The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - BC Politics Nightmare： Is Rustad Back？ NDP-Green alliances ends, OneBC steady at 6-8% in polls!

00:00:00.000 Ahoy everyone, Wyatt Claypool here, back again to break down some Canadian polling numbers.

00:00:06.280 In this video, we will be exclusively focusing on the province of British Columbia,

00:00:11.380 because BC politics are a complete mess right now, and it demands analysis.

00:00:17.880 So we will first start off talking about the BC conservative leadership race,

00:00:22.760 which is a complete garbage fire at this point.

00:00:25.140 Then I want to talk a bit about the BC NDP and the BC Greens ripping up an agreement that they had between each other,

00:00:33.540 which is kind of a nothing burger when you really look at it,

00:00:36.820 but it is causing people to think there could be a snap election coming.

00:00:40.660 I really don't think so.

00:00:42.480 The budget's terrible.

00:00:44.300 I might take a little bit of a park to talk about that too,

00:00:47.500 but it's what you can kind of expect from an NDP government.

00:00:50.900 They spend way too much money, and they do not know how to pay for it.

00:00:55.600 Anyways, but before we get into it, first, full disclosure,

00:00:59.960 I do in fact work for the 1BC party and Dallas Brody.

00:01:04.220 I'm actually flying out to Victoria tomorrow,

00:01:07.100 so if you notice a slight decrease in the quality of the show,

00:01:10.680 it's because I'm going to have to shoot it from a hotel for the next 30 days.

00:01:14.460 I'm literally there for 30 days.

00:01:16.380 But yes, I work for Dallas Brody,

00:01:17.880 so maybe take some of my opinions with a grain of salt,

00:01:20.700 although I try and remain very principled in how I analyze politics,

00:01:25.100 and I'm only with the 1BC party because I truly believe it's the only party

00:01:29.560 actually saying things that normal people agree with.

00:01:32.860 All the other parties are either insane leftist parties,

00:01:35.780 or it's the BC conservatives who hedge more than a gardener.

00:01:39.880 They don't actually know how to commit to a position,

00:01:42.520 and the party is full of liberals,

00:01:44.600 which we will be getting into.

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00:02:02.000 And if you live in British Columbia,

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00:02:10.640 donate, join as a member, do all that great stuff.

00:02:13.560 But anyways, without further ado,

00:02:16.920 what do you notice about this thing I have on the whiteboard here?

00:02:21.000 It's a lot of names.

00:02:22.080 It's a lot of names, isn't it?

00:02:24.020 That's a problem.

00:02:25.900 Why, for goodness sake,

00:02:28.300 is there 12 people running

00:02:31.320 or very likely to run for the BC conservative leadership?

00:02:35.500 And by the way,

00:02:37.120 I will right now star every single person

00:02:40.120 who is currently running,

00:02:43.160 and then you will see who has not yet jumped in the race.

00:02:45.780 So, Daryl Jones is in the race.

00:02:50.440 Harrilyn Finley is in the race.

00:02:52.180 Peter Bellobar in the race.

00:02:53.840 Caroline Elliott in the race. 0.70

00:02:54.980 Ian Black in the race.

00:02:56.000 Bruce Bandman in the race.

00:02:57.420 We have Steve Cooner in the race.

00:02:59.020 Warren Hamm in the race.

00:03:00.000 Uri Falmer in the race.

00:03:01.300 Sheldon Clare in the race.

00:03:02.860 There are only two people on here

00:03:04.560 who have not yet officially entered,

00:03:07.120 but I can already see,

00:03:08.280 Harman Bangu is going to get in.

00:03:09.440 Yes, the signature deadline is in two days on the 15th,

00:03:13.020 but his people are going around raising money

00:03:15.120 and they are getting signatures.

00:03:16.760 The last guy who might jump in the race

00:03:19.400 is John Rustad.

00:03:21.800 And now I know what you're thinking,

00:03:23.620 but Wyatt, he was just the BC conservative leader.

00:03:27.220 Why would he be running?

00:03:28.700 Because the field's not that good.

00:03:31.180 That's really it.

00:03:32.480 And so John, yes, people are saying,

00:03:34.680 well, how is he going to get the signatures

00:03:36.060 in only a few days?

00:03:38.040 He's probably been getting signatures

00:03:39.500 well before he was ever speculating online.

00:03:42.940 Like his accounts on social media

00:03:45.640 have been putting out these quotes

00:03:47.100 like everyone loves to come back

00:03:48.760 and all this stuff

00:03:49.660 and making all these jokes

00:03:51.000 about how he's going to run.

00:03:52.460 But from background chatter,

00:03:54.540 he's absolutely thinking about it.

00:03:56.560 And by the way,

00:03:57.500 he could probably beat a lot of these people

00:03:59.060 because who the heck are they?

00:04:01.180 Who are any of these people?

00:04:02.720 Now, some of them aren't even exactly like terrible.

00:04:06.060 I wouldn't say that some of these people

00:04:07.660 are like all liberals,

00:04:09.420 but in terms of the people who can win,

00:04:11.880 they're pretty much all liberals.

00:04:14.020 They're all people who've hired

00:04:15.760 the same teams of people

00:04:17.060 who ended up messing up

00:04:18.520 the last provincial election

00:04:19.680 for the BC conservatives.

00:04:21.440 Caroline Elliott's team especially

00:04:23.460 is wall to wall people

00:04:25.420 who used to be progressive hack Tories

00:04:27.720 like a few years ago.

00:04:29.220 They were on the BC conservative

00:04:30.640 provincial campaign in 2024

00:04:32.500 where like some of the most expensive employees

00:04:36.420 and some of the most useless employees,

00:04:38.680 that's Caroline Elliott's team. 1.00

00:04:40.700 And a lot of these other people,

00:04:41.900 it's kind of just recycled folks

00:04:43.560 on their staff.

00:04:44.800 And many of them are just recycled BC liberals

00:04:47.060 or they're just kind of low profile members

00:04:50.020 of the current BC conservative caucus.

00:04:53.000 Like that's really,

00:04:54.640 we'll go through it in just a second.

00:04:56.320 I will go person by person,

00:04:58.100 but the only person who's a maybe here

00:05:00.900 right now is John Rustad.

00:05:02.840 Everyone is in the race

00:05:04.380 or it's Harmon who just hasn't quite said

00:05:07.260 he's in the race yet.

00:05:08.660 And goodness Harmon,

00:05:09.540 just say you're in the race.

00:05:10.860 Please do it.

00:05:11.600 It's getting like way too late.

00:05:13.200 You're supposed to announce after Christmas

00:05:15.380 and we are in,

00:05:16.940 you know,

00:05:17.380 not Christmas,

00:05:18.520 February 13th is when I'm shooting this thing.

00:05:21.300 Maybe he'll have announced

00:05:22.280 by the time this video comes out,

00:05:23.980 but I don't even know at this point, man.

00:05:26.180 So we will be using my pointy stick.

00:05:30.860 We will call it the stick of truth in this video.

00:05:34.000 Daryl Jones,

00:05:35.180 he is the CEO,

00:05:37.140 I believe of,

00:05:38.420 or something like that,

00:05:39.640 the chairman,

00:05:40.380 whatever,

00:05:41.180 of Save On Foods.

00:05:43.520 A lot of people actually know who he is

00:05:44.980 and we're going to get to some numbers

00:05:46.300 around name recognition

00:05:47.320 in just a second here.

00:05:48.900 Then we have Carrie Lynn Finley, 1.00

00:05:50.580 who was the whip

00:05:52.820 of the federal conservative caucus

00:05:54.840 until she didn't win her re-election 1.00

00:05:56.700 in the 2025 federal election.

00:05:59.220 Now,

00:05:59.560 someone could hold that against her 0.59

00:06:00.780 and say,

00:06:01.160 well,

00:06:01.440 see,

00:06:01.700 she lost her seat,

00:06:02.820 ergo,

00:06:03.720 she's not electable. 0.92

00:06:05.060 Although,

00:06:05.800 remember,

00:06:06.440 and I don't like,

00:06:07.020 I don't dislike these people at all.

00:06:08.200 I really like them.

00:06:08.800 Michelle Ferreri also lost her seat.

00:06:10.480 Pierre Polyam also lost his seat.

00:06:12.480 There were certain

00:06:13.260 sort of like

00:06:14.160 demographics of people

00:06:15.460 who really pushed back hard

00:06:17.140 on the conservatives

00:06:18.240 in this last election.

00:06:19.180 And it was usually like

00:06:20.460 white older retirees 0.58

00:06:22.160 that the conservatives

00:06:22.980 didn't do well with.

00:06:24.200 And that really defines

00:06:25.360 a riding like Carlton,

00:06:27.360 like Peterborough-Kowaltha,

00:06:29.220 like South Surrey-White Rock

00:06:30.800 where Carrie Lynn Finley was.

00:06:32.420 So I don't blame her for that.

00:06:33.640 She might even be 0.57

00:06:34.340 one of the more conservative people

00:06:35.640 on this list.

00:06:37.060 We then have Peter Millibar,

00:06:39.200 who was one of the house,

00:06:40.500 I think it was like

00:06:41.020 the deputy house leaders

00:06:42.660 for the conservatives.

00:06:44.340 I forget what his exact role was.

00:06:45.860 But he's an MLA,

00:06:47.280 was first elected

00:06:48.460 under the BC Liberals

00:06:50.220 back in, I think,

00:06:51.460 probably like 2018

00:06:52.880 or something like that.

00:06:54.200 Might have even been before that.

00:06:56.220 Longer time MLA,

00:06:57.980 we have Caroline Elliott,

00:06:59.480 who although she's made herself out 1.00

00:07:01.160 to be like this conservative,

00:07:03.880 like, you know,

00:07:04.460 a philosophical,

00:07:06.540 conservative commentary person,

00:07:09.440 she's a BC Liberal.

00:07:10.740 She was literally the president

00:07:12.300 of the BC Liberal

00:07:13.800 and BC United Party.

00:07:15.040 I believe she was the president

00:07:16.040 for the 20 months

00:07:17.040 that they were spiraling

00:07:18.120 into, like, the grave

00:07:19.700 at the very end there.

00:07:20.800 And she couldn't figure out

00:07:21.780 how to pull out of that tailspin.

00:07:23.380 So I guess, you know,

00:07:24.720 vote accordingly.

00:07:25.640 She also hired Corey Tanike

00:07:27.240 as her campaign manager,

00:07:29.260 who hates,

00:07:31.060 hates Pierre Paglia.

00:07:32.720 A big Doug Ford guy.

00:07:34.100 His claim to fame

00:07:34.880 is he helped Doug Ford

00:07:35.800 win the last three

00:07:36.760 provincial elections.

00:07:38.420 Although that doesn't really

00:07:39.320 take any skill

00:07:40.120 because Doug Ford's running

00:07:41.160 against complete loser candidates.

00:07:42.740 But that's another story.

00:07:45.160 For another day,

00:07:46.060 there's a lot of other people

00:07:46.960 on her campaign

00:07:47.660 that have smeared

00:07:48.440 Dallas Brody

00:07:49.320 and won BC in the past as well.

00:07:52.060 So then we get to Ian Black.

00:07:54.560 Ian Black,

00:07:55.720 former cabinet minister

00:07:57.880 under, for the, you know,

00:07:59.480 BC provincial government

00:08:00.540 under Christy Clark.

00:08:02.480 Really, that's all you can say

00:08:03.680 about him.

00:08:04.220 A very pragmatic BC Liberal.

00:08:07.240 Bruce Bandman,

00:08:08.260 who was also elected

00:08:09.060 as a BC Liberal,

00:08:09.960 but one of those

00:08:10.580 late stage ones

00:08:11.560 like the current

00:08:12.540 interim leader,

00:08:14.020 Trevor Halford.

00:08:15.120 He is the MLA

00:08:16.320 for Abbotsford South.

00:08:18.220 I was actually

00:08:18.740 his campaign manager

00:08:19.840 for most of the last

00:08:21.160 provincial election.

00:08:22.700 He was kind of

00:08:23.520 John Rustad's

00:08:24.320 right-hand man,

00:08:25.520 obviously,

00:08:26.400 before the last election

00:08:27.380 because he was

00:08:27.760 the second BC

00:08:28.480 conservative MLA

00:08:29.640 with Rustad.

00:08:32.940 And he was like

00:08:33.280 one of the,

00:08:33.940 he was the other one

00:08:35.020 for a long time

00:08:36.000 before they gained

00:08:36.660 a couple more people

00:08:37.500 before the election

00:08:38.220 was called.

00:08:39.280 We have Bandman there,

00:08:40.420 also more of a veteran MLA.

00:08:42.760 Sheldon Clare,

00:08:43.840 newly elected

00:08:44.540 BC conservative MLA,

00:08:46.520 former president

00:08:47.240 of the National

00:08:48.100 Firearms Association,

00:08:50.000 the NFA.

00:08:51.260 We have Uri Fulmer here

00:08:52.580 who was a candidate

00:08:53.440 for the conservatives

00:08:54.200 in the last

00:08:54.860 provincial election

00:08:55.800 and lost the,

00:08:57.540 I think it was like

00:08:58.100 the North Shore

00:08:59.460 or the like

00:09:00.620 North Vancouver

00:09:01.260 sea to sky riding

00:09:02.560 to Jeremy Valeriot,

00:09:04.060 who is the Green Party's

00:09:05.940 House leader right now.

00:09:07.720 We have Warren Ham

00:09:08.940 who I believe

00:09:09.560 is a conservative

00:09:10.900 activist and lawyer.

00:09:12.520 He's probably

00:09:12.920 the most conservative

00:09:13.820 guy on this list.

00:09:15.240 We have Harmon Bangu,

00:09:16.620 another new

00:09:17.740 BC conservative MLA

00:09:19.260 from Langley Abbotsford.

00:09:22.140 Probably in this group

00:09:23.380 of people

00:09:23.800 a little bit more

00:09:24.760 on the right

00:09:25.560 compared to the rest

00:09:26.560 of them.

00:09:27.380 But even then

00:09:28.040 with guys who are

00:09:29.060 even more on the right,

00:09:30.200 like Sheldon's

00:09:30.720 more on the right,

00:09:31.860 Harmon's more on the right,

00:09:33.720 maybe though,

00:09:34.560 it depends,

00:09:35.200 because it really,

00:09:36.420 I kind of struggle

00:09:38.200 to really say

00:09:39.480 if these guys

00:09:39.960 are actually conservative

00:09:41.220 considering the fact

00:09:43.120 that when Dallas Brody

00:09:44.320 was kicked out of caucus

00:09:45.320 and when so many

00:09:46.200 other things happened,

00:09:47.940 if they did the right thing,

00:09:49.500 it was because

00:09:49.920 Dallas Brody basically

00:09:50.880 had to push them

00:09:51.640 into doing the right thing.

00:09:53.040 And previously,

00:09:54.080 it's hard to recommend

00:09:56.040 them previously.

00:09:57.620 If they start doing

00:09:58.480 and saying the right things

00:09:59.340 now, maybe,

00:10:00.180 I just don't know.

00:10:01.860 We have Steve Cooner

00:10:02.980 here who is the,

00:10:04.640 I think,

00:10:05.100 the Richmond-Queensboro

00:10:06.540 MLA,

00:10:07.600 another new conservative guy.

00:10:09.200 And then,

00:10:09.500 of course,

00:10:09.820 John Rustad,

00:10:10.560 the former BC

00:10:11.580 conservative leader

00:10:12.480 as of, like,

00:10:13.760 December,

00:10:14.700 very recently kicked out

00:10:16.540 as the leader.

00:10:17.620 But again,

00:10:19.860 I can't,

00:10:20.660 he could win.

00:10:21.580 He could win again.

00:10:22.640 Honestly,

00:10:23.080 it's kind of a fun thing

00:10:24.340 for him to do.

00:10:25.360 Jump back in the race.

00:10:26.400 He should go on,

00:10:27.040 like,

00:10:27.260 a tear against everybody.

00:10:29.040 Like,

00:10:29.360 the whole,

00:10:29.680 I only stepped down

00:10:30.800 as leader

00:10:31.220 so I could run again

00:10:32.200 and kick all your butts 0.99

00:10:33.320 and prove that I'm still,

00:10:34.700 you know,

00:10:35.180 stomping around this party

00:10:36.280 like Godzilla through Tokyo.

00:10:38.200 You know,

00:10:38.780 if you want the leadership,

00:10:40.240 come and take it from me,

00:10:41.580 you giant piles

00:10:42.660 of ungrateful pig filth.

00:10:44.840 I would love that kind of,

00:10:46.240 like,

00:10:46.740 villainous character arc

00:10:47.960 for John Rustad,

00:10:48.960 a man who is

00:10:49.680 not particularly interesting.

00:10:52.680 But yeah,

00:10:53.420 like,

00:10:53.900 the really big L liberals

00:10:55.940 on this list

00:10:56.860 are Milibar,

00:10:59.560 Harry Linfit,

00:11:00.340 or Caroline Elliott, 0.97

00:11:02.360 Ian Black.

00:11:04.160 Bruce Bandman

00:11:04.960 is like a small L.

00:11:06.560 From me being

00:11:07.140 his campaign manager,

00:11:08.200 I knew he was like a guy

00:11:09.180 who, like,

00:11:09.800 really hated Donald Trump,

00:11:11.700 would constantly complain

00:11:13.100 that too many

00:11:13.920 of the people in the party

00:11:14.820 are far right

00:11:15.600 and all that stuff.

00:11:16.260 Maybe he's sorted that out

00:11:17.680 and he doesn't,

00:11:18.340 he's not like that.

00:11:20.100 Uri Falmer's like a small L.

00:11:22.740 Steve Cooner's a big L.

00:11:24.940 And John Rustad's a small L.

00:11:27.480 Daryl Jones is probably

00:11:28.580 a small L as well.

00:11:30.160 And then I would say

00:11:31.280 with some of these people

00:11:32.500 like Carrie Lynn Finley

00:11:33.820 and whatnot,

00:11:35.200 we can kind of,

00:11:35.880 like,

00:11:36.020 say that these people

00:11:36.840 have, like,

00:11:37.760 a small,

00:11:38.740 a small pale C

00:11:40.720 we can put behind

00:11:42.000 some of these people.

00:11:43.060 Small pale C

00:11:44.120 behind some of these guys.

00:11:45.660 And maybe they are

00:11:46.420 really conservative.

00:11:47.580 But they've only said

00:11:48.800 they're conservative so far.

00:11:49.940 They haven't done anything.

00:11:51.180 They haven't done something

00:11:52.180 like Dallas Brody

00:11:52.960 to put themselves out there

00:11:54.080 where they actually have

00:11:55.120 to risk something

00:11:56.040 to stand up

00:11:56.680 for their conservative principles.

00:11:58.260 They've mostly been able

00:11:59.360 to sit comfortably

00:12:00.400 and they've not said anything

00:12:02.420 about massive amounts

00:12:04.100 of internal corruption

00:12:05.160 inside the B.C.

00:12:06.080 Conservative Party

00:12:06.800 like donor money

00:12:07.940 being wasted,

00:12:09.040 the last AGM being rigged,

00:12:11.020 John Rustad

00:12:11.640 trying to rig

00:12:12.380 his leadership review.

00:12:13.980 It's been wild out there.

00:12:16.080 But anyways,

00:12:17.060 with all that being said,

00:12:18.720 I want to move on

00:12:19.800 to some other stuff here.

00:12:21.100 to basically,

00:12:22.880 maybe this is the last way

00:12:24.240 I'll sum this whole thing up.

00:12:25.780 The fact we have 12 candidates

00:12:27.580 is a problem.

00:12:29.460 If you had a strong party,

00:12:31.320 you'd have five,

00:12:32.800 maybe six.

00:12:34.280 The problem with having 12

00:12:35.820 and even probably five's pushing it,

00:12:37.960 maybe three or four

00:12:38.780 you should have.

00:12:39.680 With this many people

00:12:40.700 in the race,

00:12:41.420 it's because nobody

00:12:42.740 sees a winner here.

00:12:44.500 We basically have

00:12:45.600 a bunch of people

00:12:46.620 who don't think

00:12:47.520 anyone else can win

00:12:48.500 because none of them

00:12:49.840 are particularly inspiring.

00:12:51.580 I was actually about to move on

00:12:53.000 before I did my name recognition stuff,

00:12:54.600 but this will kind of drill at home.

00:12:56.860 So on this list,

00:12:58.400 do you know who has

00:12:59.320 the best name recognition?

00:13:01.320 I'll just quickly get rid of

00:13:02.460 these L's here and whatnot.

00:13:04.860 The highest name recognition

00:13:06.440 on this list

00:13:07.420 might shock you,

00:13:09.240 but it also probably doesn't

00:13:10.300 when you think about it.

00:13:11.980 Highest name recognition,

00:13:13.160 and I'm basing this

00:13:13.920 only off of who

00:13:14.740 conservative voters,

00:13:16.080 conservative supporters,

00:13:17.420 say they recognize.

00:13:18.200 So these are people

00:13:18.860 with a little bit more skin

00:13:19.700 in the game.

00:13:20.860 26% of people

00:13:22.900 recognize Daryl Jones,

00:13:25.400 you know, former.

00:13:26.360 He's been on all

00:13:27.080 the Save on Food ads

00:13:28.140 for over a decade,

00:13:29.280 so naturally people

00:13:30.060 know who he is.

00:13:31.220 Second highest is

00:13:32.460 Carrie Lynn Finley here.

00:13:34.580 Third highest is

00:13:35.500 Peter Milibar,

00:13:36.480 and this is 26% for Daryl,

00:13:38.740 19% for Carrie Lynn Finley, 0.78

00:13:40.480 17% for Peter Milibar.

00:13:42.300 We have 16% for Caroline Elliott.

00:13:46.320 Ian Black, 14%.

00:13:48.200 After that,

00:13:49.740 Sheldon Clare is 10%.

00:13:51.860 Then we have

00:13:53.160 Yuri Fulmer with 10%,

00:13:54.860 and we have Warren Hamm

00:13:56.460 with 10%,

00:13:57.360 and we have Harmon Bangu

00:13:59.400 at 9%.

00:14:00.360 And the rest of them

00:14:02.200 were not included

00:14:03.240 in this poll

00:14:03.760 because a lot of them

00:14:04.620 hadn't actually announced

00:14:05.720 yet by this point.

00:14:07.120 I'm going to posit

00:14:08.400 that anyone who says

00:14:10.400 they recognize

00:14:11.420 Warren Hamm

00:14:12.220 and Bangu

00:14:13.280 and Sheldon

00:14:14.000 and Yuri Fulmer

00:14:14.940 and even Ian Black

00:14:15.960 are lying.

00:14:17.720 They don't know

00:14:18.260 who these people are.

00:14:19.140 Let's be very clear.

00:14:20.220 These are extremely

00:14:21.240 obscure figures.

00:14:22.620 I would even be impressed

00:14:24.020 if 19% of conservative voters

00:14:25.620 knew who Carrie Lynn Finley was.

00:14:27.280 Been around for a while,

00:14:28.280 but that's...

00:14:28.480 The fact that Daryl Jones,

00:14:30.940 the grocery store guy,

00:14:32.420 is leading you,

00:14:33.640 and he's leading you

00:14:34.700 with 26%

00:14:36.080 of conservative voters,

00:14:37.600 a little more than

00:14:38.460 a quarter of people

00:14:39.220 can remember the guy

00:14:40.300 who was on TV constantly.

00:14:42.300 This is not great.

00:14:43.960 There is no Aaron Gunn

00:14:45.340 in this race.

00:14:45.940 There is no Dallas Brody 0.84

00:14:47.500 in this race

00:14:48.020 who gets in

00:14:48.980 and half of people

00:14:50.300 know who they are,

00:14:51.300 and they have strong

00:14:52.200 opinions about them.

00:14:54.100 I think you will be

00:14:54.960 hard-pressed to find

00:14:55.820 anyone with anything

00:14:57.120 positive or negative

00:14:58.360 to say,

00:14:59.220 and in fact,

00:14:59.800 it's not good

00:15:00.320 if people don't have

00:15:01.020 negative things to say.

00:15:02.380 This is politics.

00:15:03.860 People don't have

00:15:04.500 anything to say about you.

00:15:06.040 That's bad.

00:15:07.320 But anyways,

00:15:07.900 I'm going to clear

00:15:08.460 the board now,

00:15:09.280 and I want to move

00:15:10.460 into the new

00:15:11.560 provincial polling

00:15:12.340 and show you

00:15:13.460 how things currently

00:15:14.380 stack up,

00:15:15.060 and I want to debunk

00:15:16.140 a really stupid

00:15:17.340 boat-splitting narrative

00:15:18.500 about 1BC.

00:15:19.660 We're back,

00:15:22.820 and now I want

00:15:23.380 to take you guys

00:15:24.200 into the October

00:15:26.300 2025 Leger polling

00:15:28.260 before we then talk

00:15:30.000 about their February

00:15:31.160 2026 polling.

00:15:33.340 Actually,

00:15:33.720 even before I get

00:15:34.400 into that,

00:15:34.820 I do want to acknowledge

00:15:35.900 the thing I was

00:15:36.900 previously saying

00:15:38.240 I wanted to talk about,

00:15:39.380 which is the BC NDP

00:15:40.760 and the BC Greens

00:15:42.360 ripping up their agreement.

00:15:44.780 Basically,

00:15:45.340 the Greens

00:15:45.780 had signed

00:15:47.000 an agreement

00:15:47.380 with the NDP

00:15:48.040 to help them

00:15:48.740 pass legislation.

00:15:50.420 And now,

00:15:50.840 there is going

00:15:51.280 to be a lot

00:15:51.820 of this kind

00:15:52.300 of fake panic

00:15:53.220 that there could

00:15:53.740 be a snap election.

00:15:55.320 There's not going

00:15:55.800 to be one.

00:15:56.420 It's because the BC NDP,

00:15:57.840 despite leading

00:15:58.800 in many polls,

00:15:59.700 are not very popular

00:16:00.880 right now.

00:16:01.720 If they call a snap

00:16:02.660 election,

00:16:03.480 a lot of their

00:16:04.440 more moderate voters,

00:16:05.840 and I mean like

00:16:06.440 the voters who

00:16:07.240 sometimes show up

00:16:08.100 for them,

00:16:08.500 sometimes don't,

00:16:09.380 sometimes vote

00:16:09.880 for other people,

00:16:11.260 they won't show up

00:16:12.260 if David Eby

00:16:13.220 arrogantly calls

00:16:14.500 an election

00:16:15.000 like a year

00:16:16.260 and a half

00:16:17.100 after the last one,

00:16:18.320 even though he

00:16:18.980 currently has a majority,

00:16:20.980 Emily Lowen,

00:16:21.880 the BC Green leader,

00:16:23.340 is actually going

00:16:23.920 to be quite dangerous

00:16:24.860 to the NDP.

00:16:26.200 It's because she

00:16:26.920 kind of has that

00:16:27.900 Zoran Mamdani,

00:16:29.580 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:16:31.640 Bernie Sanders

00:16:32.540 type energy

00:16:33.420 where she's very

00:16:34.720 dogmatically left-wing.

00:16:36.860 And now,

00:16:37.360 in most provinces,

00:16:38.600 that would not sell

00:16:39.360 at all.

00:16:40.100 But remember,

00:16:40.820 we are in the province

00:16:41.720 of British Columbia,

00:16:43.200 and so she is going

00:16:44.320 to be able to start

00:16:44.840 ripping away a lot

00:16:45.680 of South Island

00:16:46.520 and a lot of

00:16:47.260 lower mainland

00:16:47.980 urban voters

00:16:49.160 from the NDP.

00:16:52.120 And actually,

00:16:52.680 it's going to screw

00:16:53.200 them over

00:16:53.540 in a lot of other

00:16:54.280 ridings because

00:16:55.000 even in interior

00:16:56.400 ridings that the NDP,

00:16:58.220 or sorry,

00:16:58.500 that the Greens

00:16:58.940 can't win,

00:16:59.940 there are a lot

00:17:00.360 of green towns

00:17:01.520 that they could

00:17:02.320 take away from

00:17:03.100 the NDP,

00:17:04.080 making it impossible

00:17:05.060 for the NDP

00:17:06.120 to hold on to

00:17:07.200 some of these

00:17:07.560 interior areas

00:17:08.540 where they kind

00:17:09.440 of need these

00:17:10.180 small art towns

00:17:11.480 or these more

00:17:12.500 dense urban places

00:17:14.040 pockmarked

00:17:14.820 in the interior

00:17:15.540 in order to hold

00:17:16.760 on to the few

00:17:17.360 ridings they have

00:17:18.080 out there.

00:17:18.720 If the Greens

00:17:19.400 increase their vote

00:17:20.380 by like 5 or 6%

00:17:22.000 in these ridings,

00:17:23.140 it actually takes

00:17:23.900 the NDP down

00:17:24.960 to like the low

00:17:25.660 30s or the 20s,

00:17:27.240 and they need to

00:17:28.060 win very narrow

00:17:28.940 races against

00:17:29.720 the Conservatives.

00:17:30.960 And then,

00:17:31.660 which is also going

00:17:32.400 to offset any

00:17:33.200 issues around 1BC

00:17:34.320 because the Greens

00:17:35.540 are also eating

00:17:36.320 into the NDP

00:17:37.000 at the same time,

00:17:38.140 and then you will

00:17:38.620 also have

00:17:39.320 Centre BC,

00:17:40.780 which is also eating

00:17:41.760 into the NDP,

00:17:42.820 which is a

00:17:43.460 centre-left

00:17:44.240 quote-unquote

00:17:45.360 centrist party,

00:17:46.460 but it basically

00:17:47.580 has the same

00:17:48.280 voters as the

00:17:49.480 NDP does in

00:17:50.400 the lower mainland,

00:17:51.240 but whatever.

00:17:52.520 I'm talking too

00:17:53.140 much, but that

00:17:54.100 is to say,

00:17:54.720 if anyone starts

00:17:55.420 speculating that

00:17:56.380 you've got to

00:17:56.760 get back on board

00:17:57.560 with the Conservatives

00:17:58.460 because there

00:17:59.020 could be a

00:17:59.480 stamp election,

00:18:00.260 look, the Greens,

00:18:01.060 the NDP,

00:18:01.620 ripped up their

00:18:02.060 agreement.

00:18:02.960 It means nothing.

00:18:04.180 It effectively

00:18:04.780 doesn't mean

00:18:05.300 anything.

00:18:06.260 But now,

00:18:07.160 let's get back

00:18:07.860 to the polls.

00:18:08.940 Let's go back

00:18:10.120 to October.

00:18:11.260 The last time

00:18:12.140 Leger did a

00:18:13.140 poll in

00:18:13.940 British Columbia.

00:18:15.380 Back in

00:18:15.840 October,

00:18:16.880 they actually

00:18:17.580 had the NDP

00:18:18.320 winning pretty

00:18:19.680 handily if an

00:18:20.980 election was

00:18:21.740 called.

00:18:23.800 Now, the NDP

00:18:24.720 back in October

00:18:25.840 was at 48%

00:18:28.440 of the vote.

00:18:29.980 And then,

00:18:30.540 you had the

00:18:31.540 BC Conservatives

00:18:32.680 trailing pretty

00:18:33.920 far behind at

00:18:35.600 38% of the vote.

00:18:38.760 A full 10

00:18:39.820 points down.

00:18:41.460 And then,

00:18:41.880 the Green Party

00:18:42.780 back then

00:18:43.440 was at

00:18:44.540 8 points

00:18:45.560 and then they

00:18:46.040 didn't poll

00:18:46.700 anybody else

00:18:48.040 in this

00:18:49.400 tranche.

00:18:50.420 I think there

00:18:50.820 might be a

00:18:51.540 discrepancy here.

00:18:52.680 Obviously,

00:18:53.120 this doesn't add

00:18:53.820 up to 100.

00:18:54.460 I think there

00:18:54.820 was like another

00:18:55.240 8 or so

00:18:56.000 who were voting

00:18:56.800 other.

00:18:57.560 But oftentimes,

00:18:58.060 it's a pretty

00:18:58.740 useless way of

00:18:59.520 doing polling.

00:19:00.960 But anyways,

00:19:01.960 let's jump forward

00:19:02.860 now to

00:19:04.080 Leger in February.

00:19:05.940 And remember,

00:19:07.160 Leger is a

00:19:08.260 more left-wing

00:19:09.540 kind of leaning

00:19:10.480 bolster.

00:19:11.600 Not in terms

00:19:12.440 of they want

00:19:13.240 to be biased,

00:19:13.980 but in terms

00:19:14.440 of the way

00:19:14.840 they do sampling,

00:19:15.780 they tend to

00:19:16.380 oversample

00:19:17.400 urban progressive

00:19:18.800 voters.

00:19:19.920 So back over

00:19:20.500 here,

00:19:20.780 we'll just put

00:19:21.380 down the

00:19:21.940 plus 10

00:19:23.520 BC NDP.

00:19:29.160 Now,

00:19:29.800 over here,

00:19:30.980 we have

00:19:31.860 February 26,

00:19:33.220 which is

00:19:34.280 the first time

00:19:35.360 that the

00:19:35.740 Leger polling

00:19:37.800 even bothered

00:19:38.720 including the

00:19:39.760 1 BC party.

00:19:41.320 So we have

00:19:42.180 the NDP

00:19:43.060 still winning

00:19:44.380 in this poll,

00:19:45.860 but they are

00:19:47.560 down to

00:19:48.180 44%.

00:19:49.540 They have

00:19:50.260 lost 4%

00:19:51.440 in the polls.

00:19:52.820 And then

00:19:53.240 we have

00:19:53.900 the conservatives

00:19:55.360 effectively

00:19:56.320 holding

00:19:56.960 exactly steady

00:19:58.120 with 38%

00:20:00.260 of the vote,

00:20:01.040 but still

00:20:01.420 trailing the

00:20:01.960 NDP,

00:20:02.440 of course.

00:20:02.840 then in

00:20:05.100 this poll,

00:20:05.860 we have

00:20:06.880 the green

00:20:07.320 party now

00:20:08.520 up to

00:20:09.280 9%,

00:20:10.460 1 point

00:20:12.000 up.

00:20:13.660 And 1 BC

00:20:14.920 is not doing

00:20:16.780 too bad at

00:20:17.340 all at

00:20:18.580 6% in this

00:20:20.060 poll.

00:20:20.980 Now,

00:20:21.240 this is one

00:20:22.080 of the worst

00:20:22.700 polls for

00:20:23.400 1 BC

00:20:24.240 in kind of

00:20:25.460 like the

00:20:25.780 recent tranche

00:20:26.560 of polling.

00:20:26.960 we have

00:20:27.700 1 BC

00:20:28.300 in a

00:20:28.700 previous

00:20:29.080 Main Street

00:20:29.700 poll

00:20:30.020 actually at

00:20:30.940 8%,

00:20:31.600 and in

00:20:32.160 that poll,

00:20:32.660 the conservatives

00:20:33.160 were actually

00:20:33.540 still beating

00:20:34.220 the NDP

00:20:34.800 by 1 point.

00:20:36.260 But even

00:20:36.780 in this

00:20:37.380 poll that

00:20:38.260 tends to

00:20:38.820 lean more

00:20:39.560 NDP,

00:20:40.400 we have

00:20:41.080 1 BC

00:20:41.560 at 6%,

00:20:42.560 and the

00:20:43.700 NDP

00:20:44.200 now only

00:20:45.360 ends up

00:20:45.820 leading

00:20:46.300 the conservatives

00:20:47.160 by 6 points.

00:20:49.100 But one

00:20:53.660 thing I'd

00:20:54.060 want you

00:20:54.440 to notice

00:20:54.880 is that

00:20:55.600 the narrative

00:20:56.140 around 1 BC

00:20:57.360 as a party

00:20:57.940 is that

00:20:58.400 you guys

00:20:59.100 can't run,

00:21:00.160 you're going

00:21:00.660 to split

00:21:01.040 the vote,

00:21:01.660 this is

00:21:02.000 terrible.

00:21:03.220 It's just

00:21:03.900 really not

00:21:04.580 how it

00:21:05.020 works,

00:21:05.440 guys.

00:21:05.940 Like,

00:21:06.220 I'm just

00:21:06.460 going to

00:21:06.560 quickly

00:21:06.820 calculate

00:21:07.240 this out

00:21:07.820 because I

00:21:08.200 know we're

00:21:08.640 missing a

00:21:09.020 bunch of

00:21:09.280 other polling

00:21:09.960 in this

00:21:10.780 one.

00:21:11.460 So we

00:21:11.920 go 48

00:21:12.760 plus 38

00:21:13.960 plus 8,

00:21:15.780 and we

00:21:16.180 end up

00:21:16.620 having back

00:21:17.400 here,

00:21:17.780 if we

00:21:18.100 added back

00:21:18.800 in the

00:21:19.280 other

00:21:19.560 vote,

00:21:20.300 we still

00:21:21.060 had 6%

00:21:22.700 who wanted

00:21:23.580 to vote

00:21:23.980 for another

00:21:24.420 party.

00:21:25.460 Now you'll

00:21:25.920 notice when

00:21:26.520 you didn't

00:21:27.060 have 1 BC

00:21:27.820 as an option,

00:21:29.080 still the

00:21:29.920 conservatives

00:21:30.340 left 6

00:21:31.140 points on

00:21:31.560 the table,

00:21:32.520 and over

00:21:32.880 here 1 BC

00:21:33.760 has picked

00:21:34.220 up 6

00:21:34.740 points,

00:21:35.660 and over

00:21:36.060 here I

00:21:36.380 believe that

00:21:36.920 does this

00:21:37.540 add up

00:21:37.860 to 100

00:21:38.360 now?

00:21:40.220 It's always

00:21:40.520 one of those

00:21:40.840 things I have

00:21:41.260 to make

00:21:41.560 sure works.

00:21:43.440 And this

00:21:43.840 one even

00:21:44.680 still has

00:21:45.520 another 3

00:21:47.040 points that

00:21:48.040 hasn't been

00:21:48.580 allocated to

00:21:49.880 another

00:21:50.340 party.

00:21:51.560 And now

00:21:51.900 that could 0.68

00:21:52.500 be, you

00:21:53.520 know,

00:21:53.760 center BC.

00:21:54.900 I still

00:21:55.620 suspect a lot

00:21:56.400 of those

00:21:56.640 people are

00:21:57.600 1 BC

00:21:58.200 voters.

00:21:59.040 They just

00:21:59.420 don't know

00:22:00.740 the name

00:22:01.260 well enough

00:22:01.720 yet.

00:22:01.960 They know

00:22:02.220 they like

00:22:02.600 Dallas

00:22:02.880 Brody

00:22:03.220 maybe,

00:22:03.700 but maybe

00:22:04.040 they don't

00:22:04.340 know the

00:22:04.640 brand well

00:22:05.160 enough that

00:22:05.580 point blank

00:22:06.480 when a

00:22:06.780 random poll

00:22:07.380 is given

00:22:07.740 to them,

00:22:08.440 they know

00:22:08.920 that that's

00:22:09.420 the party

00:22:09.820 they want

00:22:10.320 to be

00:22:10.640 selecting.

00:22:11.940 But again,

00:22:12.840 I bring it

00:22:13.360 back to

00:22:14.000 if the

00:22:14.780 conservatives

00:22:15.300 needed 1 BC

00:22:16.500 out of the

00:22:16.920 race to

00:22:17.300 win,

00:22:17.940 why weren't

00:22:18.540 they winning

00:22:18.920 back when it

00:22:19.520 wasn't even

00:22:20.000 an option?

00:22:20.800 An option

00:22:21.240 that nobody

00:22:21.800 even knew

00:22:22.340 existed.

00:22:22.960 Yes,

00:22:23.220 1 BC

00:22:23.580 existed back

00:22:24.440 in October,

00:22:24.960 so a lot

00:22:25.980 of those

00:22:26.200 others might

00:22:26.740 have been

00:22:27.020 wanting to

00:22:27.580 vote 1 BC,

00:22:28.360 but it

00:22:28.540 wasn't given

00:22:28.940 to them as

00:22:29.360 an option.

00:22:30.160 But this

00:22:30.500 is still

00:22:31.020 super early,

00:22:32.420 like two

00:22:32.940 months into

00:22:33.400 the party

00:22:33.780 even being

00:22:34.400 in the

00:22:34.640 public eye.

00:22:36.020 But why

00:22:36.580 are the

00:22:37.680 conservatives

00:22:38.060 down 10

00:22:38.500 points?

00:22:39.040 And it

00:22:39.300 goes back to

00:22:39.940 the conservative

00:22:40.380 leadership race.

00:22:41.420 It's full of

00:22:42.140 liberals,

00:22:42.860 it doesn't

00:22:43.360 really represent

00:22:44.140 decisive change,

00:22:45.420 and the

00:22:45.640 thing is that

00:22:46.040 there's a lot

00:22:46.560 of voters

00:22:46.940 who only

00:22:47.320 want to

00:22:47.640 show up

00:22:47.940 if the

00:22:48.180 change is

00:22:48.600 going to

00:22:48.940 be

00:22:49.100 substantial.

00:22:50.100 You can't

00:22:50.440 just basically

00:22:51.000 tell people,

00:22:51.960 well,

00:22:52.120 we're the

00:22:52.500 only game

00:22:53.040 in town

00:22:53.500 and you

00:22:53.780 better vote

00:22:54.340 for us

00:22:54.800 or else.

00:22:55.960 Or else

00:22:56.460 what?

00:22:56.860 The people

00:22:57.200 can just

00:22:57.580 stay home.

00:22:58.620 So right

00:22:58.960 now 1 BC

00:22:59.640 is representing

00:23:00.440 all those

00:23:00.840 people who

00:23:01.200 are ticked

00:23:01.680 off,

00:23:02.280 and by

00:23:02.740 the way,

00:23:03.340 I will

00:23:03.820 add,

00:23:04.500 hey,

00:23:04.720 look,

00:23:05.400 six points

00:23:05.920 over there

00:23:06.440 for the

00:23:06.980 other,

00:23:07.500 three points

00:23:07.960 over here.

00:23:08.880 So we

00:23:09.360 only took

00:23:09.820 half of the

00:23:10.440 other votes,

00:23:14.140 we took

00:23:14.620 votes from

00:23:15.500 the NDP

00:23:16.040 in theory.

00:23:17.080 Maybe a

00:23:17.940 bunch of

00:23:18.300 NDP votes

00:23:19.160 went over

00:23:20.040 to the

00:23:21.020 Conservatives

00:23:21.760 and then

00:23:22.240 went over

00:23:22.740 to the

00:23:23.040 Greens,

00:23:23.680 and then

00:23:24.000 we stole

00:23:24.740 them from

00:23:25.160 the

00:23:25.340 Conservatives.

00:23:26.460 Maybe that

00:23:27.160 happened.

00:23:27.980 I actually

00:23:28.440 don't think

00:23:29.140 that's what's

00:23:29.620 going on

00:23:30.220 because there

00:23:30.820 are so

00:23:31.340 many what

00:23:32.420 I would

00:23:32.680 call old

00:23:33.780 hard hat

00:23:34.520 John Horgan

00:23:35.460 voters.

00:23:35.900 I don't

00:23:36.120 mean old

00:23:36.700 in terms

00:23:37.160 of like

00:23:37.660 older voters

00:23:38.480 by age.

00:23:39.500 I just

00:23:39.700 mean in

00:23:40.420 terms of

00:23:40.840 it's the

00:23:41.380 old faction

00:23:42.220 of the

00:23:42.540 NDP.

00:23:42.920 The

00:23:43.560 hard hat

00:23:44.220 trades

00:23:44.840 guys who

00:23:45.720 really liked

00:23:46.420 the cut

00:23:46.900 of John

00:23:47.300 Horgan's

00:23:47.840 jib.

00:23:48.580 But now

00:23:49.080 that David

00:23:49.700 Eby is

00:23:50.320 the

00:23:50.480 premier,

00:23:51.540 no.

00:23:52.260 Now that

00:23:52.700 Brenda

00:23:53.020 Bailey is

00:23:53.680 putting out

00:23:54.180 these terrible

00:23:55.060 deficits

00:23:56.340 of like

00:23:56.680 $11 billion

00:23:57.560 for a

00:23:58.800 provincial

00:23:59.260 government,

00:23:59.760 you're not

00:24:00.020 even the

00:24:00.380 national

00:24:00.820 government,

00:24:01.520 an $11

00:24:02.100 billion

00:24:02.620 deficit

00:24:03.480 for that

00:24:04.440 government,

00:24:04.900 you're going

00:24:05.160 to have a

00:24:05.540 lot of

00:24:05.720 these small

00:24:06.280 business

00:24:07.780 guys,

00:24:08.600 a lot of

00:24:08.840 these trades

00:24:09.460 guys,

00:24:09.980 a lot of

00:24:10.280 these trade

00:24:10.740 union

00:24:11.100 workers.

00:24:11.620 They're

00:24:12.360 going to

00:24:12.860 leave

00:24:13.200 NDP

00:24:13.900 and go

00:24:14.320 to the

00:24:14.580 conservatives

00:24:15.000 who,

00:24:15.440 the 1BC

00:24:16.300 sorry,

00:24:17.040 who wants

00:24:17.340 to get rid

00:24:17.700 of all the

00:24:18.020 stupid land

00:24:18.600 deals,

00:24:19.240 who wants

00:24:19.540 to cut

00:24:19.780 their taxes

00:24:20.360 25%

00:24:21.240 across the

00:24:21.820 board,

00:24:22.260 who wants

00:24:22.800 to heavily

00:24:23.240 deregulate.

00:24:24.620 There were

00:24:25.120 some NDP

00:24:25.700 voters who

00:24:26.560 voted NDP

00:24:27.320 back in the

00:24:28.220 day,

00:24:28.500 like back

00:24:28.940 in 2018,

00:24:29.760 2020,

00:24:30.700 because it

00:24:31.080 was the

00:24:31.440 anti-establishment

00:24:32.640 option from

00:24:33.540 the Christie

00:24:34.100 Clark

00:24:34.540 corrupt

00:24:35.020 liberals.

00:24:35.480 And for

00:24:36.280 some reason

00:24:36.860 now,

00:24:37.520 we might

00:24:37.920 hand the

00:24:38.340 BC

00:24:38.560 Conservative

00:24:39.040 Party

00:24:39.460 back to

00:24:40.300 more corrupt

00:24:41.060 BC,

00:24:42.080 like the

00:24:42.660 BC

00:24:42.980 liberal,

00:24:43.900 Christie

00:24:44.160 Clark

00:24:44.540 liberals.

00:24:45.380 It's so

00:24:46.160 stupid. 0.90

00:24:47.240 But this

00:24:48.460 is why

00:24:48.920 right now

00:24:49.840 1BC,

00:24:50.820 and I'll

00:24:51.020 just bring

00:24:51.320 this up

00:24:51.640 on my

00:24:51.920 computer so

00:24:52.440 you guys

00:24:52.720 can check

00:24:53.140 it out,

00:24:53.780 1BC is

00:24:54.860 having some

00:24:55.680 great events

00:24:56.760 around the

00:24:57.180 province.

00:24:58.100 This was

00:24:58.560 our event

00:24:59.120 that Dallas

00:24:59.940 just did

00:25:00.560 with the

00:25:00.880 rest of the

00:25:01.300 team.

00:25:01.680 I couldn't

00:25:01.960 be there

00:25:02.320 because I'm

00:25:02.800 packing up

00:25:03.280 to go to

00:25:03.520 Victoria.

00:25:03.880 This is

00:25:05.060 the event

00:25:05.460 we just

00:25:06.260 did in

00:25:07.140 Creston.

00:25:08.300 Now,

00:25:08.900 it's not

00:25:09.240 the biggest

00:25:09.700 room on

00:25:10.080 the planet,

00:25:10.640 but it's

00:25:10.880 because a

00:25:11.380 bunch of

00:25:11.620 crazy

00:25:11.940 activists

00:25:12.500 basically

00:25:13.000 made it

00:25:14.120 so that

00:25:14.420 we couldn't

00:25:14.940 actually use

00:25:16.200 the bigger

00:25:16.560 event center

00:25:17.140 in town.

00:25:17.800 It is

00:25:18.240 illegal because

00:25:18.920 it's publicly

00:25:19.480 funded,

00:25:20.520 and we were

00:25:20.900 kicked out

00:25:21.520 because a

00:25:22.620 bunch of

00:25:23.360 native activists

00:25:23.980 threatened them.

00:25:25.040 We could

00:25:25.360 have easily

00:25:25.880 filled up a

00:25:26.520 much larger

00:25:27.060 space.

00:25:27.580 We had to

00:25:27.900 turn people

00:25:28.500 away,

00:25:29.340 is what the

00:25:29.780 team told

00:25:30.240 me.

00:25:30.780 We hit

00:25:31.300 capacity,

00:25:31.980 and we

00:25:32.180 couldn't let

00:25:32.640 a single

00:25:33.020 person

00:25:33.460 more in

00:25:34.200 because

00:25:34.740 obviously the

00:25:35.360 police and

00:25:35.720 the fire

00:25:35.980 department were

00:25:36.580 there and

00:25:36.880 they would

00:25:37.140 immediately

00:25:37.420 put a stop

00:25:37.920 to you.

00:25:38.820 But it

00:25:39.120 wasn't just

00:25:39.520 that one.

00:25:40.160 We had an

00:25:40.840 even bigger

00:25:41.460 event in

00:25:42.400 Sorrento,

00:25:43.540 Sorrento being

00:25:44.340 a town of

00:25:45.320 only 1,300

00:25:46.720 people, and

00:25:48.480 we had a

00:25:49.700 crowd of

00:25:50.280 over 220

00:25:51.640 people out.

00:25:52.980 Now, yeah,

00:25:53.420 people could have

00:25:53.940 driven in from

00:25:54.500 other towns,

00:25:55.420 but every other

00:25:56.140 town is at

00:25:56.660 least half an

00:25:57.260 hour away.

00:25:57.800 So yes,

00:25:58.660 people were

00:25:59.020 in from the

00:25:59.420 Shushwaps and

00:26:00.140 Salmon Arm and

00:26:00.820 maybe Kelowna,

00:26:02.060 but that's a

00:26:02.580 commitment to

00:26:03.640 show up from

00:26:04.300 that far away

00:26:05.160 in order to

00:26:06.020 just see some

00:26:06.660 random MLA

00:26:07.340 speak.

00:26:08.100 But obviously

00:26:08.580 Dallas is not

00:26:09.420 just a random

00:26:09.940 MLA.

00:26:10.820 People actually

00:26:11.380 like her because

00:26:12.280 she says the

00:26:12.920 things that

00:26:13.340 normal people

00:26:14.080 think around

00:26:15.340 SOGI, around 1.00

00:26:16.440 native issues,

00:26:17.800 with land

00:26:18.380 claims, around

00:26:19.500 taxes, around

00:26:21.000 corruption in

00:26:21.780 government.

00:26:22.600 There's a lot of

00:26:23.300 stuff that she's

00:26:23.840 talking about that

00:26:24.800 no BC

00:26:25.340 conservative will

00:26:26.280 talk about,

00:26:26.800 although they

00:26:27.600 still try and

00:26:28.160 call her and

00:26:29.520 sort of semi

00:26:31.340 try and beg for

00:26:32.320 an endorsement

00:26:33.060 because although

00:26:33.840 they've treated

00:26:34.480 her poorly,

00:26:35.480 they now want

00:26:36.240 her help to

00:26:36.940 win the BC

00:26:38.180 conservative

00:26:38.680 leadership race

00:26:39.640 and in return

00:26:41.480 like what?

00:26:42.240 It doesn't

00:26:42.860 matter.

00:26:43.220 It's all so

00:26:43.620 stupid. 0.90

00:26:44.640 But this is the

00:26:45.280 current situation.

00:26:46.720 We are bringing

00:26:47.420 in more people

00:26:48.260 to our events

00:26:49.000 than every single

00:26:50.240 BC conservative

00:26:51.060 leadership candidate

00:26:52.000 combined effectively.

00:26:53.720 Like I need to

00:26:54.340 show you guys

00:26:54.960 the Caroline Elliott

00:26:56.180 video.

00:26:56.800 that she just

00:26:57.360 put out promoting

00:26:58.040 her run.

00:26:59.000 It's really not

00:26:59.860 that many people

00:27:00.680 when you break it

00:27:01.680 down.

00:27:02.280 Look at this.

00:27:04.520 There is a reason

00:27:05.760 why here Caroline

00:27:07.320 Elliott is having

00:27:08.140 to have her team

00:27:09.100 shoot really close

00:27:10.560 to her.

00:27:10.980 They need close

00:27:11.780 tight angle shots.

00:27:12.880 We are so lucky.

00:27:16.340 We live in a province

00:27:17.880 that has an abundance

00:27:18.840 of natural resources.

00:27:20.380 We have a talented

00:27:21.640 workforce.

00:27:22.220 We have technology.

00:27:23.040 We have a location

00:27:24.520 that people would kill

00:27:26.020 for.

00:27:26.480 Most people look at that

00:27:27.460 and think we should be

00:27:28.060 the most prosperous

00:27:28.880 nation on earth.

00:27:30.320 We should be the most

00:27:31.000 prosperous province

00:27:31.880 in the most prosperous

00:27:32.700 nation on earth.

00:27:33.640 And there is nothing

00:27:34.380 stopping us except for

00:27:35.700 a government that wants

00:27:36.600 to throw up roadblocks

00:27:37.840 every step of the way.

00:27:40.180 We have to stop that.

00:27:41.640 And then we have

00:27:47.660 these like tiny rooms

00:27:48.620 where they really need

00:27:50.020 to shoot in tight

00:27:50.980 to make it look bigger

00:27:52.160 than it is.

00:27:53.060 Like if we stretch

00:27:54.100 maybe there's 40 people

00:27:55.540 in the room.

00:27:56.380 And this is the lady

00:27:57.220 who hired Corey to Nike

00:27:58.400 and has the extremely

00:27:59.780 expensive campaign team.

00:28:01.560 And they're able to get

00:28:02.680 into a pretentious

00:28:04.100 art gallery

00:28:04.860 somewhere in Vancouver

00:28:06.260 like 45 people

00:28:07.600 a few of which are in fact

00:28:09.220 her staff members

00:28:10.120 including Corey to Nike

00:28:11.260 who is there.

00:28:12.360 By the way

00:28:12.860 what kind of video

00:28:13.620 was that?

00:28:14.180 I hate when politicians

00:28:15.300 do that.

00:28:15.920 This.

00:28:17.220 We have the best trees.

00:28:20.180 We have the best people.

00:28:23.220 We have the best water.

00:28:25.240 And people would kill

00:28:26.280 for stuff like that.

00:28:27.220 We're a great province.

00:28:28.680 Like what is this?

00:28:29.920 What are the problems?

00:28:31.020 How are you going

00:28:31.420 to fix them?

00:28:32.180 Show you can take

00:28:32.880 something head on

00:28:33.640 without your team

00:28:34.800 of advisors

00:28:35.560 and consultants

00:28:36.360 propping you up.

00:28:37.580 People editing your work

00:28:38.760 to be published

00:28:39.520 in the without

00:28:40.540 diminishment blog

00:28:41.680 which is effectively

00:28:43.040 a Caroline Elliott

00:28:43.880 friend group.

00:28:45.080 I know people like

00:28:45.940 Geoffrey Russ are

00:28:46.640 insecure about this.

00:28:48.060 The publication

00:28:48.800 without diminishment

00:28:49.560 is a Caroline Elliott

00:28:50.600 front group.

00:28:51.540 I was told

00:28:52.420 they were crowdfunded,

00:28:53.700 Wyatt.

00:28:54.020 Oh, it's all crowdfunded.

00:28:55.380 Who crowdfunds

00:28:56.220 a random blog?

00:28:57.800 Why is it?

00:28:58.400 No.

00:28:59.200 If I look at the crowd

00:29:00.600 who funds it

00:29:01.260 it's Caroline Elliott's

00:29:02.500 friends.

00:29:03.200 That's all

00:29:03.640 without diminishment is.

00:29:05.500 Caroline Elliott

00:29:06.040 is a product.

00:29:06.960 That is it.

00:29:08.920 Particularly a fairly

00:29:10.160 uncomfortable looking

00:29:11.080 product by the looks

00:29:12.400 of it when you

00:29:12.880 actually see her speak.

00:29:14.100 She's not exactly

00:29:15.100 like setting the world

00:29:16.320 on fire with her

00:29:17.120 oratory skills here.

00:29:18.740 Nor do I think

00:29:19.480 she's actually fit

00:29:20.460 for a tough fight.

00:29:22.040 Her own team members

00:29:22.980 are the type of people

00:29:23.860 who have smeared

00:29:25.080 Dallas Brody.

00:29:26.320 One of her main

00:29:27.140 advisors is somebody

00:29:28.560 who accused

00:29:29.460 Dallas Brody

00:29:30.200 of mocking

00:29:30.880 victims of molestation

00:29:32.300 back when John Rustad

00:29:33.660 was kicking her out

00:29:34.340 because they're

00:29:35.060 a loyal foot soldier

00:29:36.280 and don't worry

00:29:37.200 they will smear

00:29:37.880 anyone they have to

00:29:38.960 if the party

00:29:39.800 desires it.

00:29:40.980 That is who works

00:29:41.800 for Caroline Elliott.

00:29:43.160 Smear artists

00:29:43.960 people who are just

00:29:45.180 bad at their jobs

00:29:46.220 in media

00:29:47.200 just crappy

00:29:49.080 hacky

00:29:50.140 red Tory advisors

00:29:51.980 like Corey Tanike

00:29:53.100 that is the Caroline

00:29:54.600 Elliott team.

00:29:55.760 If anyone tells you

00:29:56.440 no no

00:29:56.940 we're the hip

00:29:57.600 new right

00:29:58.300 no they're not.

00:30:00.140 They're not.

00:30:00.940 They are campaign

00:30:01.660 mercenaries

00:30:02.280 doing another shtick.

00:30:03.900 doing another

00:30:04.820 stupid vaudeville act

00:30:06.760 and this woman

00:30:07.700 can't even get

00:30:08.640 like 50 people

00:30:09.960 into a lower

00:30:11.620 mainland location

00:30:12.580 to hear her speak.

00:30:13.920 It's Vancouver.

00:30:15.260 The draw area

00:30:16.080 is incredible.

00:30:17.680 Dallas

00:30:18.100 when you had to have

00:30:19.320 people drive out

00:30:20.160 30 minutes

00:30:20.940 to show up

00:30:21.360 and hear her speak

00:30:22.440 got in

00:30:23.220 five times

00:30:24.620 six times

00:30:25.540 that amount of people

00:30:26.360 Caroline Elliott had 0.56

00:30:27.320 especially when you

00:30:28.360 remove all the

00:30:28.920 campaign consultants

00:30:29.700 from the room

00:30:30.240 who work for her.

00:30:31.700 What?

00:30:32.540 This is the lady

00:30:33.100 who's going to save

00:30:33.720 the BC Conservative

00:30:34.600 Party?

00:30:35.400 The woman 0.98

00:30:35.920 who helped

00:30:36.460 murder

00:30:36.900 the BC United

00:30:37.960 Party

00:30:38.380 alongside her 0.50

00:30:39.200 brother-in-law

00:30:39.820 Kevin Falcon?

00:30:41.140 No no no guys

00:30:41.960 pass her the car keys

00:30:43.600 now.

00:30:44.180 She's got this one.

00:30:45.680 Anyways this is

00:30:46.240 where my bias

00:30:46.980 is coming out.

00:30:48.000 Although this is

00:30:48.760 what I would be

00:30:49.220 saying regardless

00:30:49.920 of if I worked

00:30:50.460 for one BC or not

00:30:51.420 like again

00:30:51.920 full disclosure

00:30:52.760 I really don't

00:30:53.640 make much money.

00:30:54.740 I was made fun of

00:30:56.020 back when I was

00:30:56.820 a campaign manager

00:30:57.640 in the BC Conservatives

00:30:58.760 for making so little

00:30:59.700 because I thought

00:31:00.860 that was the whole point.

00:31:01.720 Take as little

00:31:02.860 as you need

00:31:03.660 you just take

00:31:04.900 what you need

00:31:05.500 and then let's

00:31:06.640 win the election

00:31:07.300 spending all the

00:31:08.200 other money on

00:31:08.680 advertisements.

00:31:09.720 But know why

00:31:10.540 it's a fool. 0.82

00:31:11.520 I should have been

00:31:12.280 acting like all the

00:31:13.180 other pimps in the

00:31:14.220 party and taking

00:31:15.360 $15,000,

00:31:16.840 $20,000,

00:31:18.300 $13,000 a month

00:31:20.060 plus expenses

00:31:21.160 to sit around

00:31:22.040 doing sweet

00:31:23.780 nothing.

00:31:24.740 Just nothing.

00:31:25.960 But anyways

00:31:26.760 that's why I'd also

00:31:27.800 encourage you guys

00:31:28.460 to donate to the

00:31:29.120 one BC party.

00:31:29.800 We don't spend

00:31:30.960 your money like

00:31:31.740 a bunch of

00:31:32.220 pimps.

00:31:32.980 We basically

00:31:33.620 save as much

00:31:34.880 of it as possible

00:31:35.620 and spend

00:31:36.500 everything else

00:31:37.180 trying to

00:31:38.020 basically generate

00:31:39.000 more income,

00:31:40.800 generate more

00:31:41.340 members,

00:31:42.260 generate more

00:31:42.780 name recognition.

00:31:44.020 If we are not

00:31:44.820 doing one of those

00:31:45.640 few things,

00:31:46.120 if we're not

00:31:46.540 bringing in more

00:31:47.240 fundraising dollars

00:31:48.020 than we're spending,

00:31:48.940 if we're not

00:31:49.440 gaining name

00:31:50.040 recognition,

00:31:50.940 if we're not

00:31:51.340 growing social

00:31:51.980 media assets,

00:31:53.220 growing the

00:31:53.640 membership,

00:31:54.460 then it is

00:31:55.100 worthless spending

00:31:56.020 and that's what

00:31:56.900 we are avoiding.

00:31:58.400 But anyways,

00:31:59.240 that should be it

00:31:59.920 for me today

00:32:00.800 in this video guys.

00:32:02.240 Thank you for

00:32:02.860 putting up with

00:32:03.340 my ranting,

00:32:04.440 especially if you're

00:32:05.280 not from British

00:32:05.940 Columbia but you

00:32:06.700 just found this

00:32:07.160 video interesting

00:32:07.820 anyways,

00:32:08.800 you're a trooper.

00:32:10.060 Anyways,

00:32:10.360 check out the

00:32:10.720 1BC website

00:32:11.600 pinned at the

00:32:12.620 top of the

00:32:12.960 comments below.

00:32:14.460 Again,

00:32:15.040 consider liking

00:32:15.780 the video,

00:32:16.340 subscribing,

00:32:17.380 sharing with

00:32:18.060 somebody,

00:32:18.820 leaving a comment,

00:32:19.960 and of course

00:32:20.540 hitting the

00:32:20.920 join button and

00:32:21.720 making a monthly

00:32:22.500 contribution to the

00:32:23.600 show.

00:32:24.340 Anyways,

00:32:25.060 with that all

00:32:25.500 being said,

00:32:26.060 thank you guys

00:32:26.440 for watching and

00:32:26.980 I'll see you all

00:32:27.760 next time.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 13, 2026

BC Politics Nightmare： Is Rustad Back？ NDP-Green alliances ends, OneBC steady at 6-8% in polls!

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