The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 22, 2024


BC NDP rig election finance rules - but it won't help them!


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The BCNDP are mad at the Tories for pointing out that the BC NDP rigged the election system to give the party an unfair advantage in the upcoming election. They also mock John Rustad for using a homeless encampment as a backdrop to highlight the issues of homelessness and addiction in Vancouver.

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00:00:00.000 Yesterday, the British Columbia provincial election officially kicked off, and thus far, Premier David Eby and his BCNDP have had a very distinct tone to their campaign.
00:00:12.260 That tone is high-pitched whining. Not only did they go after the Conservative Party leader John Rustad for staging his first campaign press event at Crab Park in Vancouver in front of a homeless encampment to highlight the issues of homelessness and addiction,
00:00:29.340 because apparently that's bad. It's not bad that the NDP have caused the problems that have exacerbated homelessness and addiction.
00:00:37.360 It's just bad that John Rustad would point it out and make it the backdrop of his campaign to show how bad of a job that the NDP and David Eby have done.
00:00:45.480 But they're also getting mad at the Conservatives for pointing out that the NDP have, in fact, rigged the financing rules for this election.
00:00:54.000 Listen, the BC Conservatives 100% can win. There's a lot of momentum behind them. Main Street research in their last poll showed that 57% of people want a changing government,
00:01:04.040 only 28% feel comfortable with the BCNDP staying in power, and 15% are undecided.
00:01:10.500 But even if they go 50-50 between wanting change and not wanting change, that's looking extremely good for the BC Conservatives.
00:01:18.000 So the BCNDP posted this video to their social media yesterday, trying to compare John Rustad to Donald Trump for rightfully pointing out that the BCNDP have messed with the finance rules.
00:01:32.020 And then I want to talk about what those specific finance rules are and some other things that the NDP are currently doing.
00:01:38.040 So they post this on X, and it says,
00:01:41.040 John Rustad sounds more like Trump every day. He is taking his pages out of the Trump playbook and only wants to help those who already have the most.
00:01:49.160 That's a risk we can't afford. And one, no, John's not trying to help those who already have the most.
00:01:54.780 Frankly, there's not that many people who have much anymore in BC because of the NDP.
00:01:59.120 I don't think that John Rustad is going to make his campaign based on only trying to win the, like, less than 1% of people who are doing okay these days in BC in terms of better off than they were four years ago.
00:02:12.340 Everyone's worse off.
00:02:13.420 It's like what Margaret Thatcher said about the Labour Party in the 90s, is that they'd rather the poor be poorer as long as the rich were less rich.
00:02:21.340 And because the Conservatives are trying to help everybody, that means they're also trying to help rich people, which means they're bad or something.
00:02:27.440 But here's the video that went along with this post.
00:02:31.580 The press hates to write about it, but that election was rigged and it was stolen.
00:02:36.040 You know, it's interesting. The NDP have rigged the election rules.
00:02:39.560 I wonder where he got that turn of phrase from.
00:02:42.780 He got it from the truth of what's currently going on in BC.
00:02:47.980 David Eby's utterly pathetic.
00:02:50.040 Do you know what, and this is actually something I believe John Horgan originally did during his term that started in 2017.
00:02:56.040 So, and you can also blame like the BC Liberals and United because they also ended up voting for this and it didn't end up helping them that much.
00:03:04.320 It's still advantaging the NDP in an unfair way, but the Conservatives can overcome.
00:03:09.780 Michael Bloomberg in 2020, when he ran for the Democratic Party, if we're bringing up American political references like the NDP seem to want to, he spent like a billion dollars on a campaign.
00:03:19.360 The only place he won during the primary was American Samoa, because if people don't like you and they don't want you, they're not going to vote for you no matter how much money you spent.
00:03:29.700 Tom Steyer learned the same lesson.
00:03:31.360 Also a billionaire spent like a hundred million dollars on his campaign.
00:03:34.900 Nobody cares who Tom Steyer is still.
00:03:37.440 Anyways, but so what the NDP have done, and this is why I urge you all in the description below, donate to the Abbotsford South EDA for the BC Conservatives.
00:03:46.180 We're packaging up money and sending it out to other ridings where we have a good chance of winning.
00:03:50.600 We have a lot of ridings we have a good chance of winning in.
00:03:52.540 This just allows us to target it.
00:03:54.040 So make sure at least donate a hundred dollars.
00:03:56.360 If you live in BC, you get 75% of it back in a tax credit, but we have to nickel and dime our way into a decent war chest because the BC NDP have handed themselves $8 million in taxpayer money to run this campaign.
00:04:12.480 They got 50% of their money from the 2020 campaign handed back to them, just ripped off a check from taxpayers and handed it back to them because they get 50% of their campaign expenses back in every riding where they get more than 10% of the vote, which is every riding for the BC NDP.
00:04:28.560 The BC Conservatives, because they were a party that only got 2% in the last election because it wasn't really a real party at that point.
00:04:35.640 It was just holding on to the name of the party that hadn't won seats since the 70s.
00:04:40.460 So they basically, I think, only got one seat or two seats where they got some of their small campaign expenses back.
00:04:47.700 And then every party, but so, and I've had people say, well, it's fair because everyone gets it.
00:04:53.040 The BC NDP also gets around $2 for every vote they got in 2020 given to them every year.
00:05:00.400 So if they got like a million and like 1.3 million votes or something like that, I'm not sure what the exact vote count was.
00:05:08.260 They get $2 per vote given to them in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
00:05:15.040 That seems fair.
00:05:16.720 But again, people are like, oh, but the BC Conservatives also got that $2.
00:05:20.140 Okay, sure, idiot, that's totally the same thing of getting $2 for like maybe like 50,000 votes or something like that compared to a million votes, like 1.2 million votes.
00:05:32.920 What are you talking about?
00:05:34.240 It's obviously allowing bloated, unpopular governing parties to keep getting funding no matter how much they actually appeal to the general public.
00:05:44.480 The BC Liberals slash United got to basically limp along for another two years with fundraising from the taxpayer, and they somehow blew all that and people don't like them.
00:05:54.680 So rest assured, the BC NDP is still extremely beatable, but they're going to make it so that they can get their vote out a little bit easier, that they can afford signs better, that they can run tons of ads.
00:06:05.140 They can try and set the narrative.
00:06:06.980 And this is obviously trying to rig the race.
00:06:09.740 It's off, and they've made it so that you no longer can write a check to a campaign through your business, which was more ideal for many business owners because your business taxes tend to be pretty staggeringly crippling.
00:06:22.520 So you'd rather donate the money through the business than yourself.
00:06:26.840 And then you can only donate up to $1,450.
00:06:29.360 I know that sounds like a lot of money, but considering the fact that most people never donate to any party at all, like less than 5% of people, way less than that,
00:06:37.920 will ever donate in an election cycle.
00:06:40.800 And so when most people are then only really able, thanks to the NDP crippling people financially with their terrible economic management,
00:06:49.000 maybe donate $20, $50, obviously is going to make it very difficult to fundraise when you can't find some people who are very financially well-off who can give you $5,000 or $7,000,
00:07:00.560 or like most provinces, it's like $4,500 that you can give.
00:07:03.640 That helps out a lot when you can gather 50 people in a room who can each give you $4,000 because they actually believe in your cause,
00:07:10.280 and then you don't have to harass every single one of your supporters, can you give me $50, can you give me $100, when they can't afford groceries.
00:07:17.680 Isn't that a fun concept?
00:07:19.180 That the NDP gets money from taxpayers given to them to fund their campaign,
00:07:23.580 at the same time that they've made people so worse off that they can't actually even afford to donate to the opposition party.
00:07:29.720 Whatever. But yeah, make sure you sign up, and for a lawn sign, make sure you donate to the BC Conservatives of whatever riding you live in,
00:07:37.560 or donate to Abbotsford South here, or the main party, make sure we're funded, we can win.
00:07:42.780 But anyways, now I want to move on to talking about the whining that went on about John Rustad's announcement.
00:07:49.880 I'm just going to highlight one post, but even with the stats on this post,
00:07:53.280 you can tell a lot of people were complaining about this.
00:07:56.860 And then I also want to go through another interview that the BCNDP are trying to make hay about.
00:08:01.840 So this guy has like 246 comments, 232 retweets and quote tweets, 681 likes, 109,000 people saw this through impressions.
00:08:12.340 So it's a big post, and other people made similar posts.
00:08:15.220 It wasn't just quote tweets of this guy, Guy Filica.
00:08:17.880 He's some harm reduction expert, harm reduction advocate, which means giving people more drugs,
00:08:24.220 watching them poison themselves to death, and then Guy gets to go home feeling warm and fuzzy about himself
00:08:28.600 because he stood up for harm reduction.
00:08:31.440 It's terrible.
00:08:32.680 But he posted, and so many other NDP activists in Canada posted stuff like this,
00:08:38.000 I am disappointed that the Conservative Party BC leader, John Rustad,
00:08:42.620 would use a homeless encampment to start their campaign.
00:08:45.220 As a person who works hard at helping vulnerable people ask harm reduction,
00:08:49.940 recovery treatment, and housing services, this isn't helpful.
00:08:53.340 BC Poly.
00:08:54.540 You know what, dude?
00:08:56.720 You know, Paxand.
00:08:58.240 Paxand.
00:08:58.920 Is homelessness not an issue?
00:09:00.540 Are there not homeless people?
00:09:02.180 Are they, is this not an epidemic right now in British Columbia?
00:09:06.340 Addiction, homelessness, mental health issues that aren't being treated?
00:09:10.020 If it is, why can't John Rustad use his impact truck?
00:09:13.000 Oh, it's a serious issue, so don't talk about it, is really what they want to say.
00:09:17.660 It makes us look bad.
00:09:19.240 Stop talking about it.
00:09:20.960 No, that's actually an incentive to talk about it more because you guys are 100% in the wrong.
00:09:27.240 What you guys have done to BC is so bad that he can just go to a public park.
00:09:33.120 John Rustad can go to a public park and have the image of the problem plastered behind him because of how bad a job.
00:09:39.280 You can't do that in most other places in Canada.
00:09:41.920 Just find a public park and have a giant homeless encampment behind you because it's not that bad in those places.
00:09:48.580 You'll have a few people camping out somewhere, but it's not literally tent cities that are popping up,
00:09:53.820 which 13-year-olds are dying from using safe supply drugs and harm reduction kits that give people safe snorting supplies and crack bites.
00:10:03.320 Guy can go pack sand.
00:10:05.460 I hope that guy gets every bit of funding cut from him when the BC Conservatives win because he's not helping anybody.
00:10:10.740 He's helping people poison themselves like 13-year-old girls who the government cannot step in and forcefully detox from drugs
00:10:18.440 because it's her own choice whether she does that or not, even though she can't drive a car, drink a beer, buy a pack of cigarettes, a lot of other things.
00:10:26.340 Oh, my goodness.
00:10:27.140 This is the most frustrating election ever.
00:10:30.220 We can win, but again, all these morons are going to make it very annoying to go through.
00:10:36.020 But here is a BCNDP candidate, Brenda Bailey, and she is going after John Rustad for what he said in this podcast, apparently.
00:10:46.580 One of the things I will be doing on day one of this election is asking all of our candidates to take a pledge
00:10:52.680 that their number one priority will always be their riding, speaking on behalf of the riding, and voting on behalf of the riding.
00:10:58.960 And some of those things are going to be big issues that are being controversial provincially,
00:11:03.840 and I fully expect that there will be free votes.
00:11:06.820 So on that, talking about free votes, which some may say is a very good democratic position,
00:11:14.080 that you elect a representative and they actually represent you.
00:11:16.980 Yes, they have party principles that they believe in because they ran for that party,
00:11:21.180 but if the budget is not in favor of those constituents, if it would hurt them because there's just nothing in it for them.
00:11:27.240 Like, let's say everyone in your constituency is paying taxes, but disproportionately you're getting absolutely none of those tax dollars back in services within your riding.
00:11:37.280 Yeah, you could maybe vote against the budget.
00:11:39.060 You can vote against a lot of things if it just does not serve the interests of the people who live in your area.
00:11:43.300 It's the balance of power in a province.
00:11:46.580 Whoa, what a concept.
00:11:48.160 But this triggered one of the BCNDP candidates, and a lot of them.
00:11:52.240 I'm only highlighting one of the people who posted this.
00:11:55.080 Brenda Bailey says,
00:11:56.080 John Rustad's admission that he's fine with his anti-choice, anti-reconciliation, anti-trans, and anti-science candidates,
00:12:03.480 who in this thread show you exactly who they are.
00:12:06.440 Hard note.
00:12:07.300 Not in our BC.
00:12:08.840 And you don't need to see the posts that she posted along with it.
00:12:11.960 I'm not, like, hiding them or anything.
00:12:13.740 It's people like Brian Berguet in Vancouver Langara having opinions on Twitter five years ago,
00:12:19.060 which I would say are just something that nobody would probably actually have a problem with.
00:12:23.600 But, you know, he's just posting, like, stuff in an edgy way five years ago.
00:12:27.380 But the average person agrees with him.
00:12:29.600 So it would be stuff about, like, spending money on pride progress flags on the side of fire trucks
00:12:35.200 and how he thought it was a waste of taxpayer money.
00:12:37.140 That's what the BCNDP have labeled anti-trans,
00:12:40.100 to care about not wasting taxpayer dollars virtue signaling on public property.
00:12:45.440 That's, you know, what many people would say is a very moderate,
00:12:49.560 like, an issue that many moderates would even agree with.
00:12:52.920 But whatever.
00:12:53.840 And this has been throughout the campaign so far.
00:12:56.420 The BCNDP just complaining that, like, the conservatives have the audacity to compete against them.
00:13:02.500 David Eby is the most entitled politician in Canada.
00:13:06.380 You know, Justin Trudeau actually won a leadership race to become the Liberal Party leader
00:13:11.780 and set himself up to become the prime minister.
00:13:13.900 I don't like Justin Trudeau at all.
00:13:16.220 Terrible prime minister.
00:13:17.640 At the same time, he was democratically elected by his own party to be the leader.
00:13:21.700 David Eby, and it's a big tell from the party brass and the BCNDP,
00:13:25.740 never even won a leadership race to replace John Horgan.
00:13:29.620 He was going to have to compete against a couple other people,
00:13:32.460 and they bullied them all out of the race because they didn't want to have any competition for David Eby
00:13:37.960 because they know he sucks at campaigning.
00:13:40.260 They know he's a fairly unlikable person.
00:13:42.720 I didn't say it.
00:13:44.040 The own party basically indicated it by claiming him as the leader because he is not,
00:13:48.640 he is even in the NDP's base terms, is a radical.
00:13:53.060 He believes in safe supply.
00:13:54.520 He doesn't want to fire Dr. Bonnie Henry after wanting to sell safe supply drugs in pharmacies.
00:13:59.240 He is in favor of, like, safe injection sites.
00:14:02.660 He's in favor of camp, like, tent cities remaining.
00:14:06.240 He's in favor of SOGI 123 to teach gender theory in the classroom through an anti-bullying loophole.
00:14:11.700 The man has never found an issue where he does not take the far-left activist position on.
00:14:17.240 Obviously, in this election, because he needs to be re-elected, suddenly he's maybe a little bit,
00:14:21.800 he's flirting with the idea that maybe he's in favor of involuntary care.
00:14:26.300 Maybe he's flirting with the idea of being against the carbon tax.
00:14:29.080 But whenever you actually see what he says, he basically says,
00:14:31.780 I'm in favor of some involuntary care, sometimes in extremely limited circumstances,
00:14:37.760 which will never be enforced, is his position.
00:14:40.460 The carbon tax, oh, I'm against the consumer carbon tax,
00:14:43.180 so let's just add more carbon tax to producers, to large businesses,
00:14:47.580 which is just the carbon tax being applied to consumers by another means,
00:14:51.920 because you can't just apply higher cost to businesses and not have them raise prices.
00:14:57.220 They're not a public service.
00:14:59.320 They can't sell eggs.
00:15:00.780 They can't sell, well, actually, a lot of grocery stores do sell eggs for no profit
00:15:04.360 because they make profit on other items.
00:15:06.480 But there are many, like the grocery stores are not just going to take no money.
00:15:11.520 Price gouging is not a problem in Canada.
00:15:14.660 Yes, prices go up the grocery store.
00:15:16.560 That's the government's fault.
00:15:17.980 That's mostly the federal government's fault for printing too much money,
00:15:20.640 but also the province's fault because taxes lead to inflated prices.
00:15:24.800 And BC is currently the highest tax jurisdiction in North America
00:15:29.660 in terms of on an entire province or state level,
00:15:33.440 because obviously you'll find like some microscopic city that like taxes are super high,
00:15:38.040 you know, Beverly Hills or something like that.
00:15:40.120 But still, like taxes in BC are just so insane
00:15:43.360 that there's an entire one half of young people are just thinking about leaving.
00:15:48.560 One third of people are thinking about leaving.
00:15:49.820 72,000 people left the province last year.
00:15:52.820 It's that bad because you can't afford anything.
00:15:55.660 More than half your paycheck just goes to the government every year
00:15:58.980 in property taxes, income taxes, both provincial and federal, and corporate taxes.
00:16:04.760 It's stupid to even live here.
00:16:06.980 So if you live in BC, vote for the BC Conservatives.
00:16:10.460 Do your part.
00:16:11.520 Join a campaign.
00:16:12.560 Volunteer.
00:16:13.100 There's a volunteer sign-up link in the description below.
00:16:16.420 Sign up to be a volunteer.
00:16:17.880 Help out in some way.
00:16:19.300 Donate.
00:16:19.920 All that's good stuff.
00:16:21.300 But anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:16:23.520 Sorry if this ever always turns into a bit of a rant.
00:16:26.440 But if you also want to support the show and you don't live in BC,
00:16:29.160 where you should be donating to the BC Conservatives,
00:16:31.680 if you're outside of BC, you can also donate to support the show.
00:16:34.980 I have the legal fund, the give, send, go link,
00:16:37.220 linked in the description below, as well as the pinned comment.
00:16:40.420 But we're going to win it in BC.
00:16:43.260 Just going to take a little bit more elbow grease than money
00:16:46.260 since the BC NDP have monopolized all of the campaign funds towards themselves.
00:16:51.320 See you guys later.