John Bolton - April 12, 2026


Independence Calendar Episode #18 - April 12th, 2026 - Fear not my independence friends


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Keep calm and buckle up. There's still time to join the petition to become an independent country! Join us on Wednesday, April 12th at the "Keep Free Alberta" event where we'll hear from Mitch Sylvester and hear some audio from a Zoom Call with canvassers last night.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the Independence Calendar for Sunday, April the 12th.
00:00:07.480 I hope you're having a great weekend, and welcome to my friends in Independence.
00:00:12.660 It has been an unusual week.
00:00:15.380 It has been a challenging week, and for some, it has been a depressing week, or at least
00:00:21.100 it ended rather depressing on Friday.
00:00:23.700 I understand that.
00:00:24.580 Some people heard the court ruling the other day, on Friday, and were ready to throw in the towel.
00:00:31.560 There is hope, folks.
00:00:33.480 Don't feel that way, okay?
00:00:36.100 I'm going to talk about this a little bit, and I'm going to play on the independence calendar today
00:00:41.940 a portion of a video the other day saying I'm not too concerned about what is going on here.
00:00:47.980 I think that Mitch Sylvester and the people who are leading this movement have got things in hand.
00:00:53.620 I'm going to play a short clip from Mitch in just a moment about that.
00:00:57.440 He was on a Zoom call with Canvassers last night, and I have some audio for you.
00:01:02.040 But I want to keep this positive.
00:01:03.500 For goodness sakes, lots of good things are happening.
00:01:05.680 I feel momentum here, folks.
00:01:08.000 I'm not ready to throw in the towel.
00:01:10.500 I'm feeling momentum.
00:01:11.820 Every time a conservative crosses the aisle, we get more people signing the petition.
00:01:17.900 Monday night, we're likely to have a liberal majority.
00:01:20.700 more people will sign the petition and be driven to the independence movement.
00:01:25.700 I've got some amazing submissions and pictures from you this week,
00:01:28.880 including a couple of videos, one of a giant bunny.
00:01:33.080 You got a smile at that.
00:01:34.860 And I've got a call to action for you as well.
00:01:38.100 When I was on the Zoom call last night,
00:01:39.940 somebody said, John, call me about an event that is coming up on Wednesday.
00:01:43.540 And I'm going to tell you about this in just a moment
00:01:45.820 and why it's important for you to be at this event, if at all possible.
00:01:51.240 I'm going to be driving almost two hours north to go to this event on Wednesday night.
00:01:55.260 I want to meet you.
00:01:56.480 I'd like you there.
00:01:57.500 More details on that coming up in just a moment.
00:02:00.260 And I got another great song somebody sent me.
00:02:02.400 So we'll have that on.
00:02:03.520 It's positive stuff.
00:02:05.120 So what's the big news?
00:02:07.020 Well, the big news was on Friday, the judge came out and said after this court case,
00:02:11.380 which I followed as closely as possible over three days,
00:02:16.260 she came out at the end of this case and didn't pause the signatures, 0.64
00:02:19.740 but paused the counting of the signatures so we can still get signatures. And like I said in the
00:02:27.780 video I did the other day, Mitch is going to say, keep getting signatures, keep working hard. The
00:02:33.140 more we get, the better it will be. The signatures are going to be counted by someone, probably an
00:02:40.560 accounting firm. And Stay Free Alberta's got the signatures, so they're going to be counted. And
00:02:46.580 Mitch said, keep getting those signatures.
00:02:48.360 But he also said something last night in this Zoom call, kind of a call to action for you.
00:02:54.860 I apologize for maybe a little bit of background noise in this audio.
00:02:58.680 I've got some new software here, but I think you can make it out.
00:03:02.440 This is what Mitch had to say last night to, I think, more than a thousand people on that Zoom call.
00:03:08.920 So the court has made this political, not us.
00:03:11.920 if they rule against us
00:03:15.320 the Premier of the province has one chance to make this right 0.56
00:03:18.780 she has to call a referendum as a government question
00:03:21.880 if she is not prepared to do that 0.55
00:03:25.300 we have to make sure that she has no choice
00:03:29.340 so this is what I need you to do
00:03:32.540 I need you all to become members of the UCP
00:03:36.400 because we will not see this opportunity again
00:03:39.940 I need you to get involved.
00:03:42.840 When I call, I need you all to show up.
00:03:45.180 This is one of those 10 things that I asked you for 10 days.
00:03:48.000 This is the first big one.
00:03:50.180 We will shape the outcome from within.
00:03:54.080 We will get our people elected,
00:03:56.740 and we will set the tone on what's going on with this vote.
00:04:01.900 Because, frankly, everybody, we have no choice.
00:04:05.200 We have to be sure that we don't drop the ball here.
00:04:08.400 So I just want you to understand that that's the plan moving forward.
00:04:11.980 We have to move.
00:04:13.140 We have to talk to power.
00:04:14.180 We have to join the UCP and we have to become as big or bigger than them so that we can
00:04:20.860 get our vote in and we have an opportunity to win, to become a free and independent country.
00:04:25.820 I have my wallet out ready to sign up as soon as I'm done doing this video.
00:04:31.240 I think it's $10 for a year.
00:04:33.220 And if you sign up with the UCP, you'll be inside the party.
00:04:37.840 We'll have leverage. Can you imagine if everybody signed up today and they got 400,000 more members?
00:04:44.580 They'd realize that we are a force to be reckoned with. We better get our damn question. And as Mitch
00:04:51.860 said, we can run people in elections. There's an election in the province next year, folks.
00:04:56.320 The UCP will be doomed if we run against them. So sign up today, do as Mitch said, and keep getting
00:05:03.680 those signatures and don't feel down and out because everything is under control. Mitch and
00:05:10.820 everybody's looking at the long game here. We're only seeing what's happening in this little time
00:05:16.620 bubble that we're in, but Mitch has been planning this out for a long time. As I said in the video
00:05:20.400 I did the other day, I asked Mitch about this last year. What if they, what if they don't give
00:05:24.420 us the referendum question? Have you got a plan? And he said, yeah, we've got a plan. Now don't
00:05:29.540 forget, you can go over to stayfreealberta.com. Let's go over there right now. Go over to the
00:05:34.760 website and check this out. I mean, this is where you can find anything you need to know about
00:05:39.580 events and activities. And this map is just outstanding. I remember, I'm going to be getting
00:05:44.640 myself off the screen here. I remember when I went to Google Maps and I found all of these logos
00:05:51.580 of the Stay Free Alberta logos all over my Google Maps. It was extraordinary. Now they've got rid of
00:05:58.080 the search by the name thing, but you can click on any one of these things. And if I click on this
00:06:02.520 one right here, it's got white cord. It tells you where you can sign the petition and the hours and
00:06:08.240 basically the address as well. So any of these places, just click on them and you'll find a
00:06:13.420 signing location. Take somebody there. If you haven't signed up for God's sakes, do it now.
00:06:18.160 What are you waiting for? Now, I want to tell you about this event right here. I was on the Zoom
00:06:24.860 call last night with Mitch Sylvester. Let me bring myself on the screen here. And near the end,
00:06:32.200 in the chat, I got a message from Laura Lee, who said, give me a call. She wanted to talk to me
00:06:39.400 about this event right here in Delburn. So this is up near Red Deer, north of Calgary.
00:06:46.460 Let's Talk Alberta. They've got a great website, by the way, and they're going to do something
00:06:50.380 like 200 Let's Talk Albertas up until October. And check out just some of the events that are
00:06:56.680 coming up right here. It's fantastic. You've got some amazing speakers of this. So regarding this
00:07:01.500 one in Delburn, we need your help on this one. I'm going to get in touch with some of the other
00:07:05.980 YouTubers that are out there, other people involved in the independence movement. I'm going to be in
00:07:10.200 Delburn on Wednesday night. I'd like you to be there as well if you can go out. This is at the
00:07:15.160 Dalburn Community Hall. Doors open at 530. They're even serving some dinner up there,
00:07:19.960 some pierogies. Got to like that. And speakers start at seven o'clock. But here's what's
00:07:23.700 happening. Laura Lee told me that the CBC apparently is going to show up at this to do an
00:07:30.120 expose on the independence movement. And you know what the CBC is all about. Are we going to get a
00:07:36.240 fair shake on this? All right. So Laura Lee said, John, can you be there? Can some of the other
00:07:42.080 YouTubers be there? I think some of them can. Probably some can't. But if you're there and we
00:07:48.240 show up in great numbers and maybe double the population of Delburn on Wednesday night,
00:07:53.300 wouldn't that be something for the CBC to get recordings of and put it on the national news?
00:07:58.280 Wouldn't that be amazing? So if you can be there, Chris Scott, Ben Crane, Zane Novak will be speaking.
00:08:04.000 They're out allowing people to ask questions. Now, how radical is that? Try to be in Delburn
00:08:10.160 on Wednesday night, if you can, I'm going to drive up there. I'm going to go out and do a story on
00:08:14.700 this for Wednesday night. I would like to see you there as well. So again, if you want to find out
00:08:19.860 more about this, go to letstalkalberta.com. Letstalkalberta.com. Here are some of the other
00:08:26.840 things that are coming up on Tuesday. There's a petition signing and a speaker, seven o'clock in
00:08:32.340 Lethbridge at 101 Exhibition Way. You can check that out. It might be Mitch Sylvester. I probably
00:08:38.560 is speaking in Lethbridge on Tuesday night. There's this going on as well until May 2nd.
00:08:44.740 Sign the petition. We're not done yet. Making it too big to rig. God, I love the AI posters we come
00:08:51.040 up with. We need you. Signing location, Rimby, Alberta, north of the Tim Hortons. This is
00:08:56.780 happening as well. Let me make this a little bit bigger. A new location, folks. Stony Plain,
00:09:02.120 corner of Highway 16A by the Safeway, canvassing every day from 12 until 6. Here's another one
00:09:09.300 for you. A Blue Mile in Grassland. This is happening today until 4 o'clock. So if you can
00:09:15.760 check this one out, maybe I'll go over to this. This is right after the calendar goes up. Blue
00:09:21.620 Mile in Grassland. Bring along your flags and check this out. Maybe I'll drop by that one today
00:09:27.080 to see what's going on there.
00:09:28.980 And then we also have this happening in Edmonton on the 18th,
00:09:32.500 Rundle Park, Chris Scott, Michael Wagner, Kathy Flett,
00:09:35.860 another Let's Talk Alberta.
00:09:38.080 So lots of good stuff happening right now.
00:09:40.540 And if you've got an event, put event into the email,
00:09:44.600 send it to johnboltonab at gmail.com.
00:09:47.560 It's the easiest way for me to find out about these things
00:09:50.400 because it's hard to track them down on social media.
00:09:52.980 I try to do a little bit of that, but I don't like social media.
00:09:56.620 I think it's a sewer. Now let's take a look at some of your submissions from this week,
00:10:01.760 including a very large rabbit. And now to my favorite part of the calendar. When I get a
00:10:15.140 chance to look at the submissions from you, I've got a pretty good list this week, including
00:10:18.940 a couple of cool videos for you. Keep those videos and pictures coming. I was thinking today that I
00:10:24.460 might take all the pictures I've received, which is in the hundreds, many hundreds at this point,
00:10:29.160 and put them into one long video. Maybe I'll work on that. It's likely to take a lot of time. If
00:10:34.860 you'd like to send something to me, I might say this too much, but keep them coming at
00:10:38.860 johnboltonab at gmail.com. Let's get into your submissions. So first up today, we've got Kalem
00:10:45.800 and Leanne canvassing in Mayor Thorpe and Drayton Valley. They said it was the first day of
00:10:50.840 Collecting signatures and got a full sheet.
00:10:52.920 Thanks a lot to both of you for that.
00:10:55.100 Greg with this picture of a canvasser in Mayerthorpe.
00:10:58.420 And I'd like to thank Greg for his kind words.
00:11:00.640 I appreciate it very much.
00:11:02.500 Greg, this from Cat.
00:11:04.960 I love this kind of stuff.
00:11:06.880 This is a video of the Sovereignty Rabbit at work.
00:11:10.920 We got this, I believe we got this.
00:11:17.300 Thank you, Cat.
00:11:20.840 I love it.
00:11:21.700 You know, I had an ape here at my bouncy castle day,
00:11:25.340 but I have to say, I prefer your rabbit.
00:11:28.520 I love it.
00:11:29.720 Up next, more from Kat.
00:11:31.480 I love you too.
00:11:32.700 From Calgary, Kat, thank you very much.
00:11:34.700 Many pictures here, including the bunny that we just saw.
00:11:38.240 A cherry picker, fantastic.
00:11:40.640 Can't help but see the flag on that one.
00:11:42.740 And photos with Tamara Leach.
00:11:44.300 Thank you so much, Kat, for sending all of that in.
00:11:47.340 Marilyn sent this thanking Dallas for his dedication with some hot chocolate and donuts.
00:11:53.440 Well done, Marilyn.
00:11:54.600 And if you're out there and you see a petition pop up, drop by, say hi, and say thanks.
00:12:00.500 And this from Aaron, some great photos.
00:12:03.300 They say we're two hours from Zama, which is way up north in Alberta, 40 miles east of high level.
00:12:10.580 This is us.
00:12:12.040 Lyle is a canvasser sending tons of good energy.
00:12:15.800 Aaron, Lyle, and crew.
00:12:18.220 And with a little ostrich solidarity thrown in as well.
00:12:21.460 Another video for you here.
00:12:23.280 Thanks to Ralph for this video from the Red Deer Blue Mile event.
00:12:27.080 Now, Ralph is also a canvasser.
00:12:28.780 We appreciate that you do that, Ralph.
00:12:30.820 And here's the video.
00:12:46.120 Royaleen sent these fantastic canvasser photos, and I love that the weather is better.
00:12:52.160 I'm seeing some more sunshine out there.
00:12:53.820 So many pictures through the winter with all of that snow.
00:12:57.140 Down in the south, Doug sent this from Crow's Nest Pass.
00:13:00.000 Doug, thank you very much for sending this picture.
00:13:03.040 Ray J. at Marty Up North signing location.
00:13:06.520 Ray, I appreciate what you're doing as well.
00:13:09.720 Thanks so much, Ray. Thanks for the photos.
00:13:12.020 Bill with a couple of pictures saying, it's nice to have good weather. Is it Beaumaris Lake or
00:13:18.680 Beaumarie Lake? I don't know. I apologize. Thanks for the picture. Thanks for doing what you are
00:13:24.340 doing. Stephen sent this from Ohio. He wants us to get our independence. This is not a canvasser
00:13:30.720 location, but this is certainly how we feel about Ottawa. Thanks for the laugh today, Stephen.
00:13:38.420 Patricia, thanks for the picture of Gary and Robin.
00:13:41.780 Gary happens to be a friend of mine and is out every day in Edmonton.
00:13:45.880 Gary, you know how much I appreciate you.
00:13:48.260 Bob sends these photos and says, Renfrew signatures just keep on coming.
00:13:53.620 And then he uses Mitch Sylvester's signature phrase, let's go.
00:13:57.800 Jeff sent this of Maria and Anna from Dixon's Crossing, south of Crossfield.
00:14:02.500 Thank you.
00:14:03.220 More from Jeff, Dallas, Woody, and Dave, north of Airdrie.
00:14:06.800 Sondra, who says in Lethbridge, at Mayor McGrath Drive and Scenic Drive,
00:14:11.940 it has been a very busy location.
00:14:14.200 They had a Blue Mile, which are popping up all over the province right now.
00:14:17.360 Blue Mile Convoy, well done. 0.53
00:14:19.900 And Jess, good friend of mine, Jess keeps sending them in
00:14:22.720 at one of his pop-ups in northern Alberta at a new gas plant.
00:14:27.200 Jess, I appreciate all the hard work and dedication you show for signing people up.
00:14:32.460 And I have to say, this is a pretty cool photo.
00:14:34.860 Thanks for all the submissions this week.
00:14:36.800 I'd like to see more.
00:14:38.200 If you've got any, send them to me at johnboltonab at gmail.com.
00:14:43.500 We are Alberta, child and free, forged by word and destiny.
00:14:51.160 Thanks again for the submissions.
00:14:52.940 Once again, here is the email address, johnboltonab at gmail.com.
00:14:58.440 And I try to read all of your email.
00:15:00.960 I cannot respond to all of them.
00:15:03.320 I get so many.
00:15:04.480 And if I do respond, it might be only a few words.
00:15:08.320 I apologize for that, but it just takes a lot of time to get through all the email,
00:15:13.060 several hours every Sunday or on a Saturday if I try to get ahead of things here.
00:15:18.260 Now, what I want to do this week, I don't have an interview for you this week,
00:15:21.280 but it has been a rather downer, particularly on Friday when we got that court decision.
00:15:28.120 And I almost ran to my camera on Friday night to do a video on it being mad as hell
00:15:33.880 because I don't like that this kind of thing happens.
00:15:37.020 I don't want to see us held up.
00:15:38.560 But I thought about it overnight,
00:15:40.100 woke up in the morning feeling better about the situation,
00:15:43.400 knowing that Mitch Sylvester
00:15:45.180 and the people who are leading our movement
00:15:46.900 are thinking ahead of us and they've got a plan here.
00:15:50.400 So here's a short little clip
00:15:51.900 of what I did on Saturday morning when I woke up.
00:15:56.100 I'll put the full link in the card at the end of this video
00:15:58.680 so you can watch the whole thing.
00:16:01.020 This is a quote from Thomas Jefferson
00:16:03.160 and what it says to you is, cool down a little bit, cool down. I almost ran to the camera five,
00:16:10.460 six hours ago to do something on this, but I cooled down. I woke up feeling a little bit
00:16:14.940 better about this this morning. The signature campaign has not been stopped. That's what we
00:16:20.060 thought this was going to be about, but it changed. And somebody who's very prominent with the
00:16:24.880 independence movement talked about this just yesterday. And there is a plan moving forward.
00:16:30.540 I can assure you these signatures will be counted in one way or another.
00:16:36.900 Here's what Mitch said about sending a message,
00:16:40.240 and it's more important than ever that we send a message
00:16:43.460 and we keep getting signatures, a lot of them.
00:16:47.500 When I organized that rally on the steps of the legislature,
00:16:51.440 there's two messages that you could send.
00:16:53.680 If 1,000 people show up, you send a message.
00:16:56.440 If 17,000 people show up, you send another message.
00:16:59.080 If we get 179,000 signatures, we send a message. If we get 360,000 signatures, we send another
00:17:05.620 message. So I just want to understand, it's up to us what message we want to send. And we're
00:17:10.740 working very hard and our people are, you know, working, going door to door, doing whatever's
00:17:15.460 required now to get these signatures. Mitch is talking about sending a message. The message I
00:17:20.180 think he's going to send tonight is get more signatures. Send a message because these signatures
00:17:25.480 are going to be counted. When I was watching the court case this week, I am not a lawyer,
00:17:31.260 but it came to my mind this week that this court case wasn't about stopping the signatures,
00:17:36.260 it was about stopping the referendum. But other people who are lawyers were watching this and
00:17:41.820 they anticipated this. And here's what Keith Wilson said yesterday and what's going to happen
00:17:48.600 with these signatures, even though the CEO can't count them right now.
00:17:53.020 The good news for the canvassers out there and people wanting to sign the petition is that it's become clear from the court hearings that the judge is not going to issue a petition, an injunction.
00:18:06.180 She's not going to issue an injunction stopping the collection of signatures.
00:18:10.520 If she does issue an injunction, it will be against the chief electoral officer and it will stop him from counting the signatures.
00:18:20.340 Now, of course, Mitch Sylvester from Stay Free Alberta has said that their plan is and has been to, prior to submitting those signatures to the chief electoral officer, to have an accounting firm do an official review and an official count so that the world and the premier and others can know what the official number is even before it goes to Elections Alberta.
00:18:42.660 that. This kind of thing was anticipated. The signatures are going to be counted. The more
00:18:49.320 signatures we have, the bigger the message like Mitch talked about. That which does not kill us
00:18:54.920 only makes us stronger. What you need to understand here, folks, why I'm not feeling so depressed
00:19:00.840 about this is because Mitch and Jeff and all the people in the independence movement, they're three
00:19:06.240 or four steps down the road on this. I asked Mitch last year if he had a plan, if we got held up when
00:19:11.500 it came to the referendum question, oh, yeah, we've got a plan. And I asked him about that
00:19:16.580 earlier in March, and this is what he had to say. We understood this going in, that this was not
00:19:21.080 going to be easy. We understood that we're going to face roseblocks. And, you know, all we have to
00:19:25.320 do is make sure that we adjust and make sure we come out of this with advantage. You have a plan
00:19:30.340 down the road for the worst case scenario, I'm assuming? Of course. Keep your spirits high,
00:19:36.320 my friends in independence. I think that Mitch Sylvester and the leaders of the movement have
00:19:41.400 things well in hand. You know, a more cheerful group of people I've never seen before. The people
00:19:46.920 I've met who want Alberta independence are just the greatest people. And if you're one of those
00:19:51.340 people on the front line, one of the heroes of independence I talk about, a canvas are getting
00:19:55.980 signatures. Thank you so much for what you're doing. Before I move on, there's something I
00:20:01.100 forgot off the top regarding that Zoom call with Mitch Sylvester. I do want to mention this.
00:20:05.280 Mitch wants a standalone question on independence in the referendum, not jammed in with nine other
00:20:12.780 things. He wants a standalone question. And again, I think we've got the numbers and the people and
00:20:18.780 the leverage to make something like that happen. I want to bring this up once again. If you're in
00:20:25.220 the Delburn area or you can go to this event, this Let's Talk Alberta event on Wednesday night
00:20:31.260 at the Delburn Community Hall, be there.
00:20:33.860 I'm going to go to this event.
00:20:35.260 It's a little bit of a drive for me,
00:20:36.820 but I think it's worth it.
00:20:38.380 And as I said earlier, the CBC may be at this thing.
00:20:41.940 And let's go out there and show them
00:20:43.340 what the independence movement is all about.
00:20:45.720 Now, I know you don't like the CBC.
00:20:47.980 I don't like the CBC, but be respectful.
00:20:51.120 Put a smile on your face and wave your flags.
00:20:54.400 A show of power, I guess we could call it.
00:20:57.480 let's double the population of Delvern or triple it on Wednesday night thank you very much for
00:21:04.280 watching I do appreciate it if you'd like to get in touch with the independence calendar just get
00:21:09.640 in touch with me at johnboltonab at gmail.com anything Alberta independence pictures videos
00:21:15.780 something that's going on let me know about your events or your sign up location I'd love to hear
00:21:21.080 about that and I can mention it here it's hard for me to find all those things and if you you
00:21:26.500 know, if you want to just get in touch and say hi, I don't mind that either. JohnBoltonAB at
00:21:31.520 gmail.com. Thanks for watching the Independence Calendar. This week, we're going to end with a
00:21:37.600 little song for you. A lot of people sending me songs. T.P. Duguay sent this one. It's called
00:21:43.200 Alberta Rise. I'll see you in the next one.
00:21:56.500 From the rockies standing tall and wild to golden fields beneath God's sky
00:22:06.080 We were forged in frost and fire with steady hands and lifted eyes
00:22:12.440 Through oil and earth, through dust and grain, through winter winds and made us strong
00:22:18.700 We learned that freedom isn't given, it's guarded all lifelong
00:22:24.720 No distant throne, no hidden hand, no crown across the sea
00:22:31.260 We'll write the future of this land or claim our destiny
00:22:37.220 Albert, our eyes stand, sovereign and wise, a nation of courage reborn
00:22:45.560 No tyrant's decree, no foreign decree shall tell us how to be sworn
00:22:52.000 We've come of age, we've turned the page, with justice as our foundation, strong and free, our legacy, Alberta Sovereign Nation.
00:23:05.600 We've walked the road of compromise
00:23:14.260 We've bent but did not break
00:23:16.920 We've watched the weight of borrowed rules
00:23:20.920 Test every choice we made
00:23:23.400 But wisdom grows where hardship lives
00:23:27.360 And clarity from trial
00:23:29.900 A people standing on their feet
00:23:33.560 No longer reconciled
00:23:36.480 No distant crown
00:23:38.300 No shadowed rule
00:23:39.780 No voice that does not know
00:23:42.300 The farmer's hand
00:23:44.660 The worker's tool
00:23:46.040 The seeds we choose to sow
00:23:48.920 Alberta, rise
00:23:52.600 Stand sovereign and wise
00:23:54.240 A nation of courage reborn
00:23:56.700 No tyrant's decree
00:23:58.780 No foreign decree
00:24:00.320 Shall darken our coming dawn
00:24:03.100 With steady flame in freedom's name
00:24:06.740 We claim our rightful station
00:24:09.140 Strong and free our destiny
00:24:12.100 Alberta Sovereign Nation
00:24:16.640 Not in anger, not in spite
00:24:24.960 But in dignity we stand
00:24:28.100 A people grown, a people known
00:24:31.960 stewards of our land from prairie hymn to mountain cry one voice across the sky
00:24:40.740 we choose our path we claim our name beneath the northern line
00:24:49.160 alberta rise lift hope to the skies let courage be our foundation
00:24:54.840 no chains of old no powers untold shall bind this generation
00:25:01.160 With faith and will unbroken, still we stand in declaration
00:25:07.460 Strong and free, eternally
00:25:10.820 Alberta Sovereign Nation
00:25:15.060 Sovereign Nation
00:25:31.160 Sovereign Nation