00:01:12.280JohnBoltonAB at gmail.com is the best way to do that.
00:01:16.140Also, my response to the Elections Alberta signature count, okay, and my response to an email I got from somebody in Minnesota about my response to the signature count.
00:01:27.360I'll have that for you in just a moment. Some third-party advertisers are fighting back against
00:01:33.240the blind eye elections Alberta has towards Thomas Lukasik's Forever Canadian Referendum
00:01:39.280campaign. And it is a campaign. More on that in just a moment. Also, some upcoming events,
00:01:45.160one of which I will be at, which you can attend in the upcoming week. And an interview I did with
00:01:50.120Bruce Party just prior to the telethon right here in my studio. Bruce from Ontario, but he's got
00:01:57.160some terrific insight into the referendum and also the independence campaign. So we'll have
00:02:02.040that for you in just a moment. So let's look at my response to the Elections Alberta signature
00:02:07.560count. About, excuse me, 20,000 people have watched this video, which I put up late yesterday
00:02:13.540afternoon. 223,000. This number bothers me. Am I the only one? This number bothered me.
00:02:21.260And I wasn't happy about it. And in a very short video, link in the description, I talk about this.
00:02:27.160Now, I got a response to my response to the signature count from, here it is right here,
00:02:36.100Greg in Minnesota. Now, this is not a shot at Greg. Thank you for writing me, Greg. I appreciate
00:02:41.080this. I just want to explain why I did that video yesterday. I understand your point of view.
00:02:47.100I just saw your Saturday video about the signature count being way off. My old Taekwondo instructor
00:02:52.640always said, once you piss your opponent off, you've got them beat. Watching your channel, PJ's
00:02:57.840in the fringe, it's clear to see the Liberals are trying to create as much chaos as possible
00:03:01.400to loosen the Alberta Prosperity's grip and high batting average. During my younger Taekwondo days,
00:03:07.720we were trained to watch your opponent's face, looking for any sign of confusion. So the point
00:03:13.080is, don't bring it up because basically you are showing weakness when it comes to your opponent.
00:03:20.120you've been beaten by your opponent once you show that weakness. I wrote back to Greg and I said
00:03:25.960this. There's also a saying, if you don't push back, you get pushed around. Alberta has been
00:03:31.780pushed around for too long. I haven't said too much about Lukasik because I haven't wanted to
00:03:38.260sound like a whiner. That's true. I haven't said much about Lukasik. I think what's going on is
00:03:43.420wrong, but I haven't said very much for the same reason you wrote me. But don't insult my
00:03:49.220intelligence, now I'm not talking about you, Greg, I'm talking about Elections Alberta here,
00:03:53.800don't insult my intelligence and suggest the people I admire so much, who sat in the freezing
00:04:00.380cold for months, screwed up 80,000 times. Because the original number we got was around 301,000
00:04:08.860signatures. And we were told that the people who worked so hard and were so diligent about getting
00:04:14.800all the proper information, screwed up 80,000 times. As I finished this to Greg, enough is
00:04:20.840enough. That's what bothered me about this signature count. It really bothered me. It was
00:04:27.080an insult to those people who worked so hard. So that's why I responded to it. The LeCasic thing
00:04:33.260I think will straighten itself out, and that's because a couple of groups are pushing back.1.00
00:04:39.480Here's Sheila Gunn-Reed and Keith Wilson.
00:04:42.520Today we filed a former legal complaint with the election commissioner
00:04:46.420asking Elections Alberta to investigate the activities of Forever Canadian,
00:05:35.480given the blatant actions by the chief electoral officer
00:05:39.000turning a blind eye to Tomic Lukasik's,
00:05:43.680seeking foreign donations, which he's publicly stated,
00:05:47.540seeking donations in excess of the limits that apply to all of us, $5,000,
00:05:51.560not reporting his donations, clearly engaging in a campaign.
00:05:56.840And as he said, Mr. Lekasik did in the BBC article, that he's going to do everything in his power to win the vote.
00:06:06.400He's clearly seeking to cause people to vote for option one on question 10 on the October 19th referendum.
00:06:17.580The pressure is on Gordon McClure, the chief electoral officer and Elections Alberta.
00:06:22.960I think there will be a resolution to this soon.
00:06:25.760Let's take a look at a few events that are coming up over the next little while.
00:06:29.300I'm going to be at this event right here.
00:06:31.200If you happen to be in the Cardston area, be at the Cardston Civic Center, 6.30 p.m. on Thursday.
00:06:38.900This coming Thursday, July the 30th, I will be speaking.
00:06:41.700Not quite sure what I'm going to be saying at this point, but my good friends Angela Tabak and Kathy Flett for the Alberta Women for Independence, a third-party advertiser, are having an event.
00:18:52.820How can we be governed in a way that individuals actually have control over their own lives
00:18:58.840Instead of being looked over by a managerial state, how do we order things to bring that back and essentially show the rest of the world how this is supposed to be done?
00:19:11.140It's interesting because when you're talking, you know, you spoke with Jason with the Alberta Women's Independence Network.
00:19:26.840And what I find fascinating about this whole thing, and when I'm talking about young people, I'm thinking we have an opportunity to build a brand new country from the ground up here that's really new.
00:19:38.020What are the barriers to us getting there, though, Bruce?
00:19:40.760Well, you know, one of the main barriers is what people think that they want.
00:19:45.700I did a debate, as you may know, with Jason Kenney a few months ago.
00:19:49.040And Jason did say one thing that made me think maybe he's right.
00:19:55.040I hope he's wrong, but maybe he's right.
00:19:57.140And that one thing was this, and I'm going to paraphrase.
00:20:15.000And if he's right, then we're in trouble.
00:20:18.300Because for me, the purpose of this, and I'm not here to say what the purpose of this is because I'm not in Alberta.
00:20:24.740But I would like the purpose of this to be to reestablish the idea that you own your own life and you are not subject to the dictates of one of these.
00:20:34.460Do you think he was saying that people are going to want to still have their freebies?
00:20:41.080Still have their freebies, but freebies come along with restrictions and requirements and compulsions, right?
00:20:45.220So, for example, if you continue to have single-payer public health care, you know, run by the government, restricted by the government, paid for by the government, of course, the government doesn't pay for anything.