PJ The Belt - Alberta Patriots Just CRUSHED The Signature Goal - What Now？

00:00:00.000 They also used Trump derangement syndrome to collect their signatures, a false threat of the 51st state.

00:00:06.520 Trump is going to come up and annex us. If you vote yes for independence, Trump is going to come up and annex us magically.

00:00:13.700 You don't care about any of that. Maybe you're not an Albertan.

00:00:16.360 Maybe you are an Albertan and you somehow don't care about the fact that your province is being treated like crap and has been being treated like crap for decades. 1.00

00:00:24.400 Somehow you don't care about that. 1.00

00:00:25.680 I hear the train is coming. It's rolling around the bed. And I ain't seen the sunshine. I don't know where.

00:00:39.400 Okay, so I'm going back home from the event, the Elections Alberta event, where the Stay

00:00:48.400 Free Alberta campaign handed in the signatures.

00:00:51.160 The official count, according to all reports, is 301,600 and change signatures, which is

00:00:59.000 not as many as I expected, at least 400,000 signatures.

00:01:01.820 However, it is an impressive number nonetheless.

00:01:05.280 it is still a very impressive number and i will explain why in a minute because i'm heading back

00:01:11.120 mitch sylvester the ceo of the alberta prosperity project and the proponent of the question of

00:01:19.100 alberta becoming independent from canada deposited all the signatures all the official signatures

00:01:24.320 today at the elections alberta building kingsway avenue if you guys haven't seen it you can check

00:01:30.960 out my live stream where i try to live stream i got there a little bit later i do live in rural

00:01:35.580 alberta and i wasn't able to make it on time unfortunately but i did record some interactions

00:01:40.880 i did record the beautiful crowd and the enthusiasm that the people alberta patriots

00:01:47.120 were showing so that part is done now that part is done and what i want to talk about in this video

00:01:53.780 is what comes next as far as i know as far as i'm concerned what is likely to come next for one

00:02:01.500 what's supposed to happen is that elections alberta is supposed to verify the signatures

00:02:06.920 they're supposed to count them and verify them that is a tricky thing because elections alberta

00:02:12.840 hasn't shown itself to be a very friendly institution towards alberta sovereignist

00:02:20.140 towards what i like to call alberta patriots they have been they have not been impartial

00:02:25.660 in my opinion from my view from my perspective as recent as just last week there was a whole

00:02:32.220 scandal which i like to call a manufacturer scandal it's just my opinion i mean the way

00:02:37.920 that the whole thing was put together it just goes it just kind of lends itself to be interpreted

00:02:43.500 it as a some sort of malice attempt at least based on the optics of it all you have and you

00:02:51.060 guys can check that video it's probably i don't know two or three videos ago you have like half

00:02:56.480 a dozen cruisers police cruisers showing up at a an alberta independence event now this one wasn't

00:03:03.020 a stay free alberta event it was a different group pro independence but a different group

00:03:08.400 called the centurion project and apparently elections alberta was handing in some paperwork

00:03:13.580 serving somebody with papers because allegedly somebody obtained some information some voter

00:03:18.900 information in a way that they shouldn't have obtained it in an allegedly legal way but they

00:03:24.540 made a whole scene they showed up in a they showed up to a public event with a half a dozen cruisers

00:03:31.500 and a probably a dozen officers to just serve someone who they knew likely likely knew was not

00:03:38.640 a threat they just wanted to somebody in there looks like they wanted to make a statement by

00:03:44.000 showing up with this big group of police officers and it looks like this whole thing had the effect

00:03:50.160 that they wanted because think about it a week ago we weren't even talking about this we were

00:03:54.980 talking about we got to get the signatures in and we got to prepare for campaign mode for the real

00:04:00.580 referendum in october in the fall of this year the real referendum because what just happened

00:04:06.420 is the petition drive to get a referendum a binding referendum on independence however the

00:04:13.220 narrative which only helps the other side is now that the independence movement the narrative is

00:04:19.540 that the independence movement is full of fraudsters and people who did some sort of data

00:04:24.500 breach to get signatures that way at best that perspective that perception is ill-informed

00:04:32.060 at worst is demagoguery is bad blood and intentionally you know premeditated to harm

00:04:41.200 the movement at best ill-informed just negligence in the part of whoever made the decision to show

00:04:48.520 up with so many police officers unnecessarily and make a whole scene out of it at best still

00:04:54.860 informed or negligent at worst premeditated and again all of this is just my opinion i don't know

00:05:01.820 any of this for a fact i'm just being an observer organizing my thoughts based on what i've noticed

00:05:07.100 what i've witnessed and the information available today obviously investigations are continuing as

00:05:13.280 we speak but this is all just opinion i don't know any of this for a fact but from the outside

00:05:19.660 looking in what was the necessity what was the need to bring such a police presence to a public

00:05:28.320 event public events that have never created any sort of criminal activity any sort of violence

00:05:35.380 has ever been witnessed as far as i'm concerned at an independence event quite the opposite

00:05:40.300 they're very civil democratic legal and i reiterate legal events and they showed up with

00:05:48.100 all of this the news of course opportunistically had the tip they knew what was going on already

00:05:54.180 and they already put out on the cbc the usual suspects the cbc global news ctv government paid

00:06:00.680 media again government paid with your tax dollars they're paid to tell you what to think not to tell

00:06:07.240 you the facts and they're telling you to think that the alberta independence movement is full

00:06:12.020 of people who allegedly have stolen private information and that is the perspective that is

00:06:18.840 the perception that has been created and who benefits from this who benefits from it all the

00:06:24.640 opponents of alberta sovereignty starting with the federal government the feds benefit from alberta

00:06:30.600 staying shackled to canada the feds benefit the ndp also benefits that's the provincial

00:06:36.620 here in Alberta, the provincial left party, the opposition. They're working overtime to

00:06:42.560 undermine, diminish the effort of Alberta patriots to gain their sovereignty, to have a real voice

00:06:50.380 in this mess that is today's Canada. They created a campaign already to try to fight and attack,

00:06:58.020 putting out attack ads and everything. And the NDP will do anything and everything to get him

00:07:02.380 to power they know that they don't have any other way of winning the election in alberta is a

00:07:07.900 predominantly conservative province so they have to come up with ways to divide and conquer the one

00:07:13.340 time they governed because the right the conservative right divided split in alberta and

00:07:20.120 they opportunistically got in there and that is how they won an election and they're trying to do

00:07:24.780 the same thing again by creating infighting in the conservative movement the other guy the forever

00:07:31.260 a colony of canada guy he also lucasuck he also grifts he also he collecting donations you know

00:07:38.600 getting people to sign up to his database talk about database and data mining getting people

00:07:44.840 to sign up to his database by fear-mongering telling people your data has been collected

00:07:50.200 but now go ahead and give me your data so that i can have it for my future political ambitions

00:07:55.480 A guy who's mired in, you know, mired in corruption and alleged corruption in the past when he was a politician, a guy who has many scandals behind him, so many skeletons in that closet.

00:08:10.240 and here he is accusing people pointing fingers that the alberta independence movement by and

00:08:16.040 large apparently is just you know creating a situation where they're taking albertans

00:08:21.160 information which is couldn't be further from the truth at least when you speak generally like

00:08:26.140 albert stay out stay free alberta which is the official campaign that handed all the signatures

00:08:30.320 in today they were not involved in this like the according to elections alberta it wasn't them it

00:08:37.080 was this other group and again the investigation is ongoing so but the perception that was created

00:08:44.220 is that everybody in the alberta independence movement had something to do with the data

00:08:49.580 breach the investigation ain't even over yet but the perception and i'm going to use that word a

00:08:54.800 lot because perception is reality in politics whatever you hear first is what you heard if you

00:09:00.940 don't hear a rebuttal if you don't hear counter information that is all you heard and how many

00:09:06.280 people in this country in canada get their news from the cbc how many people continue to get their

00:09:11.300 news i mean the cbc viewership is way low right now mainstream media in canada has lost all

00:09:16.860 credibility but there's still a percentage of the population who watch them they've always

00:09:23.380 whether that's out of habit because they've always watched the cbc and they figured why would i change

00:09:27.500 now they're older and old habits die hard whether that's because that is all the information they

00:09:33.160 Again, they live in a very rural part of Canada and they don't really get internet or they can't afford internet or whatever it is.

00:09:39.940 Some people still watch the mainstream news.

00:09:42.440 They don't have access to alternative media.

00:09:44.660 And that is all they're hearing is that Alberta separatists stole people's identity.

00:09:51.860 There was a data breach and they benefited.

00:09:54.380 And all of that happened coincidentally a week before the official deadline for the delivery of the signatures.

00:10:02.640 call me paranoid call me whatever you will i don't believe in coincidences very much

00:10:07.540 and the timing of it all leaves a lot to think about a week out from a very important day from

00:10:12.880 for the independence movement here in alberta they decide to create this scandal so you just

00:10:18.940 got to look at who benefited right but anyways we got 301 000 signatures which is an impressive

00:10:24.780 number considering the following the alberta independence movement had to collect signatures

00:10:29.640 In Alberta winter weather, that alone is a massive difference compared to the other side, the Forever Equality of Canada group, who collected, who were granted the ability to collect signatures in summertime.

00:10:43.500 They went everywhere in summer.

00:10:46.340 Beautiful plus 20 degree weather, 20 degrees Celsius for those of you south of the border, 80 degrees, nice and sunny, warm.

00:10:53.600 Albertans were collecting signatures in minus 20, minus 30, minus 40.

00:10:57.200 our canvassers had to deal with much more unfavorable conditions in a province where

00:11:03.580 winter is deadly and you remember the long lines in the middle of the night in cold alberta winters

00:11:10.300 that was the level of commitment that is the level of commitment that albertans have shown

00:11:14.800 for independence the other side also and here's a very important detail the other side their

00:11:20.900 question is not a constitutional question it's a policy question policy so the level of scrutiny

00:11:28.580 necessary to collect signatures is nowhere near the same rumor is that they just collected

00:11:34.620 signatures without verifying identities without you know without verifying addresses which as a

00:11:41.040 person who signed the independence petition i had to give him my driver's license and provide a

00:11:45.740 physical address i know many neighbors who live in rural alberta who couldn't sign because all

00:11:51.280 they have for their mail is a po box and with a po box they couldn't sign but their address is

00:11:57.320 it's complicated because they're rural right so given that their petition is not a constitutional

00:12:02.640 one it's not a constitutional change that is being requested because what they're asking is for the

00:12:07.080 status quo is for alberta to stay in canada that means that there's no change there let alone a

00:12:12.820 constitutional one so the level of scrutiny the level of detail gathering is not it's nowhere

00:12:18.640 near close they did not need to get people's id they didn't need to get people's addresses

00:12:23.440 not anywhere nearly as much their signatures i don't believe they're verified the way that

00:12:28.460 these ones are going to be verified they didn't verify 400 plus thousand signatures they elections

00:12:34.560 alberta didn't say they did think about that for a moment did elections alberta say they verified

00:12:39.160 their half a million signatures which by the way they keep saying nearly half a million

00:12:43.580 and they collected originally 400 something 470 something thousand and in the end the number was

00:12:49.280 actually closer to 430 so there were like another 40,000 out of nowhere that just disappeared that

00:12:54.780 they are not valid and Alexis Alberta never said they verified all 400,000 of them but yes they

00:12:59.560 collected in the summer and if you don't think that makes a difference you don't know about

00:13:03.800 Alberta winters you haven't lived out here you don't know what winters look like and feel like

00:13:08.680 out here it's a huge difference there are days i don't even want to get out of my house that's how

00:13:14.260 cold some days are minus 40 below and there were canvassers in minus 20 degree weather minus 15

00:13:20.140 held the day when there was a super long line i believe in millet alberta just south of edmonton

00:13:25.640 it was minus 15 or something like that in the middle of the night and with the wind chill

00:13:29.460 because everybody knows minus 15 doesn't mean minus 15 in alberta with the wind chill it was

00:13:33.940 like minus 25 damn near minus 30 with the wind chill so way lower level of scrutiny they also

00:13:40.800 used trump derangement syndrome to collect their signatures a false threat of the 51st state trump

00:13:46.960 is going to come up and annex us if you vote yes for independence trump is going to come up and

00:13:52.620 annex us magically he's going to say i'm going to annex them they did that and they showed up at

00:13:56.760 old folks homes nursing homes is how they're called nursing homes old folks homes and they 0.70

00:14:01.340 were getting all these old people boomers people 80 90 years old all riled up and scared fear

00:14:07.500 mongering and getting them to sign the petition based on fear of donald's trump derangement

00:14:13.200 and then they also have favorability in the public view there are people who could lose their job if

00:14:20.000 they say they're for alberta independence there are unions public sector unions and private sector

00:14:24.920 unions that have people in the union members saying that their union bosses are like nobody

00:14:30.520 should be voting or supporting independence here and when canvassers would show up if they showed

00:14:34.520 up on property or anywhere near property supervisors would intimidate them but the opposite is not true

00:14:39.360 when the forever a colony of canada people were collecting signatures there was no intimidation

00:14:43.960 campaign there were no alberta patriots going after them and attacking them there were no people

00:14:49.860 that's another thing an intimidation campaign with actual physical violence there was a gentleman a

00:14:54.720 canvasser i don't know if you guys heard there's a video you can you guys can go and watch video i

00:14:58.800 believe yeah i believe there's a video about this on youtube there was a canvasser who was assaulted

00:15:03.560 multiple canvassers were harassed but some of them were physically assaulted i was told by one of the

00:15:08.720 canvassers a security guy for canvassing with state free alberta and he told me on live on

00:15:13.760 live stream he told me that the guy is being prosecuted because he physically assaulted a

00:15:19.000 canvasser i think he put out a cigarette butt on the guy's skin an older gentleman and he put out

00:15:23.580 a cigarette on burning his skin then there was a lady some young bug showed up and just literally

00:15:28.380 took her her signature papers took the signatures and ran away with them so this is the kind of

00:15:34.180 harassment and literally intimidation that our canvassers on the alberta independence side

00:15:40.420 had to deal with that the other side as far as i heard never had to deal with and i am very

00:15:48.080 in tune with what's happening with this topic and i never heard especially not from our side

00:15:55.060 any alberta independent supporter saying i'm gonna go i'm gonna go harass some forever colony

00:16:01.100 of canada canvassers that that didn't happen that wasn't a thing and if somebody said that in my

00:16:06.380 channel in my youtube channel i would have told them i would have been like no don't do that

00:16:10.040 because that's their right i disagree with them i believe alberta would be much better off

00:16:13.620 independent and that canada has never treated alberta fairly but i respect their right to be

00:16:19.340 able to collect signatures and petition their government that is their democratic right and i

00:16:24.740 have no right to stop them from doing that all i can do is disagree debate debate them that's free

00:16:30.860 speech try to make my case for my side but i have no right to stop them let alone violently and our

00:16:37.440 side had to deal with that there was violence intimidation there were threats influencers i

00:16:42.740 know of who got doxxed people sharing their home address people threatening them ordering threats

00:16:48.760 calling them all kinds of names which again free speech calling them names fair enough but i never

00:16:54.340 saw the hostility from our side to their side they just don't do that just don't like we just

00:16:59.540 disagree with you okay whereas you'll see is people okay elbows up that's it like you you're

00:17:03.640 not gonna see the threat of violence i didn't see it so you put all of that together the fact that

00:17:09.040 our the weather was much worse when alberta independent supporters well we're collecting

00:17:14.400 signatures wait let me let this guy get in there the fact that the weather was much worse when

00:17:19.420 alberta independent supporters were collecting signatures the fact that the scrutiny was nowhere

00:17:24.440 near the same because they're completely different petitions the one is a constitutional change and

00:17:30.540 the other one is just a policy change or basically keeping the status quo so no change needed and then

00:17:36.020 the reality that institutionally speaking in canada there is an inherent hostility worse than

00:17:42.440 the hostility if there's any hostility for quebec separatists i don't think there's any they're

00:17:46.780 actually elected and there's a bunch of mps and when whenever they had the referendum in the 90s

00:17:51.920 canada was like please stay quebec please don't leave us we love quebec vive le quebec but for

00:17:57.460 alberta it's all hostility intimidation out of hominem attacks and name calling there's there's

00:18:02.920 no like here's why you should stay it's like no you're not leaving but we're gonna keep treating 0.98

00:18:08.620 you like crap it's the reality of the other side's argument as to why it's like that's not gonna

00:18:12.920 happen okay sure that's exactly what they said about brexit which to me is one of the most 0.98

00:18:18.460 relevant examples because brexit was the underdog till voting day brexit was never supposed to

00:18:25.960 happen another thing is this happened in the commonwealth is that happened in the uk and it

00:18:30.200 also happened very recently you know it's one of the most relevant examples it's never gonna happen

00:18:36.100 okay then you have nothing to worry about let's have a referendum why don't we right and on

00:18:41.520 referendum day you want to stay a colony of canada and see alberta continue to get abused maybe

00:18:46.880 because you're not albertan and you don't care you know you just come here and benefit from this

00:18:51.260 province but you don't care about alberta values and the history of this province history of

00:18:56.660 unfairness the fact that we get six senators with a population of five million people in a province

00:19:02.360 like new brunswick with a population of less than one million has 10 senators same with nova scotia

00:19:07.940 with way less people than alberta has more senators than alberta the fact that per capita

00:19:12.320 we have less mps than eastern canada the fact that quebec alone gets three supreme court justices

00:19:19.800 while alberta and the rest of western canada get two you don't care about any of that maybe you're

00:19:24.100 not an albertan maybe you are an albertan and you somehow don't care about the fact that your 0.99

00:19:28.900 province is being treated like crap and has been being treated like crap for decades somehow you 0.99

00:19:33.780 don't care about that maybe you have a pretty cozy job with the government and you're threatening 1.00

00:19:37.960 you're threatened by the reality that if alberta separates maybe this corruption this grave to

00:19:42.400 land maybe to be fair you don't know about any of this and you're hearing it here first go ahead

00:19:47.180 and google any of the things i told you go ahead and google the senate count in canada go ahead

00:19:51.880 and google the supreme court justice count then there's the reality of equalization payments

00:19:56.660 the fact that alberta sends out way more than it gets back from the federal government sends out

00:20:03.080 billions of dollars every year in excess of what we get back from the federal government and

00:20:08.560 services. Maybe you don't care about any of that because, again, you're not an Albertan. Maybe you

00:20:12.320 don't care about any of that because you haven't heard this reality. Maybe you don't care because

00:20:16.200 you benefit from the system. Only you know where you fall in those categories. But what I can tell

00:20:22.180 you is I care. I don't think it's fair, and I don't think it should be that way. Alberta is the

00:20:27.080 largest contributor economically per capita in Canada, and it doesn't get treated with the

00:20:32.360 respect it deserves Quebec is the biggest taker the biggest consumer of resources in this country

00:20:39.020 per capita and generally speaking and they get pampered and get everything and Albertans have

00:20:44.120 had enough and we're not trying to be like Quebec we're trying to be our own country people who

00:20:47.900 support Alberta independence want to go all the way we're not trying to threaten you to get

00:20:52.740 concessions we're trying to actually separate and become a different country congratulations to each

00:20:58.720 each and every canvasser who went out there and did the impossible in minus 30 minus 40 degree

00:21:05.640 weather crazy winds nighttime daytime early morning while being harassed while being intimidated

00:21:11.920 while being attacked thank you guys so much 300 301 000 signatures unbelievable i wish we did 500

00:21:19.040 000 i wish we did a million that would have been incredible but 300 000 signatures is a great

00:21:25.200 accomplishment considering everything i just mentioned and i'm sure i'm missing a thing or

00:21:30.280 two here but i invite you guys to leave them in the comments let's start this discussion and again

00:21:34.020 thank you canvassers i met many of you at the event at the signature delivery event and i was

00:21:41.040 happy to shake your hand give you a hug thank you guys so much sincerely from the bottom of my heart

00:21:45.860 for everything you did the real work begins now let them underestimate us they underestimated

00:21:51.480 Brexit. It was never going to happen. And then it did. It's been PJ. See ya.

PJ The Belt - May 05, 2026

Alberta Patriots Just CRUSHED The Signature Goal - What Now？

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