BC Greens go absolutely insane & Long Ballots need to end!
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Summary
The BC Green Party presented a petition to legalize human composting in the BC legislature today, which was shot down by the Speaker of the House of Commons. I discuss why the BC Greens are out of touch, and why the three independent MLAs who voted against it are actually doing a good job. I also discuss the long ballot committee and why we need to get rid of it.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, and oh boy do I have some crazy stuff I need to discuss with you
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guys today. I don't even know how I set up this first thing I want to talk about. The BC Green
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Party is absolutely insane. In fact, they went out of their way to prove it today by presenting a
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petition to legalize human composting, allow people to compost their bodies into the fields
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to grow food for other people. They are not beating my accusation that they are farmers market
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communists. That's what I used to call them during the BC provincial election, and they are proving it
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today with a policy I would assume that Pol Pot would advocate for if he was sitting in the BC
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legislature. Check this out. Just check out Tara Armstrong's face in the background there. By the
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way, shout out to Tara Armstrong, a fantastic independent MLA. She is like barely holding it
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together on how insane this is. I would not have as good of a composure as Tara does. I have to show
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her face on screen for those who can't see it from where maybe they're seated. Yeah, even she knows
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that this is a little bit weird, but good for her. She held it together. In fact, actually guys, in the
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description of this video, as well as pinned at the top of the comments, I'm going to be linking all three
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of the independent MLA's ex-accounts. If you guys want to go give them a follow, that's Dallas Brody,
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Tara Armstrong, and Jordan Keeley. But let's get back to it here.
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...posting as an option for disposition of human remains in our province. The petitioner requests
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this House review the Cremation, Internment, and Funeral Services Act, and amend part three to
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include natural... We don't need to explain petitions. Thank you, Mr.
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...shout out to the speaker who's a hero who shut that down from being discussed further.
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Absolutely gross. This is a priority, apparently, for the BC Greens. There's nothing else going on
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that they want to present petitions about. Again, I know it's a petition that a constituent
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has asked their MLA to put forward, but you're allowed to say no. I would have said no to that.
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Oh, that's not very democratic. Why let a petition get into the legislature? I think there can be some
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quality control, and if the person truly believes in it and their MLA won't present it, they can go
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advocate for it themselves. Again, Canada is like the country of, oh, well, the lines are really long
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for healthcare. I guess you're gonna die, or have you ever considered MAID? The BC Greens jumped the
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shark and say, have you ever thought of being mulch? Have you ever thought of allowing for more
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corn to be grown this year by adding your body to the killing fields? I know I'm being hyperbolic about
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it, but my goodness, the BC Greens are so out of touch, and yet the BC NDP government, who are crazy
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in and of themselves, are currently in effectively a coalition with the BC Greens. Technically, the NDP
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has a majority, but they have a bare 47-seat majority, and the sitting speaker is an NDP MLA,
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which means that in order to pass stuff more efficiently, they need the Greens' assistance,
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unless they want to go through the arduous process of voting on it, and then having it be a deadlock,
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and then having the speaker have to come in through special procedure and vote to continue debate,
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or vote to pass stuff. It's very complicated, but yeah. I actually want to highlight some other
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stuff going on inside the BC legislature today, and then I want to, later on in this video, I'm going
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to be talking about the longest ballot committee stuff. I know that's been getting on a lot of
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people's nerves. I've talked about it a little bit in previous videos, but only in passing, and I want
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to kind of confront why the longest ballot committee is so annoying and what we can do to get rid of it.
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It's not part of democracy to have ballots being full of 200 candidate names who are not actually
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seriously running. We actually would like our system to be focused on real decision making,
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to be focused on real candidates who actually have a vision for the country, not people who want to
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get their two votes just to mess around with our democracy. Anyways, but now I just want to talk
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about something else going on in the legislature, and that is the BC conservatives not being very
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conservative. There's a few things I have to talk about on this front. This is why I specifically
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support the three independent MLAs. They're actually doing very conservative things, putting
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forward bills to drastically cut down on taxes, slashing taxes under $100,000 by 50%, slashing it
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above $100,000 by 25%, including corporate taxes. They're doing a really good job presenting stuff like
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this, opposing insane land deals that the province is making with certain indigenous bands, which again,
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is not even good for indigenous people. There is a reason why we have this crazy stuff going down
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on Haida Gwaii, where because the government doesn't enforce the law, and because they don't
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enforce the law and the band council has total control over Haida Gwaii, they can technically
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bulldoze people's houses that they don't like if they're connected with a criminal. That's an actual
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thing going on. I will link in the description below a story on that. Check it out yourself. That is
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another thing for another day. But the Conservatives, while the NDP, the BC NDP, are proposing this new
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bill, Bill 14, which would give them basically the ability to pick winners and losers with new
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resource projects, the Conservatives have gotten up and a... I'm not sure why that started up right
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when I brought up on screen. But the Conservative Minister or critic of Indigenous Affairs, Scott
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McInnes, has gotten up to say, you know why? Bill 14 is bad. Not because it's anti-market and it's
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allowing the government to pick projects it likes and not allow other projects to get the fast-track
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over all of the crazy regulations. It's actually bad because there isn't enough reserve Indigenous
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Mr. Speaker, the Premier's push to fast-track projects is now facing direct criticism from Indigenous
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leadership. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs warned that fast-tracking in response to U.S. tariffs risks,
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and I quote, watering down the environmental assessment process, end quote. Mr. Speaker,
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why does this NDP Premier continue down this path despite direct warnings from Indigenous leadership
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I'm not even going to show you the answer or the rest of this. Basically, the BC NDP just says,
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no, we absolutely will go through all the consultations and whatnot. It's all ridiculous.
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The consultations are bloated and effectively just result in these crazy land deals and different
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handouts to reserve bands who are not really representing their people, but they effectively
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have an outsized amount of power on whether or not projects go forward or not. And imagine the
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Conservative, a Conservative MLA gets up and says, why aren't we making the process more arduous?
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Why aren't we even more identity politics based when it comes to whether resource projects go
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forward or not? I don't get it. I don't understand what's going on with the BC Conservatives. But now
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I have another story about the BC Conservatives. And don't worry, one day I'm going to be tackling the
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BC NDP government full force on all these issues, all of their bills, Bill 7, Bill 14. I think there's
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also Bill 15. It's all a bunch of power grab bills, even the BC Greens oppose it. Although,
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again, those guys are in favor of mulching human bodies. But the thing is that all that stuff is
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obviously wrong. The authoritarianism, the picking winners and losers when it comes to resource projects,
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ability to impose tariffs and take products off the shelves at will, obviously insane. But why can't
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the Conservatives decide to do something Conservative in opposition to all this? So the other day,
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if you are unaware, there was this bill, or not bill, there was this event that took place
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with the Association for Reformed Political Action. It is like Calvinist congregationalists who go around
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lobbying government on behalf of socially Conservative Christians. And they had an event
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at the legislature hosted by BC Conservative MLA, Heather Maas. I'm very happy she did. This is a
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good event to have. They came to talk about MAID, and they came to talk about pro-life issues and whatnot,
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except that you can't do this when Eleanor Sterko, the BC Conservative critic for, I think,
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public safety or whatever, you can't do this when she's in charge of caucus, apparently. I'm not even
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sure what kind of power she has in caucus, but she went to the CBC to attack her own colleagues
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including BC Conservative leader John Rested for having attended this ARPA event.
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See a group that, in my opinion, actively works against the rights of other British Columbians is
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not in line with what I personally want to see in the Hall of Honour. Eleanor Sterko is livid after a
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fellow Conservative MLA, Heather Maas, hosted the Association for Reformed Political Action,
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also known as ARPA, at an event in the legislature's Hall of Honour on Tuesday.
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This is apparently so much that Eleanor Sterko had to go to the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting
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Corporation, to complain because apparently it's a very traditionally socially conservative,
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you know, reformed Christian group, and that's not allowed. That is not allowed in the Hall of Honour
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because, I don't know, did they come to advocate that we should ban gay marriage or something?
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No. In fact, they specifically say they don't really care about that issue, and they were there
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to talk about things around, you know, stuff that the BC Greens wouldn't like a lot, you know,
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maybe protecting the sanctity of life around pro-life issues as well as restricting the abuse of
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maid, and people don't even realize how much maid is abused in Canada. There's a reason why there's all
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this crazy footage of, like, veterans and people wanting a wheelchair ramp being just randomly
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offered maid for no reason. So these people, Michael Shoten, or Mike Shoten, who showed up for
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ARPA, was talking about that, but Eleanor could not have it and had to speak out. I find this all
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A common sense approach as the Conservative Party of BC.
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The group has campaigned to end MAID, which it calls euthanasia, and has called for a ban on the
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abortion pill. ARPA also opposes same-sex marriage and sexual orientation and gender identity,
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or SOGI, policies in schools. Sterko is gay and has three children with her wife, Melissa.
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On their website, characterize same-sex couples or homosexual people as being immoral.
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By the way, Sterko meets with fundamental Sikh groups. She goes to mosques. What is she actually
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getting after here, other than just an opportunity to attack another MLA, by going to, like, the back
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subtext pages of ARPA? You can be in favor of those things, you can be against them. It literally does
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not matter. Why did this require Eleanor Sterko to attack all these people who just wanted to hear
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about the maiden pro-life issue? I don't know. But this is now extended further, days after this
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happened, to another BC conservative MLA, not just speaking out against the event and ARPA, but attacking
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Heather Moss for having promoted this event and hosted it. Amelia Bullby here, the MLA for
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At Heather Ma, she doesn't speak for me. I, myself, a Christian, believe all British Columbians should
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have the same civil rights, whether you're gay or straight. And by the way, ARPA actually literally
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just says it does not care about repealing gay marriage, so I'm not even sure what these people
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ARPA exposes positions myself and the majority of my constituents reject. Okay, every organization's
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probably going to have things you don't agree with. There are tons of organizations that say
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things I don't agree with, and I'll still talk to them on things I agree on. And then she goes on to
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say, I wouldn't willingly be caught dead with them in public, and I believe it's an error they were
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allowed in the Hall of Honor at the legislature. I will continue to represent all my constituents
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regardless of what some members of my caucus associate with them.
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Couldn't we be opposing actual things the BC NDP are doing right now? And again, the conservatives
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frequently often don't oppose the NDP. So Bill 7, the bill that will give the NDP the power to just
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arbitrarily put tariffs on random things, pull products off of shelves if they don't think it's
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in the economic interests of British Columbia. That was voted against by the BC Conservative
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Caucus, but they didn't even show up to debate against it because their priorities are so screwed
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up right now. And there are great people in the BC Conservative Caucus who actually care about
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conservatism, who care about free market principles, who like actually want to dismantle a lot of the
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crazy laws and policies that the BC NDP currently support in their government. But then there's a lot of
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people who don't really care and they play high school games behind the scenes attacking people
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who said something they didn't quite like or they talk to a guy who thinks something and on his website
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says something that you wouldn't agree with. Who cares? But the thing is that Amelia Bowlby is not a
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very good MLA. So all she has is whining at other conservatives for not being a progressive like
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her. I remember I even got into it one time when she was attacking Tara Armstrong, Jordan Keeley and
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Dallas Brody on Facebook, like attacking them under their own personal profile. And she said that she
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had a historic victory in Penticton Summerlands. She only won by 2% in a riding where the BC Liberals
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as compromised as that party was in terms of not being a very conservative party, despite running in a
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conservative area, they would usually win that riding against the NDP by like 10 points by like 15
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points. Amelia Bowlby wins it by two. And she said it was a historic victory because normally those
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people didn't have to run with an independent also in the race. The independent got 10% of the vote in
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the race with Amelia Bowlby because she's so unlikable. A bunch of conservatives went to go vote for anybody
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else but her or the NDP. Goodness. So yes, that should be it for that issue. So now I got to move on to
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something arguably even more annoying than Amelia Bowlby. And that is the issue of the longest ballot
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committee. So the longest ballot committee, if you don't know, is this proportional representation
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organization that basically, I guess, through wanting Canada's system to be changed from first
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past the post to proportional representation has been going around the country and signing up as many
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candidates as possible for singular riding ballots as like a big stunt. And it makes no sense. So now
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it is being reported that the longest ballot committee is preparing to flood Pierre Pauly's
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riding with over 200 candidates. And I would disagree with the poster of this saying this,
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that all the left knows how to do is cheat. This is not cheating. It's just annoying. Even in
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Carlton, where Pierre Pauly lost his riding, I really doubt that the longest ballot committee had
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an impact. But it is grating on the nerves of voters who go to a ballot station to go to a polling
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station and are presented with a ballot that, if I can bring it up here, looks something like this.
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If I can get it. Oh my goodness. Sorry. There's these ballot images. I saved them onto my bookmarks and
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now they're not here. Okay. That looks something like this. This is unacceptable. Anyone who thinks
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that this is reasonable is out to lunch. Or if you think that this is somehow forwarding the idea of
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proportional representation, you're out to lunch. Somehow the liberals have never passed a piece
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of legislation to stop this or had some sort of regulatory body pass a regulation saying that you
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cannot be representing or being the agent for this many candidates on one ballot. Because yes,
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this is a singular individual who is getting these people on the ballots. Obviously, they technically
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do need to get their signatures themselves. Although one person can just run around getting people to
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sign that many signatures, 25 signatures for every single candidate. But what? Look at this. That's how big
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the ballot is in real life for people to mark their name on. Again, this did not cause Paulyov to lose,
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but it is a problem. This guy, Thomas Sedgwitz, I believe, is literally the person who is the
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agent for every single one of these candidates. We could obviously end this by just saying,
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you cannot be the agent for more than one candidate, and candidates themselves cannot be the agent for
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another candidate in case they try and pivot. And so he's the agent for one candidate, and that
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candidate's the agent for the next candidate. This is not helping democracy. This is not even helping
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their cause of proportional representation. How does this make you more pro-PR?
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If anything, it shows the flaw of PR, as I pointed out in a post I made today, saying,
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well, what they're actually doing is annoying people by showing them how annoying having too
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many names on a ballot can be. We really should be trying to boil down our electoral system to
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basically four or five serious party candidates, maybe a couple of independents. Most of the time,
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independents aren't serious, but sometimes they are, and they actually do have an impact on the race,
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or they even sometimes win in the cases of someone like Jody Wilson-Raybould or Bobby Ann Brady on a
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provincial level in Ontario. Proportional representation will not solve the problems
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of the country, by the way. I don't understand why people love proportional representation so much.
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I like First Past the Post because I want the people governing the country to have a coherently
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large portion of the population who endorse their vision. Even if it's 42% of the population,
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and that's what you need to get elected into a majority government, if the next best party only
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had 25%, fair enough. There's really not a coherent vision that enough people can really agree on
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that would justify not having that 42% govern for a bit. That's the nice thing with First Past the
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Post. You get coherent majority governments, or sometimes minority governments, although usually
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they're much more stable than in proportional representation systems. Whereas in proportional
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representation systems, pretty much nothing changes because there's never that moment where,
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oh, well, you know, this new party is 42%, let's let them govern for a little bit because they won
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the vast majority of riding's local contests. In places like Spain, ever since Francisco Franco died,
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the socialists have literally never not been in government. They are always in government because in Spain,
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they do have like a threshold of like 5%, which is also funny how proportional representation people
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are like, oh, it's proportional representation, but we'll have it be regional, and there'll be a
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5% threshold. It's like, well, so do you want proportional representation or not? You can't just start
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putting a bunch of stipulations in place if apparently having more proportional representation
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makes it better. But I digress here. But in Spain, every time the socialists do something stupid and lose
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support, because of human psychology, those people will usually just go vote for a different leftist
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party. Same stupid policies. There's no reason why they're going to do a better job. But the
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socialist party can now form governments with only winning like 25% of the vote, because then they have
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the Marxist party get 5%, and then the communist party gets 3%. And then this progress, you know,
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progress, whatever party, Seville gets a couple local seats or whatever. And then they always keep the
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socialists in, because nobody really wants to admit we probably need something completely different
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in government for a while. And so the Republican parties or the more right parties can sometimes win
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like 45 combined percent. And that's usually behind only a single party mostly. And they still cannot
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form government because the socialists with their 25 or 30% can keep cobbling together new governments
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with more fringe left-wing parties or squishy green parties who don't want to support anyone on the right.
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It annoys me to no end. Look at Israel. Look at the Netherlands. Look at Spain. Proportional representation
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is not the utopia you think it is, because nothing gets done, because people just start basically supporting
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parties or like governments end up forming coalitions out of reluctant opposition to others, rather than because
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we all believe in something like real that we want to do. That's my rant on proportional representation.
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The longest ballot committee needs to be shut down. This is ridiculous. We have this Thomas guy putting
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so many people on the ballot, and it's just allowed. We don't consider this to be an illegitimate way of
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engaging in the electoral system, which it absolutely should be considered illegitimate. Nothing about this
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screams seriousness. We should have serious candidates on the ballot. I don't want, when I say serious,
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I don't mean that we should start valuing. I don't like to think this guy's serious. If you want to be
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on the ballot, get your 25 signatures and get a vote, just a single vote, but you put in the work
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yourself, you had your own agent supporting you, that's fine. Once it becomes like a manufactured
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system to have these multi-page ballots, nay, nay, you are not on the ballot anymore. I am sorry.
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This is stupid. Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys. Thank you for listening to my rants.
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Sorry for the disgusting news of the BC Green supporting human compost. Goodness.
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Canada's a crazy place right now, and all I can say is, I guess it's funny for content.
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Go follow those three independent MLAs in British Columbia, Dallas Brody, Tara Armstrong,
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and Jordan Keeley. That is going to be linked in the description below and pinned at the top of the
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comments. Like, share, subscribe, all that stuff. See you guys later.