00:01:17.700You're going to find out within the next 10 to 15 minutes.
00:01:21.740Now, if 10,000 people watch this video and every one of you contribute $10, you can have a visual representation of Alberta independence on the street within the next week or so.
00:01:36.100Somebody is stepping up, somebody you know very well, somebody I admire and respect, and it's Corey Morgan.
00:01:46.300I spoke to Corey yesterday. He's becoming a third-party advertiser in the independence
00:01:52.980movement, and he needs your help, not only with money, but you to help him with volunteering.
00:01:59.440Here's my interview with Corey. No stranger to this channel, no stranger to Alberta,
00:02:04.260no stranger to you. If you watch the Corey Morgan Show or you are part of the Western Standard,
00:02:10.260I would suggest you go over there and subscribe. I'm a subscriber, and we're joined by Corey
00:02:14.560Morgan. Corey, it's great to have you here. And it's exciting to have you here. One of the first
00:02:18.920people really to dip your toe in the water of third-party advertising for the independence
00:02:24.460campaign. Nice to have you here. Yeah, thanks, John. Yeah, I was, you know, inspired to do it,
00:02:31.140as I said in my video, with another shared broadcast we did when Jason Levine pointed
00:02:35.340out, you know, you can just do it as an individual and why not fill out the paperwork and just make
00:02:41.120official so now we can move and promote this well the thing is and i've talked to jason about this
00:02:45.600he says it's quite easy to do can you get can you kind of run it past us what we might have to do
00:02:51.520if we're interested in doing this because i think people might be a little scared but it's not so
00:02:55.760hard is it no it's not that hard at all and and the main thing i guess the whole basis of it is
00:03:02.000they just want to track all spending where you got the money where it got spent and you know to make
00:03:08.720sure you stay within the confines of what's allowed during a campaign whether it's maximums
00:03:12.880or displaying where the you know your advertising came from and things like that so the one of the
00:03:18.000number one things you need is a cfo somebody who's going to act as your treasurer who's going to track
00:03:22.400that money i'm so fortunate my wife's a bookkeeper and she did it for a political party for some
00:03:27.360years so she's very actually experienced in dealing with elections alberta of the past anyways
00:03:34.000you fill out the forms you make it clear what you want to do you set up a separate bank account
00:03:38.320just so that you know it makes it easier to track all the money that came in or out of this whole
00:03:42.320program is just in that account so you're not trying to chase it down and you report weekly
00:03:48.160that's one of the things they have down there's an online form you're going to give them a report
00:03:51.920every week just so that they can keep up on what you're doing how much you've raised what you've
00:03:57.440been spending on and uh you're off to the races you know they're very helpful actually online with
00:04:02.560that as well i have found from elections alberta some people have gotten upset with them over some
00:04:09.760things and the chief electoral officer maybe there's some bias but in past times i've dealt
00:04:14.400with them they really want to help you along to stay within the rules it makes their life easier
00:04:19.680too if you call them up with questions saying how do i avoid breaking your rules they will tell you
00:04:25.120pretty clearly you know this is what you got to do this is what you can't do they're pretty
00:04:29.040helpful on that front so i i'd suggest anybody looking at it just give them a shout they're
00:04:33.360actually pretty responsive through weekdays because again they're bureaucrats they want
00:04:36.320their day to be easy they want to mail it in to get their paycheck so if other people are are
00:04:40.800following all those rules it only makes it easier for them yeah i want to what i want to do here on
00:04:45.200the independence calendar moving forward is i want to try to help the third-party advertisers
00:04:49.600as much as possible i know i think it's six hundred and seven thousand dollars it's a crazy
00:04:54.160number six hundred thousand dollars we'll just say that's how much we're going to raise you corey
00:04:58.560during this okay wouldn't that be nice you know 20 years income for an independent media guy but
00:05:05.280i don't get to pocket any of it that's part of the great structure of this it's not a
00:05:09.200right personal fundraiser right so we want to help you out here and you've got a pretty easy
00:05:14.160plan which i think is great um what's your plan what do you want to do moving forward
00:05:20.080sure my interest again was to keep it simple about you know what i'm not going to start a whole
00:05:24.080giant organization like the app was or everything with all those facets and volunteers there though
00:05:28.440i'm getting i found out i realized i've got to coordinate a lot of volunteers because they're
00:05:31.520all putting their hands up and it's great yeah i want two things lawn signs because we just haven't
00:05:36.440seen them and we're seeing look hasick has already come out of the gate running he's got those things
00:05:40.220blossoming out there and we've kind of dropped the the ball on it so we can do it fast simple
00:05:45.740lawn signs alberta lawn signs let's get them out to have people showing in their own households
00:05:50.240get your neighbors on it friends family just show that display that there's activity with this and
00:05:55.920that people are supporting the concept and the other part is going to take a little longer but
00:06:01.040uh there's been a guy i've been working with who makes some great digital uh productions ai type
00:06:05.680of commercials i put the first draft up there it still needs some tuning and everything it was just
00:06:09.600kind of his first attempt to throwing something out but yeah wow there's enough potential just
00:06:13.920if he calls that a first draft and we haven't even started you know tidying it up we can make some
00:06:18.480really cool stuff and we got to get it on to in front of eyes that don't normally see us you and
00:06:24.960i have our channels we got great audiences and feedback but we need to get it to pop up in ads
00:06:30.160in front of people watching other channels in alberta people who are watching whether it's
00:06:33.840entertainment or uh you know just other uh podcasters you name it you can pay for that you
00:06:39.760can have those ads pop up in those videos but it takes some money so i gotta raise some money to
00:06:44.800be able to do that and a tpa is just the perfect way to do it we'll tell people how they can do
00:06:49.040that in just a moment i'd really love to see your ads popping up in front of forever canadian ads
00:06:54.240on youtube because they're probably gonna wouldn't that be great now you've got it behind you i've
00:06:58.640got it behind me it's right there the big blue flag what are the two words beneath the crest
00:07:05.440there on your signs that will be in the front lawn of people's houses just choose alberta love it
00:07:12.400Love it. Simple as that. I just want to keep it simple. Just like I got to admit, Forever Canadian just has it pretty basic in there. You know, it just gets that positive messaging going out to other people. Otherwise, I think I got to put some information on it, just showing who sponsored it. You know, in my case, it'll be that pathway to independence and a means of contacting me. Just other things for people if they got paid advertising. And let's just get those other laws. I just said the signs behind you, the flags behind you, the mine behind me too, and in front of my house.
00:07:38.140and uh uh that's a great way to i think everybody should have a flag outside anyways but getting a
00:07:45.020lawn sign out there is even quicker and faster and you can get to all sorts of people's places
00:07:48.940okay so people want to help you you've told me prior to us doing this quick interview here that
00:07:54.320they're already getting in touch they want to help with the signs um so how can people contact you if
00:07:59.940they're interested in doing that yeah well they can go to corymorgan.com i i had that old website
00:08:05.100up forever. I knock the dust off it and just put a quick page up that at least gives the information
00:08:10.140on how to email me to ask questions. And I think I'm going to get a proper script put in there for
00:08:15.940volunteer sign up or things like that, or just email sign up. And of course, yes, I'm not used
00:08:21.200to it. I hate it, but I understand the reality of it. The donate buttons, if you want to throw some
00:08:25.300money in, we need the money to be able to do it. So the means are all there on the website.
00:08:29.160This is all about raising money, Corey. Don't feel shy about asking for the cash.
00:08:34.700Ask for the sale here. Folks, help Corey out. I think you've got maybe 200 signs coming initially.
00:08:41.600We'd like to get you a thousand signs real fast. So if you can go over to CoreyMorgan.com,
00:08:46.440there is a QR code there. You can use your camera on. There's a link right below it.
00:08:51.080Give some money. If you don't have a lot of cash or you don't have cash, don't feel pressured.
00:08:56.460But if you can help out, you can donate up to $5,000 through this whole period of the referendum
00:09:02.080campaign. If you got deep pockets, you could do that, but $10 at a time is fine. And help out
00:09:08.500Corey. Let's get those signs out there. And we should have a big day, Corey, when you get a0.65
00:09:12.640load of signs in, maybe you got a thousand to go out. Let's have a volunteer day and we'll go out
00:09:17.640and put them out for you. How's that sound? That sounds excellent. It'll absolutely do that. And
00:09:22.380as I said, my video's only been up a few hours and the feedback's been incredible. So I think
00:09:26.500that volunteer day is going to be coming really soon. Let's do that. And so you can help out
00:09:31.000again, CoreyMorgan.com. You can just scan the code or click the link. We made a donation to
00:09:37.640you already, Corey. We're excited about this. And we need more people to get in. I'm thinking
00:09:41.500about it myself, Corey. I've just got to think about what I would do with the money and I need
00:09:45.400a CFO, but we need more people to do with this. We know Tanya Clemens is in with Alberta's Next
00:09:51.660Step. Keith Wilson had announced that the other day here on my channel. We've got others coming
00:09:56.700in Jason Levine, who inspired you to do this. He's in as well. So we need to help these people
00:10:01.020out. And we'll be doing a regular feature here on the calendar to tell people where they can send
00:10:05.260money and what it's going to go to. And I think that's important, Corey. You know what I like
00:10:08.900about what you're doing here is people have been making donations to the independence movement for
00:10:13.000the longest time, and they don't know what's happening with their cash. But every time they
00:10:16.320drive by one of your signs, they'll know that it's because they've donated. I think that's a
00:10:21.140fantastic thing. Yeah. And that's something I said in my video, and I want to make clear as part of
00:10:26.020i'm keeping it simple too i'm going to put it up on my website regularly this is the amount of money
00:10:30.980that came in and this is what we bought with it and you know there's going to be some expenses i
00:10:35.540imagine i guess some of the bookkeeping maybe if i'm driving them around there'll be some fuel
00:10:38.820expenses minor minor things i want for the most part we got you know five thousand in here's what
00:10:45.380five thousand dollars over the signs looks like and that's what we spent i mean you know putting
00:10:48.980up the showing exactly what we did if we bought ad space this is what the ad space cost and i
00:10:54.020And I understand with a political party or everything, you've got staff, you've got line items, you've got research, you've got polling, a million things they could spend on and not necessarily efficiently, consultants and you name it.
00:11:04.400This is just going to have a couple of items that we spend on and I will always disclose them so people can see, they'll know.
00:11:09.820I reached into my pocket, I gave some of my hard-earned money to this group, and this is what came from it.
00:11:15.360There's a tangible outcome from the money they donated and helping towards the cause.
00:11:31.360And so what I'm thinking of doing now, and, you know, during the petition campaign here on the calendar, I asked people to send me pictures of them out canvassing.