John Bolton - March 31, 2026


Will The Petition Campaign Be Stopped？ Lawyer Jeff Rath Has The Answer


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Great news for the Alberta Independence Movement! We have reached the 177,000 signature threshold and Jeff Rath joins me to talk about the amazing efforts of all the canvassers who have been out on the front lines over the last couple of months.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is great to have you along today. It is
00:00:07.820 Tuesday, March the 30th here with the big blue mug of coffee. Thank you so much for
00:00:12.740 clicking on this and great news for the Alberta independence movement. Announced last night,
00:00:17.900 Mitch Sylvester on a Zoom call with everybody telling us we reached the threshold of 177,000
00:00:24.720 signatures. And we're going to talk about that right now with Jeff Rath, who joins me
00:00:29.500 once again it's been too long jeff always great to talk to you thanks for being here i always love
00:00:34.060 coming on your program john so thanks for having me well thank you and you know i know you're
00:00:38.120 thrilled about this uh you're such a strong proponent of alberta independence one of the
00:00:42.200 big voices a big man big hat big voice in the alberta independence movement uh the threshold
00:00:47.480 was 177 000 or thereabouts a few more than that uh what can you tell us about the numbers here
00:00:53.540 people are always asking me how many signatures how many signatures can we even know the number
00:00:58.760 at this point no because the issue is right like we're well over 178 000 signatures right now so
00:01:05.560 and then i i heard yesterday that we have you know we're well over 178 000 and then we and then
00:01:11.800 we just we were just advised yesterday afternoon that we have another 29 boxes of uh of sheets on
00:01:18.420 the way and so they understand the way that every every box has between um you know some of them
00:01:25.140 might only be a quarter full but some of them are packed to the point of you know breaking right
00:01:29.980 yeah so you know we've oh you know our experience has been that you know we're averaging about um
00:01:35.900 you know 1500 signatures per box right so some of them will be a thousand some of them will be
00:01:41.680 2 000 some of them will be 3 000 but we just started using 1500 as a as a good number so
00:01:46.900 you know 29 boxes on the way in that's you know that's another 43 600 signatures that are in
00:01:52.840 transit over and above um 178 000 that was announced yesterday and then you know on top
00:02:00.040 of it that's what's already packaged in the boxes and then they're still you know in the wilderness
00:02:05.000 you know there's probably another 40 50 000 signatures that are still on you know people
00:02:10.380 sheets that haven't been turned in you know to their regional leaders and you know and so on
00:02:14.720 so you know and then on top of it the process is ongoing and that's and that's kind of what i
00:02:19.120 really that's really what i want to talk about this morning yeah before we cannot stop here
00:02:24.260 yeah before we jump before we jump ahead to what's coming up next week and a lot of people
00:02:28.780 are wondering about this court case which you can tell us about in just a moment um this started
00:02:33.360 back on january the 2nd i remember i was out at queensland community center um i was out there
00:02:38.860 with a number of people we had a get together a packed house 400 people 1500 people showed up
00:02:44.200 outside and i went oh my god this is amazing and then it happened everywhere and we saw this all
00:02:49.080 the way through January in the cold and whatnot just your thoughts on the signing locations you've
00:02:53.700 been out to a number of them your thoughts on the canvassers I call them the heroes of
00:02:57.620 independence who have been out on the front lines over the last couple of months well exactly that
00:03:02.620 I mean I always say that they're the heart soul and backbone of this entire movement right and I
00:03:08.060 mean I can't even express to these people how personally grateful I am and how personally
00:03:13.480 grateful my family is you know for all of the time that they put in and all of the work that they put
00:03:18.700 in and you know all you know all of the hours that uh you know that they've spent you know making
00:03:23.720 this happen because it wouldn't be happening without you know all of them and that's why you
00:03:27.800 know like myself like you know like you you know anytime i see a pop-up you know i want to i pull
00:03:32.360 over and i want to say thank you and uh you know whatever because i'm just so grateful you know to
00:03:37.380 all of them for helping us free our province or you know to free our province and make alberta
00:03:43.720 country you know free from you know communist ottawa no it's been amazing and i've been pulling
00:03:49.920 over this coming saturday uh it's going to be canvas or appreciation day so pull over just
00:03:55.040 shake a hand and say thank you or drop off a coffee uh if you can do that on saturday and
00:04:00.180 anytime you see one of these people they're sitting on the side of the road sometimes collecting
00:04:03.640 10 or 12 um signatures at a time through three or four hours because it might be a cold day and
00:04:10.280 And we've got more snow here in Calgary, and they're out there today as well.
00:04:13.860 Did you ever think this would stretch so far?
00:04:15.660 We've seen Scottsdale, Arizona, Yuma, Arizona, California.
00:04:20.260 I got some pictures in from Zama City in North Alberta.
00:04:23.400 Didn't even know the place existed.
00:04:25.000 We've seen pictures from the pyramids in the top of a mountain.
00:04:28.480 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:29.200 Unbelievable.
00:04:29.820 I've got to shake hands with the people that were getting people to sign in front of the pyramids.
00:04:35.220 Unreal.
00:04:36.280 I couldn't believe it.
00:04:37.120 I'll put pictures up.
00:04:38.360 I've got pictures of all these things.
00:04:39.660 i'll put them up in post but i never thought i would see anything like it the alberta flag
00:04:44.420 with the great pyramids in behind it's just outstanding you know we have to thank jason
00:04:50.040 kenny and thomas lucasic for that right because it started out with the folks down in yuma that
00:04:54.960 thought hey this will be fun we're down here we'll have a signing you know in yuma and then
00:04:59.340 of course lucasic and you know and kenny this is even more treasonous this is
00:05:04.300 And then of course, it just became a game at that point.
00:05:12.800 You know, they have people used to travel with a garden gnome and then take pictures
00:05:16.720 of the garden, all of these people just decided that they're going to basically have signature
00:05:25.280 signings all over the world, just to troll Jason Kennedy and, uh, and Thomas the classic.
00:05:30.080 I love our people.
00:05:30.800 absolutely i'm just hilarious and this is completely organic like none of us have organized
00:05:35.600 this at an organizational level this is just our you know this is just albertans having fun
00:05:40.620 doing what albertans do the alberta flag in egypt and then there's a helicopter and they've got a
00:05:46.000 little table on top of the mountain and they're signing a petition it's just absolutely amazing
00:05:50.840 and you know the guy in zama city alberta which i never even knew was there he got 12 signatures in
00:05:56.180 this little hut that he had up there just remarkable now i want to ask you that people
00:06:00.560 are really wanting to know about this court case i want to know about this court case there's this
00:06:05.220 challenge will the petition signing campaign be shut down i think it starts on the 7th it could
00:06:10.960 be a three-day thing uh next week will it be shut down or will we continue until the march 2nd
00:06:16.080 day line well i mean never say never i mean if an injunction issues i mean we'll deal with it at the
00:06:21.060 time but i you know somebody who's been practicing law for 34 years i'd say that the chances of that
00:06:27.120 happening or you know i'll use the judge's words slim to none i mean the the judge herself actually
00:06:33.540 said in uh you know a case management hearing that we had that the odds of her uh granting an
00:06:39.880 injunction to stop the you know the signature collection process you know were slim to none
00:06:44.880 right yeah yeah you know that being said never you know never never never say never i mean maybe
00:06:51.120 the fact that we've now announced and this is something i woke up worrying about this morning
00:06:55.580 we've now announced that we've reached the goal you know this could trigger somebody to you know
00:06:59.620 want to have a you know to issue an injunction but but again if you think about what they're
00:07:03.520 trying to do and it's it's a very odd thing right let's you know look let's take a step back and
00:07:08.580 look at what the citizens initiative act is right the citizens initiative act is nothing more or less
00:07:14.040 then the legislature setting out a process through which citizens can communicate with
00:07:21.560 their elected representatives with regard to a broad range, you know, any issue that
00:07:26.780 the citizens want to communicate, you know, in a formal way with their elected representatives,
00:07:31.540 right?
00:07:32.080 So, you know, in effect, what these people are doing, like the lawyers that are going
00:07:36.200 into court, you know, claiming that they're, you know, that, you know, that somehow or
00:07:41.180 other that all of this has to stop because treaty rights are being violated you know by people
00:07:46.040 sitting on the side of a road you know getting other people's signatures right yeah um you know
00:07:51.900 you have to ask yourself how in any way first of all anybody's rights are being violated and second
00:07:58.960 of all how a court can prohibit by way of injunction citizens being able to communicate
00:08:06.000 with their legislature i mean at that point you know are we going to start issuing injunctions
00:08:10.280 you know prohibiting citizens from writing letters to their mlas getting back to you talking about
00:08:14.520 you know talking our chat earlier about letters right yeah so other than we were offline right
00:08:19.220 are they going to prohibit citizens communicating with their mlas are they going to get a mandatory 0.99
00:08:23.480 injunction to have censors in all of our mlas office opening the mail um you know to you know
00:08:30.760 make sure that any mail that might offend a certain segment of society doesn't get through
00:08:36.020 to the mla it's i mean the whole you know the whole concept behind all of this i find deeper
00:08:42.280 deeply troubling you know leaving aside the fact that i for the life of me still can't figure out
00:08:47.560 how people gathering signatures from little tables at the side of the road prevents a first nations
00:08:52.620 person from hunting fishing trapping you know modern way of life throughout the territory uh
00:08:59.020 you know etc like you know the whole the whole con the whole concept to me just doesn't work
00:09:04.680 Well, really, signing the petition isn't really, well, it's accomplishing something, but it's not really changing anything.
00:09:11.220 That will come down the road with a question.
00:09:13.440 I mean, if you don't want Alberta independence, you could sign the petition and vote no.
00:09:17.900 No, but again, to be clear, even if everybody votes yes, it doesn't change anything, right?
00:09:23.880 Things don't actually change until a constitutional conference has been convened, right?
00:09:29.840 And, you know, an agreement is entered into between Alberta and all the various provinces in Canada, you know, as to the terms of the divorce.
00:09:40.060 And from a First Nations perspective, and this is coming right out of, you know, Peter Hogg's phenomenal text on Canadian constitutional law.
00:09:49.420 First Nations have a unique place in that process that no other group in our society has.
00:09:55.940 And that is that under Section 35.1, not 35 or 35.1, but 35.1 of the Constitution Act 1982, you know, any changes that could possibly affect the exercise of powers by the federal government with regard to First Nations people, the First Nations have to be invited to that constitutional conference and have a role and a voice at that table.
00:10:25.380 Right. Be clear. Professor Hogg makes it crystal clear. First Nations people have a role. They have a voice. They do not have a veto. Right. Right. So, you know, that's what everybody needs to understand that what the law of Canada is.
00:10:40.180 And it's just really sad and unfortunate that you've got lawyers billing clients, you know, to submit thousands of pages of materials that seem completely devoid of understanding of the actual legal framework of Canada.
00:10:55.840 Let me ask you this, Jeff. So your best guess, although we don't know what's going to happen next week, your best guess is that we'll be able to continue with our petition signing up until May 2nd.
00:11:05.860 My question is next. The next step is this is just people signing a petition. If we actually get the question, will this kind of thing pop up again?
00:11:15.560 Because we're now talking about a vote on leaving. And that's what I get concerned about.
00:11:20.520 and i'm not even getting to the clarity act which i read people can read it it's not very long
00:11:26.020 doesn't seem all that clear to me what happens in the next process i don't know whether you want to
00:11:30.680 get ahead of this but could this happen again could we be stuck in court fighting over this
00:11:35.300 question or will it be the province that's taken to court oh i'm i'm i'm convinced that this is
00:11:40.840 just going to be an ongoing irritant through the entire you know the entire process right
00:11:45.760 You know, it's, you know, every time there's an inflection point, you know, there's a potential for somebody to file a, you know, a, you know, a silly case in front of the court that we're then going to have to deal with, right?
00:11:59.440 Yeah.
00:12:00.120 You know, and it's just unfortunate, you know, you know, it's a form of lawfare, right?
00:12:05.220 Yep.
00:12:05.420 And, you know, and unfortunately the lawyers that are bringing these cases forward are getting paid and they're getting paid very well and, you know, to do this.
00:12:13.600 And, you know, it allows, you know, people to, you know, garner attention to themselves.
00:12:19.260 I mean, you know, look at Lukasik, you know, trying to get intervener status, you know, in front of Justice Feasby.
00:12:24.800 I mean, he was thrown out of court.
00:12:26.400 I mean, you know, basically said that, you know, he's just basically there to make political arguments and he has no place in the courtroom.
00:12:31.840 but you know that little teeny tommy lucasic you know um you know with his four foot hair
00:12:37.900 stand up in front of the courtroom every day or the courthouse every day and get on tv every day
00:12:43.020 talking about you know how horrible you know the idea of albertans being freed from the tyranny of
00:12:49.580 ottawa you know would be for people right so i mean it gives these people a soapbox it gives them
00:12:54.620 a uh you know it gives them an ability to get in front of the cameras and you know unfortunately
00:12:59.460 that's what we're going to be dealing with i mean it's a very political process and these people are
00:13:03.780 misusing the legal process you know in order to give themselves a political platform and so you're
00:13:09.720 you're looking at the long game you're seeing more of this coming down the road you're prepared for
00:13:13.200 this for all the possibilities you know it's just it's just going to be ongoing unfortunately
00:13:17.880 yeah you're you know we got the 177 000 let's let's uh accentuate the positive here a little
00:13:23.380 bit it's it's well yeah and i really want to talk about what a great achievement that is i mean
00:13:27.640 You know, it's a great campaign and you people aren't well organized and you'll never get there or whatever.
00:13:34.380 I mean, we're a month shy of the goal and we're already there.
00:13:37.440 And I think that's why Mitch wanted to announce that last night was to, you know, was to basically let everybody know that, you know, please stop listening to all these naysayers that are trying to, you know.
00:13:46.420 I mean, there has been a lot of, you know, untoward interference in this process.
00:13:51.940 You know, whether, you know, it's Elections Alberta, you know, filing, you know, what I consider to be harassing applications to haul APP into court to try to have APP declared a third party advertiser or, you know, from all appearances, you know, because I know a complaint has been filed that Elections Alberta has done nothing about with regard to, you know, all the forever Canadians harassing our canvassers on the streets. 0.85
00:14:18.580 and, you know, all of the death, you know, like, you know, the death threats and all
00:14:22.200 this other stuff that's been going on, you know, there's been a massive campaign of harassment
00:14:27.140 and intimidation, you know, levied at our canvassers and levied at our campaign that
00:14:33.420 certainly was never present, you know, during the, you know, during the Lukasik Forever
00:14:38.980 Cognizant campaign.
00:14:40.100 I mean, none of us would think to do something like that, but that's, you know, but this
00:14:44.580 is what Lukasik and his team think is appropriate.
00:14:47.080 Well, and the thing is, every time I go out to one of these places, and I've been by so many, everybody's got a smile on their face, and it's just so positive.
00:14:55.440 And it's just been remarkable.
00:14:58.560 You're seeing people online trying to downplay what's actually happened here.
00:15:02.060 But, you know, I said yesterday when we were setting up this interview, this is kind of unprecedented.
00:15:06.100 The Forever Canadian thing, you know, they go on about, and actually the National Post wrote a story about the challenges that the petition campaign has had when it came to people with P.O. boxes.
00:15:16.760 they did a whole article on it and there were comments uh about how forever canadian got a lot
00:15:21.720 more signatures they didn't have to collect id they didn't have that beautiful and they were
00:15:26.080 allowed to use p.o boxes yes but basically do whatever they wanted and then on top of it i mean
00:15:31.500 you know like you know like let's according to lukastic well it depends what number and that's
00:15:36.260 why you know i said that a lot of their numbers i think are just fraudulent um right you know
00:15:40.440 because you know you listen to lukastic one day and he said they had over half a million
00:15:44.060 then he says that they turned in 456,000 then if you look at the official um uh elections alberta
00:15:52.200 website apparently they turned in 438,000 and then when you look at the whatever the review
00:15:58.940 process was that elections alberta used you know they knocked it back down to 406,000 but again
00:16:05.340 keep in mind i mean elections alberta like i know i know of a letter that was sent to them it was i
00:16:09.800 robert patterson made a comment about it um under a under a uh western standard article
00:16:15.880 you know um a gentleman by the name of robert patterson sent a letter into uh elections alberta
00:16:21.800 and elections alberta wouldn't tell him you know what statistical sampling size they used with
00:16:27.400 regard to the you know logistic signatures and i mean you know if you're knocking you know like 30
00:16:32.760 you know whatever the math is uh for you know 32 000 signatures out right off the top right i mean
00:16:40.540 that's a pretty significant number you know at that point you know shouldn't you be verifying
00:16:44.740 every single signature because or scanning them in and running them through a database how many
00:16:49.880 duplicate names how many duplicate addresses how many mickey mouses how many donald ducks right
00:16:55.380 you know we know that a lot of that was going on we also know that there were a lot they were
00:16:59.560 signing up tourists they were signing up homeless people you know they were you know signing up
00:17:04.240 people in memory like it was you know it was awful what they were doing you know and uh you know to
00:17:12.760 come up with this inflated number that they're coming up with and of course they're going to
00:17:15.980 want to try to compare their number to our number but it's like apples to oranges because every
00:17:20.200 single one of ours has been verified by somebody with a with an id like that like that poor 0.66
00:17:25.500 gentleman that pulled the fire alarm at uh you know at the big floor you know i hadn't realized
00:17:32.040 that he just given somebody his driver's license and id before he pulled the fire alarm right so
00:17:36.020 what what we need to stress here is uh go out over the next several days over the weekend like
00:17:41.100 we're that this is we're going to lose this court case next week if you've been procrastinating go
00:17:45.620 right away i think i want everybody to go out and you know and canvas you know even though we're now
00:17:53.920 well ahead i want everybody to continue canvassing and signing signatures like we're a hundred
00:17:58.180 thousand signatures behind and you know and you know and we need to get you know we have a month
00:18:04.340 left right you know as far as i'm concerned right because i think the odds of an injunction being
00:18:09.280 granted next week are slim to none but you know we need to go out and we've got a canvas and we
00:18:13.900 need to sign you know this petition you know as if our kids lives and our grandchildren's lives
00:18:18.980 depend on it because they do yeah right so yeah you know and so everybody that hasn't had an
00:18:24.220 opportunity to sign the alberta declaration of independence petition this is your chance you
00:18:28.960 know to come and put your name down and be part of alberta history right yeah well everybody that
00:18:34.260 you know everybody that wants to be part of this and everybody wants to say hey i was there i signed
00:18:39.540 the petition i support a free i supported a free and independent alberta i was part of creating
00:18:45.020 this wonderful society that we now live in with no income tax and everybody you know you know
00:18:50.500 everybody is prosperous and kids can afford you know afford their own home you know uh almost
00:18:55.360 right out of high school because they can get you know good jobs that will allow them you know to
00:18:59.720 make a mortgage payment they can afford their own homes you know all of those types of things
00:19:03.380 just like it was when we were growing right like yeah you know that's you know that that's what we
00:19:08.060 have to you know that's what we need to get back to and we need people to come out and you know
00:19:12.140 support it and i know there's a lot of young um a lot of young people out there um and for me young
00:19:17.880 persons anybody under 40 um right but anyway that haven't signed the petition yet i'd like all of
00:19:25.640 you to do one thing this week when you get your paycheck right take a look at your pay stub take
00:19:30.440 a red pen and circle the amount of federal income tax that you're paying on on that paycheck right
00:19:35.800 We've run the numbers through the value of freedom AI model.
00:19:40.980 We can absolutely afford in year one of independence to completely eliminate all federal income tax.
00:19:47.880 And that's even after replacing all federal services in Alberta, including, you know, standing up in Alberta armed forces, you know, taking over immigration and most importantly deportation.
00:20:00.780 you know so that you know all of these $15 an hour Tim Hortons workers that have been you know
00:20:07.220 brought in as temporary foreign workers with their wives and kids and everything going to be
00:20:11.120 given plane tickets to Ottawa you know etc etc right you know it's you know people need to focus
00:20:17.780 on how much better our lives are going to be once you know you know once Alberta frees itself
00:20:26.160 from this mess that ottawa is continually creating for us yeah ask yourself the question if you uh
00:20:32.480 if you were able to eliminate even half of your income tax from the federal government how would
00:20:36.900 that change your life and imagine how it would change if you know we can eliminate all of it
00:20:40.600 and you're 100 percent of federal yeah so this isn't a little party oh i lowered your taxes
00:20:46.360 you have an extra hundred dollars this year eleven dollars a month eleven dollars a month i just got
00:20:53.460 a fundraising email in from the Liberals, and he's saying we gave 22 million Canadians an $11
00:21:00.320 a month tax break. But no, just think how that would change your life. My point was, you know,
00:21:04.820 get out there and sign the petition, stop procrastinating, and then we can put the final
00:21:08.500 push on for a May 2nd once we find out that we're going to continue with this next week.
00:21:13.640 I want to ask you about something you told me about yesterday, because it's interesting. I
00:21:16.840 checked my email address, johnboltonab at gmail.com, if you'd like to send me some pictures
00:21:21.720 from your petition signing place did you have a french camera crew come by to talk to you about
00:21:27.040 this i want to hear about this because yeah there's apparently there's a french tv station
00:21:30.960 that's doing a documentary on alberta independence and they came out and they wanted to you know they
00:21:36.220 uh you know they they wanted to come and see me on my ranch and they wanted to see some horses
00:21:41.480 and all that kind of stuff so anyway when i was there i noticed there's this ravine on my ranch
00:21:45.640 that sometimes the horses get into to graze and of course you know the whole herd was in there and
00:21:51.160 Of course, they saw our herd of meat pulling up.
00:21:54.460 So, you know, they left to come and, you know, to leave the ravine and around out of the back 40 and, you know, to where the barn is in the hopes that there'd be some grain on offing perhaps.
00:22:04.320 But anyway, these two horses got stuck in the ravine as if they didn't follow the other horses and they were just running back and forth across the fence line.
00:22:13.580 So this camera crew says, oh, we'd like to see you do something while you're here. 0.86
00:22:17.540 And I said, oh, we can hop in my side-by-side and we'll see if we can get those, you know, those dumb horses out of the ravine, right?
00:22:22.460 So anyway, we drive around to where the ravine is on the ranch.
00:22:25.420 And then I'm trying to get the horses down off of this hill.
00:22:27.820 But, you know, it was, you know, the sides are really steep and there's kind of one path down.
00:22:31.600 And they couldn't figure it out immediately on their own.
00:22:34.480 So as we're driving away, I turned to this French camera crew and I said, yeah, I said, this is a perfect allegory for independence. 0.96
00:22:43.860 So I said, you know, just like you got some really dumb horses, you've got some people that just can't be led to freedom. 0.61
00:22:51.920 And then I just said it off the cuff, and then they said, oh my God, that's so good. 0.96
00:22:56.320 We were glad we got that on film, right?
00:22:58.780 So we were having a good laugh over it.
00:23:00.700 I'll text you the picture, but I checked my email, and Neil sent me a picture of you out on a road with the French camera crew, and he's standing there at a petition signing place.
00:23:10.700 You must have met Neil when you went there.
00:23:12.440 but there you are i'll send the picture to you but i'll put it up in post so people can see this
00:23:16.500 french camera crew there's the alberta flags off in the background and thanks to neil for sending
00:23:21.000 the picture to me i think that's pretty awesome um it's just great to talk to you again i'm really
00:23:25.800 excited jeff this has been quite a process i started talking to you uh last year uh we weren't
00:23:31.400 anywhere near here um where we are now the petition uh we've almost well we've got a month left to go
00:23:37.900 and we can still go that's the whole thing this is great yeah yeah we need everybody to work like
00:23:43.040 it's day one and there were a hundred thousand signatures behind because we really the more
00:23:47.700 signatures that we can get the more albertans that come out and pledge support for alberta
00:23:52.820 independence the stronger the political case is you know to convince danielle that she's got to 0.89
00:23:58.760 stop parroting you know strong alberta within a united canada and actually start leading the
00:24:03.780 parade i know you know and i know a lot of i know a lot of albertans want to see albert and see
00:24:08.320 danielle you know lead albertan independence um you know so you know if you want that to happen
00:24:14.300 you got to get out and sign the petition you know if you want to have a better life for your your
00:24:18.660 kids and your family get out and sign the petition everybody you know can have different reasons for
00:24:23.200 wanting to do that right right yeah i think that i you know i think everybody just needs to
00:24:28.560 understand that we have, you know, literally, you know, a month and two days left, right? We have
00:24:34.300 the April, you know, we have to the second to make and we all just need to keep working. We're
00:24:38.520 Albertans. We need to roll up our sleeves and just keep working as hard as we can to create this
00:24:45.160 wonderful new country, you know, called the Commonwealth of Alberta. Yeah, I'm excited about
00:24:50.440 it. I feel like I'm a little part of something. I said when I was in Mirror, Alberta last week,
00:24:56.480 i said if we all do a little bit it becomes a very big thing and that's what i'm seeing everybody
00:25:00.380 doing and you know uh this saturday if you're out uh drop by take somebody to sign the petition but
00:25:06.300 go out and say hi to somebody at a petition signing place uh for canvas or appreciation day
00:25:11.780 uh go by and say hi hey i'm finally i got hung up somewhere but i'm finally getting my canvassing
00:25:17.180 badge um i think this week so i'm going to be actually hopping on my quad and going around and
00:25:22.880 seeing all my neighbors and knocking on the doors of all my neighbors.
00:25:25.820 And I'm going to find out really quick who I can talk to,
00:25:28.660 who I'm still going to talk to.
00:25:33.140 I don't hear your real friends are. Yeah.
00:25:36.960 It'll be great to see Jeff Rath rolling out there with his hat on coming up to
00:25:40.480 the doors and signing people up on the petition, but go out and sign it.
00:25:44.100 Like Jeff said, like, like we have no really no tomorrow.
00:25:48.120 Go out there and sign the petition, get,
00:25:50.000 get your name down and have a part of this because you'll feel better a lot of people ask me what can
00:25:54.160 i do sign the petition so go out there and do that if you haven't done it yet jeff always great to
00:25:58.560 talk to you uh it is a pleasure hope to see you around real soon at an event i know you're going
00:26:02.960 to be out there uh talking a lot more and when we get into the next process i'm i'm assuming there's
00:26:07.360 going to be a lot more talking and a lot more to do oh yeah well i mean again then it's just a full
00:26:13.120 on educational campaign trying to educate out you know every albertan on the benefits of independence
00:26:18.480 you know and keep in mind i mean there's going to be a lot of countervailing noise i mean
00:26:22.320 i'm sure you know pierre polyev is going to be coming to alberta to try to convince us all that
00:26:27.680 you know that we should stay under the tyranny of ottawa and that we should continue to pay 1.00
00:26:31.680 equalization and uh you know and maintain the 10 to 1 disparity between dairy licenses between
00:26:38.560 quebec and alberta so that pierre can one day become prime minister and never fix anything
00:26:44.080 Right. So we're going to have that. You know, we'll see whether Danielle, you know, really is prepared to put Alberta first or whether she's going to join, you know, you know, team, you know, team Pierre Polyev and team Carney, you know, trying to tell Albertans that we're silly for wanting to be free and independent.
00:27:02.880 You know, I still haven't. Have you have you heard one of them articulate anything besides threats and fear as to what the benefits are of voting today in Canada?
00:27:11.380 No, no, I know I don't.
00:27:12.540 Have you heard any of them articulate one single reason that Albertans would be better off if they voted to stay in Canada?
00:27:18.700 No, the only thing I hear from people, I ran into a guy, I think it was in El Nora.
00:27:22.620 He stopped, an elderly gentleman stopped in the middle of the road, came over and said, what are you doing?
00:27:26.620 And I said, well, we're here signing up people for the Alberta independence movement.
00:27:31.480 And it was all patriotism.
00:27:33.440 That was it.
00:27:34.920 They're waving the flag, and that's all they've got when we have 20 or 30 different reasons why we want to leave.
00:27:39.580 but no i haven't heard anybody articulate a good reason for alberta to stay in canada i just don't
00:27:45.820 get it other than patriotism and that's not good i had an interesting chat i had an interesting
00:27:51.660 chat the other day i was talking to a new canadian and uh uh who's you know who's been working here
00:27:57.500 in the healthcare system for oh i don't know 20 years right and uh uh and she seemed quite political
00:28:03.260 so i quietly asked her i said hey i said so have you signed the petition yet and she goes oh she
00:28:08.140 She says, I'm still on the fence.
00:28:10.340 I said, yeah.
00:28:10.960 I said, it must be a really hard decision, right?
00:28:14.400 No income tax, Canadian flag.
00:28:17.180 No income tax, Canadian flag.
00:28:19.380 Yeah.
00:28:19.960 I know.
00:28:20.900 She says, it's such a hard decision.
00:28:23.600 Yeah.
00:28:24.880 But again, like people get it, right?
00:28:26.860 It's like, you know, do you want to take care of your family?
00:28:29.380 And you want, like, you know, and again, I've talked about this a lot.
00:28:31.440 But, you know, say you're, you know, a police officer making $105,000 or $110,000
00:28:35.680 and you're married to a nurse making 150 you know that no just the no federal income tax thing alone 0.61
00:28:41.520 that's an extra 50 000 a year into your family's bank account yeah i mean you know you know and all
00:28:49.120 of that money is going to stay in alberta well i just i was just looking at a tweet you put out
00:28:53.520 earlier today albertans aren't canadian patriots anymore they're alberta patriots zero federal
00:28:58.800 income tax cpp ui cut in half 33 to 38 take-home pay increase 45 total tax reduction and what's
00:29:07.440 the question why wouldn't you vote for that i just love it mind it there jeff because i'm going to
00:29:12.820 run out of time but okay well no no i'll let you go and i think it's always a pleasure to come on
00:29:17.060 so thank you for having me john and and again i just want to say one last thank you to all of our
00:29:21.360 canvassers and all of the people that have been working so hard uh you know to free alberta from
00:29:25.860 Communist Canada. It's, you know, we're getting there. And God bless all of you. Thank you so
00:29:31.620 much. Yeah, you betcha. I echo those thoughts completely. Jeff, always a pleasure to talk to
00:29:36.180 you. Thank you very much. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,
00:29:40.140 ring the bell for notifications. I'll see you in the next one. All right. Take care, John.
00:29:49.480 The Alberta independence movement needs you.
00:29:55.860 If you've been looking for a way to show your appreciation to all those people who have been
00:30:03.340 out over the last several months collecting signatures on petitions, this coming Saturday
00:30:08.700 is the day for you. Saturday, April the 4th has been designated Canvasser Appreciation Day. So
00:30:15.900 here's what you need to do. Go buy a petition place this coming Saturday with some coffee,
00:30:22.120 some donuts maybe some treats maybe an easter bunny it's easter weekend after all walk up shake
00:30:29.380 a hand and say thank you but there's one more thing we need you to do while you're there take
00:30:35.920 a picture of the people with their coffee take a picture of you shaking their hand be creative
00:30:41.620 and send it to us because we're going to make something special out of your pictures send the
00:30:47.320 pictures to letsgoalberta1 at gmail.com that's letsgoalberta1 at gmail.com in the last couple
00:30:57.540 of months i have received hundreds of pictures from people out there in some of the worst weather
00:31:02.300 possible collecting signatures one at a time and all the time with a big smile on their face so if
00:31:08.840 you've been wanting to have a small part in the independence movement be part of canvasser
00:31:13.380 appreciation day coming up on saturday april the 4th so what do you have to do again go buy the
00:31:19.220 pop-up petition place in your neighborhood or go to stayfreealberta.com to find one close by pick
00:31:25.700 up some coffee and donuts go by with a smile shake a hand say thank you take a picture and send that
00:31:32.580 picture to letsgoalberta1 at gmail.com you can have a small part in the independence movement
00:31:40.180 this coming canvasser appreciation day on saturday april the 4th thank you