Independence Calendar (Episode #11) - February 15th, 2026
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about how things are going so far, and what we need to do to keep the momentum going. Also, we'll talk more about the petition signing locations and events happening across the province.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the Independence Calendar for Sunday, February 15th. This is
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episode 11. It is great to have you here today. I do have my big blue mug of coffee as usual here
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on the channel. I'm wearing my Wexit hat today. I have not worn this hat in a long time. I told
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the story here before that I was at an Independence meeting here in North Calgary back in 2019 where
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I bought this hat. Things have changed a lot since then, but there's a reason why I have the
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Western Exit hat on today. I'll get to that in just a moment. So on the calendar today, we're going to
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talk about how things are going so far and how we need to get the momentum going. Also, we'll talk
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more about the petition signing places at stayfreealberta.com. Run through kind of a scroll
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of different events and places where you can see speakers. If you haven't been out to an event
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with a speaker, you'll want to do that. Also, I've been talking about a petition signing here
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in Southeast Calgary I've been wanting to do. I've been talking about it for weeks. Got a plan.
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Got an interesting idea. There's just something else we need before we can make it happen. I
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appreciate all of you who have got in touch with me and say you want to help. Please be patient.
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We've still got quite some time with the petition signing until May. So stay tuned. It's coming.
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But again, one thing has to fall into place. More on that in just a moment. Also, I've got some
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submissions today. Keep your submissions, your pictures, your videos, anything Alberta Independence
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coming to me. You can send them to me at johnboltonab at gmail.com. johnboltonab at gmail.com.
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I can't respond to all of them. I try to read all of them, but keep the pictures coming. And I've got a
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great list today. In fact, I would say the submissions have gone to the dogs and cats
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today. The cat one is particularly interesting to me. So stay tuned for that. And why am I wearing
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the Wexit hat? I'm wearing the Wexit hat because independence is spreading across this country. If
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you didn't know, you may know that Saskatchewan has an independence movement and you may have heard
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that British Columbia does as well. I'll be talking to Michael Henshaw of the BC independence
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movement. In fact, I chatted with him for a few minutes earlier this week. I'll have a segment
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of that video for you at the end of this one. Now let's move on to petition signing places.
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There are more than ever. If you want to find out where to go when it comes to a petition signing,
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go to stayfreealberta.com because you can find out where to sign, become a canvasser. And I'm
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continuing to get email at johnboltonab at gmail.com from people who say they can't get out to a
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petition signing location. If you see on the screen right here, it says request to sign the
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petition. Click on that, put your information into the form that's there and somebody will come
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visit you. Okay. But as you can see, lots and lots of Alberta signing places right now.
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And if you go here, you'll see every once in a while, you'll come across a red place and that's
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where there's a speaker. Unfortunately, right now, because of elections, Alberta's rules,
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there aren't as many speaking engagements. There's only so many things that Mick Sylvester
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and Jeff Rath can do, but I'm going to put a scroll at the end as well at the different speaker
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locations, because if you haven't been out to an event with a speaker, you're really missing out
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and you'll want to go to that. Maybe even plan a little bit of a trip, go out for dinner,
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travel a little bit across Alberta to see one of the speakers. Now let's take a look at a roll call
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of some of the different events that are happening across the province. As promised,
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some of the speaker locations. And I'd like to thank Joe this week for his song. Lots of people
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sending me songs here, working on them with AI. It's remarkable what you can do today.
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Joe created this song called Alberta Roars. That's the theme for this week's roll call
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of petition signing places and events here in Alberta.
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And I have searched and I have stumbled. I was lost. Now I'm found. It is this place.
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It is these people. And what we can do knows no bounds. Alberta runs. Alberta climbs now.
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Alberta flies. Alberta soars. Alberta dreams. Better than ever.
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Thanks a lot to Joe for creating that incredible song. And remember, go to stayfreealberta.com if you
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want any information about the independence movement, a petition signing place, how you can become a
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canvasser. And if you want somebody to drop by and help you sign the petition. Now, something I want
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to address here, I think is very important. We've seen a great amount of momentum going on over the
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last month or so since the petition signing began. We saw all the lineups and all the events that were
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happening across the province. You have to understand the people that were doing that were
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highly motivated, 100% in when it came to independence. And as we've been saying here, and some of the
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leaders of the independence movement have told me here on this channel, we've got the people, about 30%,
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who are all in for independence. We can't have our minds changed. There's the people who don't want
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it at all, maybe about 30%. It's the people in the mushy middle. We've got to get out to sign the
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petition and eventually sign and click yes when it comes to we want to leave Canada, meaning the
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province of Alberta. So right now, what we have to do is really buckle down, work harder to get those
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people to sign the petition that haven't already gone out over the last month or so in the tens of
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thousands to sign. So keep that in mind. So if you've got your badge when it comes to being a
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canvasser, keep going out there. Every 5, 6, 10, 20 people that you sign up is just going to make our
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movement stronger and we can keep the momentum going. Now what I want to do is I want to talk about
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the event I want to do here in Southeast Calgary. I've been talking about this for a couple of weeks.
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A few weeks ago, I said, get in touch with me if you want to help, but I want to help in the subject
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matter. Send an email to me at johnboltonab at gmail.com and two to three dozen people did that.
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I still want to do this event and this is the theme of it. The pop-up petition from a trunk event. Let
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me get my face off the screen here so you can see that. I created this graphic the other day and as you
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can see, I took the date off of it because I'm not sure exactly when we're going to have this. It
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will be happening at the Auburn Bay Dog Walk Park which is a terrific place to do this. I took some
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video when I went over there the other day. This is what it looks like at that area at 52nd Street
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Southeast at Auburn Bay Drive and it's called a petition from a trunk event. The idea behind this
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is that basically you just drive your car up. We want you to put maybe a tv tray or a small foldable
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table into your trunk. Maybe bring a couple of chairs so you can bring a friend along with you
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that we can put right behind your car. That means we don't have to have a big tent. If it's a little
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cool you can get into your car to warm up. You really don't have to bring anything. Maybe bring
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some snacks. Maybe bring yourself some hot cocoa or something like that. We'll provide the pens. We'll
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provide the paperwork and we'll provide the coffee. We'll have a fun event that day. We can talk about
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the independence movement and we can line the cars up where we can have people roll in to sign the
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petition. A petition from a trunk event. Now why are we not doing this? Well unfortunately this has
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become a bit of a problem. We've been very lucky here in Calgary over the last month or so where
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we've had a Chinook roll through. The temperature has been very warm. Last weekend was incredibly warm.
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It felt 15 up to 20 degrees at times but as you can see over the next week here is Sunday over the next
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week the temperature is going to drop and next week it will be minus 10 Celsius and I don't know about
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you. I don't want to be out signing a petition when it is minus 10. So we're going to have to watch
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on a weekly basis from now on in for a good window of opportunity to do this event. Okay so hold tight
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all right hold tight. Those of you who have got in touch with me who want to help we're going to do
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this but we need the weather to well to help us out a little bit and it's going to get cold over the
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next week. So now let's move along to your submissions. Keep them coming okay. johnboltonab at
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gmail.com. I got about 200 email and as I keep saying I try to read all your email. I can't respond
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to all of them. If I do respond it might be just a couple of words because I get so many in. But let's
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take a look at your submissions. Now before I get into it I just want to show you this. I got this from
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Mike. I showed these last week. Mike got in touch with me by email this week saying he sent me these
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stickers. So Mike thanks a lot. I do appreciate it and I particularly like this one. I think it's
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fantastic. I think I'll put it on my car. Let's take a look at your submissions from this week.
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The submissions today are mostly pictures but if you have a video or you want to speak a
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declaration of independence for me be sure to put it into Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and send your
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videos to me at johnboltonab at gmail.com. Let's take a look at your submissions today.
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Thanks to Evan P for sending this in. This is his Calgary Signing Station. Great job here.
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I appreciate you taking the time to do that. A couple from Kerry. This one in Three Hills.
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He sent in this canine duo supporting Alberta independence. As I said earlier we kind of went
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to the dogs and cats this week. The cat coming up. Kerry I hope you saw their ID before they signed
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the petition. Also check out this great picture. A great flag from Kerry. Thank you so much.
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Earl is representing the Republic Alberta in Yuma, Arizona. Thank you so much Earl. It's an
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international movement for independence here in Alberta. Lee with another photo. That's a new flag
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with the wild rose on it. Haven't seen this one before but I appreciate it. Keep those coming Lee.
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Yvonne with these Alberta pins with the APP QR codes on this. You know I think this is a great idea
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Yvonne. If you have more QR codes we can put more information on those. Keep those coming
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as well. I think that's a good idea. I'll pass that along to the people at Stay Free Alberta.
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Charles sent this signing location to me. We missed the first dates on this one but there
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is one coming up on the 19th as you can see. Just 15 minutes north of St. Albert. If you've
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got a signing location and you've got a graphic or something send that to me just like Charles
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did. Sonia with her house done upright. Faith, family and freedom. We hear that a lot. Thank you
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very much to Sonia. Tim says his Alberta flag is getting impatient. When will the Maple Leaf flag
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be replaced? Thanks for the picture. Christian with a patriotic piano. Christian this one hits all the
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right chords. Ba-dum-bum. Sorry. This is out on Old Banff Coach Road just outside Calgary. Here's the
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Alberta flag with the Jays. Thank you very much for that. Yorga with this cartoon. Alberta climbing
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out of a toilet. Some interesting imagery here. Thank you Yorga. Bill says he's working the afternoon
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shift in Edmonton. A great flag picture here. Where is this so I can tell people where to go there and
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sign? Please let me know. Bill send me an email. johnboltonab at gmail.com. LW this one made my week.
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This is a cat watching me on YouTube. Outstanding. Thank you so much. I'm going to save this one on
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my phone. Maybe I'll make this into a poster and put it on my wall. Here's Bill with this beautiful
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flag. Chris sent this of Grant and his buddies collecting signatures. I do appreciate that.
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Keep sending those pictures of you doing the signature signing. I love to see them.
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A couple from Don here. One with his car spreading the word. Thank you Don.
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And one with the message in front of his house too. You might want to take down the leaf off the wall
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if you get my drift on. Okay. Albertan has a slow roll coming up. This is coming up. I'm going to have
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Al on with me later this week. I'll tell you more about it next week as well. But this is coming up on
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Saturday of next week. I believe on the 21st. Yes. The 21st of February. So we'll be talking to Al
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about this this week on the channel. Be sure to watch for that. We've got some more great stuff
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coming up from Albertan as well. William with three picks says he signed at the Stavely Elevator.
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His wife did it at the hair salon. Thank you so much for the info. Also William with this picture
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of a pickup with a great Alberta flag and another one here as well from William. Joe sent this picture
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in. This is with me at the Alberta legislature last year. Thanks for sending this. It was great meeting
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Joe. Joe is the one who put together the song Alberta Roars that you heard earlier in this
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calendar. Also, I got this great video from Al Burton who I'm going to be talking to later this
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week about his slow roll. I just mentioned that a minute ago. He said in this video just yesterday.
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Hey guys, it's Al and Mrs. Al. Just wanted to say happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there.
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Happy birthday, John. Happy flag day, Canada, I guess. We had a great day today. The missus and I
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drove around town picking out all of the petition signing stations and we found a few. So we'll just
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share a few of these pictures coming up now. Thanks. Happy birthday, John. Happy birthday, John. And
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change those Canadian flags since it's flag day to the Alberta flag, baby. Yeah, baby.
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Thanks a lot to Al for the kind birthday wishes along with his wife. I do appreciate it. And look
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for him on the channel later this week when we talk about his slow roll that is coming up next week as
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well. And he actually sent me all these photos as he went around to different petition signing events
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just yesterday. I do appreciate it. Always good to hear from you, Al, and your wife as well, of course.
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And then we have Craig with this sign. Thank you so much for sending this in. And keep the submissions
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And now we move on to the interview segment of the calendar for this week. I like to do this on a
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weekly basis. And you know the independence movement is growing across the country.
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They won't admit it, but Canada is slowly falling apart. We've got an independence movement in Quebec,
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one in Saskatchewan, one in Alberta, and one in British Columbia. Earlier this week, I had a chance
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to talk with a BC independent leader, Michael Henshaw. You know, looking from Alberta, what we
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see happening out there, certainly pipelines are very much connected with British Columbia,
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certainly Alberta to go through there. But the real challenge I think you guys have right now that we're
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not dealing with here in Alberta is land claims. And you're dealing with, and maybe we can put them
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together, but you're dealing with a left-wing government there, where here in Alberta, we tend
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to elect very right-wing governments, more conservative. So talk about the land claim issue. You gave me an
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amazing number the other day. You said something like 110% of the land.
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110%. That was a few years back. It's probably more now of the provinces and land claims due to overlapping claims.
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Yeah. So any way to get around that though, because we are certainly here where I live,
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I'm in treaty seven. Right. Um, when it comes to treaties here and it's seeded land here,
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all given up, all seeded, pretty much all of Alberta is that way, but I don't think British
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Columbia is that way. So you've got some real challenges there and this must really tick you
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off and people who are interested in independence there. There's, uh, our, there, our real estate
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industry right now is, is it's tanking. Do you work in real estate? It's frozen. I,
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yes, I've been for 20, 20 plus years and property manager. So yeah, yeah, it, it, it strikes close
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to home. Yeah. But I'm seeing, seeing that, you know, throughout the province that it's quite
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stagnant right now. And I think a lot of people are hesitant to jump in. Yeah. I wouldn't want to
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buy a house there right now. There's no security. I think the banks are, are not interested in,
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in lending. I think in spec, particularly those areas that are, have open law case, uh, lawsuits
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more, more recently there was the couch and decision, but we have Kamloops now the whole city
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of Kamloops is under claim. I'm just wondering where that's going to go. Yeah. Is there a lot of
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support for this? I mean, there's you, there's somebody else who's talking about this as well. Are you,
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are you getting people together? Are you having meetings? Are you trying to connect with other
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people who are interested in this? And what part of BC do you want to take? Do you want it all,
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or just the section above Vancouver and Victoria that seem to vote for the left in the liberal?
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Well, I'm, I'm in a hundred mile, which is so central and the last provincial election,
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everything North went blue and we did, and there's that, but the concentration, population
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concentration, the lower mainland seem to dictate the, the outcome. Yeah. I think a lot of people,
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it's a, that couch and decision is affecting those people though. And I, I, there, there's a,
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there is a different, there is a shift right now. I think the only option is independence to get rid
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of this and deal with this. So let me ask you this. Um, I've heard over the years since I've been
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interested in independence here in Alberta. And, you know, I moved out here about 15 years ago from
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Ontario. It was around 2019 when I went to my first meeting and I'd always heard that there are
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sections of Northern British Columbia that would like to fragment away or break away from the South
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and we could become our own little province. You get Saskatchewan or country, Saskatchewan, Alberta,
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and the Northern part of British Columbia. Is there a belief in that? Or are you looking for the
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whole thing here? I would be, I'd be all for that, John, if, if, if there was no other option,
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but I'd like to see the whole province. We have the, we have the port of Vancouver, uh, the coast
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there's, we got fisheries. I love fishing, but, uh, we, there's opportunity up and down the coast.
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And if, if we can get the lower mainland on board, I'd be all for that. That'd be first option.
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Are the people of British Columbia, we hear that we, you know, there are people who are
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obstructionists who don't want natural resources to go through your province, but the people you
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speak with, are they generally in favor of, um, you know, expanding our pipelines and getting our
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oil to tide water in other places, as opposed to having to ship all of it down to the United States,
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to the South of us. When people get hungry, they will, they'll change their mind and they are.
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Thanks a lot to Michael for being on the channel and we'll be keeping an eye on what's going on in
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British Columbia as well. I've actually been on the phone this week with other people from the
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independence movement there, more interviews in the future on what's going on in Saskatchewan.
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And of course, as the momentum grows here in Alberta, we'll keep talking to the leaders of
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independence here in our province, soon to be our new country. Keep your submissions coming to me.
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I love hearing from you. JohnBoltonAB at gmail.com. Keep sending me pictures and videos,
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anything you got that is independence. And if you want to find out about the independence
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movement where petitions are or an event or an activity or how you can be a canvasser,
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or if you can't get out to sign a petition and you'd like to do that, how you can fill out a form,
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go to stayfreealberta.com. Thanks for watching the independence calendar. If you liked the video,
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please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you next week.