John Bolton - Mitch Sylvestre on Making History - We Can Win This Thing - Now Back To Work

00:00:00.000 We've gotten by round three.

00:00:01.840 Now we're in the Stanley Cup final.

00:00:06.120 And away we go.

00:00:07.460 Thank you very much.

00:00:08.240 God bless all of you.

00:00:15.020 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.

00:00:17.200 Great to have you along today.

00:00:18.880 Thank you very much for joining me with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee.

00:00:22.680 It is a pleasure having you here today.

00:00:24.840 It's a pleasure having my next guest.

00:00:27.280 I figured I'd give him a little bit of a break.

00:00:29.640 he's been pretty busy incredibly busy on monday and as you can see it is mitch sylvester and you

00:00:35.080 know i was just thinking mitch it was always the thing i had to do when i introduced people on the

00:00:41.040 radio what their title is what do i call you now um are you still ceo stay free oberta what what

00:00:46.620 do i call i'm back with app now we uh we put app to bed so for for this process for four months and

00:00:53.360 And now we're ramping up and away we go for the next five and a half months.

00:00:59.640 Yeah, I remember when I introduced you from the APP many months ago.

00:01:03.780 No, John, no, sorry.

00:01:04.860 No, Stay Free Alberta.

00:01:06.120 So I want to make sure you get that right now.

00:01:08.120 It is a pleasure to have you here.

00:01:09.640 First off, I would like to thank you for allowing me to be on the stage the other day to introduce

00:01:14.360 you.

00:01:14.800 It was my honor.

00:01:15.860 I stood over your shoulders.

00:01:17.960 As a matter of fact, I just tweeted a picture of you addressing the media and all the people there.

00:01:25.360 Nobody else has this picture.

00:01:27.180 I took it, so you might want to take a look at that.

00:01:29.340 It was extraordinary.

00:01:31.500 Mitch, tell me your thoughts about Monday.

00:01:35.780 Well, I actually, you know, I was just sharing with my wife.

00:01:40.180 But of all the four years I've had done in politics, Monday was kind of a, well, it was a very, very good day.

00:01:48.300 Probably my best day ever in politics.

00:01:50.240 I've had some bad ones.

00:01:51.760 So it's nice for that to make up to it.

00:01:54.980 But here's the thing.

00:01:57.220 We gave people hope on Monday.

00:02:00.220 And people were happy.

00:02:01.520 People were, you know, people were emotional.

00:02:04.760 It was a really, really feel-good day for us.

00:02:08.400 You know what?

00:02:09.040 I thought it couldn't have gone any better, actually, as far as I was concerned.

00:02:13.140 Yeah.

00:02:13.300 You know, I was kind of there early with some other people.

00:02:18.360 We wanted to be ready for this thing.

00:02:20.580 It didn't happen the way I thought it would, but it turned out better than I thought it

00:02:23.980 was because it was, well, it's about this whole movement.

00:02:27.280 It's been grassroots, Mitch.

00:02:28.520 And that was a grassroots thing on Monday, right?

00:02:30.600 From the ground up, it was organic the way that thing worked.

00:02:33.120 All the people showed up.

00:02:34.360 The plan was to put the boxes on the ground.

00:02:36.580 they would have been trampled. There were five, 600 people there. It was remarkable how that

00:02:41.700 worked out. Now, I asked you prior to Monday, I think it was maybe a week or so ago, are you

00:02:47.060 relieved that the petition signing is over? You said you would be relieved after we got through

00:02:53.520 Monday. Are you relieved now? Yeah, I've had a bit of a chance to decompress here, and it's been

00:03:00.480 really good. I feel rested. I'm ready to go again. I'm back in the truck this afternoon. I've got

00:03:05.860 meetings uh tonight and tomorrow uh in the south so i'll kind of be up in your way for a couple

00:03:11.960 days but but the whole thing is is that now we've got a big job to do now we have to win the vote

00:03:16.400 and and then first of all before we win the vote we have to make sure we get a vote

00:03:20.940 and uh that's the other thing i mean uh the ucp government um is going to have to decide

00:03:26.560 to call a vote on uh on independence so i hope um and if they don't well then now you know we're

00:03:34.220 going to have to try to make sure that they do. I've noticed that State Free Alberta on X has

00:03:39.900 now got your name on it, which I think is great. I noticed that you have sent a letter to the

00:03:45.000 Premier, which you read out on Monday. I'm not going to read the letter because my eyes, my 61

00:03:49.960 year old eyes can't read it online right now, but I will read the preamble if you don't mind. It's

00:03:53.720 only a couple of lines here. Premier Smith, Albertans have spoken. They showed up, volunteered

00:03:59.460 and participated in good faith to have their voices heard.

00:04:03.220 This is a clear expression of democratic will.

00:04:06.260 We expect the next steps to reflect that.

00:04:08.620 We invite you to move this forward and give Albertans the vote

00:04:12.620 on the clear constitutional questions they've asked for.

00:04:16.560 Stay free, Mitch Sylvester.

00:04:18.700 And what do you hope out of Premier Smith?

00:04:22.060 What would you like to hear and how soon?

00:04:24.780 Well, I would like Kurt to, you know, to say, well, you know,

00:04:27.560 we had 300,000 Albertans on our side, 301,000 Albertans on our side say they want to vote for

00:04:34.280 independence. And Lukasik's petition had 400,000 signatures. So there's 700,000 people that dared

00:04:41.320 put their name on a list in Alberta, and that's not a small thing to ask people anymore. And

00:04:46.180 it's clear that Alberta wants to vote on independence, one way or the other.

00:04:51.980 What did you think of the number? Were you happy with the number? Over 300,000 people signed this?

00:04:56.420 I was very happy with the number. I'm kind of going to explain something to you. At the very

00:05:03.620 beginning of this whole process, Jeff and Dennis Moldry were out screaming a million signatures,

00:05:10.900 and I've been collecting signatures for three years based on Alberta Pension and now this.

00:05:17.620 I absolutely knew there was no chance we were going to get that many signatures based on the

00:05:21.540 fact that people are afraid of government and are afraid to sign and are afraid to get their bank

00:05:25.540 accounts frozen and it was a real deal and it continues to be a real deal our process was a

00:05:30.260 little bit more rigorous being the fact that it was in the middle of winter time and i actually

00:05:34.820 had conversation internal conversation with our people uh saying that you know honestly

00:05:40.420 god is my witness i said 300 000 would be just about the perfect number to submit

00:05:45.460 i said a million a million would scare the bejesus out of everybody and say oh my god

00:05:51.060 um you know would bring all the knives out all over the place um now we have a strong number

00:05:57.220 um everybody uh understands that we have work to do which is also important because we early on in

00:06:03.620 the petition everybody said oh you got a million signatures you don't need mine uh so you know

00:06:07.860 what that was a detriment to to actually what we were doing as well so i i think the number is is

00:06:13.540 big i think the achievement is colossal especially in the middle of winter um and the way we had to

00:06:19.940 do it because we had very little access to inside venues everything was done on the street and on

00:06:24.260 the side of the highway so as a consequence to that kudos to our people they're just magnificent

00:06:29.940 and so you know what they got it done and now we're able to take the next step and what do

00:06:35.780 we want out of the premier i think a standalone question a constitutional question uh on alberta

00:06:42.980 independence i think that's that's the bar and and what i want to understand really from her

00:06:49.940 and them, and I'm not just going to blame her, because I mean, from the Smith government,

00:06:54.420 from the UCP government, is what is the New World Order? Like, Carnegie's been spouting New World

00:07:04.420 Order, the Liberal Party have said, hey, New World Order. As far as I'm personally concerned,

00:07:10.100 that's a path to communism. And until somebody can tell me any different, that's the way I see this.

00:07:15.460 And what I see right now is, I mean, you know, the UCP is standing on a soapbox and they don't want to become an independence party, but the choice is new world order.

00:07:25.380 So the choice is between the devil and the deep blue sea as far as they're concerned.

00:07:29.180 And I just don't understand that, you know, and at some point the lines are going to become unblurred here.

00:07:36.860 And that's going to be the point, you know, of our next five and a half months of campaigning is to show Albertans that these are the choices.

00:07:44.740 I mean, you may not like the situation you're in, but that is a situation we're in.

00:07:49.280 So as a consequence to that, we're going to have to choose between a new world order and a free and independent Alberta.

00:07:56.540 I was just wondering if you the other day, it was it was extraordinary because I went out there to cover this thing and I kind of got caught up in the excitement of what happened.

00:08:07.740 I met so many people. They were excited. You went out there and a lot of people just wanted to meet you.

00:08:12.220 How do you feel about that?

00:08:13.220 I mean, you were hugging people.

00:08:14.480 I got video of you and Jeff Rath walking through the crowd there the other day.

00:08:18.980 I went up to Jeff after.

00:08:20.280 I don't know whether you heard.

00:08:20.920 I went up to Jeff, shook his hand and said, it looked like you got a bit of a tear in

00:08:24.500 your eye, Jeff.

00:08:25.400 And he had a big grin of his with that cowboy hat.

00:08:28.220 Big guy said he blocks out the sun.

00:08:29.940 He's like an eclipse, right?

00:08:30.980 Big guy.

00:08:31.480 And he looked at me and he said, John, that was just the wind.

00:08:34.560 It was just the wind.

00:08:35.660 It looked like you had a bit of a tear in your eye the other day as well.

00:08:39.620 It's hard not to get emotional because, you know, we ended up hugging a lot of people, and a lot of them are friends and workers and people that have been at this for, you know, from the beginning, just like me.

00:08:51.040 And they were, you know, it was an accomplishment that few of us anticipated a year ago that we would be able to do.

00:09:02.040 And, you know, I mean, back to the UCP government, you've got to give them credit for lowering the threshold and allowing this to happen as well.

00:09:09.620 So, I mean, there's, you know, there's two sides to that conversation, but, but the whole thing is, is that now here we are and we're able to take it to next steps.

00:09:17.700 And I think the timing is perfect.

00:09:19.880 And I think that, you know what, I think that we can win this.

00:09:23.360 Yeah.

00:09:23.520 Your, your last answer, you were talking about the way Canada is going and I'm, you know, people, the uncertainty is in the fear of the uncertain is, is certainly in on this with people.

00:09:35.120 They haven't made their mind up about Alberta independence, but I'm pretty certain that the way Canada is going right now.

00:09:41.960 And I want to talk to you in just a moment about moving forward and what is next, because I really want to try to make this as positive as possible.

00:09:50.620 But I do have a serious question for you here, Mitch. 0.99

00:09:53.420 Are you a Russian plant? Because this is what the media is trying to tell us over the last 24 hours.

00:10:01.180 About a month ago, I was a Freemason and I didn't even know what that was.

00:10:05.120 So, I had to look it up.

00:10:08.660 So, I'm not sure I'm a Freemason.

00:10:11.340 So, as far as Russians are concerned, the only Russian I know is a lady that wrote a report on government corruption during voting and how the voting machines didn't work. 0.98

00:10:28.100 So, if they're all like her, then, you know, that wouldn't be a bad thing. 1.00

00:10:32.080 But as a consequence to that, what I'm saying, how can we be involved with it?

00:10:37.160 And you know what the bad news is, John?

00:10:38.860 What's that?

00:10:39.740 The bad news for them is this is really all Alberta grassroots people that do this.

00:10:46.280 This is really all grassroots Alberta people that fund this.

00:10:50.640 $50, $75, $100 at a time.

00:10:54.320 We raised well over $650, $600 plus thousand dollars here for the Stay Free campaign.

00:11:02.080 um all 150 dollars at a time uh for many many albertans all albertans uh no americans and no

00:11:10.760 russians well you know what i have spoken to some russians i have to admit it i i've spoken to them

00:11:18.180 over the last four or five months and they're people who came here from communist russia and

00:11:23.480 they're terribly concerned about where canada is going now because they've seen this before 0.78

00:11:28.000 And that's what they're telling me. So that's about the only Russian connection I have here.

00:11:33.820 But that's what I've been hearing from people and from people who came from the former communist

00:11:37.660 bloc. They're voting for Alberta independence because they're not happy about the future of

00:11:41.900 Canada. This is the playbook. This is how it works, folks. And that's what they tell me. And I believe

00:11:46.940 what they're saying to me. Let's move on from that. That's it's just you know what it is. I was

00:11:52.720 thinking when you're you're joking about this is pathetic this is absolutely pathetic that they've 0.99

00:11:58.440 gone to this russian interference thing or whatever it is it's it's just so pathetic well you know what 0.97

00:12:04.120 the problem from their perspective is they have no real ammunition for us to stay uh i mean i've

00:12:10.860 asked many high-ranking government officials give me one good reason just so i understand why what

00:12:17.980 you guys are thinking. And there is none. There is none. There is no good reason for them to stay

00:12:24.000 other than elbows up. And if we totally understand the situation like I understand it, I don't

00:12:32.480 believe that there's any path out. Canada has left us. We're still the same. We still want the

00:12:38.900 same values as what we grew up with, what I grew up with, and what we've had. We haven't changed

00:12:42.660 at all we're we're consistently us um you know we don't want uh government rules over management we

00:12:48.580 don't want uh we don't want carney to run uh you know canada like its own like it's his own personal

00:12:54.100 business which he's been doing we don't want all these censorship laws we don't want bill c9 we

00:12:59.220 don't want to lose freedom of religion i mean people are going to be made very aware of all

00:13:02.740 this stuff in the next five months that's going to be our job to explain to people look the choices

00:13:07.540 here are clear the choices here are the way we used to live free and free free democratic society

00:13:15.580 or communism new world order and uh you know what if we can get that message out there i think we'll

00:13:22.500 win this easily i was uh i had an opportunity to meet your wife the other day i how she sticks

00:13:29.300 with you you're never there i'm sure she hardly ever sees you does she recognize you anymore i

00:13:33.300 was wondering if I was talking to her the other day, but I leaned into the, uh, to the truck,

00:13:37.480 a nice truck there. And I said, you know, I think everybody has a bit of a gift. They have a talent.

00:13:43.800 And I said, I think your husband has a real talent for motivating people, for motivating

00:13:49.100 volunteers. They trust him. They believe in him. And I think that is your husband's true gift here,

00:13:55.260 because that's what you've done through this whole thing. Um, and I think people trust you,

00:14:00.060 Mitch, and you must just get a lot of solace and comfort from knowing that.

00:14:04.600 Well, I do. Actually, it's a compliment, isn't it?

00:14:08.100 That's one of the biggest compliments you can give anybody.

00:14:11.660 Integrity is the same inside as outside.

00:14:14.500 And you know what? I hope that's what we are.

00:14:16.760 And I strive to be that every single day.

00:14:19.700 The last thing I want to do is deceive people because that's exactly what we

00:14:22.760 have going on on the other side.

00:14:24.260 Yeah, yeah. I know you want to talk about what is next.

00:14:27.800 People want to know what is next.

00:14:29.540 What do you have planned for the people that have been out there for four months?

00:14:33.620 It's very strange.

00:14:34.860 They finally got a break and they want to go right back to it again.

00:14:37.920 That's where they're going to do next.

00:14:40.020 So what are these people going to do?

00:14:42.320 They're out there with boundless energy.

00:14:44.420 I think they're more determined than ever.

00:14:46.440 What are the next steps?

00:14:47.440 What would you want people to do right now?

00:14:49.500 Well, actually, the first thing I have to do is honestly hire an army of people or recruit an army of people to keep them busy.

00:14:56.780 that's that's the number one thing as a matter of fact that's one of the reasons i'm i'm going

00:15:02.380 south tomorrow we're going to have a planning session on how many people it's going to take

00:15:06.600 to keep 20 000 or more volunteers busy every day uh so and that's what we want to do so so yes we're

00:15:12.560 going to use we're going to use our army because we have a big army we have the biggest army in

00:15:16.720 freedom movement for sure there's nobody close to us um we have the opportunity to absolutely

00:15:21.760 make a big difference here uh you know we're going to need everybody's help i'm not going

00:15:26.220 pretend that we do this by ourselves but we're going to contribute in a major way so what do

00:15:31.820 we need to do we have to make sure that we get a referendum vote first of all that's the first

00:15:36.140 thing we need to do so in order to do that we have to buy memberships to the ucp party and i've

00:15:40.780 been stressing this for four years this is not new coming out of my mouth i'm a ucp chair so

00:15:46.300 i honestly know how well that works so what we want to do is get people involved in politics

00:15:53.020 and in their politics and have them write letters or communicate to their MLA's and say,

00:15:57.520 a vote for independence is very important to me.

00:16:00.580 And that's what we want to do.

00:16:02.640 And we believe that we've been put on this path.

00:16:05.180 And I think it would be to everybody's benefit to see where the chips fall here.

00:16:11.320 What exactly will being a UCP member do?

00:16:18.140 What do you hope that does?

00:16:19.940 And you're trying to put pressure on the United Conservative Party with this in some way.

00:16:25.480 Okay, well, it gives you a voice.

00:16:27.120 And the other thing is, is that our strength, our strength is in numbers.

00:16:31.160 And if you're a UCP member, it'll allow you to show up to the AGM.

00:16:34.660 It'll allow you to show up to board meetings.

00:16:37.040 It'll allow you to show up, period.

00:16:39.680 Show up is how this is going to get won.

00:16:41.900 Because we have, our only strength is numbers.

00:16:46.380 They have the media.

00:16:47.740 They have unlimited funding.

00:16:49.020 they have unlimited staff and yet we still are capable of winning this and the reason we're

00:16:56.120 capable of winning this is because we can show up in great big numbers that they don't have

00:17:00.300 and the great big numbers will rule so that's why we do it because you have to buy a membership and

00:17:06.620 show up that's basically the way path forward it's the only way we win okay so you're um you

00:17:13.020 represent the alberta prosperity project again i can bring the shirt back out i've got one of those

00:17:17.540 Haven't worn that many months. You talked about the money that was raised for Stay Free Alberta,

00:17:23.060 $600,000 or more grassroots. I contributed many times, I have to say. I think we're in a really

00:17:28.800 important time right now for raising money, are we not? In between the end of the petition campaign

00:17:35.060 and the beginning of a possible campaign for a referendum, once that is called, can the APP

00:17:41.880 collect boundless

00:17:44.200 amounts of money right now if people

00:17:45.960 were wanting to contribute to independence

00:17:47.880 and is that what we want people to do right

00:17:50.020 now? Oh absolutely

00:17:51.960 so our

00:17:53.080 list is so big

00:17:55.660 that if everybody would give

00:17:58.060 us $40

00:17:59.620 we'd absolutely

00:18:02.160 roll over this so

00:18:03.940 what I'm saying to you is we

00:18:06.000 need funding now now we're

00:18:08.020 in the final stages this is it

00:18:09.800 we're all in here you can donate any amount of money at all anonymously to the alberta prosperity

00:18:15.560 society right now uh and we're in a period where we don't have to disclose uh who these donors are

00:18:21.400 so if you want to anonym anonymously donate you can donate to the alberta prosperity society

00:18:27.160 and go to the website at app albert prosperityproject.com i believe yeah and and you can

00:18:34.280 and you can donate endless amounts of money there or whatever you like and any amount is going to

00:18:40.680 help because i referred to that before we have such a big number that if everybody gives us a

00:18:44.840 certain amount of money that's going to make a huge difference and it has to be now uh you know

00:18:49.640 i mean i'm this is this is this is a conversation that you brought up and i'm happy you did

00:18:53.880 thank you for that but people have to understand that we're all in here this is our one shot we

00:18:59.160 We have a lot of plans.

00:19:01.720 We believe we can win.

00:19:03.300 As a matter of fact, I think I know we can win.

00:19:05.540 We have plans to meet with large groups of people

00:19:08.240 that are going to get us over the finish line.

00:19:11.200 I believe we're well over 40% support right now.

00:19:14.780 If we can swing 15% of the other side,

00:19:17.120 it's going to be a free and independent Alberta

00:19:20.120 with a new government and new rules

00:19:22.140 that won't allow people to cheat

00:19:25.120 the way they've been cheating up to now

00:19:26.360 so that we can absolutely start over

00:19:28.500 and build back better, according to their, you know, use their phrases. Can people contribute

00:19:34.160 now from other provinces and elsewhere? I had so many people contact me. They watch this channel.

00:19:41.320 They're rooting for us, maybe in Ontario or Nova Scotia. They're in the United States of America.

00:19:46.660 They want us to win this as well. Can they contribute as well? Yes. Yes. Right now,

00:19:51.180 they can. Do it now, if you want to do that. Okay. Yeah, now they can. Okay. That's good to

00:19:55.760 know, because I've had so many people say, I can't contribute going to stay free. I said,

00:19:59.100 you can't, it's just, it's not allowed, but you could do that right now. So there's going to be

00:20:02.960 some fundraisers coming up to raise some money. I'm thinking soon in order to, to kind of fill

00:20:08.140 up the coffers as we move into the next period. And I've said, I've said, Mitch, the federal

00:20:11.980 government is going to be using Alberta's tax dollars against us getting our yes vote in the

00:20:17.920 referendum. That's stunning to me. Well, it's not new for them. They've been using Alberta tax

00:20:23.160 dollars to shut the oil patch down for yes 20 years yeah yeah so that's that's the thing that

00:20:28.320 really concerns me about this is they're going to have boundless amounts of money and they're

00:20:31.640 going to use our money against us so if you can contribute do that right now um anything else

00:20:37.480 you'd like to add after a great week uh i think you've taken a couple of days just to relax you

00:20:41.480 right back at it again tomorrow hope if you're in the area get in touch maybe we can have coffee

00:20:45.720 that would be terrific but um yeah so anything else you'd like to to pass along to people right

00:20:50.240 Well, I would just like everybody to understand what's at stake for everybody here.

00:20:55.700 I'd just like to clearly define what's really happening.

00:21:00.240 We give Ottawa $47 billion net a year.

00:21:04.200 That's what they have to lose.

00:21:05.720 The Conservative Party of Canada may never win another election if they lose Alberta.

00:21:11.300 They're not on our side.

00:21:13.060 The UCP, also a government that is, you know,

00:21:17.780 most of these people have spent a lifetime trying to get a place in government

00:21:21.720 and they're now there.

00:21:23.740 It's going to make them very uncomfortable

00:21:25.360 because they don't understand what's moving forward.

00:21:28.160 So the change is all over the board for everybody.

00:21:34.540 But we are in a wonderful situation to build something brand new

00:21:39.240 and we have to start right from the bottom

00:21:40.600 because this corrupt system that we're in clearly doesn't work.

00:21:43.980 So I want everybody to understand everybody has a lot at stake,

00:21:48.220 but no one, none of these people have more at stake

00:21:51.300 than every individual Albertans, their kids and their grandkids.

00:21:55.060 So this is an all-in fight in my mind.

00:21:59.080 I think it's a spiritual war against good and evil,

00:22:01.440 and I really believe that it's not hard to prove that the other side is evil,

00:22:04.760 and if we want to get into that topic, we certainly can.

00:22:07.060 Let's just go back to COVID and we don't have to take another step.

00:22:10.060 to explain any of that so what i'm saying to to people is we have an opportunity this is

00:22:17.100 possibly probably going to be the last one so i believe we're all in let's treat it like we're

00:22:22.560 all in terrific you know it's funny politics make strange bedfellows um you've got ahead

00:22:27.920 nenshi and jason kenney spewing the same misinformation online about this movement

00:22:32.680 both of them are the same now and you might have pure poly of fighting and mark carney all of them

00:22:38.060 together fighting against us. Unbelievable. When you think about it, Mitch, it really is.

00:22:43.880 Yeah. Listen, uh, it's a pleasure again. Thank you so much for Monday. Uh, we all enjoyed it

00:22:48.580 very much. Um, I will forever watch that as an historic day because that is history being made

00:22:54.900 on Monday. And you were standing up there talking to those people. It was remarkable.

00:22:59.180 And it was a party out there. And you know, I wanted to say this, Mitch, I know I want to say

00:23:03.060 this, and maybe you can disagree with me or not. Elections Alberta has been rather challenging for

00:23:10.160 you. I don't know. We don't have to really get into that. Heck, I got a letter about a bouncy

00:23:14.440 castle day, for goodness sakes, and you got lots of those letters. They left us alone on Monday,

00:23:19.240 for the most part. We had a party out there. Music was blaring. I don't know that they said much

00:23:23.160 about what was going on. The police eventually came along. Edmonton police blocked off the

00:23:27.320 streets so we can have a day out there. Edmonton was a pretty good host city. I think overall,

00:23:33.060 we were kind of left alone and I was kind of pleased about that if you want to kind of spin

00:23:37.680 that into something positive from Elections Alberta but they they let us kind of have a day

00:23:42.280 didn't they I agree uh totally agree and good on them yeah and uh and it made the day what it was

00:23:49.140 the sun was shining the people were happy uh we didn't have any protesters which I knew we would

00:23:53.720 have because based on the number of people that would have been coming uh I I think that that was

00:23:59.240 It was a perfect day.

00:24:00.900 I don't think we could have done it any better.

00:24:02.620 And I usually shake my fist at the wind, but boy, those blue flags look good flying on Monday, didn't they?

00:24:08.140 There were a lot of them.

00:24:09.960 When I came down and I was approaching it, I was coming from, I believe, I actually come from the south there.

00:24:17.920 And I could see the people there, and I went, oh, my God.

00:24:21.320 It was beautiful.

00:24:23.500 Mitch, it's a pleasure.

00:24:24.900 It has been an honor to be able to talk to you.

00:24:26.540 We spoke for the very first time June 14th last year.

00:24:31.180 And again, when I introduced you the other day, I said, you know, most of us didn't really know your name 11 months ago. 1.00

00:24:36.660 And that was true. But they know your name now. You're writing yourself into history.

00:24:41.680 It's a pleasure to talk to you again. And thanks for keeping a positive attitude.

00:24:45.900 You know, you said, I think before we went on here, we have our ups and downs, but the ups kind of are better than the downs, aren't they?

00:24:51.560 They sure are.

00:24:52.680 And they're both, there's no middle ground in this business.

00:24:57.220 You're either all the way up or all the way down.

00:24:59.740 Mitch, thank you very much.

00:25:00.980 It is a pleasure.

00:25:02.100 All right.

00:25:02.440 Thanks, John.

00:25:03.180 Mitch Sylvester, Alberta Prosperity Project.

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John Bolton - May 08, 2026

Mitch Sylvestre on Making History - We Can Win This Thing - Now Back To Work

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