John Bolton - Independence Calendar (Episode #39) - October 19th, 2026

00:00:00.000 To start this morning, I'd like to send out my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of those killed at CFB Wainwright here in Alberta, and my thoughts and prayers are with those that are injured.

00:00:15.900 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the Independence Calendar for Monday, October the 19th. It's great to have you here. Thank you very much for watching, my friends in Independence.

00:00:26.960 This is happening on Monday. Yesterday, I couldn't put out an independence calendar

00:00:32.420 because I was in Edmonton. I was there for the rally the other day, and it was an extraordinary

00:00:38.240 time. I'm going to try to feature some of the pictures I took, maybe a little bit of video

00:00:42.860 while I was there. I'll put some underneath this right now so you can see my perspective from the

00:00:47.980 stage. It was interesting. I was trying to do a story there. It's hard to do a story from an

00:00:55.740 event where you're part of the story. I was the emcee at this event and unfortunately the camera

00:01:00.800 I was using, it started glitching out on me so I wasn't able to put together the story I originally

00:01:06.780 wanted to do. But just some video here of what I was seeing while I was in Edmonton for an

00:01:12.380 incredible rally the other day on an amazing, amazing day where we had a windstorm roll through

00:01:17.680 but a lot of great speakers. We had a UFC champion show up, Sean Strickland as well, who came up near

00:01:24.060 the end when Keith was on the stage. Here's a picture right here. Here's the picture from my

00:01:29.180 vantage point on the stage. Now, today started off very unusual, and this is going to be an

00:01:35.740 unusual independence calendar. We don't have any events. The events are over, ladies and gentlemen.

00:01:40.580 It is voting day today. We're going to talk about voting. I'm going to show you some of the things

00:01:45.300 I've put together. We're going to hear from Bruce Party today. We're going to hear from Mr. and

00:01:50.300 Mrs. Albertan, who started off my morning today with an interview at three o'clock, but that

00:01:56.200 soon changed into something much different. It soon turned into this right here. Now, if you

00:02:02.780 haven't seen this video, I'll put a card up at the end. I got a frantic call from Mrs. Albertan

00:02:09.000 about, I don't know, 25 after three, right around that time this morning. And Mr. Albertan confronted

00:02:14.720 a guy with a knife who was slashing some signs. He ended up rolling around on 16th Avenue with

00:02:20.840 this person. So I'll put a card at the end and you can check it out if you like. This person has

00:02:26.280 been arrested. They were rolled in the way in the back of a police cruiser. So our hero is Mr. and

00:02:32.520 Mrs. Albertan. So I'd just like to start off by saying this. I got this picture from Tanya Clemens

00:02:38.220 and this is from the other day at the legislature. And this is me on stage as the emcee with all

00:02:44.960 these wonderful people and these blue signs. And I was standing on this stage the other day

00:02:50.380 with Keith Wilson, and I was looking to my right at all the wonderful people and the leaders of

00:02:56.580 the Alberta independence movement. And honest, I was standing there thinking, how does a former

00:03:02.800 radio announcer from Ontario end up in this place? How did I end up here in this picture?

00:03:13.060 It's still like a dream to me, to be honest with you.

00:03:18.180 I'm just so honored to be part of this, that people would have the trust in me to be on stage

00:03:24.320 at this momentous time in Alberta. I'm really amazed that this could happen. Now,

00:03:32.200 I've told you before, and again, this is a little different for the independence calendar. I'm going

00:03:36.700 to have your pictures of signs. I'm going to try to put together a good long montage of signs I've

00:03:42.300 received here on the independence calendar over the last several months. This is where it started

00:03:46.880 for me. I think I've talked about this before. This is at a Wexit rally back in 2019. And this

00:03:53.900 is in North Calgary. And all these people showed up. They wanted Alberta independence. Here's

00:03:58.440 another photo right here for you. I mean, this is quite a crowd. All these people wanted Alberta

00:04:03.840 independence back in 2019. As a matter of fact, at that event, I picked up this hat right here,

00:04:10.760 this Wexit hat, and I've had it sitting back there with my other hats for quite some time,

00:04:16.220 but this is where it all began for me. I was so excited to be able to go out and vote for this,

00:04:22.060 and I'm very hopeful as we go into today that we can pull this thing out in the end,

00:04:26.780 and I'm so proud of everybody that's watching today. So what I want to do right now is I want

00:04:32.960 to feature somebody else from Ontario. It's very strange how I have kind of fallen into this

00:04:41.040 movement. My friend Jason Levine as well, who you probably know, he's part of this movement.

00:04:45.880 He's from Ontario and another person has been out here from Ontario quite a bit. He still lives

00:04:50.480 there. And he comes out here and he talks to Albertans about why Alberta needs to leave

00:04:57.080 Canada. His name is Bruce Party, Professor Bruce Party, who I've got to know quite well. He was

00:05:02.880 here on Thanksgiving with the Levine family, with Paula and Jason and their two great kids,

00:05:07.780 JJ and Jacob. And he's been out speaking on behalf of Alberta Independence, a great speaker

00:05:13.440 for Alberta Independence, I might add. I had a chance to talk to him right before the telethon

00:05:18.920 back in the summertime. Here's just a short little bit of what we chatted about back, oh,

00:05:24.520 I think it was way back in July. What do you think from somebody looking from Ontario,

00:05:29.320 it's very interesting. I'm from Ontario. I think I might have a better understanding of Albertans

00:05:34.280 than Albertans do because I wasn't one at one time. What needs to be said and done

00:05:41.080 for the independent side to win? A huge question. I'm sorry. It's massive. We don't have a lot of

00:05:48.040 I taught here. That's why I want to have you back on the chair. I wish I had an easy answer to that

00:05:51.680 question. But if nothing else, I mean, one reason that I'm here and not trying to do this in Ontario

00:05:57.000 is because this is impossible in Ontario. It's impossible nearly everywhere else.

00:06:03.060 In other words, this is going back to the point that Albertans have the mindset where this is

00:06:08.700 at least a possibility. And that is the case nowhere else. If you were trying to think of

00:06:13.660 a way to fix Canada. The table is empty, except for this. There are essentially no other proposals

00:06:23.140 on the table to work with. Right. It has to be this or nothing.

00:06:26.780 Let me, this final question, because we don't have all day and we could go on all day,

00:06:31.060 but if Alberta leaves, will this help fix Canada? Yes, absolutely. Because what we need in Canada

00:06:37.000 is political disruption. And I don't know where that leads to, but you've got to start there.

00:06:42.560 And the Alberta leaving, or even the serious prospect of Alberta leaving, might cause the kind of political disruption that would require this country to seriously look in the mirror at its own foundational trouble.

00:07:00.080 I always appreciate what Bruce Party has to say because he is from Ontario, he lives there now, and he's got a different perspective.

00:07:07.560 So what I want to do right now, and it is a different independence calendar today, I want to focus on some different groups who I think are ripe for harvesting.

00:07:17.460 These are groups of people who have an interest, a vested interest in what happens in the future.

00:07:23.120 Some of these people have already acted in the past, but they have not had their feelings and their needs met by the province and certainly not by the country.

00:07:32.640 I want to start off with this group.

00:07:34.340 You know, when I was out last week, I went out on Tuesday morning, right after nine o'clock when

00:07:39.780 the advance poll started, I went out to a polling station. And as I said in a previous video,

00:07:45.840 the elbows up in the room were palpable. A lot of gray-haired people there. The neighborhood I

00:07:51.480 live in, there's a lot of big houses, expensive homes, a lot of retirees, and they showed up

00:07:57.660 early on Tuesday morning to get in on advanced polling. But these people aren't thinking about

00:08:05.360 the future of the generations that are coming up behind them. They're thinking about themselves.

00:08:10.580 Over the last several months, I've had a great time putting together a number of different,

00:08:15.160 I guess you could call them commercials, that I put up on X, I put up on my channel.

00:08:19.240 This is something I put together last night to speak directly to young people when it comes to

00:08:25.140 voting. This person owns their home, has no mortgage, has a pension, two cars in the garage,

00:08:31.940 a well-groomed lawn, a timeshare property in Mexico, not a care in the world. This person

00:08:38.300 has none of these things, and chances are, if things don't change, he never will. This person

00:08:44.700 went out and voted to keep everything the same, to change nothing, to maintain the status quo.

00:08:50.300 They think everything is fine. They aren't thinking about you.

00:08:55.040 What are you doing today? Have you voted for a different course?

00:08:58.640 Or are you going to let this person have their way?

00:09:02.200 Get up now. Go to a polling station and vote for option two on question 10.

00:09:07.980 Send this person a message.

00:09:10.260 Do it for your generation. Do it for your future.

00:09:13.600 If you're in Generation Z and you haven't voted, you need to think about your future.

00:09:23.660 Please vote Option 2 today. It was funny. I was out on my back deck yesterday and I was talking

00:09:28.440 to one of the leaders of the Alberta independence movement. I'm not going to say who that was,

00:09:33.080 but my neighbor right next door to me, I live in a semi-detached home. He's about 32 years of age.

00:09:38.660 he was walking up his pathway to the back of his house. And while I was on the phone, I said,

00:09:43.940 hey, John, have you voted? He said, no. I said, have you listened to your wife? Because

00:09:49.720 she voted, and I know she was voting for option two. I said, you need to listen to your wife. 0.97

00:09:56.400 You need to think about your future. You need to get out and vote. And this person on the phone

00:10:01.040 was laughing in the background. This is what you need to do today, ladies and gentlemen. If you are

00:10:05.260 sitting there right now and you know somebody who can't get to a polling station or somebody who's

00:10:10.360 young that might not vote, you need to get to them and get them out to vote right now. Now this next

00:10:16.720 group of people are interesting. This graphic right here was sent to me by Jason Levine quite

00:10:22.500 some time ago. It was in a folder, the undecided could decide, or the non-voters could decide

00:10:29.780 the referendum. That's the folder that was in my computer. And check out the numbers here.

00:10:35.380 The non-voters could decide Alberta's future. And this is what Jason Levine sent me. It says down

00:10:40.260 here, authorized by the Levine Show TPA. In the 2023 Alberta provincial election, 1,162,000 in

00:10:49.080 change did not vote. And then this was the federal election in 2025. Almost a million people,

00:10:55.680 They just stayed home. These people could decide this referendum today.

00:11:02.160 Now, why did these people stay home? That's the question you have to ask.

00:11:06.400 Why would nearly a million Albertans sitting out each election, why would they do this?

00:11:12.020 Because these are people who are politically disillusioned, as it says right here.

00:11:16.740 These are people who don't think voting counts. These are people who think when they vote,

00:11:21.000 nothing happens. It doesn't matter who they vote for. It's always the same. It's always the status

00:11:27.320 quo. The politicians aren't listening to them anyway. Why would I vote? You need to get out

00:11:35.280 and vote because you can send a message. This is your only opportunity to actually make some change

00:11:41.260 in this country. And as I've shown many times on this channel, this graphic, you can tell these

00:11:46.960 people. You can send these people a message. These are the people who are ruling over your lives and

00:11:53.240 telling you to vote the other way. Send them a message today. If you haven't voted, you need to

00:12:00.880 get out and vote today and vote for option two. And then there's this group. I remember talking

00:12:08.000 about this group. Oh boy, going back, going back into the petition signing campaign, but more

00:12:15.360 specifically as we got into the latest part of this referendum, asking people to actually vote

00:12:20.520 today. And I said, we need to mine this group. We need to harvest this group for votes because

00:12:27.000 these people have already voted. And the only way they're going to get what they voted for in 2021

00:12:33.240 is to vote for option two today. This is the 62% we talk about. Do you remember the referendum in

00:12:39.880 2021? For changes in equalization? Do you remember that? 62% voted to change equalization. I put this

00:12:50.060 little commercial together to talk to those people. Albertans will be going to the polls

00:12:58.080 to vote on reforming equalization, on saying yes to a fair deal. And how did that work out?

00:13:04.680 A clear majority, 62% of Albertans, have rejected the fundamentally unfair equalization program.

00:13:12.460 And when Alberta went to Ottawa to plead our case, what happened?

00:13:16.840 Nothing. And nothing will ever happen.

00:13:20.260 Alberta, year after year, has $20 to $25 billion that is siphoned out of our system to go to Ottawa

00:13:27.940 so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec, but also in other places that vote Liberal.

00:13:32.860 You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?

00:13:38.860 It is $5,000 per Albertan that every single year gets transferred out of this province for political reasons.

00:13:48.940 The amount of money Alberta gives to Ottawa with equalization and by other means is staggering.

00:13:54.700 Since 1980, Alberta has contributed $653 billion more to federal taxes than we received back.

00:14:03.620 That means well over half a trillion dollars went directly from Alberta to fund other provinces,

00:14:09.660 mostly with economies larger than ours, through programs, transfers and equalization.

00:14:14.860 Are you one of the 62%? Do you want change?

00:14:18.480 then send Ottawa a message. On October 19th, vote option two on question 10.

00:14:28.360 If you're one of the 62% and you haven't voted yet, you need to get up right now and go out and

00:14:34.540 vote for option two. And if you're not convinced by my commercial, do you remember what Premier

00:14:40.240 Danielle Smith said about this before she went to the dark side? Alberta, year after year, has

00:14:46.440 20 to 25 billion dollars that is siphoned out of our system to go to ottawa so that it could be

00:14:52.520 spent mostly in quebec but also in other places that vote liberal you don't think we'd be able

00:14:57.940 to cut taxes a bit if those 20 to 25 billion dollars stayed here it is five thousand dollars

00:15:06.020 per albertan she was absolutely spitting fire when she said that i i know she still believes that 0.75

00:15:12.720 but she's chosen the wrong side in this fight today on October the 19th. Now, before this

00:15:18.860 happened this morning, this wasn't the video I intended on doing this morning, but before this

00:15:25.300 happened, I actually got in touch with Mr. and Mrs. Albertan who were out fixing signs

00:15:30.020 at three o'clock this morning. They sent me a text message. I got back to them. Would you like

00:15:35.500 to come on? I'd like to record you. I'd like you to tell people your message because it's referendum

00:15:41.000 them to a day today. And this is what they had to say. You're out there every day. I wake up every

00:15:46.940 morning thinking about this. I wake up thinking about Alberta independence. Maybe Mrs. Albertan,

00:15:53.180 what does today mean to you today? Tell me from the heart. Oh my goodness. Um, it means so much.

00:16:03.080 i i don't even know where to begin sleep

00:16:07.120 kidding i a future for my grandchildren yeah that's that's probably the biggest thing

00:16:21.620 i i miss what we had and i would like that back for future generations talk about kids having a

00:16:29.740 home that's your thing i think that's my thing yeah mr alberton same thing for you or i mean

00:16:38.080 it's been a long journey for you i see you everywhere you guys have been just a blessing

00:16:42.140 to this movement tell me what are your thoughts oh i've been sorry one more thing is i you'd think

00:16:50.640 with all the sleep we have been deprived of that i would be exhausted i actually feel right now

00:16:58.540 full of energy and I think it's just excitement for tomorrow yeah today um for me this is something

00:17:06.300 I've been waiting for this since Pierre fingered us way back on the train back in Kamloops right

00:17:12.000 like yeah I was 14 years old when that happened and I I started this journey pretty much the day

00:17:18.560 that that happened and I honestly didn't think it would ever come to this I didn't ever think

00:17:25.420 we'd have the opportunity for today to actually happen and for it to finally be here is is pretty

00:17:31.980 special it's um it's uh like a one of those check boxes in your in your to-do list or your

00:17:39.080 bucket list that you never think you're going to be able to fill and it's here and it's taken it's

00:17:44.960 taken an army of people in order to make this happen and we're just we're just putting in our

00:17:50.000 two cents worth right we have so many elections and and votes and all that stuff and and in four

00:17:54.980 of years, you have it again. Who cares? Whatever. It's done. This is once. You get this once. Do it

00:18:00.600 right. And my heartfelt thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Albertan and all the Alberta patriots. We've been

00:18:06.260 working hard towards today's vote. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank you as well. I'm hoping

00:18:13.520 this is not my last independence calendar. I think I'm on episode 39 right now. You've been terrific

00:18:20.100 since back in January, when I started doing this, I started asking you for pictures of

00:18:25.600 petition signing, and I got a lot of pictures. And over the last little while, it's been pictures

00:18:30.060 of signs and flags and signs and you with flags and signs and things like that. I've received

00:18:35.580 more this week. What I'm going to do right now is I'm not going to focus on the people that sent

00:18:41.260 the pictures. You might see your photos in here, okay? What I want to do is do a long montage here

00:18:46.400 of all the pictures I've received or as many as I can get out of my hard drive so I can show them

00:18:52.080 to you right now. I think it will lift your heart today as people get up this morning and they're

00:18:57.100 going out to vote in the referendum today. So here are your pictures this week with a song I created

00:19:02.860 oh boy way back at the beginning of the year. I think it was one of the first AI songs created

00:19:08.880 for the Alberta independence movement called We Are Alberta and I'm going to put all of these

00:19:13.680 pictures to that song. I hope you enjoy it.

00:19:43.680 To the mountain high

00:19:47.700 We rise with strength

00:19:50.380 Beneath the sky

00:19:53.840 Through storm and trial

00:19:58.720 We stand our ground

00:20:02.400 In Alberta's heart

00:20:06.220 True grit is found

00:20:08.980 We are Alberta, child and free

00:20:13.820 Forged by word and destiny

00:20:17.040 With hands that build, with hearts that care

00:20:21.040 Our spirits strong beyond compare

00:20:38.980 No chains of power shall bind our way

00:20:45.980 We earn our keep, we shape each day

00:20:52.180 With courage born of the northern flame

00:21:00.840 Our voice is ours, our proudest claim

00:21:07.080 We are Alberta, proud and free

00:21:11.980 Our thoughts wide wear and destiny

00:21:15.200 With hearts that pale, with hearts that care

00:21:19.220 Our spirits strong beyond compare

00:21:23.280 Together we stand

00:21:40.100 Through wind and rain

00:21:43.800 Helping our own

00:21:47.480 Through loss and gain

00:21:52.060 In rewarding skill, not idle throne

00:21:58.440 In Alberta's land, we walk alone

00:22:05.620 We are Alberta, strong and true

00:22:10.080 Our future bright, our skies are blue

00:22:13.800 Independent hearts forever sing

00:22:17.400 Alberta reigns, our anthem reigns

00:22:21.480 We are Alberta, proud and free, forged by work and destiny.

00:22:28.560 With hands that fill, with hearts that care, a spirit strong beyond compare.

00:22:41.000 My friends in Independence, thank you so much for all your assistance on the Independence Calendar.

00:22:47.980 and I'm hoping, I'm feeling hopeful that I will be doing one this coming Sunday.

00:22:55.380 Regardless of what happens today, it's going to be an early morning, it's going to be early

00:23:02.340 Tuesday before we find out the numbers, but regardless of what happens, this movement is

00:23:07.500 not going to end. We are going to continue down this path, despite what the politicians are saying,

00:23:13.960 that they want to end us. They want to stop us. We will not be stopped. There are people I know

00:23:20.060 who have been waiting decades for a chance to vote for what we've got today, but they won't stop

00:23:25.680 and we won't stop. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next one. I tip

00:23:31.080 the big blue mug of coffee to you again, my friends in Independence. It's morning again in the West

00:23:37.660 and Alberta is waking from a long, dark night.

00:23:41.600 Today, Albertans go to work knowing

00:23:43.260 their democratic vote for independence

00:23:45.060 allows them to take home more of what they earn.

00:23:48.700 Young people and married couples feel comfortable and secure

00:23:51.880 in knowing they now can afford a home,

00:23:54.940 something they thought unthinkable just a short while ago.

00:23:59.180 Today, senior citizens feel more secure

00:24:01.480 with an independent Alberta providing more for them

00:24:04.540 than ever before.

00:24:06.860 And with Alberta keeping more of its wealth and unfettered by the unfair government in Ottawa,

00:24:12.580 Albertans are building hospitals, schools and pipelines and look forward with optimism for the future.

00:24:19.360 It's morning again in the West, a single mark on a ballot for independence,

00:24:24.520 and Albertans are more confident, prosperous and free.

00:24:35.920 Hi, I'm John and this is my message to Ottawa.

00:24:45.020 Voting Option 2 on October 19th does not mean Alberta is leaving Canada.

00:24:50.920 Option 2 is about almost $200 billion in lost investment in Alberta over the last 11 years

00:24:57.400 because of Ottawa.

00:24:59.720 It's about $25 billion of your money going to Ottawa every year to be squandered by provincial

00:25:05.900 and federal politicians it's about our Western votes being counted in elections 0.67

00:25:11.120 but ultimately rendered meaningless as the East dictates the rules it's about

00:25:19.460 our resources being locked in the ground and Albertans who are proud

00:25:23.580 hard-working people having to grovel and beg to Ottawa to get them out it's

00:25:29.680 about 40 long years of saying the West wants in only to have career politicians

00:25:35.460 tell us it will happen if we maintain the status quo.

00:25:40.260 I'm voting option two on October 19th because the other option means more of the same.

00:25:46.800 My name is John and that's my message.

John Bolton - October 19, 2026

Independence Calendar (Episode #39) - October 19th, 2026

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