The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 18, 2024


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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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here, back with another British Columbia provincial election update, and we have a lot to discuss today.
00:00:08.560 Not only do we have a new poll out from ResearchCo I want to discuss later in this video,
00:00:14.240 but I think we need to talk about David Eby and the BC NDP's flip-flopping on all of the issues,
00:00:20.740 because I think this is going to become a central issue of the entire election.
00:00:25.000 I've been telling people, both in these videos as well as at the doors, because I am campaigning with the BC Conservatives,
00:00:31.940 that it's not really an election, it's a referendum.
00:00:35.420 And it's becoming a referendum on David Eby himself.
00:00:39.320 People don't really know that much about him, but the more they do learn about him, the less they like him.
00:00:44.860 And that's why at the 11th hour of this election, David Eby is flip-flopping all over the place
00:00:50.420 and pretending that he's actually kind of a little bit conservative, just like John Horgan was.
00:00:55.600 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.
00:01:06.460 He might flirt a little bit with getting rid of the carbon tax, but he's not actually going to do it.
00:01:11.020 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.
00:01:19.420 But before I get into some of those issues, just remember to subscribe to the channel, like this video, comment if you want,
00:01:26.660 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.
00:01:34.260 I have a link in the description below to donate to the Abbotsford South EBA where I'm helping out.
00:01:40.180 We are collecting in as much money as possible, and then we are going to hand it out to other ridings
00:01:44.920 where we have a realistic chance of winning another seat for the BC Conservatives.
00:01:49.420 This is a very winnable election, we're on a knife's edge, and the BC NDP have stacked the deck financially 0.95
00:01:55.600 by passing all these stupid policies where they get like $1.86 per vote they got in the last election, 0.98
00:02:01.820 given to them every single year. 0.99
00:02:04.260 Plus, they got nearly 50% of their campaign expenses from 2020, also given back to them by taxpayers,
00:02:12.340 whereas the BC Conservatives, because they only got 2% of the vote in the last election,
00:02:16.000 basically get nothing back. It's absolutely pathetic, and David Eby's doing this in the name 0.95
00:02:21.140 of democracy. So at least donate $100, you get $75 of it back, since you get 75% of your money back up 0.92
00:02:28.160 to $100 in donations. You know, description below, and pinned at the comments, please donate to the BC
00:02:35.060 Conservatives if you live in BC. Now, without further ado, let's get into talking about David Eby,
00:02:41.140 a weak man running a very weak re-election campaign.
00:02:47.180 This is a video that he has posted to his own X account that I think really highlights just the
00:02:54.580 charisma gap that David Eby has underneath the Conservative Party leader John Rustad out in British
00:03:02.100 Columbia. John's not like a super big personality where he tries to take over the room. John will
00:03:07.120 even tell you that, you know, he has more of a personality of an accountant. That being said,
00:03:12.480 John gives you confidence that he could actually run this province. David Eby gives you the impression
00:03:18.080 that he would be more comfortable at a Columbia University occupation by Palestinian radicals than
00:03:24.300 he would be comfortable at a business meeting. David Eby has only ever really been an activist or an
00:03:30.960 ambulance-chasing lawyer. And videos like this really just drive home that he can't connect with
00:03:36.960 voters. So this post says, BC is leading North America in responding to the housing crisis. Oh,
00:03:42.880 how are you doing that, David? We're working to bring down rents and build 300,000 middle-class
00:03:47.660 homes. John Rustad has tried to block all our actions and housing back to speculators and jack up
00:03:53.660 your rent. That's a risk you can't afford. How is John Rustad blocking or trying to block any of
00:03:59.280 your initiatives? The conservatives only had, before the parliamentary or the legislative session
00:04:05.060 went, like, you know, ended in BC, only had like three or four MLAs. Well, what David's doing here
00:04:11.980 is he's lying and he hasn't done anything to meet the housing crisis. He's pretending we're leading
00:04:18.100 North America because we have big ideas, big ideas that they haven't implemented yet. And if they do,
00:04:23.800 we'll just restrict the supply of housing because they keep putting more regulations, 0.97
00:04:28.060 more stupid environmental like regulations, codes, inspections required to be able to get a housing 0.98
00:04:34.580 permit. It takes forever to get a house built in BC and everything he is doing here is not going to 1.00
00:04:40.080 help it. If anything, they're going to go after landlords and make people less likely to invest in
00:04:45.520 housing in BC. And you should be, if you actually care about solving the housing crisis, one, we need
00:04:52.200 immigration reduced and the BC NDP have absolutely failed to push back on the mass immigration that 0.99
00:04:57.720 Justin Trudeau has been subjecting the country to. But he's also been restricting the supply of new housing.
00:05:04.240 If you want to fix the housing crisis, you have to make it easier to supply housing, not make it more
00:05:09.760 difficult. But this video just demonstrates the personality that David Eby has. Weak, peevish,
00:05:17.200 and it really doesn't seem like he can connect with working class people the same way that John
00:05:22.700 Horgan was able to in 2020.
00:05:24.760 Hi, I'm David Eby. Since I became premier two years ago, I made sure that our government was doing
00:05:29.580 everything we could to address the housing crisis, leading North America with our full response,
00:05:34.740 addressing speculation, getting more middle class homes built faster, and we're making progress.
00:05:40.340 Rents are coming down and we're setting records for rental housing construction.
00:05:44.100 John Rustad and the BC Conservatives have opposed us every step of the way on these necessary changes.
00:05:49.620 We can't afford John Rustad and BC Conservatives. We can't afford higher home prices. We need action
00:05:54.580 on housing. We need to bring those costs down. And that's exactly what we'll do.
00:05:57.920 So right there, he just used a little tactic called lying his butt off because rents have not been
00:06:05.620 going down. In fact, there was a public housing project that the BC government under David Eby
00:06:11.120 invested in. And after they finished this new apartment building, all of those affordable units
00:06:16.440 were literally being offered at above market rates. So they were literally renting these units out
00:06:23.540 for more than the average market rate because the BC government and all governments around the world
00:06:29.360 suck at building housing. Developers are actually good at building housing, especially when they can
00:06:34.580 do it without the government meddling. But at every step of the way, David Eby's plans are to have the
00:06:40.680 government meddle more in your life. And also, I just want to bring this chart up. This is the debt
00:06:46.340 in BC since David Eby took office in 2022. It went from $63 billion of public debt. And I believe right
00:06:54.800 now, it's actually about $120 billion of debt. And this chart was actually just speculating that by
00:07:00.840 2627, we'd be $126 billion in debt. We're almost surpassed that now in the year 2024, because this is how
00:07:09.980 incompetent the BC NDP have been at managing the public finances of British Columbia. They are
00:07:16.240 terrible at it. But the media instead are still putting out all of these articles about how the
00:07:22.260 conservatives are super scary, and they make me feel anxiety. This is a real article that Kelowna
00:07:28.880 now put out says, your voice, and it's one of these like kind of write to the editor type of pieces where
00:07:34.340 somebody from the community writes in and they post their comments. And it says your voice,
00:07:39.120 BC conservatives caused me true fear and anxiety. A former Kelowna parliamentary candidate writes,
00:07:45.220 when we have unserious candidates like the ones running in our riding of Kelowna Center, I get
00:07:51.420 scared. Wow, you get scared, kid. You know, they were kind of weaselly there by even saying it was a
00:07:58.420 former Kelowna, like a parliamentary candidate. A parliamentary candidate for which party? Is it a
00:08:05.480 federal conservative candidate? Is it a PPC candidate? Is it maybe a liberal candidate? No, it's a federal
00:08:11.840 NDP candidate. Cade Desjardins here, who only has 11 followers on his X account that he made back in
00:08:20.060 2021 for that election cycle where he got crushed, by the way. But, you know, listen to an NDP hack
00:08:27.040 politician telling you that you should be deeply scared because the conservatives have unserious
00:08:33.040 candidates. As if the party, the BCNDP, are running serious candidates who are proposing, how about we
00:08:39.900 just poison people with free drugs? Super serious party because they believe in harm reduction. And now
00:08:46.040 let's talk about the flip-flops because harm reduction is a part of that. So David Eby is now
00:08:52.340 flipping and flopping all over the place, pretending that he doesn't hold the radical positions that he's
00:08:57.880 held for decades of his life. And he even he still held when he became premier. He is in favor of safe
00:09:04.280 supply. He is in favor of safe injection sites. He's not going to get rid of them anytime soon. But suddenly
00:09:10.780 he's he's flirting with maybe when having involuntary rehab like Alberta currently has, and it's been working
00:09:16.860 quite well. Oh, maybe if you reelect us, we'll invest in involuntary treatment for severe addicts
00:09:23.180 who can't help themselves anymore. Not a bad idea, although the way the BCNDP serve it up, it sounds
00:09:28.620 like they won't even offer or they won't force someone into involuntary treatment until they're
00:09:33.640 so cooked by illicit drugs that, you know, they're not going to be able to live a normal life anymore.
00:09:38.320 The BC conservatives have been proposing a version of it where if you can't follow the law anymore,
00:09:42.520 if you're just camping on the side of the street, you no longer get a choice in whether you have to
00:09:47.120 do rehab if you're committing crimes, loitering in front of a business and driving people away from
00:09:52.400 actually going and patronizing that business. That's more of the conservative plan. It's far
00:09:57.320 more reasonable if you can't even prevent yourself from committing crimes on a daily basis that you
00:10:02.060 because you're so addicted, that's a problem that you cannot just kind of hand wave the government
00:10:07.100 away from getting stepping in with. Another issue that the BCNDP are flip-flopping on is the carbon
00:10:13.260 tax. Now they're saying, well, if the federal government gets rid of their carbon tax, we'll
00:10:17.700 get rid of our provincial carbon tax. Well, not really. One, the BCNDP could get rid of their
00:10:23.100 provincial carbon tax whenever. I don't like the federal carbon tax, but the federal carbon tax is
00:10:28.540 still better than the BC provincial one because the provincial one just takes in people's money and
00:10:33.160 puts it into general revenue. It has nothing to do with the climate and it's not at all. It's not
00:10:38.780 even giving people rebates back. So it's hurting people more and not actually going towards any
00:10:43.520 green initiatives. Every once in a while, they will throw a green contract out to their friends just
00:10:48.880 the way the federal liberals do, but that's neither here nor there. And then the BC conservatives just
00:10:54.280 today put out a press release and they called out the BCNDP because hidden in the flip-flop that the
00:11:00.060 BCNDP are doing is that they're not actually proposing to get rid of the carbon tax. They're
00:11:05.900 actually just replacing it with a new carbon tax on big polluters, which means the carbon tax is still
00:11:11.400 in place because prices would still go up because whether you're directly taxing the consumer or the
00:11:17.900 polluter, basically just businesses, people are going to still have to pay the carbon tax price.
00:11:23.360 But, you know, this is really just, again, reinforcing that David Eby is a weak leader.
00:11:30.260 I don't think this actually plays well for David Eby. He can pretend to be moderate as much as he
00:11:34.920 wants. Most voters are just going to look at this as somebody who's listless, who's not strong, who
00:11:40.680 doesn't believe in the things that he says. And I think that John Rustad and the conservatives
00:11:45.000 should be calling this out, not just calling out the fact that he's obviously faking it on all of
00:11:50.600 these different issues and he'll never actually take action and implement involuntary treatment.
00:11:56.200 Do you know how we know he won't? Because Bonnie Henry, the chief medical officer of BC, I'm not
00:12:01.580 even going to call her a doctor. Bonnie Henry proposed selling safe supply drugs and pharmacies, 0.99
00:12:08.020 and he didn't fire her. You should fire her. That's insane. That's not just like I disagree with her,
00:12:14.200 but we still have a great professional relationship. No, you should fire her for proposing something so 0.99
00:12:18.640 ludicrous. They invested in a study to see whether or not we could turn all public washrooms
00:12:23.900 into basically safe consumption sites, banning blue lights because it makes it hard for addicts to find
00:12:30.580 their vein to inject illicit drugs. That's ridiculous. We just had a 13-year-old die, 0.98
00:12:35.380 a 13-year-old girl die at a tent city who was using safe supply drugs and all of the safe,
00:12:41.380 you know, safe snorting kits and safe crack pipes. That's disgusting. The BC NDP still haven't said 0.69
00:12:46.980 anything about it because it's embarrassing to them. They won't talk about parental rights. They
00:12:51.300 don't believe in parental rights. So they look like complete hacks. So they look like pansies to 0.67
00:12:55.840 their own progressive supporters who think that the BC NDP is now going soft. And then middle-class
00:13:01.500 voters who are probably going to go and vote for the BC conservatives don't believe that David
00:13:06.200 Eby's changed because he never changes his entire life until when he suddenly needs a bunch of votes,
00:13:11.100 which means he didn't change at all. Now, I want to get to this research co-poll. I think it's
00:13:16.840 interesting. People have pointed out it's not that different from their last poll, but it's still
00:13:21.020 showing net progress for the BC conservatives. So this is the research co-poll that was done
00:13:26.380 between September 9th and September 11th. It has the BC NDP polling at 44%, the BC conservatives at 42%,
00:13:35.280 the greens at 10%, and 3% other. But this poll result is only those who are decided. The undecideds
00:13:42.440 are actually quite high right now. And the problem for the BC NDP is although a lot of people don't
00:13:48.200 know who David Eby is, they know who the BC NDP are. And the fact that they haven't already
00:13:53.540 consolidated that vote that came away from the BC United Party and existed even before BC United went
00:13:59.900 away doesn't exactly bode well for the NDP. It's like, you know, if there's a very known quantity
00:14:07.240 candidate in a race, and there's a lot of undecided, and then there's somebody that people don't know
00:14:11.840 as well, it's not looking good if people already knew you very well, and they're not willing to side
00:14:16.160 with you. Maybe they find out stuff about the new candidate, the new party that they don't like, and they
00:14:20.940 side with you. But the fact they haven't already automatically jumped to you is a big problem. People don't
00:14:26.360 really know John Rustad very well yet, and they don't really know the BC Conservatives as much.
00:14:30.660 They know the federal Conservatives, they like them, which already gives the BC Conservatives an
00:14:34.940 advantage. And the BC Conservatives are rightfully seen as the new kid on the block. The last time BC
00:14:40.180 had a Conservative government was 1928. So you know, before the centennial, it might be nice to give the
00:14:47.420 BC Conservatives another chance here since they haven't messed things up in the past 96 straight years.
00:14:52.400 Regardless, right now, other than the fact that maybe if people get to know Davey Eby, they're gonna like
00:14:58.440 him, I doubt it, he comes off weak, he comes off as a flip flopper. They're mostly going to side with the BC
00:15:04.380 Conservatives. Now, I want to bring up the poll here, because I think this is interesting to look at. So here are
00:15:11.520 the results, the more detailed results from ResearchCo, I'm going to zoom in so you can see them here. But this is just
00:15:16.720 asking people, BC wide, who are you thinking about voting for? They had a sample size of I think around
00:15:23.100 800 or so 806 or so respondents. I usually like it if a poll is a little bit bigger. And remember, this is
00:15:30.340 an online poll online polls tend to skew a little bit urban left, because there's a lot more kids sitting
00:15:36.460 at university, a lot more office workers who work government jobs, who can take surveys online all day
00:15:42.420 long, where you're not taking a survey online, if you're like a farmer, or you're a plumber, maybe
00:15:47.620 and you get home, but you're probably too tired to do something like that after you've been working a job
00:15:51.980 like, you know, a manual labor job. So when you add in undecided voters, of course, the BC NDP still lead
00:15:59.440 by a bit 39 to 37. BC Greens have nine, another party has three, another party probably just means they
00:16:06.540 want something different than the current government, though. So I could see those splitting towards the BC
00:16:11.600 conservatives, there will be some Christian Heritage Party candidates and some independent
00:16:15.400 candidates, but I don't think they're going to be grabbing up that 3%. But undecided and not sure
00:16:20.700 is at 12%. That's a massive amount of people to be undecided this close to an election. That's how
00:16:28.280 many undecideds you assume that there exists a year before the election, not 35 or so days before the
00:16:34.160 election. So I think that that is going to do, it's going to do very good things for the
00:16:40.840 conservatives. You can see that men tend to be a little bit more decided than women, only 10% of
00:16:45.920 men are undecided, and they're mostly leaning BC conservatives. It is mostly going to be where
00:16:51.900 women are going to be going. 14% of women are currently undecided. Yes, women tend to side more
00:16:58.140 with a liberal, more with center left parties, you know, not any women who are watching this show.
00:17:04.220 But this is where I think that the conservatives don't need to water down their message. People think,
00:17:08.880 oh, to get more center left voters, you have to become more center left. No, you just have to talk
00:17:14.020 about the issues they care about. And the issues they care about might not be normal center left
00:17:18.240 issues. The BC conservatives, and they have been doing this, and it's good, need to be talking about
00:17:22.740 safety issues. We need to talk about crime, we need to talk about SOGI123, because that's the safety
00:17:27.500 of people's kids. And we need to talk about, we have to talk about getting rid of safe supply. This is all
00:17:33.800 stuff that we can easily fix in the first year of a government, and we need to hammer the BC NDP
00:17:39.120 for not taking safety seriously. Even talking about anti-Semitism is actually a great thing in this 1.00
00:17:45.640 election cycle. The BC NDP wouldn't even protect their own Jewish cabinet minister, who the radical 0.96
00:17:51.500 pro-Palestinian crowd went after, the pro-Hamas crowd went after. Their own party activists attacked
00:17:56.600 her, and threw her out of cabinet, and then she rightfully decided to resign from the party caucus 0.93
00:18:03.080 because of how ridiculous the party was acting. That's what the BC conservatives need to be talking 0.78
00:18:07.820 about. And then the other demographic groups that are a little bit more undecided tend to be younger
00:18:12.840 voters. 18 to 54 is the crowds that are a little bit more undecided. Only 10% of people age 55 and over
00:18:20.060 are undecided. And then you will see that the people who are undecided in terms of, I'm not showing this
00:18:25.920 on screen because it's just getting to be a lot of numbers. The areas of the province where people
00:18:31.140 are more undecided than not is Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Southern BC, and Vancouver Island.
00:18:37.620 Northern BC tends to be very decided on where they're going. They're mostly going towards
00:18:42.060 the BC conservatives. And actually 15% of Northern BC people say another party, but that might be that
00:18:49.380 they might be voting CHP. You never know. Or they haven't colluded into the fact that the BC
00:18:53.320 conservatives are the main opposition to the NDP. But yeah, this is where I think we have a very good
00:18:59.940 chance of winning. Hopefully it doesn't sound like I'm repeating myself, but when again, a lot of
00:19:05.300 people are undecided and the election is effectively a referendum. Do you like David Eby and the current
00:19:11.780 BC NDP or do you not? I think the BC conservatives are going to win when that question is put to voters.
00:19:17.300 And that's exactly what the election question is. Do you like the current direct trajectory we're going in?
00:19:22.480 Because if you vote NDP, we're just going to continue on that trajectory for another four
00:19:26.440 years. You could stop the car and drive it in the other direction because the BC conservatives are
00:19:31.840 effectively the opposite of the BC NDP. And that's how they should present themselves. It doesn't
00:19:37.040 matter if people call them extreme or radical or anything like that. It's not going to play well
00:19:40.780 because people think the current government's extreme. You're not going to scare people by saying
00:19:45.160 that the BC conservatives are going to upend the way we do government in BC. That sounds like
00:19:49.840 threatening people with a good time. People want taxes reduced. They want SOGI 123 out of schools.
00:19:55.200 They want safe supply ended. They want safe injection sites kept out of their communities.
00:19:59.120 They want actual law enforcement. They want all those things. They want it to be easier to build a
00:20:04.140 house. Basically, they want less government. And so that's where the BC conservatives have a very good
00:20:09.400 angle on winning a lot of middle-class voters who are just sick of being exploited by the government
00:20:14.880 to be able to fund all their activist initiatives, which is exactly what David Eby will continue doing
00:20:20.520 after the election. He will approve drugs being sold in pharmacies because if you actually disagreed
00:20:27.580 with Bonnie Henry on that issue, he would have fired her. He doesn't disagree with her. He would 0.82
00:20:31.180 have actually implemented involuntary treatment and he would have gotten rid of the carbon tax if he
00:20:36.240 actually believed in doing those things. He doesn't. That's why he's not actually going to do them
00:20:40.040 after this election if he wins. So if you live in BC, you've got to vote for the BC conservatives.
00:20:45.220 You've got to donate to them. Donation link at the top of the comments pinned there. Please donate.
00:20:51.320 Even if you don't donate to Abbotsford South, donate to the party at least $100 because you've
00:20:56.040 already donated to the BC NDP through taxpayer dollars being siphoned towards them. So at least
00:21:01.020 make sure that you donate to the BC conservatives to level it out a little bit here. That should be it
00:21:06.700 for me today, guys. Make sure you sign up for a lawn sign as well. I have a lawn sign link in the
00:21:11.500 description below. Register for a lawn sign. We'll drop one off for you. It's free to register for
00:21:16.560 one and then we can make sure that we can paint the entire province blue. The election's on a knife
00:21:21.540 edge, but I do believe that we will be winning when the election is all said and done. Have a good one,
00:21:27.240 everyone.