The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - BC NDP falling in BC Polls - OneBC rising 8% to 13% - Caroline Elliott is a Liberal!

00:00:00.000 Ahoy everyone, Wyatt Claypool here back again to finally talk about some more Canadian polls.

00:00:06.720 Today we will be talking about the province of British Columbia, where we are seeing some very

00:00:12.080 interesting movement in the polls, and I also want to talk about the BC Conservative leadership

00:00:18.040 race, especially Caroline Elliott's campaign, because I want to warn you all, if you have seen

00:00:24.880 Caroline Elliott out there and you are a little bit intrigued by the things she has been saying,

00:00:29.380 She is another Doug Ford. She is another Aaron O'Toole. In fact, her campaign literally shares

00:00:36.460 some of the team members who created Doug Ford and Aaron O'Toole as fake conservatives.

00:00:42.000 We will be getting to that later in this video, but we will be first starting off with some great

00:00:47.980 polling numbers that make 1BC look quite good, and I am always one to highlight numbers that

00:00:54.380 show us on the rise. And I'm not just cherry picking here. I am finding the polls that

00:00:59.180 actually bother including us, or at least demonstrate that we have a lot of power in

00:01:04.060 the polls. There are other pollsters out there who deliberately don't even mention us. And I think

00:01:08.860 that it's probably a leadership campaign or the Conservative Party themselves paying these

00:01:13.480 pollsters to try and make themselves look really big while trying to downplay that there is any

00:01:18.620 serious appetite for a third party. But before we get into the numbers today, I just want to remind

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00:01:46.200 more sustainable for me. And if you live in British Columbia, full disclosure, I work for

00:01:52.280 the 1BC party with Dallas Brody. I basically make nothing doing it, but you know, you always have to

00:01:58.940 mention that fact. If you live in BC, check out the 1BC website and consider becoming a member.

00:02:04.840 It's 20 bucks that is tax deductible or make a donation because we are on the rise and this is

00:02:11.420 a real movement that money will actually help grow, not some random small party that pops up,

00:02:16.760 collects a bunch of money, and then disappears later. As you will see in the numbers, we are

00:02:21.280 having massive amounts of growth right now, and it's only a matter of time before a BC conservative

00:02:27.080 MLA who's actually conservative is going to get wise and realize that they are going to do better

00:02:32.200 things for their careers, joining us actually getting to be conservative and being able to

00:02:37.180 easily win re-election. But now, without further ado, we are going to get into two polls I want

00:02:43.040 to highlight here. One is from Hamish Marshall's firm, and the other is from Main Street Research.

00:02:49.320 Now, Hamish Marshall's firm actually names 1BC, and Main Street does not. But oddly enough,

00:02:56.940 Main Street is the poll I want to talk about more here, but we will be saving that to being the

00:03:02.500 second poll we're going to talk about, I'm just going to go over the numbers for you here on

00:03:06.840 Hamish Marshall's poll to show the general landscape of BC politics right now. I always

00:03:13.000 use the color red, not for any particular reason, or maybe I am using it for particular reasons,

00:03:19.220 but right now in BC polls, Hamish Marshall has the BC Conservatives currently leading a couple

00:03:26.180 points over the NDP with 41 percent. I'll write down, I guess, C for conservative down here

00:03:35.480 or up here. It'll be easier. So conservatives are currently at 41 percent in this Hamish Marshall

00:03:42.380 poll, followed by the NDP currently sitting at 37 percent. So the conservatives are leading by

00:03:50.700 four points in this poll. That is then followed, of course, by the Green Party of British Columbia,

00:03:57.880 and they are at 11 points. I actually see them probably rising further from here because

00:04:03.780 the Green Party only got, I think, 8% in this last election, and they still pulled off winning

00:04:08.660 two seats, that being Rob Botterell in Saanich North and the Islands, and then Jeremy Valeriat,

00:04:14.460 who's, I think, in North Vancouver, you know, Sea to Sky or something like that. I'm probably

00:04:20.000 getting it wrong, but he's one of those ridings above Vancouver. They still won like two seats

00:04:25.500 on only 8% in the polls. And I think that they're probably going to be going back in this next

00:04:31.180 election because of the aggressiveness of their current leader, Emily Lohan, to being around that

00:04:35.880 16 to 20% they were usually at in previous elections with Sonia first and now back when

00:04:41.560 she was actually a fresh leader or Andrew Weaver. So I think you're going to see the NDP starting to

00:04:47.620 fall into the mid-30s over time. And there's always been this political myth that the NDP

00:04:54.000 is always at 40% or above. That's why there can be no vote splitting at all. Vote splitting is a

00:04:59.980 complete myth. I'm going to get to that a little bit later. But I think with so many policy failures

00:05:04.460 with the NDP government right now and the rise of the Greens, you will be seeing them fall into the

00:05:10.600 mid-30s and then we are followed with the NDP in this poll are followed by 1BC who are currently

00:05:18.680 at we are currently at 6% but what I find interesting in this poll is followed behind

00:05:25.700 them sold to give scope ndp here we have green and we have one we also have at five percent other

00:05:42.180 and the thing is with when you have sorry i wrote that wrong we have five percent and we have other

00:05:49.300 now the problem is there's no really why am i throwing stuff guys my goodness why it's out of

00:05:57.620 out of practice i feel like i'm a teacher like a teacher who's been off for the summer finally

00:06:02.420 coming back to the classroom and i don't even know where things are anymore in the room it's nice to

00:06:07.380 be back in the regular studio not sitting in a hotel room that always kind of sucked for me

00:06:11.280 but five percent other probably just means people who like one bc leader dallas brody and they

00:06:18.300 forgot what the party's name was because 1BC still hasn't existed for an entire year. In the

00:06:24.200 public eye, we've probably only existed for about six months or even four months because just because

00:06:29.620 the party was registered back in June doesn't mean that a bunch of people knew who we were back in

00:06:34.360 June. Probably by December or January or February, it's really the first time that people have heard

00:06:40.680 about us in a substantial enough way that they actually kind of put it to their memory that

00:06:45.720 there is this party out there called 1BC. So when I see other at 5, it's not center BC. Center BC,

00:06:52.480 when they've been named in a poll, has been at less than a 1% or 1%. Other is probably at least,

00:06:59.020 at least two points going towards 1BC, which would probably put 1BC at about eight or nine points.

00:07:06.420 This poll also, I believe, had, yeah, that was about it. This is 1,000 people polled, by the way.

00:07:11.400 A thousand people is not shabby at all. A thousand people are giving you a pretty good sample size.

00:07:17.720 There's not a big margin of error. The only error that could be here is simply that other is

00:07:23.580 representing people who like Brody, they forget what her party's name is. And that's something

00:07:28.340 that will sort itself out over time. Like if there was an election, and I can guarantee you,

00:07:32.900 there's not an election until 2028. The NDP don't want an election. The Greens don't want an election.

00:07:37.980 The Conservatives don't want an election. Frankly, we don't want an election either because we want to get more up to speed. In an election period, you're going to convert a lot of the people confused about the branding over to your party. So over time, you're going to have other moving in to the 1BC camp. Because you couldn't say other is trying to vote for the Conservatives or the NDP or the Greens. They're well-known parties. People know what they're all about. People aren't confused about what party does Trevor Halford and the Conservatives represent?

00:08:07.340 all the conservatives it's just not how it works and so it's not center bc because every time

00:08:13.400 they've pulled center bc since they first launched back in april and watch you talk with them later

00:08:17.920 in this video they've really not gone anywhere but this new poll kind of proves my point here

00:08:24.180 so we have main street research who put out a poll that was just uh you know they pulled their

00:08:29.920 usual thing they pull people with undecideds and leaning voters added in then they take out the

00:08:35.520 leaning voters, and they reallocate their votes towards the parties they're leaning towards,

00:08:39.500 and then they also show what the results are when they completely remove the decided voters.

00:08:45.020 Now, I just want to show you that final poll, the poll where they boil everything down to those

00:08:50.320 who are decided with the leaning voters added into the party that they're slightly leaning towards.

00:08:56.140 Right now, this is how they have the current polls. So we have here the NDP leading very mildly

00:09:04.240 with 39% of the vote, still not even cracking that 40%, which everyone says the NDP cannot be

00:09:13.360 pushed below. That's a complete myth. People always tell themselves election myths to make

00:09:18.660 themselves feel better. So you got all these people from the conservative saying, you can't

00:09:22.600 start the 1BC party because the NDP is always at 40%. And unless you're united, they're going to

00:09:27.420 win. By the way, it doesn't even matter if you're united or not. The conservative party,

00:09:32.320 when uniting around the wrong things does not mean you're going to win an election. If anything,

00:09:37.000 it means you're going to lose harder. You even had the conservatives united in 2024 and they lost.

00:09:42.780 They lost. They had the BC United Party roll into the conservatives and they still lost because it

00:09:48.180 turns out they weren't standing up for the right things. They said many of the right things, but

00:09:53.120 they ran a poor campaign. They tried to appeal to voters who did not want them and they put all

00:09:58.220 their resources in the ridings that they thought they would win in and then neglected the ones

00:10:02.180 they should have been running in and since then the party's gotten more liberal over time and

00:10:06.740 people like caroline elliott want to become more liberal that's where we're going to be talking 1.00

00:10:10.660 about center bc later she wants center bc added back into the party which is run by a former bc

00:10:15.700 united uh mla heron kirkpatrick but then in this bowl we have the conservative party at 37 percent

00:10:26.180 So this is a very divided field as you are seeing because most provinces are effectively

00:10:33.560 two-party provinces. Ontario is a little bit less so, but it's really the PC party and anyone but

00:10:39.700 the PC party because all the parties in Ontario are pretty much the same thing. So these are the

00:10:46.000 Conservatives at 37%, 2% lead for the Conservatives or 2% lead for the NDP. And then this poll

00:10:54.760 suspiciously even though it does not add in the one bc party has other another party specifically

00:11:03.720 is the way that they present it other is at 13 and then the green party is at 12 now do you

00:11:14.780 seriously think that there are people voting other in this poll who don't mean one bc

00:11:21.660 now i don't know if this was a paid for sponsored poll and by the way paid for sponsored poll

00:11:27.940 does not actually mean it's like a rigged poll that doesn't mean that they're not doing good

00:11:32.360 methodologies but suspiciously this poll showed that peter millibar was like leading as the best

00:11:38.160 conservative candidate to beat the ndp apparently again maybe he sponsored the poll maybe he did

00:11:43.300 not that doesn't mean it's shoddy work it just means that maybe they said don't label 1bc in

00:11:48.300 the poll because i don't want them that way it doesn't mean that like they're you know just

00:11:51.760 making up numbers they're going to run the poll the way that they're going to run the poll

00:11:54.840 do we seriously think that this is not mostly one bc people center bc doesn't exist they're

00:12:03.380 currently having internal turmoil they don't have an mla and have you if you've ever seen their

00:12:07.860 events their events maybe bring out i'm not even kidding like 10 people they are like almost two

00:12:15.200 thirds of a Caroline Elliott event because Caroline Elliott, despite the fact that she's 0.99

00:12:19.040 apparently raised half a million dollars, cannot attract flies and Centre BC attracts about half

00:12:24.080 the flies that Caroline Elliott ends up bringing out. So we have 12% of at the Greens. I am going

00:12:32.000 to say that this is probably at the very least 80% up to 100% 1 BC voters.

00:12:45.200 because who else is it the libertarian party that can't put out more than seven or eight

00:12:52.260 candidates in election center bc which is currently having its membership fight the

00:12:57.140 leader because they hate her guts and there's probably less than 100 members 0.99

00:12:59.940 what it couldn't be anyone but us even if it was just 80 this would mean that there are 10.4

00:13:08.840 percent people in this poll who wanted to select 1bc but were denied the ability to do it maybe

00:13:15.320 this was 1bc and they just relabeled it another party i don't know exactly but i do know that

00:13:22.360 based on our growth factors 13 is very realistic i'm not sure if you have seen our events around

00:13:29.480 the province but we at a drop of a hat within a week of organizing or a week or two we can get

00:13:35.640 out just like hundreds of people a hundred 250 people in sorrento bc 170 people in creston and

00:13:44.360 it could have been more if we could have gotten a bigger venue but we hit fire code and that was it

00:13:48.360 at every event we basically have to turn people away i even just want to go to our social media

00:13:53.480 just so i can show you on lasquiti island population 480 in the middle of an afternoon

00:14:00.520 i'm gonna bring this up here in the middle of an afternoon when there's a lot of guys on the

00:14:05.640 mainland for where their jobs are or guys around the island handymen doing their own stuff we had

00:14:11.960 70 people show up now max in the room at one time there's probably about 55 to 60 people because

00:14:18.440 then you got some working class guys uh who are like doing handymen work around the island who

00:14:22.760 came by a little bit later and they'd hang out for 30 minutes ask a question then they had to

00:14:26.680 move on back to their jobs, but we had around 70 people visit. Caroline Elliott, the leading

00:14:33.320 BC Conservative candidate apparently, gets 50 people to show up to see her in Vancouver.

00:14:39.240 In her home turf, I think she maybe got 70 to 90 people in North Vancouver. Like what? 0.93

00:14:46.920 This lady who apparently has half a million dollars and is this new right darling, 1.00

00:14:52.920 apparently according to all the front groups that she set up like without diminishment

00:14:57.480 she can only get she's this new right darling cannot even crack 100 people in a room i've been

00:15:02.920 to one of her events in victoria i think there was maybe 40 people there and half of them were

00:15:07.480 legislature legislature staff probably there for free food like yes one bc definitely does have

00:15:14.200 legs and at the end of the day if you can't attract volunteers you cannot win an election

00:15:20.600 the bc conservatives could have won in 2024 they basically ran the worst campaign you could

00:15:25.400 possibly think of it was like kamala harris in 2024 against trump trump won not just because he

00:15:32.040 had the better message and because people were really sick of biden and harris that's because

00:15:36.840 kamala harris spent like half of her campaign money on staff and that's what happened to bc 1.00

00:15:42.920 conservatives if you donate to these people they are spending so much of the money on really

00:15:48.440 expensive downtown real estate for their headquarters and bonuses for their executive

00:15:54.300 employees. Their executives are making like $150,000 a year and you don't really know what

00:16:00.580 they're even doing. These are pretty mild jobs in the sense that the executive director of a

00:16:05.520 political party is not grinding it out every single day on party matters. They're mostly

00:16:10.660 sitting around and then just dealing with things as they pop up. You could have another job and be

00:16:15.680 executive director of the party between elections nothing's really happening but there are like a

00:16:21.040 dozen paid employees of the bc conservative party all making substantial salaries plus they spend

00:16:27.040 on just the dumbest things i've ever seen so if you don't donate a hundred dollars know that at

00:16:31.840 least fifty percent of it's like being burned on nothing with 1bc we have taken in a lot of 0.91

00:16:36.800 donations and our donations are starting to rise fast and all of it is spent on metrics of growth

00:16:42.720 it is spent on social media to increase the size of us on social media get the name recognition up

00:16:47.680 it is spent on physical resources it is spent on merchandise that we just sell back at cost so that

00:16:52.640 it's basically just a zero dollar kind of affair and it's spent on trying to set up local organizing

00:16:58.320 committees and getting people up to speed on as being volunteers it's all based on actually

00:17:04.080 winning and that's the funny thing with the conservatives they constantly say like oh if

00:17:07.680 you join with them then we can't win you guys aren't even trying to win you guys aren't even

00:17:11.520 trying to be conservative anymore frankly so i don't even know what i'm supposed to care why

00:17:14.960 i'm supposed to care but anyways with that all being said i want to now move on to the bc

00:17:20.800 conservative leadership race and talk a little bit about it so i think i'm going to erase the

00:17:26.560 board i'm going to erase the board and then we'll come back in a second but i guess to finish up on

00:17:30.480 this if one bc is at 13 like the main street poll is indicating that means in just a few months since

00:17:36.960 december because they did name us in their poll in december we were at about eight percent with

00:17:40.720 decided voters we have gained five percent in just two and a half months with one mla mind you

00:17:47.920 because the legislature doesn't really matter me and dallas go sit in the rose garden at the

00:17:52.720 legislature we go and film uh videos out on the legislature steps or just other places in victoria

00:17:59.200 and it's getting so many more media hits than every single bc conservative mlas videos combined

00:18:05.920 because these people are strategically inept, or they're good conservative MLAs who are just not

00:18:11.500 allowed to say anything. We've heard the stories. It's an absolute nightmare to be a BC conservative 0.84

00:18:16.900 MLA if you actually want to be conservative. The entire party inside the legislature is being run

00:18:22.580 by like Peter Millibar and Alia Warbus and a couple other very liberal MLAs who pretty much

00:18:28.380 give 80% of all the QP questions, question period questions, to the most liberal MLAs and people

00:18:34.280 specifically who are endorsing Peter Millibar, oddly enough. You know, that's not corrupt at

00:18:38.820 all. But now I want to erase the board, write down the candidates' names, and we can kind of

00:18:42.980 go through what's been happening here. So I'll be back in just a second. And we're back. So I want

00:18:49.620 to go over those who were in the race, those who are no longer in the race, and who is endorsing

00:18:55.960 who, before I get to talking about Caroline Elliott and her extremely fake conservative 0.99

00:19:01.040 campaign. So we had like, I think like eight, like 15 candidates, 12 candidates or something

00:19:07.600 like that back 30 days ago before I went to Victoria. Even John Rustad was thinking about

00:19:12.780 running back then. But since then, a bunch of people have been exiting the race. But first,

00:19:18.100 I just want to talk about all their names because I just have last names up here. So we have

00:19:21.140 Caroline Elliott. We had Bruce Bandman, KLF, who is Carrie Lynn Finley, Warren Hamm, Harmon Bangu,

00:19:28.500 yuri fulmer daryl jones sheldon claire and steve cooner now there's some other names who are no

00:19:34.960 longer on here because they either didn't end up entering the race or they ended up dropping out

00:19:40.220 and i'm just like there must have been someone who like fell off the wagon like months ago and

00:19:44.400 i forgot about it but anyways these are the ones i can remember and if there is still one in the

00:19:48.240 race that i'm forgetting about tough luck that's just how it works you've probably not been relevant

00:19:53.820 enough for me to remember you. So people who have left so far, we have had Hooner and Claire

00:20:01.740 did not qualify to get in the race. So they are gone. We had Warren Ham. He is still in the race.

00:20:09.340 I'm not sure if he's going to be able to remain in the race. He is more of a grassroots conservative

00:20:13.060 guy, but I just don't think he's going to be able to pull together all the money to get in the race.

00:20:17.360 I'm not sure if he's paid the $20,000 deposit yet, but he's still in. We have Bruce Bandman.

00:20:23.420 I'll write them on the left side here. Bruce Bandman is out and we have Bangu out. So right 1.00

00:20:30.000 now the remaining candidates are Elliott, KLF, Ham, Palmer, and Jones. And so after some of these

00:20:38.360 people dropped out, we had Steve Cooner endorsing KLF, Carrie Lynn Finley. We had Bangu endorsing

00:20:47.320 Elliott, and we had Bandman endorsing Ballmer. It's been very divided, although people are

00:20:54.740 trying to claim there's some big consolidation behind Caroline Elliott. Her only caucus 0.73

00:21:00.440 endorsement so far is Carmen Bangu. I know we're probably going to see somebody like Brian Tepper

00:21:07.140 eventually endorse her as well, but it's a very divided field still. Oh, I forgot. He is kind of

00:21:14.600 a real candidate we also have ian black i am so sorry ian you are almost too irrelevant to talk 0.99

00:21:21.060 about so this is what everything is boiling down to i'm just immediately going to put an x beside

00:21:27.620 warren ham i just don't see him actually winning this race i've heard his membership sales have

00:21:33.560 not been that bad but if he can't raise the money you can't get into the race but he could be

00:21:37.580 a good endorsement for somebody seeing as i've heard he has some good signups around certain

00:21:42.940 interior ridings that didn't have a lot of members in them in the first place and in this race what

00:21:48.180 you are going to have is that you don't just win by getting a lot of votes you get you win by

00:21:52.860 getting votes in the right ridings because it's going to be a point system every riding is worth

00:21:57.600 100 points and so if you win 40 percent of the votes in one of the ridings you get 40 points

00:22:03.840 and so you know it works that way and if you become the least well-performing candidate and

00:22:09.300 nobody has reached 50% plus one of the votes yet, then you get eliminated, and your second votes

00:22:14.920 get distributed onto somebody else, and so on and so forth. So in this race right now, I would say 1.00

00:22:22.880 you have the sort of conservative side of the party fighting the old BC liberals. Old BC liberals

00:22:29.760 include Ian Black, who was a BC liberal minister under Christy Clark for like three years, which

00:22:35.360 honestly not that long you have i would say caroline elliott is one of the bc liberals

00:22:41.320 in the race and then sort of conservatives or kind of hard to tell i would say falmer gets a

00:22:50.380 sort of hard to tell small c caroline elliott or it's kale last right uh carrie lynn finley

00:22:58.000 gets a c generally kind of more conservative daryl jones i would just put a line next to him

00:23:03.880 kind of indecisive maybe more conservative just simply because he is a businessman former ceo and

00:23:09.640 spokesperson for save on foods it's kind of an obvious one um and anyone else in the race

00:23:15.740 assuming ham's out this is kind of how it is there's three two people more on the right

00:23:21.420 like the center right you have daryl jones probably you know mildly center right and then 1.00

00:23:27.660 you have Elliott and Black as more liberal. Heck, Caroline Elliott was literally the VP 0.99

00:23:34.300 of the BC Liberals and was even the one who had the great idea of saving the party by changing

00:23:40.400 the name to BC United. That was her contribution to trying to keep that party afloat. Not let's

00:23:45.780 make this party actually more conservative so we stop ticking off the more right of center people

00:23:51.020 in our big tent coalition. No, we just need to change the branding and make it a little bit

00:23:56.880 darker blue because red was offending all the conservatives. So let's change the logo and

00:24:02.100 incorporate more blue colors. That was genuinely the idea there. That's the funny thing. Is anyone

00:24:08.100 going to revisit the fact that Caroline Elliott, who's a supposedly some figure of the new right

00:24:13.060 now, was her job day to day back in 2023 and 2024 and even before that in 22 was to make sure the 0.97

00:24:20.840 conservatives failed to gain traction. That was her day job, trying to hurt the BC conservatives

00:24:26.360 and trying to keep peace united around and here's a great example of just how i would say bad her

00:24:33.960 political instincts are this is an article that caroline elliott wrote back in april of 2025

00:24:42.680 less than a year ago she wrote here the only only the ndp will benefit from the new center bc party

00:24:50.600 and she is attacking center bc for i guess assisting the ndp by splitting the right

00:24:56.520 caroline elliott thinking that center bc is on the right is the most caroline elliott opinion i've

00:25:03.820 ever heard in my life and she goes on and talks about how every time the right is split the ndp

00:25:08.620 ends up winning which again isn't really true whenever the bc liberals sucked or whenever the

00:25:14.620 Social Credit Party collapsed, the NDP would win. But trying to act like simply it's just the

00:25:21.060 electoral math that's the problem. No, it's that the BCU Liberal Party sucked. That's why Christy 0.99

00:25:27.940 Clark lost. It's not because the right was divided, because Christy Clark sucked. You know why 0.99

00:25:33.820 Andrew Wilkinson lost? You know why Kevin Falcon collapsed? You know why John Rustad failed to get

00:25:40.600 across the finish line in 24? Because they weren't that good. That's why. Do you know why

00:25:46.460 Dallas Brody and 1BC are between potentially 8 to 13%? Because they're doing a good job. We are

00:25:53.620 doing a good job. We are talking about the issues people care about, and we have good answers on

00:25:58.740 those issues. I don't know why I have to explain this to Caroline Elliott, but she is someone who

00:26:03.420 genuinely would seek the approval of Karen Kirkpatrick and Center BC, which, mind you,

00:26:10.540 is literally all federal liberals pretty much. Outside of maybe 10% of their supporters that

00:26:16.280 might be federal conservative voters, which I even doubt that, they're federal liberals,

00:26:21.360 and she considers them part of the right. Caroline Elliott has been doing a lot of work

00:26:26.720 to pretend that she has a conservative record retroactively. She's been going around and saying,

00:26:31.680 well, I was one of the first people speaking about all these land issues with First Nations years

00:26:36.700 ago. No, she wasn't. This is something she started seriously talking about in the last year. And it's

00:26:42.940 obvious she was only talking about in the last year that she was planning on trying to run for

00:26:46.780 the BC Conservative leadership once John Rustad inevitably collapsed and they had the leadership

00:26:52.000 race get triggered. Previously, yeah, she talked about it. But if you read her old articles in the

00:26:58.560 hub and other outlets she has this kind of nervous upper middle class way of talking about the issues 1.00

00:27:04.320 oh she doesn't like that first nations are going to be able to close down joffrey lakes park

00:27:09.540 oh it's i don't like these land claims they're i don't they're they're divisive this isn't good

00:27:16.240 for the province but outside of this very nervous these nervous noises she's making about it she's

00:27:21.260 not actually taking a stance saying no this reconciliation grift has to end we need to

00:27:26.020 repeal DRIPA. We need to do all these things. She was the BC United vice president. Why didn't she

00:27:30.920 run on getting rid of DRIPA at the time? Her brother-in-law, Kevin Falkman, was the leader.

00:27:36.680 Now, she can say, well, I didn't want to disagree with my brother-in-law, and so I didn't say

00:27:40.160 anything about it at the time. That just proves you're really weak. And really, I think the true 0.97

00:27:44.740 answer is that she doesn't actually care about getting rid of DRIPA. She only says that now

00:27:48.940 because you kind of have to say it to be somewhat politically relevant in this province right now.

00:27:53.380 Even Peter Milibar here.

00:27:55.900 Oh, did I ever forget to write down Milibar's name here?

00:27:58.580 Wow, I'm really dropping the ball here, guys.

00:28:01.360 Milibar.

00:28:03.700 He is very liberal.

00:28:05.740 And he is actually probably in second place in the whole thing at the moment.

00:28:09.420 I'm forgetting people left and right, guys.

00:28:11.160 I apologize.

00:28:12.860 He's actually racking up the most endorsements out of caucus right now,

00:28:15.960 which demonstrates how liberal the whole caucus is.

00:28:18.260 His idea for DRIPA is repealing it and replacing it with the Reconciliation Act. 0.99

00:28:23.380 which is extremely dumb. Like why replace something that's stupid with something in theory less 1.00

00:28:29.680 stupid? We don't even know if his idea would be less bad than DRIPA. And that probably goes for 1.00

00:28:34.360 most of the candidates that they're still dedicated to this whole reconciliation narrative

00:28:39.000 that, well, it's called reconciliation. So we can't oppose it. It's reconciliation. You have

00:28:45.180 to be in favor of it because it sounds nice. No, you don't. Reconciliation has not been good

00:28:50.380 for non-Indigenous British Columbians, and it hasn't been good for Indigenous British Columbians.

00:28:55.640 It's unfair, and it needs to go. And Elliot has never actually just flat out said we need to

00:29:00.640 repeal it and not replace it with anything. It's always this kind of hedging where when she has

00:29:05.000 called for Drippa to be repealed, it's because other people were already doing it well before

00:29:09.300 her. She kind of does this routine where she acts like diet Dallas Brody, and then hopes that nobody 1.00

00:29:15.060 just wonders why she won't actually say the exact same thing that Dallas does. And it's because she's

00:29:19.660 hedging. And I need to show you some other stuff as well. She's just not conservative. She was a 1.00

00:29:25.380 spokesperson for the BC United Party back or BC Liberal Party back in 2020. And she attacked one

00:29:32.640 of their own candidates for saying socially conservative things. Here is a clip from a news

00:29:38.520 station back during that 2020 election where John Horgan ended up just absolutely cleaning the

00:29:44.360 clocks of the Liberals. They did have a problem with two candidates in particular and LGBTQ views.

00:29:50.920 Do you think it's a problem that Andrew Wilkinson didn't come out more strong potentially

00:29:55.040 against them and that they are running? Some people are having a problem with that.

00:29:59.640 Well, Andrew Wilkinson's response was that those kinds of views are not representative of the BC

00:30:05.200 Liberal Party and certainly just from a personal perspective. I mean, I find them abhorrent,

00:30:10.380 But I do know that those views I don't see reflected in any of the candidates I know, in any of the party members that I know.

00:30:17.920 So I think from a political perspective, I think it may have some impact on some of the younger voters and the urban voters.

00:30:24.980 But I think more from a less political standpoint than just a personal standpoint, it's not a view that I could support.

00:30:32.000 I think in the case of Throness, it's a little frustrating for sure, as his views are totally inconsistent with the party that I know.

00:30:40.160 And he shouldn't have been running under that banner in the first place, if I'm going to be frank.

00:30:43.920 You know that Laurie Throness had been elected back in 2013, and then the BC Liberals threw him under the bus and didn't let him run for re-election again in 2020.

00:30:54.280 So he'd already been elected twice for that party.

00:30:56.600 He was on, back when the party was still pretending to have a center-right block, he was one of the center-right-to-right sort of MLAs they had.

00:31:05.860 Do you know the view that he proposed, that she said was abhorrent?

00:31:10.280 And he was opposing SOGI-123, and he was opposing the new conversion therapy ban that the federal liberals and Justin Trudeau were pushing in Bill C-4 that basically says that if you basically do not affirm your child believing they are the opposite sex, then you are engaging in conversion therapy and should be charged or fined in some way.

00:31:34.060 That's what she called abhorrent.

00:31:35.960 In 2020, I'm not pulling up a tape from her 10 years ago.

00:31:39.320 This is five years ago, probably less than five years ago.

00:31:42.640 In fact, she was also in favor of safe supply, you know, giving addicts free drugs from the

00:31:49.460 government.

00:31:50.120 That was something she was in favor of less than a couple years ago.

00:31:54.240 She was saying that it was a good thing like two years ago.

00:31:57.980 I need to go find the clip here.

00:32:00.080 Less than two years ago, she was backing the NDP giving drugs to addicts.

00:32:04.540 So I'm trying to find this here.

00:32:05.580 Oh, my goodness.

00:32:07.000 Sometimes things fall down the wayside.

00:32:09.340 Okay.

00:32:09.920 Uri Fulmer's people, one of the campaigns, had posted this clip.

00:32:13.720 And I think it's good that they go on the attack because her image is purely artificial here.

00:32:18.040 Here is her defending safe supply.

00:32:20.740 There is a role for safe supply.

00:32:22.040 It can stabilize folks.

00:32:23.640 It can help manage their cravings.

00:32:25.000 It can help them transition to treatment.

00:32:26.480 Of course it does.

00:32:27.280 I'm saying that now.

00:32:28.040 help them manage their cravings help them transition to treatment and help them ultimately

00:32:33.080 get well did you hear that i'm going to play this again notice how the host or the other guest on

00:32:40.040 the show i'm not sure which it is tries to jump in and say well that's not how it works and she 0.99

00:32:44.300 cuts them off said no that's absolutely what it does that's what i'm saying there is a role for

00:32:48.860 safe supply it can stabilize folks it can help manage their cravings it can help them transition

00:32:53.180 to treatment of course it does i'm saying that no um help them manage their cravings help them

00:32:57.880 transition to treatment and help them ultimately get well. And now she's against safe supply,

00:33:04.020 right in time to run for the BC Conservative leadership. Her campaign is being run by the

00:33:09.420 same people, Jeff Ballingall, who said that Erin O'Toole was true blue. Jeff Ballingall is on

00:33:15.620 Caroline Elliott's campaign, and he has been a big simp for Erin O'Toole and Doug Ford in the past,

00:33:20.880 and I believe still is when it comes to Doug Ford. He runs Canada Proud and Trending Politics

00:33:25.000 and Ontario Proud, all these pages that effectively act as propaganda for whatever candidates that he

00:33:29.600 likes. She also has Anthony Koch on the campaign, who was a surrogate for Erin O'Toole, who has

00:33:36.120 also smeared and attacked Dallas Brody many times, calling her mentally ill, smearing her as having

00:33:41.960 mocked victims of molestation back when John Rustad kicked her out of the party. He was fully on board

00:33:47.940 with that narrative, smearing Dallas Brody. Horrible human being. I'm going to repeat that 0.97

00:33:51.860 again, Anthony Koch, horrible human being, should apologize to Dallas, too much of a weasel to do 0.98

00:33:57.140 it. I even asked him to do it and then hung up on me. And now we have the other people on her 0.98

00:34:01.380 campaign, Corey Tanike and Nick Kuvalis, two Doug Ford hacks who in fact keep attacking Pierre

00:34:07.460 Polyev even to this day. And that is who is running Caroline Elliott's campaign. Her campaign 0.59

00:34:12.880 manager is Corey Tanike, Doug Ford's guy, the guy who got on television at every opportunity

00:34:18.780 to attack Pierre Polyev because he doesn't like him or Jenny Byrne. Now, I'm not a big fan of

00:34:24.180 Jenny Byrne by any means. She kicked me out of the Calgary Signal Hill nomination. But if you

00:34:29.480 kept attacking the Conservative Party in the 2025 election, I do not want to hear from you.

00:34:35.500 I have attacked the Conservative Party's way of running that campaign since then. But his idea

00:34:41.300 was that the party should have attacked left and attacked Trump the entire time and been more

00:34:45.840 liberal. No, I'm not hearing any of Corey Tanike's opinions, and you shouldn't be associating with

00:34:51.320 Corey Tanike. He is an opponent of actual principled conservatism. Terrible. Nick Kuvalis

00:34:57.380 is a Doug Ford pollster who, in fact, does not do very good polling. If you actually look at his

00:35:02.000 polls from campaign research, he is way off of what the actual numbers were in that provincial

00:35:06.760 election. He had like the Doug Ford PCs at 49% in the 2025 election, like a week and a half before

00:35:13.140 the race ended. He had the Liberals at like 23, and he had the NDP at 17. He under-polled the

00:35:18.600 NDP by one point, under-polled the Liberals by six points, and over-polled the Conservatives by

00:35:23.120 six points. And people are still trusting his polls he's putting out, saying that Caroline

00:35:27.300 Elliott is currently winning that race. He's paid by her. The entire campaign is red Tory hacks,

00:35:33.940 blue Liberal hacks. Now they've rebranded themselves like Anthony Koch. Oh, he's a new

00:35:38.580 right guy. Sure. I guess if the money says so, then I guess he is. Although Corey Tanike and

00:35:43.960 Anthony Koch and these people are claiming they haven't been paid a dime by the campaign.

00:35:48.520 Sure. Well, they're probably getting money from somewhere. And if anything, it's a big red flag

00:35:52.640 when somebody's flying in from the other side of the country to help your campaign and they're

00:35:56.940 making no money. Whatever. We'll eventually probably figure out what that is. Maybe they're

00:36:01.440 telling the truth and they have not been paid a dollar and they're doing this out of pure charity.

00:36:05.020 but I know what some of these people made on the 2024 BC conservative campaign.

00:36:10.060 They do not come cheap.

00:36:11.320 In fact, some of them charge over $15,000 per month to do I don't know what.

00:36:16.260 Lose a campaign, I guess.

00:36:18.200 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.

00:36:21.460 Again, if you like what I do, make sure to leave a like on this video.

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00:36:27.320 And check out the 1BC party and our website,

00:36:29.940 which I will be linking below and linking at the top of the comments

00:36:32.720 if you want to see more about what the party's all about, if you live in British Columbia,

00:36:36.540 or you're not from BC and you're just curious about the sort of things that we do, what our

00:36:41.100 platform looks like, or if you also want to start a new party in another province where there are

00:36:45.840 no actual good conservative options. You know, to be fair to that, I actually really like Danielle

00:36:51.060 Smith. So if you're in Alberta, do not start one Alberta, stop it. If you're in Manitoba,

00:36:56.200 Start one Manitoba because Obi-Kan and the PCs in that province suck.

00:37:02.280 Anyways, without all being said, thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you all later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 17, 2026

BC NDP falling in BC Polls - OneBC rising 8% to 13% - Caroline Elliott is a Liberal!

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