John Bolton - March 10, 2026


Will A Court Case Doom ALBERTA Independence？ Mitch Sylvestre Responds


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00:00:00.000 hi it's john and welcome to the channel it is uh tuesday march the 10th we're recording this
00:00:08.480 on march the 9th i plan on putting this up early in the morning and as you can see we've got a
00:00:14.500 guest with us right now a lot of you in the independence movement know mitch sylvester from
00:00:18.120 stay free albert i tip my big blue mug to you mitch thank you for being here i guess you've
00:00:23.280 got your own mug today do you yeah i've got my i've got a white mug awesome i'm gonna have to
00:00:30.080 get a blue one from you john next time i see you or just buy one so on the show we can kind of be
00:00:35.280 on the same team even more than we already are well i will make sure you get one i think we have
00:00:40.160 plenty of them here in the house that's not the only blue mug i have mitch thank you for very
00:00:44.440 much for doing this and and i had i have a lot of questions i was out uh doing an event at the
00:00:49.820 Auburn Bay Dog Walk Park on the weekend, which turned out spectacularly. And, you know, the
00:00:55.180 number one thing was we got a lot of signatures between 200 and 300 that day. But I got a chance
00:01:02.280 to talk to so many terrific people. And you're all around the province. You get to do this all
00:01:06.580 the time. And everybody is so damn happy. And that's the thing that I really noticed about
00:01:11.180 this. But people are concerned, Mitch. And that's why I've got you here with me right now.
00:01:15.360 um we've got this court case coming up now first can you just explain to me is it is it stay free
00:01:21.820 alberta that's in court or is this uh indigenous group going after the alberta government can you
00:01:28.900 can you explain that to us well it's definitely stay free alberta okay for sure yep and uh and
00:01:35.060 and the provincial government i think is uh going to weigh in on it okay um yeah i mean because it's
00:01:39.960 their citizens initiative act so they're going to have to win and right now if this holds true
00:01:45.480 the act is dysfunctional so so there's no way there's no way that even in the spirit of anything
00:01:51.560 gathering a you know petition signatures for anything should be against any rules
00:01:57.480 and no matter how because i mean just by itself gathering the signatures doesn't affect anybody's
00:02:01.960 rights first of all so our people are thinking we can win this court case however i'm not that
00:02:06.520 confident uh based on the rulings that have been coming from the supreme court and from courts uh
00:02:11.480 you know in canada lately based on anything that aboriginals seem to bring up they seem to be able
00:02:16.840 to come out on top of that so we're we're going to not take a chance and the court case is between
00:02:24.520 april 7th april 10th somewhere to that point and we're going to collect signatures right up until
00:02:29.320 that very day if we can okay because the thing the thing that that dawned on me when i saw this
00:02:35.000 really well-produced video you did the other day I met the guys who did it on the weekend it was
00:02:39.120 just terrific look great sounded great very to the point was I knew that this was coming up but
00:02:45.320 all of a sudden it seemed like there was some additional urgency because you put that video out
00:02:49.920 and I was wondering have you heard from your lawyers that you've got a good chance of losing
00:02:54.400 this thing and that's the thing that went across my mind well you know how this actually happened
00:02:58.780 I had done the video before. We were aware of it. We had done the video as a precautionary thing
00:03:07.180 because we were able to access the studio at the time. And the further down we got closer to the
00:03:14.300 date, the more I started to realize that if we don't act now, we're in legitimate danger of not
00:03:20.060 being able to actually have the signatures to trigger this referendum on the day of the court
00:03:25.100 date so we wanted to make sure that we're above and well above uh the required signatures to call
00:03:31.020 a referendum based on if they actually say okay well you can no longer you have an injunction
00:03:35.980 against us you can no longer collect signatures by that point it will already be too late according
00:03:40.700 to my plan so we'll already have the signatures and then we'll present the signatures to the
00:03:45.100 to the elections alberta or the provincial government whichever way we decide to do that
00:03:49.500 and uh then we'll move forward from there is it the sturgeon lake crea nation is that who it is
00:03:54.460 and i think it is correct yeah so i'm not even sure if there are more nations i know for sure
00:03:58.700 that sturgeon lake is as well so if they win this thing does that mean the end to this process i
00:04:06.220 mean are the are the signatures still good because they don't think that the province should be
00:04:12.140 allowed to do this at all from what i understand is that am i wrong at that well the the yeah the
00:04:17.660 printer can call this anytime she wants with or without the referendum so so what i'm saying to
00:04:23.020 you is we want to make sure that we're well over the 177 000 threshold at that point and then if
00:04:29.580 we win the injunction uh then we'll you know if we win our court case and we'll continue to collect
00:04:34.220 signatures right to the very end which will be made so so right now uh we're doing this and we're
00:04:40.540 going to use our signatures you know based on the results that we have in the situation that's in
00:04:44.940 front of us but i don't want to be caught uh in a situation where we can no longer collect
00:04:49.580 like signatures and we don't have enough. So if we don't win and have enough signatures,
00:04:55.460 this process does not end. We will still have a referendum if the premier calls for it,
00:05:01.240 just to be clear. I would absolutely expect it to go forward. Okay. So what's the drop dead
00:05:06.980 date? I've heard anywhere from March 26, you said right up until the 7th of April. Don't you need a
00:05:12.580 period where you need to count these things, put them in order, put them in boxes to have them
00:05:16.500 ready to go. What is the drop-dead date here for getting signatures as far as you're concerned?
00:05:21.820 Well, as far as I'm personally concerned, I would, you know, I mean, the injunction is to stop you
00:05:26.860 from collecting signatures. Right, right. We've got, we've got, we've got so many seconds to turn
00:05:32.120 that stuff in. So I would suggest that, you know, our date would be the day that we, that we can
00:05:38.900 start counting these signatures, but we want to make sure we have them and understand this. I
00:05:43.680 I mean, we're going to be sending a message.
00:05:45.360 It's just like when we take a chance and when I organize that rally on the steps of the legislature,
00:05:52.680 there's two messages that you can send.
00:05:55.000 If 1,000 people show up, you send a message.
00:05:57.680 If 17,000 people show up, you send another message.
00:06:00.580 If we get 179,000 signatures, we send a message.
00:06:04.060 If we get 360,000 signatures, we send another message.
00:06:07.800 So I just want to understand.
00:06:09.180 It's up to us what message we want to send.
00:06:10.900 and we're working very hard and our people are you know working going door to door doing whatever's
00:06:16.680 required now to get these signatures we we've lit a fire under the group I'm really happy to see
00:06:22.400 what kind of reaction we're getting and you know what I think everybody's excited about it the fact
00:06:28.320 that we're being challenged in court on something that should be a lawful process has upset a lot
00:06:34.340 of our people and justifiably so it's upset me you know that's why we're that's why we're moving
00:06:39.460 forward on it and thinking no we're not going to allow this so again just just a final date for
00:06:45.320 people to collect signatures right up till the day this court case starts right on april 7th
00:06:49.900 is that what you're saying yeah yeah we're not we're not going to we're not going to slow that
00:06:53.700 process down we're going to want to get as many signatures in before court date fantastic so
00:06:59.120 so the week before court we'd like everybody to send every signature they have and then continue
00:07:04.260 to collect until they shut us down and that's going to be the path anyways if they don't shut
00:07:08.040 us down. We continue to May 2nd. And we'll try and wrap it up, you know, have a run for the
00:07:12.680 roses at the end. So the interesting thing about this was I went in and looked up the Sturgeon
00:07:18.700 Lake Cree Nation this morning, and this is a reserve of about 1,500 people. And altogether,
00:07:26.160 it amounts to about 3,800 people. And they could possibly deny millions of Albertans a democratic
00:07:34.960 vote or this process. That kind of concerns me. I look at what's happening in British Columbia.
00:07:40.700 We hear about Vancouver being taken over, Kelowna, Richmond. And I don't know what's worse,
00:07:47.520 taking somebody's democratic process away or democratic vote away or taking around
00:07:51.100 some land. It'd be a toss-up for me. Is that what we could be dealing with? Is there a possibility
00:07:56.820 that that could happen well yes there is a possibility that could happen or you know or
00:08:05.600 the the justice wouldn't have moved it forward to a court date because we've had a preliminary trial
00:08:10.040 so obviously based on what just happened with our last court date that's what prompted me to do this
00:08:16.040 i'm not confident at all so so the thing is is that we have to do our due diligence and make
00:08:21.220 sure that we work really hard we've got basically right up to easter weekend so you know what uh
00:08:26.700 let's go flat out and get our signatures we can get the signatures in the next three four weeks
00:08:31.260 yeah we don't have to wait till big second like i mean if we just you know unfortunately this
00:08:35.960 whole thing was rigged to work against us we didn't have any summertime ability like you had
00:08:40.480 a great outdoor event on the weekend did yeah uh you know imagine if we had 25 degree weather
00:08:46.420 and we could be holding those all across the province right i mean we've had lots of minus
00:08:51.700 30 minus 25 and that's they did that on purpose to us they delayed this they they launched this
00:08:57.460 on christmas there's and the other court case was was was a distraction so you know right along this
00:09:05.540 whole process uh they've had one thing or another uh to distract change um you know all through the
00:09:11.540 course of this and i think the purpose the real purpose of this is to shorten the signature
00:09:16.820 collection uh by month because that's exactly what it's going to do so it's going to give us a 90 day
00:09:22.500 collection period instead of a 120 day collection period we're supposed to get a month to prepare
00:09:27.220 we never got that month to prepare uh so you know i i mean we understood this going in that this was
00:09:32.820 not going to be easy we understood that we're going to face rose blocks and you know all we
00:09:36.980 have to do is make sure that we adjust and make sure we come out of this uh with advantage you
00:09:41.620 You have a plan down the road for the worst case scenario, I'm assuming?
00:09:45.620 Of course.
00:09:46.820 Okay.
00:09:47.320 Of course.
00:09:48.200 Yeah.
00:09:48.460 I'm not going to ask you what it is because they can tell me anyway, but yeah.
00:09:51.540 Well, you know what the thing is, is that we have a plan, but you understand how fast
00:09:58.720 these stuff could change.
00:10:00.300 Like if circumstances change, we'll adapt.
00:10:03.660 Right.
00:10:04.240 I did a video the other day and I said, you know, I've noticed online and we're not on
00:10:09.640 social media a lot.
00:10:10.640 I don't like social media, but I've been on X and I've seen a lot of Indigenous people recently posting that they're in favor of Alberta independence.
00:10:19.700 And I said in the video, I said, it's time maybe for these people to come forward.
00:10:23.680 We want to hear their voices.
00:10:24.880 We want to see their faces.
00:10:26.580 And what would you say to the people in this province who think they can have a better life?
00:10:31.520 They're Indigenous and they think independent Alberta.
00:10:34.720 What would you suggest they do to try to help out with this cause?
00:10:38.000 Find a petition and vote.
00:10:39.680 Yeah.
00:10:40.640 And do like we do, start participating in your democracy, you know, and it could start right on the reserve or with your leaders.
00:10:51.480 I mean, that's how I got started in this.
00:10:53.580 I got started in this by, you know, not happy with the leader that we had.
00:10:57.820 And basically we fired him.
00:10:59.780 And it's never, you know, I mean, first time in history that had ever happened.
00:11:03.460 And the people, if they're not happy with their situation, can absolutely get involved and change it.
00:11:08.620 And you know what? Our purpose, and you can look right into our value of freedom document, is to help everybody along the way, especially and including Aboriginal people. Not especially, but for sure, Aboriginal people. So the goal is everybody in Alberta is better off.
00:11:26.740 We have people that work with me directly, you know, every morning we have the meetings with podcasters and they there's Aboriginal podcasters on there that are sharing the fact that they think this is the best opportunity for Aboriginal people in the last hundred years.
00:11:43.400 I was out a couple of weeks ago for a dinner with some people who are coordinators of canvassers.
00:11:48.420 Some of them had been out to a training meeting, I think, in Cochrane regarding a door to door campaign.
00:11:53.740 what suggestions do you have people who have badges right now who are canvassers
00:11:57.880 regarding that well we're training everybody up we actually got uh over 2 000 canvassers trained
00:12:04.600 up for door knocking already right and we're we're hosting these events on zoom uh regularly
00:12:10.060 and they're very very good they're very very well done they teach you how to handle these are
00:12:15.680 experts i understand that are teaching this too yeah yeah yeah yeah no no these we've hired people
00:12:20.580 to do this. So they're professional people. They understand how this works. They teach you how to
00:12:27.940 deal with confrontation at the door. So it's basically a non-confrontational process. You go
00:12:33.060 to the door, you ask for a signature, and if they say no, have a good day. You're not going to
00:12:38.300 convince them. That's not the purpose of it. No, but the thing is, I guess, as well, you may not
00:12:43.080 get a signature, but people who might be considering it, at least you put a bug in their ear and
00:12:47.320 they'll be thinking about it.
00:12:48.260 So it's kind of a good promotional event when it comes to State for Alberta and
00:12:52.320 this petition camp and the petition campaign and the referendum down the road
00:12:55.460 too, right?
00:12:56.440 And not only that,
00:12:57.280 you want to make sure that it's a respectful conversation in case they are on
00:13:00.180 the road.
00:13:00.960 They'll come back to you if it's disrespectful and confrontational and then
00:13:04.660 they won't.
00:13:05.140 So we're training our people on how to handle that and to be sure that they
00:13:09.800 don't and aren't.
00:13:11.340 And so that moving forward,
00:13:12.780 we still have an opportunity to get that door.
00:13:15.280 Any final words for people?
00:13:16.740 um i i sent you a text message earlier this morning i said it was an invigorating weekend
00:13:21.980 uh i think your video lit a fire under everyone's ass it was great it really was people were talking
00:13:28.320 about it mitch they thought it was so impressive um and it certainly did we were everybody was so
00:13:33.020 happy on the weekend the event we were at and everyone i've gone to you get these smiles on
00:13:37.120 faces even if it's minus 20 out there what are your what are your final words to people who are
00:13:40.840 out there it's a grind it's really a grind and we've got to go probably another eight months to
00:13:44.620 to the question well yeah it is a grind but you know what we're seeing john honestly people are
00:13:49.420 coming into our signing events and i when i speak every night there's there's we're signing people
00:13:54.140 up and the large majority of them are thankful and happy and and say you know what god it's so
00:14:01.500 nice to have this opportunity to really have a voice in politics um it's almost like we've never
00:14:06.220 had a voice and you know what that may be the case so people are are taking um you know i've
00:14:13.260 taking the opportunity to do what we're talking about and i think albertans are going to seize
00:14:18.060 the reins here and the problem we're going to have if we win this is uh other people are going
00:14:24.220 to see how well we're doing and it's going to become a big problem for the globalists is the
00:14:27.500 way i see it yeah yeah you know i remember back at the legislature october the 25th i believe it was
00:14:35.100 it was and i remember you speaking and there were two words you used there that are becoming more
00:14:40.140 prevalent now it's starting to grow you used it in your video the other day and i think we all
00:14:44.380 should start using it and start tagging everything when we're on facebook and x what's what are the
00:14:48.940 words let's go let's go we need to use that more often i think that you know it's funny it's taken
00:14:53.820 a while but you're on to something there we need to let's go folks let's sign that petition keep
00:14:58.540 working well yeah you know that comes from my hockey roots and let's go means we're not going
00:15:03.740 to put up with your nonsense we're not going to put up with your intimidation so we're going to
00:15:08.220 stand here and fight you and uh that's what let's go means so uh i'm all about it let's go mitch um
00:15:14.460 again i thank you um i i sent a text message out to you this morning early i was talking to people
00:15:20.300 on the weekend i said i want to see if i can talk to mitch i've got some questions i still had some
00:15:23.660 concerns a lot of people did so hopefully this will clear those things up and um i was i was
00:15:28.060 concerned i'm not so concerned right now i think we're still going to move forward with this so
00:15:31.660 again thanks for your time i appreciate it thanks john take care mitch sylvester from stay free
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