John Bolton - The Independence Calendar (Episode #15) - March 15th, 2026

00:00:00.000 yeah we're in edmonton guys these guys are on gateway boulevard right now taking signatures

00:00:12.080 hi it's john and welcome to the independence calendar for sunday

00:00:24.320 March the 15th, episode number 15, and beware the Ides of March. I hope you're having a great day

00:00:31.880 and I hope you've had a great week as well. Thank you so much for clicking on this video

00:00:35.900 and thank you so much for participating. You inspire me. I tip the big blue mug of coffee

00:00:41.700 to you today. We got a lot of great stuff this week. You've been awesome with your submissions.

00:00:47.240 We'll certainly get to those. Got a different segment this week. We're going to focus in on

00:00:50.900 of things that are a little bit different,

00:00:52.380 including what is probably

00:00:54.420 the most northern most petition signing pop-up in the world.

00:00:59.720 Now, we've heard a lot about the ones

00:01:01.460 that are continuing down to the south,

00:01:04.180 and there's more of them all the time,

00:01:05.520 but this one is probably the farthest north in the world.

00:01:08.580 So we'll have that for you as well.

00:01:10.560 We'll talk about where you can sign

00:01:12.380 if you're not sure where to go to sign

00:01:14.760 or you can't get out to sign.

00:01:16.020 Still a lot of people saying that to me when I get email.

00:01:19.080 Just a reminder, by the way,

00:01:20.400 if you do send me an email at johnboltonab at gmail.com, I try to read all of your email. I

00:01:27.320 cannot respond to all of them. And generally, if I do respond, it's pretty short because I get so

00:01:33.020 much email here. I've got some new songs coming up, okay? Now, one of them is inspired by me and

00:01:39.040 my friend Busker James from last week at the pop-up thing we did at the Auburn Bay Dog Walk

00:01:44.420 Park where we had the Bouncy Castle. Also, we've got a song called Alberta Stands from Chantel,

00:01:49.560 which I'll have at the end of this video, which is really good. Done with AI. Got a letter from

00:01:55.220 an Independence Calendar viewer in Yuma who signed up some people. I want to read this letter to you

00:02:00.860 because this is an issue that is becoming bigger and bigger by the week. In fact, we had some

00:02:07.240 people from Alberta going to meet King Charles this week. So that gives you an idea what this

00:02:12.160 letter is about. I'll have that for you. I think you're going to enjoy that. Also, we'll have a

00:02:17.060 part of an interview I did with Mitch Sylvester earlier this week about this upcoming court case.

00:02:23.080 I'll put a card at the end so you can watch the whole thing with Mitch, just a short segment of

00:02:27.360 that coming up. Let's head over to the website right now, stayfreealberta.com. And this is the

00:02:33.700 place you want to go for any questions or answers. You can go over there to request to sign the

00:02:37.980 petition. They will come out and find you if you can't make it to a petition pop-up. If you can't

00:02:44.480 it out. You're a shut-in. They will come to see you. So click on that button, request to sign 0.99

00:02:48.480 petition. Of course, you can always donate. And as they say, they've got about 263 signing

00:02:53.560 locations available right now. It's funny, I went down here earlier. I think there's more than that

00:02:57.700 right now, but you can always just click on here. If you're looking for Medicine Hat, you can put

00:03:02.000 in MED and Medicine Hat will pop up. Let's see if there's any highs in there. A couple of highs here

00:03:07.140 in Alberta. Yeah, High Prairie and High River as well. So very easy to search the database.

00:03:13.220 Now, I did get a letter and some information in here from somebody.

00:03:16.860 I want to read this to you.

00:03:19.120 And this came in to me from, where is it here?

00:03:23.060 Jeff.

00:03:23.540 Jeff, he said, I'm pleased to say we have an indoor signing location at Blairmore serving the Crow's Nest Pass community.

00:03:31.500 We're in our location three days a week.

00:03:33.320 Sometimes they don't get a lot of signers.

00:03:34.960 One day they get 11, but they're out there doing their job.

00:03:37.460 He said, guess what?

00:03:38.600 A man traveling through to Cranbrook, B.C. for work, but lives in Alberta, found us because of the Stay Free Alberta location finder.

00:03:46.900 Every signature is a win. 0.91

00:03:49.020 Damn straight, Jeff. 0.82

00:03:50.240 John, guess what? 0.95

00:03:51.220 I found my tribe.

00:03:52.620 Well, welcome to the tribe, Jeff.

00:03:54.640 Thanks so much.

00:03:55.600 And he says, thanks for your significant part to keep us informed and motivated.

00:03:59.720 I'm just a little part of this.

00:04:01.140 I do a little bit.

00:04:02.180 And I said this last week at the dog walk park.

00:04:06.140 I said, we all can do just a little small thing, which turns into something very big.

00:04:11.220 Now, what I want to do here is move on to some unusual things, okay?

00:04:15.100 I'm going to do this, I think, on a weekly basis, as long as these things keep coming through.

00:04:19.580 And here's something I would consider a little bit unusual.

00:04:23.220 We've got this.

00:04:24.280 Now, this is from the Stay Free Alberta website.

00:04:26.920 They're looking for canvassers in Texas.

00:04:30.400 So if you're a registered canvasser for Stay Free Alberta with a badge,

00:04:33.760 and you're available to canvas in texas email events at stayfreealberta.com then we've got

00:04:39.120 this event right here let me just find my information on this side so i can tell you

00:04:43.300 about this yeah calgary beddington community canvassing group headed by ellen scott regional

00:04:48.140 leader has this event coming up beddington's blue mile make it happen three signing tales

00:04:53.680 tables rather east side of nose hill 14th street northwest north of the winter club and what's

00:04:59.860 wonderful about this is, look, they've got like a Saturday social afterward. This is becoming

00:05:04.520 a social activity at Madison's Pub, 8120 Beddington Boulevard in the Northwest. So well done to the

00:05:10.680 folks for putting this together. Now we've got Bob. Now Bob has a signing location out on the

00:05:15.780 Trans-Canada Highway. Check this out. Bob says a food truck has set up beside them. Now he got back

00:05:22.860 to me. They're at the Renfrew Recycling Center on the Trans-Canada just east of Deerfoot, top of the

00:05:28.780 Hill. He says, I'll see your bouncy castle and raise a food truck. So a number of pictures here,

00:05:34.040 some really good looking food, Bob. He says, they just set up beside us and they're lucky to be

00:05:39.640 able to have this fantastic food. Now, I want to talk to you about this one. This is Zama City,

00:05:46.440 the bison cabin, signing up to this opportunity, March 13th, 3 to 7, Saturday, March 14th. So the

00:05:53.260 days have gone by, but this has got to be the most northernmost place in all of the world for

00:06:01.900 signing. Check out this cabin. They've got the Alberta sign out there for a signing location.

00:06:07.500 And where exactly is Zama City? Well, let's start off in Calgary, where I am right here

00:06:12.760 in the southern part of Alberta. There is Edmonton right there. And Zama City, let's go up,

00:06:17.940 look up look way up here is Zama City way up here in northern Alberta so congratulations and well

00:06:26.880 done to Kirk in Zama City you have to be the most northern most place in the world where you can sign

00:06:34.720 the petition thanks so much for that now I want to bring this to your attention I will be part of

00:06:39.700 this my good friend Albertan and Mrs. Albertan are putting this on on the 21st and that would

00:06:45.920 be next Saturday. The Spring Road Rally, signature hunt to the whistle stop. Every signature counts.

00:06:51.620 Who will get the most? We've got people from Calgary and Edmonton and Red Deer. And what we're

00:06:55.760 going to do is we're going to go out and we're going to try to get as many people to sign the

00:07:00.360 petition as possible to be the winner. Here are more details right here. If you want to be part

00:07:05.580 of this, I'd love to meet you. If you'd like to come out with your vehicle and go on this event

00:07:10.440 with us. Be at Calgary, in Calgary at Deerfoot City. Go north on Highway 21 at 10 o'clock on

00:07:16.940 March 21st. Edmonton at the Bonny Doon Mall. Okay. And then Red Deer at Peter's Drive-In.

00:07:22.120 But I'd love to see you there and you could be part of this competition. And we're going to end

00:07:25.960 up and say hi to Chris at the Whistle Stop Cafe at 5.30 p.m. And that should be a lot of fun.

00:07:32.800 I'd like to see you there. And thanks a lot to my friends Al and Mrs. Al for sending that

00:07:38.040 information to me and inviting me to that event. Now, there are a lot of other things going on.

00:07:41.960 Let's take a look at some of the other events and activities

00:07:44.820 with the petition campaign continuing here in Alberta.

00:08:08.040 They don't hear the pressure rise

00:08:12.420 They just see the wheat fields

00:08:14.820 Never see the fire in our eyes

00:08:18.920 We've been shrinking on the map

00:08:21.820 Just a corner, just a stack

00:08:24.960 But there's a border in our brain now

00:08:28.600 Drawn in red and black

00:08:31.420 Pop goes the province right out the back of your mind

00:08:37.100 One day you look up where I got a foreign line

00:08:43.460 Pop new passports, same old northern sky

00:08:49.060 Pop up independence, sign while you were passing by

00:08:55.760 Ottawa is half asleep

00:08:58.140 Arguing in marble halls

00:09:01.900 We're out here in work boots

00:09:04.280 Fixing cracks they never saw

00:09:08.020 Emails in their inbox

00:09:10.440 Unread like a quiet thread

00:09:13.960 They're busy with their selfies

00:09:16.440 We're busy learning how to disconnect

00:09:19.820 You keep shrinking us to west

00:09:23.940 Like we're just some empty chest

00:09:27.080 But there's an anthem in our accent

00:09:30.380 You won't hear till we've left

00:09:33.460 Goes the province right out the back of your mind

00:09:39.140 One day you look up, we're regarded for in line

00:09:45.340 New passports, same old northern sky

00:09:51.460 Pop-up independence, some of you are passing by

00:10:03.460 So many great signing places and events happening around the province. Thanks to

00:10:13.380 everybody for working so hard for the signatures. You are the heroes of the independence movement.

00:10:19.120 A little bit of a common thread here, a theme in this next segment, and it's regarding something

00:10:25.660 that's popped up specifically this week, more so this week, I guess I could say. And it's going to

00:10:31.740 lead us into the interview I did with Mitch Sylvester. Of course, we've got this court case

00:10:35.880 coming up on April the 7th, and this is because of Indigenous people challenging the petition

00:10:41.820 campaign. So I'll have a segment of that interview I did with Mitch earlier this week. There's been

00:10:47.020 stories like this popping up over the last week. Treaty 6 chiefs, Air Alberta separatism concerns

00:10:53.840 with King Charles. And then there's this one as well that just popped up today, separation speed

00:11:00.060 bump negotiating with First Nations. What happens here, folks, is separation, and then there is

00:11:05.700 negotiation. That's how it works when you consider the Clarity Act, which we're following here.

00:11:11.420 I find it fascinating, though, that the people who say that they were colonized and how they speak

00:11:16.040 so terribly against the monarchy because of colonization and stealing their land have run

00:11:21.680 for safety to King Charles. Don't you find that rather unusual? I certainly do. Now, it leads me

00:11:27.220 to a letter I got in this week. And I try to read what I can when it comes to email, but I get a lot

00:11:32.040 of them. And I can't always respond. But I wanted to read part of this one because this continues

00:11:37.760 along with the theme. And I actually asked Lori if I could read this to you, and she gave me

00:11:44.060 permission. So let me read a little bit of this to you. Hi, John. I'm a canvasser for the Stay

00:11:48.700 Free Alberta Independence Petition. Thank you, Lori. I listen to you every morning, but I wanted

00:11:53.140 to tell you something that I found very uplifting. I came to Arizona and California for a vacation

00:11:58.680 from February 15th until tomorrow, March 11th, when I returned home to Calgary. I've been

00:12:03.400 collecting signatures down here just by reaching out to people on Facebook and a few friends. I

00:12:07.980 don't have a ton, only 26 signatures, but what I wanted to tell you, and I think this is really

00:12:13.120 great news, I had a couple meet me this morning at my hotel near Yuma, actually close to the border

00:12:18.180 of Algodones, Mexico. They were going to wait to go back to Alberta to sign in April, but they heard

00:12:24.400 the news about how the indigenous are trying to block the gathering of signatures. These people 1.00

00:12:29.100 that came to see me drove two and a half hours just outside of Lake Havasu to sign the petition

00:12:35.180 and, and, and they are indigenous. I had a great conversation with them and they are so angry at 1.00

00:12:44.520 chiefs for doing what they're doing and said that the indigenous relatives that they have and others

00:12:49.000 that they know are for alberta independence she told me the indigenous peoples know how

00:12:54.600 corrupt their chiefs are she said so much corruption she had to come out and sign even

00:12:59.880 if it was only two signatures i thanked her for traveling so far and she thanked me i'll keep

00:13:05.320 their names anonymous well lori thank you so much for the letter i appreciate it you've got 26

00:13:09.480 signatures in Yuma? I think most of us would think that's pretty incredible. And we've had so many

00:13:15.500 places down south collecting signatures on the petitions. And one way up in the north as well,

00:13:21.880 which we talk about on this independence calendar. Thank you so much, Lori. We appreciate it. And

00:13:27.340 we're hearing a lot of that. And I said on a video last week that there are a lot of Indigenous

00:13:33.280 people who feel the same way as these people who signed with Lori. And we need to hear their

00:13:39.200 voices, but, and you get my drift here, we need to see their faces because we want to work with

00:13:45.680 them. We want a better life for Indigenous people here. It's the first time in the history of

00:13:51.200 Indigenous people in this country, they will have a chance to negotiate themselves a better deal.

00:13:57.040 And that's what the independence movement wants. That's what Mitch Sylvester wants.

00:14:01.580 That's what I want. That's what you want. So let's go on now. Let's hear from Mitch.

00:14:06.820 we talked about this upcoming court case, just a short segment of a longer video. I'll put a card

00:14:12.100 at the end so you can watch the whole thing. We've got this court case coming up. Now, first,

00:14:17.460 can you just explain to me, is it Stay Free Alberta that's in court, or is this

00:14:23.100 Indigenous group going after the Alberta government? Can you explain that to us?

00:14:29.440 Well, it's definitely Stay Free Alberta, for sure. And the provincial government, I think,

00:14:35.320 is uh going to weigh in on it okay um yeah i mean because it's their citizens initiative act

00:14:40.440 so they're going to have to win and right now if this holds true the act is dysfunctional

00:14:46.520 so so there's no way there's no way that even in the spirit of anything uh gathering a you know

00:14:51.800 petition signatures for anything should be against any rules um and no matter how because i mean just

00:14:57.880 by itself gathering the signatures doesn't affect anybody's rights first of all so our people are

00:15:02.520 thinking we can win this court case however i'm not that confident uh based on the rulings that

00:15:07.560 have been coming from the supreme court and from courts uh you know in canada lately based on

00:15:12.440 anything that aboriginals seem to bring up they seem to be able to come out on top of that so 1.00

00:15:17.640 we're we're going to not take a chance and the court case is between april 7th april 10th

00:15:24.760 somewhere to that point and we're going to collect signatures right up until that very day if we can

00:15:29.160 on okay because the thing the thing that that dawned on me when i saw this really well produced

00:15:34.760 video you did the other day i met the guys who did it on the weekend it was just terrific

00:15:39.080 look great sounded great very to the point was i knew that this was coming up but all of a sudden

00:15:44.920 it seemed like there was some additional urgency because you put that video out and i was wondering

00:15:49.880 have you heard from your lawyers that you've got a good chance of losing this thing and that's the

00:15:53.960 thing that went across my mind well you know how this actually happened i was a way to value you

00:15:59.240 i i had done the video before uh we were aware of it we we had done the video as a precautionary

00:16:05.720 thing because we're we're able to access the studio at the time and the further down we got

00:16:12.440 closer to the date the more i started to realize that if we don't act now we're in legitimate

00:16:18.120 danger of not being able to actually have the signatures to trigger this referendum

00:16:21.880 on the day of the court date.

00:16:24.220 So we wanted to make sure that we're above and well above

00:16:27.140 the required signatures to call a referendum

00:16:30.420 based on if they actually say,

00:16:32.340 okay, well, you can no longer,

00:16:34.000 you have an injunction against us,

00:16:35.280 you can no longer collect signatures.

00:16:37.140 By that point, it will already be too late,

00:16:39.240 according to my plan.

00:16:40.460 So we'll already have the signatures

00:16:41.940 and then we'll present the signatures

00:16:43.220 to the elections of Alberta or the provincial government,

00:16:46.140 whichever way we decide to do that.

00:16:48.300 And then we'll move forward from there.

00:16:50.960 Is it the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation?

00:16:52.580 Is that who it is?

00:16:53.420 I think it is.

00:16:54.000 Correct.

00:16:54.660 And I'm not even sure if there are more nations.

00:16:57.100 I know for sure that Sturgeon Lake is welcome.

00:16:59.380 So if they win this thing, does that mean the end to this process?

00:17:04.640 I mean, are the signatures still good?

00:17:07.760 Because they don't think the province should be allowed to do this at all, from what I understand.

00:17:13.040 Am I wrong at that?

00:17:14.860 Well, yeah, the premier can call this any time she wants, with or without the referendum.

00:17:20.460 So what I'm saying to you is we want to make sure that we're well over the 177,000 threshold

00:17:26.140 at that point. And then if we win the injunction, then we'll, you know, if we win our court case,

00:17:31.740 then we'll continue to collect signatures right to the very end, which will be made safe. So right

00:17:37.100 now we're doing this and we're going to use our signatures, you know, based on the results that

00:17:42.460 we have in the situation that's in front of us. But I don't want to be caught in a situation where

00:17:47.180 we can no longer collect signatures and we don't have enough. So if we don't win and have enough

00:17:53.240 signatures, this process does not end. We will still have a referendum if the premier calls for

00:17:59.840 it, just to be clear. I would absolutely expect it to go forward. Okay. So what's the drop dead

00:18:05.760 date? I've heard anywhere from March 26. You said right up until the 7th of April. Don't you need a

00:18:11.340 period where you need to count these things, put them in order, put them in boxes to have them

00:18:15.280 ready to go. What is the drop dead date here for getting signatures as far as you're concerned?

00:18:20.580 Well, as far as I'm personally concerned, I would, you know, I mean, the injunction is to stop you

00:18:25.620 from collecting signatures. Right, right. We've got, we've got, we've got so many seconds to turn

00:18:30.900 that stuff in. So I would suggest that, you know, part date would be the day that we, that we can

00:18:37.660 start counting these signatures, but we want to make sure we have them and understand this. I

00:18:42.440 I mean, we're going to be sending a message.

00:18:44.120 It's just like when, you know, when we take a chance and when I organize that rally on the steps of the legislature,

00:18:51.440 there's two messages that you can send.

00:18:53.780 If a thousand people show up, you send a message.

00:18:56.440 If 17,000 people show up, you send another message.

00:18:59.340 If we get 179,000 signatures, we send a message.

00:19:02.820 If we get 360,000 signatures, we send another message.

00:19:06.460 So I just want to understand, it's up to us what message we want to send.

00:19:09.680 and we're working very hard and our people are you know working going door to door doing whatever's

00:19:15.460 required now to get these signatures we we've lit a fire under the group I'm really happy to see

00:19:21.160 the kind of reaction we're getting and you know what I think everybody's excited about it the fact

00:19:27.080 that we're being challenged in court on something that should be a lawful process has upset a lot

00:19:33.120 of our people and justifiably so it's upset me you know that's why we're that's why we're moving

00:19:38.220 forward on it and thinking, no, we're not going to allow this.

00:19:47.880 First off, I want to say thank you. You really came through this week. Last week,

00:19:52.360 we didn't have as many submissions and I got lots of them this week. And what's really

00:19:56.600 interesting, the further we get on in this process, every calendar, we see pictures from

00:20:02.520 even more far and wide, and you're going to definitely see some of them here. If you'd

00:20:07.140 like to send me anything independence-related, johnboltonab at gmail.com. Let's get into your

00:20:14.540 submissions. Elaine with this incredible truck. I love the little sign there, handwritten on the

00:20:19.880 side. Cut all ties with Ottawa. And we see this quite often. Faith, freedom, and family. Thank

00:20:25.600 you, Elaine, for that. Laura sent this picture of this old school Republic of Western Canada hat

00:20:30.740 from the 1980s. Thanks so much. Kind of memories of the National Energy Program, as Laura said in

00:20:36.920 her email. Her message to me said back then that Petro-Canada meant, now think about this,

00:20:43.100 Pierre Elliott Trudeau rips off Canada. That's great. I like it. Thanks, Laura. Terrence and

00:20:48.860 his truck signing up people in Hutterite territory. I appreciate that very much and for going into

00:20:54.240 that area. Kent in foremost with a couple of pictures with some fantastic signage here. I love

00:20:59.520 seeing this. Rene signing up people seven days a week, 9 to 6 p.m. at Costco. This is at 25th

00:21:06.320 Avenue and 91st Street in the Northwest. I love the color of this truck. Perfect for Alberta.

00:21:12.660 Thanks so much for that. Joseph at the Red Mountain Park in Mesa, Arizona. It doesn't take

00:21:18.680 a big setup, folks. This is all it takes. Thanks, Joseph, for that. Like I told you, far and wide,

00:21:24.520 folks. Far and wide. Don sent these two AI-generated independence buses. Isn't it amazing

00:21:30.700 what we can do today, Don? Insane concept here. I really like the mountains on the side of these

00:21:35.400 buses. I'd actually like to see these buses created. Look really good. Rob with a couple

00:21:40.580 of flag pictures. Keep the faith, Rob. Keep the faith. Tomas at Bouncy Castle Day. Tomas,

00:21:46.860 thanks for coming out. I appreciate you sending me the picture. Dave standing strong outside the

00:21:52.320 Airdrie Library on Monday, March the 9th. We love it, Dave. Thanks for standing strong.

00:21:58.680 Bob and this amazing poster. Full-time signing 10 to 6 daily at the Renfrew Athletic Park.

00:22:04.740 Nice to meet you at Bouncy Castle Day, Bob.

00:22:08.020 Tom has sent this Facebook post about a petition signing in Mazatlan, Mexico.

00:22:14.460 All over the place. All over the world.

00:22:16.560 You know, I want to find out if there's anybody over in Europe.

00:22:19.560 If you're having a sign-up in Europe, let me know about it.

00:22:23.080 This from Gary at Nate in Edmonton.

00:22:25.740 Some canvassers in a cold wind and so many brave people going out in all weather

00:22:30.740 since this all began back on January 2nd.

00:22:33.500 Jeff signed in Mexico. I don't even want to try to pronounce the place, but he was at the Amigos

00:22:39.320 Sports Bar. He said it's a great turnout. Thanks, Jeff. I appreciate it. Awesome stuff. Gary with

00:22:45.600 a small flag for his grandchildren. Gary, it might be small, but it is mighty. Thanks for the picture.

00:22:51.600 Heather sent this signing location, La Quinta, California, March 28th, 9 to 1 at the Civic Center

00:22:58.440 campus park. From Jess, Grand Prairie permanent signing location at Bullets and Broadheads sent

00:23:04.860 this picture. I got a question for you, Jess. Is this Moose Mountain down on Highway 66? Sure does

00:23:11.780 look like the road I ride my bike up all the time. Let me know. Send me an email, johnboltonab

00:23:16.840 at gmail.com. I'm interested. Nadine sent this picture in. Thumbs up to both of you as well. She

00:23:23.140 says she met this man, and he said this, quote, I'm not signing this for myself. I don't have any

00:23:28.820 children of my own, but I'm signing it for your children and for their children after them,

00:23:34.300 unquote. And apparently this really touched Nadine. Thank you very much for sharing that.

00:23:38.820 Joan and Wayne in Orlando. Great to see that flag in the sunny south. Looks like the same 0.93

00:23:44.100 location. John and Rain. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly in Orlando as well. Thanks for

00:23:48.860 the picture. Pam, appreciate that very much. Gordon in Three Hills with a well-decked out

00:23:54.020 tractor. Very Alberta here. Three different pictures. Thanks, Gordon, for sending them

00:23:59.060 from Three Hills. Neil says it was a blustery day in Lethbridge. It looks like their table got

00:24:04.460 blown over. This is what the canvassers are dealing with across Alberta during this petition signing

00:24:09.380 campaign. They are the heroes of independence. And Chris and Celia in Fort McLeod just got their

00:24:15.900 flag. They moved to Alberta from British Columbia to join the independence movement. Thank you so

00:24:21.740 much for the picture. And thanks. Welcome back to Alberta. Thank you so much for all the

00:24:26.960 submissions. They are fantastic. Keep them coming. JohnBoltonAB at gmail.com.

00:24:33.400 And thanks a lot to Mitch Sylvester for being available to talk to me. I do appreciate it.

00:24:46.040 Mitch is a great guy. And if you haven't met him, be sure to head out to one of the speaking events

00:24:50.220 he's at. Go up and shake his hand. He'd be happy to meet you as well. Now, I do want to talk about

00:24:54.900 something that's kind of concerning me, concerning other people involved with the independence

00:24:58.740 movement, in particular to the people out every day sitting at roadsides trying to collect

00:25:03.840 signatures. There have been some instances of some violence, some assault. We hope those people will

00:25:08.980 be caught by the police and pay a price for doing that. That's unacceptable. I think that these are

00:25:16.460 few and far between, but they are becoming more prevalent. And that scares me. I almost wish

00:25:21.380 this petition campaign was over and we can move on to the next thing where we don't have to put

00:25:28.060 people out there in what seems like harm's way. But if you're out there, please be careful. Get

00:25:34.220 pictures. Don't engage these people. Don't fight back against these people. Just tell them to leave

00:25:40.000 and call the police. Please be safe out there. Now I want to end on a positive note. You know,

00:25:44.620 I was out last, like two Saturdays ago, I guess now, at the Auburn Bay Dog Walk Park, and my

00:25:50.700 friend Buster James came out to play his accordion. He was great. People loved him just playing in the

00:25:55.280 background. It added a great, I guess, atmosphere to the event we were having, which was just so

00:26:01.620 much fun. I took along my harmonica, and you may have seen this, maybe not, I'll play a short bit

00:26:07.060 of it, but we inspired Stay Free Alberta with this rendition of You Are My Sunshine. Hit it!

00:26:25.280 it was so much fun and thanks to busker james for being there and you know i i watched that again

00:26:39.980 and i think about my dad who passed away a couple of years ago he left me all his harmonicas they're

00:26:44.980 sitting right back there taught me how to play harmonica i was thinking about him when i watched

00:26:51.580 that video back and it was really fun and I was so glad I could do that. But I was on the

00:26:56.820 Stay Free Alberta Facebook page and they did this. Check this out.

00:27:22.440 Thanks again to Stay Free Alberta for doing that,

00:27:26.120 changing You Are My Sunshine to You Are My Freedom.

00:27:30.100 I guess we inspired Stay Free Alberta with our rendition last week.

00:27:34.500 Thanks so much.

00:27:35.280 Now, next week I will be at this event.

00:27:37.520 This is coming up on Saturday, 21st on 21 Spring Road Rally

00:27:42.580 with my friends Mr. and Mrs. Albertan.

00:27:45.180 We'll be heading out of Calgary.

00:27:46.740 Here's the details right here.

00:27:48.600 Deerfoot City at 10 o'clock.

00:27:50.500 So if you'd like to join us, it's going to be a lot of fun.

00:27:52.640 I'll get to meet you, and you'll get to meet a lot of real nice people.

00:27:56.400 Keep your submissions coming in.

00:27:57.880 Keep sending them to me, johnboltonab at gmail.com.

00:28:02.540 And I want to end with this this week, and I hope Chantel doesn't mind.

00:28:07.140 I'm going to put a little bit of video that I shot when I was riding my bicycle down from Lake Louise down to the very bottom of the mountain.

00:28:16.460 I'll put it underneath here.

00:28:17.740 but this is a song that Chantel created and sent to me called Alberta Stands. Thanks very

00:28:24.340 much for watching the Independence Calendar. I will see you on the next one.

00:28:47.740 With fields of gold and skies so wide

00:28:51.900 Alberta's heart, Alberta's pride

00:28:57.120 No more chains, no more lies

00:29:01.740 We see the truth, we'll reach the prize

00:29:07.360 We won't bow, we won't crawl

00:29:09.720 Alberta stands ten feet tall

00:29:12.080 Sovereign winds, hear the call

00:29:14.440 We will rise

00:29:16.880 above it all all beneath our boots runs deep forest and our land to keep

00:29:28.880 the people here have wheels of steel and every dream we forge is

John Bolton - March 15, 2026

The Independence Calendar (Episode #15) - March 15th, 2026

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