Action4Canada - February 27, 2026


Blame AI? No—Blame Eby


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4 minutes

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157.95715

Word count

666

Sentence count

47

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Hate speech

3

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A 12-year-old girl is fighting for her life after being shot in the head by her teacher at her elementary school in Vancouver, B.C. Premier David Eby said today that the shooting was preventable. He also said that if only the school had been more aware of what this young man was posting on social media, it would have prevented it from happening.

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00:00:00.000 And this is what David Eby is turning around and saying.
00:00:04.560 He's now trying to blame OpenAI for the shooting he feels that was preventable.
00:00:11.140 If only OpenAI had communicated with us about what this young person was posting, then all of this wouldn't have happened.
00:00:20.640 And I'm just going to skip to this article for a moment, because this article, I think, was from, was it February 12th?
00:00:30.140 Yeah, February 12th, with this 12-year-old girl fighting for her life.
00:00:34.560 And his comments were,
00:00:36.680 Maya's plight moved B.C. Premier David Eby to tears during remarks after attending a community vigil in Tumblr Ridge.
00:00:43.760 He said the vigil participants were asked to pray for Maya and her family.
00:00:47.780 His quote was,
00:00:49.400 He told reporters as he fought to hold back tears during an evening press conference,
00:00:58.760 a beautiful child who went to school was full of joy and love, who's clinging to life in a hospital right now.
00:01:04.500 Eby said that three levels of government, municipal, provincial, and federal,
00:01:08.140 who were present at the Tumblr Ridge vigil and news conference were assured,
00:01:12.960 supports are here.
00:01:13.940 I'm outraged by hearing this.
00:01:18.980 Outraged.
00:01:20.120 Because the public, especially in B.C. en masse, different groups, Pierre Barnes, others,
00:01:25.660 have all been writing to the premier, have been writing to the education ministers,
00:01:30.680 have been outside her office,
00:01:33.460 rallying against all of this, saying you're harming our children.
00:01:37.400 Our notices of liability have been sent to every school district,
00:01:40.760 to elected officials.
00:01:42.540 We've updated it and we're going to be serving them again.
00:01:45.560 So now listen to what David Eby has the gall to say and to blame in this matter.
00:01:51.980 I'm actually quite angry about what happened here.
00:01:55.420 I sat at a table with a dad who lost a kid who walked me through an excruciating detail,
00:02:02.700 the last moments of his child's life.
00:02:04.480 He's changed me forever and, you know, I was just proximate to the tragedy that his family
00:02:11.980 has experienced.
00:02:12.780 They'll never be the same.
00:02:14.120 And I want to share that with the OpenAI people.
00:02:17.140 From the outside, it looks like they had a chance to prevent this.
00:02:20.040 I don't know that for sure, but it sure looks like it.
00:02:22.720 And I want to share with them the devastation that they caused on behalf of the families.
00:02:26.660 And I want to have a commitment from them to support a consistent threshold across Canada
00:02:31.220 for reporting so that this never happens again, and that it's a good standard that Canadians
00:02:36.260 can support.
00:02:37.560 And I want to share with them that the information that the RCMP has, as well as the information
00:02:42.760 from other, from social media providers, for example, will be ultimately public with British
00:02:49.240 Columbians.
00:02:49.860 They have questions.
00:02:50.600 They want to know what happened.
00:02:52.900 There will be a coroner's inquest or a public inquiry, or the police will share that information
00:02:57.180 as part of their investigation.
00:02:58.300 But now is the time to really be blunt and frank with British Columbians and Canadians 0.96
00:03:03.740 about their involvement in this tragedy.
00:03:07.020 Really?
00:03:07.560 I'm actually quite angry.
00:03:08.600 Really?
00:03:08.980 Does he mean that?
00:03:10.860 If he does, he's going to take personal responsibility for this.
00:03:14.280 And I tell you, the action that's coming out this week is going to demand that he does.
00:03:18.080 And it's going to demand that SOGI-123, once and for all, be completely eradicated from 1.00
00:03:23.700 the BC education system.
00:03:25.140 He is responsible.
00:03:28.800 The education minister is responsible.
00:03:30.920 This young man was deemed to have mental health issues where the RCMP had been showing
00:03:36.840 up there.
00:03:37.900 They knew this home.
00:03:40.400 They knew that he was on these drugs and that there was psychedelic drugs being used as well.
00:03:45.840 I cannot imagine a doctor or pharmacist saying, yeah, go ahead and take those drugs with antidepressants.
00:03:52.260 They broke this young man's mind by indoctrinating him first. 0.69
00:03:56.380 And this is not the only child.
00:03:57.840 You got to think, yeah.
00:03:59.300 You got to say, yeah, i remember it all.
00:04:08.520 You're not the only child.