BC voters will abandon Eby and the BC NDP (Election Update)
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Wyatt Claypool is back with another B.C. election update and we have a lot to discuss. Not only does a new poll put out by Research Co show that the BC NDP is losing ground in the race, but we also have a new video from David Eby that shows just how far left he is, and how out of touch he is with voters.
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Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, back with another British Columbia provincial election update, and we have a lot to discuss today.
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Not only do we have a new poll out from ResearchCo I want to discuss later in this video,
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but I think we need to talk about David Eby and the BC NDP's flip-flopping on all of the issues,
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because I think this is going to become a central issue of the entire election.
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I've been telling people, both in these videos as well as at the doors, because I am campaigning with the BC Conservatives,
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that it's not really an election, it's a referendum.
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And it's becoming a referendum on David Eby himself.
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People don't really know that much about him, but the more they do learn about him, the less they like him.
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And that's why at the 11th hour of this election, David Eby is flip-flopping all over the place
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and pretending that he's actually kind of a little bit conservative, just like John Horgan was.
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He's not. He is a far-left, anti-police, pro-drug activist who's now going to pretend that he might be able to flirt a little bit with involuntary rehab.
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He might flirt a little bit with getting rid of the carbon tax, but he's not actually going to do it.
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He is a radical through and through, and is only trying to pretend like he's now a reformed radical because the election is very close at hand.
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But before I get into some of those issues, just remember to subscribe to the channel, like this video, comment if you want,
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as well as make sure if you're a BC resident and you want to get rid of the BC NDP, please donate to the BC Conservatives.
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I have a link in the description below to donate to the Abbotsford South EBA where I'm helping out.
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We are collecting in as much money as possible, and then we are going to hand it out to other ridings
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where we have a realistic chance of winning another seat for the BC Conservatives.
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This is a very winnable election, we're on a knife's edge, and the BC NDP have stacked the deck financially
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by passing all these stupid policies where they get like $1.86 per vote they got in the last election,
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Plus, they got nearly 50% of their campaign expenses from 2020, also given back to them by taxpayers,
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whereas the BC Conservatives, because they only got 2% of the vote in the last election,
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basically get nothing back. It's absolutely pathetic, and David Eby's doing this in the name
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of democracy. So at least donate $100, you get $75 of it back, since you get 75% of your money back up
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to $100 in donations. You know, description below, and pinned at the comments, please donate to the BC
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Conservatives if you live in BC. Now, without further ado, let's get into talking about David Eby,
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a weak man running a very weak re-election campaign.
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This is a video that he has posted to his own X account that I think really highlights just the
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charisma gap that David Eby has underneath the Conservative Party leader John Rustad out in British
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Columbia. John's not like a super big personality where he tries to take over the room. John will
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even tell you that, you know, he has more of a personality of an accountant. That being said,
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John gives you confidence that he could actually run this province. David Eby gives you the impression
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that he would be more comfortable at a Columbia University occupation by Palestinian radicals than
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he would be comfortable at a business meeting. David Eby has only ever really been an activist or an
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ambulance-chasing lawyer. And videos like this really just drive home that he can't connect with
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voters. So this post says, BC is leading North America in responding to the housing crisis. Oh,
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how are you doing that, David? We're working to bring down rents and build 300,000 middle-class
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homes. John Rustad has tried to block all our actions and housing back to speculators and jack up
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your rent. That's a risk you can't afford. How is John Rustad blocking or trying to block any of
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your initiatives? The conservatives only had, before the parliamentary or the legislative session
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went, like, you know, ended in BC, only had like three or four MLAs. Well, what David's doing here
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is he's lying and he hasn't done anything to meet the housing crisis. He's pretending we're leading
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North America because we have big ideas, big ideas that they haven't implemented yet. And if they do,
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we'll just restrict the supply of housing because they keep putting more regulations,
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more stupid environmental like regulations, codes, inspections required to be able to get a housing
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permit. It takes forever to get a house built in BC and everything he is doing here is not going to
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help it. If anything, they're going to go after landlords and make people less likely to invest in
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housing in BC. And you should be, if you actually care about solving the housing crisis, one, we need
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immigration reduced and the BC NDP have absolutely failed to push back on the mass immigration that
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Justin Trudeau has been subjecting the country to. But he's also been restricting the supply of new housing.
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If you want to fix the housing crisis, you have to make it easier to supply housing, not make it more
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difficult. But this video just demonstrates the personality that David Eby has. Weak, peevish,
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and it really doesn't seem like he can connect with working class people the same way that John
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Hi, I'm David Eby. Since I became premier two years ago, I made sure that our government was doing
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everything we could to address the housing crisis, leading North America with our full response,
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addressing speculation, getting more middle class homes built faster, and we're making progress.
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Rents are coming down and we're setting records for rental housing construction.
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John Rustad and the BC Conservatives have opposed us every step of the way on these necessary changes.
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We can't afford John Rustad and BC Conservatives. We can't afford higher home prices. We need action
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on housing. We need to bring those costs down. And that's exactly what we'll do.
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So right there, he just used a little tactic called lying his butt off because rents have not been
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going down. In fact, there was a public housing project that the BC government under David Eby
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invested in. And after they finished this new apartment building, all of those affordable units
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were literally being offered at above market rates. So they were literally renting these units out
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for more than the average market rate because the BC government and all governments around the world
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suck at building housing. Developers are actually good at building housing, especially when they can
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do it without the government meddling. But at every step of the way, David Eby's plans are to have the
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government meddle more in your life. And also, I just want to bring this chart up. This is the debt
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in BC since David Eby took office in 2022. It went from $63 billion of public debt. And I believe right
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now, it's actually about $120 billion of debt. And this chart was actually just speculating that by
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2627, we'd be $126 billion in debt. We're almost surpassed that now in the year 2024, because this is how
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incompetent the BC NDP have been at managing the public finances of British Columbia. They are
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terrible at it. But the media instead are still putting out all of these articles about how the
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conservatives are super scary, and they make me feel anxiety. This is a real article that Kelowna
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now put out says, your voice, and it's one of these like kind of write to the editor type of pieces where
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somebody from the community writes in and they post their comments. And it says your voice,
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BC conservatives caused me true fear and anxiety. A former Kelowna parliamentary candidate writes,
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when we have unserious candidates like the ones running in our riding of Kelowna Center, I get
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scared. Wow, you get scared, kid. You know, they were kind of weaselly there by even saying it was a
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former Kelowna, like a parliamentary candidate. A parliamentary candidate for which party? Is it a
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federal conservative candidate? Is it a PPC candidate? Is it maybe a liberal candidate? No, it's a federal
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NDP candidate. Cade Desjardins here, who only has 11 followers on his X account that he made back in
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2021 for that election cycle where he got crushed, by the way. But, you know, listen to an NDP hack
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politician telling you that you should be deeply scared because the conservatives have unserious
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candidates. As if the party, the BCNDP, are running serious candidates who are proposing, how about we
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just poison people with free drugs? Super serious party because they believe in harm reduction. And now
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let's talk about the flip-flops because harm reduction is a part of that. So David Eby is now
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flipping and flopping all over the place, pretending that he doesn't hold the radical positions that he's
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held for decades of his life. And he even he still held when he became premier. He is in favor of safe
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supply. He is in favor of safe injection sites. He's not going to get rid of them anytime soon. But suddenly
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he's he's flirting with maybe when having involuntary rehab like Alberta currently has, and it's been working
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quite well. Oh, maybe if you reelect us, we'll invest in involuntary treatment for severe addicts
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who can't help themselves anymore. Not a bad idea, although the way the BCNDP serve it up, it sounds
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like they won't even offer or they won't force someone into involuntary treatment until they're
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so cooked by illicit drugs that, you know, they're not going to be able to live a normal life anymore.
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The BC conservatives have been proposing a version of it where if you can't follow the law anymore,
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if you're just camping on the side of the street, you no longer get a choice in whether you have to
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do rehab if you're committing crimes, loitering in front of a business and driving people away from
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actually going and patronizing that business. That's more of the conservative plan. It's far
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more reasonable if you can't even prevent yourself from committing crimes on a daily basis that you
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because you're so addicted, that's a problem that you cannot just kind of hand wave the government
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away from getting stepping in with. Another issue that the BCNDP are flip-flopping on is the carbon
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tax. Now they're saying, well, if the federal government gets rid of their carbon tax, we'll
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get rid of our provincial carbon tax. Well, not really. One, the BCNDP could get rid of their
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provincial carbon tax whenever. I don't like the federal carbon tax, but the federal carbon tax is
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still better than the BC provincial one because the provincial one just takes in people's money and
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puts it into general revenue. It has nothing to do with the climate and it's not at all. It's not
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even giving people rebates back. So it's hurting people more and not actually going towards any
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green initiatives. Every once in a while, they will throw a green contract out to their friends just
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the way the federal liberals do, but that's neither here nor there. And then the BC conservatives just
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today put out a press release and they called out the BCNDP because hidden in the flip-flop that the
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BCNDP are doing is that they're not actually proposing to get rid of the carbon tax. They're
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actually just replacing it with a new carbon tax on big polluters, which means the carbon tax is still
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in place because prices would still go up because whether you're directly taxing the consumer or the
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polluter, basically just businesses, people are going to still have to pay the carbon tax price.
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But, you know, this is really just, again, reinforcing that David Eby is a weak leader.
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I don't think this actually plays well for David Eby. He can pretend to be moderate as much as he
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wants. Most voters are just going to look at this as somebody who's listless, who's not strong, who
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doesn't believe in the things that he says. And I think that John Rustad and the conservatives
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should be calling this out, not just calling out the fact that he's obviously faking it on all of
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these different issues and he'll never actually take action and implement involuntary treatment.
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Do you know how we know he won't? Because Bonnie Henry, the chief medical officer of BC, I'm not
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even going to call her a doctor. Bonnie Henry proposed selling safe supply drugs and pharmacies,
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and he didn't fire her. You should fire her. That's insane. That's not just like I disagree with her,
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but we still have a great professional relationship. No, you should fire her for proposing something so
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ludicrous. They invested in a study to see whether or not we could turn all public washrooms
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into basically safe consumption sites, banning blue lights because it makes it hard for addicts to find
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their vein to inject illicit drugs. That's ridiculous. We just had a 13-year-old die,
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a 13-year-old girl die at a tent city who was using safe supply drugs and all of the safe,
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you know, safe snorting kits and safe crack pipes. That's disgusting. The BC NDP still haven't said
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anything about it because it's embarrassing to them. They won't talk about parental rights. They
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don't believe in parental rights. So they look like complete hacks. So they look like pansies to
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their own progressive supporters who think that the BC NDP is now going soft. And then middle-class
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voters who are probably going to go and vote for the BC conservatives don't believe that David
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Eby's changed because he never changes his entire life until when he suddenly needs a bunch of votes,
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which means he didn't change at all. Now, I want to get to this research co-poll. I think it's
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interesting. People have pointed out it's not that different from their last poll, but it's still
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showing net progress for the BC conservatives. So this is the research co-poll that was done
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between September 9th and September 11th. It has the BC NDP polling at 44%, the BC conservatives at 42%,
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the greens at 10%, and 3% other. But this poll result is only those who are decided. The undecideds
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are actually quite high right now. And the problem for the BC NDP is although a lot of people don't
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know who David Eby is, they know who the BC NDP are. And the fact that they haven't already
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consolidated that vote that came away from the BC United Party and existed even before BC United went
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away doesn't exactly bode well for the NDP. It's like, you know, if there's a very known quantity
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candidate in a race, and there's a lot of undecided, and then there's somebody that people don't know
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as well, it's not looking good if people already knew you very well, and they're not willing to side
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with you. Maybe they find out stuff about the new candidate, the new party that they don't like, and they
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side with you. But the fact they haven't already automatically jumped to you is a big problem. People don't
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really know John Rustad very well yet, and they don't really know the BC Conservatives as much.
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They know the federal Conservatives, they like them, which already gives the BC Conservatives an
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advantage. And the BC Conservatives are rightfully seen as the new kid on the block. The last time BC
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had a Conservative government was 1928. So you know, before the centennial, it might be nice to give the
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BC Conservatives another chance here since they haven't messed things up in the past 96 straight years.
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Regardless, right now, other than the fact that maybe if people get to know Davey Eby, they're gonna like
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him, I doubt it, he comes off weak, he comes off as a flip flopper. They're mostly going to side with the BC
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Conservatives. Now, I want to bring up the poll here, because I think this is interesting to look at. So here are
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the results, the more detailed results from ResearchCo, I'm going to zoom in so you can see them here. But this is just
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asking people, BC wide, who are you thinking about voting for? They had a sample size of I think around
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800 or so 806 or so respondents. I usually like it if a poll is a little bit bigger. And remember, this is
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an online poll online polls tend to skew a little bit urban left, because there's a lot more kids sitting
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at university, a lot more office workers who work government jobs, who can take surveys online all day
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long, where you're not taking a survey online, if you're like a farmer, or you're a plumber, maybe
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and you get home, but you're probably too tired to do something like that after you've been working a job
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like, you know, a manual labor job. So when you add in undecided voters, of course, the BC NDP still lead
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by a bit 39 to 37. BC Greens have nine, another party has three, another party probably just means they
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want something different than the current government, though. So I could see those splitting towards the BC
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conservatives, there will be some Christian Heritage Party candidates and some independent
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candidates, but I don't think they're going to be grabbing up that 3%. But undecided and not sure
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is at 12%. That's a massive amount of people to be undecided this close to an election. That's how
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many undecideds you assume that there exists a year before the election, not 35 or so days before the
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election. So I think that that is going to do, it's going to do very good things for the
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conservatives. You can see that men tend to be a little bit more decided than women, only 10% of
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men are undecided, and they're mostly leaning BC conservatives. It is mostly going to be where
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women are going to be going. 14% of women are currently undecided. Yes, women tend to side more
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with a liberal, more with center left parties, you know, not any women who are watching this show.
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But this is where I think that the conservatives don't need to water down their message. People think,
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oh, to get more center left voters, you have to become more center left. No, you just have to talk
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about the issues they care about. And the issues they care about might not be normal center left
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issues. The BC conservatives, and they have been doing this, and it's good, need to be talking about
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safety issues. We need to talk about crime, we need to talk about SOGI123, because that's the safety
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of people's kids. And we need to talk about, we have to talk about getting rid of safe supply. This is all
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stuff that we can easily fix in the first year of a government, and we need to hammer the BC NDP
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for not taking safety seriously. Even talking about anti-Semitism is actually a great thing in this
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election cycle. The BC NDP wouldn't even protect their own Jewish cabinet minister, who the radical
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pro-Palestinian crowd went after, the pro-Hamas crowd went after. Their own party activists attacked
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her, and threw her out of cabinet, and then she rightfully decided to resign from the party caucus
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because of how ridiculous the party was acting. That's what the BC conservatives need to be talking
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about. And then the other demographic groups that are a little bit more undecided tend to be younger
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voters. 18 to 54 is the crowds that are a little bit more undecided. Only 10% of people age 55 and over
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are undecided. And then you will see that the people who are undecided in terms of, I'm not showing this
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on screen because it's just getting to be a lot of numbers. The areas of the province where people
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are more undecided than not is Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Southern BC, and Vancouver Island.
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Northern BC tends to be very decided on where they're going. They're mostly going towards
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the BC conservatives. And actually 15% of Northern BC people say another party, but that might be that
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they might be voting CHP. You never know. Or they haven't colluded into the fact that the BC
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conservatives are the main opposition to the NDP. But yeah, this is where I think we have a very good
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chance of winning. Hopefully it doesn't sound like I'm repeating myself, but when again, a lot of
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people are undecided and the election is effectively a referendum. Do you like David Eby and the current
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BC NDP or do you not? I think the BC conservatives are going to win when that question is put to voters.
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And that's exactly what the election question is. Do you like the current direct trajectory we're going in?
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Because if you vote NDP, we're just going to continue on that trajectory for another four
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years. You could stop the car and drive it in the other direction because the BC conservatives are
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effectively the opposite of the BC NDP. And that's how they should present themselves. It doesn't
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matter if people call them extreme or radical or anything like that. It's not going to play well
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because people think the current government's extreme. You're not going to scare people by saying
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that the BC conservatives are going to upend the way we do government in BC. That sounds like
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threatening people with a good time. People want taxes reduced. They want SOGI 123 out of schools.
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They want safe supply ended. They want safe injection sites kept out of their communities.
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They want actual law enforcement. They want all those things. They want it to be easier to build a
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house. Basically, they want less government. And so that's where the BC conservatives have a very good
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angle on winning a lot of middle-class voters who are just sick of being exploited by the government
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to be able to fund all their activist initiatives, which is exactly what David Eby will continue doing
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after the election. He will approve drugs being sold in pharmacies because if you actually disagreed
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with Bonnie Henry on that issue, he would have fired her. He doesn't disagree with her. He would
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have actually implemented involuntary treatment and he would have gotten rid of the carbon tax if he
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actually believed in doing those things. He doesn't. That's why he's not actually going to do them
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after this election if he wins. So if you live in BC, you've got to vote for the BC conservatives.
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You've got to donate to them. Donation link at the top of the comments pinned there. Please donate.
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Even if you don't donate to Abbotsford South, donate to the party at least $100 because you've
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already donated to the BC NDP through taxpayer dollars being siphoned towards them. So at least
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make sure that you donate to the BC conservatives to level it out a little bit here. That should be it
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for me today, guys. Make sure you sign up for a lawn sign as well. I have a lawn sign link in the
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description below. Register for a lawn sign. We'll drop one off for you. It's free to register for
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one and then we can make sure that we can paint the entire province blue. The election's on a knife
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edge, but I do believe that we will be winning when the election is all said and done. Have a good one,