John Bolton - July 09, 2026


Where Is All The Money Thomas？ Forever Canadian Doesn't Have To Say


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Why does Thomas Lukasik not have to report the amount of money he is raising for his Forever Canadian campaign to Elections Alberta? Why does he get away with it? And where is the money going to come from?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 602 a.m. Thursday, July the 9th. I hope you're having a
00:00:08.760 great Thursday. Thanks for being here. I want to take a couple of minutes to address a question
00:00:13.520 that I have been asked everywhere I go over the last couple of weeks and people have been talking
00:00:18.800 about this online. So people have walked up to me and they've said, John, how does Thomas Lukasik
00:00:27.980 and his Forever Canadian campaign get away with raising all this money and they don't have to
00:00:34.880 report that information to Elections Alberta. After all, Forever Canadian is a registered
00:00:41.660 third-party advertiser. The other TPAs have to report, why not Lukasik? And I haven't had a good
00:00:48.140 answer. Apparently, we've been provided with an answer, which I'll get to in just a moment.
00:00:53.160 But that's not the question that a lot of you should be asking. If you've given to Forever
00:00:57.680 Canadian in Thomas Lukasik, there is a bigger question you need to have answered. I've got
00:01:03.240 that for you in just a moment. Now, if you go to Thomas Lukasik's website, still says on his
00:01:10.140 website, there are no limits on donation amounts. Every contribution makes a difference. There are
00:01:16.560 limits on donation amounts during the referendum campaign. There are rules. Apparently Lukasik does
00:01:22.780 not have to follow them. People have referred to this. I don't live in Alberta. Can I make a
00:01:27.900 financial contribution without accusations of interference? Lukaszek says yes on our website.
00:01:34.140 During the referendum campaign, you cannot do that. It's against the rules. All the other
00:01:40.120 third-party advertisers cannot do that, but Thomas Lukaszek can get away with it. The chief
00:01:45.220 electoral officer, Gordon McClure, I think has made a stupid decision here. If we go over to the 0.99
00:01:50.200 website. Chief Electoral Officer Issues Referendum Advertising Interpretation Bulletin. I'll put a
00:01:56.320 link in the description. You can read the whole thing here. Let me bring my picture up on the
00:02:00.500 screen. We'll go over to Jason Levine. And this is his tweet regarding this. And this is a link
00:02:06.100 to the page you just saw. Basically, what Elections Alberta is saying is Forever Canadian
00:02:12.400 Advertising Unity would likely not be considered as campaign advertising. So apparently, Thomas
00:02:19.080 Lukasik can raise any amount of money he wants. Any amount. From anywhere. So you'd think he'd
00:02:25.900 be taking in a lot of money. So for a reference here, let's go to a tweet from Keith Wilson
00:02:32.100 and let Alberta decide his third-party advertiser is doing very well. Three weeks in, they've raised
00:02:39.840 $225,000. That's amazing. The maximum that Keith Wilson and the other third-party advertisers,
00:02:47.720 when they're following the rules, the maximum they can raise is slightly over $600,000.
00:02:53.760 But those rules apparently do not apply to Thomas Lukasik.
00:02:57.720 So let me ask you the big question here.
00:03:02.440 If Keith Wilson and Let Alberta Decide and the other third-party advertisers
00:03:07.260 are bringing in all of this money by following the rules,
00:03:10.580 maximum of a $5,000 donation, you can't have donations from the rest of the country,
00:03:16.580 how much money has Thomas Lukasik made and he's not reporting it? He can get money from anywhere
00:03:23.640 and any amount. Has he brought in millions? I'm wondering. If you've donated to Thomas Lukasik
00:03:31.120 and his Forever Canadian campaign, do you think he's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:03:36.500 on signs? Because from what I can see, that's all he's doing and driving around in a van.
00:03:43.160 Where is all of the other money?
00:03:45.280 I'm not suggesting that Mr. Lukasik is skimming money off here,
00:03:48.940 but I think people should ask this question.
00:03:51.480 Where is all of the money?
00:03:53.560 If Keith Wilson, after three weeks, has raised $225,000 following the rules,
00:03:59.780 how much money is Thomas Lukasik raking in by not following them?
00:04:04.180 That's a question that needs to be answered.
00:04:06.880 Where is the money?
00:04:10.000 Thanks a lot for watching.
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00:04:16.680 I will see you in the next one.