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.
00:00:00.000Yesterday, 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.
00:00:12.260That 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,
00:00:29.340because apparently that's bad. It's not bad that the NDP have caused the problems that have exacerbated homelessness and addiction.
00:00:37.360It'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.
00:00:45.480But they're also getting mad at the Conservatives for pointing out that the NDP have, in fact, rigged the financing rules for this election.
00:00:54.000Listen, 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,
00:01:04.040only 28% feel comfortable with the BCNDP staying in power, and 15% are undecided.
00:01:10.500But even if they go 50-50 between wanting change and not wanting change, that's looking extremely good for the BC Conservatives.
00:01:18.000So 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.
00:01:32.020And then I want to talk about what those specific finance rules are and some other things that the NDP are currently doing.
00:01:41.040John 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.
00:01:49.160That's a risk we can't afford. And one, no, John's not trying to help those who already have the most.
00:01:54.780Frankly, there's not that many people who have much anymore in BC because of the NDP.
00:01:59.120I 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.
00:02:13.420It'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.
00:02:21.340And 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.
00:02:27.440But here's the video that went along with this post.
00:02:31.580The press hates to write about it, but that election was rigged and it was stolen.
00:02:36.040You know, it's interesting. The NDP have rigged the election rules.
00:02:39.560I wonder where he got that turn of phrase from.
00:02:42.780He got it from the truth of what's currently going on in BC.
00:02:50.040Do you know what, and this is actually something I believe John Horgan originally did during his term that started in 2017.
00:02:56.040So, 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.
00:03:04.320It's still advantaging the NDP in an unfair way, but the Conservatives can overcome.
00:03:09.780Michael 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.
00:03:19.360The 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.
00:03:37.440Anyways, 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.
00:03:46.180We're packaging up money and sending it out to other ridings where we have a good chance of winning.
00:03:50.600We have a lot of ridings we have a good chance of winning in.
00:03:54.040So make sure at least donate a hundred dollars.
00:03:56.360If 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.
00:04:12.480They 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.
00:04:28.560The 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.
00:04:35.640It was just holding on to the name of the party that hadn't won seats since the 70s.
00:04:40.460So they basically, I think, only got one seat or two seats where they got some of their small campaign expenses back.
00:04:47.700And then every party, but so, and I've had people say, well, it's fair because everyone gets it.
00:04:53.040The BC NDP also gets around $2 for every vote they got in 2020 given to them every year.
00:05:00.400So 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.
00:05:08.260They get $2 per vote given to them in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
00:05:16.720But again, people are like, oh, but the BC Conservatives also got that $2.
00:05:20.140Okay, 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.
00:05:34.240It's obviously allowing bloated, unpopular governing parties to keep getting funding no matter how much they actually appeal to the general public.
00:05:44.480The 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.
00:05:54.680So 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.
00:06:06.980And this is obviously trying to rig the race.
00:06:09.740It'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.
00:06:22.520So you'd rather donate the money through the business than yourself.
00:06:26.840And then you can only donate up to $1,450.
00:06:29.360I 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,
00:06:37.920will ever donate in an election cycle.
00:06:40.800And so when most people are then only really able, thanks to the NDP crippling people financially with their terrible economic management,
00:06:49.000maybe 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,
00:07:00.560or like most provinces, it's like $4,500 that you can give.
00:07:03.640That 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,
00:07:10.280and 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.
00:07:19.180That the NDP gets money from taxpayers given to them to fund their campaign,
00:07:23.580at the same time that they've made people so worse off that they can't actually even afford to donate to the opposition party.
00:07:29.720Whatever. 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,
00:07:37.560or donate to Abbotsford South here, or the main party, make sure we're funded, we can win.
00:07:42.780But anyways, now I want to move on to talking about the whining that went on about John Rustad's announcement.
00:07:49.880I'm just going to highlight one post, but even with the stats on this post,
00:07:53.280you can tell a lot of people were complaining about this.
00:07:56.860And then I also want to go through another interview that the BCNDP are trying to make hay about.
00:08:01.840So this guy has like 246 comments, 232 retweets and quote tweets, 681 likes, 109,000 people saw this through impressions.
00:08:12.340So it's a big post, and other people made similar posts.
00:08:15.220It wasn't just quote tweets of this guy, Guy Filica.
00:08:17.880He's some harm reduction expert, harm reduction advocate, which means giving people more drugs,
00:08:24.220watching them poison themselves to death, and then Guy gets to go home feeling warm and fuzzy about himself
00:08:28.600because he stood up for harm reduction.
00:10:05.460I hope that guy gets every bit of funding cut from him when the BC Conservatives win because he's not helping anybody.
00:10:10.740He's helping people poison themselves like 13-year-old girls who the government cannot step in and forcefully detox from drugs
00:10:18.440because 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.
00:10:27.140This is the most frustrating election ever.
00:10:30.220We can win, but again, all these morons are going to make it very annoying to go through.
00:10:36.020But here is a BCNDP candidate, Brenda Bailey, and she is going after John Rustad for what he said in this podcast, apparently.
00:10:46.580One of the things I will be doing on day one of this election is asking all of our candidates to take a pledge
00:10:52.680that their number one priority will always be their riding, speaking on behalf of the riding, and voting on behalf of the riding.
00:10:58.960And some of those things are going to be big issues that are being controversial provincially,
00:11:03.840and I fully expect that there will be free votes.
00:11:06.820So on that, talking about free votes, which some may say is a very good democratic position,
00:11:14.080that you elect a representative and they actually represent you.
00:11:16.980Yes, they have party principles that they believe in because they ran for that party,
00:11:21.180but if the budget is not in favor of those constituents, if it would hurt them because there's just nothing in it for them.
00:11:27.240Like, 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.
00:11:37.280Yeah, you could maybe vote against the budget.
00:11:39.060You can vote against a lot of things if it just does not serve the interests of the people who live in your area.
00:11:43.300It's the balance of power in a province.