Independence Calendar - Episode #2 (Dec 14th) - What a week
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Summary
In this episode of the Independents Weekly Podcast, John talks to Mitch Sylvester, CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, about the new bill passed this week in the Alberta legislature, the upcoming events happening with the APP, and a brand new event coming up in late January.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Welcome to the independence calendar for
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December the 14th. And this will be going up every Sunday at 11 o'clock until we get
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our independence. And I feel like Santa John today. I do have my big blue mug of coffee
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with me. I tip it to you, my friends in independence, and I tip it to the Alberta Prosperity Project
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and Mitch Sylvester, the CEO for what happened this week. Bill 14 passed in the Alberta legislature.
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Mitch was there with a new question on the 11th of December. And we should know by January the 11th
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when we start our petition signing campaign. Perhaps the referendum, I'm thinking fall of
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2026, but we are going to vote on independence in 2026. So it's so exciting. Here's the question
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that was submitted by the Alberta Prosperity Project and Mitch the other day. Now, some people
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are concerned about the final word in this question. It does not mean 51st state. I talked to Mitch about
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this. It does not mean 51st state. This question adheres to the rules in the Clarity Act, which is
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very important, just to let you know. I've got a few email on that as well. People concerned about
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the word state in there. It does not mean 51st state. I've got an interview, a short section of
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an interview I did with Mitch earlier this week about an event that's coming up in January that's
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going to knock your socks off. We'll have more details on it. They haven't worked out all the
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details, but it's one of those things you're going to have to get tickets for because it's going to be
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insane in late January. Let's take a look at some of the events happening around Alberta with the
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Alberta Prosperity Project in the next week. And you can go to albertaprosperity.com to always find out
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about events. You can download the value of freedom there and you can find out about the
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Alberta Prosperity Project in the independence movement. So here are the events that are
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happening. Just to let you know, Mitch Sylvester, CEO, will be at all of these events. So if you go
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out there and you meet Mitch or you see Mitch, go up and shake his hand. Thank him for the work that
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the APP are doing. Guest speaker, Mitch Sylvester in Tabor Heritage Inn Hotel. This is on Monday night,
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Tuesday in Redcliffe. I'd like to thank Gwenna for sending an email to me at johnboltonab at
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gmail.com. Here's the event happening in Redcliffe. All of the events starting at 7 o'clock Tuesday
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night at the Harmony Hall, 1 First Street Southeast in Redcliffe. Again, thanks to Gwenna for sending
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that in to me. Moving on to Wednesday night in Foremost at the Foremost Community Hall. RSVP for these
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ones. Okay. So go to the Alberta Prosperity Project website and RSVP for them. Very simple to do.
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And then on Friday night at 7 o'clock in Bonneville for a Let's Talk there. And again, Mitch Sylvester
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will be there at the Bonneville Centennial Hall. Now, just before I get to the interview with Mitch,
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I wanted to thank Ross for sending this in. He emailed this to me. His idea for a new crest,
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there's the current flag for Alberta just behind me. New crest for Alberta. I think it's interesting.
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I do like the St. George's Cross, Ross. I really do. Certainly leads to the history of Alberta.
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But I do think this is a good idea. I think the star, maybe like Lone Star Alberta here,
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kind of a nod to, you know, the Lone Star State in the United States being Texas. And of course,
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the Wild Rose on there. Thanks for sending that in. And I want to say hi to Lawrence as well,
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sent me in this picture. Lawrence, I don't think is capable of getting out to too many events,
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but he's trying to pass along the messages as well about independence. This is a calendar he's got,
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the Republic of Alberta, and it says a free people in a free land. So thanks to Lawrence
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for sending that through to me. So there is a huge event coming up in late January. I'm really excited
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about it. I'm going to be there for sure. Now I'm going on vacation in January when Mitch told me
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that it was coming up on the 26th. I was so excited that I'd be back in time because I don't want to
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miss it. I want to be part of every event that's coming up for the next almost year when it comes
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to independence. And here's Mitch telling me about it on my channel here just a few days ago.
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I want to mention something. You said something to me this morning. There'd been talk about having
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another rally. It was a great thing in October. And I guess there's another one coming up in January.
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Can you tell us about that? Well, on January 26th, we've rented the BMO 7, the BMO. So what we're
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going to do is we're going to have 6,000 chairs in there and we want to fill them. So we're going
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to have an event in Calgary. We're planning other big events. This is not going to be equivalent to
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the rally we had in Edmonton. It's going to be inside, of course, because it's going to be in
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January. But it's going to be a big event for Calgary, for a big event. It'll be our biggest,
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you know, planned event, like that is indoor event. And that's just going to be the first
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one. We've got several others planned that are going to be fairly exciting. We're now going to
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go into campaign mode in reality is what we're doing here, because we understand that we're going
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to have 120 days to collect our signatures, another 30 days to process, and then however long the
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period is. So we're going to start campaigning like Monday, like really. So we're on the road and
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we're talking to people and we're going to get people to talk to people and away we go,
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see if we can get this over the finish line. I believe we can. I actually really, really believe
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we can win. And you realize it's just January the 26th, so you can get 6,000 signatures that day.
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Right. And we're going to set up signature tables if that's the deal. Actually, you know what,
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we're kind of going to look at that date based on what's going on right now as kind of the real
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kickoff to this whole project. Now we're going to try and make that a really big deal. And you know
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what, I'm excited to do it. I'm really pumped about it. It's so exciting. Blue's here. He's
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excited about independence too, aren't you, buddy? Hey, do you want independence? Huh?
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Yeah, he wants independence as well. Very exciting. And again, 6,000 seats. And as soon as I have any
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details about when you can reserve a seat for that, I'll let you know. And there will be tables set up
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there so you can go out and sign the petition so we can have a referendum in 2026 for Alberta
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independence. It is so exciting and it's just great news. Amazing what has happened since the
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beginning of the year. We've come a long way. Now, how can you participate on the independence
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calendar here on Sundays? Send me a video if you can, 30 seconds or less on why you want independence.
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All right. The email address is johnboltonab at gmail.com. Now, what I want you to do is
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please drop your video into Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and send me the link. I will not download
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any files you send me here. I don't want viruses because there are people out there who would be
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happy to screw up my computer system by me downloading a video off the internet. So don't do
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that. Send me the link and I can run it through a program that will tell me if it's clean for me to
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download here on, uh, on my computer. So you can do that. Now, thank you to everybody that's
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contacted me, johnboltonab at gmail.com. I cannot reply to everybody that sends me an email and I've
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got a lot of them over the last week. Some of you are sending me videos and whatnot. I appreciate that
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very much. Feel free to do that, but send me your message about independence and I'll feature it here
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on. I'll feature it here in the future, right here on the independence calendar. So I'll see you next
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week. Uh, to you, my friends in independence, have a great week. If you liked the video, give me a
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thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you in the next one.