John Bolton - April 17, 2026


The Movement That Can't Be Stopped - Hundreds Gather in Delburne

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John Bolton
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Pierre Trudeau Chris Scott Mitch Sylvester Michael Wagner Corey Stay Free Alberta Catherine Albrecht Dennis Modry Jason Levine Sylvan Lake Zane Novak Albertan John Wade
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In this episode of the John and Wade talk about the Let's Talk Alberta event at Delvern on Wednesday, April 16, 2019. The event was held at the Delvern Community Centre in Red Deer, Alberta and was sponsored by Stay Free Alberta.

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00:00:00.000 The New York Times
00:00:09.000 Go to Delpern
00:00:16.000 Go to Delpern
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00:00:28.000 Go to DelBern.
00:00:31.400 What?
00:00:37.880 Go to DelBern.
00:00:45.860 Hi, everybody.
00:00:47.700 Go to DelBern.
00:00:49.760 All right, let's go.
00:00:53.040 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.
00:00:55.460 Great to have you along.
00:00:56.660 And you're probably watching this on Thursday, April the 16th or after that date, but I am recording it from my car on Wednesday the 15th.
00:01:05.560 And I'm off to Delburn tonight.
00:01:07.800 I've been hearing about it since 2.15 this morning, so why not?
00:01:11.220 Delburn, north of Calgary, up near Red Deer.
00:01:13.680 So why am I going to Delburn with about 20 to 25 other people tonight?
00:01:18.720 Well, on Saturday night, I was on a Zoom call with Mitch Sylvester from Stay Free Alberta.
00:01:23.320 he was talking to the canvassers about the court case last week and a girl named laura lee got in
00:01:29.260 touch with me and said john call me urgent so i did she said the cbc is expected to be in delvern
00:01:36.800 wednesday night for a let's talk alberta event can you and the other youtubers come i said well
00:01:43.660 i can certainly let the other youtubers know but why don't we get a group of people to show up
00:01:48.580 in delvern wednesday night and show the cbc that we are serious about the independence movement
00:01:54.620 she thought that was a great idea i let mr and mrs albert know about it and we've got a little
00:01:59.780 convoy going to delvern tonight so that's why we're going to delvern i'm expecting john talking
00:02:06.140 to albert to be here tonight jason levine's might be stuck in some snow north but he wanted to come
00:02:11.380 tonight i let pj the belt know about it he he actually reported on it and also unacceptable
00:02:17.680 friends who can't be here tonight because he is on a live stream so off to delvern let's go
00:02:47.680 hi everybody hey max how you doing bud i'm going to stream man good to see you man good to see
00:03:14.320 you hey guys hey guys i love you too awesome wow she's great hey guys hey how you doing
00:03:26.800 i'm here with my good friend wade call engine wade and i wait how many times do we talk a week
00:03:39.100 at about three o'clock in the morning at least three at least three times a week i think the
00:03:45.000 last time i saw you was at the big four the big four yeah here in calgary and what brought you
00:03:50.360 out here to delver in tonight uh a poster that somebody put on telegram is that right oh yeah
00:03:58.300 yeah no i uh i mean we're doing a we're doing a thing in sylvan lake too on the 25th but uh
00:04:04.260 we got to keep pushing this uh i saw a uh somebody put on x not so long ago something that was very
00:04:12.160 profound i think and what they said was uh alberta carried the canada flag to ottawa
00:04:20.660 and what did they do they beat us up they put us in jail they charged us with with bullshit crimes
00:04:28.660 yeah and oh sorry about that john that's all right uh and uh and now they want us to keep 0.91
00:04:34.040 carrying the canada flag yeah well i think they're a day late and a dollar short you know i i think
00:04:39.720 i think that's that's very apropos and i think that when people say canada left us we didn't
00:04:45.460 leave them do you believe in that too is that something that kind of rings absolutely yeah
00:04:49.600 absolutely yeah the united states would inevitably annex the western the western region of north
00:04:55.620 American vocabulary. You remember from school the 54-40-year fight? That was a real thing.
00:05:01.220 They wanted this place. So what did they do? They didn't say, hey, we want you to join this
00:05:06.820 dominion. Will you consent to being governed thusly? I've asked Corey this question before.
00:05:12.740 You know, I came in through the parking lot. There must be 200 blue flags out there. It's
00:05:17.820 pretty awesome. And yeah, I'd like to thank Wade for bringing the big sign up from Sylvan
00:05:24.680 Lake as well. But there's only one Canadian flag in here. It's on the wall behind me right
00:05:30.360 now. I don't think I see any others. And I've asked Corey this before. I've asked Mitch
00:05:34.240 Sylvester, Dennis Motory and others as well. And I think it's becoming evident that the
00:05:38.580 number one challenge that we're going to get regarding this movement is patriotism. How
00:05:45.120 do you fight patriotism the flag and what do you say to people when they say well I believe in
00:05:51.460 Canada I believe in the flag I'm a patriotic Canadian and I'd like to hear what the rest of
00:05:56.520 you have to say about that that's a great question and that brings up a really interesting point of
00:06:03.220 all of the opposition points that I've been presented about Alberta independence like the
00:06:08.200 challenges people give me about it. 90% is emotions. It's emotional attachment, period.
00:06:15.940 When I get into the weeds in this conversation with someone, I do it from a perspective of
00:06:21.500 somebody who is very patriotic. And, you know, I've got the Canadian flag tattooed on my back.
00:06:28.240 It means something to me. So you really have to separate what is it that you, what is it that you
00:06:37.020 are actually loyal to is are you loyal to what you believe Canada is or was and and what it means
00:06:45.360 to you or are you loyal to a piece of fabric with a maple leaf on it are you loyal to a country or
00:06:52.540 are you loyal to what that country is supposed to be for the people that occupy it these are very
00:06:57.900 important distinctions Michael Wagner Dr. Michael Wagner does a very good job describing the old
00:07:05.400 Canada and the new Canada. You know, old Canada prior to Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the new
00:07:11.500 Canada after Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Charter Rights and Freedoms and yada yada. I'm patriotic
00:07:17.740 to what I believed Canada was, which was freedom and prosperity, period. My patriotism was affected
00:07:26.360 when I was lying in jail for protesting. And I'm here with Zane Novak, one of the speakers here
00:07:31.100 in delbert alberta at let's talk alberta let's talk alberta.com i was asking chris scott how
00:07:37.280 many of these events you guys are doing it's like over 200 oh it's like 260 something like that it's
00:07:42.520 crazy the amount zane you've got a background in politics a little bit i'm not a politician no
00:07:48.480 but i know you ran for mayor back in 2021 in the calgary area um you know and that was right around
00:07:54.560 the covid times i was talking with chris as well asked him whether he was interested in independence
00:07:59.480 back then and he was kind of on the fence that pushed him over what what is it about
00:08:03.400 what is it that's pushed you towards independence over the years were you a canadian once and now
00:08:08.260 an alberton i was always a canadian uh you know i was very much canadian but many many years
00:08:13.700 already recognized you know even under the pure elia trudeau era that the west wasn't getting a
00:08:19.640 fair shake we were in an abusive relationship we never really had a say in what was going on in
00:08:24.500 this country but you know back in 2021 even in 2022 because I was very involved in stuff in 2022
00:08:31.200 after the election yeah and you know I just I had a dream that there could be independence
00:08:38.040 but I didn't know how that could come about and I didn't think that Alberta was ready for it I
00:08:44.040 didn't think Albertans were ready for it but then as we saw how things like I think the breaking
00:08:52.160 point for me was when Trudeau got elected the second time I just couldn't imagine how this
00:08:57.680 country could re-elect Trudeau after what we'd been through and my narrative changed I remember
00:09:02.700 putting a post on my Facebook and a post on LinkedIn that literally had like 10 or 20,000
00:09:08.640 positive reviews because everybody kind of felt the same thing and then I just started to have
00:09:14.660 a more overarching view of what was going on and how we're in such a punitive situation here in
00:09:20.620 the west and we were never going to get our voice heard and it just grew from there and grew from
00:09:24.820 there and grew from there until the point now where i'm just like this is it man this is it for
00:09:28.880 us it was back i think it was around 87 preston manning said the west wants in i don't think we're
00:09:33.560 ever going to get in and over the last week or so i've been telling people particularly when it
00:09:37.420 comes to canada with this majority if you think paulie having the conservatives or any conservative
00:09:42.060 government is going to come to your rescue in the future uh that's not going to happen and now we've
00:09:46.820 got it can't happen it's not possible no no and we've got a liberal majority as well what do you
00:09:51.620 think this is going to do for the independence movement we've seen the indigenous uh challenge
00:09:56.040 in court recently we've seen the government get elected the liberals last year and now a majority 0.62
00:10:00.940 with the with the floor crossers how much do you think this will motivate people to sign the
00:10:05.240 petition and vote yes on a well i think what's really important is for people to um ask the 1.00
00:10:10.680 questions if they have doubts right and that's why we're having things like this let's talk
00:10:14.760 alberta there's lots of other opportunities for people to engage i really think that it's going
00:10:19.080 to come down to those who want to be informed and understand where their future lies and when they
00:10:24.920 see that we can now have a majority government that wasn't even voted in right yeah that's
00:10:30.600 incredible when you see that our indigenous population is one percent and yet they can enact 0.96
00:10:37.080 to our governmental or judicial system a temporary kind of stay on the county of these votes and the 0.71
00:10:44.360 interesting thing too about that is you know that isn't necessarily that voice of the indigenous
00:10:49.800 group in alberta doesn't necessarily represent all the indigenous group that's kind of just the
00:10:54.600 chiefs and a few that got together and put this forward so how undemocratic is that so i think
00:11:01.400 that albertans are starting to wake up to the fact that we live in a country ruled by our government
00:11:08.600 that is not democratic is not hearing our voices we heard today earlier that carney said that oh
00:11:14.440 alberta will never let them separate we'll i'll enact the emergency of that well how stalinistic
00:11:20.760 is that yeah yeah like that is shocking and so i really think this is going to help people wake up
00:11:25.320 more and more to the dire situation we're in we've heard the words minority of the uh tyranny of the
00:11:30.280 minority a lot more recently and that's certainly that is the thing now yes what surprised me
00:11:34.040 tonight and i've said on my channel a number of times i think that a lot of these events um i
00:11:39.340 find that we're preaching to the choir but i was stunned i think you asked tonight how many are
00:11:44.260 just at your first independence meeting i was shocked tonight a third of this room put their
00:11:48.480 hands up i know i really shocked yes because it actually threw me off my speaking point a little
00:11:52.960 bit because i wanted to say okay so everybody here has kind of heard this we need to go out
00:11:57.380 and we need to talk to more people which we do we dramatically drastically do um and especially to
00:12:02.420 are young those are the ones who are most at risk in the current political system we have in canada
00:12:08.580 they're the ones that need to really hear this get out get involved and i think it's really
00:12:13.700 important too when this happens in october when you go into the ballot box to vote nobody's looking
00:12:19.880 over your shoulder it's not even like signing this petition where there's a lineup of people
00:12:23.920 and they're all senior someone can drive by and film it no this is a vote you go to the ballot box
00:12:28.660 and you know whether you're voting for in a federal election pierre or carney or nobody knows
00:12:35.660 so this gives us the opportunity to clearly express in private what we feel is best for our future
00:12:42.940 one more question for you and it's something that um i i've heard a lot from people when i ask them
00:12:47.940 why they want alibaba independence my friend wade who came in from sylvan lake tonight i asked him
00:12:53.340 at the big four in calgary uh why do you want this and he talked about his children and his
00:12:57.740 grandchildren. I think you mentioned that as well in your speech tonight, didn't you? Yes.
00:13:01.960 You know, the future for them, if we don't take advantage of this right now, where the stars have
00:13:05.680 kind of lined up, we have very favorable administration to our biggest trade partner,
00:13:09.740 the U.S. They believe in us. They support this. They see the value in it. If we do not strike now,
00:13:18.020 this opportunity will forever be gone. That's what I was going to say. I tell so many people,
00:13:22.420 I mean, I'm 61 years of age. I'll never have this opportunity again. Never. Same. You know,
00:13:27.160 think 30 years ago was the last time we had a vote on independence or separation in this country
00:13:31.460 we'll never see it again thanks thanks so much thank you for taking the time to do this nice
00:13:35.700 meeting you by the way great i've heard so much about you it's nice to put a face and a real
00:13:40.300 are you real human to the to the legend the enigma well let's just get in this look at the people
00:13:45.960 who are here tonight oh it's acting here packed thank you so much thank you john
00:13:57.160 What a great night out in Delburn.
00:14:01.740 Now, I'm at home right now, and generally I don't record the final part of a video when I'm on the road at home.
00:14:09.160 But we left Delburn, Alberta about 2.5 to 2.45 ago.
00:14:14.580 It took that long to get home, about an hour and a half to get there.
00:14:18.320 Awful storm rolling through southern Alberta right now.
00:14:21.800 It was white-knuckle driving, white-outs all the way back.
00:14:25.840 I'd like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Albertan for leading the way.
00:14:29.020 Great people.
00:14:30.140 But a wonderful night in Delvern with some terrific speakers.
00:14:33.700 Now, if you want to be part of one of those events, I talked to Chris Scott.
00:14:38.060 He says they're having hundreds of them.
00:14:39.640 There's no reason for you not to be at one of those Let's Talk Alberta events.
00:14:44.200 So check out LetstalkAlberta.com to find one near you.
00:14:48.480 I think I've been up for 21 and a half hours straight right now.
00:14:52.340 So I'm heading off to bed.
00:14:53.800 But thank you very much for watching this video. If you liked it, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you in the next one.