Next Stop Alberta Independence - Overwhelming Turnout In Calgary!
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Join me as I recap the amazing event that took place last night at the Queensland Community Centre in southeast Calgary. We had thousands of people lined up outside the building to attend and sign the petition to have a referendum on independence
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hi it's john and welcome to the channel 3 15 a.m sunday january the 11th i hope you're having a
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great start to your sunday morning i hope you're having a wonderful weekend as well with the big
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blue mug of coffee of course and at this point of the morning i am running on adrenaline i don't
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think i got to sleep until closer to 11 o'clock last night had a very long day yesterday and i've
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been up for more than an hour i think downloading some video from the event that happened last night
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at the queensland community center here in southeast calgary i was an mc moderator last night and
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it's unbelievable i've never seen anything like it i got an i got a text message from
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heather field one of the organizers of the event last night uh early yesterday earlier on the 10th
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and she said john i think we're going to get slammed with people i said good but i had no idea how many
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people were going to show up i'd like to thank ron friedman for sending me these pictures this is
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for the most part outside the building picture of me with ron there as well and we had people lined up
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for what seemed like blocks outside the building to get into this event and to sign the petition
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which i was able to do last night here's a picture of me doing that so i'm so excited i've got my name
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down i'm all in for a referendum on independence we had some wonderful speakers there last night it was
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it was a little different than most events the speeches were wonderful cory morgan was there from
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the western standard dennis kalma who was the co-author of the value of freedom was there
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eva chipiak lawyer i did a speech on what happens after we vote for independence got a standing ovation
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it was terrific and we had max from freedom calendar there live streaming this we had thousands of people
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watching on the live stream i'll put a link to it below so you can watch the whole thing you really
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should see it and then we opened up the microphones to questions and we had lots of questions and some
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challenging questions and our panel did a great job answering them but it was just the number of
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people we we heard probably an hour and a half into the the meeting and the rally from somebody that
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we had 1200 people lined up outside the building
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and when i walked out there earlier here's some video that i shot just walking out prior to the
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meeting started the lineup was growing as fast as i was walking it was just that amazing last night
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these people are all in we're all in i ended up talking to to our speakers there last night
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asking them their thoughts on what was happening and how we're moving forward with the independence
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movement we'll start off with with cory morgan so here with cory morgan cory um great panel tonight
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dennis kalma eva chipiak you uh lots of questions this evening it was stunning to hear somebody say
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that we had people lined up all the way down the street your thoughts on this you've been you've been
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involved in this movement for so long you tried it's in your book you failed how are you feeling after
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this tonight i mean i expected us to be filled to capacity i still hadn't anticipated that i mean
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some people guessing over a thousand people possibly waiting outside just trying to and the funny thing
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is so the event wasn't available but they were like well i'm going to still stand out here for an
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hour so i can go in and sign they're that eager this energy as you said i've been at this longer
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they'd like to admit yeah we've never seen anything like it this is unique uh the prairie fire's
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and uh it's going to be a year of history i heard your video earlier today you're still in the 30 to
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35 range right now you i how do you feel things are going right now i mean i remember brexit people
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didn't think that would work i remember the referendum in quebec it was it had to grow what
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are you thinking here well exactly i mean the momentum on both of those cases which i do mention
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started smaller and worked up to a win or a near win the momentum works in favor of the exiting groups
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and i think part of the reason for that is because of the belligerent response you tend to get from
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academia from the establishment they do have to draw for us the other half has to be us ourselves
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so i'm not one in three albertans or more are already ready to go that's an incredible base i
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mean people are already dismissing it well it's only 30 percent wow that says a lot about this nation
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when one in three people say that they've had it with the federation and you dismiss them
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it's really problematic but that's a huge base to build on and it's going to build
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so eva chipiak here lawyer one of our um panelists tonight answering questions first off i have to
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say you need to be out at more of these things because you got a standing ovation for your speech
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tonight basically you were referring or answering the question what happens after we vote yes in a
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referendum so congratulations what do you think resonated with people that they stood up and
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gave you a standing ovation it was wonderful yeah well and it was greatly appreciated so i appreciate
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that but i think it's that i was helping people understand that this is a democratic process and
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in fact a necessary part of our democracy to get engaged and involved when it really offends me to
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my core when i hear people say that this is engaging in treason and somebody just mentioned
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like look around these aren't criminals we our government keeps pushing people away we keep
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getting disparaged and i encourage people to get more and more involved more educated more involved
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and recognize that they have the power and i think i hope that's what resonated with people today
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what i see a lot is they want somebody else to fix the problem somebody else to address the issues
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and i think that's been a little bit of the hip-hop for kenny queens is that we've kind of been
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um have a betting about these things yeah not recognizing hey i have a voice hey i have a
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do i want to say something like this so that was the purpose of my speech too and was so that the day
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after i saw many changes legally so there's no need to do this here with dennis kalma uh one of the
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the panelists tonight and the co-author of the value of freedom and just your thoughts what did
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you think about tonight how'd you feel it went it's completely blown away i mean i expected maybe 250
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300 people and uh when i hear those numbers like 1200 down down the street trying to sign up i mean this
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is this shows this movement's real it's going somewhere it's going to happen now we had a lot
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of questions and a lot of good questions and and you know i was surprised by some of them because i've
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interviewed you um cory morgan was on the panel tonight i've interviewed him and boy people came
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up with some real zingers tonight and there's a lot to think about if we do vote yes in a referendum
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yeah and and people think it's all sorted out we've got some ideas and some directions some of which are
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in the valley of freedom some in other documents but the reality is and ever said it perfectly we need
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the people of this province soon to be country to get engaged help us form the constitution help create
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the laws make things the way we want them and if you don't do that well that's it that's going to
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be a problem cory morgan eva chipiak dennis kalma volunteering their time last night we heard a lot
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about that that if we want to get across the finish line with this and get our independence here in
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alberta volunteering is huge so if you can spend a bit of your time volunteering go to stayfreealberta.com
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and volunteer some of your time get caught up in this excitement now there are a lot of naysayers
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out there about this movement one thing that i noticed the other day was people were posting
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pictures or reposting pictures of some of the events saying these are all gray-haired people
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and that's not the case and it certainly wasn't the case at the event we had last night it was a
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saturday night and i can tell you this if i was 19 or 20 years old i would certainly not be going to
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a political meeting on my saturday nights but we had people there we had a young man dressed great
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with a hat on his name was michael harris he asked a question about bringing young people into this
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movement i followed it up with another question and here's what he had to say can i just ask you
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people are concerned about this what what percentage of students you think might be voting in favor of
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the independence movement you know well currently right now we run a couple of independence clubs
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across mru and the university of calgary and right now currently we have 1223 members as of today
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and currently right now if i was to guess out of all those people i'd say about 100 of them
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fantastic thank you young people are part of this movement and if you are young and you have
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questions ask them get the answers and i think if you start really listening you'll want to be part of
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this movement ask yourself this question would i want to keep more of the money i earn it's a pretty
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easy question to answer and here's another thing you're being told you can't do this in canada
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ask yourself this question do i ever want to own a home now for those of you who aren't quite sure
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about this this qr code you're seeing on the screen right now grab your phone and scan this all right
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because on here are some alberta independence facts this is the numbers and the information that you'll
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need to have at your fingertips you can answer some of your questions and when you have people asking
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questions of you this should be able to answer a lot of them for those of you who weren't able
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to sign the petition at the queensland community center last night they will be out on january the
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10th from 2 30 until 5 o'clock and the 14th from 7 30 until 9 30 at the community center for
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you to sign the petition be patient more and more petition places are coming up go to stayfreealberta.com
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they're putting more of them up every day and also go to stayfreealberta.com to volunteer some of
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your time become a canvasser and if you can donate some money because we're going to need that to get
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across the line to finally gain our independence i cannot say how how amazed i was at being part of
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this event last night i was thrilled thank you to jeevan mangat and to heather field for allowing me to
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be there last night it was great to be on the stage with cory morgan who i admire very much pick up his
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book the sovereignty's handbook and read it lots of information in there you can get that at amazon
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thanks to dennis kalma who i've got to know over the last couple of weeks and eva chipiak i talked to
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eva last night watch the live stream again link in the description from freedom calendar watch eva and
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listened to her speech and it was overwhelming she got a standing ovation i think we need to
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bring eva out to more meetings like this and really rally on the troops again it was a wonderful night
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last night i never could have imagined so many people showing up thanks for watching if you like
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the video give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel ring the bell for notifications and on one
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final note i would like to say hi to all the people that i met last night all of you who subscribe to
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this channel who say you wake up each day watching my videos i could not do this without you i wouldn't
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get up every morning if it wasn't for you it was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet you and to shake