John Bolton - August 16, 2026


Independence Calendar - Episode #34 (August 16th)


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00:00:00.000 super alberta man
00:00:12.840 hi it's john and welcome to the independence calendar for sunday august the 16th i think
00:00:25.080 I'm at episode 34. There's been so many. I'm losing track, but I think it's episode 34 today.
00:00:31.460 Thank you very much for being here. And it's going to be a fun one today. I've got some great
00:00:35.600 pictures for you. You saw, you saw a super Alberta man off the top. He'll be making a return when we
00:00:41.500 get to the pictures and your pictures a little bit later on. If you'd like to get in touch with
00:00:45.600 me, johnboltonab at gmail.com. Thanks for sending your email. I'm trying to read more of them. Okay.
00:00:51.600 but get your pictures. Send pictures of signs or interesting independence pictures. We're going to
00:00:56.260 expand our pictures. If you've got something interesting, send it to me. I've got a few of
00:01:00.480 those for you. Today, I've got one coming up in just a moment. We've got a short part of an
00:01:06.880 interview I did earlier this week with Keith Wilson from Let Alberta Decide. I did an in-depth
00:01:12.480 interview with him of 40 minutes. I've got three, three and a half minutes with Keith, and I'll put
00:01:17.980 a link in the description or maybe a card at the end so you can click on that and watch it. It was
00:01:21.900 terrific. I'm going to include a segment that, well, I almost spit coffee all over my MacBook
00:01:26.800 when he said it to me in the interview. So that's coming up. I had a chance to talk to the people
00:01:32.300 from North Alberta Strong. This is the third-party advertiser that's dealing with everything north of
00:01:38.600 Edmonton, and there's a lot of space up there. A great group, and you can help them out. All the
00:01:44.420 third-party advertisers need help. I'm talking about money, folks. I know we have to talk about
00:01:50.200 money, but they need your help as well. So I have a short little segment with them. Also, we've got
00:01:55.500 some upcoming events, some of the things that are happening around the province. Some people I was
00:01:59.900 talking to yesterday at an event, which I'm going to get to in just a moment, were saying, you know,
00:02:04.420 I want to go out and ask questions and whatnot. Where do I do this? Well, I've got some information
00:02:09.300 on that for you if you're looking for information and you want to find a place to ask those
00:02:14.520 questions. So yesterday I was out. I had a great day. I was out in Mirror. I was at the Whistle
00:02:19.860 Stop Cafe, Chris Scott's place. Jason Levine, Paula Levine, The Levine Show, a third-party
00:02:25.340 advertiser, put on an event there yesterday. And because of Chris Scott and Let's Talk Alberta
00:02:31.540 and A Pathway to Independence, which is Corey Morgan's TPA, Alberta Women for Independence,
00:02:36.980 which are Angela Tabak and Kathy Flatt, and Let Alberta Decide, which is Tanya Clements and Keith
00:02:43.280 Wilson. The event was free yesterday. Let me just show you a few of the pictures from yesterday.
00:02:47.240 Now, this was the stage. Now, Chris has got an amazing place out there. This is the stage from
00:02:52.140 yesterday. We had, let me just go through the people who sang, Caroline Richards. She was
00:02:57.980 there yesterday. We had Marty Damsel, Ruth Purvis Smith, Ben Crane, and Lindsay Butler,
00:03:06.060 All saying yesterday, over four to five hours, it was awesome, lovely day.
00:03:10.160 Look at that beautiful blue sky.
00:03:12.020 The weather was outstanding.
00:03:14.140 Check out Chris Scott's new bus.
00:03:16.600 I got a tour of this yesterday with Chris, and I want to talk about Chris in just a moment.
00:03:20.280 I got something to say to Chris.
00:03:22.300 I got something to say about Chris, and let's talk Alberta.
00:03:25.720 Check out the bus he's got here.
00:03:27.700 This is unbelievable.
00:03:29.980 You know, Chris has put out a significant amount of his own money into this bus,
00:03:33.320 so he can go out there and spread the message.
00:03:35.360 More on Chris in just a moment.
00:03:36.860 Great day yesterday.
00:03:38.900 Here's me.
00:03:39.640 That's Ben Crane on the stage.
00:03:41.000 Ben's just one great character.
00:03:43.060 The music was outstanding.
00:03:44.440 It was just so good yesterday.
00:03:47.020 Here's me with some of the crowd.
00:03:48.340 People were in and out all day.
00:03:49.820 You know, off to the left in this picture, there was almost a carnival atmosphere.
00:03:54.000 They had all of these booths set up with signs.
00:03:56.120 They had shirts and hats, and people were over there all day long, and in and out listening
00:04:00.620 to the music.
00:04:01.420 It was great.
00:04:02.560 I'll show you another picture here.
00:04:03.460 This guy had two dogs, and he's got these little covers on them.
00:04:08.460 Independence, Freedom from Tyranny, F-A-O on his dog.
00:04:13.660 So I took this picture of one of his dogs.
00:04:15.660 Here's me.
00:04:16.720 That's my wife, Sheila, and that's my mother-in-law. 0.69
00:04:19.000 She was definitely the oldest independence voter there yesterday. 0.95
00:04:24.160 She's 90 years old and had a blast.
00:04:27.120 We enjoyed all the food that was there.
00:04:29.020 We enjoyed the music.
00:04:30.340 It was great.
00:04:31.340 All my friends were there.
00:04:32.460 It was just terrific. Too many to go into. I'd miss somebody, but it was fantastic.
00:04:37.920 And then I want to talk about this. Okay. And I want to talk about Chris in just a second.
00:04:42.120 So I'm going out on this on Wednesday. Tanya Clemens is going. I think there's nine of us
00:04:46.860 that are going to be on the bus. You see on the screen here, I'm excited about this.
00:04:51.260 So I'm going to be heading out to Strathmore. They're going to pick me up in Strathmore.
00:04:54.860 We're going to go to Brooks, Duchess, Rosemary, Countess, Bassano, back to Strathmore.
00:04:59.280 And then they're going to go north.
00:05:00.280 I'm going to peel off from there, go back to the far south in Calgary.
00:05:03.980 But everybody else is going to be heading to Airdrie, Crossfield, Olds, up to Innisfail.
00:05:08.520 All of those areas dropping off signs.
00:05:10.820 They've got different size signs here.
00:05:12.940 And as Chris says, when people stop talking, bad things happen.
00:05:16.380 Let's talk Alberta.
00:05:17.420 So this is happening on Wednesday.
00:05:18.840 So I'm going to be doing a video on this.
00:05:21.420 We're going to have some fun on this event.
00:05:22.960 Now I want to talk about Chris a little bit.
00:05:25.380 So, you know, I've had a chance to talk to Chris on a number of occasions.
00:05:29.420 The first time where I really had a chance to talk with Chris Scott was in Delburn.
00:05:33.580 He was working in the kitchen, cleaning dishes at that point.
00:05:37.340 They had a pierogi dinner that night.
00:05:39.940 We had Ben Crane was talking there that night, Corey Morgan and others.
00:05:45.060 And I had a chance to talk with Chris for a few minutes.
00:05:47.400 But yesterday I got a tour of his bus.
00:05:49.980 Chris is a very thoughtful guy and he's working his ass off, folks.
00:05:52.880 So if you can help out Let's Talk Alberta, go to letstalkalberta.com and make a donation, okay?
00:05:58.120 Because he's running around and he's got this bus that you see on the screen here, right here, on the right-hand side.
00:06:04.540 This bus has cost a significant amount of money so he can spread along the message.
00:06:08.960 Now, the other thing was, I'm on the bus and Chris has been creating these little booklets to try to spread the word and information about Alberta independence.
00:06:18.900 Every argument to stay is a reason to leave. I mean, there's a lot of work in these things.
00:06:28.000 And here's another one. Treaties, First Nations, and opportunities for all Albertans. And again,
00:06:32.840 look at all the work he's put into these things. And another one. Why are politicians love the
00:06:38.180 status quo? And again, a lot of work that he's put together. He's going to be selling these
00:06:43.580 so he can recoup the cost for printing them
00:06:46.200 for just a few bucks.
00:06:47.780 But I appreciate what Chris is doing here
00:06:49.840 and all the hard work he's going into.
00:06:51.620 So Chris, thank you so much.
00:06:53.300 Thanks for allowing me to be on your bus on Wednesday.
00:06:55.900 I'm really looking forward to it.
00:06:57.460 And if you can help out Chris and Let's Talk Alberta,
00:07:00.000 for goodness sakes, do that if you can.
00:07:02.000 Help out all the TPAs if you have the means.
00:07:05.160 I know it's tough.
00:07:06.320 Things are tough.
00:07:07.320 You may not have a lot of money,
00:07:09.200 but if you've got a few bucks, you can help out.
00:07:11.600 And again, Chris is just doing wonderful work out there.
00:07:14.360 So what we're going to do right now, let's look at a short interview I did with Keith Wilson.
00:07:19.200 Now, I say short interview because I'm just going to show you a short segment of this interview, just three to four minutes.
00:07:26.020 It was a 40-minute interview.
00:07:27.800 We wanted to keep it tight, but there's so much to talk about.
00:07:30.780 Keith is such an interesting man, a thoughtful person.
00:07:33.580 So here's a short part of an interview I did with Keith Wilson earlier this week.
00:07:38.740 Okay, moving on now.
00:07:40.140 I've noticed on X, you've been commenting a lot on the so-called trade deal.
00:07:44.840 There's negotiations on right now.
00:07:46.240 I find it fascinating.
00:07:47.180 In about six days, there could be these tariffs coming in that Donald Trump has threatened against Canada.
00:07:53.580 You know, it's been more than 470 days since the election on April the 28th last year.
00:07:59.580 And all of a sudden, this seems like a priority to the government.
00:08:03.780 And apparently, there's been an offer put on the table from the Trump administration.
00:08:09.040 and our side just doesn't want to accept or make a deal here.
00:08:12.440 What are your thoughts on what's going on right now?
00:08:15.240 Well, Carney's move of setting up a forward operations center
00:08:18.240 and command center to deal with this crisis in Tuscany, Italy, was brilliant.
00:08:26.980 Oh, I did not know I was coming.
00:08:29.820 Oh, that's beautiful, Keith.
00:08:31.080 But more seriously, and this is a serious matter,
00:08:35.540 what is really the takeaways from the current situation,
00:08:39.040 is, you know, the challenge that the negotiators have for Canada
00:08:45.440 is they have to try and find a way to keep the trade relationship open
00:08:51.760 with the largest market in the world, the largest economy in the world
00:08:55.160 to support the manufacturing jobs in Ontario, in Quebec.
00:08:59.480 Well, what does Trump want?
00:09:01.360 He wants those jobs to move back to the U.S.
00:09:04.980 The reason those jobs are in Canada is because of the low dollar.
00:09:09.040 If you can get your labor costs reduced by 20 to 30 percent because of the dollar, you're going to move, as historically has happened over the last several decades, those jobs from the U.S. to Canada.
00:09:19.220 Trump wants them back. Well, he doesn't have the world's largest, third largest reserve of oil in that he can continue to produce in the United States.
00:09:29.940 He doesn't have our vast agricultural resources, Canada's largest beef herd, most of which goes to the United States to feed Americans.
00:09:39.680 He does not have potash and fertilizer like we have here in Alberta and Saskatchewan that he desperately needs.
00:09:46.120 So Canada's negotiating strength is they're going to end up and they keep musing about using our natural resources superpowers and how we have leverage here in Alberta and Saskatchewan with the United States to counteract the fact they've got no leverage in Ontario and Quebec.
00:10:12.640 but that really illustrates Alberta's power and how we would be better off and it reinforces my
00:10:22.340 theory and my view that I've been putting out there for a year which is Canada is too big
00:10:28.100 Canada is not the optimal size of government um it's too the economies are too regionally diverse
00:10:34.360 um uh the the uh the size of the country I saw an excellent analogy on x the other day
00:10:41.760 uh imagine if turkey was administering and ruling over france in europe that's the same distance
00:10:52.340 between edmonton and ottawa yeah yeah turkey and france yeah right yeah we're just so vast and we
00:10:58.700 have different regional economies different regional cultures so the fact that the go-to
00:11:04.940 move for the Laurentians and the Ottawa elites to preserve their power base and serve their voters
00:11:13.640 in central Canada is to look to use the leverage of the inherent natural power, economic power,
00:11:21.880 natural resource power of Western Canada, particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan,
00:11:27.260 shows that those who think that maybe Alberta couldn't go alone are wrong
00:11:33.700 and shows that we would be positioned as an independent country
00:11:38.600 to negotiate a much more preferable trade deal with the United States
00:11:43.040 than Ontario and Quebec ever could
00:11:45.080 because they really don't want or need,
00:11:47.660 Trump doesn't want or need that much of what they've got
00:11:50.720 relative to our natural resources here in Alberta.
00:11:54.800 Thanks a lot to Keith for doing that.
00:11:56.700 It is a longer interview, in-depth, about 40 minutes long.
00:12:00.980 And for those of you who are interested in independence, well worth it.
00:12:04.020 I'll put a card at the end you can click on and check that out.
00:12:07.440 Still to come, we've got an interview with our friends at North Alberta Strong,
00:12:10.800 taking control of what's going on sort of north of Edmonton
00:12:14.740 when it comes to spreading the independence movement.
00:12:16.860 I'll talk to my friend Daryl Prew shortly.
00:12:19.840 But now let's take a look at some of the things that are coming up over the next little while.
00:12:24.220 We're kind of in the dog days of summer right now.
00:12:26.280 few things are happening. Expect things to really ramp up right after Labor Day. Lots of things are
00:12:32.200 coming, but here's what's coming over the next little while. I wanted to go to my friend Jason
00:12:36.000 Levine's website, thelevineshow.com, and just show you. This is how much time is left, folks. 63 days,
00:12:42.960 22 hours, 56 minutes, and the seconds are counting down until the vote on October the 19th. Let's go
00:12:50.020 over to Let's Talk Alberta. They're adding things all the time, so if you don't see something over
00:12:54.900 the next couple of weeks for you. There will be more events added here for sure. This was yesterday.
00:13:00.800 This event is coming up in Redcliffe at the Harmony Hall on Tuesday. You might want to check
00:13:06.100 that out. And of course, I was telling you about this earlier, this event right here that I'll be
00:13:10.880 taking part in. We're going to be cruising to all of these places here, dropping off signs. So look
00:13:15.400 for us. Look for the big bus. You won't be able to miss it. I'll be out there for about half of
00:13:20.360 this trip on Wednesday covering it and it's going to be a real fun day. My friends Angela and Kathy
00:13:26.060 with the Alberta Women for Independence are doing these events right here. abwomensindependencenetwork.com
00:13:33.720 if you want to be part of any of these events or in Okotoks for instance on Monday which is Monday
00:13:38.960 the 17th you might want to check this for Okotoks Politics on the Patio and these events are
00:13:43.600 happening as well. They're planning out front and you can actually go to their website if you'd like
00:13:47.760 them to come by and put on an event, they will do that for you as well. This rally coming up on the
00:13:52.580 29th with Mitch Sylvester, a rally at the Alberta legislature. And then we've got this rally coming
00:13:58.520 up, which will be epic on October 17th, two days before the vote. This is going to be massive,
00:14:04.980 put on by Keith Wilson and Tanya Clemens of Let Alberta Decide. It is going to be absolutely
00:14:10.180 insane. That is going to be one where we really need to rally together. The last week of this
00:14:16.420 is going to be desperately important.
00:14:19.140 I was doing some research about a week or so ago
00:14:21.900 about the referendum in 95 in Quebec.
00:14:25.000 The no side, meaning no,
00:14:27.680 Quebec doesn't want to leave Canada.
00:14:29.300 That side won in the last week.
00:14:31.220 So we need to be very vigilant and work hard
00:14:33.280 right till the end of the event.
00:14:34.920 And I'll bring this up again.
00:14:36.060 See you on Wednesday.
00:14:37.100 This is going to be a lot of fun 0.91
00:14:38.220 with Let's Talk Alberta in the big bus
00:14:41.240 that Chris Scott has got.
00:14:43.160 It looks absolutely amazing.
00:14:46.420 Now let's take a look at your pictures from this week.
00:14:55.820 All right, my favorite part of any independence calendar, it's getting email from you.
00:15:01.760 You know, I'm trying to be better at responding to more people when I get to my Gmail,
00:15:07.380 johnboltonab at gmail.com.
00:15:09.460 I can't always respond.
00:15:11.780 You need to understand that.
00:15:13.140 And very often I don't write a lot because I do get a lot of email.
00:15:16.240 But keep them coming. I appreciate it. And keep your pictures coming as well.
00:15:19.780 And as I've been saying every week, it's nice to see pictures of, you know, signs, the Alberta referendum signs on a patch of grass isn't great.
00:15:28.000 But if you've got a nice garden or you've got it in a good place, let me know about that.
00:15:31.200 And sometimes when I get some pictures in, I like to feature them because they're a little bit different.
00:15:35.780 OK, so it's not always signs, but if they're kind of cool, I will feature them here.
00:15:41.020 So let's take a look at what we've got this week. We'll start off with Diana in Spruce Grove.
00:15:46.240 This picture from Diana. Thank you so much. Beautiful, beautiful plants and bushes out here
00:15:51.440 with the Choose Alberta sign. That would be one of Cory Morgan's signs. We've got this from Rick
00:15:56.360 in Mosley. Beautiful old truck there. Fantastic. And this is reminiscent of an old gas station
00:16:04.040 sign. Republic of Alberta. You know what's interesting about this? This is not a sign
00:16:08.440 per se, like you're seeing in people's front yards, like the one in my front yards. But I'm
00:16:13.260 seeing more Republic of Alberta stuff. Flags as well. I think I might even have one in the
00:16:19.200 pictures this week. And there's another one from Rick and Moss. Let me see if I can straighten
00:16:22.480 that out a little bit for you. Sharpen it up. There you go. And look at that old truck. Loving
00:16:27.120 it. Thanks so much, Rick. I do appreciate that. Woody sent this one in. Why am I featuring this
00:16:32.540 one? It is just a sign at the side of the road. Hard to see. I was out yesterday and I went up to
00:16:39.120 mirror up to Chris Scott's place. Jason Levine, as I mentioned off the top of the show, had an event
00:16:44.080 there yesterday with a lot of TPA supporting that. Saw a lot of signs like this coming back in that
00:16:49.120 two, two and a half hour drive. So thanks for sending this picture in. I do appreciate it, Woody.
00:16:54.060 And here's another unusual one. It's not a sign, but check this out. Check this car hood. You know,
00:17:00.520 I've actually got a car that's the exact color of the Alberta flag and it would look really cool on
00:17:06.060 my hood, but I have to talk my wife into it. Thanks to Andrew for sending that picture in.
00:17:10.460 This is from Val. This is Wilf's pop-up in Red Deer. Look at these guys. Awful happy out there.
00:17:16.400 Let Alberta decide. So they've got Keith and Tanya signs out there. Strong and free hat. Oh,
00:17:21.900 my eyesight's just so bad. I can't read what the other ones say, but thanks for the thumbs up.
00:17:25.980 I do appreciate it. And thanks for sending that picture in, Val. This one from Christopher. Again,
00:17:31.760 Republic of Alberta. And look at the signs on either side of the garage here. Not a regular
00:17:37.380 sign, but I'm seeing a lot more of this. And that's the flag I was telling you about right
00:17:40.980 there. And here's another unusual one on a boat. You know, it's very strange for somebody who comes
00:17:46.660 from Ontario. And I grew up on Lake Huron, one of the great lakes. And I'm in Ontario where there's
00:17:51.920 a lake pretty much every 10 feet if you go up in central Ontario. Alberta, not with a lot of lakes.
00:17:57.600 So I thought it'd be interesting to have a boat with a flag on it here.
00:18:01.140 Thanks to Woody for this one as well.
00:18:02.860 We've got the Alberta sign out there with the old truck.
00:18:05.620 I appreciate that.
00:18:06.580 You're seeing a lot of these pop-ups with these frames out on the road.
00:18:10.580 Todd and Ken sent this one in.
00:18:12.820 Let Alberta decide. 1.00
00:18:13.880 Big one on the back on a flatbed. 1.00
00:18:15.760 Thanks for that.
00:18:16.700 People driving around with these, making the message and getting the message out.
00:18:21.020 I appreciate that.
00:18:21.840 Here's another one right here.
00:18:23.340 Thanks so much.
00:18:24.140 Great picture.
00:18:25.820 Well done.
00:18:26.360 I appreciate it.
00:18:27.600 Uh, this is not a sign. Okay. But I thought this was kind of fun. Uh, I think I can sharpen this
00:18:33.360 up a little bit for you. There you go. New world order, the new Canadian flag. Thanks for that.
00:18:39.780 Here's another one right here. Oh, who is this? Um, before I forget, um, this one is Wendy.
00:18:45.000 Yeah. Wendy with the dog is just a little sharp. Can we sharpen this one up a little? I think this 0.97
00:18:49.240 is just a very small picture. You got room for more signs here, Wendy. You can put one there.
00:18:53.780 you could put one there, you could put one there. Six or seven, just keep looking. You'll find more
00:18:59.000 signs, but thanks a lot for that picture. I do appreciate it. This was sent to me last week.
00:19:04.400 Jocelyn and Jason sent this to me. They sent a very nice message to me this week, and I really
00:19:10.620 appreciate it. So I thought I'd feature this again. This is a great photo. Thanks a lot. I appreciate
00:19:14.960 your email, and thanks for the kind words. This is Bob. Bob said the flag waivers he's got go out
00:19:22.260 there in any weather. And here they are. It looks like a damp day. It's been very wet in Calgary.
00:19:27.460 If you live in the area or anywhere really in Alberta, you see people out in the rain. Look
00:19:32.160 at this out there any day of the week. He really appreciates them. I think he said God loved them
00:19:37.140 for doing what they're doing. Thanks a lot, Bob. Bob sends a lot of pictures and I appreciate it.
00:19:41.800 Beautiful garden here. This is Kevin's garden. Beautiful. Let me see if I can sharpen that up a
00:19:47.360 little bit. Not sure that I can. It's a pretty small picture, but choose Alberta out there as
00:19:52.260 well. Thanks very much. Sarah sent this one in. Vegreville, she helps distribute signs. Thank you.
00:19:58.080 I support Alberta independence. Thank you so much, Sarah. Great picture. I appreciate that. I think
00:20:02.980 we've got another one here for you. There it is right there. So I appreciate that very much. I
00:20:07.960 think this is Angela and Kathy's Alberta Women for Independence. And of course, one of Corey's
00:20:12.960 signs there as well. Another little burden aside in a nice looking garden. Reason I'm featuring
00:20:19.480 this one is because I love flowers. I've got a garden in my backyard and Nancy said that she's
00:20:25.780 getting dirty looks from her neighbors, right? I haven't seen that. My neighbors don't seem to care
00:20:30.480 that I've got six signs in front of my house. Here's another one from Nancy as well. Thank you
00:20:35.280 very much for that. Then we've got this Wayne and Stetler. Now this is a great sign. This is a banner
00:20:41.260 they put up here. Terrific. Thank you so much for doing this. Thanks for going out and putting up
00:20:45.700 these signs. And this one is really cool. It's almost reminiscent of Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam wants
00:20:51.120 you. I love it. It looks like they've got a QR code on this one as well to scan. October 19th,
00:20:56.060 vote for a referendum. Vote for some change. Vote to send a message. Thanks, guys, for being out
00:21:01.420 there and doing the hard work. Actually, let me go back over here and we'll show the video once
00:21:06.760 again of what I put up top. Let me go back here. Let me see if I can get to it. I want to show you
00:21:10.700 this again, because I honestly, I almost spit coffee all over my back book screen when I saw
00:21:16.540 this. Do you want to watch this one again? Let's check this one out again. This is Super Alberta
00:21:20.780 Man, and we'll end the pictures with this today. Super Alberta Man.
00:21:41.460 Thanks a lot for all the pictures. Keep them coming.
00:21:46.040 JohnBoltonAB at gmail.com
00:21:48.960 You know, this is a pretty big province. It's a big place. It's funny. I live in Calgary.
00:21:54.020 And when I think of the north, I think of Edmonton.
00:21:56.680 But folks, Edmonton's kind of in central Alberta.
00:21:59.680 There's a lot of space north of Edmonton.
00:22:02.680 And there's a group called North Alberta Strong.
00:22:05.680 They're a third-party advertiser.
00:22:07.360 and they got a lot of land up north of Edmonton that they're trying to spread the independence
00:22:13.200 message. And I had a chance to talk to them this week. They need your help. A lot of space in
00:22:19.600 between towns. They're trying to get signs up and banners and get the message out. You can help them
00:22:23.940 out. And here's my friend, Daryl Prew from North Alberta Strong. I think when I was asked to do
00:22:32.580 this interview by i think it was at sharon i believe it was sharon sharon newlett yeah sharon
00:22:37.900 sharon said you're the the furthest north pretty much as you can get when it comes to a third
00:22:43.720 party advertiser sharon said she was in fairview which is about an eight and a half hour drive from
00:22:48.540 where i'm sitting here in calgary where are you located today daryl i'm i'm in the town of peace
00:22:52.740 river um i i want to tell you there uh there's a there's a couple of really passionate uh supporters
00:22:59.780 here in the north that have been featured on your channel before they've gone as far as
00:23:04.680 Zama City to collect signatures during the independence referendum petition that we did
00:23:10.820 right so we've got a lot of ground to cover up here and it's a good thing we've got some people
00:23:15.480 that aren't afraid to drive and yeah yeah I got pictures I'll put the picture up on the screen
00:23:20.020 from Zama City which was just amazing I think that was the farthest north we had a signature
00:23:24.200 signing place they had one of the state for alberta sitting outside my friend um lyle de
00:23:29.440 perrin is up in fort vermilion and he was in my house so about three weeks ago he came all the
00:23:34.420 way down here to pick up some signs from cory morgan i think i i got him some other signs from
00:23:38.900 some other tpas at that point as well but yeah you got a a large area to cover up there but
00:23:43.500 you've got a really motivated volunteer base with north alberta strong don't you we we do um before
00:23:50.580 we uh started our third party advertiser here um there was a big push to get the other tpas
00:23:58.380 signs up here and uh like you talked about you know fairview being eight and a half hours well
00:24:04.620 uh eight and a half hours from where you live right now well high level the crete fort vermilion
00:24:09.520 is probably more like 12 hours from where you're at and uh we've got some dedicated people like
00:24:15.240 those folks that went to zama city right they uh drove all the way down south picked up other tpas
00:24:21.240 lawn signs made sure that they made their way up into the north so that we could have a presence
00:24:25.960 for our side in the referendum here so and then after that it just transformed into like well we
00:24:31.880 might as well just start our own third-party advertiser then and we'll make it north specific
00:24:37.000 we'll fundraise for the north we will focus on advertising in the north like we have a huge
00:24:42.200 landmass here um my riding the peace river constituency alone is 12 of the land mass of
00:24:49.980 alberta right and that's not including the grand prairie area that's not including central peace
00:24:55.280 notley etc anyway i'm belaboring the point but no no i get it no i get it and you should you know
00:25:01.860 it's funny when i talk about the north i talk about edmonton edmonton's kind of central
00:25:06.000 Alberta. You guys are north. It's just crazy how much space is up there. And, you know, I want
00:25:12.200 people to go to your website. You're looking, we're trying to help people with donations. We
00:25:17.180 did the telethon a few weeks back. People are trying to collect money so they can put up signs
00:25:21.840 and banners. We'll tell people how they can do that in the north as well with North Alberta
00:25:25.860 Strong. Your website is northalbertastrong.ca. You've got a donate button there. So if you would
00:25:31.260 like to make a donation to these people, if you're in the south, help them out. Give them a little
00:25:35.780 bit of a boost right now if you if you can do it click on the button and send us some money right
00:25:40.060 now so that they can put up signs and banners and you are doing that as well i've noticed i've seen
00:25:44.200 some of the banners you've got they're pretty uh pretty amazing what you're doing up that way and
00:25:48.620 are you just are you trying to line the roads with these i mean there's a lot of space up there
00:25:52.520 um to get the message out well as as many highways as we can line is is uh the way to go yeah you
00:25:59.320 know we're not saying no to anybody that wants to request a lawn sign but yeah there's definitely a
00:26:03.780 focused there where if there's anybody that owns some highway side property that's going to see a
00:26:07.700 lot of traffic 100 you know we've got some strong supporters i would even mention in the berwin
00:26:13.580 area before any of these tpas even started right they were stacking hay bales along the road and
00:26:19.560 strapping alberta flags to them right yeah and unfortunately the alberta flag has become a bit
00:26:24.560 of a polarizing symbol but also it gets the gets the message out right for for our side right anyone
00:26:30.040 that's not afraid of that Alberta flag knows what it means right now. It means, you know,
00:26:35.180 we support Alberta first, right? Yeah, you betcha. You betcha. No, that's great. And you can go to
00:26:40.540 the website as well. There's a request a banner and a request a sign. It's Daryl Prew, volunteer
00:26:45.360 spokesperson, North Alberta Strong. And that's another independence calendar in the can. Thanks
00:26:50.840 so much for being part of it. I do appreciate it. And just a note, if you've got an event coming up,
00:26:57.100 let me know about it at johnboltonab at gmail.com. Don't hide it, okay? Don't put something like,
00:27:04.060 hi, John, how you doing in the subject matter? Put event, please mention or something like that
00:27:09.360 in the subject. You know, I sit here on Sunday trying to remember things people have told me
00:27:13.320 about events coming up. My memory is not as good as it used to be. So if you've got something going
00:27:17.740 on, let me know about it. johnboltonab at gmail.com and keep your pictures coming as well.
00:27:22.760 You know, it's interesting. I was thinking about this week, this, this week, we've got about two
00:27:26.220 months to go until the vote. And the people who are working at this are still working as hard as
00:27:32.080 they were back in January, collecting signatures and canvassing back earlier this year. Everybody's
00:27:38.400 heart is still in this. Lots of energy. We're going to work for the next two months to win
00:27:43.100 on October 19th. Then we're going to work even more. It's like the other side is trying to slow
00:27:48.340 us down. They're trying to run out the clock. They think we're going to get tired of this. We're not.
00:27:53.360 We're bound and determined for independence, so thank you for what you're doing.
00:27:58.060 I'll see you on the next Independence Calendar.
00:28:01.880 Have a great week.