore so you this this third party advertiser
00:04:06.800 has been started up. We've seen a lot of the TPAs, as we'll call them, doing really good work around
00:04:12.860 the province. What's your plan here? What are you trying to do and what are you trying to accomplish
00:04:17.240 with your third-party advertiser? Well, our main trust is information. We've designed
00:04:23.460 11 trifolds so far. And what we've done is we've taken out most of the colour, all the graphics,
00:04:31.220 and we focus on just one subject per trifold so someone who's concerned about pensions that's all
00:04:40.040 the information they're going to get on that so that's we wanted to really boil things down to
00:04:46.320 the simplest terms and just facts there's no emotion stuff nothing like that and then our
00:04:52.740 second thrust is to educate people to vote for option two and along with that we've got these
00:05:00.100 beautiful bumper stickers. I don't know if you can see that. I have one sitting on my table right
00:05:06.400 over here. I do. I think I gave you one. Hang on. Hang on one second. I'll be right back. We'll go
00:05:10.340 get it. Hang on. Okay. I don't normally leave when I'm doing an interview, but there you go.
00:05:20.760 Yes, exactly. Actually, you should say Robin is the artistic one. He created that bumper sticker.
00:05:28.520 it's reflective to you in the dark oh yeah yeah yeah it's fantastic and along with that we've got
00:05:36.100 the you know the usual lawn signs okay hold it up so you can see it a little bit smaller hold it up
00:05:40.820 it's going to be hard to see because of the way zoom works but you do have lawn signs there i'll
00:05:45.360 try to get one i'll try to find one if you can send me a picture that'd be great i could put it
00:05:49.140 on the screen because most of it's missing in the zoom call okay i gotcha that's terrific
00:05:53.900 the same as the bumper sticker just expanded a bit there you go it's the same as that and these
00:05:59.800 are great stickers my goodness oh they're very sturdy we've got two in our truck and they're not
00:06:04.420 coming off they're not coming on they're on there yeah so how's it how's it been going so far uh
00:06:09.940 karen how are things actually a lot better than what i thought it would because like we're not
00:06:14.980 well known of course robin is actually more uh better known than i am but we feel kind of like
00:06:21.800 we're way down the list of tpas but it's okay because i think it's going to take all of us
00:06:29.620 even if we only get a few thousand i'm okay with that we're spreading like i delivered um
00:06:36.720 50 of our lawn signs up to lacrete alberta this weekend great just got back yesterday
00:06:42.420 and uh so we're just spreading it across the province right like everybody else
00:06:47.660 So we've got the banners, flags, bumper stickers, lawn signs, and whatever else Robin's mind comes up with.
00:06:58.800 He's amazing.
00:06:59.700 Oh, I think he's got keychains too.
00:07:02.060 So we're just doing that part of it too.
00:07:05.060 That's awesome.
00:07:05.740 You know what's been really great about this, Karen?
00:07:08.100 And, you know, leading up to this part of the referendum campaign, you know, people would donate towards independence.
00:07:15.640 and they would say to me, I don't know what's happening with my money.
00:07:18.740 And the beauty of what's going on here is we're seeing signs go up across the province
00:07:22.560 from different third-party advertisers.
00:07:24.320 Events are happening across the province.
00:07:26.220 You're making these and signs as well.
00:07:28.460 So if you're making a donation to FAFO, Free Alberta from Overreach,
00:07:33.280 you're going to see these things around Alberta and they're going to go up.
00:07:37.300 So you'll know your money is being put to use the way you want it.
00:07:40.400 You're going to actually see some results from the money.
00:07:42.880 you know you say if you get a few thousand that's great i i would encourage people right now
00:07:47.200 every little bit helps everybody's doing something everybody's doing something a little
00:07:53.480 bit different i love your idea of the trifolds and handing those out do you have any of those
00:07:57.840 handy i don't know whether you do uh yes i do i don't know how well they'll show up on the screen
00:08:03.420 but they're very simple yeah there you go yeah yeah you can see that you have a barcode and like
00:08:09.340 i said there's one subject they're all folded up when we hand them out and just the facts related
00:08:15.840 to that subject great so that's the kind of stuff you're going to be seeing around uh around alberta
00:08:21.000 yeah if you do contribute you a set if you like john that would be terrific thank you do that
00:08:26.820 very much again anybody can print them out okay free free alberta from overreach.com yeah if you
00:08:32.740 actually have this you could print them off yourself and hand that's right why not do that
00:08:36.800 idea. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's terrific. Congratulations. Well, that's nice to see.
00:08:43.080 I was out in, I was north of Okotoks going out to Cardston the other night. I was going out there
00:08:48.040 with the Alberta Women for Independence. I did an event and there was a, there was a pop-up out
00:08:52.680 there and they were out educating people. Pop-ups are a great idea. Anybody can do this. You know,
00:08:57.360 if I had canvassers saying, what can I do? You can do that as well. Set up a table,
00:09:01.240 talk to me about independence and you can do things like this. And I'm glad that you're doing
00:09:04.720 this kind of thing and educating people because a lot of education needs to be done over the last
00:09:10.680 two and a half months, I guess it is now. Karen, thank you very much. Thanks to everybody. Can
00:09:15.240 people volunteer? Do you need any help from people? We could probably use help with some
00:09:20.780 lawn sign delivery, but I mean, Robin has the cool shit store in Red Deer. There's always items 0.97
00:09:29.280 available there and i'm trying my best just to um like i've uh made arrangements with steve out at
00:09:36.240 the whistle stop to uh keep him inside so that'll be a permanent kind of location right and i'm doing
00:09:44.400 my little bit i mean we haven't had the funds yet to really order mass amounts but we're hoping that
00:09:53.360 that will happen we still have time right right well if you're seeing this right now make a
00:09:58.160 a donation. Go to FreeAlbertaFromOverreach.com. Make a donation right now. And let me know,
00:10:04.180 listen, if somebody's, I've got people always contacting me saying they're coming into the
00:10:07.760 Calgary area. Where are you located, by the way? A Red Deer area. Red Deer. Okay. Okay. So,
00:10:13.780 you know, I have people always coming down here to pick up other signs. Maybe they can drop off
00:10:17.700 in Red Deer and get some into the Calgary area if you got them. So I'll let you know if anybody's
00:10:22.200 coming down here. Create that network. Yeah. Well, that's what's, you know, it's amazing.
00:10:26.000 there's people who are constantly visiting the signs and they're getting everywhere.
00:10:30.100 You see them all across the province from the different TPAs. We hope to do that for you as
00:10:33.840 well. Karen, thanks so much. Best of luck to you. I appreciate what you're doing and let's win this
00:10:38.020 thing on the 19th. Okay. You bet. All right. Vote option two, question 10, Karen Friesen,
00:10:44.120 chief financial officer, free Alberta from overreach, F-A-F-O. You can't forget it.
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