00:02:36.100wherein the Conservatives received a majority government there. I'm still sort of shocked
00:02:42.360and dismayed, even though I've had about a week to digest it longer by the time people have seen
00:02:48.740this. Drea, what do you think the motivating factors were for people to finally shake off
00:02:54.960the shackles of the NDP and commit a vote to the Conservatives? Well, first and foremost,
00:03:00.720I think people have just had enough in British Columbia. Everything is too expensive. Our gas
00:03:05.380has been sitting at over $2 for, I can't even remember how long. Young adults, in particular
00:03:12.920young males, are running out of the province. That's hard on parents. Businesses have too many
00:03:18.340red tape. Our industry has too much red tape. So I think that that was a huge factor where people
00:03:24.140have just simply had enough. They're contemplating leaving the province if something doesn't change.
00:03:29.700The other element, I would say, was the land right issue. That has really rocked the core of many people who have suddenly no longer are they so enchanted by things like land acknowledgments.
00:03:48.440they're realizing there could be something more going on, and they're pointing to EB. It's been
00:03:52.960very loud and exposed that the NDP government, our attorney general, the federal government,
00:04:00.580the liberal government, the city of Richmond, for example, they all knew about this dealings for
00:04:05.16010 years before it came to the public. And now the public is learning about one after another,
00:04:10.820after another. So we already saw that the approval rating for EB was going downhill.
00:04:15.900And then the third, of course, totally falls on E.B. himself. What a happy blunder that was, if you ask me. But he totally misread the room, thinking that because the B.C. conservatives were going through chaos, going through turmoil, he could simply pull a carny.
00:04:38.260He could call a snap election. Nobody would notice as long as he focuses on big, bad Trump.
00:04:45.400But there's another bad orange man in town that provincially people care about.1.00
00:04:50.860The electorates are not stupid. They know that E.B. can't do anything about Trump, number one.0.99
00:04:57.560They know he was already in power. This is insane to go back into election two years early.
00:05:04.200and they know that they've had enough so it was vote NDP out and let's give the conservatives a
00:05:09.980try you know I was very uh well surprised because I you know I I thought maybe BC hasn't had enough
00:05:22.560pain yet but I'm glad to see that people have woken up um and I thought something similar
00:05:27.520may happen in Toronto but it sounds to me like Toronto needs four more years of pain
00:05:32.960before they realize that the people inflicting the pain on them
00:05:37.580are the ones that keep getting elected.
00:06:02.280So we saw in Vancouver, for example, I say Vancouver's Fry. We just voted in Mayor Fry, our top councillor that was voted in by a long shot in Vancouver, literally says he wants to see the destruction of Canada.
00:06:18.220I mean, I call it a new communist, essentially, board.
00:06:22.620So we're seeing one thing municipally, but then we're seeing provincially over the last few years, it going blue one way or another.
00:06:30.540I think that has a lot to do with people not getting out to vote municipally and then who is lobbying for their own people to do so.
00:06:40.500Yeah, I mean, we see this in Alberta where the cities are slightly crazy, but everything else is deep blue.
00:06:48.220We see it nationally where the cities are crazy, but everything else is deep blue.
00:06:52.920And I think the people outside of that little cluster of the Lower Mainland, they looked upon Vancouver and said, look what the NDP has done there.
00:07:06.840Look what their radical communist city council has done there.
00:07:12.380And we need to put up a firewall between us and them.
00:07:15.040And that firewall, I think, is the Conservative Party.
00:07:17.360yeah yeah absolutely and i wanted to go back to the indigenous rights issue because uh the
00:07:24.880conservatives have talked about repealing drippa and to that end it sounds like indigenous activist
00:07:34.600groups i should say are willing to go to war with the conservatives um i don't know what that means
00:07:42.240um i suspect we're going to see uh critical infrastructure blocked i suspect we're going to
00:07:50.780see um roads blockaded um highways blocked do you think there's an interest for the conservative
00:07:59.460government of british columbia to do what saskatchewan just did and alberta did years ago
00:08:04.560and that's passed some sort of law that will prevent the blocking of critical infrastructure
00:08:10.220rather critical infrastructure it's illegal to block it but make a very specific law with very
00:08:16.300specific fines or penalties for blocking critical infrastructure i think it would go a long way
00:08:22.480to show people that you you're not going to allow certain activist groups to cause mayhem
00:08:28.740in british columbia and i think it it would go a long way to instilling confidence in the gas
00:08:34.520industry that Lauren Dirksen says he wants to double production of, to know that if people do
00:08:43.700what they did to Coastal Gas Link, not all that long ago, marauding band of maniacs trashed a
00:08:49.460worksite. More than trash. That was a violent attack. Oh, it was just carnage. It was a riot0.99
00:08:56.160in the woods. I think it would go a long way for gas companies to know that they've got a government
00:09:02.320that is going to take this stuff seriously?
00:09:42.860I don't know if it'll be up by the time this is up about how we're seeing who really are
00:09:47.400the extremists with this win coming up, including the Green Party with Emily Lowen talking about
00:09:53.560how they need to fight the existence of conservatives.
00:09:56.460Now, I think the conservatives are going to have to be tough on this issue in two ways. First, I'll address the issue you're raising. What does that mean? Declared war. What license is that giving to radical activists like we've already seen in the past?
00:10:12.020So whether they need to preemptively do it, I mean, that would be wise. But if something does happen, they need to act swiftly, boldly, send a strong message. A new sheriff is in town and you're not going to get away with that so easily.
00:10:28.600Now, speaking of a new sheriff being in town, sort of on the same kind of beat when you go with the land thing, we see that despite all of the uproar, all of the shock, all of the concern, all of the division that was caused from the citizens finding out about private property having Aboriginal title superior to it in the Cowichan case that came out last year.
00:10:55.360we see right after the BC Conservatives win that all of a sudden the Cowichan lawyers are saying,
00:11:03.160hey, we're going to have a proposal out to protect private property rights. Now, the crazy thing
00:11:08.880about that is they were already telling us we were crazy on thinking private property rights
00:11:13.660were at risk. Now, all of a sudden there has to be a proposal that should have been in black and
00:11:18.060white before. But anyway, so we're already seeing a little bit of a trend there that might be
00:11:24.300because of the conservative government.
00:11:26.360And then we're seeing the trend on the other hand,0.79
00:11:28.100what are the activists going to do, the crazy activists?
00:11:31.300Now, the BC Conservatives under Dorkson,
00:11:33.840Dorkson says he's excited to work with First Nations
00:11:46.200but it's really scratching the surface.
00:11:49.040If you look at what happened with the decisions like Cowichan,
00:11:52.420These backdoor deals with the Liberals teaming up with the NDP to give Haida Gwaii stuff.
00:11:58.120DRIPA is more of, I mean, in some ways it's aspirational.
00:12:03.880They have to consider it, but it's not the driving force to putting these land rights at risk.
00:12:09.560So we have to watch what happens next after DRIPA's gone and the negotiations are happening.
00:12:15.160Are all British Columbians being considered, which Dirksen says he's going to do.
00:12:19.900He's going to be there for all British Columbians.
00:12:22.420And I hope he is. Now, I'm glad you brought up Cowichan because just out of the corner of my eye, I'm looking at a horrific site. It is the illegal dump that continues to grow at Cowichan.
00:12:38.100And Conservative MP Jeff Kibble brought this up the other day. He's actually calling on the federal government to step in and immediately clean up the massive illegal landfill on Cowichan tribe lands before potential contaminants cause further damage to the nearby Cowichan River watershed.
00:12:57.060um and you know the the federal government is really the only people that can deal with this
00:13:05.180because of how um the federal reserve system is structured with the indigenous bands but i will
00:13:12.280tell you that if this were happening let's say on an oil and gas lease site uh well it never would
00:13:18.520because there's too much environmental monitoring but the fact that this has been able to go on
00:13:23.920so long to the point where it is poised to contaminate an entire watershed is outrageous.
00:13:30.300What do you think happens here? Oh, I mean, I think we're getting a glimpse into
00:13:35.240a much bigger problem. My eyes were first open when I was a teenager and I would volunteer up
00:13:42.820in Tawasin to help clean up the reserves. I'd never seen anything like it as a teenager. I
00:13:53.920Going into these houses, cleaning, you've got holes in the walls, you've got uncle in his underwear passed out in the corner, you've got dogs running around looking like they have rabies.
00:14:05.240I mean, it's really bad in some of these areas, yet you have these over 200 bans in British Columbia fighting for rights and interests over 100% of the land.
00:14:18.240And we're supposed to just, hey, go by the UN, which in Article 26 of UNDRIP basically say, yeah, they get it all.
00:14:25.860It doesn't matter. So seeing that is a real stark eye opener of we have to be very careful of what happens.
00:14:36.480Looking at Cowichan, for example, not only did they get, I believe it was eight kilometers.
00:14:41.740It's been a while since I reported on it, but about eight kilometers of private property.
00:14:46.120But remember, this is up for an appeal, not just an appeal of the city and the province and the federal government saying, hey, this has gone too far.
00:14:56.760The Cowichan is also appealing it, saying, no, no, no, no, we deserve way more because we picked berries, even though we were totally nomadic back in the day.
00:15:06.860So, yeah, that is a stark example of, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's just pause for a second and let's see what really could be if we fall to this identity politics.
00:15:20.800Now, I'm excited for an energy renaissance in British Columbia. I think the North Peace Country is going to be just an absolute boom region. And that means good things for Alberta, because the North Peace region of British Columbia is so closely tied to Grand Prairie and Peace River.
00:15:38.780A lot of the oil and gas service companies are based on the Alberta side doing work on the BC side.
00:15:46.080But I'm also excited about sort of a New West partnership style collaboration between Saskatchewan, Alberta, and now British Columbia to get energy infrastructure done without David Eby having the veto.
00:16:03.200The prime minister doesn't want to have to get his hands dirty.
00:16:07.820um and so that's good but as you said earlier i think lauren dirksen has to be strong he's
00:16:18.200gonna have to have a heavy hand here because for the last many many years i would say 11 years
00:16:23.960the at least the activist environmentalist groups have been getting exactly what they want
00:16:31.240no pipelines carbon taxes on the consumer then those carbon taxes were moved upstream no energy
00:16:37.500infrastructure getting done. So they haven't actually have had to act up the way they did
00:16:42.580during the Stephen Harper years. And boy, did they ever act up. And so I think we really need to keep
00:16:50.220our eyes on the David Suzuki types that support a Berman types, the Greenpeace types, because
00:16:56.380right now they're going to get a ton of money, American money, real foreign interference money
00:17:01.800from American environmental charities in San Francisco
00:17:43.820I believe it's three ridings on the island that flipped to blue.
00:17:47.720Island has a very strong NDP stakeholder there.
00:17:53.000So certain riding slipping is causing this mass hysteria.
00:17:57.220One of the main issues on the island when I'm just seeing what people are saying is,
00:18:00.260oh my gosh, climate change. The orcas. Think of the orcas. The orcas are dead and climate change
00:18:07.380and what are we going to do? And so you can already see that there is an attempt to make
00:18:13.540the average person do it. But at the end of the day, it is the radicals that come out. And on top
00:18:19.080of just them coming out and having the foreign funding to do so, remember, they also have the
00:18:25.740backing of the mainstream media whenever they come out and they do a protest with david suzuki
00:18:32.400you think he's just like thawd's gift to green earth with the way that they actually cover the
00:18:37.940garbage that these people are saying that works against the prosperity of our province um so that
00:18:44.780is that is a big challenge that dorkson's going to have to face um i believe he's made it very clear0.95
00:18:51.760that he's got some strong ambitions in there he gets a lot of cheers when he says it almost as
00:18:56.060much cheers as he does when he says we're getting rid of soji i feel like it's an equal amount
00:19:00.100when he talks about these things i think it's by 2037 they want a triple lng um so if you're
00:19:06.760going to have this sorry it's thrilling like just to hear a bc premier say we're gonna frack
00:19:13.620and we're gonna mine and we're gonna log it is just thrilling i just think about the good
00:19:19.060six-digit jobs that are going to come to rural British Columbia. It's so exciting.
00:19:27.900Yeah, we're back in business. So it's going to be a big game. And this is where Rebel News,
00:19:32.200you know, this is why we exist really, is to really push back on whatever narratives that's
00:19:37.800going to come out to try and cast shade on this. And let's not forget, I mean, the conservatives
00:19:43.260have a big job. Oh, huge. I mean, you know, we're not going to, I mean, I hope we see things fast.
00:19:49.920I mean, they even have the $14 billion deficit under the NDP. They've inherited that. So there
00:19:56.100is a lot to be done. But opening us for business, getting our trades going, getting energy up to
00:20:03.880speed, that's going to have a huge impact. And hopefully, it overshadows these activists.
00:20:09.560Yeah, and I hope Lauren Dirksen doesn't move slow. I think you have to move fast to show an anxious population who might be unsure of the conservatives that you can do these things, you can change the way things are done in British Columbia, you can open it up for business, and the sky isn't going to fall.
00:20:30.080and you need people to realize that because four years in politics is actually a very short time
00:20:36.600so the more you do now the more you can demonstrate that everything is just fine there was no need for
00:20:42.200the freak out and everybody's life is better four years later I think that's really important
00:20:46.640to not have a slow steady hidden agenda just move just go well and it's the more that you can prove
00:20:53.780you know closer to election time hey look at all the things we've done look what's changed so
00:20:58.240that is the best strategy but it wouldn't be the first time that the bc conservatives i'm not saying
00:21:04.500under dorkson have cowered um to pressure from mainstream media to woke uh pushback so they have
00:21:13.120to change that strategy if they want to do that it's really that simple so rooting for them and
00:21:19.560i hope that's what we're about to see for sure and they need to be strong and fast and firm to show
00:21:25.180that they mean business i mean david evey was such a pushover with those daddy long legs i mean
00:21:30.980that's why he would say okay like the amount of of how upset his own people were over the land
00:21:39.580rights thing and he said okay fine i'll discuss it you know we'll talk about it and he just got
00:21:45.640pushed back from these first nation uh lobbyist groups and and then he just gives it all up they
00:21:51.120can't go back on their commitments that they've promised to the people even if it's the grassroots
00:21:56.460people they have to stand firm and do it fast well and I think too uh Dirksen probably has a
00:22:03.620big job ahead of him keeping that uh I was going to say rambunctious but I think it's more than
00:22:09.340that conservative coalition together uh we've seen some backstabbing yeah we've seen some
00:22:15.820backstabbing we've seen some behind the scenes angling and it's going to be hard for him uh to
00:22:23.880keep um that party together hopefully everybody can set aside their own agendas and work for the
00:22:31.560people of british columbia um and i also think dirksen has a lot of rooting out of the public
00:22:38.760sector to do. A lot of those are NDP loyalists. They will be in government, in the bureaucracy,
00:22:46.500working against the conservative agenda. And he needs to be aware of that.
00:22:51.460It's all over the board. And I hear it over and over. I don't have, I don't think I've ever met
00:22:57.680him in person, actually, because he lives quite far. But I hear from many people, his own MLA's
00:23:05.200that he has, that he's very well liked, you know, from the conservative MLAs and from the more BC
00:23:11.780liberal MLAs. So that's good. They are amending their constitution. They will not be having a
00:23:18.680leadership race. I suppose they want to prevent another Carrie Lynn Finley from being voted in
00:23:25.480democratically. Well, and I think he's proven himself. Yeah, Dorkson is well liked. He's well
00:23:32.060received and i think he did i think especially considering the short time and that it i mean
00:23:39.260he's almost i don't know if this is the right word he's like the accidental premier like if
00:23:44.300you really think yeah like i think just probably what is it like a month and a half ago he probably
00:23:49.760didn't see this coming who did the premier so so i mean he just kind of fell into it but he seems
00:23:56.620like he's up for the challenge and I hope he is yeah he seems likable and normal and I think
00:24:02.760that's um I mean that was sort of the key to Stephen Harper's success it's the key to Scott
00:24:09.680Moe's success it was the key to Brad Wall's success is just be normal and do normal things
00:24:15.380for normal people and I wish him the best of luck and I can't wait to see how frisky it gets in the
00:24:21.580BC legislature as soon as it starts to sit again. Oh, it's going to be good.
00:26:23.660including today's gun show letter feedback.
00:26:28.900It's my friend Bruce Atchison from Radway, Alberta.
00:26:34.700I dropped off a couple of signs to Bruce a few weeks ago
00:26:37.260for my third-party advertiser group in the referendum campaign,
00:26:40.720and I finally got to meet Bruce in person.
00:26:43.720And Bruce says on my show last week with Robbie Picard, where we did also talk about the B.C. conservative election victory there, Bruce says,
00:26:57.280Hi, Sheila, what a great show. People are hopeful for a better future, but never underestimate socialist zealots and their useful idiots.1.00
00:27:05.940absolutely and that's why i'm so concerned that if lauren dirksen doesn't shrink the size and0.99
00:27:13.220scope of the bc government and maybe through attrition of course get rid of some of the
00:27:21.000swamp as donald trump would describe the diehard left-wing activists embedded in the bureaucracy
00:27:28.760I think he's going to be in for real trouble like you said Suzuki and his ilk are firing up their
00:27:36.360war machine against common sense and prosperity you better believe it they've been given everything
00:27:41.540they've ever asked for these last 11 years and especially in British Columbia whereas before
00:27:48.300they had to actively oppose oil and gas projects on the ground in BC thanks to of course all that
00:27:54.280foreign money from the likes of tide and the rockefeller foundation and other groups they had
00:28:01.560a government that just did it for them so they could just sit back and coast for a little bit
00:28:06.160but now just watch they're going to as you say fire up the war machine you're going to see
00:28:12.320fundraising efforts they're going to mob the mic as they used to call it at local town hall
00:28:20.700consultations on resource projects, be it from mining, logging projects, definitely gas
00:28:29.280infrastructure, pipelines, whatever, they are going to take over it. And Lauren Dirksen really
00:28:34.600has to ignore them because they are not stakeholders. They're just noise making
00:28:39.840crazy people with a lot of American money in their pockets. Elbows up. And then Bruce writes,0.85
00:28:48.180you still haven't answered my question about the signs you put up. So I'll take them and place
00:28:52.000them in my garage. If you want them, call me and he gives me his phone number. Bruce, those are
00:28:56.840yours. You can do with them what you want. I imagine we'll need them again by 2029. But you
00:29:04.620don't need to hang on to them that long. I'll get you some new ones. If we ever get a chance to hold
00:29:10.260another referendum, and I firmly believe that we will because the independence movement is just
00:29:14.420getting started you can toss them out you can store them you can keep them as a collector's
00:29:18.500item as many people are and this also goes to those of you that I met out in the real world
00:29:23.900on my never-ending sign campaign which has now thankfully ended and I almost got rid of all my
00:29:31.380signs I think I had about 20 left out of thousands so if you have those they're yours to keep it
00:29:37.600won't hurt my feelings if you throw them out keep the wires they make great
00:29:41.460stands for your tomato plants or your cucumber vines or zucchinis whatever I found them helpful
00:29:51.840that way because many of you didn't take the wires you just took the signs because you wanted
00:29:57.020to put them up in your window or on a board or whatever so anyways if you have the signs
00:30:02.340you can be a conservative recycler like me and use the wires for other things but if you want
00:30:08.120to toss the signs no hard feelings i get it um and uh i will be back with more if and when more
00:30:16.360likely when we get a chance to do this again well everybody that's the show for today thank you so
00:30:22.020much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week and
00:30:25.880as always don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think