John Bolton - September 03, 2026


Meet the Authors of Independence & Freedom with Wade Collinge


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9 minutes

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187.05

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1,737

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99


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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John. Great to have you along today. I'm recording this on Wednesday, September
00:00:08.520 the 2nd, and I want to tell you and we want to talk a little about an event coming up
00:00:13.340 on Friday, September the 4th from 4 to 7 p.m. in Sylvan Lake that you may want to take
00:00:18.300 part in. A chance to meet a number of authors, and matter of fact, quite a few authors in
00:00:24.140 Sylvan Lake at my good friend Wade Collinge's place. And Wade joins us on the channel today,
00:00:29.780 And, Wade, thank you so much for taking a couple of minutes to talk to me this morning.
00:00:33.280 I appreciate it.
00:00:35.280 Great to be here, John.
00:00:36.680 Good to see you.
00:00:37.660 You know, I think this is the first time I really have interviewed you on the channel very often.
00:00:42.340 I'm out somewhere else.
00:00:43.460 I think the first time I talked to you was way back in January at the Big Four here in Calgary.
00:00:48.480 But it is nice having you here today.
00:00:50.300 And I just feel extremely satisfied that you don't always wear a hat.
00:00:57.580 And you do have some hair.
00:00:58.760 So I'm pretty good, pretty good seeing that this morning.
00:01:02.560 And a forehead.
00:01:04.020 And a forehead.
00:01:05.800 And it's not a wig, is what you said to me prior to us starting recording.
00:01:09.740 You actually do have some hair.
00:01:11.140 So it's really nice to see you today.
00:01:12.720 And I want to applaud you for what you're doing this coming Friday.
00:01:16.760 You've got an event coming up and you've invited, I think you've got nine authors coming to your place in Sylvan Lake on the big peace sign.
00:01:24.880 for those people who don't know where that is 50 52 51st street in sylvan lake why did you do this
00:01:31.740 and who have you got coming wait well uh as you can see on the poster uh i did well i did this
00:01:38.380 because uh i i wanted an opportunity to maybe get the attention of some people who are undecided
00:01:46.720 uh on the fence and also this is alberta history like it or not this is history what is happening
00:01:56.140 in alberta right now and these people that have written these books the the amount of
00:02:03.220 research that they've had to do to put their name out there in print for people to read and uh you
00:02:11.900 know, and, and people will read this stuff and still call people liars, you know, in this
00:02:18.620 independence movement. Uh, no, I think this is terrific. I've got a few of the books, uh, back
00:02:23.380 here on the wall. It's kind of blurry, but I do have some of the books and some from some of the
00:02:26.560 authors you're having out there. And I think, let me just run through a few of them. My good friend,
00:02:30.480 Jason Levine, John Hilton, O'Brien, a parent's choice in education. That's interesting. Cecile
00:02:36.120 Boileau, Ben, no relation, Trudeau, Corey Morgan, who we all know so well, Dr. Michael Wagner,
00:02:41.320 Sheila Gunn-Reed, Tamara Leach, John Carpe from the Justice Center for Constitutional
00:02:46.540 Freedoms are all going to be there on Friday. Now, but what I find interesting about this,
00:02:50.920 you have brought up the independence movement a number of times here, but some of the authors
00:02:55.780 you've got, Wade, they aren't really about, their books aren't about independence. So you've got a
00:03:00.860 little bit of a variety here for people who aren't necessarily interested in the independence
00:03:06.200 movement that's right i i this is about the authors and i'm going to try and keep it about
00:03:12.540 the authors um mind you some of these books are relevant to independence and um like i hope that
00:03:21.520 people can take away something from this like tamara leach uh her book really has nothing to do
00:03:27.380 with the independence movement right now but i mean uh her uh the freedom convoy was probably
00:03:35.260 the start of people waking up especially in the west and and her book hold the line
00:03:43.220 very good book um it's an easy read um there's uh john carpe's book um corrupted by fear that's
00:03:52.720 that's an easy read and a good read uh i love the way jason levine did his book the way he's got all
00:03:59.860 of those things in like a Reader's Digest format and in a page or maybe a page in a bit and if for
00:04:07.820 the people that that read that and if and if they want to take the time effort and energy to jump
00:04:13.800 down the rabbit holes to find out the nitty-gritty details he's got the places you can go to do that
00:04:20.500 yeah hang on hang on one second hang on I'll be right back hang on
00:04:25.340 uh or is it here
00:04:28.560 just taking a little bit of a trip let me plug back in but yeah here's uh here's jason's book
00:04:36.800 right here yes uh and like you said and it's an easy read you go through each chapter and he's
00:04:41.640 got references and reference information as well for you so that's a great book if you want to pick
00:04:45.640 that up and i've got uh sheila's book cory's book others back there as well so you can grab those
00:04:51.280 Now, you're having this get-together from 4 to 7 again in Sylvan Lake on Friday, September the 4th.
00:04:57.100 Are you having a lot of speeches, or is this more just a meet-and-greet so people can talk to the authors about what they've written?
00:05:05.240 Well, Max is going to be here, and he's going to be recording it, I guess.
00:05:09.340 Yes, yes.
00:05:09.960 And there's going to be microphones and speakers, and I would like each person to maybe get up and just explain a little bit about their book, why they wrote it.
00:05:20.180 uh, and, and things like that. Cause there's a lot, there's, uh,
00:05:24.500 there's only about three hours to fit everybody in there. So, and, um, uh,
00:05:30.820 yeah, so yeah, that's just it. Like people come,
00:05:34.660 they explain their book a little bit and then they can mill around no pressure.
00:05:39.860 I want it to be relaxing. I think there's going to be a lot of people here.
00:05:44.260 I hope so. And now the thing that I found interesting,
00:05:47.180 I was talking to you the other day, just as we were setting up this interview,
00:05:50.180 uh you said to me we've got you've got nine people there there's a few that couldn't show
00:05:55.300 which is understandable it can't always fit it into the schedule but a lot of the people you've
00:06:00.060 got here are people that i that i know that i've met um and i've heard most of these books of these
00:06:06.560 books and most of them just said yes they're going to show up that's pretty exciting for you
00:06:10.840 yeah it was it was incredible i mean i'm a nobody and i these people are uh you know on the on the
00:06:18.440 scale of uh I don't know what you call it but I'm here and they're there and uh but they all said
00:06:25.240 yes because I've met these people talked to them we've laughed and joked around a little bit and
00:06:29.740 I've been to their events and things and I've done some some uh donations to their to their causes and
00:06:37.120 and things like that and uh I just I just really appreciate the effort and energy that people put
00:06:44.800 in to things like you take, for example, Sheila Gunn-Reed and Cory Morgan, man, they get up at,
00:06:50.780 I don't know what time in the morning, they do all their fact-checking, five, they do all their
00:06:55.540 fact-checking, and then they go into their regular day. And I mean, what they're doing is amazing.
00:07:05.740 It really is. Now, I don't want you to underestimate the influence that you have,
00:07:10.220 Wade. I know what you're doing out there. There's a lot of people working within the independence
00:07:16.020 movement that are working behind the scenes and doing really good work. Wade, you're a bit of a
00:07:21.940 legend around this province as far as I'm concerned. I feel blessed to know you, but I know the work
00:07:27.900 you're doing, the hours you put in, the time you spend in your truck taking signs all around this
00:07:33.400 province. So don't underestimate the influence that you've got. People respect you. That's why
00:07:37.840 they're showing up. I want you to know that, my friend. They respect you. That's why they're
00:07:41.760 showing up, okay? But I want to tell people that this is going to be a great event. Friday,
00:07:46.220 September 4th, 4 to 7 p.m., 5052 51st Street, Sylvan Lake, beside the best Western hotel
00:07:53.060 on Lakeshore Drive. Can't miss it. It's the peace sign up there. How many signs you got? How many
00:07:57.840 independent signs you got out there in Iowa? Was it 18 last time? 20. I'm sorry? 20. I'm 20 now.
00:08:05.320 Silver Lake, how many people live there?
00:08:07.220 I'm just wondering.
00:08:08.520 About 17,000, I think now.
00:08:10.580 Okay.
00:08:10.940 So you drive around a bit, you're going to see these 20 signs somewhere,
00:08:13.860 and you're going to see Wade's property, and you're going to see those authors out there.
00:08:18.860 We want to thank you.
00:08:19.520 I've also got those big banners all stapled or screwed to the side of my house.
00:08:24.460 So look for them as well, along with the 20 signs and all of the authors out there
00:08:28.440 who will be there to talk to you on Friday, September the 4th.
00:08:31.800 Wade, thanks for doing this.
00:08:33.180 I appreciate it.
00:08:33.780 Thanks for talking to me today.
00:08:35.420 We'll talk again soon, likely at around 2.30 in the morning, sometime in the next few days,
00:08:40.520 because that's generally when we're chatting.
00:08:42.800 Okay, make it 3.30.
00:08:43.860 Yeah, 3.30.
00:08:44.760 And you know, it's the funny thing.
00:08:47.680 The people are a little bit older out there.
00:08:50.680 Wade will send me a text message.
00:08:52.080 It says, Barbara, you up?
00:08:54.260 Now, a lot of people in our age group will remember that old commercial.
00:08:57.340 I believe it was a NyQuil commercial.
00:08:59.240 And I always get that.
00:09:00.340 That's the message I get from Wade.
00:09:01.760 Barbara, you up.
00:09:03.180 So, Wade, my friend, thanks so much.
00:09:05.260 Good luck this Friday, and I appreciate you doing this.
00:09:08.680 Thanks.
00:09:10.560 Peace.
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