John Bolton - July 09, 2026


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


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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.