In this episode of the Independence Calendar, I talk about the amazing progress being made by the Strive for Alberta petition drive, and how you can get involved. I also talk about some of the upcoming events happening across the province.
00:06:32.940This is my official canvasser badge, which I got the other day.
00:06:38.320And I've said here, I would like to set up a table or a number of tables or get a number of people down here with petitions to sign people up.
00:06:45.580I've seen people on my wife's Facebook that want to do the same.
00:06:50.200Now I want to keep the calendar as positive as possible, but there are people spreading misinformation about the petition campaign because they don't like us.
00:07:00.780And they're saying that stayfreealberta.com is limiting the number of people with petitions so that the lines look longer.
00:07:54.960I felt like I was missing something being on vacation, seeing all these pictures all around the province of people lining up in droves to sign the petition.
00:08:04.560Talked to Dennis Modry last week here when I was here in Panama.
00:08:12.560It's like, you know, and what a silent protest that, you know, has been, and this is how the government should take it.
00:08:20.220This is a huge message of protest to the government of Alberta when literally tens of thousands of Albertans will line up into a dark January night and silently wait in line with their neighbors with a look of determination on their face because they want to sign what they're calling the Alberta Independent Declaration.
00:08:40.340Declaration of Independence Petition, right?
00:08:49.620And they're, you know, and they're, you know, and they're determined to do it.
00:08:52.940And I mean, it's, if that isn't sending a message to the government of Alberta, you know, they bet, you know, they're not paying attention, right?
00:09:00.080And then on top of it, you know, and to be clear, I mean, you know, well, I think the lineups have been phenomenal from an optics perspective to demonstrate the degree of support for what Jason Kenney was, you know, referring to as a fringe movement that couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession, etc.
00:09:18.300You know, visually demonstrated what an idiot Jason Kenney is and how out of touch with Alberta politics he is, right?
00:09:27.780But, you know, we were, I felt kind of bad because the reason we had those long lineups was because somebody I'm not allowed to criticize publicly or I violate the rules weren't getting election badges out in time, right?
00:09:40.040So we had a shortage of canvassing badges, which meant we'd only have two or three, you know, signer, you know, people allowed to sign or take signatures at these events.
00:09:50.220And these poor volunteers, like, poor man, I mean, her little hand was falling off at the end of every evening.
00:09:58.320Applies for those people who are sitting there for hours after hours to do that.
00:10:01.680My most heartfelt thanks to all of our volunteers and canvassers who have literally been working around the clock and just writing their hands off, you know,
00:10:09.720to the point of Carpool Tunnel to get as many people signed up as they can.
00:10:13.680But now, you know, because we're getting our badges out, you know, in a more timely fashion,
00:10:17.920and we literally have thousands of canvassers that are now registered, you know,
00:10:22.280because we don't think that it's, you know, appropriate to have our, you know,
00:10:27.340have our fellow Albertans having to wait in line for two or three hours, you know,
00:10:31.120like they're in a communist country waiting for the last loaf of bread that Mark Carney is going to let them have, right?
00:10:36.160You know, we're trying to have, you know, like at these events where we have more than 1,000 people,
00:10:40.420we want to have, you know, 20, 30 canvassers there so we can just move people through, you know, 20, 30 at a time
00:10:46.320so the people that have heard our message, believe in what we're doing, can just sign and go home without wasting a bunch of time.
00:10:52.960And those that want to stay and, you know, listen to Mitch and I talk some more,
00:10:56.700listen to other speakers talk about the benefits of independence, they can stay, whatever.
00:11:00.080So we're getting, you know, as more and more canvassing badges come out, you know,
00:11:04.660we can move people through much more and more quickly.
00:11:07.960And then the other thing that we're doing, which I'm really excited about,
00:11:10.900is that all of these events, we're asking for people to volunteer, you know,
00:11:15.200if they have main street businesses or businesses that are on a ground floor with good parking somewhere
00:11:20.220to volunteer a little bit of space so that we can have volunteer canvassers come in,
00:11:24.420set up tables and man tables, you know, 40, 50 hours a week on a permanent basis
00:11:31.060at permanent locations at these businesses.
00:11:34.340And that campaign is now getting underway.
00:11:36.460So everywhere we go, there's more and more people volunteering, you know,
00:11:40.680their businesses, volunteering space so that we can set up permanent locations.
00:11:44.940And then people can just come in, you know, go to the website,
00:11:48.860see all the permanent locations, find the one closest to them, go and sign and go home, right?
00:11:53.540Doesn't have to be a big rigmarole, you know, the price of admission to sign the petition
00:11:57.560isn't being forced to listen to Mitch Sylvester and Jeff Rath tell you again
00:12:01.680how much better off your life is going to be without federal income tax, you know what I mean?
00:12:05.400But it's going really well. We're excited about the campaign.
00:12:08.480Jeff is excited. I'm excited. I want to thank Jeff for his time.
00:12:11.980He's very giving of his time. I got in touch with him early in the morning.
00:12:14.840By noon hour, I had an interview with him when I was in Panama.
00:12:17.980Dennis Modry, the same thing. I'm in Panama. I did an interview with him.
00:12:21.400And if you see any of these people, Mitch Sylvester, the CEO, walk up, just put your hand out and say thank you.
00:12:28.240Because they don't get paid for this and they're working hard for you and for Alberta independence.
00:12:32.180Now let's move on to your stuff because you can work hard for Alberta independence
00:12:35.600and all you have to do is show your pride in your province because we love Alberta here.
00:12:41.600I am Albertan. You are Albertan as well.
00:12:43.920So let's look at a few of the things I got in this week.
00:13:15.640I don't know if there's any Albertan that would ever believe that lying, greedy, five-gallon pail full of excrement person that calls himself our prime minister.
00:13:37.220But I can tell you Albertans have had enough.
00:13:43.280And this one's for you, Mr. Kearney and Mr. Lukasuk.
00:13:47.220So thanks a lot to Wade for sending that in.