John Bolton - Independence Calendar (Episode #25) - With Cory Morgan & Keith Wilson

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John. Welcome to the Independence Calendar for Sunday, May the 31st. I hope

00:00:07.760 you're having a great Sunday. This is episode number 25. I appreciate you being here. And

00:00:13.120 this is going to be a little shorter Independence Calendar this week. I'm reworking things.

00:00:18.080 I'm going to do things differently over the next couple of weeks. And you've got my big

00:00:22.580 cat Blue here. Hi, Blue. How you doing, buddy? Going to come give me a nose? Come on, give

00:00:26.480 knows. Come on. That's a boy. Good boy. He's in an affectionate mood right now. And I do have my 0.94

00:00:32.880 big blue mug. It's sitting over there, but I've got my big blue cat here today with me and he just

00:00:38.240 wants to be part of the channel and he's having some fun with the microphone right now. We need

00:00:43.160 to do things differently, folks, over the next little while. I think a big part of what we're

00:00:47.060 going to be doing is raising money. We've got third party advertisers coming in. We're going

00:00:51.040 to talk to two of them here today. You may have seen the video I put up earlier this morning.

00:00:55.160 This is it right here. Card at the end. I speak with Corey Morgan, and if you want to have an

00:00:59.860 effect on the independence movement and get things kick-started a little bit, you might want to help

00:01:05.060 out Corey a little bit. I'll tell you right now, his channel is coreymorgan.com, and you can go

00:01:11.440 over there and contribute because he is a third-party advertiser, and he's going to be

00:01:15.560 putting out lawn signs. More of that in just a moment. Also, an interview I did earlier this week

00:01:19.820 with Keith Wilson, who's doing so much work behind the scenes right now, getting all our ducks in a

00:01:24.400 talking about a third-party advertiser that will be headed up by Tanya Clemens called Alberta's

00:01:30.480 Next Step. So that's on the way as well. Other things are happening. This event is happening

00:01:36.500 today. Let me put it up on the screen for you. Awful weather here in southern Alberta up towards

00:01:43.240 Edmonton. We're getting a lot of rain. It's just a dismal day. But this event is happening. I've

00:01:47.880 got to move my cat out of the way. He's standing right in front of this graphic on the screen.

00:01:52.200 But this is happening today, starting at noon, and if you want to be part of this, you can meet in Calgary at the iFly Deerfoot City.

00:01:59.360 This is Deerfoot Trail and 64th Avenue Northeast, and here in Edmonton as well, 266th Street and 114th Avenue.

00:02:06.420 A big role into Red Deer today.

00:02:09.020 You do not have to meet in Edmonton and Calgary, but what you can do is from anywhere in the province,

00:02:14.480 meet at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in Red Deer on Highway No. 2 at 1.30 p.m. if you want to be part of this event.

00:02:21.540 unfortunately I cannot be there today. Now here's what's going on folks. As has been said and Corey

00:02:27.460 Morgan did a video on this the other day, Forever Canadian, they're mobilized, they're moving and I

00:02:34.500 know you want to get moving as well. If you go over to their website right now you can see they've got

00:02:38.780 this up and they're looking for money. They know that money makes the world go around and it's

00:02:43.320 going to be a big part of the independence movement here as we move into the vote in October and

00:02:48.400 they're telling lies on here about Alberta becoming the 51st state. Right now, basically,

00:02:53.780 their strategy is a strategy of fear. If you're following Jason Kenney on X, or you watched the

00:02:59.340 debate he had with Keith Wilson last week, they've got a campaign of fear. They're elbows upping

00:03:05.500 people. This is kind of the same thing that Carney did last year. They create a demon. Last

00:03:11.100 year it was Trump. Now it's the independence movement. So we've got to make sure that we're

00:03:16.440 moving forward, and we're going to do that with Corey and his plan. Here's his website. Let me

00:03:21.600 bring this up on the screen for you right now. He's got a new TPA, and you can see that. That

00:03:26.260 means third-party advertiser, the pathway to independence, and he wants to put up lawn signs

00:03:31.360 that say, choose Alberta. If you go to coreymorgan.com, they do have this QR code you can

00:03:37.340 scan. There is a link below, so you can make a donation. More on that in just a moment.

00:03:42.340 So why don't we just transition into a couple of interviews I've done this week. We'll start

00:03:46.360 off with Corey. If you watched my video this morning, you have seen this. If not, I've shortened

00:03:51.960 it up into a few minutes so you know what's going on, what his plans are, and how you can help out.

00:03:57.820 And then we'll go right into my interview with Keith Wilson, who talks about Alberta's next step,

00:04:04.300 headed up by Tanya Clemens. So we want to help you out here, and you've got a pretty easy plan,

00:04:09.980 which I think is great. What's your plan? What do you want to do moving forward?

00:04:14.500 sure my interest again was to keep it simple i thought you know what i'm not going to start a

00:04:19.060 whole giant organization like the app was or everything with all those facets and volunteers

00:04:23.460 there though i'm getting i found out i realized i've got to coordinate a lot of volunteers because

00:04:26.740 they're all putting their hands up and it's great yeah i want two things lawn signs because we just

00:04:31.540 haven't seen them and we're seeing lucasic has already come out of the gate running he's got

00:04:35.140 those things blossoming out there and we've kind of dropped the the ball on it so we can do it fast

00:04:40.820 simple lawn signs alberta lawn signs let's get them out to have people showing in their own

00:04:45.220 households get your neighbors on it friends family just show that display that there's activity with

00:04:50.660 this and that people are supporting the concept and the other part is going to take a little

00:04:55.540 longer but uh there's been a guy i've been working with who makes some great digital uh productions

00:05:00.580 ai type of commercials he's i put the first draft up there it still needs some tuning and everything

00:05:04.820 it was just kind of his first attempt to throwing something out but yeah wow there's enough potential

00:05:09.140 just if he calls that a first draft and we haven't even started you know tidying it up we can make

00:05:13.620 some really cool stuff and we got to get it on to in front of eyes that don't normally see us you

00:05:20.260 and i have our channels we got great audiences and feedback but we need to get it to pop up and

00:05:25.300 ads in front of people watching other channels in alberta people who are watching whether it's

00:05:29.300 entertainment or uh you know just other uh podcasters you name it you can pay for that

00:05:35.140 you can have those ads pop up in those videos but it takes some money so i gotta raise some

00:05:39.940 money to be able to do that and the tpa is just the perfect way to do it we'll tell people how

00:05:44.020 they can do that in just a moment i'd really love to see your ads popping up in front of forever

00:05:48.820 canadian ads on youtube because they're probably gonna wouldn't that be great now you've got it

00:05:53.140 behind you i've got it behind me it's right there the big blue flag what are the two words beneath

00:06:00.020 the crest there on your signs that will be in the front lawn of people's houses just choose alberta

00:06:07.060 love it love it simple as that i just want to keep it simple uh just like i gotta admit forever

00:06:12.820 canadian just has it pretty basic in there you know it just gets that that positive messaging

00:06:16.900 going out to other people it's uh otherwise i think i gotta put some information on just showing

00:06:21.300 who sponsored it you know in my case it'll be that pathway to independence and a means of contacting

00:06:26.020 me there's other things for people if they got paid advertising and let's just get those other

00:06:30.100 laws as you said the signs behind you the flags behind you that mine behind me too and in front

00:06:33.180 of my house and uh uh that's a great way to i think everybody should have a flag outside anyways

00:06:39.380 but getting a lawn sign out there is even quicker and faster and you can get to all sorts of people's

00:06:44.060 places okay so people want to help you you've told me prior to us doing this quick interview

00:06:49.340 here that they're already getting in touch they want to help with the signs um so how can people

00:06:54.340 contact you if they're interested in doing that yeah well they can go to corey morgan.com i had

00:06:59.860 that old website up forever i knocked the dust off it and just put a quick page up that at least

00:07:04.660 gives the information on how to email me to ask questions and i think i'm gonna get a proper

00:07:10.180 script put in there for volunteer sign up or things like that or just email sign up

00:07:14.660 and of course yes i'm not used to it i hate it but i understand the reality of it

00:07:18.900 the donate buttons if you want to throw some money in that's we need the money to be able

00:07:22.420 to do it so the the means are all there on the website this is all about raising money cory don't

00:07:27.220 feel don't feel shy about asking for the cash ask for the sale here folks help cory out um i think

00:07:34.340 you've got maybe 200 signs coming initially we'd like to get you a thousand signs real fast so if

00:07:39.620 you can go over to corymorgan.com there is a qr code there you can use your camera on there's a

00:07:45.140 link right below it uh give some money if you don't have a lot of cash or you don't have cash

00:07:50.260 don't feel pressured. But if you can help out, you can donate up to $5,000 through this whole

00:07:56.060 period of the referendum campaign. If you got deep pockets, you could do that. But $10 at a time is

00:08:02.240 fine. And help out, Corey, let's get those signs out there. And we should have a big day, Corey,

00:08:07.140 when you get a load of signs in, maybe you got 1000 to go out, let's have a volunteer day and

00:08:12.720 we'll go out and put them out for you. How's that sound? That sounds excellent. It'll absolutely do

00:08:17.440 that. And as I said, my videos only been up a few hours and the feedback's been incredible. So I

00:08:21.720 think that volunteer day is going to be coming really soon. The other night, you had a sit down

00:08:32.380 after the debate, a lot of people out there and people ask questions, great discussion there.

00:08:38.140 I have a chip yuck was with you as well. Alberta transition council, just quickly on how that's

00:08:44.420 going and then something new that's coming up as well that you mentioned the other night but how's

00:08:48.740 the transition going right now so the alberta transition council is a group that i i formed

00:08:54.940 some months ago uh that is working on a detailed transition plan to explain what would happen

00:09:03.500 after a successful vote how we will move from a provincehood into statehood to being a full country

00:09:12.000 and to answer people's questions about passports and monetary policy

00:09:18.020 and border security,

00:09:21.960 basically how the Alberta government as a country

00:09:25.280 will take over the few functions that the federal government provides.

00:09:28.960 So we're making good progress on that.

00:09:30.820 I'm co-lead along with Dennis Kelma, who's the other co-lead.

00:09:35.400 As many will know, Dennis is an amazing Albertan.

00:09:39.240 uh he's the author of the value of freedom document that had done the fully costed plan

00:09:44.360 that's right so but we're bringing in subject matter experts from everything from telecommunications

00:09:49.740 to aviation to military to uh and the military is for the purpose only of how what would the

00:09:58.080 new military uh forces uh civil defense forces look like in a new alberta um so yeah so that's

00:10:06.200 progressing well i heard you mention it the other night um after the debate alberta's next step

00:10:14.560 what is that about so um i'm forming a new group to act as uh and it's in the formative stages right

00:10:25.220 now uh to act as a formal third party advertiser that will be registered with elections alberta

00:10:32.780 in full compliance with all the election laws we have here

00:10:35.840 and the financial disclosure laws.

00:10:37.580 They're pretty onerous and complicated.

00:10:42.140 These other groups in favour of staying in Canada

00:10:45.400 will be registering and being third-party advertisers as well.

00:10:49.040 And the idea is to match them.

00:10:53.400 We'll develop an equally sophisticated campaign

00:10:56.860 with campaign messages in support of independence,

00:11:00.360 with advertising in support of independence.

00:11:02.780 because as you know uh john we're fighting for the same hearts and minds they're fighting for

00:11:10.880 the people who are undecided or the reluctant federalists those who are would vote to stay in

00:11:17.200 canada right now but they're really concerned about what ottawa's doing and what ottawa's

00:11:20.880 imposing on albertans and the future so they're trying to convince them that the that you know

00:11:26.920 don't shift your vote to leave stay with stay they're trying to scare them they're trying to

00:11:31.400 do all these things. And you're going to see increasingly sophisticated strategies. Because

00:11:36.460 again, this is what these guys do as a day job, right? This is their profession. So we're going

00:11:42.080 to deploy the same strategies and be very strategic in our messaging and going into the forums that

00:11:50.000 they're going into. We're going to have to go into legacy media. So this new group that I'm forming

00:11:55.600 will be called, is being called Alberta's next step.

00:12:00.440 It's intentionally neutral

00:12:02.660 because what the focus groups and polling is showing,

00:12:06.740 the data is showing,

00:12:08.060 if you're too provocative with this undecided group,

00:12:11.060 it turns them off.

00:12:12.580 If you get in their face, it turns them off.

00:12:15.660 So you got to approach them much more gently.

00:12:18.320 You got to get them thinking about things more abstractly, 1.00

00:12:22.500 just telling them they're stupid 0.99

00:12:24.300 for not supporting independence is a surefire where to fail to be blunt about it and um uh i'm 0.99

00:12:32.140 very pleased to announce that uh tanya clemens who many in the independence movement will know

00:12:38.940 is going to be joining with me to lead this new group and we're going to be bringing others on

00:12:45.360 uh of some name that people will recognize as well to move us forward in a sophisticated

00:12:52.940 dedicated proper campaign style focused on independence and independence alone and getting

00:13:00.280 Albertans to understand the benefits of independence and supporting it in the two

00:13:05.460 referendums that will be coming up. Thanks a lot to Corey and Keith for those interviews earlier

00:13:10.380 this week. I will keep you up to date on what they're doing in upcoming weeks. Jason Levine

00:13:15.480 is also a third-party advertiser. We'll let you know what his plans are as well. As for Corey,

00:13:21.380 He's being very open with where your money goes.

00:13:23.940 A lot of people have contacted me and said,

00:13:26.220 listen, I'm donating, but I don't know what it's doing.

00:13:29.540 How is it being used?

00:13:30.740 Corey expects to be giving you regular updates

00:13:33.500 on what he is doing.

00:13:34.840 And he also describes how easy it is

00:13:36.940 to become a third-party advertiser.

00:13:39.240 So if you're interested in that,

00:13:40.760 again, I'll put a card up at the end

00:13:42.260 so you can check that out.

00:13:43.480 I'm considering that myself.

00:13:45.760 And I'll also try to get Tanya Clemens on

00:13:48.000 in upcoming weeks to talk about Alberta's next step.

00:13:52.040 That's about it this week.

00:13:53.720 New plans for next week, a little bit shorter this week.

00:13:56.660 One thing I plan on doing, and I promise I'm going to do,

00:13:59.420 I'm a procrastinator when it comes to email.

00:14:02.020 I end up getting into Saturday or Sunday morning,

00:14:04.880 and I haven't checked my email.

00:14:06.700 I plan to be much more vigilant with email

00:14:09.480 in upcoming weeks.

00:14:10.320 If you'd like to contact me, johnboltonab at gmail.com.

00:14:14.640 Thanks for watching the Independence Calendar.

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00:14:21.060 I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - May 31, 2026

Independence Calendar (Episode #25) - With Cory Morgan & Keith Wilson

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