The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 13, 2024


BC Conservative candidate beats Eby in local debate!


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

196.12572

Word Count

5,042

Sentence Count

257

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

If you were looking for a sign that Premier David Eby and the BCNDP know that they are currently losing the British Columbia provincial election, look no further than the fact that David showed up to his local candidates debate in his home riding of Vancouver Point Grey. I was in fact there last night because I wanted to watch it live, and now I m here to give you my review of it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 If you were looking for a sign that Premier David Eby and the BCNDP know that they are
00:00:05.340 currently losing the British Columbia provincial election, look no further than the fact that
00:00:10.540 David Eby bothered showing up to his local candidates debate in his home riding of Vancouver
00:00:16.220 Point Grey. I was in fact there last night because I wanted to watch it live and now I'm here today
00:00:22.860 to give you my review of it. And warning up front, this might be a bit of a disorganized and rambly
00:00:29.440 video. There's just a lot I want to touch on about the debate, both the way that the candidates
00:00:34.100 acted, their answers to questions, as well as like the crowd that attended, stuff as minute as that.
00:00:39.980 I think it gives you good insights into how the race is going both locally to Vancouver Point Grey
00:00:45.620 as well as provincial wide. Now starting off, I just quickly want to say before we get into it,
00:00:52.060 if you live in Vancouver Point Grey, I cannot recommend enough that you vote for the conservative
00:00:58.080 candidate, Paul Ratchford, who depending on the model you look at is either currently favored or
00:01:04.480 only ever so slightly behind David Eby in the probability to win the riding. Please vote for
00:01:10.480 that guy if you live in that riding. Not only is he a fantastic candidate, I know Paul personally,
00:01:17.040 but he's also not David Eby, I think the best quality about the man, at least that I see.
00:01:23.120 Anyways, so starting off, when I had first gone to this debate, I actually went with my mom,
00:01:30.080 she happens to be in town and wants to watch some of this stuff. And so we actually bumped into a lady
00:01:36.200 who was on David Eby's local campaign last time in 2020 when John Horgan was the BC NDP leader.
00:01:44.180 She is currently voting BC conservative because she said that as soon as David Eby became the premier,
00:01:49.920 he almost became unlike himself. He does not care at all what normal people think of anymore.
00:01:55.440 This is a lady who had voted NDP for decades, but she just can't stand them anymore because they seem
00:02:02.480 to not actually care about the concerns of middle class people or even people, whatever class they
00:02:08.480 are, that they can't afford the taxes, that the crime's out of control, that the drug problems are
00:02:13.440 absolutely insane. This isn't somebody who became right wing. This is somebody who is still definitely on
00:02:18.880 the left, just cannot stand the NDP. I know she's still definitely on the left because at one point
00:02:24.240 out of nowhere, she just made the remark that if Donald Trump became becomes the president of the
00:02:28.240 US again, that country's doomed, but she still won't vote for David Eby regardless. So that was somebody
00:02:34.880 we just casually bumped into outside going inside. It was very clear that the audience had showed up for
00:02:41.760 Paul Ratchford, not in the way where parties will push people to show up to the local debates or local
00:02:47.360 events to make it look like their side super popular. You always see this in Democratic and
00:02:51.600 Republican primaries in the US that certain candidates seem to have a large portion of
00:02:57.680 the audience with them. And you always have candidates are complaining at each other that
00:03:01.600 you gave a bunch, you got a bunch of extra tickets for your people and they're all sitting right up
00:03:06.000 front. But this was truly an audience that was organically there because they like Paul Ratchford
00:03:11.280 and they do not like David Eby. I was sitting in the upper deck so I could kind of observe
00:03:16.240 where applause and people kind of cheering were coming from. Whenever Paul Ratchford would say
00:03:21.200 something that people agreed with, it would be like applause everywhere in the upper deck and the
00:03:25.440 lower deck and it was kind of spread around. There's like little pockets where it's a little
00:03:28.400 bit louder over here or over there or, you know, up there. But with David Eby, if he said anything,
00:03:34.160 usually very cheap organic lines to get applause about, like, we don't want conspiracy theorists
00:03:40.160 in government or whatever, there'd be like a big like yell that would happen. Like if I'm sitting
00:03:45.840 here to my right in a little pocket up in the main auditorium area, just a pocket right there.
00:03:52.160 And then you'd have some smaller scattered clapping elsewhere for the BC NDP. But if it was the
00:03:57.600 conservative is everywhere. And even actually the Green Party candidates seem to be trying to plant
00:04:01.680 people around the room to make it look like she had more support because I actually saw them like
00:04:05.200 coordinating like, you go stand over by that stairwell and you go stand over there. And
00:04:08.880 it was like very diffuse, even though they didn't have many supporters, it was very strange.
00:04:13.440 But David Eby's team clearly planted a bunch of HQ people to show up, local candidate volunteers just
00:04:21.120 to show up and cheer for them, even though they either don't live in the riding or they wouldn't have
00:04:25.680 come unless the party compelled them to. Whereas the Ratchford people actually showed up because
00:04:30.400 they wanted to be there. Now, there's a piece of data here that really makes me feel like the BC NDP's
00:04:37.120 comms team agree with me that EB did not in fact win the global news televised debate. Rustad obviously
00:04:44.560 won because he talked about the issues that people care about. Polls are coming out two days after all
00:04:49.680 the media keep saying EB won, EB won, showing that still more people thought that John Rustad in fact won.
00:04:56.480 And why I say the comms team for the BC NDP seem to agree with me is that EB was not nearly as
00:05:03.600 childish, not nearly as jabbing at this debate than he was back with Rustad in that televised
00:05:10.480 debate. It was a bad look, he looked adolescent, not becoming of a premier at all. But EB still came
00:05:17.280 out kind of swinging in this debate. I believe it was the Green Party candidate that went first,
00:05:21.920 then it was David Eby, and then Ratchford for opening statements. The Green Party lady, I forget
00:05:27.680 what her first name was, last name Singh, she really lived up to the label I gave to Sonia
00:05:35.280 first to know in the global news debate that a lot of Green Party candidates are just farmers market
00:05:40.320 communists. She kept stumping against LNG and resource development and talking about how we need
00:05:45.840 urban densification and equity and screw rich people and stuff like that. It was weird. The
00:05:51.680 good thing is she's actually the Green Party candidate from last time, so I don't doubt she's
00:05:55.120 going to shave off a lot of hyper progressives off of EB because EB is being forced to take slightly more
00:06:00.560 conservative positions 30 days before the election is held. You know, the typical kind of flip-flopping
00:06:06.400 of a failing government regardless. But David Eby, he came out and said, well, if we want to push forward
00:06:12.720 in this province, we need to stay the course, all this nonsense about how actually everything's
00:06:17.600 totally good and you're stupid if you don't realize that it's good even though there's drugs
00:06:21.120 everywhere, needles, people are in poverty, people can't afford homes, all this other stuff. And then
00:06:25.600 he said, we can't move forward with people who don't have a costed budget and they're running
00:06:30.240 conspiracy theorists and whatnot. And then he took a jab at Paul Ratchford directly because the BCNDP
00:06:35.920 have tried to make him like a crazy candidate. Paul's a very nice person. He is a very patient
00:06:41.840 person. He is not a fiery individual who's screaming and yelling. If anything, this was
00:06:46.080 actually a repeated global news debate where EB starts off trying to cast Rusted and Ratchford
00:06:52.560 as being unhinged or erratic and they're far more professional than he is. And then when it went to
00:06:58.400 Ratchford, immediately EB started doing the thing from the global news debate where he like leans over
00:07:03.760 and he starts staring. And I have all these leftists on Twitter trying to say, oh, Wyatt has no social
00:07:10.160 skills. You look at the person who's speaking. That's called respect. No, guys, it's different
00:07:16.160 to look at someone having coffee with them, sitting across the table, holding your coffee and looking
00:07:21.680 at them while they tell their story. And at a debate where you're supposed to be kind of looking to the
00:07:26.000 audience because the event is about the audience that showed up, your constituents, that there's a
00:07:31.120 difference between looking at someone while you're talking to them personally and then staring at your
00:07:35.680 debate opponent leaning over the table, trying to physically dominate the space.
00:07:41.040 When you're sitting on a stage and you have a microphone in front of you and your opponent
00:07:45.200 is to your I think Ratchford was to EB's left, you would you maybe turn your head a little bit
00:07:51.520 because the Green Party candidate was doing that because she's a normal human being.
00:07:55.280 When someone else is talking at the debate, she looks a little bit towards him, but it's still
00:07:59.200 mostly playing towards the audience because the point is the audience. Same thing in a televised
00:08:04.320 debate does not matter if there's no literal physical TV audience sitting in front of you.
00:08:08.880 You look towards the camera because the people watching you are at are looking at you through
00:08:14.240 that camera. I don't know why I have to explain this, but leftists know that David
00:08:18.480 Evie's in trouble. So they're going to say, oh, Wyatt doesn't know how social cues work.
00:08:23.120 Shut up, guys. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, that's why everyone stares at their opponents and it's not
00:08:28.560 just Evie, whatever. It's such an Al Gore thing to do. If you ever remember that moment from the 2000
00:08:33.840 debate, obviously I was like one years old, but I still watch clips of this stuff where like Al Gore
00:08:39.840 walks up to George W. Bush and tries to physically intimidate him and George W. Bush just kind of
00:08:43.760 gives him a nod because it's so weird and it ends up being embarrassing for Al Gore. That's effectively
00:08:49.520 what happened to Evie in the televised debate. But as soon as Ratchford got to his opening statement,
00:08:54.720 he started jabbing Evie back. He started saying that these guys have failed for seven straight years.
00:09:00.160 They don't listen to you. Every single plan they have is just more money for the same radical plans.
00:09:05.520 That's when Evie started getting very cool the rest of the debate. Also, stop looking at Paul.
00:09:10.640 When the attack started, suddenly Evie remembers that it's weird to stare at someone, especially
00:09:15.360 when they're absolutely dunking on you and your terrible record. So Evie starts looking around the
00:09:20.880 room and starts rolling his eyes. And I can prove it to you because Ratchford's people filmed the debate
00:09:27.440 and they've cut up some clips here and they actually show the answers. It's not like they're cutting up
00:09:31.840 two seconds here, three seconds there. It's not a CTV edit. That demonstrates how uncomfortable
00:09:37.600 David Evie started looking like when Paul started going after his awful record. He looks uncomfortable.
00:09:44.400 He's peevish. He looks like he's better than this. I shouldn't have to be here facing the peasants
00:09:49.920 telling me that my bad record is bad. Just take a look at this. This is something that actually happened a
00:09:55.680 little bit later in the debate, but it was a big moment. We have a lot of people living in their
00:09:59.680 cars in our community. I don't know if you've noticed on 4th, on the Blanca. They used to live
00:10:07.120 on 16th, the Blanca Pacific Spirit. It is a real tragedy that there's people living in their cars
00:10:14.880 and it's on your walk.
00:10:15.840 It's been seven years now. There's only so long you can go on with the Smokineers Act,
00:10:25.840 the deflections, pretending like we care and we're going to make something happen, but nothing ever
00:10:31.840 happens to actually improve people's lives. That's the issue here. When we look at our units at Broadway,
00:10:38.720 it's a great example. There's a neighborhood group there that issued a call for change and a new
00:10:44.320 direction in this process. A direction that actually addresses the needs of people because
00:10:49.440 congregating at-risk people into 129 units of SRO-style housing doesn't make sense for at-risk
00:10:56.800 people. It doesn't make sense for the community. It simply doesn't work. That should be common sense.
00:11:02.800 I've been glad to see a little bit of a move in the direction of the voluntary care side because we do
00:11:08.800 need to go in that direction. There are people who are suffering from serious issues and they're
00:11:15.200 at risk themselves in the communities. We saw in downtown Vancouver, again, the case of the person
00:11:20.480 who had over 60 interactions with the police and they had serious mental health decline before they
00:11:24.160 went and chopped off my hand and killed the person. That's totally unacceptable. It's on your watch,
00:11:29.120 David Eby. It's on your watch.
00:11:33.280 You actually had tons of... I think that's pretty much it for that. There's another clip I want to
00:11:39.120 show in a second here. That was a little bit longer, but that was kind of like they had like
00:11:43.760 uncomfortable moments where David Eby would stop even interacting with Paul for the rest of the debate
00:11:49.040 because Paul showed up with ammunition. David Eby would throw out the little, you know,
00:11:55.840 Paul once said something on social media that you might disapprove of. And Paul would be like,
00:12:01.120 you know, drug deaths are up significantly since you guys are in power. Literally half the drug
00:12:07.760 deaths are happening currently in British Columbia that are occurring in Canada. And David Eby had
00:12:12.480 nothing to respond to it. And even at the start of that clip, when Paul started talking, you could
00:12:16.640 even hear that it was a more organic pro-conservative crowd because as he was mentioning that all this
00:12:22.080 has happened on your watch, you got the kind of, oh, and kind of like some slight clapping,
00:12:25.520 and it was like diffuse. It wasn't like a big artificial, yeah, Paul out of like nowhere.
00:12:31.760 David Eby was just uncomfortable the entire debate because the man cannot actually stand up for his
00:12:37.120 record at all. There was a lot of people at the debate, probably about 250, 300 people there.
00:12:43.120 That was not a good crowd for David Eby outside of his hired crew of volunteers showing up. I want to
00:12:50.480 get to another clip here because there was just a lot of moments where Paul would just say,
00:12:54.160 didn't you say that you were going to do this and then you didn't do this?
00:12:58.160 Rustad didn't do this during the televised debate. And some people will probably say in the comments,
00:13:02.400 well, I wish Rustad would have also made these points. The difference with Rustad is Rustad had
00:13:06.480 a perfect performance for the global news debate because Eby had done so much to try and demonize
00:13:12.080 Rustad as erratic, crazy, unprofessional, just like just unstrung. Oh my goodness, my own clip
00:13:20.240 jump scared me there. But he had done so much to do that. By Rustad just showing up and just being
00:13:24.880 professional, he ended up disproving every single lie told about him. And Eby, in fact, was the one
00:13:30.640 jumping around, pointing fingers, staring at people. And that's why the debate performance is so bad.
00:13:35.520 That's why as soon as it seemed like Paul was actually going to take shots at Eby back,
00:13:40.400 he was going to start throwing punches. That's when David Eby almost did this silent,
00:13:44.240 well, you know, let's have an understanding here. Let's not fight too much. Let's be
00:13:48.160 cordial and nice. David Eby is not a cordial person. He's a nasty, low person, but he also cannot stand up
00:13:56.000 to a fair fight where someone is going to come back at him with ammo and the media and moderators are not
00:14:01.600 there to save him. Even in this debate, although I think the moderators did a good job of managing
00:14:06.720 the event, I'm wondering if David Eby wouldn't have showed up to the debate unless he got certain
00:14:12.080 guarantees. Because every question was supposedly sent in from members of the community. Every
00:14:17.440 question was about zoning. It was about specific building projects in the riding boundaries. And
00:14:24.080 while you should maybe have a couple questions about that, because it's very local issues that your
00:14:28.000 MLA is supposed to be taken care of, where was the tax question? Where was the crime question or
00:14:32.000 the drug question? Paul would have to kind of side swipe into other topics to be able to talk about
00:14:38.080 them where all the questions were trying to be as boring as possible. But at the same time, even the
00:14:43.120 questions they were asking Eby were so bad for him to be voicing his opinion on. Because if you don't
00:14:48.960 know Vancouver Point Grey, and it's not that you have to live there, I definitely don't live there,
00:14:53.280 you immediately striving into it, it is an upper middle class riding. Right now, the conservatives
00:14:59.680 are winning people who are making more than 80,000 $100,000 a year. A lot of business owners tend
00:15:06.240 to vote for the conservatives. That's why higher income earners are voting conservative. In fact,
00:15:10.000 when actually it shows a lot of lower income earners are voting NDP, that's not actually true. It's not
00:15:14.720 people like struggling voting NDP, where the NDP want to pretend they're like the working class heroes,
00:15:19.280 it's actually mostly retirees who are on more fixed incomes, but they own their own home and whatnot.
00:15:23.760 But there's a lot of homeowners in Vancouver Point Grey. And David Eby kept stepping all over
00:15:30.560 himself, because he basically kept saying, I'm going to hyper densify your neighborhood, I'm going to cut
00:15:34.480 out some parks. And this clip right here concerns David Eby lying about being in favor of the parks board
00:15:41.280 that was basically created to be able to maintain the parks and be able to actually, you know, mitigate
00:15:48.960 the city of Vancouver from just like cutting out a bunch of green space to build densified housing.
00:15:54.320 And there should always be conversations of where densified housing should go. But the approach that
00:15:59.920 Eby as well as the NDP would take is just wipe out a single family detached house and jam in a sixplex.
00:16:05.840 Who cares if people can't park kind of stuff. But and Paul does a great job of dunking on Eby at this
00:16:11.600 during this question as well.
00:16:12.640 They're very proud of the work that they did in the park board. And they're very proud of the park board.
00:16:16.880 It's very interesting to hear David Eby say that because earlier this year in March,
00:16:22.960 he was talking about working with the city to dissolve the park board.
00:16:27.040 So I'm not sure, I'm not sure if this is another one of the many flip flops that we've seen,
00:16:32.800 but you can look that up on the media and I would welcome you to do so. And I, you know,
00:16:37.840 I have concerns about protecting our green spaces, especially as the city continues to grow.
00:16:43.840 This is a, this is a critical item. You know, our leader has been very clear that he wants to see
00:16:48.400 more of a democratic process with respect to our decision making around the parks board. And I
00:16:54.320 absolutely support that. That is, that is critical. It's a major decision in the future.
00:16:58.320 You don't need to see all these questions, but overall, obviously Paul Ratchford is not a
00:17:03.200 professional debater. He has not had the practice. He has not had the, the debating experience that
00:17:08.880 David Eby has, but the difference with him and Eby, just as the same thing occurred in the global
00:17:14.880 news debate between John Rustad and David Eby is that the Ratchford and Rustad are talking about
00:17:22.000 things that people actually care about. As soon as he called them out, and it's for saying in March,
00:17:26.480 you want to dissolve the parks board. You could, again, all around the auditorium, not like this
00:17:31.200 group of people trying to get some gasp started. Just everyone was like, what the heck is like Eby
00:17:35.840 is such a liar. Like that's so ridiculous that you're now here saying that you're unfair to the
00:17:39.360 parks board. When this guy can get a media article out of, like out of thin air or not out of thin air,
00:17:44.960 I mean like he can pull it out of the internet very easily showing that it was only a few months back
00:17:49.600 that you wanted to dissolve the thing. Eby is not consistent. He is alienating middle class voters in
00:17:55.600 favor of hyper progressive urbanite people. And that is not enough of a base to win on. And also,
00:18:02.400 it's not enough to win on when he's running in his own local riding against the same Green Party lady
00:18:07.840 who's continuing to grab up more and more of the hard left progressive voters who Eby needs to be able to
00:18:14.960 save him in this election. That's the one thing I'll give to the green lady, very confident speaker,
00:18:20.400 probably a lawyer, you know, real estate agent, somebody who's very outgoing and extroverted.
00:18:25.760 Although she, again, she did live up to why I called Sonia first to know in the global news debate,
00:18:31.360 a farmer's market communist. Her entire thing was let's get rid of LNG. Let's get rid of like,
00:18:36.480 you know, industrialization is bad. We need hyper densification. But then she would actually
00:18:41.040 contradict herself whenever there's a question about specific densification in the area that's
00:18:45.280 been controversial. She's like, well, we'll put it under review. We'll do some community stuff and
00:18:49.360 we'll talk to the community and maybe we don't need densification there. I'm like, well, then where
00:18:52.800 are you going to put it lady? Obviously, you know that you're just pushing some hyper equity type
00:18:58.080 positions where you don't actually care if the project's popular or not, because it's more equitable
00:19:02.880 to jam and affordable housing in a place where they don't need it. Both Eby and her saying started
00:19:08.960 like clutching their pearls because Ratchford called the safe injection site that had those
00:19:14.160 long term, long term living facilities in them, a drug den or whatever specific term he used,
00:19:20.320 because it is in fact a drug den. He was like, that's housing for seniors. Okay, just because
00:19:25.600 there's some senior staying there doesn't mean it hasn't become a hotbed of drug sales, crack use,
00:19:31.920 and all this other stuff. It was ridiculous. But Eby was weak. Eby looked like he was on his back foot.
00:19:38.720 He knew that he if he said the wrong thing there, he was going to lose voters in that room. And I
00:19:43.520 think he did do that several times, even though the questions seem to be milder, easier things where
00:19:49.520 he's not going to get roasted in the media for. But I guarantee you, Eby's not going to put out any
00:19:54.160 clips from that debate. He's not going to do anything like that. And maybe you say, well,
00:19:57.600 it's a local candidates debate. Why would he do that? Well, I thought Paul Ratchford is supposed to be a
00:20:02.480 crazy candidate. Why don't you have a clip of you confronting him over what he said,
00:20:06.800 and him looking uncomfortable? Because what Paul Ratchford said that the NDP tried to hit him for
00:20:12.000 is not actually controversial. People agree with him. And to try and go after his specific language
00:20:17.120 is just the woke, scold crap that's making people stop voting NDP from a long time before this year,
00:20:24.000 when everyone started consolidating behind the conservatives. Again, going back, there was a
00:20:29.200 woman who helped on Eby's 2020 local campaign in Point Grey, still very much a lefty voter,
00:20:36.640 still somebody who would be voting maybe NDP on a federal level, does not want to vote Eby because
00:20:42.800 he thinks he'd gone arrogant and he doesn't care about the actual quality of life of middle class
00:20:48.800 people anymore. He has his ideological priorities and he doesn't care if you can't actually handle
00:20:54.320 the taxes to pay for it. And the NDP trying to go after the conservatives, where's your cost
00:20:58.880 costed platform? Where's your costed platform? I'm going to tell you guys, the conservatives
00:21:03.760 probably will put out the full costed platform at some point. Costed platforms usually come from
00:21:08.720 parties with a big budget. The NDP are running with $8 million of taxpayer money in their campaign
00:21:14.480 bank account. The conservatives are running with $200,000. So yeah, I'm not going to be too upset
00:21:21.760 if the conservatives took longer to get the full costed platform out because they don't have the
00:21:26.400 resources to hire their own economists to go over the entire thing, financial accountants,
00:21:32.160 to make sure everything's all squared up. They kind of don't have the time for it because they're
00:21:36.320 trying to win an election, not win a stupid university debate over whose platform is more
00:21:41.760 professionally created. Even though the NDP platform is always a lie, it always shows, oh,
00:21:46.560 reducing deficits over time if we maintain this spending, but they're not going to maintain the
00:21:50.640 spending. They haven't done it in the past seven years. So whenever the liberals federally or the NDP
00:21:55.360 provincially come out and say, we have a full costed platform that shows deficits going down
00:21:59.760 and debt levels going down per capita, it's never happened ever. So don't believe it. They're full
00:22:06.560 of garbage when they say that we have a full costed platform. They have nothing. They're just making
00:22:11.200 stuff up. So yeah, I think Paul Ratchford did a really good job in this debate because he spoke
00:22:16.320 about things people cared about. Taxes are too high. There's way too much crime. We need more police.
00:22:21.680 The drug policies are insane. All this stuff, hyper densification cannot work. You have to have more
00:22:26.960 community input. You can't do everything top down. And EB was just talking about how everything's
00:22:31.840 actually great. Nobody's recognizing it. And then the green lady was like talking about how we can like
00:22:36.480 base our economy on like farmer's market jam or whatever, and that we should need to kill rich
00:22:40.640 people. At one point, David EB actually tried to sideswipe Chip Wilson, the billionaire,
00:22:45.680 the guy who founded Lululemon. And in that crowd of people, and there was a lot of people who I could
00:22:51.360 tell were neutral, they wouldn't clap when anyone was saying anything. They were like,
00:22:55.840 they seemed annoyed when he started going after Chip Wilson. Because guess what? Chip Wilson's
00:22:59.840 created more jobs in BC than David EB ever has. And I'm talking about real jobs, not fake government
00:23:05.520 jobs where you hire 10,000 people to do stuff and you can't even describe what they actually do.
00:23:10.320 David EB lost 18,000 jobs last month in September. Because it turns out that when you keep taking
00:23:17.440 other people's money to fund bloated programs that aren't actually making anyone's lives better,
00:23:21.920 eventually the people who create jobs leave the province and the jobs disappear. And it doesn't
00:23:27.120 matter how much the government wants to create jobs through programs, you need the money of the
00:23:32.160 people who just left to be able to actually create them unless you want the deficit to triple
00:23:36.400 in just a couple of years. Eventually, economics catches up with you. And it will definitely,
00:23:41.280 I believe, catch up with David Eby in this particular election. Because with record-breaking
00:23:46.320 numbers of people voting in advance polls, with the Conservatives, with not a massive budget,
00:23:50.240 it's not like the Conservatives are pushing their people out with big campaign teams. It's people
00:23:54.640 showing up themselves. They don't like the current government. The NTP's voter base is apathetic.
00:24:01.120 Yes, there's always the very committed progressive saying, of course, I'm voting David Eby. I voted
00:24:06.320 early. As soon as the polls opened, I broke open the doors to go vote for them. But really,
00:24:10.640 the average person who even may be in a poll says they're voting NDP, what's their motivation to show
00:24:15.360 up for four more years of this? Even if they truly in their heart believed it would be better than
00:24:19.600 the Conservatives, is it good enough that you're actually going to bother showing up and voting
00:24:24.240 instead of going camping for whatever other plans you had? Or, you know, it's been a hard day at work.
00:24:29.200 Am I really going to pull over the car coming home from work to vote for David Eby? No,
00:24:35.040 they've been doing a bad job. And you have to have been doing a good job to cast aspersions at other
00:24:39.840 people and say that the Conservatives are bad when they haven't been in government since 1927.
00:24:45.040 They have not won a majority government since 1927. They haven't elected an MP or an MLA since 1972.
00:24:51.280 Maybe it's time to give the provincial Conservatives another chance,
00:24:54.320 you know, prior to the centennial of their last government.
00:24:59.520 Oh, all annoying. All very annoying. But that's my review of the debate.
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