John Bolton - April 16, 2026


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Length

5 minutes

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183.3583

Word count

938

Sentence count

71


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Let's Talk Alberta was a great night in Delburn, Alberta. Zane Novak, Ben Crane, Chris Scott, Corey Morgan, and I had a great time meeting people and talking about the independence movement. We need to have someone on the front row at every event and counter Thomas Lecasic.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel.
00:00:05.420 Thursday, April the 16th.
00:00:06.880 I hope you're having a great Thursday morning.
00:00:10.260 I am.
00:00:11.380 It is 1.17 a.m.
00:00:14.440 And as of right now, I'm just shy of 23 straight hours up.
00:00:19.740 I do have the big mug of coffee.
00:00:22.820 No coffee in it, I have to say, because I'm going to be going to bed shortly.
00:00:27.440 I just got back from Delburn.
00:00:29.160 There was a Let's Talk Alberta event there and it was outstanding. Zane Novak spoke, Ben Crane, Chris Scott, Corey Morgan showed up and boy, a whole bunch of fantastic people who want Alberta independence.
00:00:44.420 It was a full house there. I went up there with about 20 people from Calgary. People came in from Edmonton and Red Deer.
00:00:51.060 This was the event where the CBC was supposed to show up, but they did not show.
00:00:57.860 And I don't know that we scared them away or not, but we went up anyway, had a great time.
00:01:02.580 Chris Scott brought in some pierogies.
00:01:04.280 We had a good meal while we were there, and it was outstanding.
00:01:07.600 Now, I'm just getting home now, and I've been up for a long time.
00:01:10.000 It was one hell of a drive home.
00:01:11.380 We had, wow, the weather we're getting right now in southern Alberta is terrible.
00:01:16.840 I think the temperature is supposed to go up to 20 in the next couple of days.
00:01:20.640 But it was pretty cold tonight, and we were getting some heavy snow, white-knuckle driving, and white-out conditions all the way from Delburn back into Calgary.
00:01:28.760 Thanks to my good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Albertan, for leading the way tonight.
00:01:33.540 But it was an awful drive.
00:01:34.920 About an hour and a half to get to Delburn earlier, and almost three hours to get back.
00:01:39.940 So terrible driving, and I'm pretty tired and going on a little bit of sleep now.
00:01:44.580 Now, there is something I want to talk about.
00:01:46.400 As I was coming back, I flipped on Calgary Radio, and the radio station was doing a news story on Thomas Lukasik, who had a, what did they call it, a miraculous or something petition campaign last year, and historic is what they called it, historic petition campaign last year.
00:02:09.140 And they spoke to Thomas LeCasic, who apparently is going to be going around the province and having his forever Canadian events.
00:02:17.640 And I think what we need to do in the independence movement is to have somebody sitting in the front row at every one of these events and taking down notes.
00:02:26.800 LeCasic is basically saying that he's doing this because he wants to be in Canada.
00:02:31.840 But I think this is a vendetta.
00:02:34.300 He's very critical of Danielle Smith.
00:02:36.780 And I think that's what this is about.
00:02:38.600 I think he's pulled the wool over the people's eyes who signed his petition last year.
00:02:44.400 The other thing he's doing is he said that the man down south is feeding the independence movement here in Alberta,
00:02:53.620 meaning Donald Trump in some way is providing funding for the independence movement.
00:02:59.000 That certainly is not happening.
00:03:01.160 He's spreading lies about his movement and our movement as well.
00:03:06.820 So we need to be keeping an eye on him and then countering everything he says because the facts are on our side.
00:03:14.800 Now, to the people that were in Delburn this evening, what a great bunch of people.
00:03:21.780 And they all have smiles on their face.
00:03:23.760 And I think we all agreed, and we talked about this quite a bit, that everybody in the independence movement is so positive.
00:03:31.000 It's such a positive movement.
00:03:33.200 Everybody is so excited, so into the independence movement, and they're so friendly.
00:03:38.280 And when you meet up with the people who are on the Forever Canadian side, they seem rather
00:03:42.700 glum and depressed.
00:03:44.200 So all we have to do is keep talking positively about the movement, and we'll bring some of
00:03:48.680 those people over.
00:03:49.720 They might as well be happy.
00:03:51.020 Now, the other thing that I'd like to say is this.
00:03:53.860 So many people come up to me, and I've said this before, I've got to say it again.
00:03:57.060 So many people come up to me and say, John, I wanted to meet you, and I want you to know
00:04:01.900 that I wanted to meet you as well.
00:04:03.980 I find a great amount of enjoyment in meeting people
00:04:07.820 and finding out about them.
00:04:09.960 And I met so many more people there tonight
00:04:12.320 and it was just the highlight of the night for me
00:04:15.680 was meeting you.
00:04:16.860 I've got to get out to more of these events.
00:04:18.480 I really do.
00:04:19.560 If you want to find out about the Let's Talk Alberta events,
00:04:22.480 Chris Scott told me that they're going to have
00:04:25.240 hundreds of these.
00:04:26.220 There's no reason for you not to show up to these events.
00:04:29.720 As a matter of fact, Zane Novak, while he was on stage tonight doing his speech, he said,
00:04:35.140 how many people are at their first independence movement? And about a third of the people in the
00:04:38.920 audience said they were brand new. That is good news. This movement is growing, folks. We have to
00:04:45.460 keep it growing so we can win in the fall. But if you want to find out about a Let's Talk Alberta
00:04:51.260 event, go to letstalkalberta.com and check them out. I need to go to bed. Thank you so much for
00:04:59.500 watching. If you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,
00:05:03.460 ring the bell for notifications. I will see you in the next one.