John Bolton - Jeff Rath Stands TALL in Defence of Alberta Independence (FALSE allegations)

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. This video

00:00:07.640 going up on Thursday, January the 22nd. We're recording this on the 21st of January here

00:00:14.420 with the big blue mug of coffee. And although it looks like I'm at Two Jack Lake, just outside

00:00:19.440 Banff, I am still in Panama right now, heading back to my home, to my country of Alberta

00:00:24.780 on Thursday. Looking forward to it. And a very familiar face on the channel with us, very

00:00:30.400 familiar face across Alberta. Jeff Rapp is joining me today. Jeff, always a pleasure to

00:00:34.740 talk to you. Nice to talk to you from Panama today. Well, fantastic. I'm really pleased

00:00:40.220 to be on your program this morning, John. Thanks for having me. Well, I watched my email come

00:00:45.380 in this morning. I really enjoy your The Road to Freedom on Substack. I get an occasional

00:00:51.540 email from you on this. And it's regarding an article that I read, I think, just last

00:00:56.400 weekend that when I read the headline, I was a little bit concerned about it. And you have

00:01:00.540 commented on an article titled, Alberta's Anti-Racism Watchdog Fields Complaint Arising

00:01:07.680 from Immigration Comments at Separatist Town Hall, written by Stephen Sandor of the Edmonton

00:01:13.260 Journal. I believe it was picked up in the National Post as well. Your substack today, Post

00:01:18.260 media, new slogan, Alberta independence, all the fake news that's been to print. And I

00:01:24.160 think when I read the article initially, Jeff, I was concerned about it. But then I started

00:01:29.080 to think about it. And I started to think about the word context. And I think that's what you

00:01:33.520 really refer to in your article today. When you saw this article, what were you thinking

00:01:37.540 right off the bat? Well, I just I kind of laugh at those articles, because again, it's just

00:01:42.140 an example of all these left wing borderline communist reporters at the Edmonton Journal

00:01:48.040 that have a, you know, that literally have this agenda that we terrify them. Alberta independence

00:01:53.580 terrifies them. So they're doing everything they can to tear us down with these really

00:01:58.380 slanted propaganda pieces. They're like one sided hit pieces with zero context whatsoever,

00:02:04.220 where, you know, it's this hysterical, he's a racist, he's a homophobe, he's a this, he's 0.99

00:02:10.120 a that he's a white supremacist, he's a white nationalist. I mean, good God, they're trying 0.99

00:02:15.080 to make Mitch Sylvester, a Franco-Albertan Catholic out to be a white Christian nationalist

00:02:21.480 complete with Aryan Nations banner, and nothing could be further from the truth. You know, he 0.98

00:02:26.200 wasn't talking about white supremacy. He was just saying, like, you know, in the context

00:02:29.460 of, you know, everything that's going on is that nobody, nobody, and I don't care if you're,

00:02:33.680 you know, black, yellow, purple, you know, for where you're from, nobody should be forced

00:02:38.880 to apologize for their skin color. You know, and that's what Mitch was commenting on is

00:02:43.280 that quite often, you know, with all these hit pieces that are being written, oh, the

00:02:48.080 rooms of supporters are largely white, you know, like, as if that somehow delegitimizes

00:02:54.240 the independence movement. And again, it's not true. Like we saw reporters on the weekend

00:02:58.380 in Okotoks, with a camera crew there. And my organizers were telling me, our organizers

00:03:03.880 were telling me that they were literally skipping over all the Filipinos, all the Chinese people,

00:03:09.080 all the black people in line, because it doesn't tell the story they want to tell. 0.99

00:03:13.080 So it's pretty good, if you have a camera, don't skip over. And of course, the reason 0.95

00:03:17.960 the Filipinos, the Filipino community is coming out in force now in support of Alberta independence,

00:03:23.160 they know what Chinese communism looks like, right? So when Mark Carney proudly announced, or

00:03:29.080 proudly, I think he looked like he was on scopolamine, the new world order, right?

00:03:34.280 Yeah. You know, when Carney, you know, Carney issued his, whether it was drugged or not drugged

00:03:39.960 statement about the road to communism with this new strategic alliance with China leading to a new

00:03:44.840 world order, that terrified the Alberta Filipino community. And I, you know, hearing from our organizers

00:03:49.960 in Okotoks that literally hundreds of Filipinos were coming out to sign the petition because they

00:03:54.360 don't want to be part of communist China. You know, I, the, the quote that was in the article

00:03:59.880 by Sandor in the journal, um, it said this old stock, white Canadians. And this is apparently what

00:04:05.320 Mitch said, old stock, white Canadians, and that's us. And we don't have to apologize for this room

00:04:10.680 being filled with white people. This used to be what Alberta was. We're not apologizing for being 1.00

00:04:15.240 ourselves. And again, context is important there because for people who don't understand what's going

00:04:20.520 on with this movement, if you go on X and you'll see people who are against us posting pictures,

00:04:26.760 going, look, they're all old, they're all white. And that's what Mitch was referring to. We don't 0.95

00:04:33.240 have to apologize for the fact that the people in this room and probably in that room that night,

00:04:37.320 most of the people were white. And, but he was, I think he was referring to those people.

00:04:41.800 It doesn't matter. Um, well, but our, our, our, our movement is, is welcoming of all Albertans.

00:04:48.200 I was at an event outside of a task one the other night, and there was a gentleman there from Africa,

00:04:53.240 um, who's, you know, you know, born in Africa that was completely supportive of what we were

00:04:58.760 doing. And his worry was that the reconfederationists were going to take over and try to, you know,

00:05:04.440 sneak some sort of negotiation in with Carney to try to keep Alberta and Canada, you know, after a

00:05:10.120 referendum. And, you know, we had to assure this guy, because he was really worried about it, that no,

00:05:14.120 we want Alberta independence and we want Alberta to be free from communist Canada. And, you know,

00:05:19.400 I was chatting with him and I mean, he literally, you know, like, you know, you know, came from a

00:05:23.240 country that was in the process of being ruined by communism. And he wants Alberta out of Canada

00:05:28.680 because he's afraid that Canada is turning into a communist country, you know? So, and we get a lot

00:05:33.480 of that people from, you know, um, you know, lots of people from China, lots of people from Southeast Asia,

00:05:38.680 you know, that know what communist, well, and Eastern Europe, you know, that know what communism

00:05:43.400 looks like. And, you know, they're supporting our movement because they do, they want to get Alberta

00:05:48.440 out of the clutches of communist Ottawa. You know, we, uh, we had somebody out a couple of Saturdays

00:05:53.720 ago. I was at the event in Calgary. I like to think it was sort of that night that the ball started

00:05:58.520 rolling on crowds showing up. It was insane. We had a, uh, a report that we had 2000 people standing

00:06:05.640 outside this packed auditorium in Southeast Calgary. And we had a young man walk up who

00:06:11.480 was of Ukrainian descent. His parents are, his parents had just moved here. They moved from

00:06:15.400 Ukraine. They were concerned about, um, coming here because they wanted to move to Canada,

00:06:19.560 but he was all for the independence movement as well. So we have to keep that in mind.

00:06:23.160 And in this article as well, by Sandor, he talks about Mitch saying that, you know,

00:06:27.160 Christianity could soon be a crime, but again, context is important. Uh, when you, um, 0.50

00:06:32.920 when you look into this thing and what Mitch was referring to at the time.

00:06:36.600 Well, that's right. And the slide that Mitch was referring to when he said that, and he went,

00:06:40.760 he also said, and the Torah and the Quran could be outlawed, right? Because when you look at what

00:06:46.600 Mark Miller wants to do, Mark Miller wants to be given editorial control over a thousand year old

00:06:52.680 religious texts where he can go through with a black, you know, editing pen and edit out all of the,

00:06:58.520 you know, the portions of the Bible, the Torah or the Quran that offend him as being hate speech.

00:07:04.280 So I always joke that one of my favorite passages in Paul's letters, uh, you know,

00:07:08.120 will be excised immediately. And that's Paul's first letter to the Corinthians chapter 14 39.

00:07:13.640 And above all, keep your women silent in church. If they have any questions, 1.00

00:07:17.880 they are to be subservient to their husbands and ask them at all, you know, that kind of idea. 0.84

00:07:21.880 Yeah. I don't, I don't believe that. If you met my wife, you'd know that that's not my life,

00:07:29.560 but I just, you know, Oh, there's Mark Miller got to get rid of the Corinthians.

00:07:34.360 Well, let me actually, actually, while I've got, you can continue this on a moment,

00:07:38.520 but let me, I'll insert this in post, but here's Mark Miller and a committee actually talking about

00:07:42.760 this and saying that what is said in some of the scriptures are considered hate. So I'll put that in

00:07:48.520 here so people can check it out in, in, in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans, there's other

00:07:53.720 passages. There's clear hatred towards, for example, homosexuals. I don't know. I understand how the

00:07:58.520 concept of good faith could be invoked if someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this

00:08:03.800 case, the Bible, but there are other religious texts that say the same thing. Uh, and somehow

00:08:09.000 constantly say that this is good faith. I mean, clearly there are situations in these texts where

00:08:13.160 these statements are hateful. They should not be used to invoke, uh, or be a defense. And there

00:08:20.040 should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges. Uh, I just want to understand what

00:08:24.440 your notion of good faith is in this context where there are clearly passages in, uh, in religious

00:08:29.240 texts that are clearly hateful. Uh, but here's the, here's the interesting thing is that, um, I think

00:08:35.320 people are really concerned not only about what Mark Miller said, uh, but coming down the line,

00:08:41.880 we do have a lot of C bills coming that deal with speech that could, um, that could have a real

00:08:52.040 concern for people who are in church, who in the future might, and there are no religions that say

00:08:56.200 that men should not marry men and women shouldn't marry. That could become a hate speech in the future. 0.70

00:09:00.920 Um, saying that to that, that men can become women or there are two genders could become hate speech 0.98

00:09:07.640 in the future. These are the concerns that I think we have things, right. You know, is, is Mark Miller

00:09:12.280 going to tell the Pope that, uh, that henceforth, he's got to allow women clergy. I mean, you know,

00:09:17.320 because obviously that all of the teachings of the Catholic church in and around, you know,

00:09:21.640 you know, a celibate male clergy come from Paul's letters. And you know, those passages that I'm talking

00:09:27.320 about, about keep your women silent in church, right? I mean, that's Catholic dogma based on the

00:09:32.200 writings of St. Paul. So, you know, is Mark Miller going to tell the Pope that, uh, that if he doesn't

00:09:37.720 reverse, you know, uh, you know, a very, you know, you know, thousand year old policy of the Catholic

00:09:42.840 church that, uh, um, that he's going to deem the Catholic church to be, uh, you know, a hate,

00:09:48.600 you know, a hateful, a hate organization engaged in hate speech every time, every time a priest speaks

00:09:54.200 from, uh, speaks from the altar and a Catholic mass. I mean, it's a very slippery slope.

00:09:59.320 It is. You know, once you have a, once you have a politician telling churches what they can and

00:10:04.360 can't say, I mean, Mao did it in China, Hitler did it in, you know, in, uh, you know, in Germany, 0.69

00:10:09.320 Mussolini, you know, uh, to the extent that he could would be telling the, you know, the telling

00:10:13.400 the Catholic church what they should or shouldn't say in fascist Italy. I mean, is that the road that 0.91

00:10:17.960 we're on really that, uh, you know, we have a fascist government in Ottawa telling, um, religious

00:10:23.480 leaders, you know, what their scriptures mean or what, or what scriptures they can refer to.

00:10:27.560 It seems to me to be completely inappropriate. You, you need to, you need to, you need context

00:10:33.560 here as well, because people say, this isn't going to happen. It's not going to happen. 30

00:10:37.560 people a day are arrested in England for saying things. There's a person that was arrested for

00:10:43.080 silently praying on the street. And this is happening all the time because they've passed

00:10:48.520 similar laws to this. So I think, you know, Mitch is concerned and in independent Alberta,

00:10:52.360 this will not happen. I think that everybody else, everybody needs to realize that that was

00:10:57.720 literally 30 seconds of a 45 minute presentation. I mean, we're not an organization that spends our

00:11:05.480 time, you know, taking a 45 minute presentation, you know, uh, you know, about any particular race

00:11:12.360 or ethnicity, um, you know, being persecuted by anybody. I mean, it was like literally a little

00:11:17.480 blurb out of a lengthy presentation that was basically, you know, that focused more on economics,

00:11:22.120 the benefits of, uh, having no taxes in Alberta, uh, drastically reducing the amount of regulation

00:11:28.920 in Alberta, you know, et cetera. That's what we're all about. We welcome everybody, you know,

00:11:33.400 where you go. Yeah.

00:11:34.440 I was going to ask you, you know, and again, you know, we have Africans come to our meetings.

00:11:38.200 We have Asians coming to our meetings. We have Filipinos coming to our meetings. We have people from the

00:11:41.960 Muslim community, the Sikh community, the Hindu community, you know, all coming to our meetings

00:11:46.200 and supporting what we're doing. So, you know, to suggest the contrary, they're simply trying to

00:11:51.240 slow our momentum and, uh, you know, and to stop people from coming out and, you know, signing

00:11:55.960 petitions or being associated with what we're doing. Like there's, you know, there's a journalist by

00:12:00.440 the name of Charles Russnell right now. That's, you know, that's writing a hit piece on me. Right.

00:12:05.080 And of course they've got nothing better to do. So let's find a story about a couple of guys

00:12:09.960 gossiping over a drink, uh, during a political convention. I mean, who doesn't gossip over a

00:12:15.320 drink during a political convention? That's what everybody does. But apparently this is a big story,

00:12:19.800 right? Like it's ludicrous. Right. And here's, here's the thing I wrote. I actually typed this into 0.93

00:12:25.240 my computer. When I read your article, I wrote, did Mitch tell you how he responded to Sandor when he was

00:12:31.800 asked for comment on this? And I wondered what you said to him when you were asked for comment on this.

00:12:36.280 Well, no, well, exactly. I mean, Sandor didn't ask any of us for comment on any of that. Right. And

00:12:41.400 I mean, it's the same thing like that little loser, Johnny Wakefield up in Edmonton to write for the 0.78

00:12:45.400 Edmonton journal, writing all those hit pieces about, you know, uh, you know, these law society 0.78

00:12:50.760 things that I've been dealing with. I mean, it's really hard for me because as a lawyer, I really

00:12:55.080 can't comment on things that are in process, but he's making it out like I'm the worst guy in the world.

00:13:00.520 And then I was really happy that during the public hearing, the law society prosecutor,

00:13:05.080 you know, asked me why I wrote this letter to the prime minister and, you know, Jason Kenney,

00:13:09.640 all these people. And I said, the reason I wrote the letter wasn't to obtain any benefit for anybody

00:13:15.400 other than I do not want, didn't want thousands of children in Alberta to have their hearts destroyed

00:13:21.400 with myocarditis. And I wanted parents to be aware that more children would die from the COVID shots

00:13:27.960 that would die from, from COVID. Right. And I was very upset and I was very concerned about the fact

00:13:34.360 that all of our so-called leaders, um, you know, we're not making this public and we're just parroting

00:13:40.120 the word safe and effective on an ongoing basis. And I was very, very, very concerned about this.

00:13:45.800 And that's why I wrote those letters that got me into the glue with the law society, which we're

00:13:49.400 still dealing with. Right. But I'm very constrained in what I say, but you know, he won't even bother to

00:13:55.480 call me for a comment. Um, you know, which my comment would have been like, look, you know,

00:14:00.840 all of this is being resolved in a professional manner, both to my satisfaction and the satisfaction

00:14:06.280 of the law society. I don't even get the courtesy of that phone call and everything goes out of its

00:14:12.280 way to look like I'm the stupidest, most incompetent, most useless, uh, unethical lawyer in the world 1.00

00:14:18.120 when nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, I've argued in one cases at the Supreme 1.00

00:14:22.040 Court of Canada, you know, I've won cases in every appellate court, you know, major appellate

00:14:26.040 court in the country. It's really funny that none of them accused me of being incompetent.

00:14:30.200 Right. Like, right. Because they can't make the case on the record. Right. So, you know,

00:14:34.920 they've got to attack me however they can. And again, it's this whole idea that, you know,

00:14:39.080 they're going to write these slanted hit pieces and not bother calling you for comment or, you know,

00:14:44.600 you know, the rationale cases that they do call you for a comment, they want to argue with you.

00:14:48.760 They want to try to get you, you know, to admit things that aren't true. Um, you know,

00:14:52.920 it's not journalism. I mean, they're basically, you know, it's like a reverse investigation where

00:14:57.480 the police are trying to put, you know, fit somebody up for a crime. They know who it is

00:15:01.640 they want to convict. And then they're just trying to find the facts, you know, to, you know, to fit

00:15:06.440 the narrative, you know, rather than, you know, rather than being fair and biased and telling the whole

00:15:11.400 story. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. Right. So, yeah, you didn't get any, uh,

00:15:15.160 you didn't get any call from anybody regarding this, this group. I looked it up online,

00:15:19.400 stop hate Alberta. They do have a website up there and, um, you know, I'm sure we'll probably

00:15:25.240 be seeing that, uh, uh, them at events coming up here. I do want to try to, I mean, who are these

00:15:30.040 people? I mean, I can't even find them online. I don't know their website. It doesn't exist.

00:15:33.480 There's probably three of them in total. And, uh, you know, and again, like, you know, it's like,

00:15:38.360 oh, well we have, oh, under our process, these complaints are anonymous. So we don't even know

00:15:44.120 who the complainant is. We don't even know if the complainant isn't the bozo that's being interviewed 0.99

00:15:48.840 for the article. Right. I mean, for all we know, the complainant, you know, is, you know, is, uh,

00:15:53.960 you know, is this, the head of this so-called stop hate Alberta, you know, group. And I, and my

00:15:59.000 question is where were they when all the pictures of Trudeau in blackface with cucumbers strapped to the

00:16:05.240 inside of his, you know, jeans and pictures of football games, you know, like his idea, you know,

00:16:10.440 Trudeau's idea of blackface were floating around. Where was stop hate, you know, Alberta then? I

00:16:15.640 mean, why weren't they investigating Justin Trudeau for obviously his hate-filled portrayal of black 0.89

00:16:21.000 people? And when the liberal party and Trudeau couldn't even say that the four or five pictures

00:16:28.520 that we had of Trudeau in blackface were the only pictures of Trudeau in blackface,

00:16:34.440 because apparently it was something that he would do with a fairly large degree of regularity.

00:16:40.920 Yeah, I know, I know. Let's, let's end on something positive here.

00:16:44.520 Yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:16:46.920 It's been remarkable. I was, again, I was on the Saturday prior to coming to, uh, to Panama

00:16:52.680 a couple of Saturdays ago, and we saw all these people line up and I felt kind of out of it here.

00:16:58.120 I feel like I was missing something being on vacation, seeing all these pictures all around the

00:17:03.480 province and people lining up in droves to sign the petition. I talked to Dennis Modry last week

00:17:09.320 here when I was here in Panama. He, he couldn't believe it. What are your thoughts on that?

00:17:14.120 Well, it's been fantastic, right? It's like, you know, and what a, and what a silent protest that,

00:17:20.040 you know, has been, and then what, and this is how the government should take it. This is a huge

00:17:24.680 message of protest to the government of Alberta, when literally tens of thousands of Albertans

00:17:30.600 will line up into a dark January night and silently wait in line with their neighbors,

00:17:37.000 with a look of determination on their face, because they want to sign what they're calling

00:17:41.320 the Alberta independent declaration of independence petition. Right. Right. And, and that's what it is.

00:17:47.400 I mean, people are going, where can I sign the declaration of independence petition?

00:17:51.080 I need to sign it. Right. And they're, you know, and they're, you know, and they're determined to do

00:17:55.800 it. And I mean, it's, if that isn't sending a message to the government of Alberta, you know,

00:18:00.840 they bet, you know, they're not paying attention. Right. And then on top of it, you know, and to be

00:18:05.240 clear, I mean, you know, well, I think the lineups have been phenomenal from a, an optics perspective

00:18:11.160 to demonstrate the degree of support for what Jason Kenney was, you know, referring to as a,

00:18:17.080 a fringe movement that couldn't organize a two car funeral procession, et cetera. Right.

00:18:23.640 You know, visually demonstrated what an idiot Jason Kenney is and how out of touch with Alberta 1.00

00:18:28.760 politics he is. Right. But you know, we were, I felt kind of bad because the reason we had those long 1.00

00:18:35.080 lineups was because somebody I'm not allowed to criticize publicly, or I violate the rules,

00:18:39.880 weren't getting election badges out in time. Right. So we had a shortage of canvassing badges,

00:18:46.680 which meant we'd only have two or three, you know, signer, you know, people allowed to sign

00:18:51.240 or take signatures at these events. And these poor volunteers, like,

00:18:57.960 her little hand was falling off at the end of every evening.

00:19:00.600 Congratulations. Applause for those people who are sitting there for hours after hour to do that.

00:19:04.600 My most heartfelt thanks to all of our volunteers and canvassers who have literally been working

00:19:09.320 around the clock and just writing their hands off, you know, to the point of carpal tunnel,

00:19:14.440 to get as many people signed up as they can. But now, you know, because we're getting our badges

00:19:19.240 out, you know, in a more timely fashion, and we literally have thousands of canvassers that are

00:19:23.960 now registered, you know, because we don't think that it's, you know, appropriate to have our,

00:19:30.200 you know, have our fellow Albertans having to wait in line for two or three hours,

00:19:33.960 you know, like they're in a communist country waiting for the last loaf of bread that Mark

00:19:37.720 Carney's going to let them have, right? You know, we're trying to have, you know, like,

00:19:41.480 at these events where we have more than a thousand people, we want to have, you know,

00:19:44.360 20, 30 canvassers there, so we can just move people through, you know, 20, 30 at a time,

00:19:49.720 so the people that have heard our message, believe in what we're doing, can just sign and go home

00:19:53.960 without wasting a bunch of time. And those that want to stay and, you know, listen to Mitch and I

00:19:59.080 talk some more, listen to other speakers talk about the benefits of independence, they can stay,

00:20:02.920 whatever. So we're getting, you know, as more and more canvassing badges come out, you know,

00:20:07.720 we can move people through much more and more quickly. And then the other thing that we're doing,

00:20:12.360 which I'm really excited about, is that all of these events, we're asking for people to volunteer,

00:20:17.640 you know, if they have main street businesses or businesses that are on a ground floor with good

00:20:22.520 parking somewhere, to volunteer a little bit of space so that we can have volunteer canvassers come in,

00:20:27.800 set up tables and man tables, you know, 40, 50 hours a week on a permanent basis,

00:20:34.200 as permanent locations at these businesses. And that campaign is now getting underway. So

00:20:39.720 everywhere we go, there's more and more people volunteering, you know, their businesses,

00:20:44.760 volunteering space so that we can set up permanent locations. And then people can just come in,

00:20:50.840 you know, go to the website, see all the permanent locations, find the one closest to them,

00:20:54.920 go and sign and go home, right? It doesn't have to be a big rigmarole. You know,

00:20:58.920 the price of admission to sign the petition isn't being forced to listen to Mitch Sylvester and Jeff

00:21:03.480 Rath tell you again, how much better off your life is going to be without federal income tax,

00:21:07.800 you know what I mean? But it's going really well. We're excited about the campaign.

00:21:11.080 Stayfreealberta.com to go to find locations for it and more will be coming up. I'm heading home. I

00:21:18.040 should have my badge. I had to miss my training. So maybe somebody can tell me where I can get the

00:21:22.200 training. It's only supposed to take 15 minutes, but I'm hoping to set up in my community in

00:21:26.760 Southeast Calgary. Um, and I think, uh, Dennis Kalma, he said he would come and sit with me

00:21:32.040 and he's going to be signing people up as well. So we're hoping to do that because I've just been

00:21:37.720 busy on a bunch of other things. Uh, you know, I'm actually, I'm going to sign up as a canvasser

00:21:42.440 and I'll come in from you guys once I get, when I get my badge. But the other thing too is just

00:21:47.880 well, the people know, um, you know, this is a, an integrated, very well organized,

00:21:53.960 integrated campaign we're running out. And not only are we going to have permanent signing locations,

00:21:58.760 but then, you know, once we get everybody badged up and we have our army of 50,000 canvassers,

00:22:03.640 which is what we hope to have, you know, uh, closer to the end of this campaign,

00:22:07.960 then we're going to have an 87 constituency door knocking campaign. Right. And we're going to,

00:22:12.840 you know, all of our, you know, and that's why I want to get my badge. I want to be able to go out

00:22:16.200 and, you know, knock on doors and talk to my fellow Albertans and hop on my quad and go bang on all of

00:22:21.400 my neighbors doors and, you know, and, uh, you know, talk to them and, you know, find out what neighbors

00:22:26.120 I like and what neighbors I don't, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Um, I want to, I want to end on this, um,

00:22:34.440 big event coming up on Monday, January 26. Since I've been here, the place that's happening has

00:22:41.000 changed and they'll be at the big four building instead of the BMO center. And is this simply

00:22:45.480 because we needed more seats? We had so many, we outgrew the problem. We outgrew the BMO center

00:22:51.400 is the problem. And, uh, there's a couple issues. So we had, um, we were hoping to have two whole

00:22:56.600 halls, uh, at the BMO center, but, uh, one of their halls is under renovation. So we only,

00:23:01.720 we were restricted to one hall at the BMO center, which would only accommodate four to 5,000 people

00:23:07.160 if we didn't have any tables and it was standing room only. So apparently the, uh, big four building

00:23:11.960 will, uh, um, uh, accommodate, uh, 7,000 people. So we've moved over to the big four so we can

00:23:18.840 accommodate more people. And who knows, everybody keep paying attention to your social media feeds

00:23:23.320 and whatever. I mean, by the time this is over, who knows, we may have to move to the saddle dome.

00:23:26.840 We'll see what happens, right? And for now we're at the, you know, for now we're at the big four

00:23:31.560 building, right? Yeah. I think you have to RSVP for this as well. Go to stayfreealberta.com to RSVP.

00:23:36.920 But again, it's going to be a signing event. So we're going to have signers and we're going to

00:23:40.520 have 300 canvassers at that event so we can get everybody through really quickly. And, uh, we're

00:23:45.880 going to have people, um, uh, people taking signatures all day at that event. So just go to the website,

00:23:51.720 look at the times that we're going to be open for, uh, for signing. And we're going to have as many

00:23:56.680 canvassers as, uh, you know, as we can get at that event. So people aren't having to wait in,

00:24:01.560 you know, in long lines. I mean, people are willing to do it. I think it's an amazing form

00:24:05.560 of protest. It sends a, you know, it sends a really strong message to the Alberta government

00:24:10.440 about how far out of touch they are with the citizens of Alberta. And this, the idea of continuing,

00:24:16.040 you know, to behave like Neville Chamberlain and appease Mark Carney, um, you know, with, uh,

00:24:21.400 um, you know, 600% carbon tax increases and all the rest of it, all of that garbage needs to be

00:24:26.840 shredded and they need to take, you know, pay attention to the real Albertans. Cause these

00:24:31.480 are the people that vote for the UCP and they're going to ignore all of these people at their peril,

00:24:36.440 you know? And, you know, I've heard that the party whip is, uh, you know, it's telling everybody

00:24:40.440 that they can't take sides and all the rest of it. I think over the next few weeks, we're going to

00:24:44.280 one by one, see the more courageous MPs coming out to sign the petition and, um, we're excited

00:24:50.040 about it. It's going to be a, you know, it's going to be a good thing. Well, I'll be there on Monday.

00:24:54.040 Uh, from what I've heard, they may start signing people, uh, uh, getting signatures as early as 11

00:24:59.320 AM. This is on Monday. That's what I understand. Wow. Yeah. 11 o'clock at the big war building, 0.67

00:25:04.280 we're going to be open for business and people can come in and, you know, and they can come in over

00:25:08.120 their lunch hour. They can come in whenever, come and sign, uh, the petition chat with like-minded folks

00:25:13.560 about how much better off we're going to be in a free and independent Alberta and, uh, you know,

00:25:17.800 and celebrate our province, celebrate the freedom of, you know, that Alberta is going to enjoy. So,

00:25:22.840 you know, obviously I'm, I'm really excited about it. And, uh, um, you know, looking, you know,

00:25:27.640 barring, uh, you know, barring having to be all the way in, up to a courtroom somewhere, um,

00:25:32.280 else I'll be, you know, I should be there. So I'll be there looking forward to it, uh, with, uh,

00:25:37.720 another 6,999 Albertans. I'm excited about it on Monday night, excited about getting back. So I

00:25:44.520 can feel the, you know, I can feel that it's, I can feel it all the way here in Panama, how things

00:25:49.000 are growing in my home and I'm looking forward to getting back. And it's always a pleasure to talk

00:25:53.560 to you. Hope to see you on Monday, Jeff. Thanks so much for doing this. Yeah, you bet, John. And

00:25:57.640 thanks again for spreading the word and all the work that you do. It's, uh, you know, it's fantastic.

00:26:02.040 I love being able to talk to Patriots like you and I'm so grateful for all the great work you're

00:26:05.960 doing. So thank you very much. Thank you, Jeff Rath from Stay Free Alberta. If you liked the video,

00:26:11.560 please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I will see you

00:26:16.120 in the next one.

John Bolton - January 22, 2026

Jeff Rath Stands TALL in Defence of Alberta Independence (FALSE allegations)

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