The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - BC Greens go absolutely insane & Long Ballots need to end!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and oh boy do I have some crazy stuff I need to discuss with you

00:00:07.360 guys today. I don't even know how I set up this first thing I want to talk about. The BC Green

00:00:14.780 Party is absolutely insane. In fact, they went out of their way to prove it today by presenting a

00:00:23.460 petition to legalize human composting, allow people to compost their bodies into the fields

00:00:33.560 to grow food for other people. They are not beating my accusation that they are farmers market

00:00:41.120 communists. That's what I used to call them during the BC provincial election, and they are proving it

00:00:47.680 today with a policy I would assume that Pol Pot would advocate for if he was sitting in the BC

00:00:52.440 legislature. Check this out. Just check out Tara Armstrong's face in the background there. By the 1.00

00:01:15.020 way, shout out to Tara Armstrong, a fantastic independent MLA. She is like barely holding it 1.00

00:01:22.180 together on how insane this is. I would not have as good of a composure as Tara does. I have to show

00:01:29.160 her face on screen for those who can't see it from where maybe they're seated. Yeah, even she knows

00:01:35.140 that this is a little bit weird, but good for her. She held it together. In fact, actually guys, in the

00:01:41.180 description of this video, as well as pinned at the top of the comments, I'm going to be linking all three

00:01:46.320 of the independent MLA's ex-accounts. If you guys want to go give them a follow, that's Dallas Brody,

00:01:51.700 Tara Armstrong, and Jordan Keeley. But let's get back to it here.

00:01:56.300 ...posting as an option for disposition of human remains in our province. The petitioner requests

00:02:03.640 this House review the Cremation, Internment, and Funeral Services Act, and amend part three to

00:02:10.740 include natural... We don't need to explain petitions. Thank you, Mr.

00:02:16.120 ...shout out to the speaker who's a hero who shut that down from being discussed further.

00:02:22.760 Absolutely gross. This is a priority, apparently, for the BC Greens. There's nothing else going on

00:02:30.660 that they want to present petitions about. Again, I know it's a petition that a constituent

00:02:35.440 has asked their MLA to put forward, but you're allowed to say no. I would have said no to that.

00:02:43.220 Oh, that's not very democratic. Why let a petition get into the legislature? I think there can be some

00:02:48.940 quality control, and if the person truly believes in it and their MLA won't present it, they can go

00:02:54.380 advocate for it themselves. Again, Canada is like the country of, oh, well, the lines are really long

00:03:04.060 for healthcare. I guess you're gonna die, or have you ever considered MAID? The BC Greens jumped the 0.65

00:03:09.620 shark and say, have you ever thought of being mulch? Have you ever thought of allowing for more 0.99

00:03:14.500 corn to be grown this year by adding your body to the killing fields? I know I'm being hyperbolic about

00:03:20.460 it, but my goodness, the BC Greens are so out of touch, and yet the BC NDP government, who are crazy

00:03:26.900 in and of themselves, are currently in effectively a coalition with the BC Greens. Technically, the NDP

00:03:33.560 has a majority, but they have a bare 47-seat majority, and the sitting speaker is an NDP MLA,

00:03:39.980 which means that in order to pass stuff more efficiently, they need the Greens' assistance,

00:03:44.340 unless they want to go through the arduous process of voting on it, and then having it be a deadlock,

00:03:50.100 and then having the speaker have to come in through special procedure and vote to continue debate,

00:03:55.000 or vote to pass stuff. It's very complicated, but yeah. I actually want to highlight some other

00:04:00.820 stuff going on inside the BC legislature today, and then I want to, later on in this video, I'm going

00:04:05.180 to be talking about the longest ballot committee stuff. I know that's been getting on a lot of

00:04:09.860 people's nerves. I've talked about it a little bit in previous videos, but only in passing, and I want

00:04:14.540 to kind of confront why the longest ballot committee is so annoying and what we can do to get rid of it.

00:04:20.340 It's not part of democracy to have ballots being full of 200 candidate names who are not actually

00:04:26.380 seriously running. We actually would like our system to be focused on real decision making,

00:04:33.160 to be focused on real candidates who actually have a vision for the country, not people who want to

00:04:37.780 get their two votes just to mess around with our democracy. Anyways, but now I just want to talk

00:04:43.660 about something else going on in the legislature, and that is the BC conservatives not being very

00:04:48.740 conservative. There's a few things I have to talk about on this front. This is why I specifically

00:04:54.340 support the three independent MLAs. They're actually doing very conservative things, putting

00:04:58.760 forward bills to drastically cut down on taxes, slashing taxes under $100,000 by 50%, slashing it

00:05:07.580 above $100,000 by 25%, including corporate taxes. They're doing a really good job presenting stuff like

00:05:14.200 this, opposing insane land deals that the province is making with certain indigenous bands, which again,

00:05:20.100 is not even good for indigenous people. There is a reason why we have this crazy stuff going down 1.00

00:05:25.900 on Haida Gwaii, where because the government doesn't enforce the law, and because they don't

00:05:30.540 enforce the law and the band council has total control over Haida Gwaii, they can technically

00:05:35.080 bulldoze people's houses that they don't like if they're connected with a criminal. That's an actual

00:05:39.580 thing going on. I will link in the description below a story on that. Check it out yourself. That is

00:05:45.260 another thing for another day. But the Conservatives, while the NDP, the BC NDP, are proposing this new

00:05:52.660 bill, Bill 14, which would give them basically the ability to pick winners and losers with new

00:05:59.480 resource projects, the Conservatives have gotten up and a... I'm not sure why that started up right

00:06:07.240 when I brought up on screen. But the Conservative Minister or critic of Indigenous Affairs, Scott

00:06:13.460 McInnes, has gotten up to say, you know why? Bill 14 is bad. Not because it's anti-market and it's

00:06:19.840 allowing the government to pick projects it likes and not allow other projects to get the fast-track

00:06:24.540 over all of the crazy regulations. It's actually bad because there isn't enough reserve Indigenous 0.95

00:06:31.280 consultation. Absolutely ridiculous. 0.97

00:06:34.420 Mr. Speaker, the Premier's push to fast-track projects is now facing direct criticism from Indigenous 0.70

00:06:40.420 leadership. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs warned that fast-tracking in response to U.S. tariffs risks,

00:06:48.300 and I quote, watering down the environmental assessment process, end quote. Mr. Speaker,

00:06:54.640 why does this NDP Premier continue down this path despite direct warnings from Indigenous leadership

00:07:00.300 in British Columbia?

00:07:04.180 I'm not even going to show you the answer or the rest of this. Basically, the BC NDP just says,

00:07:08.480 no, we absolutely will go through all the consultations and whatnot. It's all ridiculous. 0.97

00:07:13.820 The consultations are bloated and effectively just result in these crazy land deals and different

00:07:20.820 handouts to reserve bands who are not really representing their people, but they effectively

00:07:25.940 have an outsized amount of power on whether or not projects go forward or not. And imagine the

00:07:31.060 Conservative, a Conservative MLA gets up and says, why aren't we making the process more arduous?

00:07:36.540 Why aren't we even more identity politics based when it comes to whether resource projects go

00:07:43.300 forward or not? I don't get it. I don't understand what's going on with the BC Conservatives. But now

00:07:48.520 I have another story about the BC Conservatives. And don't worry, one day I'm going to be tackling the

00:07:53.700 BC NDP government full force on all these issues, all of their bills, Bill 7, Bill 14. I think there's

00:07:58.960 also Bill 15. It's all a bunch of power grab bills, even the BC Greens oppose it. Although,

00:08:05.200 again, those guys are in favor of mulching human bodies. But the thing is that all that stuff is

00:08:11.280 obviously wrong. The authoritarianism, the picking winners and losers when it comes to resource projects,

00:08:17.340 ability to impose tariffs and take products off the shelves at will, obviously insane. But why can't

00:08:23.300 the Conservatives decide to do something Conservative in opposition to all this? So the other day,

00:08:28.860 if you are unaware, there was this bill, or not bill, there was this event that took place

00:08:35.820 with the Association for Reformed Political Action. It is like Calvinist congregationalists who go around

00:08:42.980 lobbying government on behalf of socially Conservative Christians. And they had an event

00:08:47.900 at the legislature hosted by BC Conservative MLA, Heather Maas. I'm very happy she did. This is a

00:08:54.560 good event to have. They came to talk about MAID, and they came to talk about pro-life issues and whatnot,

00:09:00.240 except that you can't do this when Eleanor Sterko, the BC Conservative critic for, I think,

00:09:07.100 public safety or whatever, you can't do this when she's in charge of caucus, apparently. I'm not even

00:09:12.060 sure what kind of power she has in caucus, but she went to the CBC to attack her own colleagues 1.00

00:09:17.680 including BC Conservative leader John Rested for having attended this ARPA event.

00:09:23.100 See a group that, in my opinion, actively works against the rights of other British Columbians is

00:09:28.320 not in line with what I personally want to see in the Hall of Honour. Eleanor Sterko is livid after a 0.99

00:09:35.400 fellow Conservative MLA, Heather Maas, hosted the Association for Reformed Political Action,

00:09:41.740 also known as ARPA, at an event in the legislature's Hall of Honour on Tuesday.

00:09:46.220 This is apparently so much that Eleanor Sterko had to go to the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting

00:09:55.500 Corporation, to complain because apparently it's a very traditionally socially conservative,

00:10:02.060 you know, reformed Christian group, and that's not allowed. That is not allowed in the Hall of Honour 1.00

00:10:08.380 because, I don't know, did they come to advocate that we should ban gay marriage or something?

00:10:13.340 No. In fact, they specifically say they don't really care about that issue, and they were there

00:10:18.560 to talk about things around, you know, stuff that the BC Greens wouldn't like a lot, you know,

00:10:23.240 maybe protecting the sanctity of life around pro-life issues as well as restricting the abuse of

00:10:29.600 maid, and people don't even realize how much maid is abused in Canada. There's a reason why there's all 1.00

00:10:34.620 this crazy footage of, like, veterans and people wanting a wheelchair ramp being just randomly

00:10:39.940 offered maid for no reason. So these people, Michael Shoten, or Mike Shoten, who showed up for

00:10:46.340 ARPA, was talking about that, but Eleanor could not have it and had to speak out. I find this all

00:10:52.280 so obnoxious.

00:10:54.340 A common sense approach as the Conservative Party of BC.

00:10:58.320 The group has campaigned to end MAID, which it calls euthanasia, and has called for a ban on the

00:11:04.880 abortion pill. ARPA also opposes same-sex marriage and sexual orientation and gender identity,

00:11:11.560 or SOGI, policies in schools. Sterko is gay and has three children with her wife, Melissa.

00:11:17.360 On their website, characterize same-sex couples or homosexual people as being immoral. 0.99

00:11:24.900 BC conservative leaders.

00:11:26.980 By the way, Sterko meets with fundamental Sikh groups. She goes to mosques. What is she actually

00:11:35.040 getting after here, other than just an opportunity to attack another MLA, by going to, like, the back

00:11:40.700 subtext pages of ARPA? You can be in favor of those things, you can be against them. It literally does

00:11:46.200 not matter. Why did this require Eleanor Sterko to attack all these people who just wanted to hear 1.00

00:11:51.360 about the maiden pro-life issue? I don't know. But this is now extended further, days after this

00:11:57.460 happened, to another BC conservative MLA, not just speaking out against the event and ARPA, but attacking

00:12:04.040 Heather Moss for having promoted this event and hosted it. Amelia Bullby here, the MLA for

00:12:10.580 Penticton Summerland, says,

00:12:12.820 At Heather Ma, she doesn't speak for me. I, myself, a Christian, believe all British Columbians should

00:12:18.260 have the same civil rights, whether you're gay or straight. And by the way, ARPA actually literally

00:12:22.560 just says it does not care about repealing gay marriage, so I'm not even sure what these people

00:12:26.760 are on about. And then she says,

00:12:28.300 ARPA exposes positions myself and the majority of my constituents reject. Okay, every organization's

00:12:34.560 probably going to have things you don't agree with. There are tons of organizations that say

00:12:39.140 things I don't agree with, and I'll still talk to them on things I agree on. And then she goes on to

00:12:44.300 say, I wouldn't willingly be caught dead with them in public, and I believe it's an error they were

00:12:49.940 allowed in the Hall of Honor at the legislature. I will continue to represent all my constituents

00:12:54.480 regardless of what some members of my caucus associate with them.

00:13:02.040 Couldn't we be opposing actual things the BC NDP are doing right now? And again, the conservatives

00:13:07.340 frequently often don't oppose the NDP. So Bill 7, the bill that will give the NDP the power to just

00:13:15.460 arbitrarily put tariffs on random things, pull products off of shelves if they don't think it's

00:13:19.920 in the economic interests of British Columbia. That was voted against by the BC Conservative

00:13:26.840 Caucus, but they didn't even show up to debate against it because their priorities are so screwed

00:13:31.380 up right now. And there are great people in the BC Conservative Caucus who actually care about

00:13:36.380 conservatism, who care about free market principles, who like actually want to dismantle a lot of the

00:13:41.620 crazy laws and policies that the BC NDP currently support in their government. But then there's a lot of

00:13:47.760 people who don't really care and they play high school games behind the scenes attacking people

00:13:51.940 who said something they didn't quite like or they talk to a guy who thinks something and on his website

00:13:57.340 says something that you wouldn't agree with. Who cares? But the thing is that Amelia Bowlby is not a

00:14:02.040 very good MLA. So all she has is whining at other conservatives for not being a progressive like

00:14:08.140 her. I remember I even got into it one time when she was attacking Tara Armstrong, Jordan Keeley and

00:14:14.300 Dallas Brody on Facebook, like attacking them under their own personal profile. And she said that she 1.00

00:14:20.500 had a historic victory in Penticton Summerlands. She only won by 2% in a riding where the BC Liberals

00:14:27.700 as compromised as that party was in terms of not being a very conservative party, despite running in a

00:14:33.140 conservative area, they would usually win that riding against the NDP by like 10 points by like 15

00:14:38.780 points. Amelia Bowlby wins it by two. And she said it was a historic victory because normally those

00:14:44.540 people didn't have to run with an independent also in the race. The independent got 10% of the vote in

00:14:50.180 the race with Amelia Bowlby because she's so unlikable. A bunch of conservatives went to go vote for anybody 1.00

00:14:55.700 else but her or the NDP. Goodness. So yes, that should be it for that issue. So now I got to move on to

00:15:03.940 something arguably even more annoying than Amelia Bowlby. And that is the issue of the longest ballot

00:15:10.460 committee. So the longest ballot committee, if you don't know, is this proportional representation

00:15:16.400 organization that basically, I guess, through wanting Canada's system to be changed from first

00:15:23.100 past the post to proportional representation has been going around the country and signing up as many

00:15:28.780 candidates as possible for singular riding ballots as like a big stunt. And it makes no sense. So now

00:15:37.300 it is being reported that the longest ballot committee is preparing to flood Pierre Pauly's

00:15:42.960 riding with over 200 candidates. And I would disagree with the poster of this saying this,

00:15:49.140 that all the left knows how to do is cheat. This is not cheating. It's just annoying. Even in

00:15:53.540 Carlton, where Pierre Pauly lost his riding, I really doubt that the longest ballot committee had

00:15:59.860 an impact. But it is grating on the nerves of voters who go to a ballot station to go to a polling

00:16:06.940 station and are presented with a ballot that, if I can bring it up here, looks something like this.

00:16:15.060 If I can get it. Oh my goodness. Sorry. There's these ballot images. I saved them onto my bookmarks and

00:16:20.200 now they're not here. Okay. That looks something like this. This is unacceptable. Anyone who thinks

00:16:29.000 that this is reasonable is out to lunch. Or if you think that this is somehow forwarding the idea of

00:16:34.700 proportional representation, you're out to lunch. Somehow the liberals have never passed a piece

00:16:40.800 of legislation to stop this or had some sort of regulatory body pass a regulation saying that you

00:16:47.460 cannot be representing or being the agent for this many candidates on one ballot. Because yes,

00:16:54.600 this is a singular individual who is getting these people on the ballots. Obviously, they technically

00:17:00.600 do need to get their signatures themselves. Although one person can just run around getting people to

00:17:04.940 sign that many signatures, 25 signatures for every single candidate. But what? Look at this. That's how big

00:17:12.200 the ballot is in real life for people to mark their name on. Again, this did not cause Paulyov to lose,

00:17:22.540 but it is a problem. This guy, Thomas Sedgwitz, I believe, is literally the person who is the

00:17:30.580 agent for every single one of these candidates. We could obviously end this by just saying,

00:17:40.660 you cannot be the agent for more than one candidate, and candidates themselves cannot be the agent for

00:17:47.480 another candidate in case they try and pivot. And so he's the agent for one candidate, and that

00:17:52.600 candidate's the agent for the next candidate. This is not helping democracy. This is not even helping

00:17:58.460 their cause of proportional representation. How does this make you more pro-PR?

00:18:04.480 If anything, it shows the flaw of PR, as I pointed out in a post I made today, saying,

00:18:11.180 well, what they're actually doing is annoying people by showing them how annoying having too

00:18:15.680 many names on a ballot can be. We really should be trying to boil down our electoral system to

00:18:22.700 basically four or five serious party candidates, maybe a couple of independents. Most of the time,

00:18:27.440 independents aren't serious, but sometimes they are, and they actually do have an impact on the race,

00:18:31.940 or they even sometimes win in the cases of someone like Jody Wilson-Raybould or Bobby Ann Brady on a

00:18:39.000 provincial level in Ontario. Proportional representation will not solve the problems

00:18:45.640 of the country, by the way. I don't understand why people love proportional representation so much.

00:18:51.500 I like First Past the Post because I want the people governing the country to have a coherently

00:18:57.200 large portion of the population who endorse their vision. Even if it's 42% of the population,

00:19:02.360 and that's what you need to get elected into a majority government, if the next best party only

00:19:07.100 had 25%, fair enough. There's really not a coherent vision that enough people can really agree on

00:19:12.920 that would justify not having that 42% govern for a bit. That's the nice thing with First Past the 0.98

00:19:18.640 Post. You get coherent majority governments, or sometimes minority governments, although usually

00:19:24.200 they're much more stable than in proportional representation systems. Whereas in proportional

00:19:28.480 representation systems, pretty much nothing changes because there's never that moment where,

00:19:34.180 oh, well, you know, this new party is 42%, let's let them govern for a little bit because they won

00:19:39.240 the vast majority of riding's local contests. In places like Spain, ever since Francisco Franco died,

00:19:46.880 the socialists have literally never not been in government. They are always in government because in Spain,

00:19:53.060 they do have like a threshold of like 5%, which is also funny how proportional representation people

00:19:58.260 are like, oh, it's proportional representation, but we'll have it be regional, and there'll be a

00:20:03.180 5% threshold. It's like, well, so do you want proportional representation or not? You can't just start

00:20:08.120 putting a bunch of stipulations in place if apparently having more proportional representation

00:20:12.940 makes it better. But I digress here. But in Spain, every time the socialists do something stupid and lose

00:20:19.980 support, because of human psychology, those people will usually just go vote for a different leftist 0.99

00:20:25.060 party. Same stupid policies. There's no reason why they're going to do a better job. But the 1.00

00:20:30.100 socialist party can now form governments with only winning like 25% of the vote, because then they have

00:20:35.020 the Marxist party get 5%, and then the communist party gets 3%. And then this progress, you know,

00:20:41.460 progress, whatever party, Seville gets a couple local seats or whatever. And then they always keep the

00:20:47.660 socialists in, because nobody really wants to admit we probably need something completely different

00:20:52.400 in government for a while. And so the Republican parties or the more right parties can sometimes win

00:20:57.280 like 45 combined percent. And that's usually behind only a single party mostly. And they still cannot

00:21:04.000 form government because the socialists with their 25 or 30% can keep cobbling together new governments

00:21:09.400 with more fringe left-wing parties or squishy green parties who don't want to support anyone on the right.

00:21:14.920 It annoys me to no end. Look at Israel. Look at the Netherlands. Look at Spain. Proportional representation

00:21:22.760 is not the utopia you think it is, because nothing gets done, because people just start basically supporting

00:21:30.000 parties or like governments end up forming coalitions out of reluctant opposition to others, rather than because

00:21:36.480 we all believe in something like real that we want to do. That's my rant on proportional representation.

00:21:42.260 The longest ballot committee needs to be shut down. This is ridiculous. We have this Thomas guy putting 0.96

00:21:50.020 so many people on the ballot, and it's just allowed. We don't consider this to be an illegitimate way of

00:21:55.980 engaging in the electoral system, which it absolutely should be considered illegitimate. Nothing about this

00:22:02.460 screams seriousness. We should have serious candidates on the ballot. I don't want, when I say serious,

00:22:09.260 I don't mean that we should start valuing. I don't like to think this guy's serious. If you want to be

00:22:13.280 on the ballot, get your 25 signatures and get a vote, just a single vote, but you put in the work

00:22:18.280 yourself, you had your own agent supporting you, that's fine. Once it becomes like a manufactured

00:22:23.320 system to have these multi-page ballots, nay, nay, you are not on the ballot anymore. I am sorry.

00:22:29.200 This is stupid. Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. Thank you for listening to my rants.

00:22:36.460 Sorry for the disgusting news of the BC Green supporting human compost. Goodness.

00:22:42.920 Canada's a crazy place right now, and all I can say is, I guess it's funny for content.

00:22:49.420 Go follow those three independent MLAs in British Columbia, Dallas Brody, Tara Armstrong,

00:22:54.660 and Jordan Keeley. That is going to be linked in the description below and pinned at the top of the

00:22:58.280 comments. Like, share, subscribe, all that stuff. See you guys later.

00:23:02.240 Thank you.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 06, 2025

BC Greens go absolutely insane & Long Ballots need to end!

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