It's GO TIME for Alberta Independence - SIGN THE PETITION!
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Summary
It's go time in Alberta, folks! It's an historic day here in Alberta. Today, Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure has issued the Citizen Initiative Petition for a referendum relating to Alberta's independence from Canada.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Friday, January the 2nd. It is 5.33 in the afternoon.
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It is great to have you along, folks, and it is go time in Alberta. It is go time for Alberta
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independence. It is really the first step forward to really getting to a point where we have a
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referendum in the province of Alberta. This is going to happen, folks. And today, we got the
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confirmation. We knew this was coming, but really, until this happened today, we weren't sure 100%,
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but here it is. And this is on the Elections Alberta website. New citizen initiative petition issued
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January 2nd, 2026. Put it down in your calendar. Remember this. It's an historic day here in Alberta.
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I'll read a little bit of this for you. Today, Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure,
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issued the citizen initiative petition for the constitutional referendum proposal,
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a referendum relating to Alberta independence. Prior to issuing the petition, the Chief Electoral
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Officer determined the requirements for the appointment of a chief financial officer for
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the citizen initiative were met as required under Section 1.2 of the Citizen Initiative Act.
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The notice on the citizen initiative petition page of Election Alberta's website has been updated.
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I'll show you that right now. Here it is. Okay. We'll go back to the other page. Citizen initiative
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petition signature sheets have been issued to the proponent. Signatures collected on or in other forms
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will not be accepted. The proponent may now proceed with collecting signatures as set out in Division 2 of
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the Citizen Initiative Act. Subject matter, a referendum relating to Alberta independence.
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And here's the question, folks. Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part
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of Canada to become an independent state? The proponent, Mitch Sylvester. Congratulations to Mitch today.
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The signature collection period starts tomorrow and it runs until May 2nd, 2026. And the number of signatures,
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177,732. The proponent registers canvassers right now, and they're doing that right now. More details
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on how you can volunteer to do that in just a moment. Registers canvassers may collect signatures
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from eligible electors for a period of 120 days. So today, folks, this has been confirmed. Now,
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if you're interested in volunteering, we need people to volunteer. There's a lot of people already
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doing this, but you can go to the Alberta Prosperity Project website, albertaprosperity.com.
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Just click on volunteer and volunteer your time to go out and collect signatures for this. Now,
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I'm sure they're going to be having places where they're going to set up petitions that you can sign.
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I'm hoping to do that myself in my neighborhood here in Southeast Calgary. So I'll let you know when
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that happens. And I'll have more details on this, hopefully, on the independence calendar,
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which I do at 11 o'clock every Sunday. So check that out on Sunday. I'll be putting another one
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up soon. I'm hoping to get somebody on to talk about volunteering to sign petitions as well.
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And we'll have more details on what exactly is going on with the signature signing campaign. I've
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got my pen ready. I'm ready to go. So go over to albertaprosperity.com and volunteer your time
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right now. Now, something else that needs to be said. This is going to require some money,
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folks. Keep in mind the people who are involved with the Alberta Prosperity Project are not
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collecting a salary. The most they get are some hotel rooms and some gas money to go from place
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to place around the province in order to spread the word about independence. So please go over to
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albertaprosperity.com right now and give some money if you can. Just a little bit. You can start at
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$5 and work your way up, but every little bit helps. I'm going to do that myself as soon as I'm
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finished with this video. But we're ready to go, folks. It is confirmed as of today that the new
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Citizens Initiative petition has been issued. We've got to get a little over 177,000 signatures right
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now. And I will certainly be passing along any information regarding places where petitions will
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be available so that you can sign. And of course, if you can, volunteer. This is exciting.
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Up until today, I knew it was coming, but now I am feeling really good about this because once we
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get the signatures, we will have a referendum on independence in Alberta. Thank you very much
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for watching. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Ring the
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bell for notifications. Of course, I've got my big blue mug of coffee. I give a tip of the mug to the
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Alberta Prosperity Project, Mitch Sylvester, and I'll see you in the next one.