John Bolton - December 23, 2025


It's Really Happening - A Vote On Independence Is Just Some Signatures Away


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Elections Alberta has officially accepted the Citizen Initiative Petition for a referendum on Alberta independence. This is a huge victory for the Alberta Prosperity Project and a day that will be remembered in Alberta's history. Now it's time to get out and sign the petition!

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is 7.52 in the evening, Monday, December
00:00:08.980 the 22nd. I hope you're having a great Monday evening. I do have the big blue mug. I got
00:00:15.420 some water in it right now, though. No coffee. Too late in the evening. Oh, just before I
00:00:21.120 move on. Hang on one second. I think this is appropriate. Oh, goodness. I'm so excited.
00:00:33.880 I really am. You know, I took the day off today. I got up this morning and I looked at one
00:00:40.160 of the top stories on the National Post website and they were focusing on a couple of people
00:00:44.580 who wanted to get two dogs and a baby on an airplane. And I thought, you know, I'm going
00:00:49.080 to take the day off today. And then later in the day, as I was keeping busy today, I found
00:00:54.060 out that this had happened. Let me just bring it up on my screen here for you. And this is
00:00:59.020 great news. That's why I put on the Alberta Republic hat. I turned the light on for the
00:01:04.000 Alberta flag in there. Folks, huge victory for Alberta. This from the Alberta Prosperity
00:01:08.140 Project. Elections Alberta has officially accepted the Citizen Initiative petition for a referendum
00:01:14.200 on Alberta independence. This is so damn exciting. I am so excited about this. They tell you to go over
00:01:21.600 to albertaprosperity.com. So be sure to do that. If you haven't already signed up to pledge your name
00:01:29.460 on the petition, you can still do that. But folks, you're going to be able to do it real soon. If you
00:01:33.480 go to the website right now, this is what they've got on the Alberta Prosperity Project website right
00:01:40.900 now. Historic milestone, Alberta independence referendum petition application approved. This
00:01:45.580 is historic, folks. Today is a day that will be remembered in Alberta's history. The Alberta
00:01:51.840 Prosperity Project has received official confirmation from Elections Alberta that our
00:01:56.100 Citizen Initiative petition application, a referendum relating to Alberta independence has fully satisfied
00:02:02.420 all requirements under the Citizen Initiative Act. Unbelievable. And if you look down here,
00:02:08.780 with December 29th falling on a day the office is closed under the Interpretation Act, Section 22,
00:02:14.520 the petition will be formally issued on the next business day, Friday, January the 22nd,
00:02:20.580 second rather, 2026. This is just absolutely amazing. You know, I remember the first event I went to
00:02:28.960 when it came to Alberta independence. Matter of fact, if I can roll over here again.
00:02:32.000 I went to that event back, I think it was 2019, and it was in an auditorium or a school auditorium
00:02:41.520 in North Calgary, and I bought this hat. Okay. I think it was called the Wexit Party at the time,
00:02:47.500 and I bought this. About 1,100 people showed up. And it was so exciting because so many people were
00:02:51.960 interested in Alberta independence. And over the years, it's kind of been an ebb and flow.
00:02:56.800 So, I've heard Corey Morgan talk about this because he's been involved in this type of a movement for
00:03:02.700 a very long time. But it's been an ebb and flow, up and down, up and down. And over the last little
00:03:07.460 while, it's been picking up. And the Alberta Prosperity Project has been on this like a dog
00:03:11.860 on a bone. Mitch Sylvester and the folks are just doing a wonderful job. And now it's time to get out
00:03:17.700 and sign the petitions. And we need lots and lots of people to sign. We need more than Thomas
00:03:23.740 LeCasic got for his Forever Canadian. Let's push this up about 500,000 signatures on this petition.
00:03:30.980 That would be so exciting. But it's just terrific. And what's remarkable about this is just since the
00:03:37.380 beginning of the year, it's just been a feeling where there's something really happening here in
00:03:43.200 the province. It's something that you could feel happening. I went to the independence rally back in
00:03:50.280 May, on May 3rd at the Alberta Legislature. And with hardly any time or lead-in to that,
00:03:55.960 several thousand people showed up. And then what happened on the 25th of October at the
00:04:00.440 legislature was just remarkable. So, this is an amazing time. Now, just to let you know,
00:04:05.740 I found out about this not too long ago, but an hour or so ago, because I've been doing other things
00:04:11.360 today. And I got in touch with Mitch Sylvester, the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project. And I'll be
00:04:16.900 talking to him tomorrow at around 11 o'clock. I hope to have a video up, chatting with him about
00:04:22.300 what comes next. We have a lot of events coming up. And there's going to be more and more of them
00:04:28.280 as this process goes on with the petition signing and eventually getting to a referendum because there
00:04:33.220 is going to be a referendum in 2026 on independence. The shockwaves will be going through the rest of the
00:04:43.780 country, folks. I didn't know whether we'd ever get here. But this is just a remarkable day. It really
00:04:51.180 is. And you know, the last time I talked to Mitch here on the channel, I congratulated him for being
00:04:56.340 able to put in, to resubmit the question after Bill 14 was passed in the province. But here we are
00:05:02.660 now. We're just about to get to the signature campaign. And I'm so excited about it. And don't
00:05:07.160 forget, coming up on the 26th of January, that big event happening at the BMO Center here in Calgary.
00:05:12.460 It's going to be sort of an official launch of it, but we'll probably be signing signatures on that
00:05:20.120 day. So get ready, folks. You're going to have to have, you know, you're going to have to be here in
00:05:26.740 Alberta, living here in Alberta to sign the petition. And they're going to check your signature and your
00:05:31.140 information. So make sure you get all that ready and get ready to sign on the dotted line. But I know
00:05:36.560 the Alberta Prosperity Project is working on that right now. And they'll be ready to go. They'll be on
00:05:41.280 the ground running. Very, very exciting. Very exciting. And again, I'll have Mitch on with me
00:05:47.240 tomorrow. I hope to have that video up around noon hour to give you more details on what's going on
00:05:51.920 right now and to get Mitch's reaction to what happened today. It happened real quick too, isn't
00:05:56.600 it? Remarkable that Bill 14 just passed. And on the 22nd of December, just before Christmas,
00:06:02.100 Merry Christmas, folks. We're getting word that we're moving forward. And this is good news.
00:06:07.540 Thanks very much for watching. Kind of an impromptu video here tonight after taking the
00:06:12.040 day off today. I'm back at it tomorrow for sure. Lots of things to talk about. But I was just so
00:06:17.260 excited. I wanted to just to address you a little bit on the channel here. Thanks for watching. If
00:06:21.700 you like the video, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Ring the bell for notifications.
00:06:25.720 I'll see you in the next one.