00:00:00Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. Thank you so much for
00:00:07being part of this channel. I do appreciate it and got a guest with us today. You know, it's been
00:00:13pretty exciting over the last several months since we started the referendum campaign. A lot
00:00:18of different groups getting involved to try to help out with the independence movement. They're
00:00:22called third party advertisers. They might be referred to as a TPA in this interview moving
00:00:27forward just to make it easy for you. And I've got another third-party advertiser with us right
00:00:32now. I'd like to welcome volunteer spokesperson for North Alberta Strong, Daryl Prew. Daryl,
00:00:38great to have you here. Thank you so much. And thanks very much for being part of a TPA
00:00:42during the referendum campaign. Yes, thank you very much for having me on, John. I'm
00:00:48excited to talk to you about our third-party advertiser today.
00:00:51You know, it's been quite an exciting time. As I said, we've got a number of them out there
00:00:56right now and doing great work. I think when I was asked to do this interview by, I think it was
00:01:04Sharon, I believe it was Sharon. Sharon knew that. Yeah. Sharon, Sharon said you're the,
00:01:09the furthest North pretty much as you can get when it comes to a third party advertiser.
00:01:15Sharon said she was in Fairview, which is about an eight and a half hour drive from where I'm
00:01:19sitting here in Calgary. Where are you located today, Daryl? I'm, I'm in the town of Peace
00:01:22river um i i want to tell you there uh there's a there's a couple of really passionate uh
00:01:29supporters here in the north that have uh been featured on your channel before they've gone as
00:01:34far as zama city to collect signatures during the uh independence uh referendum uh petition that we
00:01:40did right so we've got a lot of ground to cover up here and uh it's a good thing we've got some
00:01:45people that aren't afraid of driving yeah yeah i got pictures i'll put the picture up on the screen
00:01:50from Zama City, which was just amazing. I think that was the farthest north. We had a signature
00:01:54signing place. They had one of the State Free Alberta sitting outside. My friend Lyle DeParon
00:01:59is up in Fort Vermillion, and he was in my house so about three weeks ago. He came all the way down
00:02:04here to pick up some signs from Corey Morgan. I think I got him some other signs from some other
00:02:09TPAs at that point as well. But yeah, you've got a large area to cover up there, but you've got a
00:02:14really motivated volunteer base with North Alberta Strong, don't you? We do. Before we started our
00:02:22third-party advertiser here, there was a big push to get the other TPAs signs up here. And like you
00:02:31talked about, you know, Fairview being eight and a half hours. Well, eight and a half hours from
00:02:36where you live right now. Well, high level, the Crete Fort Vermillion is probably more like 120.98
00:02:41hours from where you're at and uh we've got some dedicated people like those folks that went to
00:02:46zama city right they uh drove all the way down south picked up other tpas lawn signs made sure
00:02:53that they made their way up into the north so that we could have a presence for our side in the
00:02:57referendum here so and then after that it just transformed into like well we might as well just
00:03:03start our own third-party advertiser then and we'll make it north specific we'll fundraise for
00:03:08the north we will focus on advertising in the north like we have a huge land mass here um my
00:03:14riding the peace river constituency alone is 12 of the land mass of alberta right and that's not
00:03:21including the grand prairie area that's not including central peace notley etc anyway i'm
00:03:27belaboring the point but no no i get it no i get it and you should you know it's funny when i talk
00:03:33about the north i talk about edmonton edmonton's kind of central you guys are north
00:03:38it's just crazy how much space is up there and you know i want people to go to your website you're
00:03:43looking we're trying to help people um with donations we did the telethon a few weeks back
00:03:49people are trying to connect collect money so they can put up signs and banners we'll tell people how
00:03:53they can do that in the north as well with north alberta strong your website is north albertastrong.ca
00:03:58you've got a donate button there so if you would like to make a donation to these people if you're
00:04:03in the south help them out give them a little bit of a boost right now if you if you can do it
00:04:08click on the button and send us some money right now so that they can put up signs and banners and
00:04:12you are doing that as well I've noticed I've seen some of the banners you've got they're pretty
00:04:15uh pretty amazing what you're doing up that way and are you just are you trying to line the roads
00:04:20with these I mean there's a lot of space up there um to get the message out well as as many highways
00:04:26as we can line is is uh the way to go yeah you know we're not saying no to anybody that wants
00:04:31to request a lawn sign but yeah there's definitely a focus there where if there's anybody that owns
00:04:35some highway side property that's going to see a lot of traffic 100 you know we've got some strong
00:04:41supporters i would even mention in the berwin area before any of these tpas even started right they
00:04:47were stacking hay bales along the road and strapping alberta flags to them right yeah and
00:04:52unfortunately the alberta flag has become a bit of a polarizing symbol but also it gets the gets
00:04:57the message out right for for our side right anyone that's not afraid of that alberta flag
00:05:02knows what it means right now it means you know we support alberta first right yeah you bet you
00:05:08you bet you know that's great and you can go to the website as well there's a request a banner
00:05:12and a request a sign um place there as well and you can sign up for a newsletter to get more
00:05:17information and events and activities are you trying to educate people as well daryl is that
00:05:21part of your plan up in the north you know there isn't a lot up that way um and i and i don't mean
00:05:28to be disrespectful there's a lot of space up there but you are trying to get the word out
00:05:32aren't you a hundred percent and yeah that's one thing there you know we had the federal election
00:05:38in uh 2025 and then from there you know we had really like 14 months of events of like town hall
00:05:45style events and that was with not us right but i'm just saying in general in the movement right
00:05:51And so what we've kind of seen now is anyone that's kind of wanted to go to a town hall event, they've had their opportunity to and they've gone.
00:05:59So what this is kind of morphed into now is more smaller group conversations.
00:06:03You know, if somebody wants to go for coffee or they want to have somebody over at their house to have a conversation.
00:06:10We've had other volunteers, not necessarily associated with the TPA, but just up here in the north that have gone to, you know, local rodeos and mud bogs and stuff like that.
00:06:20just to hand out the information and the response has been really positive it's that that's that's
00:06:27been really effective now um is just just talking with people in smaller groups and handing out
00:06:31information so yeah we definitely want to educate as well we want people to understand
00:06:36we know we're we're we're supporting vote yes on the first nine questions and then option two on
00:06:42question 10 and um and and making sure that we do get the word out absolutely yeah i know i was down
00:06:48in Cardston, a long way away from you with Angela Tabak, the Alberta Women for Independence. They're
00:06:55doing that as well, educating people about those first nine questions, because, you know, if you
00:06:59walked in and saw those on a ballot, as they say, if you walked in and saw those on a ballot, you'd
00:07:03be perplexed. It would take you an hour just to get through those first nine questions. So, you
00:07:07know, vote yes on the first nine, option two on question 10, for sure. I think that's really
00:07:12important. What's the feel up your way? You're, for the most part, a rural area. We know that
00:07:17there's a lot of support for independence in rural areas. A lot of people are trying to focus
00:07:21on Edmonton and Calgary, but what's the feel in your area when it comes to the independence movement?
00:07:26Well, I would, you know, it's, it's funny when people ask me about that. Like I live right in
00:07:31the town of Peace River and I'm very biased. You know, I feel I live in a very beautiful place in
00:07:37the world. Our town specifically, it seems fairly divided. You know, it's a bit of a hub, a bit of a
00:07:43government town you know so you sort of you know people's political persuasions seem to divide
00:07:50along you know like we've got the oil and gas around here lots of people very blue collar on
00:07:54that and then there's the government workers right health care uh the judiciary whatever there they
00:08:00tend to vote in other ways so so our town is kind of uh it's split but you know you get into the
00:08:07smaller more rural communities where where sharon is in fairview oh very strong support there uh
00:08:13You know, places like Manning and Fort Vermilion and La Crete, way up north there, seeming pretty strong support for Alberta Independence.
00:08:24Views, the town of Grimshaw, just down the road from May there, we've got strong support there.