Wyatt Claypool breaks down the latest polls in British Columbia, and talks about PM Mark Carney's failed attempt to make it seem like he was ever serious about actually building a pipeline. These two issues are somewhat connected, so I wanted to put them in this video together.
00:05:47.620This morning our Coastal First Nations communities invited the Prime Minister here.
00:05:57.500We wanted to reiterate that any time there is a discussion about our territories, that we need to be in the room.
00:06:11.460And that it is very important to us that the Prime Minister see our territories and understand our concerns.
00:06:20.240The funny thing here, I'm going to cut her off right there, Coastal First Nations isn't even a nation.
00:06:26.800It is simply a made-up left-wing front group that opposes pipelines and claims to represent First Nations people.
00:06:33.320In fact, this is probably one of the most racist things you could possibly do.
00:06:36.600Just create an organization that supports all of your politics, fill it up with First Nations people, and then just say these are the opinions of First Nations people only.
00:06:45.680In fact, one, everyone's an individual, and we should judge people as individuals.
00:06:50.240But two, most First Nations, even if you're going to try and treat them like a group, by polling, support pipelines.
00:06:56.040But this is the group that Mark Carney is giving rubber stamp to on whether or not he actually goes forward with the pipeline.
00:07:01.400He won't say the pipeline project is dead, based on what she's about to say, but he'll say, well, there's more consultations, there's more discussion that's needed.
00:07:08.580Because again, Carney wants to be Mr. Pipeline without having to build a pipeline.
00:07:14.040He keeps making these horizontal moves about making, about building it, but never actually moving forward.
00:07:20.240And that is why our leadership invited him to sit and meet with us directly.
00:07:26.120So today we heard directly from the Prime Minister that his government will seek our free, prior, and informed consent regarding any proposed projects in our territories,
00:07:39.700and that we will co-develop a transparent process moving forward.
00:08:17.860All it does is allows Carney to kick the can down the road while pretending he's in favor of a pipeline by just extending the timeline longer to when he actually has to say yes.
00:08:26.800He could say yes today, but he's pretending that he needs to do all these consultations and sit down with coastal First Nations, which isn't even a real First Nations band, in order to discuss how we should start discussing the pipeline.
00:08:38.820To partnering with the federal government to help facilitate projects in our territories that support sustainable economic development and marine protection.
00:08:50.340We also made our positions very clear and reiterated those positions around our stance regarding the oil pipeline and that that has not changed.
00:09:05.780So there's no pipeline, that is what she's saying, there is no pipeline, because if their position hasn't changed, their previous position was no pipeline, so we are still not building a pipeline.
00:09:18.580But this is where I just want to get back to the slogan, because no matter what Carney does, no matter how much he discusses things with them, based on his rule of engagement, we are never going to build anything.
00:09:29.800And this is just becoming a practice of extortion, which is why I want to bring up quickly the graphic that we made at 1BC that says,
00:09:35.740The duty to consult has become the opportunity to extort, with a very fashionable photo of B.C. Premier David Eby standing there.
00:09:44.980We are not getting anywhere by consulting.
00:09:48.400I am absolutely happy to hear that federal conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, thinks that we should build pipelines no matter what people think, which is the right thing to do.
00:09:57.120I am sorry, but no ethnic group can claim ownership to blocking whether or not a pipeline can be built.
00:10:04.920Everyone is an individual, we should all just have our own individual rights, and in fact, it is an infringement of other people's individual rights to not be able to build a pipeline across a territory for arbitrary ethnic reasons.
00:10:18.340This is the only country that does this on the planet.
00:10:20.780Let's stop having stupid racist policies.
00:10:23.140But now, that gets me over to the whiteboard, and I even brought a little pointy stick to make it a little bit more interesting.
00:10:29.820I see I can tap stuff really hard to emphasize it.
00:10:32.920We're going to be talking about B.C. provincial polls right now.
00:10:37.100Specifically, I want to do some polling based on one of the people running for B.C. Conservative leader.
00:10:44.420The B.C. Conservative Party is in a very weird place right now, as in they're not in a very conservative place right now.
00:10:50.560Too many B.C. Liberals, B.C. United people end up jumping ship from those parties over to the conservatives, which effectively watered down the entire operation into something that just feels like the B.C. Liberals 2.0, where, yeah, they'll every once in a while say something slightly conservative, but it's like they're rationing it to their supporters.
00:11:09.340You get your little reaction of slight conservative rhetoric for the day, and that will hopefully keep you satiated for maybe a few days before you start complaining again, and will give you a little bit more conservatism.
00:11:20.140It's like Aaron O'Toole all over again.
00:11:22.660But Palace Data came out with a poll where they were asking people how they would vote if Caroline Elliott ended up winning the leadership of the party.
00:11:31.160Maybe I'll do both the generic and I will do the Caroline Elliott one.
00:11:35.920So we'll start off with generic. If it's just the B.C. Conservative Party as it is today with Trevor Halford as the interim leader, this is how the numbers break down between the NDP, B.C. Conservatives, Greens, and the 1 B.C. Party.
00:11:49.000So with Halford, this is removing the undecideds. With Halford, the NDP ends up scoring 44%, which doesn't surprise me.
00:12:01.120You can give Halford a little bit of credit that he's only been interim leader for a bit and most people aren't going to get too attached to who the interim guy is.
00:12:08.000But effectively, this is like saying generic conservative.
00:12:12.280The conservative party as it is today, would you vote for them or not up against the NDP?
00:12:16.860He doesn't do that bad. He's ended up he. Oh, why am I drawing it this way?
00:12:22.860So all the numbers, more the left side of each number of each name will be the generic.
00:12:27.500So they're at 39% under Trevor Halford at the helm in the generic bull.
00:12:36.740The B.C. Greens are then at 9% in the generic head-to-head.
00:12:42.440And then we have the 1 B.C. Party, which I'll put in the darker blue for, you know, for a very obvious reason.
00:12:53.900We are at 7% in the generic head-to-head.
00:12:58.300I actually believe it was more like 7.4 or something like that, but that doesn't matter too much right now.
00:13:03.980Actually, guys, what am I doing? What am I doing?
00:13:07.000That's the wrong color for the conservatives. We've got to do a more proper color.
00:13:10.060There we go. That's a more generic color for them. That makes more sense.
00:13:16.640Literally, I had heard from an MLA still in the B.C. Conservative Caucus that Trevor Halford, the current interim leader,
00:13:23.660his biggest complaint about the former leader, John Rustad, who was very liberal, was that he was too right-wing, which is very funny.
00:13:31.500And even John Rustad said that on a podcast later on, that they ended up putting someone more liberal than him in the leadership.
00:13:36.700So, you know, be careful with what you wished for, guys. And in a certain sense, I can agree with him.
00:13:41.920But now let's move on to if Caroline Elliott was the B.C. Conservative leader.
00:13:45.860This came out from Palace data, and I think it approximately had around 980 respondents.
00:13:52.800Might have been like about 962 or something like that, but around that area.
00:13:57.220But now, when Caroline Elliott is leader, who in fact is the sister-in-law of former B.C. United leader Kevin Falcon,
00:14:05.560the B.C. NDP ends up basically not moving at all.
00:14:09.900They end up not moving. They are also at 44%.
00:14:13.280If we are pedantic about it, they are at 44.7.
00:14:19.800They are also at 44 if Caroline Elliott is leader.
00:14:22.300However, B.C. Conservatives, though, with the proper color this time, falls down to just 32%.
00:14:31.580And the red color really makes sense when we're talking about a party run by Caroline Elliott, potentially.
00:14:37.880Unless she heavily reforms how she does things.
00:14:40.280She just hired Corey Tanike as her campaign manager.
00:14:44.380You know, like the super anti-Pierre Polyev guy who went on every single media panel during the election to attack Polyev and say he's not being anti-Trump enough and all that stuff?
00:14:53.660You know, Doug Ford's guy who thinks he's a political guru because they beat the likes of Kathleen Wynne and Stephen Del Duca and Bonnie Crombie?